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Prompt: I'm going to be home late
Peter made a mental note to thank Aunt May later for her perfect timing. The shocked, highly offended face Flash made when Peter's loud ringtone cut him off mid-sentence would live in Peter's mind for all eternity. He could even see MJ turning to a blank page in her sketchbook to draw said expression.
"Hey Aunt May!" Peter answered the call happily, switching to speaker as he did.
"Hey sweetie. Sorry about interrupting your class but I need to let you know that I just got pulled into a double shift tonight, so I won't be getting home until really late," May told him, sounding apologetic.
"That's alright. I'll grab dinner on the way home and probably just watch movies after homework," Peter said. That's what he usually did when May had to stay at work late. At least, until it was time for him to start patrol, but he couldn't let his classmates know that part. Thankfully May knew about The Rule so she wouldn't say anything revealing…hopefully.
"Actually, I called Tony. He said he doesn't mind you spending the night with him," May said. Peter raised an eyebrow. That was new.
"You sure? I don't mind waiting until you get home."
"I know you don't but I hate you staying alone that late at night," May told him. "It'll make me feel better if you stay with him." Well dang. Peter couldn't argue against that.
"I guess I could get some more work done on the microchip project so it won't be all bad," he said, giving a longsuffering sigh that both of them knew was fake.
"You and I both know that you'd live in that lab if I let you," May said, laughing. Peter dropped the act and smiled widely.
"Yep! But can you blame me? It's so shiny."
"No but I can blame Tony for enabling it. Just remember that tonight is a school night so you can't stay up too late tinkering." The 'or patrolling' went unsaid but was heard all the same.
"Promise. I'll even have FRIDAY or Karen remind me," Peter told her.
"Good. Now I have to go. My break is almost over. I larb you."
"Larb you too May," Peter said before the call ended. He refused to feel embarrassed because of how they said love. It was their thing. Has been ever since Peter was seven and came to live with his Aunt and Uncle. He was missing three of his front teeth and when he tried to say love, it always came out as larb.
Peter tucked his phone back into his pocket and turned his attention back to Flash.
"You were saying?"
OKAY! So I have this hilarious story I need to tell you all. A coworker of mine has not watched all the marvel movies until a couple weeks ago. He's watching them in chronological order. Last I checked, he was on Black Widow, which is where this story takes place. We were at work and watching it when it was slow. We watched the end of the movie. I told him he didn't want to watch the end credits scene because it spoiled something BIG in the later movies. He said he didn't mind the spoiler and went ahead and watched it. HIS FACE! It looked like someone killed his puppy in front of him! I was laughing so hard I could barely breathe. Needless to say, he regretted not listening to me about the spoiler.
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