A year before Courtney Whitmore would come in and change their lives forever, Peter Barton was currently still in class. Without the spider bite, Peter's school life was a little different. To say...boring.

Being the son of Reed Richards and Susan Storm, already set up as a child protégé without even knowing it Once in class, Peter was getting a little bored and just needed up do a bit of browsing online.

"Okay, so how do we calculate linear acceleration between points A and B?" The teacher, Mr. Levine, asks the class, but none of them pay attention. But then one of the residents in the room raised their hand. "Ms. Montez?"

"It's the product of the sine of the angle and gravity divided by the mass." Yolanda Montez, the soon-to-be Wildcat, answered the question.

"Nope." Mr. Levine said and noticed Peter on his computer, currently breaking him out of his fantasy land. "Peter. You still with us?"

"Uh, yeah, sorry," Peter said as he closed the computer and saw the problem on the board. "Mass cancels out, so it's just gravity times sine."

"Correct again, Mr. Barton." Mr. Levine confirmed. The bell then rang, calling the end of the day for the students and they were already in a rush to get out. "Uh, Mr. Barton, Ms. Montez, can I speak to the two of you for a moment?"

Peter stopped after packing up and wondered what he was needed for and decided to wait it out. Yolanda was also wondering the same thing that he was while she was in the middle of packing.

"Yolanda, I have been noticing that you haven't seemed to be able to grasp the information we've been going over," Mr. Levine tells her. "Your grades have started to slowly slip." That got Yolanda worried, as she's been trying to keep her grades up to try and run for class president. "Not by much, but I worry it might slowly start to degrade over time." Then she looked over to Peter, gesturing to him with her hand. "And I think that Peter here could be the perfect tutor to help you keep up."

"He is?" Yolanda asked, unsure of that.

"I am?" Peter asked, unsure of the teachers' faith in him.

"Peter is one of the top students here, and I feel with him teaching you, you'll get the hang of the subject," Mr. Levine said in confidence.

"You sure there isn't anyone else?" Peter asked. "Surely there are more qualified students."

"Peter, I feel that you can help Yolanda here, but if it makes you feel uncomfortable, I'll find someone else." Mr. Levine supposed that it was Peter's decision in the end. "It's up to you."

Peter looked to Yolanda, noticing her worried look at the idea of her grade slipping. "You know, I think I can give it a try." He then looked to Yolanda again. "Are you doing anything now or later?"

"No," Yolanda answered. "I don't have anything going on."

"Well, if you wanna meet me in the library, we can start to go over some small notes today." Peter offered.

"See you then." Yolanda agreed.

The two of them then made their way out of the class, towards the library to talk. Peter and Yolanda talked, got some dates on when best to tutor, and she was a quick learner.

As time passed, Peter and Yolanda started to spend a lot of time together. Peter would show up at her place. Every once in a while, he'd come in to help her keep up with the new material and she caught on pretty fast.

Yolanda would even show her support for Peter during the academic decathlon. As time went on, the two of them became more comfortable around one another.

To the point that Yolanda had to admit she gained a crush on Peter. What she didn't know was the fact Peter was starting to feel the same way about her.

When one of the decathlons ended, Peter and the team were celebrating and talking about going out to celebrate.

"What do you say, Peter?" Ned asked his best friend. "Wanna join us?"

Peter smiled at his friends, Ned and MJ, but then looked and noticed Yolanda waiting for him. "I'll catch up with you guys."

"Alright. See you there." MJ said as they all left him and Yolanda.

"Congratulations up there," Yolanda tells Peter as she walked over, ready to tell him the truth.

"Come on, it was a team effort," Peter said as he gestured to his friends.

"Can you ever take credit for something?" Yolanda asked him.

She was unable to believe that he can't just take a compliment and give it to someone else. Ever since she met him, she saw it as sweet at first but felt he was too hard always believing someone else deserved the credit.

"I try, it doesn't feel right," Peter admitted with a sigh.

The two then came to an uncomfortable silence, neither of them sure what to say now. But then it seemed the two of them finally got over it at the same time.

"I need to talk-" Both of them were saying, but then stopped one another.

"You go first," Yolanda tells Peter.

Peter sighed and knew it was now or never. "I have liked getting to know you. Since that day our teacher set us up...for tutoring."

"Yeah, same." Yolanda agreed with him. Getting to know him has been the best thing in her life.

"And I don't know how or exactly when, but I think..." Peter tried to put it into words that she could understand from him. He was a textbook nerd, and she was a textbook-perfect student. He didn't know how she was going to react to this. "I just want to..."

Yolanda then interrupted him when she just went for it and pecked his lips. Taking a step back to see his reaction, she saw a look of shock on him.

"And you kissed me." Peter didn't know how to respond to that.

Yolanda blushed and knew she needed to explain. "Getting to know you the past few months has been one of the best things to happen in my life. You helped me keep my grades up, so I could keep trying to run for class president. You have even helped and supported me a lot in that area, too." She then smiled and moved some hair out of her face. "It's been nice. And... somewhere down the line...I learned I like you. Like...Like you, like you."

Peter smiled and couldn't believe she felt the same. "I like you, too."

Yolanda and Peter went back in, the two of them trying the kiss for a second time. This time with them both expecting it.

The two just stayed there when a whistle interrupted them. Knowing that whistle anywhere, Peter looked to see his uncle Clint walking over to them with a smile.

"So, this must be the lovely Yolanda." Clint took a wild guess. "Peter talks about you a lot."

"Does he?" Yolanda asked as she looked at Peter.

Peter rolled his eyes after hearing that. "I don't talk about her all the time."

"Nightly talks," Clint tells Yolanda. He then looked over to Peter. "Say, what do you say we go and get some pizza to celebrate? Get Lucky out of the house."

"You keep feeding that dog pizza, he's gonna become a pizza dog," Peter informed his uncle.

"Ooh, Pizza Dog." Clint liked that nickname. "I need to write that down." He then turned to face Yolanda. "You're welcome to join us, Yolanda. I know Lila would love to meet you."

"I gotta get home and prepare for the speech tomorrow," Yolanda said, thinking of the class president's speech tomorrow.

"Come on, you're ready," Peter informed her. "You have been preparing for this all year. You can take one night off." He then got an idea. "Hey, how about this, you can run it by us during food."

"Are you sure I won't intervene too much?" Yolanda asked, still unsure of the idea.

"Come on, any friend of Peter is good enough for me," Clint said as he and Peter started to head to the car.

Yolanda decided to go with it and sent a text to her mother that she was gonna go out with Peter. Her family met Peter due to her study groups and they knew he was a safe kid.

Actually, upon meeting her family, Peter promised Yolanda would be able to take him down faster than he can think. It earned a laugh from the whole family, and respect from her folks when Yolanda admitted she liked him to her family.

Getting in the car, the three of them drove off to pick up Lila from the house and Lucky the pizza dog.