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An aunt/nephew talk

*Morning at Aunt May house*

"Peter, where are you off to today?" Aunt May questions her nephew. This morning when she cooked breakfast for him, she notices that Peter ate his food a little faster than usual with an expression on his face that she recognizes all too well.

Peter finishes cleaning his plate off before answering her. "I'm heading to the mall to meet with an old friend I met a while back."

Hearing his answer prompts Aunt May to raise her eyebrow at him as she seeks out more information about this friend. "Is this friend of yours just so happens to be a female?"

Peter scratches the back of his head with a slight shade of red appearing from his cheeks. "Um, that's correct Aunt May. It's a date." Peter tells her, which causes Aunt May to worry about what's going on in Peter's love life.

"A date? Peter, how long have you known this mystery person, and are you sure you're ready after what happened between you and Gwen?" Aunt May asks, trying to not come across as being nosey.

Peter, at that moment, wishes he could kick himself for saying he was going on a date, not knowing it would put him in the position that he is now in with his aunt. "To tell you the truth, I don't know a whole lot about her, but we met up one night after I was leaving Dr. Connors's office, and we just kind of hit it off, but we have only seen each other on rare occasions. So I haven't had the time to sit down and get to know her. As far as Gwen and me, you know she hasn't talked to me since that day she decided to choose Harry over me, so, to be honest, I can't just wait on her forever."

Aunt May signs, but quickly reveals a soft smile to reassure Peter that she's not upset and that she appreciates his honesty. "Listen, dear, this is not me trying to say you shouldn't find someone special for you because I know you deserve a great girl, and whoever ends up with my nephew will be the luckiest girl ever. I am just making sure you know what you are doing and not rushing into things. As much as I would have liked to see you with Gwen or even Mary Jane, I understand the two women are now in the market. Therefore, it does make sense that you put yourself out there. However, I know you still have some feelings for Gwen and assuming that this lady you are about to hang with doesn't know that it wouldn't feel if you are using her as a rebound especially when you don't know a whole lot about her."

Peter nods his head in agreement. Part of his concern with this new relationship is wondering, did he move too fast with her, especially when last night was the first and only night that he saw her as Felicia Hardy along with that nightmare he had. Should Peter end things with her now before they crash and fail? His thoughts turn to how he failed with Liz and Gwen and wonders would his back luck with relationships affect him and Felicia. "You're right, Aunt May. The goal for today is to explain to Felicia my concerns about me and her dating. Unfortunately, it might end up leading to a breakup."

Aunt May's eyes go wide from hearing the breakup part. She wonders how significant this new relationship is. "Peter, are you saying you and this woman decided to be official?"

Peter mentally slaps himself in the face and quickly responds, saying, "No! I mean, break up like she probably wouldn't be interested in me know more knowing the truth, but I rather am honest than to lie about it." Aunt May's outburst makes Peter wonder if he is rushing too fast if he felt that he couldn't tell his aunt that he is in a formal relationship.

Aunt May takes a deep breath and holds Peter's hands, looking him in his eyes. "I knew me, and your uncle raises you well. As you get older, you are becoming smarter. Again, I, please don't take this as me telling you what to do, I don't want you to get hurt or this young lady to get hurt as well. I do hope for the best outcome for you, and I love you."

Peter kisses her on the cheek. "I love you too Aunt May. I better get going." He gets out of his seat and heads straight to the front door.

"Okay, dear. Hope you enjoy yourself. Oh, one more thing, what's your date's name?" Aunt May questions him one last time, making Peter freeze up remembering Felicia's last name is Hardy, as in the daughter of Walter Hardy, who kills her husband. There is no telling how she would take that if she put the two and two together.

Not wanting to concern her any more than she already is, Peter says, "Felicia." and exits the house.

*Early Afternoon at the Mall*

After somehow calming his self-down after the nightmare and coming up with the decision to have an honest conversation with Felicia, Peter makes it to the mall around the time the two are scheduled to meet there. Peter, still feeling nervous, was about to go inside when she heard the familiar voice he was waiting to hear. "Hey, boy scout!"

Peter turns his attention to the source, only for his jaw to drop to the floor of the sight. He watches as his new current girlfriend walks over to him wearing a white blouse tug in her tight black jeans, which fit her curves nicely and wearing a black cardigan sweater as well as having long snow color hair in a ponytail with dark red lipstick on her lip. As much as Peter wanted to greet her back, no words could escape his mouth, for he was too busy wondering how he got so lucky, to begin with, well besides being Spider-man.

Felicia smirked at his speechless expression and was now standing face to face with her hand on hip. "What's the matter, cat got your tongue?" Felicia playfully questions him.

"Felicia, you look... Wow." He can say still couldn't get over our hot she looks right now.

"Yeah, I had a big date and wanted to impress the spectacular guy," Felicia claim moving a little closer to Peter.

Peter begins to scratch the back of his head before saying, "I think I can speak for that guy and say that he is super impressed."

"Speaking of the guy, this lady is digging the black shirt on you." Felicia praises him, admiring his shirt while rubbing his sleeve, making Peter blush a bit.

"I do recall back to the night we work together; you said wearing black flatter you, so I aim to please the lady," Peter explains to her as, for he knew that she liked the color black. He decided to rock a black shirt than the usual blue shirt he's known to wear. Thankfully, it wasn't part of an alien costume this time.

"Then consider this lady, please." Felicia then wraps her arms around his neck. Sensing that he is about to stumble over his words, Felicia quickly kisses him so hot it made Peter's toe curl up.

"MMMM! Mmmm..." Peter moans as his eye went from full to close and melted into her lips as he kisses her back with passion with his arms now going around her waist.

Finally, with one last smooch, a grinning Felicia broke the kiss and gazed at a zoned Peter Parker. "Peter?" she spoke to get his attention. Seeing that he's stuck on in his trance, an amuse Felicia Hardy softy laughs before attempting to try again. "Peter?" she said with a bit more forcibly, yet still couldn't break her boyfriend out of his daze.

At that point, Felicia figures she needed to use a different tactic. With her arms still around Peter's neck, she leans up to his ear and whispers in a sexy tone, "Peter?"

This action finally gets Peter to snap out of his trance, but still holds her close to him. "Sorry about that, I guess your hot kisses still have that stunning effect on me."

"Don't apologize; I consider that a confidence boost for me that my new man loves my soft lips. Besides, you shouldn't settle yourself, short Boy Scout, because once you get over the shock spell, you're a fiery kisser as well, which is perfect for me."

"Thanks, though I wish I wouldn't freeze up like that," Peter admits while blushing.

"You know they say practice makes perfect, so why don't we get some training sessions in," Felicia stated in a seductive tone as she goes for another kiss only Peter to move his face away from her to avoid her lips and brings his head down.

Felicia's expression changes into concern one. "What's wrong baby?" She asks, lifting his chin to meet her. Little did she know that currently, the thoughts of the nightmare, the talk with his aunt, and the possibility of losing Felicia crept into Peter's mind making him feel guilty about kissing her again.

"I just a little tired. Didn't sleep well last night." Peter claims still not fully ready to tell her his concerns.

Felicia acknowledges this and looks deep into his eyes, asking, "Did something happen that cause you not to sleep well?"

"I... I had some late-night thoughts that had to do with us." Peter starts to admit.

Hearing that Peter had late-night thoughts of her and him raise an interesting question. "Why Peter, are you already having dirty thoughts of me?" She playfully asks, lifting one of her eyebrows.

Peter felt his self-heat and tense up from that question. "No, no, no not that, I mean not that I wouldn't think those thoughts of you. You know what, ignore that last part."

Felicia laughs at his shyness. It was interesting to hear how, like Spider-man, he's brave and pretty smooth, and while outside the costume as Peter Parker, he is shy but still cute. "Peter, I don't mind if you are having those thoughts of me, but if you weren't thinking about that, then what was on your mind? If you worry about what we are going to do on our dates, don't worry about that. I have a lot of income thanks to my mom so that I can pay for some of our dates; it's no big deal to me."

Peter would be grateful for that information if it weren't for the conversation he must have with her. "Um..."

Struggling to find the words, Peter finally musters up the courage to say, "Felicia, we need to talk."

TBC

Author notes: A little short update, but with how busy my life is, can't help that. So, I not entirely happy with the direction of this story, for I feel that I took the usual route when it came to spectacular Spider-man stories, and that is getting Peter and Felicia together in the very beginning. Now before you guys jump to the conclusion, I am neither A. Restarting this story nor B. Canceling it, but I will be addressing the issue of the two rushing their relationship in the next chapter. With that said, what do you guys think will happen? The thing is Peter hadn't been in a whole lot of relationships other the Liz, which let's be real wasn't much of a relationship, so in a way, Felicia can come across as a rebound since Gwen won't be with him. That's where I want to add some realism to this story where the two deal with real issues that most people would need to deal with, even if that means the two could break up...