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“FLASH LET US OUT!” You screamed, banging at the door.
“NOT UNTILL YOU AND PETER SAY THE MAGIC WORDS Y/N!” Flash yelled back in response.
“How the hell are we gonna know what these fucking magic words are if you don’t tell us?” You questioned. There was silence from the other side, but soon you could make out faint whispers belonging to Flash, MJ, and Ned.
“You’ll both just have to figure it out yourselves” MJ snapped, but you weren’t sure if it was a Peter and you, or if she was just sick and tired of having to deal with Flash’s annoying behavior.
“Ned please, can you let me and y/n out? We don’t want to play your sick game.” Peter said, jiggling at the door knob.
“Sorry dude this is for your own good.” Ned replied, “and y/n’s”
When you imagined your first quiz bowl tournament of the year to D.C, you never imagined that you would be trapped in a room with Peter, banging at the door to let you out.
Mj had asked you and Peter to get something from the room, and too as you stepped in Flash locked you and Peter in the room of which you and MJ shared, which leaves you in your current predicament: trapped in a room late at night, with your best friend Peter Parker.
Well, you would have been find if this happened last year, but recently you discovered your newfound love for Peter. The way his smile made you feel safe and the way that his hugs would linger for a little longer than usual. And of course when you discovered he was spider-man, it only made you fall in love harder, the way he would risk his life for anyone, it made your heart feel things it never has before.
And of course Peter felt the same way about you. The only difference was that he knew from the moment he saw you, well maybe not exactly knew but he most definitely was in love. From the day you met each other in elementary school and still going strong in high school. His love only grew stronger each time you would laugh, each time you would smile, or just any time you were in the same room as each other.
Sure Peter had a few other little crushes here and there, but only because he confused the feeling of friendship and love. Because you both knew each other since you were both young and always called each other best friends he thought that the love he had for you was actually just friendship. But when he had met Liz and MJ, he believed that the feeling of friendship was actually love.
It was not until Ned had told him what his love was like with Betty (I am a Netty stan till the day I die) did Peter realize that the feeling of friendship to you was actually the feeling of true love.
And when he figured it out, he felt like shit.
Like he felt like a huge fucking idiot.
He started getting more and more nerves around you, scared of scaring you off or by boring you so when you would talk, he tried to keep things from going off topic, before he could start rambling about something completely random.
You sighed heavily, regretting your last few actions. You didn’t want to make your self look stupid in-front of the Spider-man, but more importantly you didn’t want to make yourself look stupid in-front of Peter, the person you loved the most.
Peter eyed you carefully, not wanting to ruin anything either, then his stomach growled.
‘Oh shit’ he immediately thought. His checks got pink quickly and you looked at him and smiled understandingly, knowing with his fast metabolism that he had to eat more than everyone else. Just to have enough energy.
“Um what do we do if we are hungry?” Peter asked the others on the other side in the hotel hallway.
“Yea Peters right I didn’t have dinner yet and I’m starving.” You added.
“There is some food in the desk drawer that I left for you both just incase.” MJ said.
Peter darted to the desk drawer and pulled out two waters and a box of goldfish. He tossed you the water and sat on the bed, and you followed sitting next to him.
“MJ NED AND I ARE GONNA GO, IF YOU FIGURE OUT THE SECRET CODE JUST CALL US!” Yelled flash.
“WAIT WHAT DONT LEAVE?” You and Peter yelled at the same time, running to the door and tried to open but it was locked shut.
“Goodbye you too” MJ said in a mocking tone.
And you and Peter stayed silent for the next few seconds, listening to their footsteps getting quieter until they were gone.
“What should we do now?” You asked Peter and you looked at him. He had flushed cheeks, and a raised brow. Clearly panicked, trying to think of sometime to do.
“I could-uh kick the door down with my super strength?” Peter suggested. You mulled it over for a bit then realized what the consequences would be.
“If you kick down the door people would wonder how two 16 year olds were able to knock down a door that could survive a bombing attack. And it would leave me and MJ without a door which would mean we would have to pay for it.” You replied, still anxious and worried you hurt his feelings, but in response he nodded his head understandingly.
Truth is he only wanted to kick down the door to try and impress you. He knew what the consequences would be, but if you told him to do it and if he knew that it could improve his chances with you, he would do it in a heart beat.
But he knew that because you said no, he thought you would give him attitude as he knows how stubborn you are.
“We could try figuring out what these magic words are?” You asked.
“Ok, well the question is how do we approach this problem? Do we think of it as a riddle or more of a memory kind of question?” He was standing up and starting to pace.
“Do we even know if they’re even magic words?” You said, it was supposed to be joke but then you and Peter looked at each other and realized this could all just be payback from your prank war earlier this year.
Last month you, Peter, MJ, and Ned all created The Prank War. The idea was that you would pick a name out of a hat to be your partner, and you would try to pull pranks on the other team OR try and pull and prank of Flash just because, as MJ so greatly said, ‘he’s a fuckin asshole that deserves to have his 3 inch dick turn into a 1 inch.” Which you completely agreed with, but it did leave Peter and Ned crossing their legs but still nodded in agreement.
You and Peter had come up with a prank that would go perfectly, it involved Ned, MJ, and Flash (doubly points baby) and had ended with you and Peter laughing and the rest with stained clothes and flash with a baled spot.
“Shit, I knew Flash would want revenge for that, probably told MJ about it and then they roped Ned into it too.” Peter said.
“But it was so funny! I still have the photo” You smiled at the memory and Peter sat back down on the bed with you, also smiling
“Me too and do you remember the look on his face when he felt the bald spot? It was hilarious” Peter added.
The memory made both of you laugh and before you knew it, both of you were talking about anything and anyone, completely forgetting your fear of embarrassing yourself infant of the other.
“We should probably get comfortable until they hopefully come in the morning” Peter said, eyeing the clock. “Its 2 am and neither of us slept last night and we have to wake up at 9.”
Now that part, ‘get comfortable’ made your cheeks burn. You looked around the room and realized, “there is only one bed” you said
Peter now just realizing this looked around the room and then looked at the ground. And you did the same.
Because this trip was bad by the school, they got the worlds biggest shithole of a hotel that looked like it’s gone through and survived multiple wars, but hasn’t been cleaned since the first one.
“The floor is disgusting and there is no couch, we are gonna have too, uh, share the bed.” You admitted, someone had to say it but the last few words didn’t sit right with you so you jumped up, “Im going to get ready for bed and brush my teeth, and there are some sweatshirts of yours that I stole from you so you can wear that to bed.”
You grabbed your t-shirt and sweats that you normally slept in and went into the bathroom and closed the door, a sigh of relief filling your mind.
You brushed your teeth, washed your face and gave yourself a pep-talk in the mirror.
This is nothing to panic about y/n, it’s just a nap, you have fallen asleep next to Peter before, the only difference is this is intentional and you are not on a subway ride coming home from a concert.
“Y/n? Are you decent? Can I come in?” Peter knocked on the door, God was he ever so polite, sadly you knew that most boys would just knock and immediately enter giving no regard if your decent or not.
You opened the door and Peter was standing in his newly Un-stolen sweatshirt and his sweats from before. You moved out of the way and allowed him to enter the tiny bathroom and you went to enter the main part of your room.
You looked at your phone for a bit, then started to spam MJ telling you to let her out but all she replied with was, ‘if you text me one more time Im gonna block you, then you’re really gonna be suck in there ’. You sighed tossing your phone aside.
“Were you trying to text Mj?” Peter asked, “I tried Ned a minute ago and realized he’s probably asleep by now”
“Yea, Mj threatened to block me.” You said. “And knowing her I don’t want to risk it.” You laughed at your friend groups dynamic.
You truly loved how as different as everyones personality were, you all were very close. Though, you couldn’t help but wish your relationship with Peter was more romantic than how it is now.
Peter yawned causing you to yawn also. “Maybe we should get some sleep” Peter suggested.
“Yes, please, I feel like how I did when we watched the entirety of The lord of the rings and star wars over the weekend.” You said.
You both laughed at the memory.
“But if I remember correctly you weren’t so tired when Anakin and Padame were on screen”
“Because they’re both amazing and I love their characters dynamic. I mean, Anakin went to the dark side out of his love for Padame, and even in the end Padame still loved him because she knew he was doing this because someone used their love agents him and this was not who Anakin really is, just an extreme version of what he will do for their love. But it is still kinda stupid to go to the dark side, the side that Padame is completely agents for her” You stated defensively. You’ve done this rant before but Peter was not believing it.
“I think it’s because you have a crush on them.”
“Maybe, but maybe I just like the idea of someone loving me to the point they would do anything to save our love” You dramatically stated.
oh, Peter thought
I would do anything for you too,
“But then again If I were a Jedi I would go to the dark side just to get the cool red lightsaber and to get some cool black clothing with one of those dramatically long capes that make you look like a cool villain so I guess I should not really talk about someones reasons going to the dark side.” You and Peter both started laughing.
“Oh no y/n if I was a Jedi I don’t want to have to dual you” Peter said in return and he walked over to the left side of the bed and sat down. With you sitting down on the right side.
“Oh please your just saying that because you know I would beat you in a sword fight”
“Are you forgetting who the superhero is in this room?”
“Yea yea whatever I would still win because my dramatically long cape would intimidate you too much.” You responded
You hesitantly lied down onto the bed and Peter did the same.
He pulled down the covers and you both tucked yourselves under.
“Do you think that Ned, MJ and Flash are gonna open the door tomorrow?” Peter asked, trying to make it less awkward
“I don’t think they can compete when not everyone is there so probably.”
You both tried to get comfy and eventually you both fell asleep.
~
You woke up and the clock read 3 am, you took in your surroundings. You were on your quiz team trip to DC and you had been locked in a room with Peter and your feeling kinda warm and-
Oh my god
In the hour you both had been asleep you both had moved to the middle of the bed your hands were entwined and as you moved your hand and your body away, Peter woke up.
“Hey what’s going on?” Peter said sitting up a bit and rubbing his eyes.
“Oh uh, I woke up and we were close and I felt bad because I move a lot in my sleep and I didn’t want to annoy you so I was just trying to move away and-”
You were cut off by Peter resting his hand on yours.
“You never annoy me y/n you know that right?” Peter asked. His face was a little pale like, he was scared of something.
“Thanks Peter that means a lot, but I just didn’t want to bother you when your-” you were cut off again but not by Peters hand on yours, but rather, his lips on yours.
You were shocked and could not process what was happening and he pulled away.
“Y/n I’m so sorry I didn’t mean to I just, the temptation was too strong and you look very nice and-well you always look nice but I have wanted to kiss you for a very, very-” and now it was your turn to cut him off.
You kissed him, and he kissed back. Your hands went to his hair and his hand went to your back to hug you and bring you even closer.
“I’ve wanted to kiss you for awhile too” You finally said
“Ok, wow, um, I’m really glad I built up the nerve kiss you, I think that was the best thing I have ever done in my entire life.” Peter said smilingly, still holding you close. Foreheads touching.
“Are you sure because last time I check I would have thought becoming a crime-fighting superhero and meeting Tony Stark would have been it?” You said sarcastically.
“I could see how you think that but I have really liked you since, I don’t know, I think when we met when we were 7? So I have liked you since I was 7 so I’ve wanted to kiss you for over half of my life.”
“Awe that’s sweet” You responded by kissing him again and then hugging him. “I think that’s the sweetest thing I’ve heard in my life.”
“Yes I am the sweetest guy here, But, I would like to ask you on a date to be my girlfriend? If you are ok with that?” Peter asked, you both had pulled away from the hug and he was now twiddling with his thumbs, something he only does when he is nerves.
“Yes Peter I would love that” You replied
“Im gonna be super pissed if we go back to bed this ends up being a dream and none of this ever happened.” Peter said then realizing, “OH MY GOSH I AM SLEEPING WITH YOU BEFORE WE GO ON A DATE I-”
Peter was cut off by your laughter, “what’s so funny y/n”
“Well I know two things, one being that no matter if this is a dream or not, I know I will most defiantly still want to date you. And two at most we are cuddling, it’s not like we are fucking, and besides we have know each other since we were 7, so we already know everything about one another. So don’t worry Peter” You looked at him with loving eyes.
Peter pulled you closer and you both started leaning back down towards the pillows. Your head was resting on his shoulder, arms wrapped around each other and legs tangled with one another.
It was blissful,
It was perfect,
It was the happiest place you both could be.
~
The next day you and Peter were waken up by harsh whispers and giggles.
Peter and you looked up, and there standing at the foot of the bed was, Ned, MJ and Flash. All with their cameras out and cheesy smiles.
“Looks like you two had a fun night last night” Flash said, trying and failing to move his eyebrows up and down.
You got a pillow from behind you and threw it at him. It hit him right in his crotch, causing him to bend over in pain. He got the hint and left.
“No but really what did you guys do last night?” MJ asked.
“Y/n and I just talked and then fell asleep next to each other, we do it all the time what’s the problem with that?” Peter asked, he didn’t want to tell his friends group what really happened last night, at least not until after everyone gets back to Queens.
“Also what was the magic words?” You asked, still puzzled by the insane they had come up with while also trying to change the conversation.
“Oh that, it was just a way for you both to confess your undying love for one another.” MJ stated bluntly. “And it worked.”
Ned and MJ smiled, but y/n and Peter looked at each other confused.
“How do you know?” Peter asked
“Well, first of all how you guys were sleeping” Ned pulled up the photo of your too sleeping together, “looked like you too got extremely close.
Y/n and Peter stared in shock. Questions coming one after another.
“How did you know we liked each other?” You asked
“Because of the way you talked to each other, you both seemed to be in so much love, you just needed…” Neds words trailed off.
“… a push” MJ finished. “Well, you guys need to get ready for the competition today, so we will see you too love birds down in 10”
Ned and MJ left the room, with Ned dropping off Peters uniform on his way out.
“That was the weirdest shit to ever happen to me” Peter concluded, “and I got bitten by a radioactive spider.”