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Peter decided taking an art class would be fun. He thought that he could possibly use the skills he’d learn to improve designing his Spider-man suits. Peter sat next to you in art class. You both got there before the class started. You were absentmindedly doodling. Lately you have been drawing lots of pictures of Spider-man.
Peter glances over at you to see what you were drawing. His eyes widened when he saw it was spiderman, him, in your sketchbook.
“Who’s that?” he asked, hoping if he seemed clueless maybe you wouldn’t think his interest in your drawing is because he’s spiderman.
“Mhm? Oh Spider-man, you know the vigilante.” you smiled and continued to shade the drawing.
“So are you like a fan then?” he asked
You nod. “He’s a hero! Have you not heard in the news?”
“Oh uh yea I think so.” he nods nervously.
Soon class begins and you all work on some still life drawings of fruit. Though while drawing you can’t help but notice that Peter keeps looking over at you nervously. You decided that after class you might talk to him about that. You’ve never noticed him paying attention to you before this. Class went by really quickly. You noticed that Peter quickly left the classroom. So you had to run after him. Quickly tapping his shoulder.
“Hey Peter, wait up!”
“Huh?” he turns around to face you, “sorry I uh have chemistry class.”
“Did I bother you?”
“Huh what? No. I-” he stumbles on his words
Nods “you seem off… so I just thought..” you stare at the ground.
“I gotta go to class…” he quickly leaves
Timeskip
You are sitting on the roof of your apartment building. You often sneak up there to be alone. You hear a thud rearbye.
“Oh hi there..” you hear someone say
You turn to look at the person the voice comes from and see Spider-man.
“Hi..” you reply. “How’s the spider stuff going?”
He chuckles and gives a thumbs up “good, good.” he sits down next to you. “Sooo what are you doing on the roof?”
“Just relaxing.” smiles and then, “hey can I ask you something?” he nods “did you make your suit?”
“Yea I did!” he chuckles “I designed it myself.”
“Have you ever thought about changing it?”
He nods “yea I’m actually taking an art class to improve my ideas.” as soon as he said that he internally regretted it, worried you might figure out that he’s actually Peter Parker, your classmate.
Chuckles “can I design a suit for you?” smiles and looks at him hopefully.
This really surprised him. “Uhh maybe someday.”
After that Peter felt a bit more comfortable with you but was still worried you’d find out who he is. But he had a feeling he could trust you, but he didn’t want to risk anything.
Things hadn’t really changed too much, you didn’t see Spider-man in person again and you weren’t much closer to Peter either, but Peter definitely kept thinking about you.