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Aunt May was dead.
She died awhile ago because of some car wreck, but Tony adopted him of course, he never got around to calling him his “son” because Peter still called him Mr. Stark, it felt uncomfortable
Peter was watching an old video of him and May
“May- M-May! Come into the video!”
“Peter, you know I'm camera shy.”
“Just this once!”
“Fine- Hello everyone!”
The video cut for some reason
Peter couldn't remember why he cut the video off there
He kind of regretted it, only a little
Mr. Stark called him for breakfast.
“PETER!”
His voice echoed through the tower, it was kinda weird how Peter heard it.
It must've been the video, it had gotten to his head.
“COMING!”
Peter opens his room door and walks to the kitchen.
He comes in stumbling
“Good morning.. Are you okay?"
“Yeah- yeah, I just got up too fast!”
“Okay, well let’s start over, Morning kid, I made eggs and waffles, and… well… It's kinda burnt but Pepper didn't want to cook…”
Mr. Stark puts his hand on his chin, as if he's a detective solving a crime.
“Oh, uhm.. Yum?” Peter says, sounding almost worried.
A short moment of silence passes
“Ill just make cereal.” Peter says
“Good idea”
Peter eats his food, the cereal is not as sweet as he thought it would be, he doesn't care anyways.
Suddenly Ms. Potts yells–
“TONY! COME SEE THIS!”
Mr. Stark rushes over, Peter gets up and looks a little to spy.
“Today we have a shocking discovery, famous billionaire, Tony Stark, is revealed to be the non-biological father of 15 year old Peter Parker after a group of hackers leak legal papers stating Tony Stark is Peter Parker's legal guardian. The 15 year olds' social media have been found and we are waiting to find further information, and have yet to hear what the Starks have to say about this shocking situation.”
“W-what?” Peter whispers
The news reporter wouldn't stop talking
Ugh
“I didn't have anything to do with this!”
“I - sigh I know you didn't…” Mr. Stark said, clearly frustrated
“I know.. Just wanted to put that out there..”
“Ok.. How are you supposed to go to school today?”
“I… Dont?”
“Nope, no, you have to, one more absence and you're getting summer school!”
Ms. Potts jumps in the conversation by saying “He should just go to school and get the day over with, he.. can't do anything else at this point…”
“But-”
“No buts-” Mr. Stark says “You are going to school whether I like- YOU like it or not! So.. go get.. Dressed or something!”
“Ok ok… I will!”
Peter walks away into his room to get changed
“You think he's gonna be okay with all the paparazzi?” Mr. Stark asks
Silence
“Prolly not”
***
Peter arrives at school feeling anxious about all the attention he might get. Some self driving car drove him to school, Mr. Stark didn't want to be a bother.
Peter steps out of the car and immediately gets flashed with cameras, some of the people taking photos were even the students, including Flash? huh.
“Good god!” Peter covers his face as his eyes get blinded by all the light
Then suddenly Peter feels someone pulling him away from all the cameras
“H-hey!”
“Its just me, MJ” she says, sounding like she's out of breath
“Oh!
MJ doesn't have to shove anyone out of the way, even if she wanted to she couldn't because there's people standing around them like a line to lunch, they walk down like it's a red carpet or something and head into the halls where Ned is.
The halls aren't any better, it's filled with chatter from students left and right
“Peter!” Ned yells out and joins Peter and MJ
“You're famous!”
“I KNOW Ned!” Peter groans
MJ jumps in the conversation “Okay guys just keep moving!”
“Jeez okay…” Ned pouts
They head their way into first period, where it's so quiet its loud
“Ah.. Parker, is nice to see you Today… uhm”
The teacher looks like he's about to die on the spot
Alright everyone take your seats! And uh.. Let's get started!”
The entire class, besides Peter, Ned, and MJ, were already seated. They give a quick glance to each other and sit down.
Everyone was staring at him throughout the entire day, second period was no better, the teacher obviously favorited Peter the entire lesson because of the Stark name
Lunch finally came after those classes
Ned, Mj, and Peter walk into the lunchroom, immediately all eyes are on them, not quiet, just… weird.
Peter keeps his head down on the floor out of embarrassment.
They go to a table in the very back corner of the lunchroom.
Suddenly a loud SLAM shook their table, it was Flash, right there, staring down peter.
“Look I don't want any trouble-”
Flash cut him off
“You?” Flash spat out “You a Stark? Like the Billionaire Tony Stark.”
“I’m not really a Stark-”
Flash’s face turns pale “There is no way. How did you become- Why did he choose you? Out of all people?”
Peter gets nervous, knowing he can't say the real reason
…
“Luck?”
“Bullshit! Tell me the real reason!”
“Leave him alone Flash!” MJ sternly says
“Whatever.” Flash says as he walks away from the table.
“Dude…” Ned whispers for some reason “You told him because of luck?”
“Yeah I know, I didn't know what to say!”
“Maybe something like, “oh because of my internship!”” MJ snickers
Peter pauses for a moment “You're right that would've been smart… I just panicked!”
MJ shrugged
“Well it worked at least.” Ned spoke
“I guess…” Peter sighed
After the last 2 periods the final bell came after what had felt like years.
“Peter, can I uh- come over? Because of the paparazzi of course!...”
“You know how much Mr. Stark hates you guys!”
“He said he thought we were “bad influences”” MJ mockingly says
“AKA hate!”
An announcement comes on the speaker
“Peter Parker please come to the office, Peter Parker”
“Great.” Peter says sarcastically “Sorry guys, I have to go!”
“Bye Peter.” Ned and MJ say, though Ned sounds more disappointed while MJ sounds surprisingly neutral.
Peter walks up the stairs into the office, feeling curious and unhappy at the same time, he wished that this day had never started.