Recluse → Peter Parker

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Tony chuckled on the other line. "You neglected your responsibilities to play with building blocks?"

"Legos," she corrected him.

"Oh my gosh."

"Listen, I'm trying to juggle work and being an actual teenager," Andi said to him. "It's a lot harder than you think, so give me a break, would ya?"

"Fine," Tony sighed. "But I'm watching you, Andrews."

Andi only shook her head and hung up the phone. Peter and Ned were now looking at her with raised brows. They were probably wondering who she'd been talking to, but she wouldn't tell them.

"You coming?" Peter gestured her forward.

Andi only nodded and ran a hand through her hair. She hadn't gotten much sleep at all, and both of the boys could tell.

"You look exhausted," Ned laughed.

"That's because I am," Andi breathed out. "I didn't get much sleep last night."

"Yeah, neither did I, because your phone kept going off," Peter teased the blonde.

Ned raised a brow at the two. "So you guys had a sleepover last night and didn't invite me?"

"Peter didn't even invite me," Andi laughed. "I just laid down and went to sleep."

"Yeah," Peter rolled his eyes. "And I was stuck on the top bunk."

"You could've moved her?" Ned suggested.

"I thought about it, but didn't really get up to do it until after she'd already fallen asleep, and then she just looked too peaceful, so I left her," Peter explained to Ned.

Andi smiled and shook her head. "Me looking peaceful when I'm asleep? That's a first."

Peter and Ned only laughed at her, and together the three of them continued on toward school.

The day dragged on for Andi. She decided to spend most of her classes napping, which she learned did her quite the service. Ned never stopped asking Peter questions, and it wasn't hard to tell that he'd gotten annoyed with them throughout the day. It was as if he wished Ned was more like Andi and just didn't care about the situation, which he still found strange, to be quite honest.

Andi was awake for gym, though. After being shown a video of Captain America, one she had seen way too many times, Andi wound up on the bleachers. She laid on the bleachers with her science textbook in her hands, her eyes reading over every single word. Her peers, aside from Liz, Betty, and a couple of other students she couldn't bother to learn the names of, were all on the gym floor working through the basics of the video they'd been shown earlier. They were all so loud, so unnecessarily loud to her enhanced senses, and she was trying her hardest to block them all out, but it was so much harder than she thought.

"Oh my, God, she's crushing on Spider-Man," Betty said after a remark made by Liz.

"I mean, kind of."

Andi could tell by the sound of Liz's voice that she was flustered, and that only made her roll her eyes. Their constant chatter was just so annoying. She would rather sit on the bleachers and read about interactive star charts or mitosis. Anything was better than listening to her peers talk about which Avenger they'd rather screw.

"Peter knows Spider-Man!"

Andi dropped her book on her chest and looked at Ned with wide eyes, while the rest of the students in the gym stopped what they were doing to look at the pair. With each passing second she wished the two of them hadn't gone over to Peter's house so early. Ned was screwing up so many things for Peter. Andi knew the young boy was willing to do anything to keep his secret, but if Ned continued running his mouth the way he was, it would be nearly impossible to, and she knew that was the last thing he wanted.