" I have a plan." Peter said with excitement as he sat in the seat in front of Ned. Ned blinked, but then nodded for him to continue. " Okay, first, I'm going to sit with Bella on the flight. Second, I'm going to buy a dual headphone adapter and watch movies with her the whole time."

The smile that was on Ned's face fades while Peter tells him his plan. " Okay.."

" Three; when we go to Venice-Venice is super famous for making jewelry, right?"

Ned nods. " True."

" So, I'm going to buy her a calla lily necklace because that's her favorite flower and calla lily means beauty so I just thought that would make sense, because well, she's beautiful and-"

Ned chuckles and stops him from rambling. " Yeah, I get it Peter."

Peter smiles. " Okay, good." he then continues to explain his plan. " Anyways, four, when we go to Paris, I'm going to take her to the top of the Eiffel Tower, give her the necklace and then five, I'm gonna tell her that I love her." he bites his lower lip. " And six hopefully she tells me that she feels the same way."

" Well, I'm pretty sure that she does. I mean, didn't you guys kiss?" Ned asked.

Peter nods, a light blush forming on his cheeks. " Y-yeah. We did. But we haven't talked about it."

" Okay. Oh! Don't forget step seven." Ned reminded him.

Peter takes his pen out and goes to write it down. " Step seven."

" Don't do any of it."

Peter quickly looked up at him with a look of confusion and sadness. " Why?"

" 'Cause we're gonna be bachelors in Europe, Peter!" Ned exclaims while shrugging his shoulders.

" Ned," Peter sighed.

" Look, all I know is that Europeans love Americans."

Peter narrowed his eyes as he stares suspiciously at Ned. " Really?"

" And more than half of them are women!"

" Okay...sure,"  Peter hesitantly said. " But I really like Bella. I've liked her since middle school and I think this trip will finally be the time we get together."

His eyes widened when he glanced over to see Bella and Vivian walking over to them. " T-they're coming over, just don't talk about it!"

Bella smiles as her and Vivian stand in front of them. " Hi, guys." she looked at each of them as she greeted, but her gaze on Peter held on longer than normal.

" What up, dorks." MJ speaks up as she walks over to them with Harley and the two quickly look away from each other. " Excited about the science trip?"

Harley grins. " I know I am. Been looking forward to it all year."

Vivian nods in agreement. " Same!"

" Hey, uh, yeah. We were just talking about the trip." Peter responded, his voiced wavering and Bella knew he was lying. 

" Yeah, and Peter's plan." Ned added, glancing at Peter.

Bella raised an eyebrow as she looked at them both. " Peter's plan?" 

" You have a plan?" MJ bluntly asked.

Harley looked over at Peter with an amused look since. " Yeah, I wanna know this plan." he said even though he already knew the plan.

Peter eyebrow's furrows as he glances at Ned before looking back at the four of them while shaking his head. " I-I don't have a plan."

" He's-he's just gonna collect tiny spoons as we're traveling to other countries." Ned explained, but Bella didn't believe him. And it didn't go unnoticed to Bella when Ned winked at Peter.

" Like a-like a grandmother?" MJ asked and looked at them weirdly.

" That's a little weird." Harley mumbled and Vivian nodded in agreement. Peter swallowed nervously. 

" I'm not collecting tiny spoons," he jabbed his pen at Ned. " he's collecting tiny spoons."

" Oh, okay," MJ said and forced a laugh.

Vivian leaned over to Harley and whispered, " This is awkward." 

He nods in agreement as MJ says, " That was a real roller-coaster. By the way, travel tip; you should probably download a VPN on your phone so the government can't track you while we're abroad."

" Smart. Will do." Peter awkwardly said.

MJ slowly nodded and looked over at Bella, Vivian and Harley. " I'm gonna head to class."

" We will go with you." Vivian said, referring to her and Harley. Harley glanced at her with a raised brow. " We will?"

Vivian nodded. " We will."

Harley shrugged his shoulders. "  I guess we will." he said and walked off with Vivian and MJ, leaving Bella with Peter and Ned.

Bella stares at the two boys suspiciously. " You guys are awful liars."

" No, no we're not." Peter said, glancing at Ned then looked back at Bella. " We aren't lying."

Bella locked eyes with Peter and stared at him suspiciously. He quickly looked away from her intimidating gaze. " Okay.." he slowly said. " Maybe we're lying." he admitted and looked back at Bella who had a smile of victory on her face.

" I knew it. So, what were you guys really talking about?" Bella asked them.

" We...we were just talking about the trip." Peter said nervously.

" Okay. Well, I'll see you guys later. Bye." Bella waved to them and walked away.

Once Bella was gone Peter let out a sigh of relief and Ned looked over at him. " I think that went well."

****

" When I blipped back to my apartment, the family that was living there was very confused." May explained at the Homeless Support. " The wife thought that I was a mistress. The grandma thought I was a ghost. It was-it was really a mess."

Peter stood on May's right side in his Spider-Man suit with his hands on his hips while Bella is standing on the other side of May in her Electra suit. 

" Thank you all for coming out to support those who have been displaced by the Blip." May told the crowd. " And, of course, thanks to our very own Spider-Man and Electra!"

Bella and Peter wave while May walks to the side. May looks at them both and gestures for them to speak. They look at each other and gesture for the other one to go first until Peter finally steps forward. " Thank you, Miss Parker, for having us." he said awkwardly and gestured to May.

Bella smiled awkwardly at the crowd while Peter did two thumbs up. " And thank you, you guys, for having us."

" Yeah, you guys are great." Bella adds.

Peter stepped back to where he was and May stepped back up to the mic. " And thank you, Spider-Man and Electra."

" They'll be right back out to take photos and videos. Thank you." May says as the crowd cheers, Bella and Peter wave at the crowd before they go behind the curtain with May.

The mask of Peter's suit unmasks as he turns around to his aunt. " That was amazing."

" That was great." May says while high fiving Peter and then high fives Bella. Bella shrugs her shoulders. " It seemed awkward to me."

Peter rolled his eyes even though there was a small smile on his lips. " That was so cool. You have to admit that." he points at her and she nods. " It really was cool."

" I was a little nervous." Peter admits.

Bella raises an eyebrow. " A little?"

" Okay, a lot nervous." Peter corrects and she chuckles. " Yeah, me too."

" I was a little stiff." May chimes in. " I felt like I wasn't in the pocket."

Peter shakes his head. " No, I thought you did great."

" Yeah," Bella agrees. " You did good, May."

May smiles at her and points at Peter. " I actually thought that you were a little stiff."

Peter shrugs. " Uh, yeah, I felt that too. I felt that too."

May shakes her head. " It's fine, fine. Okay. Did you get your passport?"

Peter nods. " Yeah."

" Mini toothpaste?" May asks while Peter nods once again. " Yeah."

The door suddenly creaks and Peter turns his mask on quickly as the three of them look over to see it was only Happy who as carrying a big check for the homeless. " Hey, sorry I'm late." Happy says as he walks in.

The mask of Peter's suit disappears again as he stands besides Bella while Happy walks towards them and stands in front of May." Happy. Hey."

" Oh, you look lovely." Happy tells May.

May smiles. " Thanks, you too."

" Thank you." Happy says. " New dress?"

" Yeah," May nods. " yes, it is."

Bella and Peter share a look. " What is happening?" Bella mouths to him and he shrugs his shoulders.

They both look to Happy and then to May with confusion. 

" It's a new beard." May notices. 

" It's my-it's my Blip beard." Happy says. " 'Cause I grew it in the Blip."

Bella and Peter look at Happy and he looks at them while Peter crosses his arms. " It's a Blip beard."

May smiles. " I see."

" Anyways, the reason I'm late is because this was misplaced." Happy says, referring to the big check he was holding. " Can you believe it? Because it's enormous. I mean, not the amount, the size. The amount's nice too."

May laughs. " Oh."

Bella leans over to Peter and whispers, " This is awkward."

Peter nods in agreements. " Very awkward."

" The very generous Pepper Potts said..." Happy's voice trails off as he hands May the check.

" Thank you." May tells him.

" She's sorry she couldn't be here." Happy finishes saying.

Bella and Peter continue to stare at them with confusion. " I think I'm going to go change the Sterno under the vegan lasagna." May says and then turns to Bella and Peter. " Spider-Man, Electra,  go shake hands."

Peter nods. " Will do." he says and does an awkward salute to her.

He and Bella looks over at Happy. " What just happened?" they asked.

" Heads up," Happy says, ignoring their question. " Nick Fury's calling you guys."

Peter stares at him with wide eyes. " Nick Fury is going to call me?"

Bella coughs not to subtly and Peter quickly says, " I mean, Nick Fury is going to call us?"

Happy nods. " Yeah."

" Why?" Peter asks.

" He probably has some hero stuff for you two to do." Happy shrugs his shoulders. He points at them, both of them staring at him in shock, still not believing that Nick Fury was going to call them. " You two are superheroes. He calls superheroes."

" Wouldn't he call someone else?" Bella asks.

Peter nods. " Yeah, if it was that important he would probably call someone else instead of us."

They both turn around and look at each other with wide eyes when they hear Peter's phone ring.

" Apparently not." Happy says.

Peter walks over and takes his phone out of his backpack. Happy points at his phone. " No caller ID. That's him."

Peter shakes his head. " I don't wanna talk to Fury."

" Answer the phone." Happy tells him.

" Why?" he asks.

" Because if you don't talk to him, then I have to talk to him and I don't want to talk to him." Happy says.

Peter looks at him. " Why don't you want to talk to him?"

" I'm scared." Happy admits. He points at Peter's phone. " Just answer the phone."

Peter holds up the phone and Bella's eyes widened as he declines the call.

" Peter!" Bella said in disbelief.

" You sent Nick Fury to voicemail?" Happy asks, staring at him with wide eyes.

Peter nods. " Yeah."

" You don't send Nick Fury to voice mail." Happy tells him.

Then suddenly another phone goes off and Bella looks over at her backpack. She walks over and gets her phone out and her eyes grow wide as she looks at them with panic. " Oh no, now he's calling me!"

" Well, don't make the stupid mistake Peter did and answer him." Happy tells her and Peter sent him an offended look.

" I-I don't wanna talk to him. What would I even say?" Bella panics.

" Just answer the phone like a normal person." Happy says.

Bella shakes her head violently and then declines the call. Happy stares at her. " I can't believe you just did that."

" I panicked!" Bella defends herself and puts her phone back in her backpack.

" They're calling us." Peter suddenly says, pointing to the curtain.

Bella looks at him with confusion and Peter looks over at her as if he was saying, ' go along with it'

Bella nodded. " Yeah, yeah. We better get back out there."

Happy shakes his head. " You guys have to talk to him."

Bella and Peter start to walk backwards towards the curtain. " Yeah, we will. Don't worry." Bella reassures him.

" Yeah. We promise we're gonna call him." Peter nods as they back out through the curtains while Peter's mask forms back on.

" You do not ghost Nick Fury." Happy tells them.

He looks over at her. " After our trip." he says and she nods in agreement. 

****

" Pete, where are you? You ran off after we talked to those reporters." Bella says as she super speeds around Queens.

" Oh, yeah, um, I just needed to leave." Peter says and she notices how sad he sounds which makes her frown.

" That's okay, Peter." Bella tells him. " Where are you?"

" I'm by the big Iron Man painting." Peter quietly says and now Bella knows why Peter was acting so sad.

" Yeah, I'm on my way." Bella says as she super speeds to where the painting was.

She gets to the where the painting was to see Peter sitting there sadly staring at the painting.

" Hey, Peter." she greets and she guesses that Peter didn't hear her because he flinched away when he heard her voice. She frowns and slowly steps forward. " It's just me, Pete."

 " Sorry." he apologizes, her frown deepens as she hears his voice crack while he says that and it looked like he was crying.

" We're you overwhelmed by everything?" Bella walks over and sits next to him.

Peter only nodded, holding in the tears. Wordlessly Bella opens her arms and he falls into her, letting out a sob as she wraps her arms around him. " It's okay, Peter. Just let it out."

She continues to hold him, running her hand through his hair as he wraps his arms around her as he cries. He hated crying in front of her, but he just couldn't help it at this moment. 

" I really miss him." he manages to say.

Bella could feel the tears start to form in her own eyes as she looks at the painting of her uncle. " Yeah," she takes a shaky breath as she hugs onto him tighter. " Yeah, me too."

After a moment of comfortable silence, Bella speaks up. " Hey, how 'bout we have a movie night before our trip?"

Peter nods and looks at her with a small smile. " Yeah, that sounds great."

A/N I'm so happy I finally got the first chapter of this book up! I hope you guys liked this chapter! Don't forget to check out my other books!