The red-haired girl ripped Peter's hood off his head, "Are you stupid?"

"Noah! Jesus!" Peter exclaimed, and Noah grabbed his arm pulling him into the room.

"You turned off your tracker. Why?" Noah stared at him, hand still wrapped around his arm, "Because I...wait-"

Peter looked at her, "How'd you know about that?"

Noah narrowed her eyes at the taller boy, "How do you think?"

"You hacked into Stark technology?" he asked, and Noah rolled her eyes, "So did you," she pressed her pointer finger to his chest. 

"Look Parker, if you get yourself killed, it's on me. I'm here to keep an eye on you, and keep you safe." Noah said pointedly.

"Nothing is going to happen, and even if it did it would be on me." Peter stated, and Noah took a deep breath, ignoring how close together they were standing.

Peter studied Noah's face,  she was actually quite pretty, "You shouldn't look at me like that," Noah breathed. 

"Like what?"

Noah's heart raced in her chest, "Like you are, right now. I'm not the kind of girl you want, I can promise you that much. Liz is the kind of girl you want."

Peter leaned forward a bit and unfortunately, completely knowing better so did Noah. "You're being stupid." Noah breathed, "Well so are you, then."

It was a really short kiss, in fact only a few moments into it, Noah shoved Peter away.

"You're an asshole." she breathed, and opened the door exiting the room quickly, "Hey, Noah, perfect timing," Liz smiled.

"--Noah, wait, I'm sorry- Liz, hi." Peter laughed awkwardly, Liz looked between the two, "Oh?"

There was a brief pause, "We're going swimming, wanna come?"

"-Oh we were gonna go study-" Peter started and Noah cut him off, "I'd love to! A rebellious activity brings people together, right?"

"Exactly! I read it in a coaching book," Liz stated, and Noah offered her a smile, "I'll leave you two to talk, see you down there."

Noah walked away faster then she normally would, she'd rather spend time in a hotel pool than spend another second looking at Peter Parker.

Noah's legs dangled into the water of the hotel pool, instead of her usual grimace at the sight of her classmates messing around she smiled a bit joining into the splashing battle. It wasn't all that bad to have fun sometimes.

"Wow, Noah, I didn't know you were capable of having fun."

"Fuck off Flash." she flipped him off,  he held his hands up in surrender, "Whatever."

Peter never showed up to the whole reason they were even on this trip, in fact Noah was starting to get worried, he could be laying dead in an alley way by now. 

"Taking it all in Michelle?" 

Noah glanced at MJ, knowing her answer would probably be entertaining as ever, "Um, I don't want to celebrate something that was built by slaves." she stated.

"Oh, I'm sure the Washington Monument wasn't built by..." he turned to a security guard nearby, who shook his head, "Okay. Enjoy your book."

"Thanks."

Noah looked around, the setting was all very familiar when Natasha first got her out of HYDRA they spent quite a bit of time in DC with Maria. It was the first time that Noah was able to be an actual person. 

"Why aren't you going up with everyone?" MJ asked her curiously, "I've seen it all," Noah looked over to MJ, "I lived here for a while. In DC I mean."

"I didn't know that," MJ spoke, "There's not a lot of people that know anything about me." Noah shrugged.

Noah tried to mask the immediate annoyance that fell over her at the sight of Peter in his spider-man suit, "My friends are up there!" MJ exclaimed, "I sure hope you have a plan for this Parker." Noah muttered.

"What? Don't worry ma'am everything's gonna be okay." Peter reassured her, he raced through the crowds, and MJ turned to Noah.

"Its weird that he's usually in New York but shows up here, in DC, right?" MJ asked, "It's probably just a coincidence," Noah shrugged.

"A very weird coincidence, but what if it's not?" MJ arched an eyebrow at her.

 "What exactly are you suggesting MJ?"

Noah frowned as everyone reunited with their families after the very eventful Decathlon trip, "Peter? Come here, come here." May wrapped her arms around Peter, and Noah's eyes fell to the ground, "Oh my god, I was so worried."

"Noah,"

The redhead looked up in surprise, "Mom?" Maria Hill stood a couple of feet away from her, "What are you doing here?"

Noah leaned into Maria's arms, hugging her, "You know when I agreed to let Tony send you to some fancy school, I didn't think I'd be sending you directly into danger." 

"I missed you," Noah whispered still not letting go of the woman, for a couple more moments.

"Noah's okay right?" Noah overheard May ask Peter, "I'm okay, May." Noah stated.

"Maria Hill," the tall brunette stuck out her hand, and May accepted it, "May Parker. Peter's aunt."

"Well it was good meeting you, but we're going to get going." May smiled, "I'm glad you're okay, Noah."

The car ride back to Maria's apartment was quiet for a while, "Are you okay Noah?"

"Peter kissed me." Noah stated, "But he very clearly has feelings for another girl, and I'm pretty sure I have feelings for someone else too, but it's so stupid, stupid, because now he's messing with my brain."

"Well that's a lot to unpack in one sentence," Maria joked, "Let's start with the person you think you have feelings for?"

Noah smiled softly, "Her name's Maddie, and she's so cool. And she has these really pretty green eyes."

"She sounds wonderful," Maria smiled, "So then how'd you end up kissing Peter?"

Noah sighed, "I don't- It was stupid. He was being, stupid and I was being stupid. And then he kissed me, and I like kissed him back a for less than a second. It's all stupid."

"I don't even know what to do? Do I just pretend like it never happened?"  Noah sighed, "I don't like being a teenager."

"I never did either honey, I was a lot like you, you know." Maria stated, and Noah looked over her curiously, "I wasn't good with emotions, I wasn't good with a lot of things actually, but guess what?"

"What?" Noah asked, "High School is just this small little blip of time in your life, you have so much to look forward to Noah. My best advice to you is to not take small things like Peter kissing you, too seriously. You were stressed, things happen, we move on."

"Thank you," Noah whispered, "No problem, honey."

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

....yeah