PROMPT ▻ can't be trusted
WORD COUNT ▻ 1030

" what else is a lie?
can I even trust you? "

♡

It started with the fact that he completely lied to you about being with his aunt. He had convinced you that he was running errands with her. Not wanting to spend a Friday night all alone, you decided to travel to the library to get some light studying in before your big exams next week. As soon as you entered the building, you noticed a familiar mop of brown hair behind a computer. It happened to be Ned and Peter. He had told you a total lie, and straight to your face, too.

Then it was him being sick during school. He didn't even try with it; Peter had simply said he was sick and couldn't come to school. So, when you went over with your backpack full of canned soup and his favourite movies, you weren't that surprised when May had told you that he was out running errands for her - again. Who really knew what he was doing?

Peter was barely acknowledging you existed, and you rarely spent time together anymore. Your mind kept resurfacing to the worst scenarios; what if he was seeing someone else behind your back? The tears had also started to resurface every night too. You couldn't help it, considering your mind was at his most vulnerable at night when you were all alone with your lingering thoughts.

You were sat outside of Peter and his aunt's apartment, trying to stay out of plain sight. Taking out your phone, you dialed in Peter's number, fully knowing that he was awake. Thankfully, he had picked up.

"Hey y/n, what's up?" He asked. You could already tell by his voice that he was being rushed.

"Nothing, just making sure we were still on for tonight?" You smirked to yourself. If he answered with something like 'I forgot,' you would immediately know that something was up. You two hadn't set up a date in a few months, so you hoped that he would believe you.

"Oh my God, I totally forgot, I'm so sorry," Peter sighed on the other end of the line. You heard his shuffling suddenly stop. He was way too gullible with you. Any other time, he was extremely hard to convince. "Raincheck?"

"Sure," you tried to not feel a little bit disappointed. If you had actually planned a date, would he have forgotten? "I'll talk to you later."

You ended the call, waiting for Peter to do something. What was so important that he had to cancel on a fake-date? After a few minutes of waiting, you noticed his bedroom window slide open, a red colored hand pushing it up. Confused, you got out of your car and locked it, still trying to stay out of his sight. You watched as Peter looked out the window before slipping out onto the fire escape. You had no idea where he was going - but you desperately wanted to find out.

Still holding on somehow, he took out a mask, quickly slipping it on. Peter ran down the fire escape, dodging all the annoying bumps and hanging pipes that it had to offer. Hesitating for a moment, you finally decided to follow him to - wherever he was going.

The walk was agonizingly long, finally stopping in a secluded and dark alley. The wall that you happened to be hiding behind was not all that secretive, in your opinion. You watched as Peter threw his backpack on the ground, unzipping it and taking out a red suit. He put it on, and truthfully, it looked like one of those bad Spider-Man Halloween costume, baggy and all. Peter did something - the 'costume' suddenly looking like the real thing. You may have accidentally insulted the real Spider-Man, therefore, you insulted your -boyfriend.

"Peter?" Your statement came out in the form of a question. Peter turned towards you with a slightly scared expression on his face. You both were confused, when was he lying about this, and when was he lying about doing other things?

"W-what're you doing here?" He did his signature fidgeting with his hands. He pulled you further into the alley and away from the semi-busy street.

"I may or may not have followed you," You admitted, giving him an extremely small smile. You could tell that Peter was somewhat disappointed in him and you. He knew that you now knew everything that he had been hiding from you - but he swore that lying to you was keeping you safe. On the other hand, he didn't have a good excuse for somewhat isolating you lately. "More importantly, what else is a lie? Can I even trust you?"

"I'm sorry, seriously. I didn't mean for you to find out like this, it's extremely hard to find a way to tell someone you love that they're a superhero." Peter admitted, taking both of your hands and holding them delicately. Oh, had he missed your y/c/e eyes. "I'm sorry. I promise I'll make it up to you because I've been pushing you away lately."

You nodded, understanding where he was coming from and practically telling you that he was going to make it up to you. "I'm counting on you to make it up to me, Parker. And no more secrets, okay?"

The two of you smiled at each other, missing the one-on-one time you had. Pressing a quick kiss to his cheek, you were somewhat proud that your boyfriend was Spider-Man, yet partially worried for the sake of his safety. "Now go save the city, Spidey."

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[ a / n ]

wassup biotches it's Wednesday and I've decided that I'm gonna update here and there if I have enough of my chapters here saved and ready to go (which might happened to be for a few weeks!) I have a ton of drafts saved up and I've been really productive and AH!!!

anyways this ones from my request book. If you want to request, go to my a/n about requests or just simply go into Spiderboy idk whichever works

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