Requested by Melymendes9: Y/N and Peter like each other but don't realise, and end up going on the science trip together. Whilst on the trip, another guy starts flirting with Y/N, so Ned and MJ help Peter to ask Y/N out.

I walked along the street, my bag strap over my shoulder and my hand loosely holding it as I walked to school.

"Y/N, hey, wait up!" I looked over my shoulder and allowed my lips to curl into a smile as MJ jogged towards me.

"Hey, what's up?" I chuckled as my best friend reached me.

"Did you get the email? The one that got sent to everyone who got onto the science trip to Europe?" She asked. My eyes widened and I looked at her.

"Yeah, I did. Did you?" I asked hopefully.

"We're going to Europe, girl!" She exclaimed, making me squeal and laugh as I tightly hugged her.

"My god, that's so cool! Considering that I've never been out of the States, it's weird to think that in just two weeks, we'll be going to Venice, Paris, oh my god!" I laughed in excitement as we continued to walk towards school.

"I know, it'll be so cool." MJ sighed in bliss as she shook her head.

"Do you know anyone else who definitely got the email?" I asked.

"Yeah. Betty, Ned, Flash, unfortunately, Ricky, Peter-." I looked at her at the sound of Peter's name, my heart jumping in my chest at the idea that I would be going on the same international trip as our best friend, and my crush.

"O-oh, cool, Peter's going? I didn't realise that he'd even applied to go on it." I chuckled nervously, all of the heat rushing to my cheeks as we walked up the steps to the school.

"Yeah, he's going. Sorry, though, I'm certain that the school won't allow mixed-sex rooms, so you won't be able to get up to any funny business with him." She teased.

"Ha ha." I mumbled, making her smirk as I playfully rolled my eyes at her. I had been best friends with MJ, Ned, and Peter since the start of Midtown high, but there had always been something different about my relationship with Peter. Something...more. I loved Ned and MJ like my brother and sister, but my love for Peter had always given me butterflies, had never failed to make me smile, had had me lying in bed on too many nights to count, imagining how perfect it would feel to have his arms around me in that moment. I wouldn't even say that I had a crush on him anymore, I was fully in love with the boy. But of course, I had no idea if he felt the same. As it often went with best friendships, it was extremely hard to tell if the forehead kisses were just us being close or if they meant more, if him coming over after his patrols to share his sandwiches with me was just us being best friends or if it meant more, if his hand gently stroking my waist when we'd watch a movie was best friendship...or something more. I had no idea. And so, until I knew, nothing would happen. Which sucked, but I wasn't about to lose my best friend over a misguided reading of his feelings.

"You think that I'm joking, but I'm not. You so clearly like him, and he so clearly likes you too, why haven't you hooked up already?" MJ scoffed and shook her head as we walked into school.

"Because he doesn't so clearly like me, MJ. All of the things that he does that could be considered crush things can just as equally be considered best friend things, and I'd rather keep him as my best friend than admit my feelings to him, and lose him altogether. It's fine." I sighed and shook my head.

"Look up right now, and say that to me again." She demanded. My eyebrows furrowed.

"What-." She took my chin and made me look up, making my eyes widen. My throat dried, my heart almost stopping in my chest as I saw him. Peter stood at his locker, a massive smile on his lips as he talked to Ned and put stuff into the metal box. He laughed at whatever Ned had said, the sound like music to my ears and his smile and crinkle of his eyes as he laughed making my heart warm as I just watched him. I was so whipped that it wasn't even funny.

"Go on. Say it again." MJ nodded. I playfully rolled my eyes at her and moved her hand from my face.

"Okay, fine, I'll admit that I would definitely rather be with him as his girlfriend than his best friend, but that doesn't change the fact that I don't know how he feels." I sighed.

"He'd be stupid not to like you back, but okay, I get it. I have class, so I've got to go, but talk to him. Tell him that you're also on the trip, see how he reacts. I'll catch you later." She nodded as she started to walk away.

"Y-yeah, see you." I returned before she left. I gulped and looked at Peter, my heart jumping as he did his handshake with Ned before Ned also left his side. Meaning that I had a chance, one that I didn't get many of, to talk to him without the presence of Ned or MJ.

"Fuck it." I mumbled and desperately tried to ignore the feeling of my heart in my throat suffocating me as I walked up to his locker. Peter looked up at me as I approached, the most beautiful smile curling onto his features as I got to him.

"Y/N, hey." He chuckled as I got to him.

"Hey, Pete. MJ told me that you got onto the science trip." I nodded. His eyes widened slightly.

"Yeah, I did, please tell me that you got onto it too." He gulped. My eyes widened slightly, his going even further as his mouth fell open.

"I-I, um, I-I just meant that, erm, it w-would be really cool to have you there too." He gulped harshly, making me smile and bite my lip at how flustered he got over a simple misphrasing of something.

"Don't worry, Pete, I understand what you meant. But yeah, I got on too. It'll be so cool, getting to go to Europe with you, MJ and Ned." I chuckled. But mainly you, I thought.

"Y-yeah, it'll be awesome. M-maybe we should hang out at some point on the trip or something." He nodded. My eyes widened slightly, all of the heat in my body rushing to my cheeks at his words. I didn't want to get my hopes up, though, him asking me to hang out on the trip was not asking me out on a date. And so, I wouldn't read it as that.

"Yeah, definitely. I'd love that." I smiled and nodded.

"Awesome." Peter chuckled, making me return it and bite my lip as we continued to softly look at each other. God, I was looking forward to this trip.

Peter's P.O.V

Peter walked along the street in Venice, his lip in between his teeth as he looked down at the glass black dahlia necklace that he'd just bought for Y/N. He couldn't help but smile to himself as he walked through the bustling street, his heart fluttering in his chest at the idea of finally asking his crush out, and giving her the necklace. He'd had a diehard crush on Y/N since they'd become friends at the start of their years at Midtown high, the boy head over heels for her within months of knowing her. Though in the years of friendship that they'd experienced, he'd never been able to figure out if she felt the same way, and so he'd never managed to pluck up the courage to finally ask her out. But then he had found out that Y/N would be on this trip too. The moment that he had found that out, his heart had flipped, and all he could think about was pulling off the most romantic date proposal in the history of the world in one of Europe's most beautiful cities. And it all started with the black dahlia necklace that he'd give to Y/N, when they finally went on the date that he'd suggested when he'd found out. He just had to figure out when to take her to the Eiffel Tower once they got to Paris. He looked up, butterflies of anxiety once again filling his stomach as he saw Y/N stood at a street market, just metres away from him.

"Come on, Peter. You got this. You can do this." He mumbled to himself before taking another deep breath and starting to walk towards her. But then he stopped in his tracks. His eyes widened as Ricky appeared next to Y/N, him smiling at her and her returning it as he showed her something that he'd just bought. Peter gulped harshly, his eyes wavering and his heart plummeting to his feet as Ricky said something and Y/N laughed, her hand landing on his arm as she did. Peter's entire plan had been perfect...until Ricky had come on the trip. It was obvious that he liked Y/N too, given that he'd flirted with her the whole time and Peter had barely had a single conversation with Y/N without Ricky butting in at some point or other. He had to figure out a way to get Y/N away from him, and he had to do it fast.

"Hey, loser."

"Ow." He scoffed and cupped his arm as MJ appeared beside him, and promptly punched him upon her arrival.

"Please, you have super strength, that didn't hurt." She scoffed, making Peter roll his eyes as she followed his gaze and looked to where he was looking. Her face straightened out.

"Oh. Ricky's with Y/N again, huh." She stated.

"Yeah, it's ridiculous. He's flirted with her the entire trip and has stuck to her like some lost fucking puppy. I mean, even if I wasn't planning to ask her out, I'm her best friend and yet he's still barely given us enough time alone for me to even talk to her." Peter scoffed and shook his head.

"I'm sure that you'll get the chance. I mean, didn't you say that you'd asked Y/N out when you found out that she was on the trip?" MJ asked as she looked at him.

"Yeah, I asked her to hang out at some point whilst we were here." He nodded. MJ's eyes widened and she looked at him.

"Sorry...you asked her to hang out?!" She scoffed. Peter looked at her in confusion.

"Yeah, why-."

"Jesus Christ, Peter, of course she's letting Ricky flirt with her! You're best friends, she almost definitely interpreted your shitty attempt at asking her out as just another session of you guys hanging out as friends!" She exclaimed as she threw her arms up in exacerbation. His eyes widened, his mouth falling open as he realised what she was saying. This had just gone from bad to even fucking worse.

"Oh, shit...MJ, I really fucked up, I need help fixing this, how am I supposed to ask her out if I can't even get a second alone with her?!" He groaned.

"Yes, you're right, you did fuck up, and you do need my help. Pfft, this is what happens when you leave a nervous wreck of a boy to ask out his crush by himself. Come on, we're going to fix this." She scoffed, making Peter sigh and look at Y/N once more before following MJ back down the street the way that he had come.

"Are you sure that they were flirting?" Ned asked, him and MJ sitting on Peter's bed in his hotel room in Prague as Peter nervously paced the carpet in front of them.

"He definitely was, I don't know about her, but there was laughing and arm touching going on." MJ mumbled, obviously at a volume that was only meant to allow Ned to hear her, but Peter still did.

"Wait, is that bad? That she was laughing and touching his arm?" He gulped as he stopped pacing and turned to face them. MJ gulped and stared at him before forcing an obviously fake smile onto her face.

"No, it's not bad. Every girl...touches...guys' arms." She nodded hesitantly. Peter groaned and pinched the bridge of his nose, his eyes squeezed shut as he started to pace the floor again.

"What do I do?! The plan was already fucked up when Fury hijacked the trip and got us sent here instead of Paris, and now Ricky is ruining it even more by flirting with her!" He exclaimed.

"Okay, Peter, calm down and listen to me." MJ nodded, making him sigh and stop pacing again as he looked at her.

"You can't control what Ricky does, you can't control how Y/N feels about him and you can't control the fact that we're now here, not in Paris. But you can control what you do, and how you try to ask her out." She nodded.

"How the fuck do I do that when the plan is already ruined-."

"It's not ruined, Pete. You have the necklace, that was the most important part, and we're still in an absolutely beautiful place. Y/N doesn't know that you were meant to give her the necklace at the top of the Eiffel Tower, so she's going to be none the wiser when you take her somewhere else. All you have to do is adapt the plan to make it work here." She explained. Peter sighed and nodded, MJ's words making a lot of sense to him.

"Okay. Okay, yeah, you're right, it's not ruined just because we're not in Paris, or just because Ricky also likes her. Where do I take her, though?...Wait, the bridge! The bridge is really nice, isn't it?" He gulped as he desperately tried to salvage the plan.

"If you took me to that bridge and gave me that necklace, I'd say yes to going out with you." Ned nodded.

"That's all the confidence that you need, the bridge is fine." MJ reassured as she pointed at Ned.

"Okay. And, what if she says no?" Peter gulped. MJ and Ned sighed and looked at each other before looking back at Peter.

"I'm sorry, Pete, but if she says no, she says no. Though, I genuinely wouldn't be supportive of you doing this if I didn't think that she'd say yes. Just be confident in yourself and trust this. It's going to be okay." She reassured.

"Y-yeah, you're right. I just need to trust it. That's all I can do now, other than actually ask her out...and that's terrifying." He sighed, making the pair give him sympathetic looks as he sat down next to them on the end of the bed. Now, all he had to do was build up the guts to actually ask Y/N out. Though, right now, that was proving a lot easier to say than to actually do, and that was what worried him.

Y/N's P.O.V

I lay on my side on my bed in the hotel room, my eyes on my laptop as I watched a random movie and enjoyed the fact that whilst we were on a curfew because of the elemental attacking Prague, at least we were on a curfew in a very nice hotel, in our own very nice rooms. Suddenly, my phone buzzed, making my eyes shoot down to it. I sighed as it was Ricky, and not Peter like I had hoped that it would be. After all, he'd gone to fight the elemental as 'The Night Monkey' and I hadn't heard from him since. And so, I was fucking worried. I sighed and picked up my phone, my mind deciding to read the text from Ricky anyway.

Ricky: You want to get out of here tonight? Do something together? ;).

Y/N: Sorry, haha, I'm a follower of rules, so no breaking curfew for me :).

I rolled my eyes and sent the extremely half-assed reply before putting my phone back down. I had been looking forward to this trip predominantly to spend time with Peter, and maybe even extend our relationship past friendship, but instead, I'd just gotten a whole load of Ricky. For some reason, the boy had stuck to me like glue the entire time, and had done nothing but constantly flirt with me. At first, I had given him the benefit of the doubt and assumed that he was just being friendly, but then he'd interrupted every conversation that I'd had, or tried to have with Peter, and he'd always ended up finding me in the cities that we were in, whilst I was trying to find Peter. We had one more night before we went back to the States, and so I needed something to happen with Peter. If it didn't, I wasn't convinced that I'd still have the courage when we got back home, so it was now or never. Suddenly, there was a gentle knock on my door, making me groan and look at it as I stood up.

"Ricky, I told you that I can't hang out, it's past curfew-." I opened the door, my eyes widening at who I saw. Peter looked at me with equally wide eyes, the boy's mouth formed into an 'o' in confusion and his body looking extremely good in his white dress shirt and trousers as he held one of his bag straps against his shoulders.

"U-um...I'm not Ricky." He chuckled awkwardly and shook his head.

"Peter, thank fuck, oh my god, I didn't know what that elemental had done to you." I choked as I immediately wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled him into a hug. He returned it instantly, his face burying itself into my neck as I held onto him for dear life.

"I'm okay. I-I'm okay, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." He mumbled into my skin. I sighed and pulled back to look at him, though his arms stayed around my waist as I looked at him.

"It's okay. You're alright, that's all that I care about." I reassured as I took his face into my hands. He sighed and gave me a small smile as his gaze flicked between my eyes and my lips, the action making my heart almost explode out of my chest.

"I'm sorry that I'm not Ricky, though." He spoke quietly. My eyebrows furrowed.

"What? Peter, I didn't want you to be Ricky, what are you talking about?" I scoffed and shook my head. His eyebrows furrowed too, both of us clearly confused as his mouth opened and closed and tried to let out whatever he was trying to say.

"B-but...you said his name before you answered the door, you assumed that it was him." He gulped.

"I assumed that it was him because he asked just before you knocked if I wanted to go out somewhere with him, but I said no. I'm fucking sick of him, he's been doing nothing but flirt with me on this trip, he's given me no alone time with anyone other than him." I shook my head. Peter's eyes widened at my words.

"O-oh, I, um...I didn't realise that you felt that way about him, um...h-how about we have some alone time now? O-only if you want of c-course, but, um, we could go for a walk on the bridge or something." He nodded. My eyes widened just like his had a moment ago, my heart leaping in my chest at the idea of finally getting some alone time with Peter. And unlike when he'd asked when we were back in school, this felt more like he was asking me on a date, not just to hang out as friends.

"U-um, yeah, sure, I'd, um, I'd love that! Give me five minutes to get ready, and then we can go, is that okay?" I asked.

"Y-yes, um, that's amazing, awesome, yeah. I look forward to it." He chuckled nervously as he reluctantly removed his arms from around me and started to move out of my room.

"Me too, Pete. See you in five." I smiled, making him return it and nod to himself as I started to shut the door. But it didn't shut before I saw him doing a little skip to his room, making me chuckle and shake my head at how cute he was as I fully shut the door.

Peter and I walked along the street, a comfortable silence between us as we walked to the bridge that was near the hotel. I tried to ignore the rapid pumping of my heart as Peter's fingers lightly brushed mine every few seconds, my mind begging him to just take my hand already, but I knew that he was far too awkward for that. But that was okay.

"So, what a trip, huh." Peter chuckled, making me bite my lip and nod as we got to the bridge and walked to the stone wall of it.

"It's definitely been eventful, that's for sure. Having to fight elementals, accidental drone strikes being called." I teased. Peter's head snapped to me, his eyes widening as he looked at me.

"You...noticed that?" He gulped.

"You are so lucky that I already know that you're Spider-Man." I chuckled and shook my head. Peter returned it and looked down before timidly looking back at me.

"There is one thing that I haven't gotten to do yet on this trip, something that I really wanted to do before we went back home." He stated. I looked at him.

"Oh, yeah? And what was that?" I asked. He bit his lip.

"Close your eyes." He nodded. My eyebrows furrowed at the request.

"What?" I scoffed.

"You trust me, right? Close your eyes. I promise that I won't do anything, you know that you're safe with me." He chuckled. I returned it and shook my head, my mind completely unsure of what he had planned, but I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. I let my eyes flutter shut, my ears immediately filling with the sound of Peter shuffling and moving. My eyebrows furrowed as I felt his presence move to be behind me. My breath hitched in my throat, a quiet hiss leaving my lips as the icy feeling of what felt like a medallion of some nature got placed against my chest, the cold chain that it was attached to landing against my neck as I also felt Peter's fingers against my skin. I gulped harshly, my heart almost bursting out of my chest at the feeling of the boy touching me so delicately.

"Okay. You can open them again." I heard him speak. I opened my eyes and immediately looked down at the necklace that Peter had fastened around my neck. My eyes widened, a quiet gasp leaving my lips at the absolutely beautiful glass black dahlia that was now around my neck.

"Oh, Peter...it's beautiful, oh my god." I breathed and shook my head as I gently placed my hand underneath it and lifted it to get a better look.

"I'm glad that you like it. B-but, um...you'll never like it as much as I like you." He spoke quietly. My eyebrows furrowed and I looked at him.

"What?" I chuckled. He took a deep breath and stood up straight next to me, telling me that whatever he was about to say was big.

"I like you, Y/N. T-to be completely honest, I don't even like you anymore, I'm in love with you. E-everything about you is just perfect, but you're so humble about that, I don't even think that you see yourself as perfect, but you are. You always make me happy, you always make me feel loved and cared for, I know that I can always unapologetically be me when I'm with you. A-and so, if you'll have me, I'd l-love to be your boyfriend. I'd love to take you out on a real real date when we get back home, the first of what will be many. I want that with you. I've always wanted that with you." He admitted with a shake of his head. I stared at him with wide eyes, my heart racing as my mind desperately tried to figure out if he really had just said all of that stuff, or if I was in some incredibly sick nightmare. But from the increasingly panicked look that was occupying Peter's face the longer that I was just not saying anything, this wasn't a dream. He really did love me back. "Y/N-fuck, please s-say something so that I don't regret telling you the truth, and so I know that I haven't just lost you." He gulped. I smiled and shook my head, making his eyes widen as I moved closer to him.

"You didn't lose me, Peter. You didn't lose me at all." I stated before raising my hand to his face. I leant up and kissed him, Peter returning it instantly as his hands raised to my waist. I curled my hands around his neck to pull him closer, making us both smile into the kiss as he pulled my body against his too. I broke the kiss and touched our foreheads, my eyes fluttering open to look into his gorgeous chocolate ones as he bit his lip.

"You have no idea just how relieved I am that that was your response." He shook his head, making me smile and bite my lip at how adorably flustered he was.

"It was always going to be my response, Pete. Because I'm in love with you too. I have been since you came into my life. So, yes. I'll happily be your girlfriend, I don't want to be anything else to you anymore." I shook my head.

"Good. Because neither do I." He smiled, making me giggle as he leant down and pressed our lips together again.