Poor Lexi was off in her own little world, imagining what life would be like if she ever ran into Spider-Man’s real self. There’s no way he ran around in the suite all the time. He had to be a real person doing real things and he had to have some interests. Maybe they had things in common aside from sitting on rooftops; maybe they could get along outside of the realm of his superhero ways. But could she really sit back and watch someone risk their life just to keep the city safe. Running out at wee hours of the night and leave her guessing on whether he’d return home or not. All these questions echoed in her mind as something to consider if she ever did date a superhero. It would really come down to, does she love the man enough to let him do what he loved to do.

Her world was broken when one of her friend walked by, “Hey Lexi, your nerdy friend just got punched in the face by Flash.”

“What?!” Lexi shouted jumping off the bench and grabbed her things. “Where?!” She followed the direction of her friend’s finger and hurried off. Her gaze scanned the crowd of people before she saw him. “Peter!” She shouted before getting to him. “Oh my god,” She said softly looking at his face. “Flash did this to you? Why?”

Before he could answer, Rick and Flash had found them; Flash smirking a victorious smirk before Rick spoke, “Lexi we need to talk about Saturday.”

“No we need to talk about why the two of you are picking on my friend.”

“Your best friend.” Rick corrected and as the color faded from Lexi’s face, he continued to speak. “Saturday as you may or may not be aware is prom night and you are going to be my date.”

Her blue eyes narrowed, she knew where this was going, and no matter what way she looked at it; she’d be in the doghouse and she wasn’t ready for Peter to find out, especially not like this. “On one condition.” She said sharply. “You leave Peter alone.” 

A small nod left him and he turned around, “See you Saturday.” With that he walked away.

Lexi gave a large roll of her blue eyes, well her secret was safe for now. Turning to Peter she pulled him to sit down on the nearby picnic table. “Peter what on earth happened?!”