❧ INBOX || IC/OOC Contact

[peterparker]

Peter Parker's Inbox
❧text || ❧call || ❧email || ❧chat


"Hey. This is Peter. ...Nope, not actually here to take your call right now. So leave a message, I guess."


[Trying to contact me OOC? Just put OOC in the tag. Or, comment asking for my contact information & I'll get back to you.]

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[peterparker]

[Between Peter not showing up and Gwen being Queen of the verbal onslaughts lately, they were both quite a pair in showing the other what they meant to them.

Nonetheless, Peter was holding hard and fast to his guilt because what else is new and coupling that with his somewhat already-crippling fear of girls he likes, the result is he isn't too convinced.

Gwen had made herself pretty clear. So clear, that he almost suspected someone had stolen her phone on that reply.

After a long, awkward lapse (nearly half an hour had passed), he wrote back,]

If you ever need any help, my offer still stands.

[He wouldn't abandon her if she needed anything. If she felt scared or needed a friend from back home.

But thinking about more than that just made him feel anxious, like he could crawl out of his own skin.

Knowing you deserved someone's anger didn't make it any easier, dealing with it.]

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[staywiththegroup]

[ She wanted him. She wanted her boyfriend back.

But Peter seemed intent on keeping his promise to her father. She wasn't sure she could stand it. Being with Peter but not actually with him. ]

I know.

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[peterparker]

OK.

So just. Let me know.

[Goodbye was a lot harder to say, but that probably got the point across.

It wasn't that he didn't want to be with Gwen; not at all. Just that the fragile ego that had been able to go for it, to tamper with that broken promise back home had been totally bent by the past few days with her here.

He hadn't even been able to ask her out when everything was copasetic. Asking for her back when she was intent to remind him he was pond scum hadn't made it easier.

He'd never, ever blame Gwen or hold her feelings against her. He just couldn't help his own negative ones from reinforcing that maybe George Stacy had been correct...]

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[staywiththegroup]

Peter.

[ She loved him...but she didn't want to tell him. It might freak him out. She sighed and typed the best safe response. ]

Thanks.

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[peterparker]

Any Time.

[It's lame, but it's all he can think of.

Next time, he'll be there for her. Even if it's just as a friend.]