chapter eighteen
number ten

peter, he knew why aunt may had written the lucky list. or at least he had an idea. he figured that may had written it so she could have the best summer ever, or because those were things she wanted to complete before she became an adult.

he felt closer to may now, not that he didn't when she was alive. but now that he was almost done with the list, he felt as if may was at the finish line cheering him on.

peter bounced on the balls of his feet. over the summer he had gotten a job and worked hard, gotten enough money to pay for his little apartment and necessities. he had even saved up extra money so he could take nova out and complete the last quest on the lucky list.

now what was the last quest on the lucky list you might ask? well that's a surprise for now.

back to it, peter bounced on the balls of his feet as she waited in line to buy his and novas tickets. he had been in line for about half an hour now and it was moving, slowly, but it was.

peters phone rung — more the star wars theme song rung — and he glanced down to his phone to see a text from nova.

hey petey! you still
want to hangout tonight?

oh right, peter had planned this too. he had made sure that nova had the night off from anything. he had even had a talk with novas adoptive father, bucky, about what was happening.

of course! i shall
pick you up at 7?

peter could imagine nova blushing and nodding her head along to his text. he himself was nodding along with his own text.

the person standing in front of peter moved forward and peter took a few more steps forward too. he leaned his head out of the line so he could see how many people were left in the line. four, four more people were still in front of him.

he didn't mind though. this gave him a change to listen to his music and hype himself up from tonight.

"next!" and now it was peters turn. he stood in front of the person selling the tickets. "two, uh, all extra tickets."

the all extra tickets had everything included. peter wouldn't have to worry about nothing — they were vip tickets.

"sounds good, that'll be [something dollars]." the woman spoke as she took peters money and handed him his change, ticket and wrist band.

"thank you miss ticket lady!" peter smiled as he put everything into his wallet and ran off. now he had to get ready.

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nova barnes put on a light blue sundress and tied up her shoes. "you really don't know where he's taking me?" she asked bucky.

"no, sorry nov." bucky shook his head back and forth as he lied, the french braids nova had put in swung back and forth. "but you might want a jacket." he shrugged.

"gah!" nova let out loudly as she ran back into her bedroom to find a jacket that would look nice with her blue sun dress.

bucky laughed as he filled behind nova. "haha, here." he reached his metal arm out and grabbed onto a jacket that he thought would look nice.

"thanks dad." nova said before she could say anything else. she slipped the jacket on then whirled around and wrapped her arms around buckys check, holding him tight in a hug.

this was the first time she called him dad and hugged him. if made his heart swell.

"peter should be here soon — it's 6:53." bucky told nova as she pulled away from the hug.

"seven minutes?!" nova asked with wide eyes, her eyebrows furrowed as she looked up at bucky. "seven minutes!" she panicked and started to run around the apartment like she was a chicken that had gotten it's head cut off — she definitely looked like it.

nova somehow — in the seven minutes before seven o'clock — had managed to braid her hair, change her sun dresses from the blue one to a purple one and changed her shoes to some black slides.

just as nova was about to check the time on her phone, the knock on the door sounded through the apartment.

"peter!" nova jumped up from her spot on the kitchen chair and rushed towards the door. her hand wrapped around the doorknob and she twisted it quickly, opening the door fast and harsh. "hi."

"hey nov." peter smiled as he handed nova a single flower he had gotten her — a sunflower, the brightest yellow he could find.

nova gasped lighted. "awe, peter! thank you!" she threw her arms around his neck and bright him in for a hug.

bucky cleared his throat from behind the two. his arm and metal arm were crossed over each other and pressed tightly against his chest. "hi peter." nova and peter pulled away from each other.

"hi mister barnes." peter waved shyly, no matter how many times he would talk to bucky, he would still be slightly scared of him — but hey, he wasn't scared at the fact he's an ex-hydra assassin, but at the fact that he was the girl he likes father.

"you two will be good? i won't get a call later saying you two are in jail?" bucky raised his eyes brows at nova and peter.

"no sir."

"well," nova hummed with a smile.

bucky turned and glared. "no."

"yes sir, yes!" she saluted before she started to walk backwards, "byee!" she waved before she gripped onto peters hand and started to drag him away.

"bye mister barnes!" peter waved as nova dragged him away from the apartment door.

"still a surprise?" nova asked peter once they entered the elevator.

"yep!" peter beamed happily as he pressed the main floor button on the elevator wall.

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noise. that's what nova heard when she and peter exited the cab. there was yelling left and right — yelling of cheer and joy — and then there was loud song like noises.

peter parker had brought her to a carnival, or fair if that's what you'd like to call it.

there were rides everywhere. a ferris wheel, very large roller coaster, carousel, one of those boat rides that swing back and forth, and so much more.

"peter!" nova whirled around and placed her hands on his shoulder. "this is amazing — and i know it's apart of the list but thank you for taking me."

peter nodded and wrapped his arm around novas shoulders, directing her towards the men and woman who would let them into the fair grounds. "i know im amazing."

"yes, yes you are." nova nodded in conformation and walked with peter towards the entrance guard people.

"tickets?" one asked and peter dug his wallet out of his pocket and handed the man the two tickets and wristbands. the man — who's name tag read allan, checked their tickets and wrapped the wrist bands around their wrists.

"thank you."

"yes, thank you!"

peter and nova walked away from the man and into the fair grounds. now nova and peter could see it all: there were at least ten kinds of food stands and just as many game stands.

"woah." nova muttered in awe as she looked around, a very large toothy smile plastered on her face. "what first?"

"how about the boat?" peter suggested as he pointed to the ride that had the swinging boat.

"sure," nova didn't mind whatever peter picked, as long as she was doing it with peter.

the two headed over towards the line — which was pretty long — but peter made the wait worth it. he held her hand, told her silly little jokes (most of which were science related) and even made funny faces to keep nova occupied well they waited.

the line had actually moved fairly fast and before either knew it, they were at the front of the line. "should we sit in the front, middle or back?" nova asked as she and peter showed the attraction runner their wrist bands.

peter shrugged, but pointed to a spot for them to sit in anyways. "how about the front?"

"sure thing." nova and peter moved to their spots and waited for every other spot to fill up. once they were full and everyone had been buckled up, the ride started.

"please keep your hand and feet inside of the ride, and have fun!"

the ride started quickly and the boat rocked back and forth, at one point nova thought she was going to fall forward out of the boat.

"peter!" nova yelled loudly as she stared down at the ground in front of her. "i don't think i should be able to see the ground!"

peter laughed and tightened his grip on novas hand. he would be lying if he wasn't just as scared as nova was. "you'll be okay!"

the ride ended shortly after that, or shortly after nova had screamed for her life. they got off the ride with no problems and headed towards one of the games

"wanna do this?" nova asked pointing  to the game where you threw bananas at a monkeys face, trying to knock down as many teeth as you could. it was really creepy actually.

peter laughed. "yeah, sure."

nova handed the woman in charge some money so they both could play. with a handful of plastic bananas, peter and nova readied themselves.

"one."

"two."

"three!"

nova and peter were throwing the plastic bananas crazily, not even all of them were hitting the board. wooden like teeth were being knocked down at the same time. it was really an event.

"congratulations mister." yes, peter had won the game. "what prize would you like?" the woman running the game asked, pointing to the arrange of stuffed animals.

peter hummed. "the purple panda?"

"sure thing." the woman turned around and grabbed a fairly large purple panda stuffy from one of the shelves and handed it to Peter. "here you go."

"thank you." peter gave the woman a smile as he and nova turned away. peter held the stuffy close to his chest as he and nova walked along the fair grounds.

"what should we name it or she, or him." peter asked after a few minutes of walking, the two stopping by an empty picnic table where they say down.

nova grinned. "well i definitely think it's a he. maybe micky?"

peter nodded and stuffed a mini donut — that he and nova had gotten — into his mouth. "i like micky." he muttered after he swallowed his mouth full of mini donuts.

"oh, that's good." nova reached across the table and grabbed onto the purple panda and held it in front of peter. "hi, im micky!" nova waved the teddy pandas arm in a from of greeting.

"haha." peter chuckled before he reached across and patted the pandas head. "wanna go on the roller coaster?" peter pointed to a roller coaster that went up high then down really fast.

"uhh... sure?" nova blinked as she looked over her shoulder to look at roller coaster.

"you wanna?"

"nope."

"that's okay then." peter shrugged but deep down he wanted to go, nova could tell.

"okay, as long as you hold my hand i think i can do it." nova muttered as she stood up from her seat, peter doing the same.

"really?!" peter exclaimed happily, "yay, awe thank you!"

let's just say that nova had successfully turned peters hand white from her grip, and after that he had to shake his hand out for minutes until the pain went away.

"you have a strong grip." peter muttered as he walked along side nova to their last ride of the night.

"only when im scared." she told him back.

peter and nova stood in line for the ferris wheel, and to their surprise it moved quickly. the man working the ride made sure the two were buckled in before he pressed the button, allowing the ride to start.

the wheel moved around for awhile until peter and nova were at the top looking over everything.

"what was number ten?" nova asked as she looked ahead.

"visit a fair." peter said. "we did it. we finished it."

nova sighed. "no. we didn't im sorry."

peter moved his head to the side so he could look at nova. "there were only ten? how are we not done?"

"i made a list." nova reached into her pocket and pulled out a crumpled up piece of paper.

"nova."

"one: kiss peter parker. two: go on a date with peter parker." nova read from the paper.

peter blinked in surprise before he leaned in, just before their lips touched he pulled away. "can i kiss you?"

"yes, yes peter you can." nova nodded and peter leaned in, connecting their lips.