chapter seventeen
home alone 

nova flopped onto her bed with a groan. she had been texting with bucky who was, a) having trouble with technology and, b) going to be late from his already few day superhero trip with sam. he wouldn't be home for a few more days, and now nova was home alone.

she didn't know what to do. (or, she didn't know what to do first.)

nova figured she could throw a party, but then again she's never been a partier. maybe it was because she didn't like to watch to watch other people drink and grind all over each other. — yeah... maybe throwing a party was a no.

maybe she could do some baking. hm, nova wasn't really a baker though. she could barley make any kind of cookies of cakes without burning something. maybe baking was a bad idea.

nova could invite some people over if she really wanted. but she didn't want to so that wouldn't work. and not to mention what would happen if bucky had came home and there was something broken. he might just die.

there was always the option to order in, watch a movie and go to bed early. maybe catch up on any of her reading. maybe she could even start a new book, relax in her reading socks. that was a possibility.

she could go out and be miss bubbles for a few hours, make sure that queens was safe from anything that could cause harm — aliens, crazy robots, or the most likely thing: fire or robbery. if she had the time, maybe she could show up at some little kids birthday party. or even try and find spider-man, say hello.

writing a story would occupy her. she could write all about her and peters lucky list — and the adventures they had been on so far. it would be cool and nova didn't have a problem with it at all, but did she really wanna write a story about her and peter, and the lucky list? sadly, not really.

nova rolled off her bed dramatically, she landed on the floor with a thud. "im okay." she said loudly as she groaned, no one could hear her but she said it anyways.

nova knew what she was going to do now. it had taken a bump to the head for her to figure it out, but she knew now. her fingers worked fast as she typed up a message to peter.

wanna have a star wars movie marathon?!

she hit send the second she was done and before she could place her phone down, a text popped up.

sure! i'll grab slushies
on the way!

nova grinned and typed up her reply, she hit send as she got up from the floor.

thank you! see you soon :)

nova wobbled as she took a step forward, she wasn't dizzy or anything, she was just tripping over the pile of clothing on her floor. she was messy and lazy and didn't want to clean up her clothes, even though she probably should.

nova zoomed out of her room and right towards the fridge and freezer where she pulled out her cold reese peanut butter cups. nova loved frozen cold peanut butter cup, they were just so much better than non frozen ones.

pressing play on her music, nova started to jump around and grab any kinds of snack she and peter could eat well they watched the many movies. there were chips and candy, really whatever nova or bucky ate when they were bored — so a lot.

the music was still blasting when peter had shown up. he had tried knocking, calling and texting but nova never answered the door. so peter worried, he had opened the unlocked door and went inside.

that's when he saw nova jumping up and down, twirling and dancing. the sight brought a smile to his pink lips.

"hi nov." he waved well holding his slushie, watching as he seemed to have scared nova badly. she screamed.

"oh gah! peter parker! that was mean!" she pointed her finger at him as she rounded around the kitchen table to smack him on the shoulder.

"haha, sorry nov." peter chuckled as he handed nova her drink, and in return nova lead peter to the living from where all the star wars movies were laid out.

"so we can either start by release date, or the proper order." nova pointed to the disks.

"order please." peter made puppy dog eyes as he looked over to nova.

"yeah yeah." she grumbled as she put the first dvd into the dvd player and moved back to the couch.

nova sat beside peter with her feet thrown carelessly on the coffee table, peter doing the same thing. the movie started and peter would point out random fact he knew during certain scenes. blah blah this, blah blah that. nova thought it was cute, which it was.

around half way through the movie trilogy neither had noticed each other's drooping eyes, and before they could say anything, nova leaned her head on peters shoulder and peter placed his head on top of her head. the two fell asleep shorty after that.