Harry’s hesitancy towards her question caused her to tilt her head, her dark eyebrows pushing together in confusion as she watched him closely with her deep blue eyes. He was hiding something from them; that much she could tell but she wasn’t sure exactly what it was. Watching him as he spoke to Peter, she tried to see if she could guess it but she came up as drawing a blank. But she was so focused on trying to figure out what he was hiding that when Peter jumped out of her seat it made Lexi jump in hers in surprise. 

Her attention moved up to Peter who was showing his obsession with all things science and if there was one science person in particular that Peter always looked up to, it was Otto Octavius. Even her eyes went to Harry in surprise. “What kind of stories did you tell him? Did you tell him about the experiments that Peter used to do when we were younger? Or his invention he turned in for our fifth grade science fair? That one was a doozy and I bet you anything Aunt May still has it.” Her grin turned to Peter who looked like he was going to jump out of his own skin with excitement. Then her gaze moved back to Harry, “You think he just won the Nobel Peace Prize! Look at him, not only are you back but you just got him an interview with his idol. Is there anything you can’t do?” She said with a giggle before looking back up at Peter.

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In the other room, however, the parents weren’t as happy as the kids were that the three were together again. “I thought that Lexi wouldn’t be seeing anyone when we would return to town.”

“Well we can’t control our daughter’s feelings.” Lexi’s mom chimed in from the seat as she sipped delicately on her coffee.

“What does that Parker kid have that Harry doesn’t have?” Harry’s new mom snapped at Lexi’s parents. 

“I’m sure it’s just a phase, she and Peter have spent a lot of time together since you sent Harry away to boarding school. I’m sure he can win her back over with his charm and she’ll change her mind of the choice she made. Just give her time to see how much Harry has grown up.” Her father said in the seat next to his wife, though it was obvious that Mark wasn’t quite buying what he said; he had never seen his daughter as happy as she was when she was around Peter and somehow, in some way, he doubted that Norman’s son had the ability to change his daughter’s mind.

“Well then, I will just have to remind him that if he wants Lexi to be his, he needs to stop at nothing to get what he wants.”

“That may not be the best…” Angela said before Mark placed his hand on top of hers. “All I’d like to say is that he would just need to be careful, trying to break the two up could cause quite an issue on their friendships. As much as relationships can be powerful, friendships are even more so.” She said with a nod as she interlaced her fingers in her husband’s hand and gave him a knowing smile; they were friends for a long time before he won her over so, in a sense, she knew what her daughter was going through and let’s face it; if she was as hard headed as her mom, she wasn’t going to have her mind changed any time soon.