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It was late in the afternoon, and Miles had just gotten back from hanging with the spider squad; with Pavitr tagging along with him. Pavitr had really wanted to see Miles' room and stuff, so Miles had invited him to tag along.
They quickly and quietly snuck back into Miles’s room through his window and started changing into their regular clothes. However, when they were done folding their suits up; disaster struck.
“Miles!”
Fuck. His mom was calling for him.
“What do we do?” Pavitr said, quickly pulling his shirt over his head.
“I don’t know, maybe hide? I didn’t tell her I’d be having a friend over!” Miles sputtered. “And keep your voice down! She’ll definitely hear you!!”
“Is there someone in there with you?”
Shit.
“Uh!! No mom!! No one is here!”
Miles could hear footsteps coming down the hall, and he needed to act fast. He dropped their suits on the floor and grabbed Pavitr by the shoulders, looking him in the eyes.
“Uhh! Quick, just pretend to be my boyfriend!” Miles blurted out slightly.
“Okay!!!”
With that, Miles grabbed Pavitr’s face and kissed the other boy firmly on the lips, eliciting a muffled squeak from the other boy; kicking the folded suits under his bed just in time before his mom walked in.
“Miles! Dinner is almost ready— Miles?! ¡Qué demonios!”
Miles pulled away from a flustered Pavitr; “Mami! Uh, hi mom! Yeah! I’ll be down in just a moment?” He squeaked, smiling nervously, still slightly holding Pavitr’s face.
“Miles.”
Rio stared at her son, who seemed to get more and more nervous under her stare. Miles just wished that the floor would open up and swallow him whole.
“Why didn’t you tell me that you’d gotten a boyfriend sooner! Ohhh my little boy is all so grown up!!” She smiled happily, hugging her son and squishing his cheeks.
She turned to Pavitr and held his hands, “Oh and thank you so much for taking care of my little chico!! I imagine you both love each other very much.”
Both boys became increasingly flustered; knowing that this whole ‘relationship’ was just a cover up for them being spider-man. But somewhere, deep down inside both boys, they actually did like each other.
“Mami..” Miles groaned, hiding his already heated face in his hands.
Rio smiled teasingly at her wonderful son before turning back to Pavitr. “Ah forgive me for being so rude, what was your name?”
“My name is Pavitr Prabhakar!” He said happily, shaking her hand. “It’s very nice to meet you Mrs. Morales!”
“Es un buen partido.” Rio whispered to Miles.
“Mom!!”
Even though he was incredibly embarrassed, a wave of relief seemingly washed over him in that moment. His mom thankfully didn’t find out that he and Pavitr were Spider-man; instead she found out that Miles was gay and that he had a boyfriend.
Why me god?!
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Pavitr was invited to have dinner with Miles’ family that night. He had been yapping nonstop about trying Miles’ mom’s cooking for the past few weeks; and now he had finally gotten the chance, even though Miles’ parents thought he was their son’s boyfriend.
A win is a win I guess?
“So Pavitr, how did you and my son meet exactly?” Jefferson asked while they were all eating.
Miles almost choked on his food.
Pavitr covered his mouth so he could finish chewing before speaking. “Oh! Well, I’m currently a foreign exchange student at Visions Academy; majoring in Photography!”
Such a compelling liar.
“We both met when I was walking down the street and saw him doing some graffiti art. We chatted about our interests and we clicked almost immediately.” Pavitr continued.
“Yeah, then you hit me in the head with that dreaded yo-yo…” Miles coughed.
“It was an accident!”
“Yeah, and it was an ‘accident’ that you aimed it at my head!”
“I said I was sorry!”
Miles scoffed jokingly; “Uhuh, I bet it was because I kept calling your favorite drink Chai Tea. ”
He received a death glare from Pavitr, while Miles was just trying to hold back his oncoming laughter.
Then came the slight tangent of why it’s called ‘Chai’ and not ‘Chai Tea’; how you were essentially saying ‘Tea Tea’ and so on and so forth.
Their laughter filled the air, and dinner became much more comfortable now that Pavitr was there. Miles kinda wished Pav could have dinner with them all the time. But that’d be selfish.
Though Miles was surprised at how easy Pavitr was able to play along with the plan, and essentially lie through his teeth like that.
After dinner, the two ‘lover boys’ went back to Miles’ room to ‘hang out’.
Shutting the door behind him softly, both boys let out a huge sigh of relief. Miles flopped down onto his bed and groaned.
“This was not the plan I had in mind when it came to hiding our identities of being Spider-man…” The poor boy croaked. “This was a horrible idea!”
Pavitr sat on the edge of the bed, “Actually it wasn’t that bad! Your parents are probably going to forget about this whole situation in a week; then our lives can finally go back to normal!”
“I guess.. but if we’re going to drag this out that long; we’ll need to set up boundaries.” Miles stated. He stood up and walked over to his desk, and pulled out a piece of paper and a pencil.
Pavitr watched as Miles started scribbling down some ideas. He turned his head to face Pavitr, their noses bumping together for just a moment before both boys reeled back, flustered again.
“Um! I think any form of pda is fine, as long as it’s nothing forced or inappropriate… like, a kiss on the cheek or a p-peck on the lips?” Pavitr sputtered, he cheeks a slightly darker color now.
“Okay…” Miles scribbled that down, “What about hand holding? Uh, cuddling…? Physical touch?”
“Oh! I’m completely fine with that!” Pavitr replied happily, “As long as it isn’t forced or inappropriate like the first one.”
“Mhm..”
“Are you okay with pet names?”
Miles immediately looked up, a bit startled by the question. Pet names? He honestly hadn’t thought about that.
“What were you thinking of? I mean, it’s not a bad idea since we’re going to have to act like we’re dating in front of my parents.”
“Like this?” Pavitr cleared his throat, clutching his chest dramatically; “I love you my darling!”
There was a moment of silence before both of them burst into laughter.
“Okay, mi amor~!” Miles retorted, failing to contain his own snickering.
The idea of pet names was immediately written on the list alongside some other things, like always making sure the other was comfortable and if not then they’d stop and reevaluate everything.
Miles kinda hoped things would go back to normal soon.
Things did in fact NOT go back to normal.
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