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The day of the field trip came way too fast, Peter had to skip Lab Day because he got injured while stopping a kidnapping, and May hadn't let him leave the house.
Sometimes Peter wondered if it was a bad decision to tell Aunt May about the Spider-Man thing, but then he remembered the first time he was lying on a rooftop after being shot and thought he was dying. He could only think about her while he was actively bleeding out. The look on her face when she would undoubtedly find out from the police a few days after he passed away on some random rooftop while being out fighting crime.
How she would slowly connect the dots and figure out that every time Peter tried to convince her that he was fine, he had been injured the night before, and every time he slept in wasn't because he was a teenager and playing video games all night, but instead because he didn't even get three hours of sleep in most of the time.
He knew May would blame herself for not noticing and helping him, so he told her everything - well, maybe not everything, she still didn't know about Mj, and if he downplayed a few things that was no ones buisness.
After a long talk and a lot of tears, his aunt agreed to let him patrol as Spider-Man if he called her or Mr. Stark when something bad happened and he was hurt or in need of help, and they established a curfew.
Right now, he was relieved that he told aunt May.
"Aunt May, so you know about the field trip to the Stark tower today? Could I matbe stay home, you know I have so much homework to catch up on and I know the tower anyway." he asked. She would surely understand him and let him stay home -
"Peter, you know you have qay to many absences already, and I think it will be good for you to not just be in Tony's lab, but instead see the rest of the tower." - or not.
"But -"
"No buts, you're going on the field trip! Have fun."
And that's how he ended up in front of the yellow school bus in the parking lot of Midtown High while clutching a singned field trip slip and staring at it like it had personally betrayed him.
Hopefully, whatever Pepper planned would work out, but who was he kidding she was Pepper Potts. Of course, anything she did would work out.