From The Dark | Peter Parker x OC ✔️

Chapter Sixty-Seven

A/N: GUESS WHO FINALLY TURNED 18 - that's right it's me. But I wanted to stay 17 forever. Now I just feel old :/ And not to mention that I had a chem final ON MY FREAKING BIRTHDAY. But the semester ends tomorrow for me and you bet I'm gonna be superglued to my PS4 all winter long ;)

Anyway, there's a bit more action in this scene so hope you enjoy!

PS: any guesses who that girl is up there? Hint: it's a new character ;)

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"You deserve to live, Adelaide.

You don't deserve to die."
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"We are officially a pickleless deli," Mr. Delmar stated. Adelaide sighed, finishing up the last customer after their rush hour. It felt like she hadn't breathed in an hour. She slouched against the countertop.

"You didn't tell him," she deadpanned.

"I did, I told the bastard!" he defended. Adelaide narrowed her eyes.

"Why didn't you order them yourself?" she said, taking a rag to wipe down the mess of lunch hour off of the countertops. There were still plenty of people sitting at the tables and Adelaide wished they'd eat faster so she could finish cleaning the tabletops and head home.

"I had a flu emergency this morning. My daughter," he added, reading her expression, "I told him to order the pickles."

"Fire him," she stated blatantly, wiping her hands against her apron. Mr. Delmar looked at her curiously, a small smile on his face.

"You don't mean that," he said. She caught his eyes. Why wouldn't she mean that?

"Yes, I do. He has a job and he's not doing it well so fire him. Simple as that."

"Things aren't always clean cut black and white," he argued. She shrugged, unaffected.

"They can be. It makes life easier."

"Easier is not always the point."

"It is for me. Just cut out things that are holding you back," she told him. He was looking at her with his eyes filled with sympathy and she had to look away.

"Then you must have a very easy life," he said quietly.

To that, Adelaide didn't respond.

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Soon, it was time to close the deli again. As always, Mr. Delmar warned her against being kidnapped. This time, it was something about learning a thing or two from Kevin McAllister.

Rolling her eyes, with a sub tucked under her arm, Adelaide stepped out the deli, beginning to make her way home.

She only lived a few blocks away so she tried not to spend money on a taxi as much as she could. Though, it was starting to get chilly so she wasn't sure how much longer she could keep up walking home at night.

Suddenly, she missed Happy and their car rides. He was always there for her no matter what. Whether it was school problems or atypical teenage girl problems, he had her back. She guessed stabbing his best friend in the back didn't fall under the trustworthy category. Besides, it wouldn't be fair to him if she called him. He had been Tony's best friend much longer than he had been her friend and she couldn't put him in that position. And just like she had done with Pepper, she wanted to keep everyone from her old life as far away as possible.

For that reason, she wasn't even going back to school this year. Maybe Tony had already told Peter everything and he hated her even more than he did before. Besides, if he was still hung up over the Uncle Ben's murderer thing, then she didn't want to talk to him. After everything that had happened since Vienna, she was sure that she had done the right thing that night. If he couldn't see that, then screw him. She didn't need him anyway.