Scout - Peter "Outta' the way, nerd!"
"Ah-what-?" Peter grunted as he was shoved into the doorframe by a slightly older kid, "I wasn't dawdling through the door..." He muttered to himself.
The older boy turned and crossed his arms, "You just say dawdling?" Scout blew a raspberry, "Called it. Nerd."
"I used a word you don't know, so that makes me a nerd?" Peter asked, trying to hold back a roll of the eyes as he passed the boisterous boy who, unsurprisingly, blocked his path with one arm.
"Nah, I know it," and his tone gave Peter the distinct opposite impression, "just a dumb, snooty word. Which is weird, cause I swear you sound like you're from Brooklyn."
Now it was Peter's turn to cross his arms and look offended, "I AM from Brooklyn."
"Noooo," Scout's eyebrows went way up and he grinned, "Where? Queens? No way! Me too!"
After that Peter was being side hugged and punched and treated like 'one of the family' which was honestly starting to hurt more than being a 'nerd' had earlier. They were both picking up gifts and, through talking and friendly punching (Peter punched with a bit of Spider-Man force and that cut that out real fast) they'd decided to put their gifting money together to get better gifts for both their friends.
"What about this thing?" Scout asked, pointing to the drinking phage hydrolisk. Peter glanced that way and felt his Spider-Senses (TM) tingle in warning.
"Uh... would be really messy. You'd have to clean up after it."
Scout paused to think about that before he moved on, Peter letting out a sigh of relief.
"Got the list ready, nerd?" Scout asked after they had browsed their options. Peter nodded and read the list aloud.
"
1x Ruby Stargoyle (July)
1x Tbones
1x Tanuki Tali
1x Primed Velix"
"Sounds perfect! Rob's gonna' love the robut guy!"
The boys divided up their spoils and went their separate ways, both knowing they had a friend in one another, and a mutual hate-on for New York.
{Gifts shipped}[Pets recorded]