I love my life but $60 is $60

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Chris chalich, Danny york, Hastien056

- Billie POV-

I don't know why he would do it, why he wouldn't be saving people, what could have been the reason that he said I didn't understand, what actually happened?.

"Stop day dreaming" I turn at that and find my gaurdians looking at me, waiting for me to finish my food "I'm sorry" I mutter and continue eating ignoring the thoughts that scream at me.

"Wearing filthy clothing and singing like a harlot has become the norm nowadays, every bloody sow thinks they can show some skin and call themseleves a singer" my gaurdian Maria seems to have been particularly irritated at my participation in the music video.

I still answer just to get a word in before she continues her rant "it pays the bills" Keith yells out "then why don't you go and be stripper" I stared him dead in the eye as I said "you'd know all about how much they get paid don't you" he sputters at that as Maria glares at him before she turns to TV as she said.

"Getting drunk and dancing around causing a mess, is this the man you settled for" I just smiled a sweet smile that didn't reach my eyes as I said "and you'd know all about settling for less" Keith slams the table as he says "I am not going to take anymore disrespect from a homeless runt like you, get back to your room".

I just take the plate and go upto my room, once I close the door I can hear a screaming match start between them, this was the best way to escape their snarky comments but it still hurts living with assholes because they say the same thing enough times to make you question if it's true.

They'll make you think that maybe you were the bad person all along, I try my best to set their bullshit aside but sometimes they hit the mark by coincidence or something and it hurts much more than I care to admit.

Peter is out of town so I can't apologize and ask him where I went wrong, it's summer break so I can't just use that excuse to escape from home, I don't have friends to cover for me either, maybe that's what I really need right now, friends who can tell me what is happening and what is wrong.

I look to the window and ponder running out of it but I know they will come by and check for me so i lay back down and pull my hair out with frustation, what should I dooooooo?.

What would Peter do?

"I don't sing when I want to, I sing when something happens and I want to feel it as poetically as possible"

I rush to my night stand and take a pen and pencil out before I set them on the table and tap, *tap**tap**tap**tap* 'uuugh' why can't I write anything, my mind is just going blank about what u should write.

I sigh and wonder about what is the most terrifying thing for me right now 'OTHER THAN HURTING PETER' which I did already 'again with Peter what else am I terrified of' and I hear a knock on the door and freeze at the prospect of dealing with Maria or Keith.

I approach the door and open it to find Maria looking at me with clear annoyance as she says "The plate" I gave her the plate and watch as she goes down and close the door before I fall down from the pressure I felt.

That knock terrifies me. I still remember the first day I came hear they woke me up early in the morning with the same knock and she--she instilled discipline on me for not waking up early, I felt like I fell in to the house of Satan.

I put on a brave front and act like their words or beatin---discipline doesn't hurt but inside I'm scared of whether I'll survive until I'm 18 and get out of this place.

Hey I can write a song about that.

-Peter POV-

"When you said we could do a lot of things with the 18$, I didn't think I'll be stuck with you betting on a cockroach race of all things" I sigh at shuri's tone but just focus on the bet "I mean why the hell did I decide to believe in a white boy I met 2 hours ago".

I blew air out a rasberry and said "18$ gives you a chance to earn more money than 0$" she leaned on the wall as my blue cockroach was losing on the race "you know I can pay too right" I just ignored her as I increased my 2$ bet to 4$ "how is this in any way interesting to you?" But I look on at the race and frown at the blue cockroach not getting anymore faster, I increase my bet to 10$.

Shuri just holds my shoulders as she yells at me "you are loosing all your money, you proved your point this is fun let's just go" I ignore her concerned questioning and watch as the blue cockroach starts to take the lead slowly and shuri yells "oh my god you are winning, you are winning, go cockroach go, go, go, go, go" I look at her enthusiasm and smile as we win.

"you actually won, I thought we would have been here all day" I frown at that as I say "have some faith in the white boy princess" shuri took the money out of my hands and ignored my shout of indignation as she counted the money I earned "Hmm, 34$ enough for..." She acted like she counted something before she exclaimed with a smile filled with sarcasm "..oh I know you can eat 25 tacos and one train ticket to west side bridge so that you can sleep with the homeless".

I just said "gimme that" as I took back my money, I glared at her as I said "the point isn't how much we earned, it's about how much we enjoyed?" She seemed to hum and frown as she said "I mean it was fine at the end but the rest of it was boring" I patted her back as I said "that is because you didn't want to enjoy yourself, now that it's 11:00AM now we can go for lunch".

She looked at the 34$ dollars I had and said "and that is enough for us to both eat and enjoy ourselves" he shook his head as he said "hell no, we can eat good but I doubt we can do something joyful after that but I do have a plan" before shuri can question me I move to the store and buy 2 coke packs and a burrito from a nearby stand for 30$ shuri saw this and started scolding me "what are we going to do with this again?" I hand her the burrito which she starts eating.

I just hold her arm and pull her along to a taxi as I say "we are going to resell them somewhere" she tries to grab one of the coke packs but I stop her "it's ok I can carry it" she deadpans at me as she says "If you are trying to impress me with some muscle it's not going to work, I have a brother" I look at her in confusion as I climb into the taxi "are you getting in or not?" she leans on the door as she says "I am not coming if we are going to some rat race".

I point upwards and say "what about flying?" She bites her lip as she thinks before getting in as she says "I am only here because I want to know how you will make that happen" I winked at her and said "you'll see."

As the taxi started moving towards our destination I thought of this fucked up timeline, somehow this world is on an accelerated pace compared to the original MCU.

Shuri exists, Iron man didn't even start but Captain America is out of the ice box. What next Loki appears tomorrow along with Thanos. I don't want to deal with multiverse level threats all alone. All the heroes currently present don't have enough development to actually deal with those threats without loosing their mind, it was easier in the comics but this is real life here my thoughts were interrupted by Shuri who seemed to have finished her burrito.

"What do you actually do street boy?" I look at her with a raised eyebrow "Street boy?" She just smirked as she said "oh I don't know, maybe because I found you on the street and you seem homeless" I looked at her in offence with my mouth wide open as I say "You saw me get kicked out of a limo" she looks at me challengingly as she says "they must have found you hitching a ride then?".

My veins pop out as I try to say "I'll show you what rich is when I get my card back from the hotel" she laughs as she says "don't ruin your credit to prove a point, street boy" before I can tell her in quite a few pointed words about how I am rich enough the taxi man says "we are here" I hand him $8 and get out along with shuri.

As the taxi sped away Shuri yelled at me "WHERE THE HELL DID YOU BRING ME to?" I turn to her and find her looking around at the nothingness that this place was "this is a new job point for tower maintainance" she looked at me in suspicion as she said "what tower?" I grab her chin and turn her towards the gigantic cell tower that is in need of a minor maintenance check.

Her mouth hangs open as I say "we need to get to the top and do a maintenance check before we jump down from the top with a parachute" she looks at me like I lost my head and I say "they're paying us 60 dollars each".