"Yes, yes it should absolutely be pretend," Peter said holding up his hands, he was pretty sure she was joking but well the thing was, he'd just kind of maybe said he was following here, even when he totally wasn't so he couldn't be entirely sure that she wasn't going to hit him.
Thankfully no punch came, they just posed for the shot and were thanked way too eagerly by the guy who seemed to be very pleased with his find before Carol was pulling him in the opposite direction. Yeah he was really glad she hadn't hit him.
"Yeah, yeah really weird." Peter agreed nodding, "I'm gonna guess this is probably one of Carol's looks," He said waving a little to her outfit, "You know from the comics, or maybe there's a cartoon, there are cartoons sometimes." he offered. "As for me?" He shrugged, he thought it had more to do with the suit, "This is probably pretty distracting," He said waving to his costume, "People look here and not here," He lifted a hand up toward his face, "So they don't really see you even when you have the mask off." At least that was the current theory.
"Maybe he just thought you were hot and paid more attention to you too." He suggested and then wanted to smack himself in the face for saying something like that to her, no matter how true it might have been. People would be less likely to look close at a guy when they were much more interested in the woman beside him.
"Wanna get off the floor? Maybe see what else is around outside this part of the convention?" He offered, hoping maybe to make peace that way, with some actual exploration rather than just fending off requests for photo ops.