Talking to her on the network was one thing. Seeing her in person again after over a year away? That was... Well, Peter sort of felt like she'd slapped him. And it wasn't her fault and there wasn't any way or reason to blame her for it.
"I... I was going to. You know. In a second. I had to decide the right way to knock." There was no right way to knock in this situation and he knew it.
It was horribly rude, but he kind of couldn't stop staring. It felt so normal and yet completely not normal. It was MJ. His MJ who wasn't his MJ and she was here and she knew about Spider-Man and she knew who his 'coworkers' all were and it was both weird and amazing but also sort of horrible all at the same time. "Hi," he finally blurted. Because he might have been older, but some things never changed.