Gwen Stacey sat at her desk in art class inside room 113B. She was hunched over her sketch book which was sitting in her lap, so that no one could see what she was in the process of creating. As she was working she would glance across the room to her best friend since she was eight years old. Peter Parker. The nerdy boy who was always more eager to learn than to throw a football. He seemed to be working hard on whatever he was sketching. Gwen gave a small smile, he looked so….cute? Dare she think it? Yea…cute, he looked so cute when he was working hard. The way his eyes would squint when he was figuring out an equation. The way his eyes would light up whenever he learned something about science, whatever it may be.
Gwen continued to stare at her raven haired friend until he noticed someone was staring at him, he looked up and his eyes met hers. Gwen blushed furiously and fought the reflex to look down at her drawing, she gave him a small smile and a wave, hoping that would satisfy his curiosity. He smiled and waved back at her, then returned to his work.
Gwen sighed in relief and looked back to her drawing. A picture of Peter grabbing her by the shoulders and pulling her into a kiss, with a big heart surrounding them. In the picture, Gwen had her eyes wide open and a blush staining her cheeks.
Real Gwen stared at the picture for a minute, as if expecting (more like hoping) it to come to life. When she realized that wasn't going to happen, she reached for her black marker to trace over the remaining pencil lines and finish up the drawing.
This wasn't the first picture of her and Peter she had drawn. It was actually the fifth. She never turned them in, then she would risk other students or the teacher seeing it and then they would know about her feelings. Paranoid? Maybe. Safe? Definitely.
She only worked on these drawings when she was done with all her work in class and she was sure no one was watching. She didn't want some jerk to figure it out and tell the whole school, she didn't want Peter to find out about her crush on him like that. She wanted to tell him herself.
Gwen capped the marker and set it back on the table. She grabbed the red sharpie and started to color in the heart, she left her and Peter black and white. Mostly because there is no flesh color marker…well, not one that matched or was anywhere close to the color of her and Peter's skin. So she just grabbed her pencil and lightly shaded in their skin.
When Gwen was finished shading she put the pencil down and looked at her artwork, she definitely wasn't the best artist but she always put her heart into whatever she did, especially when Peter was involved, whether it was a game of Mario cart or the science fair, she always tried her hardest to be the best she could be or at least better than Peter.
All the sudden Peter shot up from his desk and sprinted toward the door.
"I need to use the bathroom!" he said as he passed the teachers desk.
Their teacher didn't even look up from the YouTube video he was watching. The only indication he gave to show that he heard Peter was a grunt and a roll of his eyes. Peter shut the door behind him and turned left down the hall, the complete opposite way of the bathroom. Gwen looked at the clock, it was 10:57 Am, and lunch was at 11:23.
Everyone ignored Peters swift exit, having become used to it since it happened at least three times a week now. Where Peter would get up to go to the bathroom or something of that nature and not come back for thirty five minutes at the least. His current record time was one hour, forty six minutes and five and a half seconds.
At first everyone made fun of him for it, thinking he had some sort of problem, but as it happened more and more, they stopped making fun of him and started creating theories about what he was doing. The theories ranged from 'he's taking a nap' to 'He's Spider-man and he's going to stop a bank robbery' which every one immediately laughed at, even Gwen. She didn't laugh in a mean way just… come on, its PETER Parker, he's not exactly the super hero type, though Gwen did admit that would be pretty cool….
But eventually everyone got bored of Parker's new weird hobby, and started to ignore him once more.
Come to think of it….Peter had really changed since the end of sophomore year, he stopped wearing his glasses, saying that he finally got a hold of contact lenses. She liked him with his glasses, she always found his dorkiness adorable but she thought he looked handsome without them, it showed off his intense blue eyes more. His posture improved, which made him half a head taller than Gwen and he seemed to gain some skill in fighting, or at least dodging, since at the beginning of the year he got in a fight with the school bully flash, who wasn't able to land a finger on him.
*BBRRRRRRIIIINNNNGGG
Gwen jumped when she heard the bell ring, signaling lunch. Everyone jumped up and took off toward the lunch room. Gwen looked over to Peter's seat and saw that he had still not returned from….whatever he was doing. She stood up, grabbed her sketch book, pencils and markers. She walked over to Peter's table, grabbed his stuff and left for the lunch room.
It was hard enough getting through the halls with her own stuff, and having to carry Peters stuff made it even more difficult but she was more than willing. She wished they were allowed to carry backpacks around during the school day. They were allowed to have a backpack but during school hours it had to be in their lockers. Nobody would give the students a straight answer no matter how many times they asked and eventually everybody gave up trying to figure out this ridiculous rule and decided to just carry all their stuff with them, And by all I mean ALL, nobody used their lockers now, you only have four minutes until the tardy bell rings, which is nowhere near enough time to put away your stuff from last class, get stuff for your next class, make your way through the idiots standing in the middle of the hall talking to their friends, wait in line for the bathroom and make your way to class and it was even worse if your next class happened to be on the next floor. And there's always that fucktard that thinks its OK to open his locker up all the way so that the door covers up yours, and you have to wait until they go away so you can get your stuff. So in short…..the hallways are hell.
Gwen finally arrived at the lunch room, she spotted her two best friends other than Peter, Harry Osborn and Mary Jane Watson. All four of them had been friends since the third grade and they planned on staying that way for a long while.
Mary Jane was the only person that Gwen had told about her crush on Peter and Gwen wanted it to stay that way until she had the guts to tell Peter. They usually called her MJ for short, Harry came up with the nickname, at first she hated it with every fiber of her being but she soon grew to accept it. MJ hoped to become a famous actress when she came out of high school.
Harry was the son of Norman Osborn, the owner of Oscorp, so he was pretty much filthy rich but his father was a very good dad and had raised him well, Harry wasn't like any of the spoiled brats that think the world owes them. He was brought up to be polite and kind to everyone. Ever since Harry was little he wanted to become the next owner of his dads company.
There was an obvious attraction between Harry and MJ. They were just too stubborn to admit it.
Gwen sat down at their usual lunch table, setting both her and Peters stuff down in the seat next to her. Both Harry and MJ looked up.
"Hi Gwenie!" MJ said happily
"Sup Gwen, where's the book worm?" Harry asked looking around for Peter.
"Hey guys! Peters…. Somewhere, he left art around 10:30 to go to the bathroom and didn't come back so I just grabbed his stuff for him. He should be back any minute now…. That reminds me"
Gwen pulled out her phone and entered her pass-code, she opened her messages app and opened up her last conversation with peter. In the test box she typed 'Hi, Pete! I grabbed your stuff from art class since you didn't come back in time for lunch ;)'
She read over the text to assure herself there wasn't any typos in it, hit the send button and put her phone back in her pocket. She returned her attention to her friends and noticed that Harry was gone.
'He must have gone to get lunch" she thought. Gwen looked over at one of the many lunch lines around the room to find Harry standing at the end of one. They always waited for the line to go down before going to buy their lunch, since everyone and their grandma goes straight to the lunch lines when they enter the lunch room, making it super crowded and uncomfortable.
"So can I see your new picture of you and a certain black haired friend of ours?" MJ asked pulling Gwen out of her thoughts.
"hunh? Oh sure!" she said, Gwen was fine showing her picture at lunch, to MJ at least, everyone was too focused on food to pay any attention to anything else. Gwen reached over and pulled out her sketchbook from her pile of stuff and found today's drawing. She handed it to MJ.
"Man. I always forget how good you are….smart and creative!" MJ praised.
Gwen blushed slightly."uhh thanks MJ, I'm glad you like it".
"But my favorite is still the one with Peter dressed as Spider-man carrying you bridal style! Soooooo cute!" MJ Gushed she was the biggest fan of Gweter. (Combination of Gwen and Peter).
"I think that one's my favorite to, I think tha-"Gwen was interrupted by what sounded like Chewbacca starving to death…..it happened to be her stomach. She blushed and put a hand over her stomach as if trying to keep any more sounds from escaping.
"Ha-ha you sound like a hungry girl, let's go get some food!" MJ said smacking the table lightly. MJ set the sketchbook down on the table.
They made their way over to their lunch line of choice in hopes of filling their empty stomachs.
Authors note: well i hope you enjoyed the first chapter of my spider man fanfic, i hope ill actually finish this one... anyways i wrote this because i never see very many PeterXGwen fanfictions out there, at least not many like this. Get on that guys. just dont kill Gwen off, because that sucks... anyways be sure to favorite, follow and review, makes me feel good about my self and in turn gets more content out for you guys!
