In short, I was screwed. Surrounded by three bullies, and no way to defend myself. ''So, are you gonna give us your homework or what?'' asked the biggest of them, Collin Morrison. ''No…'' I answered quietly. ''I think I misheard you, Silver. It sounded like you said no.'' he said, trying to make himself look as menacing as possible. Just when wanted to revoke my statement, a flash of yellow light zoomed past us and the pants of Collin and his group fell to the ground. ''What the hell?!'' he shouted, accidentally drawing more unwanted attention toward his uncovered underpants and legs. ''No, I dare you!'' he shouted, as a student was taking a photo of the event with his cellphone.
Using the welcome distraction, I walked away, to be as inconspicuous as possible. Sitting down at an abandoned birch tree, taking out my lunch. Just at that moment, Wally West appeared and sat down next to me. ''Why aren't you watching what's going on back there?'' I asked one of my few friends. ''I could ask you the same question.'' ''Whatever happened there, I saw it. Everything.'' At that, Wally started choking on the sandwich he unpacked. When he could talk again, ''Really?!'' he asked me, panicking. ''I mean, I saw something, but I have no idea what that was.'' Calming down, Wally asked: ''Well, what did you see?'' I explained it to him, when I heard the bell ring. ''See ya, Evan.'' Wally said, heading off to his Chemistry class.
Biology turned out to be even better than expected, wich is difficult, considering it's by far my favorite subject. My Biology teacher Mrs. Sheppard invited an Arachnologist. ''Students, this is Professor Parker. He studies arachnids. Who can tell me wich animals, besides spiders, are arachnids?'' Immediately, my hand shot into the air. ''Yes, Evan?'' ''Scorpions, ticks and harvestmen.'' Seeing a satisfied look on Mrs. Sheppard's face, I knew I was right. ''Very good. Professor Parker, you can show the class what you brought with you.'' The Professor reached into his bag and took out a small glass cube with a metal ceiling. Inside the cube were little webs. ''In this little cube,'' Professor Parker started talking ''is the home of a Brown Widow, the smaller, and less dangerous, cousin of the Black Widow. This spider in specific was experimented on with radioactive materials, to test the effects on the spider. It turns out tha-'' The Professor broke off, while looking on his glass cube. From my seat, I could see that the metal ceiling wasn't fully closed, and the spider was nowhere to be seen in the cube. ''Huh, I think the spider escaped.'' Immediately, everyone in the room started looking around their seats to see if the Brown Widow was near them. ''Well, the spider isn't that dangerous, and I have an even less venomous one with me today.''
Finally outside, and heading home, I thought about the Brown Widow. Professor Parker said it's not dangerous, but he also mentioned that it's radioactive. Maybe that will alter the poison, making it dangerous. When I arrived at home, my mother was already starting to make dinner. ''So, how was school today?'' she asked. ''Pretty good. There was a professor there, he showed us a spider. Another one escaped tho. I'm gonna go upstairs and do my homework. Can you call me if dinner's ready?'' I asked, trying to steer away from the subject of school and what happened during the break. ''Ok, but your sister's sleeping, so don't be too loud.'' Heading upstairs, I felt sting on my hand, wich I instinctively slapped at. Removing my right hand, I saw that I had crushed the Brown Widow. ''It's not dangerous, and you have more important things to care about.'' I thought to myself. I went into my room, placed the bag next to my desk and started unpacking my homework. I opened my first exercise book, when an incredible headache and dizziness overcame me, and I fell asleep instantly.
When I woke up, I felt better than ever before, but my exercise book was sticking to my forehead. I grabbed it, but now it was stuck to my hand. I wasn't able to put it down. ''Evan, dinner's ready.'' ''Yeah, I'll come down soon.'' I called back. Then, all of a sudden, the book just fell down. ''Strange, but convenient. I ran downstairs, but I was suddenly way faster than usual, and ran into the door. ''Evan, are you ok?'' my mom called. ''Yeah, I'm ok.''
''What's happening to me?'' I asked myself, not aware of the things that would happen soon.