"I was hesitant to text it, I was afraid you'll be upset. Srsly, don't be" He chose to ignore that last message.
Next text came after a few minutes and he already started thinking she chose to ignore that whole conversation.
"I feel like a shit"
Is telling someone not to feel bad for the third time in a row supportive or just annoying? He doesn't know what to write back, so he writes whatever comes to his mind.
"I'm repeating myself, but don't mind about my parents at all, please"
"It's not just that"
It's impossible to answer, so he does not. If she won't write anything besides that, he'll close that facebook window and do something else, work on his web shooters or maybe do homework. Maybe. He rarely does homework, most times he's able to read from an empty notebook, and when he is not, his GPA survives it anyway.
Okay, he can see that she writes something.
„It's that there is a big social pressure not to talk bad about your parents and to respect them no matter what, so I do not only not feel comfortable complaining about them, I also feel bad even thinking bad about my father and that's crazy, because he is an awful person. And now I feel bad again. Also I hate myself for victim blaming myself.
I don't know why I write you that, you probably don't care, why would you."
Is writing that he cares cheesy? He would ask about her father more, but that is probably being too curious. But what if…
"What kind of stuff does your father do? If he hits you, you know, that you can go to the police, right?"
"Ugh, it's not like that at all"
Okay, maybe he has too much to do with criminals lately. And girls with evil fathers. But he had to know for sure.
She send another message:
"He just gets mad all the time, shouts at me and my mother, talks about how I waste my time all the time and can't do nothing right, don't help at home, am incapable of easiest things. He can go for a few hours about how irresponsible I am, if I forget that he wanted me to cook rice for him or some shit. And if I'll go to my room he still shouts, he shouts at the door.
Sorry for spam, I waste your time, you've got work to do with internship, school and idk what you do in your freetime or if you have some at all"
"I have absolutely nothing to do now and you can keep complaining, I don't mind.
if you ever wondered if it's normal for parents to do that, it's not, my uncle never did shit like this and my aunt doesn't . This sentence is weird, because my uncle recently died, but you get the point. Your father is awful, you should not feel guilty, you're the victim"
"You have three dead parents and I complain about my domestic life. Great."
"It's not olimpics and you know that. I live only with my aunt, so what? I don't have problems like yours because of that. Your problems are valid"
"Why are you telling me this stuff, you sound like a feminist blog and it's me who is an angry intersectional feminist SJW from tumblr"
"I may have read some feminist blogs"
It gets darker and he was planning on doing some patroling this evening, but being Spider-man is about helping people, right? And maybe sometimes it is just as important to listen to your frind as it is to find a stolen bike.
"I still feel like I'm wasting your time and I usually don't tell this stuff to people"
"So what, you can start now, if it will make you feel better"
Conversation gets faster and more natural, he stops overthinking every answer, just goes with the flow instead.
"I've never complained this much about my father to anyone tbh and maybe that's because I don't have any friends but I'm not sure if I should, I feel like I've already said too much"
"You have friends, you told us to call you MJ, don't you remember? Besides, you can trust me, I read feminist blogs"
"I don't know, I have flashbacks from grade school and people prompting me to tell them stuff, to use that to torture me socially"
It will be weird to talk to her in real life tomorrow. If she'll be in school. She said she won't be on a Decathlon team meeting, but does it mean she won't be in school?
"I'm sorry that you have such a bad luck with people. Srsly tho, some of them can be trusted. You'll do whatever you want, but if you want to talk about your family I really have nothing to do all night and I can listen. Read"
"I don't even know what do I want to complain about now, kids from grade school or family. I feel like all I do is reliving the worst moments of my life over and over again. It's pathetic. I'm pathetic"
"I don't think so, you just had very bad luck. Also, about what your father says, that's complete and utter bullshit, for what I know you, you are very capable of doing stuff, you won a competition in DC, you are a Decathlon captain and you draw well"
"Yeah, but when I do some stuff for school, then he's mad because I should help in home more, and when I do stuff in home, I should study, because I'm a waste of his money. Basically all I do is a waste of time. He is also mad when I go protesting, because it's wasting his money, I don't even know how's that possible"
"It's not, he just wants to be mad. For how much you can, don't let that shit get into your head"
"Well, I'm trying to, see how well I'm doing"
"It will get better. Grade school ended and so it will one day. You can move out for college for sure. That's in a few years, but it's something"
"Just a minute ago my father went into my room, saw an open laptop and me writing on it and said I do nothing but play games. Thank god he wasn't in the mood for standing in my door and shouting for an hour. About moving from them idk, he will always be my father and I'll always have to keep up with him. And it's worse than having shitty classmates, because from school you can go home, you have nowhere to run from home"
"He wasn't like this before?"
"No, it started a year or two ago. I mean he always was kind of weird, but now he's impossible"
Conversation goes deeper and deeper into the night, and he feels kind of guilty, because she doesn't have a body with super abilities and will be sleep depraved tomorrow.