Peter and I had to stay after school for detention. We were sitting at the history class alone after the teacher walked out to get something. I sighed, bored. "Want me to be honest?" Peter looked over at me. I tilted my head. "This is my first time getting detention."
Peter chuckled, sighing. "Unfortunately, this is my second time."
"Sucks," I muttered, looking around. My phone vibrated and I pulled it out to see it was Mom. I sighed, answering my phone. "Hey, Mom."
"Hey," She greeted. "Listen, I'm going to stay at the hospital, I have a shift, okay?"
I hesitated. "Yeah. Yeah, okay."
"All right," Mom said. "I have to hung up, I'm heading for a surgery."
"Okay," I muttered.
"Bye," She said.
"Later," I said before hanging up.
"What did you Mom said about the detention?" Peter asked.
"She doesn't know," I answered, shrugging. "She just called to say she's has a shift. Guess she'll be home tomorrow evening."
Peter looked shocked. "Whoa."
"Yep," I agreed.
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Finally, after what seemed like forever, Peter and I were free to go home. It was already dark outside, and I didn't like going home at that time, especially alone, when Peter said he had to go somewhere.
"So, where you going?" I asked.
"Um . . ." He trailed off. "I-I just need to grab a few things that Aunt May asked from me." He looked at me. "Um, you okay going by yourself? It pretty dark. Maybe I could call Aunt May to pick you up."
I shook my head. "No, don't, it's okay. I'll, uh, I'll see you tomorrow."
He nodded. "Okay, yeah."
I smiled a small smile, walking away from him and the school.
I took the train home and walked down the streets. I took the alley 'cause I could get home faster this way. I wrapped my jacket closer to my body as I felt the cold air on my skin. I saw three guys talking at the side of the entrance of the alley but I ignored them and the fear from seeing three men and no one was with me, and continued to walk into the alley.
I breathed out and tugged on my bag before hearing footsteps behind me. I had a bad feeling in my stomach that I was followed by those three men and I was afraid to look behind me.
"Hey," I heard one of the men calling. "Hey, baby, where you going?"
I walked faster and heard the same footsteps before hearing them run. Suddenly, one of the men was in front of me and the two others were at both of my sides.
"We asked where you going?" one of them asked.
I swallowed, backing away a few steps only for them to walk forward. "I-I'm going home," I answered.
"Pretty girl like you should be walking alone in night," one of them said, taking a piece of my hair between his fingers. I moved away from him but it made him chuckle.
"Let me through," I demanded quietly but I tried to show I wasn't afraid of them.
The man in front of me shrugged and stepped away. I glanced between the men before rushing to walk past them, but two of them grabbed me and pulled me to the wall.
"No!" I yelled as I struggled to get away from their grip. "Let me go!"
The men only laughed. "Not yet, sweetheart," one of them said as the other pulled out a knife.
"Now, if you'll play with us really nice, it wouldn't hurt so much," one of them said as the other started to kiss my neck.
"Let me go!" I shouted. "Someone help me!"
Suddenly there was a noise behind the men and the man who was kissing my neck was pulled away, thrown backward and was covered in a spider web.
I breathed heavily as I looked up in front of me at the building a guy was wearing a red and blue suit and a red mask. "It's Spider-man!" One of the two men said.
I watched as Spider-Man jumped off the building wall. The two men ran toward him but he quickly kicked them off and shot spider webs at them.
I took this moment, to grab my bag and ran away as tears were in my eyes.
As I was close to the end of the alley, someone jumped in front of me and I yelped as I jumped back only to see it was Spider-Man.
"Hey, it's okay," He said. "I didn't mean to scare you."
I let out a breath. "N-no, it's okay. Sorry." I looked behind me to see the three men were unconscious and wrapped around spider webs.
"Don't worry," Spider-Man told me and I looked at him. "They won't cause any trouble for a while. Cops are on their way."
I nodded slowly. "Thank you."
"It's what I do," He said. "Can I take you home?"
I hesitated but quickly agreed. Spider-Man gently wrapped his arm around my waist. "Hold on tight," He said. I, shyly, wrapped my arms around him as he hold his other hand up and a spider webs shot out. I was quickly pulled with him up and I closed my eyes tightly as I felt the air hit me quickly.
After a moment, I opened my eyes to see we were getting close to my building. Spider-Man landed us on the alley behind the building and I unwrapped my arms from him and moved away, blushing a little.
"Um, thank you," I said.
"Anytime," He said.
I looked at the building and then back at him. "Um, how did you knew I was living here?"
"I was doing patrol in the area and saw you walking out of this building, so I figured . . ." He trailed off, shrugging.
I smiled a small smile. "You guessed, right." My smiled faded away by thinking of what just happened at the alley. "Thanks again for what you did earlier."
Spider-Man nodded. "Just, make sure don't go alone in night. It's very dangerous."
"I had someone who should have come with me, but he had to go somewhere," I said, thinking about Peter. "My neighbor."
"So he told you to go alone?" Spider-Man asked.
"No," I answered. "He said he could ask his Aunt to pick me up, but I didn't want to disturb her."
"Next time, listen to your neighbor," He said. I smiled a small smile. "Good night."
"Good night," I told him before I started to walk away. "Thanks again, Spider-Man."
Spider-Man nodded before holding his hand up and the spider webs appeared, pulling him up and he disappeared. I sighed as I walked into the building and walked inside the elevator.
I walked into my apartment, I locked the door and opened the lights. I sighed and started to get overwhelmed by everything. My tears returned and I sobbed as I slide down to the floor, my back against the door. I sniffed as I wiped my tears away and looked around at the apartment.