Chapter Four - Mother Dearest
I had decided against a roof to sleep on tonight, there seemed to always be an accident when I sleep on one, so tonight I wandered down to the park. It wasn't all that busy seeing as it was getting quite late now, the sun was just setting and the only people that were here were walking their dogs. I looked around for the biggest, safest, comfiest looking tree and headed over to it.
Surely nothing would go wrong here.
The only problem I came across, was when I wanted to climb my leg, or arm, or even foot would sometimes go through the tree. Let me tell how wierd this feels, a part of your body just feels suspended, like it's no longer there and this feels very weird. I occasionally looked down just to ensure that the body part was still attatched as I kind of needed them, and made my way to near the top of the tree.
I knew that this was going to hurt in the morning if I slept here but at that moment complete exhaustion hit me. It literally came out of nowhere and I was lucky to stablise myself before I fell of the tree. Not that, that would be new or anything, me falling from heights. It seemed to happen a lot more than it used to. Of course this could be attributed to the fact that I was homeless and therefore tried to find the saefst places to sleep. By the end of this confusing thought process, I had managed to fall asleep.
Waking up I was confused as to why the world was so bright, even though my eyes were shut there was sunlight filtering through. Opening them I gasped as I saw myself suspended just above the treeline.
I was flying.
"Jesus!" I panicked, lost my new found ability and crashed through the tree and onto the floor. "Ow" I groaned as I used the tree to help me stand back up. That was not fun.
I put my hand on my back, and cracked it, wincing as it hurt like a bitch. I rolled my shoulders around and rubbed the back of my neck, somehow I had managed not to break anything.
I looked around to see if anyone had seen my little moment, and thankfully no one did. I thought I had gotten away from it until I turned back around and came face to face with the guy from the cafe yesterday.
"Are you okay?" He came rushing over to me, looking me over. I winced.
"Yeah, I'm fine" Surprisingly this was true. I noticed a small cut on my hand that seemed to be winding itself back together, my eyes widened and I shoved it into my pocket.
"Are you sure, that looked like a pretty nasty fall" So he had seen that. He wasn't looking at me any differently which told me he hadn't seen everything.
"Yeah, stong bones" I shrugged it off, rubbing the back of my neck.
He gave me an amused smirk, and then held his hand out "I'm Peter. Peter Parker"
I looked at the hand in front of me, and after a moments deliberation took it "Jessie. Jessie Mayner"
"Pleased to meet you" He caught my eye and we stared at each other for a few seconds, I cocked my head to the side. There was something about this guy that seemed familiar. I just couldn't put my finger on it.
Both of our heads snapped to the side as someone screamed, by the time I looked back at Peter he was gone. I glanced around, wondering where he went but my attention was diverted when I heard a roar. The screaming got louder and I hid behind my tree.
What in the world was wrong with this place, there never seemed to be a day gone by where it wasn't a complete disaster. I poked my head round the tree to see that stupid lizard was robbing what looked to be a bank. Why was this monster so smart?
I watched as a few people ran in my direction, one in particular caught my attention. I stood stock still for a few seconds before sprinting towards her.
"Mom!" I shouted, pushing past a few bystanders. "Mom!" I was fast becoming out of breath, and regretted not taking gym class more seriously, when all of a sudden I was gaining speed. I was confused but didn't question it as I soon caught up to her. I grabbed her shoulder and spun her around.
"Mom" I hugged her tightly, not wanting her to leave me but she had a different idea and shoved me away from her.
"What the hell do you think your doing?" She screamed at me, I gave her a confused look.
"What?" I asked quietly. "Mom, it's me. Jessie"
"I have no idea who you are"
That cut me deep, my heart felt like it was breaking. What kind of mother didn't recognise her own daughter? Apparently mine didn't as she gave me another look before continuing to sprint away.
I watched her go, the world around me seemed to slow down, there was some kind of explosion behind me that I paid no attention to. The person who loved me more than any one else in the world just left me here. She left me.
She left me.
I honestly couldn't think of anything else as the waves of abandonment crashed over me. Tears were threatening to spill over my eyes as her figure faded from my view, I didn't know what I was supposed to do now.
A loud roar was the first thing I heard as my senses came back to me all at once. It was slightly overwhelming and I was disorientated for a few seconds. When everything went back to normal, something smacked me hard in the side and I was sent flying straight towards a brick wall.
I closed my eyes, knowing this was going to hurt and hoping that perhaps my power was going to work when I wanted to. I soon realised that it was going to when I felt my shoulder crack against the bricks, pain radiated from it but it was soon overshadowed when my head meet brick. My eyes immediately rolled straight upwards into my skull and the last thing I saw before I passed out was that stupid lizard walking over to me. A strangely human smug smile on it's lips.
This wasn't going to end well. I just hope he wasn't planning on eating me.
