The whole cause of our move was because Mom's job required it. Her boss needed her out here at the Queens facility of the travel agency. I still was a bit bitter about that. Dad made money by fixing up cars. Of course, being new here, he didn't have any clients yet.
While Mom went into work, Dad insisted on going to talk to some of the neighbors. We took the brownies Mom made this morning and I was forced back outside of the comfort of the house and out into the world.
I jumped at every small sound. Whether my dad was just adjusting his grip on the brownies and causing the tinfoil to crinkle under his fingers, or my siblings scuffing their shoes on the sidewalk, I was startled.
I was still flustered and a bit nervous to even be around anyone at the time, the time being just a morning after finding out I had super powerpowers.
I thought about telling my parents or maybe Rebecca, but I realised that even if I worked up the courage to do so, I wouldn't really know how.
I had never bitten my lip or rubbed my arm self-consciously as much as I did while walking a few feet down this street.
The next door neighbor was a newlywed who accepted the brownies graciously and had a small conversation with my dad about the neighborhood. At the house next to them, nobody answered the door. And one more house over, a nice older lady with white hair answered the door.
I only started paying some attention to their chat when she said her name was May Parker.
This must be where Peter lives.
According to his aunt, Peter's parents had passed away in a car accident, and his Uncle had passed away only about two years ago. I felt bad for Peter.
His aunt accepted the brownies, but left us with a treat as well.
When we left the house, Logan proclaimed, "I like that lady cause she gave us cake."
I think we had all been thinking it.
I was grateful to return to the house. It may not have been much of a home to me quite yet, but I felt like it hid me from prying eyes and kept me from being under the microscope. I scolded myself internally for being so paranoid. When Mom came home and announced we were going last minute school-supply shopping, my stomach sunk.
While at the store, in front of too many people, I couldn't focus on shopping. I kept my hands tucked into me, my arms folded, for fear they might accidentally cling to something in the store.
Rebecca kept giving me weird looks. It seemed she could tell something was up. Out of all of my siblings, Rebecca probably got me the most. She could definitely pick out when I wasn't myself, while the others went on, oblivious.
I tried to ignore her questioning gaze during the whole trip, and when we returned home, I scrambled out of the car and into the house.
As I lay in my bed that night, I tried to reconcile with my mind, trying to get it to go to sleep. But the fact that tomorrow I would be starting my Junior year at a new high school, with no friends except my sisters, and with the unwanted ability to climb up walls and accidentally break things, doesn't make it any easier to stop thinking. Great. And now I would be thoroughly exhausted.
It was at this point where I seriously considered telling Rebecca. If anyone could help me, it was probably the biggest Spider-Man fangirl that ever lived. But when I thought of telling her, my stomach knotted in foreboding. Would I even be able to admit that first of all, I was wrong about the spiders, second of all, that I now had the powers of Spider-Man, and third of all, that I had no idea what I was doing? The one thing that made me continually push away the notion to tell her, was the thought of how she would react. I could very easily see her flip out or maybe accidentally blab it to the world. I imagined pretty much every single possibility possible.
I could see her staring at me constantly. Or she could use me to do her chores. Or she could use me to become popular at school, proclaiming down the streets of our new high school that her sister was best friends with Spider-Man. It exhausted me just thinking about it. Maybe that was why I finally managed to fade into sleep.
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