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I practiced controlling my abilities for about an hour before we left for school. I had plenty of time as I had woken up extremely early.

And now I stood in front of my new high school, books tucked close to me, looking up at the big sign that read:

Midtown Science High School

I already knew I would have a hard time on this first day of my Junior year, at a new high school, knowing pretty much nobody, and not acquainted with the various traditions of the school, nor having any idea where anything in the school was. So not only was it the scariest day anyways, but now I had strange abilities I could only half control and a head too full of questions to completely concentrate on this new environment I had been shoved into.

And so with this all in mind, I heaved a sigh, then walked into the ominous building I would call high school from now on.

"Hey! Wait up!" My sister called after me. I waited anxiously for Rebecca to catch up and set off to find my locker. I kept my hands to myself, clutching the straps of my backpack so tightly my knuckles started turning white. I glanced around the already crowded hallway, as if I was afraid someone would be able to see right through me and somehow discover I was a freak.

"You okay?"

Rebecca's voice brought me out of my whirlpool of muddled thoughts and fears.

"Fine."

"Nervous?"

"Yeah. Just nervous."

"Me too."

Suddenly my head did that buzzing thing it did. What was that called again? Spider-Sense? So what was about to-?

I narrowly dodged a spitball and instead, it hit Peter.

Peter?

Someone from behind laughed like a giant oaf. I turned to see a tall kid with blonde, spikey hair.

"Nice one, Flash," one of his friends told him.

I could tell Peter was trying to ignore them. The redhead he was talking with glared at Flash.

"How'd you dodge that?"

I turned back to my sister, a confused look on her face.

"I...heard it...?"

"I didn't hear anything-"

"Come on, I don't want to be late." I took off before she could say anything else. She scampered after me.

It was hard to focus all day, so it was a good thing we mostly went over the rules of every class. Hopefully I wouldn't actually break any of them without knowing it.

But the period I had the hardest time focusing in, was biology. Every time the teacher mentioned DNA or mutation, I jumped a little. What was worse was that Peter Parker was in my class. He probably thought I was crazy by now.

So much for starting fresh, having a new reputation, not being the nerd or the freak.

We even had to take a 100-question pretest. That was so fun...

I kept glancing over at the microscopes in the room, as if everyone was waiting to test my blood or some other nonsense. I was getting nervous and worked up for no reason. But the test was thankfully over quickly.

"...and of course there is the end of year Biology Final..."

What if I don't even make it to the final? What if this kills me first? What if my body reacts differently than Spider-Man and I-

"...and there is an essay due by Friday."

Alarms went off in my head; no, not my spider-sense. It was more like someone hit the panic button in my head. I screamed internally.

Then there was that one miserable moment where I couldn't get my hand to let go of my pencil for like a whole two minutes. And of course, when I went to stand up, I had to grapple with my arm to get my hand to come loose from the desk.

Could this day get any worse?

"Hey!"

I turned to let Peter catch up to me in the hallway.

"Hey."

"You okay?"

"Fine. Thanks."

"You sure?"

I thought for a split second about why he was asking. Was it that obvious that my life was basically scattered into pieces right now?

"Yeah."

"Well. If you ever need anything, I live just down the street."

"Thanks."

He gave me a warm smile, which I would have appreciated much more in different circumstances.

"See ya around."

I waved to him and headed to where the bus, like a prison, would hold me captive in my torment until I got home.

Thanks for "Sticking" with this story. Pun intended. XD New chapter coming pretty soon to make up for the past couple chapters being shorter.