"I bet he's sooooo cute. I bet he has so many muscles. Do you think he'll remember me? Do you think he'll sign my arm?"

"Becca."

She blushed from the passenger's seat.

"Sorry. I'll shut up now."

I let out a soft laugh, but it came out more like a nervous one, conveying my emotions nearly perfectly.

"I-It's fine, Becca."

"Thank you so much for this."

I smiled a bit. "Of course, Becca."

Thank you for giving me the perfect excuse to figure out what's up with me.

"So Peter knows him?"

"Yep."

"Like...how?"

"I don't know, exactly."

"Are they like, brothers?"

"I don't know."

"Maybe they're cousins, or best friends."

"I don't know, Becca." I chuckled.

She checked one more time in the mirror to make sure her hair and makeup were just right when we pulled into the parking lot.

"You look fine. Let's go."

She nearly leaped out of the car and headed towards the building with a bouncy step. I, on the other hand, walked towards the building warily, as if this meeting would determined my death sentence.

"Psst."

I whipped around to see a red figure poke his head out from behind the building. My heart skipped a beat.

Spider-Man

Without thinking, I grabbed my sister's arm, possibly holding onto it a little tighter than intended, and yanked her closer to the figure.

"Hey! What are you-SPID-mnm"

I quickly fixed my hand over her mouth.

"Do you want the whole world to know!?"

She mumbled something from underneath my hand. I pulled it away and she repeated herself.

"Could you at least let up on my arm a bit?"

"Sorry."

I swiftly let go, having forgotten my own strength. She rubbed her wrist a bit as we headed for the small area behind the building. I placed my sister in front of me as we rounded the corner. I could tell she had to fight back the urge to squeal by the way she bit down on her lip.

"Hey." Spider-Man was upside own, hanging by one of his web shooters.

"H-hey," my sister barely managed to speak.

Spider-Man laughed softly and dropped down from his webbing. He held his hand out to Rebecca.

"Rebecca. Right?" She nodded, then quickly took his hand to shake it. "I remember you."

I had never seen my sister so shocked and so happy at the same time. "Y-you do?"

He nodded. "Even I was a little shaken up after that earthquake."

My sister laughed. She was finally starting to relax a bit. I snorted, immediately drawing attention to myself.

Oops.

"You must be Petricia."

"Y-yeah." I cleared my throat. "Yeah"

He shook my hand as well.

There's something familiar about you..

"So, is there anything I can do for you guys?"

"Could you sign my arm!?"

He chuckled. "Sure. But maybe you want me to sign a paper or something? So it doesn't wash off?"

She nodded vigorously. "Oh. Yeah yeah yeah." She searched her pockets and found nothing. "Um..."

This is my chance.

"There's some in my backpack. It's in the car." I tossed her the keys.

"Okay!" She bolted back around the side of the building.

I hesitated for a moment, clearing my throat again in the awkward silence. But before I could say anything he spoke first.

"You're in a bit of a sticky situation, aren't you?"

WHAT DID HE JUST...?

"H-how did you...?"

He cleared his throat. "If I tell you, you gotta keep it a secret."

"R-right." I nodded, staring at him with wide eyes.

He was suddenly taking his mask off.

What is he doing!?

I nearly passed out when all of a sudden I realized how Peter knew Spider-Man.

"Peter!?"

"Woah woah. Keeping it on the downlow, remember?"

"S-sorry." My cheeks flushed red.

He chuckled. "It's quite alright. No one's around.." He slipped his mask back on. "Though Becca might be back any second."

I nodded, glancing back at the corner of the building as if to make sure hadn't come back yet.

"So how did you know?" I asked in a hushed voice.

"Easy. I went through the same thing, didn't I?"

"Is it that obvious?"

"Just to me. Besides, I saw how you helped me with the schoolbus."

"Oh." I sighed. "Well...You can help me, right?" I didn't realize I had been playing with my fingers until just now.

He nodded. "Yeah. I can help."

"Thank you thank you thank you."

"I have the paper!" My sister was running back towards us, waving a paper in the air and brandishing a pen in the other.

"We'll continue this discussion before the science fair tomorrow," he whispered.

My sister returned to us out of breath. She handed Spider-Man the paper and pen.

"Here, I'll just use the wall-"

"You can use my back!" My sister turned around and bent a bit so he could use her back to sign the paper.

To Becca

Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man ;)

"Well, I better get going. If you need anything else, just ask Peter."

He just dug his own grave. Now Becca would never leave him alone.

"We won't bother you too much, right, Becca?" I elbowed her lightly.

"R-Right." She beamed at him.

"See you around!"

And with that, Spider-Man swung away.

"THAT WAS AWESOME!"