CHAPTER 13: Restless Superhero
PETER P.O.V.
We stop at MJ's place and I try my hardest to not attract any attention for her cousin to come. I know MJ doesn't have the best relationship with her and I know she's not in the mood to talk to her. When we get to her apartment, scratches are still on the window. Both of us look at each other, but the two of us don't even seemed scared. Scratches on a glass is nothing compare to everything else that's going on.
She goes in her dresser and grabs some clothes. After she gets dressed we go to my place and I change into mine as MJ sits on my bed to wait on me.
As soon as I walk out of the bathroom with my clothes on ready for school, May comes into the room."Oh Peter!" She pushes herself on me to hug me and I let out a weird noise to indicate she kind of knocked the air out of my body. Of course I hug her back.
"Hey May. I'm okay. We're okay."
"Oh Michelle, you too." May goes over to hug MJ and MJ hugs her back, smiling at me as she does it."Was everything alright last night? Nothing terrible happened or unusual?' MJ and I give it each other a look. She should already know I'm going to tell her that everything went damn near perfect.
"Uh yeah, everything was fine. I got a lot of stuff done too so yeah." I say nervously. May is just staring at the two of us and I want this conversation to end.
"Well good. You should get going, I don't want you two late when the school year just started."
"Yeah Peter, we should get going. Nice talking to you Ms. Parker." MJ says as I'm already standing next to the door.
"You too Michelle. Peter, drive safe."
"I will May. Later." I take MJ's hand, grab my keys, and we're out the door.
"Peter, you aren't going to tell her about the multiverse stuff and your dream?"
"What dream?" I try to play it off as best as I can but MJ is looking at me like she's not buying any of it."I dont know how you can lie so easily."
"If it comes down to saving her from worrying about me, lying can be pretty easy."
"Due to my knowledge and common sense, I think she would worry less if you just told her everything that's going on. I would worry less too."
"I tell you everything that's going on. We spent all that time together MJ, and there was nothing to hide."
"So you're telling me the truth right now? That your crazy dream isn't still replaying in your head and you believe that's the only one you'll have from here on out?"
"I think so. Also, I am telling you the truth about everything." Was I? Dreams come and go most of the time, it was just really late at night and that's what happens when you look at something scary and hideous before you go to sleep. Star Wars doesn't give me any bad dreams so I know that's what it was.
MJ still has this expression on her face that she's catching my lying senses, but I have to make her believe me. First, we needed some food because I'm starving."Were you serious about the donuts and coffee? I really want some of that right now."
MJ smiles."I was being dead serious Peter Parker." I smile and I start the car. I don't really know why I didn't start driving earlier.
The place is right next to school so we could honestly stay here for a while and still not be late to our first class. It just made me realize I have to face Mr. Hubert today. I hope I got his name right.
"So should we order a whole box so Ned can have some orrr?" MJ says as I open the door so she can walk in first.
I walk in behind her."Yeah, and for extras. I love to eat more donuts."
As we're walking in, out of all people who had to be in here, it was Flash and the same entourage he always has. They're standing together with their food as the other part of their entourage is waiting for the rest of their food. I dreaded this and I was thinking about hiding behind MJ, but if they saw her they will know I'm here with her.
"Hey MJ. Ohhhh, Penis Parker. You know, out of everyone on the trip, I did not expect you two to be a couple. Pretty sure you were interested in Brad, and you wouldn't go for anybody after what happened with Liz." I could feel my blood boiling. Brad was probably worse than Flash on that trip, considering the fact that he was about to expose me by sending a picture to MJ of me with no pants on standing next to a Europian woman. With Liz, I still don't know how I feel about that whole situation, but I'm with MJ now, and she likes me and I like her.
The thing with Brad is if I didn't get Tony's glasses as fast as I did, I wouldn't know what to do if Brad sent that to her.
"Boys who take pictures of other boys in the bathroom proves he wasn't that interested in me. Hell, it looked like Brad wanted you Peter since he wanted to take a picture of you in the bathroom." I can't help but laugh. Even some of Flash's friends are laughing at MJ.
"We all know Peter really liked Liz, but she didn't show any attention to him and I think she made a big mistake. I'm glad you told me you really like me though." MJ turns to me and smiles as I smile back at her."Okay, I've seen enough for one day. You do anything else in first period I'll have to team up with Mysterio and boot you out Parker. People like that will work with someone rich like me. Not a poor boy." Ironically I was working with Mysterio. Was...
MJ rolls her eyes and I just stare at Flash. I know I can take him right here and I know I'll win, but I can't have anybody suspecting anything. Especially him. I can't let him see me angry. He starts walking but he shoves me to the counter as hard as he can as the rest of his friends follow him, but I'm glad they didn't try to shove me too.
"He gets annoying as the years go by. I'm sorry you had to deal with that." I tell her.
"Don't apologize. I think Flash really admires you in secret."
"Are you serious? There's no way he actually likes me. That guy has always wanted to ruin my life."
"He always goes out of his way to do something that has to do with you. If he knew about the other part, he wouldn't know how to react."
"I honestly think he would hate Spiderman if he found out of all people who he thinks are cool in the world, that person is me." I whisper so other people can't hear. MJ laughs."When I figured it out, I thought it was even better when I found out it was you."I smiled."That and I just wanted you to admit I was right."
"Oh okay." I mock her and the two of us start laughing again."Hello, how may I serve you today?"
"Serve me well please." This throws the guy off but he smiles at her comment. She's awesome.
"Ummm, can I gettttt?" MJ keeps staring at the menu and her eyes light up as she sees something."The dozen Spiderman strawberry donuts with a large sweetened Spiderman latte." I look up at the menu and low and behold, they actually made donuts and coffee based off of Spiderman.
"Yes ma'am. And you?" My attention goes back to the guy serving us."I would like to get the Very Cherry donut with a large iced vanilla latte and a large caramel frappe?"
"Yes sir. That'll be $22.56." I pull my debit card out as fast as I can because I could tell that MJ was pulling her wallet out to pay. She saw me put it into the machine and she rolled her eyes with a smile.
"I have money Peter. Therefore, I have all the value to pay for the dozen donuts."
"Save your money for something better than that. You could pay for some more beautiful dresses." I can see her starting to blush.
I see the guy coming with our food and my brain and my stomach feel like they're jumping with joy right now. I can feel how exhausted I am and this latte should save my life. Temporarily.
MJ takes the box of donuts with her latte as I take my things with Ned's. We sit at the table closest to the door and the first thing I do is bite into the cherry donut. It's gooey and delicious.
"I'm surprised you didn't have a dream about the donut." MJ says as she watches me eat. I've realized I haven't been eating as much. I only ate some of my lunch since school has started but breakfast is the only meal I really think about.
"I can't believe you decked out your whole breakfast with Spiderman." I say as I stare at the Spiderman donut. Red is surrounding all of it and they even took the time to draw the black lines and the eyes are perfect.
MJ opens the top of her latte and she looks shocked and excited at the same time. She carefully inches the cup towards me so I can see what she's looking at. The latte has a whole design of me shooting out of web. I mean Spiderman.
"We have to come here everyday so I can see if they do different ones." MJ pulls out her phone and takes a picture of it. She puts it away and drinks it.
"It's really good too." She says and takes another sip."I'm loving this right now."
"Loving what?" She asks."That we get to talk about this in public and it's just between the two of us."
She takes a bite of her donut and you can tell she's living a really good life."Better for us to talk about Spiderman food than Spiderman's job. Venom could never get this luxury."
I laugh."Yeah, Venom wants to eat the people that are interested in eating a Venom inspired donut."
I hope it never comes for me or anybody else ever again. He doesn't even deserve to look at this city. It just reminds me that Ned and I have a lot to talk about. Maybe he can stop me from being less tired.
AT SCHOOL 8:20AM
Just like I predicted we weren't late to first period, and Ned was enjoying his frappe and the donuts like MJ and I were.
We were the only people in class so it's perfect timing to start the conversation about yesterday."The purple suit guy came and attacked us."
Ned looks over at the two of us shocked."Are you serious?! How did he even know where you were?"
"We have no idea. He just came into my room and the two of us started fighting him. Mostly I did all the fighting." MJ says. I glare at MJ as she smiles. She still loves to tease me and I don't mind it.
"So what happened after all of that?"
"We went to Avengers Tower after Miles saved us and I started working on the portal machine. The loudest growls I've ever heard in my life are coming from outside. I swing into the building to see what's going on, and this scary, creepy, black monster is choking this man and he's trying to eat him whole! I literally didn't want to go anywhere near him so I went flying out of the place." I demonstrate as I'm pretending to shoot out webs as fast as I can, and Ned looks entertained by it.
I love that any time I tell Ned something that's happened to me, he's fully engaged. That's a best friend."I went back and I kept building, but I had a nightmare that he was about to eat MJ and things have been crazy from there."
"Next time, I'm gonna have to cancel on my parents because that sounds like an epic night for a senior in high school. Except the nightmares. Are you sure you're going to be okay?"
I could feel MJ staring at me. She might think I'm going to tell Ned the exact truth whereas I told her something I'm not 100% sure about. I'm still going to say what I said the first time.
"Yeah, everything will be fine." I look over at MJ and I see that she's not eyeing me down. Good job Peter. The rest of the class starts walking in and I'll have to tell Ned about everything else later. Then I realized I didn't even check on Miles this morning. Shit.
PETER- Hey Miles, sorry I didn't say anything before I left. Are you okay?
MILES- Morning Peter and I'm alright. I'm gonna swing around and help out the city a little bit. Last night's events are still lingering around
PETER- What's going on?
MILES- More fires just started and I have no idea where they're coming from. Just checking it out, but don't worry. Stay at school and enjoy your last year as much as you can. Good news, I'm gonna call Gwen to see if she can help us
I wanted it to be good news really bad, but I didn't want him and his friend to be apart of everything that happened last night. Venom is just hideous. I know Miles is Spiderman too, but I still want to help him out with everything.
Mr. Hubert walks into the room and when he looks at me he is not thrilled, but it doesn't look like he hates me, so I guess it's fine. I guess…
"Good morning class." Nobody responds. Looks like MJ and I aren't the only ones who are dead in this class. Everybody else is either on their phones or resting their heads on the desk.
I can't stop thinking about Miles. I hope Venom doesn't try to attack him. I hope the city isn't going crazy and I'm not there to help. Now I don't even care about being here right now.
"So we were talking about dystopian fiction the other day. Some of you may know that while others don't." Yeah, I'm pretty sure I didn't start on the right foot with him.
MJ is staring at him and she is drawing at the same time. It looks like she's finishing the drawing she was doing when I was kneeling in the chair. I couldn't stand myself at that moment.
I wasn't there for the people who needed me and now I'm not there for Miles and the rest of the city again. As all of that is whirling in my head, my eyes start shutting slower and slower. I don't even try to wake myself up. I just let my head go to the desk and I'm going to be knocked out in 5 minutes tops.
This sucks.