A/N: Let me note that this is my first slash type story or GirlxGirl pairing, but this starts out with the character's affections towards Peter Parker.  I strongly support the pairing of Peter and Mary Jane but was convinced to write my first slash story. This is a challenge for me and I shall step up to the plate. So please try not to roast me too much here, my self esteem will lower more than it has, and remember this is just the first chapter** I know ppl want me to update Reversal Roles, I'm working on it but this was asked for me.

**Dedicated and written for: Joe **

Dark Temptress: by DominoDS

Chapter 1

            Liana Anderson knew what it felt like to be a faded shadow amongst the crowds of the city.  She hadn't moved to Queens until she was fourteen.  She was a freshman at a very large high school and she felt like she couldn't make it through the year alone.   Yet she wasn't alone.  There was someone who was perhaps two years older than her who had captured her heart the moment she met him.  Well…she didn't exactly meet him, not at first anyways.  She had always had a soft spot for the outsiders, geeky looking guys. 

During the first year she just found out the little things about him.  His name was Peter Parker; he lived only two houses down from hers.  He was very smart and interested in Science but everyone took him for the school nerd and would pick on him every day.  She felt bad for him, as she'd see him smile through his torturement and brush it off as if it was nothing, but she knew better.  She knew better because her own class would treat her just as badly.  Not as a nerd but as a gothic outsider.  The girls would throw toilet paper and pads at her during their dress down periods for gym.  In her heart she knew that she shared her pain with him, they were soul mates. She just knew it.

            She met him her second year in Queens.  She had begun to fail in Geometry and the teacher sent her to the tutoring lab where she met Peter.  He was as nice in person as he had seemed along the lonesome hallways.  He helped her get her grades back up in Geometry and even took her out with the Chess club for pizza one night.  However, when the tutoring stopped he forgot about her entirely.  Because of her…the girl next door to Peter.  The girl who was on the cheerleading squad.  She, who was the most popular girl in school, who had all the guys drooling after her, and didn't even care, Most of all, Peter.  Peter was foolishly in love with her.  He was in love with a girl who never showed him the time of day, only knew he existed because of his nerdly status in school.  Hell, she dated the captain of the football team, why did Peter exert all his passion, and time daydreaming over her.  Liana was easily forgot all because of that red bitch.  Besides obsessing over Peter, Liana spent a lot of her time hating Mary Jane all through high school.  She avoided going to any of the games if Mary Jane would be there, unless Peter went.  With each yearbook that was handed to her, she'd cross out Mary Jane's face and write "bitch" on the picture.

Then the day came, oh how she dreaded that it would never come, graduation day for Peter.  She cried that day in the girl's bathroom after their practice.  That was the first time she cried since her mother had left her father and her.  She went and saw him walk down the carpet and receive his diploma.  When she heard his Uncle has passed away, a part of her died along with him.  Her father had worked along side Ben Parker before they were all laid off and she once met the man when picking going to pick her father up from work.  She knew how close Peter was to his uncle and seeing his aunt there in the first row crying made her grieve along with them.  She cheered the loudest for Peter and for a brief moment she could have sworn he glanced out into the crowd squinting, his eyesight landing on her.  Could it possibly have been her imagination though?  She loved him still, even as he stood receiving his diploma, leave the high school and becoming a man.  Her heart ached for him, she wanted to run up there and melt into his arms telling him how much she loved him and wanted to be with him.  He had changed in that last week.  His glasses were gone, he was no longer gawky or a klutz, he also seemed to have self-esteem now and it only made her love him more.  She watched him from across the way as he shook hands with the most powerful man that she knew of; Norman Osborn, and pictured him finally coming to his senses realizing that Liana was the only girl for him.  She closed her blue eyes and imagined Peter taking her into his arms and devouring her mouth with his in a fit of passion.  Her body tingled, her face flushed immensely.  She snapped out of her daydream when she heard giggling.  She glanced about herself as a lock of blue hair fell over her eye.  A few of Mary Jane's party friends were standing in their graduation gowns watching Liana, making fun of her.  Everyone that knew who Liana was knew that Liana was in love with Peter.  Everyone except Peter and Mary Jane.  But then, neither of them knew who Liana was, right?  She snorted slightly and pushed back her shoulder length hair.  Glancing up she noticed that most of the graduates had left, including Peter.  Turning away she left the area but not before signaling the bird to the cackling hags in the corner.

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"What do you mean he's leaving?!" Liana yelled into the phone.  Her black painted nails dug into the receiver as she paced the kitchen floor.  She was on the phone with her best friend Gidget, whose real name was Gillian but always preferred Gidget overall.  Gidget supported Liana's "infatuation", as she would put it, over Peter and would always tell her the tip-top news she found about him.

"That's what I said.  He's leave Queen's to go to the city and go to college up there. What'd you think, that he was going to stay in this dump?  You're kidding yourself, Liana, if you thought he would."  Her friend stated matter-of-factly.

Liana felt anger well up inside of her. He was abandoning her.  Leaving her here by herself.  How could he do this to her?! It wasn't fair!

            "I know but still…how will I get through my last year of High School with him gone?"  She whimpered as she leaned against the wall.

Gidget's tone grew soft and nurturing.  "Liana, stop it.  You know you will do just fine without him.  He's not the basis for your life and you'll go on.  You'll meet some great guy and will forget all about puny Peter Parker."

Liana frowned as her friend called him that. "No I won't!" She shouted. "There is no other guy for me.  Peter was it, and now he's leaving, now he's abandoning me in this hellhole.  I hate him!"  With that she slammed the receiver into the wall, a chunk of plaster cracking off and crumbling to the ground.  Her heart pounded in her chest wildly as adrenaline pumped through her system.  Silently she vowed, that her feelings would never be given away to him so easily…