Nightmares seemed to have plagued her all night about spiders, she didn't get much sleep but as she awoke she felt surprisingly refreshed. She slowly pushed herself up spotting her glasses on her desk beside her. She pulled them off the desk and got to her feet moving to the mirror. She slipped them over her face and suddenly stopped. Everything appeared blurry to her behind the glasses, that couldn't be right. She slipped them off her face for a second and everything became clear again. Talk about puzzling, wasn't it supposed to be the other way around? She decided to test it out and held the glasses in front of her eyes. Blurry, she moved them away, clear. Blurry, clear, blurry clear. She shook her head slightly confused about the ordeal and placed her glasses back on the desk.
"Weird," She muttered. She went to go over to her dresser and passed by the mirror something catching her eye. She suddenly stopped and turned toward the glass, her eyes widening in surprise. Something was very different about the way she looked. Her arms were curved slightly, not straight and thin. Her stomach was flat, and tight, with definite six-pack definition. It reminded her of the stupid infomercials that were occasionally on television during the weekends. She pressed her index finger into her stomach testing her abs. Her stomach was definitely firm, and her arms were just sculpted perfectly for a female. She was muscularly toned and it was beautiful. The breath caught in her throat as she flexed slightly, bringing her arms in front of her like a female body builder. She arched her right brow for a moment as she turned her body to the side and checked out her backside in the mirror. A giggle escaped her throat, as she liked what she saw, this was completely incredible. Her curiosity got the best of her and she slowly brought her hand over to her side testing the firmness in her buttocks.
A sudden knock on the door caused her to jump yanking her hand away.
"Mary Jane?" Aunt May's voice called from outside the door.
"Yeah?" Mary Jane answered, not able to tear her eyes away from the mirror. Her mind was still trying to comprehend with what had just happened or…developed.
"Are you alright?"
"Uhh…," She looked down at herself. "I'm fine." She said looking back up at herself in the reflection of the mirror.
"Are you feeling better this morning, any change?" May asked worriedly still remaining outside the door respecting Mary Jane's privacy.
Mary Jane lifted a brow and smirked humorously at her little secret. "Yeah, big change."
"Well hurry up you're going to be late." May said a little worried as she retreated from the door.
"Right." Mary Jane said now realizing that she did have school that morning and couldn't miss the day just because she discovered that she hit a new form of puberty and defining muscles in a single night.
She ran a hand through her hair and walked over to the dresser near her bed to dress for school. Movement at the window next door caught her eye and she looked up and across the way. Peter Parker was getting ready for school himself, slipping on a t-shirt and running a brush through his hair. Mary Jane felt her eyes glued on him once again as she felt like she was going to be drooling over him any second. As he left his room, Mary Jane turned back towards the mirror a nervous smile appearing on her face. "Okay." She said softly.
Mary Jane ran down the stairs with a new set of energy and leapt up onto the wall gripping the banister and jumped down to the ground beside her Uncle Ben who was drinking his coffee with the morning paper in his hand.
"Goodness me!" Aunt May exclaimed watching Mary Jane.
Ben almost choked on his coffee and he looked up at Mary Jane with surprise.
"Geez, I thought you were sick." He said with a chuckle.
Mary Jane couldn't hide the smile that appeared on her face. Today would be a pretty good day; she could just feel it. "I got better." She started walking over to where she had dropped her backpack the previous day.
"See?" May said to Ben.
Mary Jane grabbed her jacket and her backpack. "Bye, guys." She said getting ready to head out.
"You haven't eaten anything, have you got your lunch money?" May asked.
"Yeah, I got it." Mary Jane replied checking her pockets for the change.
"Hey, Mighty Mouse. Don't forget we're painting the kitchen right after school, got it?"
"Sure thing, Uncle Ben. Don't start without me." She said slipping her jacket on and opening the door.
"And don't start up with me." Ben laughed. Mary Jane grinned and ran out the door off to the bus stop.
"Teenagers," Ben laughed looking to his wife and shaking his head. "Raging hormones, they never change."
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Just as Mary Jane was heading out of her house, Peter Parker was already rushing out of his with his drunken father at his heels.
"You're a loser! You'll never amount to anything just like your mother. You're trash and will always be trash!" He yelled.
Peter glanced back at his father with fury in his blue eyes. Tears were held up in his eyes and his fists were clenched.
"I have to get to school!" He snapped with a shaky voice. He sped walked away from his father as fast as he could.
"Ehh who's stopping ya." His father replied sarcastically going back into his house.
Mary Jane looked on in surprise, she never knew what Peter had to tolerate in his household. Sure she heard the yelling that sometimes took place in the Parker house but she never knew that his father would verbally abuse him like that. Slowly she trailed behind Peter as he stopped a little ahead of the bus stop. Mary Jane began to practice opening lines to talk to Peter nervously before she moved any closer.
"Hi, Peter." Mary Jane said meekly making sure that it wasn't within his hearing range. "Hey Peter." She said a little differently. "I don't know if you've realized this but we've uh.. been neighbors since I was six.." At this time a pack of Peter's buddies without Flash or Allison pulled up in a black convertible calling out to him. "And I was wondering if we could get together sometime and do something fun? Or I dunno, I thought it'd be kind of fun to get to know each other…" The convertible pulled away from the curb and sped off, Peter's look of anger having disappeared and having turned back to 'Mr. Popular'. "Or not." MJ said as she watched them go. Suddenly the bus sped past her on purpose, the students on the bus laughing. Dread set into Mary Jane with a groan as she took off from the curb and began running after the bus. The student's began in another uproar of laughter as they saw Peter chasing after the bus again.
"Stop the bus!" She called running closer to it. The taunting just began as always. She reached her hand to hit the side of the bus to get the driver's attention, even though he more than likely already knew that Mary Jane was running after the bus as always, and the strangest thing happened. The banner that was on the side of the bus tore off onto her hand. She stopped in a halt looking at the banner in a confused state and the bus left her there in the street. She began to shake her hand trying to get the banner off; it was like it had glue on it or something because the banner stuck to her hand. Err…actually it was that her hand stuck to the banner or something. She peeled it off her hand with a shake of her head. "Unreal." She muttered. She looked at her hand for a moment then realized that she had to get back to school before she was late.
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Gwen groaned as she looked at the clock. Where was her uncle at, she needed a ride to school and he hadn't shown up in the kitchen that morning. She walked through the hallways and slowly entered her uncle's bedroom. His room was pretty much like a sanctuary and she felt odd whenever she was present in his room. He'd have these weird masks hanging on the walls and when she was younger she was terrified of them. She walked in further and spotted her uncle lying on the floor. A gasp exited her throat as she ran forward to him.
"Uncle Norman!" She exclaimed grabbing onto his arm. He stirred waking up and was helped up to a sitting position. He looked around confused with his surroundings like he hadn't remembered even coming to his bedroom that night. "What are you doing on the floor?"
He seemed a little out of it, looking around slowly. "I don't know…"
"Have you been there all night?" Gwen asked worriedly.
"Last night I was…" He paused as a bright flash came before his eyes. He saw himself strapped up, only the whites of his eyes showing. "I don't remember…" He trailed off confused.
"Mr. Osborn!" A woman's voice called out as she rushed in. The butler was right in behind her trying to get her back outside of the room.
"Sir, I asked her to wait out in the fortei." (ack sorry I can't spell it)
"Sorry, my uncle's not feeling well at the-" Gwen began as she got up ready to intercept the secretary and send her out of the room. She moved around Gwen and stopped in front of Norman.
"Mr. Osborn, Dr. Stromm is dead." She said looking at her boss.
Panic flashed on Norman's face as he looked back at his employee. "What?"
"They found his body this morning in the lab. He's been murdered sir."
Slowly, Norman made his way to his feet. He couldn't accept what he was being told. "What are you talking about?" He demanded sincerely.
"And the flight suit and the glider…" She began reluctantly.
"What about it?" Norman asked feelings like things were about to get worse.
"It's been stolen sir…" She said looking him in the eyes. She was terrified to tell him this, she never wanted to be the bringer of bad news because she knew that with 'Stormin Norman's' temper he'd kill the messenger. However he didn't do anything. He just stood there in shock. Gwen looked over at her uncle in surprise, was he having a heart attack? This was just great…one great way to start out the day. Well Gwen was going to be late to school this morning but at least she had a good excuse as to why she would be…
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*Author * : Well that was the chapter, sorry if it was short but I've been on a schedule lately and I wasn't even planning on getting this chapter done tonight. I have to get their lines down perfectly, I'm a perfectionist at times, and it's a pain in the ass to me. College also takes up a lot of time and I'm behind on updates for my web page, lol. But at least I got this done!! Thank you for the wonderful reviews, I got more than I thought I would I really do appreciate every single one I get and I ready every review. So I'm going to reply to one of the ones I was given by Jamille: I don't know if I'm going to do a love thing with Norman/Green Goblin having something for Mary Jane or Spider-girl. It would be interesting though If I did do that wouldn't it? I'd have it in there gently if I did it. If anyone would find this interesting as well let me know in reviews ok?