*Author : Sorry this is kind of late or delayed, I've been busy with college and plus I'm fending off the body flu right now. So I apologize for the content of my story but here it is:
Disclaimer: Don't own it, never will, sorry, they belong to their respectable owners.*
Chapter 4: Just don't hit me
Somehow Mary Jane managed to make it to school in time. No one seemed to notice her just yet, she slipped by the large groups in the hallway of people talking and no one really gave her a second glance. She stopped at her locker and placed her backpack on the floor and opened it up after taking the lock off. After pulling out some folders she saw a pair of feet stop by on the other side of her locker door beside her. She closed the door and saw Flash Thompson standing in front of her. 'Ohh…crap!' Mary Jane thought with dread as she saw the caveman stand there in silence.
"Watson…. what happened to you?" He asked with widened eyes.
"U..h.. uh.. Um…I…woke up this morning and it was like that?" Mary Jane groaned in her mind at her response. Lame, lame, lame. She was almost ready to kick herself for her unintelligent statement that turned into a confused question.
"No, I don't think so. That doesn't just happen. You're hair is like…not greasy anymore…no glasses and you seem like you actually got some kind of a tan overnight. Now that ain't possible!" Flash said demanding an answer from her.
She would have felt scared normally that the High School quarterback was standing in front of her looking like he was going to fall and smash her to bits but for some reason she didn't feel the slightest bit of fear.
"Maybe it was aliens," A slight nasal voice said from behind them. She turned and saw Alvin, another school nerd standing near the lockers looking at Flash and Mary Jane. "It was possible she got abducted and they ran weird tests on her and made her from nerd to norm." He said pushing his glasses up against his face. He carried a thick textbook in his arms that was faced up entitled: "We aren't alone in this universe". Mary Jane groaned, she didn't believe in abductions and with Alvin suggesting it to Flash, they could start a whole new embarrassing rumor about Mary Jane.
"Yeah! Yeah! That's right, Mary-Janey-brainey, was abducted by aliens and they ran a bunch of tests on her like probing and made her "look" normal." Flash sneered down at Mary Jane. Alvin gulped, not wanting Flash to turn his torment onto him and sped off. Mary Jane slammed her locker door shut.
"Oh please. I know you don't believe in that stuff anymore than I do. You just want to start a vicious rumor to spread with Allison to torment me even further than you two already do. Please move." Mary Jane said, as she wanted to get to class. Flash just kept in his spot and glared down at her.
"Make me." He said in a dark voice.
Mary Jane really didn't have any time for this so she tried to go around him. He quickly moved back into her way. She tried to dodge to the other side of him as well but he moved into her way once more. She felt her anger boil in her, she was so tired of putting up with this sort of thing. She grabbed for his right arm, seizing hold of his limb and tugged him as hard as she could out of her way. Flash's eyes went wide as he was quickly moved aside and fell into the lockers hard with a loud crash. Mary Jane didn't seem to notice this somehow as she went straight onward to class. However a few students that walked by seem to spot Flash lying against the bottom lockers, the metal dented with his imprint of his back.
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"Someone slammed Flash into the lockers this morning? That's impossible. That guy is like the biggest oaf on campus." Gwen said to Peter, as the teacher looked the other way for the moment. Gwen shared and English Lit class with Peter, and the two were paired up for some kind of essay brainstorming.
"Yeah, I was going to stop by my locker to grab my bag for basketball practice this morning and Flash was lying against them unconscious. After I got him to the nurse's office and he woke up I tried to ask him what happened but he wouldn't say a word about it." Peter said worriedly. The thought of someone being able to beat the tar out of Flash disturbed him. Sure Flash was an ass, but even he didn't deserve to get knocked out senseless against the lockers.
"It's about time someone gave that jerk what he deserved." Gwen mumbled as she glanced down at her essay with a crude smile.
"What was that?" Peter glanced over raising a brow in suspicion.
"Er…I said I wonder what he did to deserve it." Gwen lied, her face flushing a little. Peter didn't exactly believe her but he let it go as he returned to his essay. "So what are you doing for prom?" Gwen said changing the subject.
"Probably taking Allison." He said not looking up from his paper. His blue eyes cold but not directed at Gwen.
"Do you really like her? I mean…really…Allison Perry. She's not really a nice girl…" She said trying to put it as delicate as she could. He looked up suddenly with a frown.
"No offense Gwen, but that really isn't any of your business." He replied in a stern voice.
She held up her hands in defense. "I'm sorry, it just slipped out I swear."
"Right. So what about you? You and your friends have anything planned?" He said adding to the "pleasant conversation".
Gwen laughed slightly, pressing the eraser against her paper harshly with a slight tear. "That night I have to attend some boring party my uncle is throwing for the stiffs in his company. Y'know, be the beautiful girl that accompanies him and entertains the guests. As for my friend MJ, she never goes to those social things and I know for a fact that she'd never go to the prom. A guy won't ask her, they never do." She said the last sentence not to put her close friend down but rather in sadness feeling bad for her friend.
"There's nothing really wrong with Mary Jane. She's just…" He trailed off trying to think of the word.
"The school nerd." Gwen blurted.
"I didn't want to put it into those words exactly…but that's why people try to avoid her. Although I don't think it's all too fair on her." Gwen nodded not knowing what to say after that.
"Alright everyone turn in their rough draft of their essays." The teacher said walking to the front of the classroom. Gwen shot a look at Peter suddenly.
"I thought we were just brainstorming." Gwen whispered. Peter glanced over with widened eyes and shrugged knowing his grade was going to go down once again…
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Mary Jane sat alone at the middle table of the lunchroom, as usual. She gloomily munched on her french-fries drenched in ketchup going over the earlier days events. People had been saying odd comments and put-downs all day to her. The teachers even asked her if she had started using a different shampoo that made her hair actually look clean. She crumbled one of the french-fries in her hand with a grumble.
Why did everybody there have to be such a jerk to her? She glanced up slightly and saw her friend Gwen walk in. Gwen slowly looked around for a place to sit; Mary Jane reached her hand up and waved trying to get her attention.
"Sit here, Gwen." Some girl called near the door. Gwen smiled and took her tray and sat down near her. Mary Jane sighed wondering if Gwen even saw her. So far this day was going by pretty shitty, what could possibly make it worse?
Her spirits suddenly rose when she saw Peter Parker coming her way, he held his tray in front of him and glanced to Mary Jane just for a second and gave a slight smile and kept going. A strange buzzing about her mind caused her attention to be caught by a puddle lying on the ground near her table the color of someone's juice. It was all-just in that second that she realized what was going to happen. However Peter didn't seem to notice it and kept walking, his foot catching on the puddle. His smile then evaporated into a look of surprise as he flung his tray up and began to fall. Mary Jane sprung to her feet faster than the eye could catch and reached out for him before he could fall to the ground. She grabbed on of his shoulders holding him up and held out her other hand catching the tray, his food items he had purchased landing neatly into place.
'Whoa, totally awesome!' Mary Jane thought as it just hit her as to what she had just done.
Peter pulled back suddenly with his tray and looked at Mary Jane in shock and silence. Finally he spoke up to her. "Thanks. You know you have great reflexes, you should have gone out for some kind of sport." He said earnestly to her.
She was only able to blush with a smile as she stared into his eyes. 'Peter, you have the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen.' She thought, feeling like she was going to melt into place. "Your eyes…they're a very beautiful shade of blue-green. I've…never noticed before. Did you just get contacts?" He asked. Mary Jane couldn't speak. 'You'd never be able to guess what really happened. A spider bit me yesterday and I feel and look great. I can also see without my glasses. Thank you, Peter. You have very beautiful eyes too, amongst other assets as well. Would you ever consider dating me? Ever?' Millions of thoughts ran through her mind all at once just urging for her to reply but the only thing that did happen was for a goofy grin to appear on her face.
Peter laughed, thinking that she was just making a joke out of it. "Ok…well see you around ok?" He said and turned walking away, over to the table where Allison, Flash and their buddies sat.
It finally sunk in that she once again acted like the idiot she was and Mary Jane sulked down into her seat. She lifted up her arm for a moment ready to reach over for another French-fry and noticed that a fork was stuck against her hand. 'What the hell?'
She wrapped her fingers around and began to pull it from her hand, but something was attached to it that was holding it rather tightly to her wrist. She tugged harder and the fork began to pull way, a white looking type of string pulling from her wrist attached to the fork. She blinked her eyes wondering what the hell it was. As she ripped the fork from her wrist, the silk-like string shot out at the tray at the next table in front of her. Mary Jane's eyes widened largely as it came pulling back. In reflex, she ducked her head before it hit her and heard it collide into someone behind her. She heard soft laughter, and the groaning of her fellow students all around her. She dared to peek a sneak behind her and regretted it as soon as she did. Allison Perry was now wearing Liz Allen's lunch. As if from reflex, Mary Jane shot up to her feet and began her descent from the lunchroom. She could hear the tray dragging behind her with the string still attached to her wrist.
"Watson?!" She heard Allison yell from far behind her. Mary Jane sped up and out of the lunchroom. However she didn't even get two feet until she was yanked back against the doors. Her lunch tray didn't seem to make it out of the room and was being pulled up unsuccessfully against the doors keeping her in place. With a final yank, Mary Jane freed herself from the sticky string and walked as fast as she could down the hallway. She soon heard the doors slam as Allison came rushing into the hallway after MJ. She stood at her lockers and at that moment she seemed to hear the sound of Allison's fist rushing to hit her. It was as if her mind was buzzing with a sense of warning and it caused Mary Jane to whirl about and evade the hit. Allison's hand slammed into Mary Jane's locker, and she screeched with pain as she drew her hand to her with a whimper. Students began to file into the hallway excited to see Allison pummel Mary Jane. Gwen and Peter emerged from the cafeteria walking after Allison with worriment.
"Hey, it was just an accident, Allison." Peter said trying to calm his girlfriend down.
"I'll claw out her eyes, then we'll see what a real accident is!" Allison yelled, glaring at Mary Jane in pure hatred with milk running down her forehead. A few students began to laugh, muffled by their hands pressed tightly against their mouths.
Mary Jane circled away, knowing that it would be only a few seconds before Allison ripped her to shreds. "Really, Allison. I didn't mean it. I don't want to fight you." Mary Jane said trying to avoid this in all costs.
"I wouldn't want to fight me, either. You should have really thought about that before you hit me with that lunch tray. You're supposed to be a brainiac but I see you are nothing but a retard!" Allison yelled and ran at her. Allison began swinging out at her, trying to get a hold of anything that she could reach. With ease Mary Jane was able to dodge each assault given by Allison. Mary Jane whirled around her with speed, appearing on the other side of her. She could see the surprise on the other student's faces as she dodged even more attempts from Allison. Two girls suddenly pushed their way forward trying to grab for Mary Jane to hold her into place.
"Gwen, you're her friend. Go help her before Allison really hurts her." Peter said quickly.
The two girls dove at Mary Jane, and she quickly leapt into the air with a back flip and landed on the other side of them.
"Um…I think she doesn't need any help." Gwen said humorously.
"She's all yours." One of Allison's friends muttered before they moved away to let Allison finish the so-called fight. With a scream Allison shot forward swinging her hands at Mary Jane's face to tear her skin. Simply with each dive Mary Jane was able to move from side to side inhumanly. Allison finally threw her fist at Mary Jane as hard as she could and Mary Jane bent backwards as if she was the most limber human in the world. She could see both Gwen and Peter watching her in shock. Mary Jane shot back up quickly, bringing her head up at Allison, head butting her. Allison's eyes went wide in pain as she stumbled back slightly. As the shock wore off she swung once more at Mary Jane in mistake. Mary Jane caught her arm and began to twist it back; Allison began to cry in pain trying to yank her arm back. Mary Jane finally whipped Allison aside, and the girl slid an odd fifteen feet from her colliding into the legs of a teacher, another lunch tray dropping on her head. Startled gasps sounded around Mary Jane as everyone looked at her in disbelief.
Peter shot a look of fear at Mary Jane before he walked as fast as he could away from her.
"God, Mary Jane! That was completely amazing!" Gwen said rushing to her side.
One of Allison's friends turned to face Mary Jane with a look of disgust. "Man, you really are a freak, Mary Jane." She said before she went running down the hall to help Allison. Mary Jane looked down at her hands in shock, not able to take what she had just done. With that, she turned around and ran down the other side of the hall, trying to get away as fast as she could.
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(Author: Ok I know that sucked, sorry, but we all have to get past the high school experiences, anyways is it good, is it bad? More to come)