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Zina, The Curious Girl
"She might be correct about your modesty," Zina says with a smile and unintentionally gives Peter time to try to come up with something to tell her.
"Well I'll not trouble you too much about it. Maybe you'll tell me what you know later. Perhaps after class." Peter lets out a breath of relief as Dr. Conners begins to speak again.
Zina then pulls a light blue folder out of her pile of books and other assorted knick-knacks as Peter takes a tape recorder from his backpack, places it on the table, and clicks the button to turn it on. After he finishes with that he leans back in his chair and spares a glance at Zina writing away.
He suddenly realizes how fast the pencil is moving and leans forward for a better look. The pencil is rushing over the paper so quickly that it is inscribing every single word that Dr. Conners is saying. His eyes open wider as he leans in further and further, and all of a sudden Peter loses his balance on the chair and plummets to the floor with a gigantic clatter that gets everyone to turn their heads to the source of the disturbance. Zina also turns around to look at him on the ground with a slightly puzzled expression. Dr. Conner's voice rings out shortly after that.
"Peter, are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine," Peter says as he gets up and sets his chair upright.
"Good. Well, back to our discussion."
"Very graceful, Peter," Zina whispers into his ear.
"I suppose so," he whispers back sarcastically.
She just smiles and shakes her head at him. She again continues with writing and Peter leans back in his chair again, closing his eyes and recalling the robbery this morning.
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The final bell rings, and the students are released for the day from their classes. Many file out as quickly as possible and are soon far away from the campus grounds.
Zina files out along with them but takes her time in leaving the grounds. She's about to leave when she remembers about Peter. She turns around to look for him, but after a few minutes of this she sighs, faces the other direction, and heads towards her home.
She walks along the busy streets of New York, observes the culture, and takes in all the scents around her while trying to avoid the exhaust smell. Zina then notices a newspaper dispenser and swiftly moves over to it. She places a quarter into the machine and takes out a paper with the headlines of Spider-man Causes Another Robbery.
"Isn't he supposed to be the hero?" she thinks aloud to herself.
"Don't believe everything J.J. says," a voice states right behind her causing her to jump a foot in the air. Zina quickly spins around to find none other than Peter Parker, smiling at her.
"Why you little…" she starts in a low voice while she clutches her heart, " are you trying to give me a heart attack, Peter?"
"No, just trying to warn you ahead of time," he says as he still smiles impishly at her.
"Well, thank you for that Peter, but next time don't scare me out of my wits while doing it."
"Sure."
"Well, anyway, Peter do you live around here?"
"No, actually, I was just going to visit my Aunt May in Queens."
"Oh, well that's quite nice."
"How about you, Zina? Do you live around here?"
"Yes, I do. A few blocks up from here in an apartment building called the Blue Flower.
"Ah."
"Oh, I remembered, I wanted to ask y…" she starts to ask but suddenly an alarm bell rings out shrilly making her cover her sensitive ears and close her eyes trying to will away the noise. She stays like that for a short time and then slowly opens them as she adjusts to the noise. When she does though, she finds that Peter has disappeared. She looks around wildly to find him; he's nowhere to be seen.
Zina is about to head off farther down the road when she hears shouts and cheers. She does a one- eighty. She sees a red and blue costumed person swinging on what appears to be webs and land in the middle of the robbers.
He swiftly takes down the first two men with a few kicks. Then as Zina walks up closer, he punches another man that comes at him with a gun. The last three go down with a few good flipping-kick combos. Suddenly he turns her way and for a second he looks straight at her before he launches a web onto a nearby building and swings off into the distance.
Apparently she was the only one who noticed that this spider was heading in the direction of Queens.
