Chapter 2:
Ala noticed a small material shop as she was walking home.
"Um, should a buy some material for a costume or tell my parents first?" she asked to her self in her head. Making a decision was hard, but finally she went inside. Buying some black and dark blue fabric with her months allowance, which wasn't all that much, Ala ran the rest of the way home.
Walking up the stairs she saw her mom and dad talking, not really paying any attention to what they were saying she heard only a little of what they were talking about.
"Okay Tiger.....do you think?" she heard her mom ask with a worried tune in her voice.
"I don't know. The..we...be positive." she heard her dad answer and then continued up to her room.
"Is that why she was so sick?" asked Mary Jane after they heard Ala's door shut.
"Maybe, that's what happened to me. If what you say is true, she doesn't seem to need her glasses any more either." said Peter rubbing his eyes wearily. "In a way, I hope she doesn't. I don't want her to have to deal with the down side of having these powers." he said looking at his hands.
"Yes, but look at the bright sides." said MJ and scooted her chair closer to him.
Ala took out a needle and thread and setting is aside she took out a piece of paper and started to draw, she had never really drawn all that much before, and was amazed at how good she was. After that she took the rest of the night to stitch it together. She finally fell asleep and had the weirdest dream of her life...
She was swinging with her dad holding her, and just as they were heading home, she started changing into a giant spider her dad couldn't hold, she was falling and falling....
"Ala, wake up." she heard her mom say far away. "Your going to miss the bus." Ala slowly opened her eyes and saw her mom looking in at her from the doorway.
"Okay mom, have a good day at work." she said waving good-bye as she sat up. She grabbed her costume from up in her closet and following in her fathers footsteps put the costume on under her regular clothes. She ran outside to get to the bus before it left. "Wait!" she cried as the doors to the bus closed and the bus took of with Ala standing in the dust once again. "Thanks a lot!." she shouted after the bus sticking out her tongue out at the departing bus. She walked to school on foot.
"Hi Ala, what's up?" asked Jane seeing Ala at her locker and coming over.
"Nothing." she said thinking how wrong that word was to describe finding out you had super powers like your dad and not knowing who to tell, or if you should tell, she felt more like bursting everything out right there and now, but knew she couldn't.
"Well Ala Parker, I'm sure then you wouldn't mind coming over after school then." said Jane smiling. She always called Ala, Ala Parker in she was in a goofy, fun-loving mood. Ala smiled.
"Sure." said she said, maybe then she could tell them what was really up, or thinking about how that could affect her friendship with Jane or put her dad in jeopardy she shook the thought out of her head.
"Okay, and you better come to." said Jane "I still have to give you your birthday present." Ala's birthday had been about a month ago.
"You don't have to give me anything!" said Ala surprised that Jane still remembered about that.
"Op, but I do." said Jane and waved as she left for her class when the bell rang. After an uneventful day of school, Ala walked over to her mom's car.
"Can I go to Jane's?" asked Ala standing outside the open car door and looking back over at Jane, who was waiting for the answer.
"Sure. If you want, for the whole day?" asked her mom, her hair was pulled up in a pony tail and had a little stage makeup on her face. Ala loved the was her mom was so pretty.
"Yeah." said Ala nodding. "Thank you! I'll let myself in when I get home." said Ala smiling happily.
"Okay, love you!" said her mom. Ala smiled.
"Love you to." she said and shut the door. She walked back over to Jane to tell her she could go as her mom drove off.
"Cool, okay lets go." said Jane smiling. After they got to Jane's apartment they did their home work together and were happy to only have a little of it for that day. "Hey, where are your glasses?" asked Jane, finally noticing that Ala didn't have them on, or any where near her.
"Don't need them." said Ala looking away and over to the window, she didn't want to lie again like she had done to Clover.
"Awesome." said Jane and whistled. "Wish diseases and cancer, and other stuff could do that to." said Jane and smiled "Then maybe the world would be a happier place." she shook her head and laughed a little "Or maybe if crime would vanish." Ala gulped she had a sudden sinking feeling for no reason every time someone said the "c" word.
"Well, I got to go." said Ala looking at the clock over Jane's bed.
"Oh! Wait, your present!" said Jane and got up, walking over to her closet, she started flinging things out searching for something. A pair of underwear went flying past Ala's head, and Ala started laughing hysterically. "Here it is!" said Jane pulling something out of the closet. It was a small little box, with a bow on the top. "I wanted to go get wrapping, but I ran out of time." said Jane handing the box to Ala.
"Thank you. You really didn't have to get me anything." said Ala smiling she opened the box and inside was a little spider-man figurine.
"I didn't know what to get you at first, but then I remember how much you seem to like Spider-man so I got this." said Jane smiling and watching Ala's reaction. Ala was shocked, then happy, and now her eyes were welling up with tears for no reason.
"Thank you so much!" said Ala and hugged her friend crying softly. She had felt separated from her dad since his job had gotten so busy, but now she had something to comfort her when she was missing her dad.
"You welcome, don't cry it's just a small toy." said Jane getting wigged out that Ala was crying for no reason.
"Okay, thank you." said Ala pulling back and whipping the tears away. " I got to go, see you tomorrow!" said Ala waving good-bye and walking out of the room.
Once Ala got home she set the figurine on her desk and sat on her bed. She missed how her dad used to come in every night and how he spent time talking to her about her day and his, which was more exciting, then how her mom would come in and join them.
"Ah, well, might as well go to sleep." said Ala and closed her eyes, her last thought before she fell asleep was that she hoped she didn't have that awful dream again. Ala slipped asleep, she was in her science class in her dream now.
"Ala!" she heard her dream science teacher say, it was cloudy in her head but she could make it out. "We're going to test your blood to see what blood type you are." said her teacher and was suddenly holding a needle right above Ala's arm.
"Ah!" screamed Ala as her dream teacher jabbed the needle in and took blood from her. Withdrawing the needle and then looking at it, her teacher glared at her.
"Your not one of us!" the teacher shouted and her class mates looked straight at her. "You have part Spider DNA!" yelled her teacher.
"Not one of us, not one of us." chanted her class mates.
"No!" yelled Ala as loud as she could, she woke up in the night and few minutes later heard foot steps outside of her door.
"Ala, are you okay?" her dad was at the door.
"Dad? Oh, I had a bad dream, I'm okay." said Ala grateful to see her dad coming to her rescue, and to know he still cared about her.
"Okay." said her dad coming in her room. "Do you want to talk about it?" he asked sitting next to her and tickling her lightly. She laughed. Her dad smiled and his blue eyes seemed to twinkle.
"No, it was kind of weird and I actually don't remember what happened." said Ala shrugging her shoulders. She looked away and gazed out her window.
"Okay, hey, I'll pick you up tomorrow if you want." said her dad and Ala looked at him shocked.
"Really? Wow!" said Ala still utterly shocked. He smiled and Ala hugged him tightly.
"Well, sleep good sweety." said Peter hugging her back and getting up. "If you want you can sleep in our bedroom."
"No, I'm okay, thanks though!" said Ala "Love you!" Ala managed to hear her dad tell her he loved her, and then she fell back asleep.
"Is she okay Peter?" asked MJ when he came back to the bedroom.
"Yeah, I just wish I didn't have to have done that." said Peter looking at the needle filled with his daughters blood.
"Tiger, you had to." said MJ "Now lets get some sleep." she patted the right side of the bed and Peter walked over and laid down still upset about hurting his daughter and causing her to have a nightmare, at least that's what he thought because she woke up just as he left the room screaming.
"Goodnight MJ." said Peter pulling the covers over himself and wrapping his arm around her.
"Goodnight Tiger." said Mary Jane and flicked off the lights.
Ala was sleeping soundly until she felt pain in her arm. She got up and silently went into the bathroom that was across from her room. Turning on the lights, she looked down at her arm. There was a little bit of dried blood on it and a small puncture wound.
Waking up a little before normally, Ala got dressed and put her costume underneath like before and stashed her mask in her back pack.
"Ala!" said her mom who was now at the door. "Oh! Your up! Good, the bus is almost here." said her mom smiling. Ala smiled back. "I got to go now, love you sweety!"
"Okay, love you too, have a good day at work." said Ala watching as her mom smiled and walked past her door. Ala glanced at her arm, she shivered at the sight of the puncture she had found the night before. She grabbed her bag and ran down stairs after the bus. "Oh, come on!" she shouted at the bus as it left with out her for the third day in a row. When she got to the main city, she decided to take a short cut by dashing into a alley and taking off her top lair of clothes to reveal her costume and climbed up the wall after pulling on her mask. Her mask had two eye holes, and the whole costume was poorly made, but it would do.
She reached the top and gazed around, trying to stay away from the edge she jumped from roof to roof until she was about a block from her school. She was standing on a deserted building that had a old sign that read Oscorp Inc. Ducking down, she started backing up so she could get a good leap to the next building.
"Mhahaha!" she heard some one laugh from below her. She started getting curious to why some one was in a deserted building laughing evilly.
"Well, I guess I'll be late, but with a welcome call like that, all well." she said out loud to herself and grinned under her mask. Taking off the top of a vent she saw beneath her, she climbed down the sheer drop with her ability to stick to the walls. Coming to the other side she opened up the vent quietly she swung it out, and squeezed through with her back pack, and stuck to the ceiling looking around.
"It's time to get revenge, your ready!" she heard someone say and swirled around on the ceiling. There was a man about the age of her dad staring into a mirror and talking to himself, he was kind of handsome, he had dark brown hair, and a slender body.
"Revenge?" thought Ala. "On who?"
"Peter will pay!" he said and Ala almost fell off the ceiling with shock. "What was that?" he said whirling around and looking at ground level. "It was nothing you fool." he said as if speaking to someone else impatiently.
"That was close." thought Ala, she spotted a cat walking around below her. "No, I'm allergic to cats!" she thought trying not to breath. "Acho!" she sneezed loudly and saw the weird person after her dad whip around and this time look straight at her.
She jumped down and made a dash for a window that was to her right, opening it she crawled outside and up. "Hey!" she heard him shout. "Get him!" she heard him say more gruffly. "I'm trying!" it sounded as if he was more than one person. "Harry he's getting away!" the he in that made Ala stop climbing up and wait for him to appear at the window.
"SHE!" she shouted right in his ear so loud, that he almost fell out the window. She hurriedly crawled over the rim of the building to the top.
Jumping over to the next building, she sneaked a peek at the ground. People were pointing at her and talking to other people excitedly. "Oh, just what I need. Now dad's going to know for sure, and how do I explain that and that some person named Harry is after him for revenge for god knows why!" she shook her head to clear it then ducked back away from the edge. She had, had her blue back pack the whole time, luckily though, a lot of people had that same kind.
She took off her mask and pulled on her regular clothes. Dashing down the fire escape she headed for school.