Chapter 3:
When she finally got to school, Ala went straight to class and found out she was ten minutes late even though she had gone pretty fast even with the "small" delay.
"Ala, your late, this is so unlike you!" said her science teacher when she came in.
"Sorry, missed the bus." said Ala sitting down at her seat.
"We're working on blood types today." said her teacher handing her a worksheet. Ala practically fainted. "Ala, are you okay?" asked her teacher. Ala managed a nod.
"Yeah, all that running to school wore me out, that's all." said Ala. On class mate named Dave gave her a worried look. Ala had always thought he was kind of cute, but seeing him look at her made her even sicker.
"Okay, does any body know what blood type they are?" her teacher faced her, and Ala almost had a heart attack.
"Blood type A." was all she could manage to say, her teacher nodded and asked several more students, two were O and the majority were A or B.
After class and school in which no one jabbed a needle into her, or shouted "Not one of us" at Ala, she started to walk over to the car circle.
"Hey!" said Clover when she saw Ala walking over to her. Ala was pretty much doing that out of habit, because she was lost in thought.
"Oh, hi!" said Ala looking at Clover surprised. "What's up?" said Ala trying to stall, so it would be a few more minutes before she had to get into her car.
"Nothing, hey! Did you hear about that girl who was seen crawling out of a window? She stuck to the wall like Spider-man!" said Clover, Ala was getting ready to leave now as soon as possible.
"No, ah, sounds cool." said Ala and Clover looked at her curiously.
"Wow, usually you're a lot more interested in anything dealing with Spider-man." said Clover giving her a strange look.
"Yeah, well got to go!" said Ala waving and ran over to her mom's car before Clover could stop her.
"Oh, bye!" she heard Clover shout after her. Opening the car door Ala swung her book bag behind her chair.
"Hey Ala." said her mom, Ala could hear no hint of anything in her mom's words, she wanted to shout and dance wildly.
"Hi mom." said Ala buckling her seat belt. "Wasn't dad supposed to pick me up?" she asked getting a little worried.
"I'm sorry, he was to busy working." said her mom looking away to signal a turn.
"Oh." said Ala trying to hide her extreme sadness by looking out the window. They drove home in silence, and Ala went up to her room without being stopped. "That was almost to easy." said Ala out loud. But she had a feeling when her dad got home, it wouldn't be any more.
She was right, as sone as he got home, Peter called his daughter down, still dreading this whole thing, Ala came down after stuffing her mask in her pocket. She sat down on the same couch she had sat on when her dad used to go out and she would sit and wait for him for hours, but that was before he started getting home later and later, and stopped spending so much time with her.
"Ala, I have to ask you something." said Peter, MJ was leaning against the doorway listening and watching.
"Yes dad?" said Ala, she wanted just to start saying "Yes! It was me!." over and over, but there was still hope that it was something else.
"Why aren't you wearing glasses?" her dad asked and she almost laughed, it was a serious question, but at least there was more hope now, or so it seemed to her, she knew her dad didn't wear glasses, her mind flicked to another thought though, maybe he didn't wear glasses because he was Spider-man now. She gulped.
"Don't need them any more, I guess I really didn't need them and now I just use them for reading." said Ala, of course the reading thing was a lie, but what else could she do?
"Hm." said her dad, she could tell he was deep in thought, she was getting more scared by the minute.
Peter's view:
"Now what do I say?" asked Peter in his thoughts, he had tested Ala's blood and found active Spider genes like his in it. He was now trying to find a way to get his daughter to admit she knew about it if she knew herself. From there to, he didn't know where to go.
After a pause her dad continued.
"Ala, is there anything you want to tell me?" asked her dad, Ala gulped for about the tenth time today.
"I, ah, um..." said Ala flicking her eyes back and forth, from the floor and her dad.
"Tiger..." she heard her mom say to her dad, but he gave her a shushing motion and kept his eyes on Ala.
"Come on, you can tell me." he said and sat down next to her. Okay, now this was probably the hardest thing she had to ever do. Thought Ala.
"Um, what are you talking about?" asked Ala trying to stay calm as her heart raced. She had found that her heart seemed to beat faster now, she sure hoped that wouldn't shorten her life span or something.
Peter's view:
"How do I get her to admit it now? Well I guess this is the only way..."
Suddenly her dad jumped high in the air, Ala got this tingly feeling she had gotten when almost being hit by the car, she ducked just in time to avoid being kicked by him. He landed in Spider position.
"What was that for!" shouted Ala, she was scared out of her mind, she never had yelled at her dad or mom before.
"Sorry, I had to know if you had a spidy sense." said her dad, now Ala knew there was nothing else to do but tell him the truth.
"Ala, I made a cure and your going to take it." said Peter pulling out a vial from his pocket full of clear liquid. Ala almost fainted from surprise at what her dad was saying.
"No dad." said Ala shaking her head and walking backwards, she hid behind her mom.
"Peter, what if she doesn't want to take it? You shouldn't force her." said her mom, Ala blinked and smiled gratefully.
"She has to." said her dad, her smile faded. She shook her head again.
"No dad!" yelled Ala and ran out the door and as fast as she could, she ran into the city in a daze at what had just accord.
Back at the house:
"Peter!" said Mary Jane angrily stamping her foot and glaring at him. Peter was standing dumb founded watching his daughter run as far as she could away from the house. "I can't believe you!"
"I'll go get her." said Peter pulling on his mask and revealing his costume as he took of his shirt and pants.
"Your not going to make her take that are you!" said MJ still shocked at her husbands behavior.
"No, I think its clear that she won't take it." said Peter tossing the bottle across the room, it rolled lazily under the couch.
"Thank god tiger." said Mary Jane smiling now "At first I thought you had plain lost it!"
"I just didn't want her to get hurt." said Peter opening the door, which had swung closed with the wind.
"Well almost kicking her in the face would have hurt her!" said Mary Jane almost laughing with anger and worry.
"It was the only way I could be sure, she wasn't going to tell me." said Peter, he ran out the door as Spider-man, after his daughter to bring her home safely.
Ala's view:
"Well here I am, on some random roof with no where to go." I cocked my head staring over the edge of the roof I was on, then pulled my head back. "Wait, I can go visit Jane! What a good idea!" I swung off, hoping I hope I'm going the right way.
Ala found herself at Jane's apartment in a matter of minutes. She jumped down on the roof and pulled on her regular clothes, and took of her mask after making sure there was no one there, and that no one could see her from below. She went down the middle stair case to the apartment and knocked lightly on the door. She waited for Jane to answer. Instead Jane's mom did, she was very pretty like Ala's mom, but had light blond hair.
"Oh, hi Ala!" said Jane's mom smiling and letting her in.
"Hi, I just wanted to say hi to Jane." said Ala smiling back.
"How nice of you! You kind of remind me of your dad you know?" said Jane's mom kind of drifting into her own thoughts.
"Wait a sec, you know my dad?" asked Ala now curious.
"Yes, we didn't have more than a friendship though."said Jane's mom "It's like you mom and dad are made for each other. Now don't forget the reason you came here."
"Oh right!" said Ala and walked over to Jane's room. "Hi." said Ala walking in.
"Hi Ala!" said Jane jumping up from where she was watching her tv. Inuyasha was on, it was on one of Jane's taped videos, Ala started watching it. "What are you doing here?" asked Jane, Ala snapped back to the world around her. Ala usually didn't come over unless invited.
"Oh, got bored, and also having some small family troubles." said Ala very quietly. Jane was confused, usually it was Clover with the family issues.
"So, what's up?" asked Jane sitting down on a black bean bag she had in the center of the room. Ala sat down on the floor next to her.
"Nothing." said Ala a little to quickly.
"Right." said Jane dragging out the word. "So then, did you finally stop crying after I gave you the figurine yesterday?" asked Jane turning off the tv with her remote.
"Yeah." said Ala curtly.
"Okay." said Jane. "Ah, is there something wrong with the subjects of life and super heros?" asked Jane chuckling.
"No, but lets just talk about something else anyways." said Ala.
"Okay, what about the subject of school? Will you bite my head off if I asked you what the weekends homework assignments are?" asked Jane giggling, she normally wasn't so hyper. Even though Ala was not up to talking just then, she was still wondering what was up with her.
"No that would be fine." said Ala laughing along with her.
"Your unusually good natured today." pointed out Ala who was stretched out over Jane's books and telling Jane what problems she had to do and explaining the ones she didn't get.
"Yeah, guess. I just am for no reason." said Jane shrugging "You've been in a horrible mood." Ala was actually having fun now, so she answered happily.
"Yep!" said Ala, Jane about laughed herself to death.
"Your so weird!" said Jane still laughing.
"Have you looked in a mirror lately?" asked Ala smartly, causing Jane to almost pee her pants in laughter.
"Think you've been hanging with your dad lately to much. Mom told me she used to know him as a friend, and he was pretty funny." explained Jane swirling her pencil around. "She also told me that she had been rescued by Spider-man before, isn't that neat?" asked Jane, Ala nodded.
"Yeah, sounds cool, but being rescued by Spider-man most have been a whole lot better!" said Ala laughing, she knew she was talking about the same person, but still, it was funny to Jane.
"I don't know, your parents are pretty cool." said Jane pushing her homework aside.
"Your mom's cool too." said Ala, Jane smiled.
"Hey, do you want to go to the mall with me?" asked Jane standing up.
"Yeah sure!" said Ala standing up too and stretching.