Dear Diary

Vivien Nimue

Author's Note: Hello and welcome to the (longer) chapter two.

Liz's Diary

Entry deux.

Monday

Dear Diary,

I woke up really late for school this morning, and so I was too late to catch the school bus and had to drive myself to the stupid university (thank goodness for my car).

Luckily there wasn't much traffic so I got to Columbia University in good(ish) time and was able to meet up with M.J and Sally (another pal) on the steps along with the rest of our bio class.

'Hey' I whispered as I caught up with them. Mr Sullivan was watching us so it was best not to talk too loudly.

'Miss the bus again?' Sally asked grinning.

'Yup,' I replied. M.J smiled and rolled her eyes, I always was kinda hopeless when it came to time.

'Oh look here comes Flash.'

Flash Thompson (my ex) and Mary Jane's current boyfriend was coming over to join us with his cronies tagging along as usual. (If you wondering why we spilt up the answer is simple, he may be good looking but BOY is he annoying.)

I half think M.J is only going out with him because he's the only guy her horrid father will approve of.

As I turned to avoid the hideous sight of Flash I noticed Harry and his father Norman talking to Peter Parker. Parker is this total nerd who spends most of his time giving M.J these freaky 'I'm TOTALLY obsessed with you' looks, not that she has ever noticed. I watched Harry out of the corner of my eye for a few seconds, before following M.J up the university steps.

We followed Mr Sullivan into a white sterilised looking corridor, the walls of which were lined with paintings of famous scientists. What's more the acoustics rocked, we had an excuse not to hear a word that Mr Sullivan said.

M.J and I turned to examine a picture of Isaac Newton as the rest of our class dispersed randomly around the room.

'Nice wig,' I laughed pointing at said painting 'it looks like it's trying to eat his head.'

M.J rolled her eyes,

'He did discover gravity though.'

'Ahhhh, so he escaped the wig of doom.' M.J grinned, as to my astonishment Peter Parker approached. M.J turned and beamed at him, but he didn't say anything, he just starred at her (reminding me of some king of bottled reptile) and then scurried off again.

'Weird.' Muttered M.J.

'Yes, Peter Parker, perhaps Midtown High's only professional wallflower.' I replied sarcastically. M.J smiled again.

'Flower?' Demanded a booming voice as Flash appeared in front of us (well appeared as in arrived, he's not Merlin or anything). He put his arm around M.J, gave me a quick 'look what your missing out on' look and then steered M.J away. I followed behind then feeling rather sick.

Mr Sullivan (now joined by a tour guide) led us into the Columbia Genetic Research Institute. It was a very large room, with a very high ceiling and full of scientific equipment.

We were shown around by a thin black haired woman. Unfortunately though I found spiders both…

A) Boring and

B) Creepy.

As the guide droned on about groups and species, our class sort of milled around pretending to be interested. The tour lasted for ages, and all the way through M.J (who was still with Flash) kept shooting me these 'get him away from me' glances.

I felt really sorry for her, but then again she should just dump him. Our tour was bored some more and then we finally reached a bit that was actually pretty interesting. The guide set about telling us about how Columbia had created these sort of mutant spiders using DNA from other erm, non-mutant spiders.

M.J (who was totally into the gross spider thing) set about counting to them.

'Disgusting' she muttered, however she sounded more enthralled than repulsed. However to my disgust Harry Osborn walked over to her and began trying his hardest to flirt with her. BANG JEALOUS BANG.

The guide continued to blab on about these 15 mutant spiders when M.J interrupted her.

'Fourteen.' She said abruptly.

'I beg your pardon?' Asked the tour guide.

'One of them's missing.' M.J explained.

'Well, I guess the researchers are working on that one.'

I hoped the guide was right, I didn't particularly want to meet a mutant spider.

As the tour continued M.J stayed behind to examine the wretched spiders more closely. I watched dully as Peter Parker began to take some photos of her 'for the school paper' he couldn't make his feelings for her any more if he tried.

'M.J come on!' I called, after what felt like a month. She gave Parker a quick grin and then followed after me,

'I'm coming Liz.'

The rest of the tour was basically boredom with a capital 'B', when it was finally time to go home I was practically asleep. And I still have to write a paper on it all!

Author's Note: Erm I don't own Spiderman (obviously) some information for this chapter came from the Spiderman movie novelisation and the comics of course.

And TalesMN you are correct there is NOWHERE near enough Harry/Liz or even Harry fics out there, this should definitely be rectified. (Grins)