Chapter Three – The Dance

Peter's POV: The next morning I woke up to the bright sunlight, I looked over at my alarm clock for the time. It was 10:08 AM. I sat up and swung my legs off the bed. I yawned and stretched my arms above my head. I blinked a couple of times before standing up.

I stayed up way to late last night practicing shooting my webbing. I was actually very good at it now. I took a shower and then slipped on some clothes and ruffled my hair a little and didn't bother fixing it. I put on shoes and then I walked out of my room and down stairs. I sat down at the table.

I yawned loudly and Aunt May came in looking worried.

"Did you stay up too late dear?"

I shook my head with my mouth still wide open in the yawn, "Just tired from the events of the week."

She nodded and took out a bowl and cereal and then set them next to me on the table. I sighed, "Aunt May, you don't have to serve me every minute of the day!"

She justsmiled warmly andleft to fetch the milk.

I leaned back in my chair and closed my eyes, my eyes snapped open and I groaned inwardly. 'The school dance is coming up and Aunt May made me promise to ask someone!' I started banging my head on the table muttering "crap, crap, crap."

Aunt May walked in and set the milk on the table next to everything else, she put a hand on my head and said, "what are you doing Peter?"

I lifted my head and said two words, "School Dance."

Aunt May smiled and replied, "yes Peter, you have to ask someone soon! You promised remember?"

"That's why I'm hitting my head on the table." I reached over to the cereal box and poured some of itinto the bowl, and then I poured the milk in with it. I started to stirthe cerealwith my spoon.

After eating breakfast I walked outside and sat down, it was now 11:00, one hour to go until Kiendra would come over. I breathed in the cool Saturday morning air. I heard the door to a house open and I opened my eyes and craned my neck towards the sound.

Kiendra came walking out of her house and she just stood there he hair blowing softly in the breeze. I stood up and walked over the fence and leaned on it. "Hey."

Kiendra looked over and me and smiled, "well, you're out here earlier than we planned," she grinned.

I smiled and replied, "Well I wanted some fresh air."

She nodded, "so do you want towait for noonor just hang out now?"

I shrugged, "how hang out now?" I didn't know what she had planned but I was okay in starting early if she wanted.

Kiendra walked over to her gate and opened it and walked out of her yard shutting the gate behind her. "Ok." She walked over to my and took my hand in hers and started pulling me to the front. Before getting all the way there Kiendra turned to me and said, "I didn't say thank you yet."

I furrowed my brow, "for what?"

She giggled, "for blocking Flash's hand from slapping me dummie!"

I smiled, "oh yeah, that."

Kiendra moved closer and whispered softly, "thanks a bunch." Then she closed the space between us and set her lips upon mine.

Kiendra's POV: I took Peter's hands im mine and moved closer to him, "thanks a bunch." Then I closed the space between us and set my lips upon his.

At first he didn't kiss back but after overcoming the shock he started to gently kiss me back. My hands found their way to his head and into his slightly messed up hair. I never wanted this kiss to stop it just felt so wonderful! I sensed (rather regretfully) Peter pulling away. Our lips parted and I stepped back slightly and looked up into the bright baby blue eyes of his.

He looked down at me and smiled slightly.

My wicked sense of humor rose to the surface and I said quietly, "Well that's one way to get to know somebody."

Peter blushed a deep rosy red.

I giggled and pulled him all the way into the front. "So what do you want to do today?" I asked him.

Peter was still a little dazed from the kiss and didn't know what to say, I giggled and nudged him in the stomach, "oh come on, you can think of something!"

"Um… do you want to go to the park or something?" he asked me.

I shrugged, "sure." Still holding hands we started walking towards Central Park.

A week had passed after Peter and I had started hanging out again, and we were going to go to the Park for the second time. He said he wanted to ask me something there.

On the way there he seemed really nervous for some reason. When we arrived he set me down on a bench and then kneeled on one knee facing me. One of my eyebrows rose in confusion.

He brought out from his pocket what looked like a wedding ring holder. 'Is he gonna propose to me or something?' I asked myself stupidly.

He opened the box and there was a small card inside asking if I wanted to go to the school dance with him.

I grinned widely and nodded my head and said, "sure, I'll go to the dance with you Peter."

Peter smiled warmly and stood up again and sat down next to me. I leaned over and gave him a small peck on the cheek. He almost literally jumped out of his seat, I giggled.

Peter's POV: I walked inside my home and was about to walk up the stairs until Aunt May called me back down.

"So… what happened?"

The whole practically proposing thing had been Aunt May's idea when I told her I wanted to ask Kiendra to the school dance.

"It went really well, she said yes and everything."

"Oh goody! Now what are we going to do for the day activity?"

I shrugged, "dunno."

"I'll try to think of something then I'll tell you when I know." She winked.

I smiled back and walked the rest of the way up and into my room. I looked out my window into Kiendra's window and saw that she was inside just sitting on her bed. I walked over to the window and opened it. I reached out and lightly tapped on her window. Her head shot up and she smiled, she walked over to her window and opened it. "Hey, what's up Pete?"

"Nothing much, just trying to decide the day activity," I grinned.

She smiled and giggled, "that was quite a shock in the park today, and it really looked like you were going to propose to me or something."

I laughed, "No, we're too young!"

She leaned out of her window and whispered, "or are we."

I raised my eyebrows, "what!"

She laughed and reached out and hit me lightly on the arm, "I'm just teasing you big goober!"

"Goober?"

She sighed dramatically, "Never mind!"

"Er… ok."

I heard through Kiendra's house her mom calling her, Kiendra sighed and said, "I've got to go, bye." With that she closed her window and walked out of her room.

I closed my window also and went over to my desk and started working on my weekend homework.

Kiendra's POV: It had been three weeks since Peter asked me to go to the dance with him and my mother was just zipping up my dress for that night. Peter and I had gone out to breakfast that morning, and then we went bowling for the day activity. My dress was a deep lavendar that had a v-neck and had spaghetti straps. After my mother zipped up my dress, she turned me around and looked me up and down.

"You look beautiful, Kiendra," my mother remarked.

"Thanks, do you think Peter will like it?"

My mother laughed, "of course he will, and when have you ever been concerned about what someone thinks?"

I blushed a little, "I don't know! I was just wondering."

My mother smiled knowingly, "yes honey, whatever you say."

I blushed even deeper, 'oh crap, she knew!'

Just then the doorbell rang and my mother rushed downstairs to get it.

I waited patiently for my mother to come back up.

She came almost running into the room, "hurry it's Peter! We need to still get all your clips and jewelry on!"

I grabbed the necklace, white gloves, bracelet, and earrings while my mother put my clips in. I felt my cheeks start to flush and I started to tremble from nervousness. 'Stop being so nervous! It's only Peter!' I told myself. 'Well,only Peter, I've started to care about a lot more than just a friend.'

I put on my elbow length gloves and the bracelet and started to fumble with the necklace but my mother grabbed it and wrapped it around my neck and connected the ends. I put in my earrings and grabbed the bottom of my dress and walked to the top of the stairs and looked down at the seated Peter.

Oh he looked so handsome! He was wearing an all black tux and his hair was neatly combed, probably by Aunt May. And the way he looked up at me with those baby blue eyes just melted me! He stood up quickly and straitened his tie nervously.

I walked down the stairs and over to him, heoffered me his arm and I took it graciously. We were just about to walk out the door until my mother called, "wait, I want pictures!"

I sighed and turned around with Peter. After afew shots I said to my mother embarrassed, "That's enough mom!"

We walked out the dooronly to meat Aunt May and Uncle Ben with their cameras ready. I seriously felt like we were royalty for famous!Peter let them have afewshots as well and then led me over to his Uncle Ben's car. He opened the passenger side and I slipped in, he closed the door and walked over to the other side and got in. Peter started the car and headed over to our high school.

Once at the high school he stepped out of the car and came around to help me out. Shutting the door I put my arm in his and we walked into the dance.

A song had just ended and another one started. It was a slow song; I looked up at Peter and asked, "Wanna dance?"

He lookedat meand said nervously, "Well, I don't really know how to dance."

I giggled, "oh, so you were just gonna take me here to watch the dance is all?" He blushed and I pulled him into the middle and said, "here I'll show you." I led his hands to my waist and I put my arms around his neck. "Do you know how to waltz?"

He shook his head, so I showed him the steps for waltzing. Except for stepping on my toes a couple of times he caught on quickly.

As the song went on I tightened my arms around his neck bringing us closer together. Our heads were right next to each other when Kasey, another school bully that had actually asked me to this dance after Peter asked me, pried us apart.

I turned to him and demanded, "what do you want Kasey?"

"So this is the bug that asked you. You choose him over me?" Kasey asked confused which immediately turned to anger when I gave him my answer.

"Yes."

Peter's POV: I could sense trouble stirring up when Kasey pulled Kiendra and I apart.

Kasey had gotten really mad over what Kiendra said and I knew something was about to erupt so I decided to make him even more mad so he wouldn't be able to think straight. I poked him hard in the chest and said, "who you callin' bug mister?"

Kasey's eyes widened and looked down out my finger, "you, cuz your just a small little bug that I'm going to squish pretty soon."

I grinned, "oh I don't think its going to be you that's doing the squishing today, so bug off!" I pushed my finger harder into his chest making him step backwards from my strength.

Kasey's face got as red as a balloon and he swung a wild punch at me which I easily dodged. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Kiendra giggling at what I had said, buta worried expression crossed her face when Kasey tried to punch me.

Kasey was about to try and punch me again but Kiendra stepped in front on him and he stopped.

"Get out of the way!" he yelled between gritted teeth.

Kasey had attracted almost everyone in the room and they were standing with their dance partners looking curiously in our direction.

Kiendra then did something I didn't expect, she grabbed Kasey's cocked arm and twisted it almost to breaking point and most likely spraining it.

Kasey cried out and Kiendra let go. Kasey grabbed his arm and started walking away glancing venomously back at us.

Kiendra turned around to me and smiled, "now where were we?" She put her arms around my neck, and pulled me close again.

I put my hands around her waist and whispered into her ear, "where'd you learn to do that?"

"Oh, here and there." She said softly into my ear. I was suspecting there was something she wasn't telling me, but I shrugged it off.

The song ended and another slow one started up, it was a bit faster paced but we adjusted easily. Some people at the tables kept glancing in our direction and whispering. I knew exactly what they were whispering about and I didn't like them talking behind Kiendra's back.

The people were most likely talking about 'why Kiendra was dancing with me and if she was turning into a nerd also, or if she liked me, or just had sympathy for meor something.'

Kiendra must have sensed my tenseness because she whispered into my ear, "you really need to loosen up Pete."

I smiled, "oh I know, that's what Aunt May keeps saying, but it's kind of hard not to be tense around such a pretty girl." I almost slapped myself, the words just spilt out of my mouth!

She giggled delightedly, "Well thank you, you don't look so bad yourself." The song started to end and Kiendra pulled back a bit and kissed me.

Gasps were heard around the room, which soon turned into excited whispering.

Shelet go of my lips and smiled warmly into my eyes. She then let go of my neck and took my hand and led me over to the punch bowl. I felt eyes staring at us as we past them, and the person at the punch bowl kept looking from Kiendra to me to Kiendra with wide eyes.

Kiendra and I each took a cup and I whispered to her, "um… do you want to go outside?"

She nodded and we walked outside. We sat down on a bench and sat in silence. Finally she turned to me and asked, "Why are you so tense all of a sudden."

I looked slowly over at her and answered softly, "because everyone keeps whispering about you being with me, and, and, well I just don't want you getting made fun of.

Kiendra's POV: 'Ah, so that's what he's been so tense about.' I smiled, 'how sweet of him to worry about me getting made fun of.' "Oh it's all right Pete, if they make fun of me then they're not my friends." I scooted over closer to him and leaned my head on his shoulder. I could feel his shoulder relax dramatically. "The thing is Pete, ever since we've been spending more time together I've been caring so much about you, now to the point that I can now say," I swallowed, "I love you." I tilted my head to look up into his blue eyes.

Peter smiled sweetlyand thentilted his head down and kissed the top of my head and said softly, "I love you too."

Sorry for lack of updates! This chapter was so big and had so many writer's blocks in between plus with all the homework I've been having, it wasa little tough for me to do this chapter. Please review and tell me how you like it!