It's just another normal day for regular old me, Eli Meridian, your average 14 year old kid, an eighth grader on the brink of graduating middle school in New York city a place where only a person can dream of having a rent free apartment whilst I live in Brooklyn in apartment 405 on President St. I go to school at Ebbets Field Middle School, and I live with my Mom and Dad and my little brother Jordan who is 5. I can't imagine it getting any better but, today is my field trip to Tech industries, the big Tech building is in midtown in the Times square area, I'm sort of a science nerd and unpopular and everyone hates me, except for my friends, May Wilson and Danny Farlowe, they are amazing we hang out a lot and I know alot about them like for instance, how Danny is paralyzed from the waist down because he was in a car accident and his dad is Detective Farlowe and our dads met when my mother was in labor with my little brother, and how May's dad is Captain of the police here in Brooklyn and May is my neighbor. I may also have a crush on her as well, but then there is Matthew Bowman, my hero. He's the most amazing scientist ever and we're meeting him today. Ah, now this is life with a beautiful city and now I'm going to the most advanced place on earth. We're almost three minutes away. "Hey look at Eli, he looks like he's going to burst into a million pieces," Danny says with a slight chuckle.

"Oh come on now it's not like you didn't phase out bed with excitement," May says playfully punching Danny in the arm

"At least you guys are going to be awesome!" I yell excitedly. We pulled up when we were greeted by a man in a black suit and another dressed in white it was like seeing polar opposite we were then met by loads of security measures and guards to make sure certain research never got out then he came, Matthew Bowman, my hero the most intelligent person this side of the Hudson man I wish dad was here to see this but he had to work today. "Welcome to Tech industries where the future is born, now on with the show if you will follow me please we will get you registered so you guys can get to the fun alright," Dr. Bowman says with an optimistic smile on his face.

"Man this is going to be so fun I can't wait!" I exclaimed happily with excitement so much so that my teacher Mr. Rockwell had to calm me down but I was just so excited that it just couldn't be contained in my body. We walked by so many exhibits that were super cool like the genetics lab was working on creating a super soldier like serum which was a little weird but the star of the entire tour has to be the robotics lab because it's working on a smart cloth that is flexible but its tear resistant and can change its thickness based on the users movements and body and developing artificial spider webbing but the genetics lab is cool because it working on a cure for cancer via spider DNA by implanting a serum known as Miracle Worker into the spider along with a radioactive isotope. "Looks like a spider is missing from its containment cell. Get Dr. Maroni down here now!" Dr. Bowman yells in rage at a random scientist and as that's happening I feel a tiny prick on my hand causing me to smash an insect but it's not an insect it's a an impacting dizziness to consume my head, the world spinning like a top at 75 miles per hour then it transitions into a fuzzy sense of the world to black. I wake up in my room? Was I hallucinating? How did I get here? I have so many questions that fill my confusing me so I do what I is think I is best which is walk towards the door to see what the heck is happening I try to hide my fear of the horrors that might come true but I open the door to a concerned family and friends all surprised by my well being that they overload me with questions of why in which I simply told them I don't know but in my head I knew why it was because of the loose spider that bit me. The next morning Jordan and I walked to school because it was a habit of him walking to school with me when he asked me a very interesting question, "Are you going to have super powers?"

"What do you mean by that, Joey?" I ask, surprised that he might have noticed the bite and if you're wondering why I'm calling him Joey it's because he thinks his name is too girly and would rather be called Joey.

"You have a big spider bite on your hand and I'm just wondering if my big brother is going to be Spider-Man," he said simply to me and I understood what he meant now.

"I don't know yet nothing has happened so far but if I do you'll be the first to know alright," I say trying not to think about how he might be right the rest of the day went as normal as everyday until lunch when Connor Baxter the school bully came and tried to punch me with a left jab to the face but a loud noise like cicadas ringing warned me as he got closer it grew louder and when he made his move I ducked then he tried striking again but I caught his fist before it could make impact then I flipped out of his way when trying to charge at me I then kept my hands open like my dad said and just defended myself so that I made it clear that I was not physically harming Connor and when teacher came to the scene it was obvious that I was defending myself so I didn't get in trouble. Then as I was walking home I decided to go into an abandoned alleyway and decided to see if I could climb up walls. I put my hand up against the wall and I start to climb said wall and as I was surprised beyond doubt then I thought to myself that I'm probably stronger so after climbing to the roof I find a brick wall and punch it and I punch a whole through it after every thing was said and done I head home in which I find my little brother and tell him this, "Joey look isn't this cool." He stares in admiration then with a swift move hands me a notepad and pen and holds it to me.

"Draw a costume so no one will know it's you," he says excitedly.

"I don't have the resources to make a costume but I do have this pair of red and blue sweatpants and a Spider-man hoodie with the logo made of mini spider and it's also red and blue and I have this red face shield and gloves I could make a costume out of that," I say trying to calm him down but he has a point but I'm going to wrestle instead I'm going to have to come up with a name so I took the notepad and pen and started brainstorming I couldn't come up with anything cool using spider but I started with arachnid and thought wait The Arachnid yeah now that sounds awesome now to put together the costume and find a wrestling match. "Son, come here real quick, we gotta fix the toilet!" my Dad yells from the bathroom so that I could hear him. I quickly put away my "project" to help him.

"Be right there!" I yell back to let him know I'm coming. My Dad and I have a really close relationship and that's all because he's always there even when he's supposed to be working or when we're feeling down he cheers us up. He's the glue that keeps my family from falling apart.

"What's wrong?" I say and am ready to help in any way I can.

"Broken pipe," he says, examining the partial flood in our bathroom.

"What can I do to help?" I ask confused on why he needed my help for this simple task

"By the look on your face you clearly are wondering why I need your help so I'm gonna tell you this that every person you help is a person that you saved from going down a dark path," he said with a tone of sentiment in his voice.