Chapter 4

Peter awoke the next morning with his face in a puddle of drool right next to his laptop. He sat up and tiredly wiped his cheek. He looked down at the small puddle on his desk and rolled his eyes annoyed. Peter glanced over at the clock to his left and saw it read 6:30 am, he couldn't remember the last time he was up this early, his morning routine usually consisted of getting up aound 7:40 and dragging himself out of bed just to barely make it to school on time.

Today was different though he had to talk to Harry about his father and , so he sat up out of the chair he had fallen asleep in and proceeded to get ready.

After he had gotten ready he rushed down the stairs holding his phone in his hand typing out a message to Harry,

Peter

Woke up early, this news better be worth it LOL

Harry

Trust me it will be! Im already at school meet up at our locker?

Peter

Sounds good

When he entered the dining room his Aunt and Uncle looked at him strangely.

"What?" Peter asked.

"It's 7 o'clock in the morning," His Aunt said baffled.

"Yeah?" he says taking a bite of the toast that had just popped out of the toaster and taking a seat on the counter

"You know those chairs work just as well" May jokes as she starts to brew her husbands coffee.

"You going by the hardware store after school right Peter?" Ben asks from behind the newspaper.

"Oh, yeah of course," Peter responds, "I'm going to head out," Peter says jumping from the counter and grabbing the last piece of golden brown toast from its place in the toaster.

"Okay see you tonight sweetie," May says kissing Peter on his cheek.

Peter rushes out the door and starts to hop on his skateboard when he hears his name called from next door. He looks over to see Mary Jane coming toward him, her leather jacket was hugging tight to her body and she wore loose jeans with holes in the knee.

"Hey how are you feeling?" she says looking up at the bruise under lis lip.

"Oh, uh I'm fi-fine," Peter stammers back.

"I had no idea we lived next door to eachother, that's awesome!" MJ exclaims giving him a look as if there was nobody in the world she'd rather be talking to.

"Ye-yeah me neither," he continued to nervously look around at everything but her.

"Well I should get going, do you need a ride?" she asked slightly disappointed.

"Uh no I ha-have my uh board," Peter says holding up the black worn down skateboard.

"Okay, maybe you could teach me sometime?" MJ said smiling back at him.

Peter laughed nervously and put his head phones in, he started to roll his way out of his yard when he heard a loud rumbling noise over his blazing music, he took out one of his headphones and heard the sound coming from Mary Jane's garage, as she pulled out he saw what it was, she was sitting on a maroon and white Harley motorcycle, he couldn''t help but stare as she pulled out of her garage, she noticed him and gave a small smile under the full helmet she was wearing before she took off down the street.

He put his headphones back in and thought about the attention he had been getting from Mary Jane lately, but the thought of the mysterious red head was quickly pushed from his mind by the thoughts of Gwen and soon he was lost in his thoughts.

Peter got to the school in just over five minutes, he texted Harry and told him that he was there just so he wasn't standing awkwardly at the locker by himself. When Harry got to their locker Peter immediately wanted to get in the first word because he knew Harry would ramble on about his great news if he didn't.

"Hey Harry I have to talk to you about something," Peter said quickly.

"Alright, but let me go first I'll be qucik I swear," Harry said excitedly.

Peter could tell there would be no arguing Harry down this time so he sat back and listened.

"Okay, go," Peter said starting to roll the lock entering the combination.

"So yesterday I planned on meeting you right here for lunch, but there was things at Oscorp I had to deal with and I'm sorry about that," Harry said more referring to the Flash situation than missing out on lunch.

"It's no biggy," Peter sent back.

"Anyway I was talking to my father and I told him you were looking for some work," Harry stopped abruptly.

"And?" Peter asked opening up the locker and switching stuff in and out.

"He said he wanted to bring you in to talk today after school," Harry said trying to sound as discontented as possible.

Peter paused and looked at his best friend in astonishment. Oscorp was one of the top scientific businesses in the world, Peter had never even dreamed of getting a job there.

"So what do you think?" Harry asked losing his fake disconcern.

"You serious?" Peter asked giving Harry a perplexed look.

"Yeah no joke man," Harry shoots back.

"I think that'd be great!" Peter responded excitedly.

"So you'll be there?" Harry asked as he started to pull his phone out his pocket.

"Yeah of course I'll be there," Peter said.

"I'll let him know," Harry said as he begun to type up a message to his father.

As Peter closed the locker he looked up toward the entrance of the school and saw Gwen walking in through the royal blue doors, he could hear Harry's voice, but it was a slight mumble everything seemed to slow down when she walked into the school. Peter couldn't help but admire her, she wore black knee high socks, bage boots, a grey skirt, and a black shirt accented by thin white stripes. Her perfect golden hair tied back in a ponytail and her bangs as usual falling perectly over her forehead. He felt himself being consumed by her presence, but it was something he didn't want to fight.

She hadn't stopped thinking about him since yesterday, so when she saw him wearing those squared off glasses that gave him that cute nerdy guy look she couldn't hold back the small smile that her full pink lips let escape. She walked past hugging her things tight to her chest trying to stop smiling, but she wanted him to stop her, or to say something to her, but she knew he wouldn't.

Harry had noticed the smiles the two had exchanged and he wasn't going to let it go unnoticed by any means.

"So you finally talked to her?" Harry said casually as he leaned against the lockers behind him.

Peter hadn't fully returned to reality, but he had heard bits and pieces of Harry's question, "Wha-Oh yeah, I guess," He said watching her walk down the hall.

"You guess? Weren't you there?" Harry said jokingly.

"Huh? Ye-yeah," Peter waved him off.

"Are you even listening?" Harry asked peeking his head down the hallway where Peter's gaze was still locked.

Peter looked blankly down the hall, it was like he was in another world. When he finally forced himself back into reality Harry had begun asking another question.

"So when are you two going out?" Harry asked sarcastically

"No it wasn't like tha-" before Peter could finish explaining Harry cut him off.

"I don't think those glasses are working all that well for you because she was definitely thinking it was like that," Harry said, "What you lose your contacts?"

"Trust me it's not like that," Peter said attempting to explain again.

"Whatever man," Harry said rolling his eyes and pushing his back off the locker.

"I'm telling you Hare it's not," Peter replies annoyed.

"Okay, okay" Harry sticks his hands up in surrender. Harry began to walk backwards down the hall, "Didn't you need to talk to me about something?" He asked still moving slowly away from Peter.

Peter had totally forgotten about , but he didn't see the point in asking now, "Uh no," Peter said shaking his unconvincingly, "No it's nothing,"

Harry looked at Peter knowing he was lying, but he wasn't the type to push, "Alright, don't be late!" He exclaimed spinning on his heels and walking off in the opposite direction of Peter.