Chapter 22 - a shoulder to cry on

from the dark!"Peter's POV

I guess from the look on her face, she surprised. I'm surprised too. After robin escaped, I blacked out, feeling something like goo running up my leg. And now I'm standing in the pour rain at her front door. It late but I wanted to see her.

Hey, wait, she's wearing my sweater. I must have left it over here when I stayed. But why is she wearing it?

she reaches forward and grabs my hand and pulls me inside. She hugs me and then she pulls to the guest room. I pull off my raggy clothes and her face flushes bright red as she runs to her room. She returns with a bite me shirt and some SpongeBob pj pants. I put them on slowly. I hate moving right now. I flop onto the bed and she sits by me.

It feels awkward. The last time we saw each other was the night of the kiss.

I lay there. Tears start filling in my eyes and I start sobbing. "I hate that place." I gasped out, "I never want to go back." She's staring at me stunned. "I hate them. They killed my aunt. I have no one now. " she makes a worried look at that. "They'll pay. I swear they'll pay."

Halcyone can sense my anger I believe and pulls my head into her lap and starts petting me head, making the anger fade away.

"Peter, I think tomorrow we should go to your house and get all your stuff. I'm not going to let you live alone there. You live here now. We'll sell everything you don't want in an yard sale and sell the house as well. " I nod and sit up.

She staring at me and I reach over and pull off her glasses. She flinches and I noticed now the faded bruise around her neck. It looks like...

"What happened?" I ask and she quickly move her hair so it's over her shoulders and covering the faded bruise. "It's nothing. This is about you." Then I remember.

'Found your girl. '

"JJ11." I growl and she looks down before looking back up with a sigh. "Halcyone," "you do know you can call me Alyn since we're not at school." I nod again. "Alyn-"

"Stop talking and go to sleep. " she says as she stands. Does she know I want to talk about the kiss? "You have to kick their ass sooner or later. You can't be tired for that fight, Spider-Man." And at that she shuts my door and I can hear her walk into her room.

She knew?

I look down. Goo. I reach down to grab it. It's black and... And it's alive! It's starts stretching around my hand. I yank it off and throw it. It sticks to the wall and starts moving down the wall.

"ALYN!" I yell and she comes running in. She sees the goo and runs out of the room.

"Peter!" She shouts to me, "go make a fire in the back yard!" I jump out of the bed and run downstairs as she's runs upstairs with a box of garbage bags. I grab the matches off the counter and run onto the back porch and into the yard where there's a huge grey, ashy spot.

I lit a match and toss it in the ash along with some sticks. I notice some logs near the porch and toss a few of those in as well. The fire eats it quickly and grows.

Alyn runs out with two garbage bags full of stuff. She tosses them into the fire and there's a very high pitched screech. She threw the black goo in there.

She turns to me and starts tugging off my shirt. I have to say, I went bright red when she got it off, tossed it in the fire, then go to tug off my pants. "Take off the boxers and throw the them in the fire with your pants. I'll get you a pair of boxers from my room."

I give her a 'huh?!' And she laughs. "I used to have a brother." She says before disappearing inside.

I stand there. Used to? She returns and frowns at me still in my boxers. "You can't touch these till those are in the fire." "I can't do it when you're looking!"

She glares at me before yanking my boxers down and pushing me over so she can get me my feet out of them. She tosses me the new pair of boxers before disappearing into the house again.

She returns and I'm in the new boxers. "Okay, I got everything. Could you run inside and get me some clothes?" I flush redder.

"Uhhhhh... Sure?" I run inside and up to her room. I walk in and to her closet. I yank out a huge shirt that said "suck it." with drawing of a dude flipping the bird.

The drawing looks like some of the ones on her wall. I shrug it off and grab a pair of shorts from the floor and ran down the stairs. I walk outside and Alyn standing there with her arms cross. She noticed the clothes I have and pulls her shirt over her head along with my sweatshirt and toss them into the fire. I turn away from her at that and I feel a tug at my shirt.

I go to turn and look but I stop myself and put her shirt on my head. It's snatched off and then the shorts are snatched of my hand.

After a few minutes passed, I turn to see she glaring at me with the shorts in her hand. I'm glad the shirt is long or this would have been more embarrassing. "You idiot, you forgot underwear." She growls. I flush red. "W-what?!"

"Underwear! You know, bra! Panties!" I redder. "Uh, what?" "Go get me some! I'm not leaving