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Chapter 3: If Happy Ever After Did Exist

After my P.E. class, which by the way I also had with Peter and Stevie, I headed outside the school and continued the long journey home. Ashley texted me a map of the route I had to take. No short cuts just a long long walk home. God, this will probity take me a half and hour or more and I was eager to get home.

I got a text in the middle of my music class from Ariel that she wanted me to call her as soon as I got home so I could tell her about New York. I missed her so much and I could have used a little sisterly advice at the moment. I mean, with this whole move to New York all by myself, I needed by big sister here for help and support.

I stuck my head phones into my phone and suck the buds into my ear, threw my phone into my jacket pocket and dug my hands in there as well and continued my long journey home. Man, this sucked. Walking this far.

Now I really wished I was back at home in Roseboro. I had my own car and it take me at least 15 minutes to drive home and if I didn't drive that day, one of my other friends would. That was the best thing about living in a small town. Everyone was at a close enough distance that if you wanted to hang out in 5 or 10 minutes, you'd either walk or drive over to their place and if you stayed out late, take you 5 or 10 minutes to get home.

Now I just found out that it'd take me at least 20 minutes to get to Stevie's from mine. I guess its no biggie. It would give me a chance to explore the polluted city.

I looked at my map on my phone and discovered an alley way I could take which would save me time instead of going all the way around. I don't understand why Ashley wanted me to go all the way around? I know the alley looked dark and scary but if I just cut threw there quickly, I would be on the other side and on my way home in no time.

I looked down at the long, dark alley way beside me and took the chance. I took a slow step into the alley, quickly checked to see if it was safe and continued walking it. I laughed at myself as I walked my way. I felt like a deer crossing a highway, waiting to see if it was safe and cross. The only thing with deer though, they always happen to make the wrong decision and get hit by a truck…and that's exactly what I did.

I noticed as I walk down the alley way, there was a man in baggy clothing leaning against the brick wall to my right, 'inspecting' me and I noticed more beside him.

Annabelle Jamison, what have you done?

I tried ignoring them and continued my way but I noticed as I kept looking back, they were following me. I turned my head forward and focused on the light at the end with all the people going by with their daily business.

'Just keep walking and you'll be in the safe zone' I thought to myself.

"Hey baby!" I heard one of them call. "Why don't you come and hang out with us!"

I tried ignoring them and started speed walking. I heard the footsteps following me as they quickly hit the pavement floor.

"We don't bite!" I heard the other one yell with a chuckle. I turned my head again and saw them now getting closer to me and I quickly kept walking.

"Hold on!"

That's when I booked it. The entrance to the street couldn't come soon enough. I quickly ran as fast as I could as I tried holding on my purse.

"Get her!" one of them screamed and I heard them running after me. I kept pushing myself and pushing myself to run harder.

'Come on, Annabelle! You're almost there! Just a couple mor-'.

Before I could even finish my thought, one of them grabbed my left hand and swung me around and pinned my against the brick wall beside me, making my head hit the wall hard. I groaned from the pain from my head and the pain from the presser of their hands holding mine to the wall.

"Time to have some fun boys" The one holding me against the wall.

"Please," I begged. "Just let me go. I'll give you what ever you want. Just let me go home"

"You will give us something" The one to the right of him said with a grin.

"Now," the one in front of me said as he removed his right hand from me. He took his hand and grabbed onto my shirt. "Let's see what's under here"

Before he could even pull down my shirt, I lifted up my leg and hit is groin. He screamed in pain and I tried to make a run for it but one of his buddies grabbed onto me.

"You bitch!" he screamed at me as I grabbed onto my arms and pinned me against the wall.

"Help!" I screamed as I tried to break free.

"Shut up!" he said to me as he raised his hand and I closed my eye to wait for the hit.

"Did your mother ever teach you how to treat a lady?" I heard a different voice say.

I opened my eyes and saw all three of the muggers, I guess that what you call them, look behind them. I looked to see what they were looking at and saw a guy in a red and blue spandex suite with a mask on.

'Who the hell was this guy?' I thought to myself.

"Stay out of this," the mugger I hit in the groin said to the spandex guy. "This is none of your business"

"What," spandex guy said. "You can't get a girl to go out with you so you think beating one will fix that"

"Watch it" the mugger said, pointing his knife at him.

"Aw," Spandex guy said as he gestured his hand to him. "Only a face a mother could love"

That's when the mugger latched at him and the Spandex guy flipped in the air making the mugger run into the brick wall. The Spandex guy then shot these white webs at him which made the mugger stuck there and unable to move. The Spandex guy then turned around and looked at the other two in front of me. He then looked at the mugger still holding onto me.

"Now," he said. "I'm only going to ask you once. Let the girl go"

The mugger then used the hand he was going to hit me with and pulled out a knife his pocket and pointed it at Spandex guy. Spandex guy let out a sigh as he stared up at the sky. He then looked back down at the mugger.

"We can either do this the easy way or the hard way. You're choice"

The mugger then let go of me and went for the Spandex guy. Spandex guy beat him up and threw him up in the air and the mugger was stuck in this giant web. Spandex guy then turned around and looked at the last mugger standing behind me.

"Are you going to be any trouble?" Spandex guy asked him.

The mugger looked at him with fear in his eyes and quickly ran down the alley like a dog with his tail in between his legs. I watched the mugger run down the alley way and then turned around to looked at my 'hero'. Spandex guy watched the mugger leave and then turned her head to me.

"Um," I said as I tucked as strand of hair in front of my face and tucked it behind me ear. "Th-Thanks…Spandex guy"

"Hey!" he said loudly, making me jump. "It's not Spandex guy"

"Then who do I call my knight in shining armor?" I asked, sarcastically.

"I'm Spider-Man"

I gave him a nod.

"Thanks…Spider-Man" I said with a half-smile.

"Any day" he said as he turned around and swung away. I turned, pinched myself in case I was dreaming and continued down the alley way and continued going home.

I finally made my way through the lobby doors and upstairs to my apartment to find Ashley in the kitchen cooking something. I set my purse down, hard, and Ashley flipped her head up and smiled when she saw me.

"Hey sweetie!" she said with a smile as she walked up to me.

Sweetie? What was with this sweetie?

"How was your first day?" she asked as she stood a couple feet away from me.

"Is dad home yet?" I asked, ignoring her question.

"He'll be home in an," she looked at her wrist watch. "Hour" she said as she looked back up at me.

I nodded and turned around to walk down the hallway to my room.

"Wait!" I turned around and glared at Ashley. "You didn't tell me how your first day went?"

"Hm," I started off. "I don't know. Horribly. You forgot to mention that you told the music teacher I 'had a talent in singing' by the way, which made her think I would be ok singing in front of the whole damn class of people I just met!"

"I'm sorry Anna," she said as she walked up to me slowly with sympathy in her face. "I'm proud of your singing and dancing talent and I thought it would be a good idea to share it with the staff"

"But you know I hate to sing in front of an audience"

"You never use to"

"Yeah but that was when my mom," I paused for a moment, trying to hold back the tears. "My mom actually cared about me and knew this world needed her more then she thought," Ashley stared at me not knowing what to say.

"I don't want to talk about this to you" I said as I turned around and started walking to my room.

"Annabelle, wait!" Ashley called but I ignored her and slammed the door behind me.

"You need to tell me what it's like," Ariel said to me on the phone as I laid on my bed, after supper, staring at a picture of her and I that laid on my dresser.

I remember taking the picture. It was taken this summer before she went to collage. She and I decided to go to the beach one last time together before she left for collage and I left for New York. We knew we wouldn't see each other for a while. She also took me to the beach that day to get me to stop thinking about Noah because it was only a week and a day when that picture was taken that Noah broke my heart.

Ariel was angry at him for doing that. She even went down to his house, banged on his front door and literally screamed at him. It was so bad, my dad was called down because one of the neighbors thought she was going to kill him. I can't get mad at her for doing. Ariel cared for me. She'd do anything for me.

I kept staring down at the picture. Running my figured over her hair with the sun shining behind her long dark brown hair.

"Is New York like what it is in the movies?" Ariel asked me, knocking me out of my thoughts.

"Uh," was the first thing that came out of my mouth. "Yeah but," I pulled myself off my bed and looked out my window at the night scenery in front of me. "Extremely bigger"

Ariel let out a groan.

"I wish I was there with you!"

"You could. I mean, New York probity has, like 10 or more different universities"

"Anna, you know I like it here plus I just got settled it. I'm not going to move again"

"But-"

"I'll come visit you during Christmas vacation. I promise"

"Yeah but Christmas vacation isn't for another three months"

Ariel let out a laugh.

"And in three months, your already going to make lots of friends and not want to hang out with your big sister during vacation"

"That's not true. After today, I'm probity not going to have friends in three months"

"What happened?" she asked in a concerned tone. I let out a sigh.

"Ashley-"

"Oh no! What did our mean evil step mother do to you now?" she asked in a sarcastic tone.

"You think what you want but she only pulls that act around dad"

"What happened?" she asked ignoring my comment. I let out a groan.

"She told the whole staff at the school, which by the way she went to my high school, about my 'singing and dancing talent' and the teacher made me sing in front of the whole music class"

"Did the kids laugh at you?"

"No"

"Did they talk whisper about it after class?"

"No"

"Then what happened after you singed"

"Nothing they…clapped"

"Like clapped or clapped like they actually enjoyed it?"

I paused for a couple seconds.

"Number 2"

"Annabelle!" she yelled at me. "Then why do you make it such a big deal that Ashley is proud of that of you?"

"Because…it was something…mom and I did. Something mom was there for"

"Ashley's not going to take mom's place you know. Ashley just-"

I didn't want to hear it anymore.

"I have to go. Talk to you later?"

Ariel let out a sigh.

"I guess"

"Bye" I said.

"Bye"

I then hanged up and let out a sigh.

I can't believe Ariel was blinding by Ashley's tricks.

I stared out into the city and opened my window. I stuck my head out and looked up to see the fire escape latter lead up to the top. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention I live on the top floor.

I slowly stepped out of my room and climbed to the top to the apartment building and stared out into the city. It was a funny feeling.

In my old house, the only thing you could see out my window was the near by lakes that the ducks would occupy. Now, you could see the Empire State Building from my room.

I sat on the ledge, dangling my feet over the edged and admired the scenery. That's when my phone rang. I let out a groan and pulled my phone out of my pocket. I looked at the scene and my heart stopped. The screen read Noah and the contact photo was a black and white picture of us.

I was taking the picture with my phone, smiling, and Noah was kissing my cheek. This was the picture I took when we first started dating which was last year at the beginning of junior year. I forgot to change this…or even delete Noah as a contact. I let out a sigh and answered the phone.

"What do you want Noah?" I said as I lifted my right leg onto the ledge, my left leg still dangling over the ledge and my phone pressed to my ear.

"Annabelle," he said in a relieved tone. "I'm so glad you answered"

"I'm going to hang up now" I said.

"No! Please let me talk"

I let out a sigh.

"Two minutes"

"Ok, look that thing with Jamie was wrong. I shouldn't have…had-"

"Slept with her!" I blurted out. "While still dating me?!"

"I'm so sorry about that Anna! I just…please come home…please"

I felt the tears filling up in my eyes.

"Noah, I can't even come back if wanted to"

"I know but…do you forgive me? Are will still together?"

"Noah…I made it clear that night. My heart is broken. I'm hurt. I thought you were there for me. I thought you loved me-"

"I do! Annabelle, I do!"

"Then why did you sleep with her!" I yelled into the phone. "Is it because she's prettier then me?!"

"No Ann-"

"Is it because she's better then me?!"

"Annabelle, let me explain"

"There's nothing to explain! We're threw! I don't ever want you to see you again! I never what you to call again! Just leave me alone in New York and forget about me and go back under the sheets with her!" I screamed threw the sobs.

"Anna-" Before he could finish I hanged up and started crying into my knee sitting on the ledge.

"I guess this was bad timing?" I heard a filmier voice ask.

I looked back and saw Spandex…I mean, Spider-Man standing there rubbing the back of his neck. I wiped the tears away with my finger.

"How much did you hear?" I asked as I kept wiping them away.

"All of it," He said. He then walked over and sat down on the ledge beside me. "Who was that jerk?" He asked and I finished wiping away the last tear.

"My…stupid ex," I said as I looked away into the city. I didn't want him to see my puffy wet eyes. I hated when people saw me cry.

I couldn't take sitting down anymore so I got up and started pacing around in a circle in front of him.

"He thinks just because he cheated on me, I'm suppose to pack up and go back to North Carolina and run into his arms and forgive him for everything...my mother taught me better than that," I then stopped and looked into Spider-Man's glassy eye as he stared at me.

"I'm sorry," I said. "I don't mean to bore you with my problems"

"No it's fine," he said as he waved his hand at me. "I'm here to solve problems"

"If you don't mind me asking," I said as I crossed my arms over my chest. "Why are you here?"

"Well," he said, still sitting on the ledge. "I was swinging by in the neighborhood and I saw you up here on your phone. I thought I'd come check up on you to see if you were ok from today but…you were busy with him" he said pointing to my phone.

I looked down in at my phone and then looked at him.

"Do you do this with all the girls you save?"

"No…but…your…different"

I looked at him funny.

"Thanks for the compliment. I'm going to bed" I said as I walked around and was about to take a step down the latter but he grabbed my arm.

"Wait," he said. "I didn't mean it like that," he said as he pulled me back up onto the roof top. "Your different in a good way"

I felt my cheeks heat up.

"Ok…is that it?"

"No…um…are you doing anything tomorrow night?"

"Hm," I thought about it. "Am I doing anything on a Friday night? No, I'm just going to be stuck at home watching depressing Nicholas Spark movies"

He let out a chuckle.

"I like your sense of humor. Meet me here tomorrow night?"

"Why?"

"Because, like I said, I like you. Your different…plus I want to keep an eye on you. You've haven't even been here for a week and you already got attack by a couple of muggers. I need to keep an eye on yo and keep you out of danger"

My mouth fell open as I put my hands on my hips.

"I can take care of myself, thank you very much," I said as I poked him in the chest. "And I don't need some guy in a red and blue spandex suit to save me. I'm not some…Louis Lane"

"So will you meet me here tomorrow?" He asked as he cocked his head.

"9:30," I said. "Don't be late" I said as I turned around and started walking down the latter.

"I didn't catch your name"

I stopped and looked up at him.

"Annabelle. Annabelle Jamison"

"See you tomorrow, Annabelle" he said as he swung away and disappeared into the night sky.

I let out a chuckle as I climbed down the latter and into my room. I then jumped into my covers and laid there with a smile. Can you believe I've made a friend with a guy who swings around New York city named Spider-Man?