A Typical Day At School

Parker stood out in front of Mid Tech High The School For Gifted Students. At once upon a time Peter felt privileged to be at a high-level school.

But now he wanted to be anywhere but here.

Ever since he'd been outed as a superhero, he had to follow a strict procedure every time he went to school. By none other than Principal Morita himself.

He was never to use his powers while on school property unless it was an emergency or requested by a teacher, any tech aside from his suit was to be left behind in the security office and only accessed through permission from school faculty, to give the school notice when he does attend, so classes can be assigned to him and lastly, if Parker is indeed assaulted at school it will be his duty as Avenger to keep said attackers away from school as far as possible.

In many ways, he felt more restricted than back when he tried to maintain his secret identity and this was only the first of the crap he had to deal with before even entering the school.

When Parker walked through the front doors, he was greeted by his classmates who stood as far away from him as possible as if he were about to attack them and he couldn't blame them. From the framing of Mysterio and now Jamerson interview of him. People were avoiding him even more than usual. Not wanting to get involved with a...

Menace.

Yet even that wasn't the end of it as when Parker came by his locker. He saw that it was covered with graffiti, saying words like freak, monster, get out, and murderer. With some of the messages even carved into the locker door itself. There have been attempts to repair the locker, but that didn't stop the students from damaging it all over again until, eventually, the facility just gave up.

Parker sighed as he opened his locker grabbed his books and went off to class. Until he came face to face with Brad and his group of cronies

'Hello freak, good see your back' the teenager sneered, while Peter tried to look away.

Brad, if there was someone worse than Flash Thompson it was him. While Thompson was only annoying, Brad was far more willing to be violent, if only because Peter ever fought back. Brad can easily turn it around and say that it was he who started it due to Peter's superpowers and his bad rep and has gotten away with it countless times.

On top of that, he wasn't alone in his hatred for him as Brad managed to get quite a following among the students who were often at his back and called whenever the teen hero tried to start anything with him.

'So, tell me how many did you kill last time on that mission of yours or are your gonna cry like a bitch as you did to Jameson? Brad continued to mock, while Parker tried his best to ignore him. But his tormentor refused.

"HEY Listen to me!' Brad shouted as he nearly shoved Parker to the floor. Which nearly caused Spidey to shrug back in response but hesitated. Which made the bully grin smugly before growling at the Hero.

'Oh, what's wrong Spidey? What are you going to do huh? Bite like a spider can hit me as a spider can?' he rhymed and sang like he was some sort of low-beat rapper. 'Or are going to shoot me with one of those drones huh like you did last time!?'

Parker grunted as he tried to force his temper under control and tried to get back up and walk away from the bully, yet one of Brad's goons blocked his path and held his arms...it took everything Pete had to not throw them off.

'You know Parker, I don' get why you keep trying to get back to school, no one wants you here, because everyone is afraid of you here and even MJ has given up on you!'

At that Parker gripped his fingers in anger at Brad talking bad about his girlfriend, but continued to keep himself in check.

'Oh, what, you think that bitch wants you after all the times you ditch her to be with your Avenger buddies!' Brad insulted Peter which caused the super-powered teen's body to nearly jolt up in response, when Brad called Jones a bitch.

Just the very thought of referring her to a fucking dog, like she was someone's owner or that Brad owns her...

Driven Parker to complete utter rage.

The teen superhero with a mere flex from his shoulders instantly shrugged off the grips of Brad's cronies who backed away from him in fear. But Brad stood his ground even as Parker stared back at him hatefully. As if the school thug wanted to hit him.

But nothing came from it when one of the teachers immediately entered the hallway.

'Hey, whatever it is break it up!' He shouted. Which caused Brad and his gang to back off.

'We were just minding our own business until this psycho came here and attacked us' Brad lied as he went for his old wounded gazelle stick. Which Peter had seen way too many times to get a repeat of.

He and his friends will pretend to get beat up and Peter will be reported to the principal's office and be given a lecture of him not wanting to endanger his students and him being threatened to get kicked out of the school.

Not wanting to do that today he moved as fast as possible to get to class before the teacher could call out to him.

From then on, the day went by as usual, sitting in class, taking lessons, and talking to Ned about graduation, superheroes, and other things on the media, basically if it weren't for Brad and the shunning of the other students. It felt like any other day in school.

But the biggest change was Flash himself.

For the longest time, Thompson didn't so much as speak to him when he learned about his identity, but unlike everyone else in school. It wasn't out of fear or malice. But more shocking enough by embarrassment and shyness. As he was like some sort of shy fanboy of him. Which in a way he was.

It wasn't like they were friends or anything, but they weren't enemies either. Not anymore anyway and from a few smiles here and there, they never even had a real conversation.

As for MJ Due to having a different school schedule and her taking part job as a news reporter for the school. He can only really see her after school.

Usually, any conversations or even a date with her was cut off by getting missions from the Avengers or upcoming robberies from queens and hopefully this time, he now actually has a break. He can spend some real time with her...

Hopefully.

As the bell rings to single the end of classes, Peter meets Michelle outside of school. Appearance wise she didn't change much. Her hair was a bit shorter and wore a little bit of makeup on her lips and looked a bit clean up in her appearance. But otherwise, she still looked like the same girl that he had fallen in love with.

He then walked up to Jones and smiled at him. 'Good to see you back loser' she playful insulted which Parker just shrugged his head and smiled. Never thought hearing her talking down to him would feel so reassuring.

'Good to see you too' He responded before kissing her on the lips with her returning in kind.

These moments. It was these moments that made Parker want to come back to school, it was these moments with the girl of his dreams. That made the bullying, the shunning and even withstanding Jameson worthwhile. For it was these moments when he kissed her, spent time with her, laughed with her having fun with her. That made all the troubles he faced seem to disappear if only for an instant.

Oh, what could he do without her?

'I...uh heard about- I mean I saw your video with Beth and Jason' Parker said as awkwardly broke off from the kiss.

'Ya I know, I would have broken up with you if you didn't' MJ Joked or at least that is what Peter thought. He often can't tell.

'So are you just coming in to say hi or...' Jones begins to ask already expecting Peter to leave for another mission. But to her surprise, he shook his head.

'No MJ, I 'm officially R&R, I probably won't be going back to the Avengers for at least a few days, so...'

'...So?' Jones repeated wanting to make sure what her boyfriend was saying was indeed correct.

'We can go on a date tonight!' Parker exclaims

'Wait...are you serious!?' Michelle double-checked. She and Peter haven't been on a date or an actual date since that terrifying swing downtown. So, to have time to go on one. It... almost seems foreign to her now.

Parker then looked at MJ sadly. 'Wait are you saying you don't want to...'

'I never said that!' Michael replied instantly before recomposing herself. 'It's you're usually off doing superhero stuff that I thought...it would never happen and I already have plans tonight...'

'You don't have to cancel-

'No, no it's fine. I'm fine just...let me know when before the night comes okay?' Michael clumsy said while trying to keep herself from stuttering as she smiled at Parker. While he once again smiles back at her '

'I'll let you know.'

'Good'

'Well see you soon' Parker said as he walked away from MJ, while she did the same thing

'You too'

After some time, pass as Parker then arrived at the gate of his school ready to leave and prepare for his date with his girlfriend.

'I can't believe how lucky things turn out to be, for once maybe for just one night I can finally-' he talked to himself a bit before a group of police officers began to surround him, and then immediately all those happy thoughts that Parker had vanished when he remembered Brad's assault on him.

Later in the principal office.

'TWO WEEKS OF DETENTION!?' Peter shouted at his Principal while he up stood in the office.

'You know the rules Mr. Parker under no exceptions are you excused for nearly assaulting a student' Morita spoke calmly as he folded his hands on his desk even when the super-powered teen yelled at him.

'But he is the one that assaulted me!'

'And because of that, his sentence is doubled that of yours'

At the hearing that, Parker then calmed himself down. The Principal just shook his head in disappointment.

'Mr. Parker, I can understand your frustration with Brad and his goons with this being his last warning for assaulting you. But even then, from what I heard from Mr. Dent you were about to assault him.

Peter then remembered during his confrontation and how he almost struck back at him, but he wasn't going to do that...right? Even he wasn't so sure.

'I... wasn't going to hurt him' Peter tried to reason, but it didn't sound convincing. Not to himself, let alone to Mr. Morita

'Your intent speaks otherwise young man and as such I cannot let you go unpunished. You must realize Parker that you... are far beyond the category of what can be classified as human and after what you have recently gone through...I have every right to keep my eye on you'

Anger then begins to swell inside Parker upon hearing at his principal accused him of.

'You can't possibly-

'It's nothing to do with Mysterio!' the Principal snapped back, which caused the teen to step away in confusion.

'Or to be more specific it has nothing to do with Jameson and the trash heap he keeps pinning on you. No Mr. Parker the reason I'm more concerned with you than Brad is you all for indents and purposes you are a child soldier!

Upon hearing that word. Parker's mind went numb as if, he couldn't even comprehend at what his Principle accused him of being.

'Look I know it might be the cause but-

'I believe we need to stop the patronizing and look at what you and what the Avengers are. You are a soldier and like any other soldier, they fight die and often kill, and like any other soldier they often face the full horrors that come from war. The principal said solemnly with his head down.

'I know because my Grandfather experienced it first hand when he was part of the Howling commandos and even when he passed away at the ripe age of 86... he never truly recovered from his experience.'

Parker cast his eyes down at the grim understanding of it all. There was the reason why the principal kept using those Captain America workout videos despite him being a wanted fugitive at the time.

'And I cannot imagine the effects it can have on the psyche of a child.' Moritis said with a bit of sadness echoing off his voice.

Parker then remained silent at what his Principal said to him and then remembered what Jameson asked the audience to the camera.

'Do you...want this boy this... menace to be your savior!?' the last words of 's speech haunting him even now.

His Principal doesn't see him as a hero who can take care of himself But as a troubled juvenile who could snap at any moment.

Like he needs his damn pity.

'Mr. Morita. With all due respect, I am not a child anymore and I do not need to be treated as one. The Avengers don't treat me like a kid, Nick Fury doesn't, and neither does anyone else in Shield. At least for the most part. Why? because there are barely any Avengers left in the world to protect it and I am one of them'

The Principal took a long moment of silence at what his young student said before sighing in exasperation. 'Then I suppose you do not mind sitting down for detention and for my advice try looking for therapy. Good day, Mr. Parker'

After a few hours later Parker was finally let out of school as he was able to retrieve his superhero stuff. He was too mad to even bother swinging across New York even when he could do it without bothering to keep his costume on.

Not like it matters anymore.

Parker never asked for much as an Avenger, as Spider-Man, or even as Peter Parker. At least not much in the past. All he wanted was to go to school. Socialize with his friends and hang out with his girlfriend. But no, he had to be bullied and pitied by his own Principal who sees him as a threat just because he has superpowers.

'If only he wasn't so right...' Parker thought as he slumped on a nearby building.

The young man knew he was a child soldier, knew that, He just didn't want to associate it with the theme of a superhero. Because a superhero is more than just a soldier.

Soldiers kill, and superheroes save.

Soldiers follow orders from superiors. Heroes follow their Hearts.

Soldiers inspire fear and confrontation. Heroes inspire bravery and peace'

Right?

...Or at least that is what he told himself.

But regardless of whether he was a soldier or not. What hurt most from the Principal's words was the fear that he was going to harm his students. As if he would.

In spite...of all the experiences that he went through...

Damn it all.

All he wanted from today was to go on one stupid in-date!

The honking of a car suddenly caught Peter's attention.

It was a sports car with a smooth silver paint coating that pulled up to Parker. The front window then slides down revealing Flash Thompson in the driver seat. Having that same condescending smirk that Parker had long known for years

'Hey, what's up dick-weed ?'