Chapter 28 Break 6

Peter's point of view

"Hey squirt"

"Uncle Ben?"

"Yeah… it's me… what happened here Peter?"

"I think we both know the answer to that"

"Yeah but I want to hear it from you."

"Before the mission, Dad and I had a monumental fight. We were both really mad, then when I went to school, Flash started on me and then Mrs McMahon gave me a lecture because I was late to class and I told her off, because I had had enough."

"OK, but that doesn't explain this"

"Well… we saw Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway and I related to it, hard. I thought I was just like Connor Murphy… I wasn't popular, I was not really much of a friend to anyone. I couldn't see the point in continuing my life, so I decided to do what Connor does in the play and end it… only Kristy suspected something, she alerted Shane who alerted everyone else and well…"

"You have to go back"

"Why?"

"You can't just randomly toss away your life because of your dad, a bully and the principal of your school. You were never this bad before you met your dad. Not even when May was abusing you. She was wrong by the way."

"It was her grief talking"

"Was it?"

"I think so and I think she suspected it was too. As for Flash, I should just have set Kristy on him… It straightened Alan Gray out. She broke her knuckle on his nose… no girl has ever punched me on the nose like that"

Uncle Ben chuckled.

"I seem to remember your mom breaking her proximal and middle phalanx on her three middle fingers… on your dad's nose"

"Was that before or after Pepper?"

"After the first time before the second. Kiddo I think I understand what happened. This is all part of growing up. Stop overthinking it."

I woke up alone in a small white room.

"Are you ready to come back into the main room and behave now?"

"What?"

"Are you ready to come back into the main room and behave now, you attention seeking lying troll?"

"WHY are you calling me those names? I haven't done anything wrong."

"No except for attempting to take your own life, scaring and upsetting your friends and your family"

"If my so-called friends and my so-called family cared about me one bit I wouldn't have had to make that cry for help. THEY WOULD HAVE RECOGNISED IT SOONER!"

"Or they would have seen straight through you and put you in a facility for mental deficiency."

I opened the door and walked through… we were in the viewing room. No one looked up, no one even noticed me.

"Cellophane, Mister Cellophane

Should have been my name, Mister Cellophane

'Cause you can look right through me

Walk right by me and never know I'm there

I tell ya, Cellophane, Mister Cellophane

Should have been my name Mister Cellophane

'Cause you can look right through me

Walk right by me and never know I'm there"

When I walked into the main room, Constance was teaching a very tricky tap routine to the others.

"All right, time for my favourite part of this routine… wings in a box." she said. Then she did 4 sets of 3 beat wings from 2 feet turning in a clockwise square.

No one acknowledged my presence.

"OK its time to watch Deadpool 1"

"I know that guy" I muttered.