𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑪𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒎𝒆 𝑰𝒇 𝑰 𝑭𝒂𝒍𝒍? // Peter Parker fanfic

6: Discoveries

My alarm woke me from my restless sleep and then I knew I had to get up and get dressed to be a semi-functional member of society and pretend that my body wasn't aching, but it was past the blistering faze and it was onto the scabbing faze. It should get better soon. Thank Merlin for super spider healing.

I threw on some white sweatpants and an oversized sweatshirt because I can't wear anything too tight that will touch the wounds. After all, it might get infected, but at least I'm comfortable... Right?

The hairbrush glided through my silky hair as I stared at myself in the mirror. I look like a bag of shit, but maybe some make-up could fix the dark circles under my eyes. I applied a thin layer of mascara and some eyeliner, then took a look at myself and decided I needed concealer to get rid of those bags. Now I look better. Then I did before, but I have no time to focus on how I look because I have to eat and then walk to school. Maybe I'll skip breakfast and just walk to school.

I walked into the living room and kissed my dad on the cheek. He had fallen asleep on the couch after getting home from his night shift. He's always asleep when I see him, but I always try to write a note or something, so that's what I did. I walked back to my room and wrote a little note on how much I loved him. I placed it on the kitchen table with a flower from the vase.

I hauled my backpack onto my back and slipped on my van as I unlocked the door and left. I started to walk down the hallway when I heard people arguing. It was the house two doors down. It was Carol and Jim. I guess things aren't what they seem sometimes. I'll make them a cake after school as a thank you gift. I shuttered out of my thoughts and I kept walking till I got to the stairs, but there's an elevator that never works and how I wish it worked right now, but stairs it is I guess.

As I walked down the street towards the school, I started to get stuck up in my thoughts and music. I must have left my suit with Mr. Stark. I hope it's not very damaged, but I can't tell until I go to training today.

All of a sudden, a pair of arms pulled me off the road as a bus zoomed past me. It would have hit me. I let out a scream of terror and surprise as I pulled out my headphones, "Holy Shit, thanks!" I gasped as I turned to look at the figure that saved me. Surprise surprise, it was Peter, the boy that just had to keep saving me.

Ophelia, be more careful. You could have gotten killed, "he slowly let go of me and I blushed pink. Of course, my cheeks were betraying me, and how could my spider sense not have worked? I felt betrayed and mostly confused. It never fails me. Ever. Was my music too loud so it was dulling my senses? Are my powers getting weaker?

"Ophelia?" he said worriedly, which snapped me out of my thoughts. "Hm?" At that moment, I felt a familiar tingle that I knew very well. Quickly, my vision snapped to the falling book that I bought swiftly. "You almost dropped your book," I said quietly, and I gave it back to him. He had surprised eyes that I could catch it that quickly, but I ignored it. "Thanks... for that," I said in a low mutter that he seemed to understand very well.

We walked the rest of the way together in silence, but I was too scared to put my headphones back in, so I let them hang out of my sweatshirt. They just dangled, faint music playing from them, but that music could confuse my senses, or was it the fact that I was deep in thought, but nobody could know. My senses failed me, but Peters saved me.

We walked through the silver gates and I know I'm making it sound like heaven, but it is 100 per cent nothing like heaven at all. It's more like hell if hell had a stuck up daddy's boy named Flash in it and his real name, which I discovered through research, is Eugene. That's a nerd name, but there's no shame in being a nerd, but the fact that he had to change it to a "cool" name to be popular is just sad.