Shoes, who needs em? (Stanley Barber fanfic)

6.

Chapter related song
The Middle - Jimmy Eat World

You woke up that next morning with Stan beside you in your bed. When you opened your eyes you saw Stan already awake and looking at you with a small smile on his face, but when he saw that you awoke he got embarrassed and looked away.

"Uh, we should uh, get to school" he said as he got out of the bed.

That made you wonder about Stan but you followed his command.

His dad was already at work so he went back to change. When you were dressed, you quickly grabbed some toast and made your way outside.

"Do you think Syd will talk to us about last night?" you asked Stan as he was driving.

"Hopefully .. maybe? I dunno" he said undecided.

The whole day at school you spent it with Stan. Stan tried talking to Syd but she didn't want to talk about what happened. You wanted answers to what happened last night. You knew that things were never normal but that was just beyond from normal.

Later that night, you were at the bowling alley stacking used beer cans as Stan put away the bowling balls when Syd walked through the door.

"I was hoping you guys would make an exception" she said playing with her hands. You and Stan looked at each other.

"That depends, are you a good bowler?" he asked.

"No" she dropped her hands.

"Then what are you doing here?" he asked.

"I gotta try to make lasagna" she said with a small smile.

You raised an eyebrow "That sounds vaguely sexual" you said leaning back in your seat.

"It's not I just thought, maybe I could hear some of those theories you had" she turned to Stan.

"Okay" Stan said dropping a stack of comics on the table a few minutes later. You were all seated at one of the bowling tables.

"Wait, when you said research I thought you meant .. research" she said eyeing you guys. You shrugged.

"Okay so, the people who wrote these things, do you think they just came up with the characters and their powers out from thin air?" Stan asked.

"What's your point?" Syd asked.

"Well.." Stan said turning to you "Maybe we can be like your mentors" he said.

"For example uh, have you experienced any of the following uh .. a spider bite?" he asked her.

"No" she said plainly.

"Okay" he said throwing that comic on the seat beside him and grabbed the next comic "Radioactive goo?"

"No"

"Alien gemstones?" he grabbed another comic.

"No"

"Bionic limb transplant?" he asked. You raised an eyebrow at him.

"What?" Syd asked with the same expression.

"Okay well what about your parents?" he asked.

"What about them?" she asked.

"Well sometimes you can inherit their abilities" you told her thinking back to the comics you've read.

"The only thing I inherited was pasty skin and and my bubbly personality" she said with a sarcastic smile.

"And the thigh zits" Stan added. You smirked at his comment but Syd didn't find it funny.

"Oh too soon. I thought that was fair game sorry" he said.