How do you move on with nothing left?

Graduation

Hello everyone,
Again so sorry for not updating in literally like a month but I'm hoping to update at least two chapters today alone to make up for it  and I have a very clear image of what is going to happen throughout the rest of this story and I hope you all like it 🤗🤗🤗
-Tiger

Right now Peter and Michelle have been together for about six months but nothing serious has happened apart from kissing if you know what I mean 😏
Anyway so they currently have six weeks until there grade twelve graduation so exams and everything and this is where we continue our story

Peter's P.O.V
I cannot even begin to explain how I feel right now. I know I should be excited to finish school soon but I'm completely and utterly terrified and even a little sad. Everything I've known for the past seventeen years will be completely gone and in the past and being in the real world is not what I'm scared of, I'm scared of what might happen to Michelle and I and if I'll get a job and when I do, what will happen to Spider-Man? Because I can't just stop being Spider-Man, being Spider-Man keeps me sane as well as making me feel needed and wanted in this godforsaken world. I only just started up patrol again about three months ago as crime rates aren't as high with half the universe missing and I didn't know if I could handle the stress. But I'm back doing it again.

Pretty much every single class is boring because for the past year we have been revising literally EVERYTHING even stuff from primary and I'm so sick of it.

MJ is the most amazing, kind and honest person in the world and I think....i think I....love her

MJ'S P.O.V
Holy crap. We're in grade twelve!! School is almost over.
I'm excited but I had plans to travel with my parents after grade twelve but that won't be happening.
The classes are getting us all ready the end of year exams and to be honest I'm kind of excited to get school over and done with. I just never thought my parents wouldn't be at my graduation reception or wouldn't be in my prom photos. Or meet my first boyfriend. My parents are missing so many milestones but I'm so glad that Peter is always gonna be there for me and he supports every single thing I do which I am beyond grateful for.

"MJ" Peter whispers beside me disrupting me from my thoughts
"Hmmm" I look up from my notebook
Peter just nods towards the front and I realised that the teacher had asked me a question
"Sorry miss, I didn't hear what you said" I repeated keeping my voice steady
"How would I go about solving this?" She pointed to the board
"You would seperate the numbers from the letters and figure them out separately" i replied unsure
"Very good Michelle" said the teacher keeping her blank face she always had

I looked over to Peter and he just winked at me and continued writing in his notebook.

That's when the school bell finally rang. And everyone packed up their things and walked out of the classroom.
Peter and I walked to the apartment with our hands intertwined and he talked about some homework he had to do briefly then we walked in silence. As we got into the apartment we both walked in and sat on the couch. He pecked  me on the lips then asked
"Are you alright?"
"Yeah,why?" I lied
He only had to lift his eyebrows and tilt his head slightly for me to cave
I broke down crying and he hugged me as the sobs kept coming and I drenched his shirt with tears. He just rubbed my back and gently played with my hair, didn't ask questions, didn't tell me it was all going to be okay. Just held me. And that was enough, in fact it was the nicest thing anyone had ever done for me.

Once I had gotten myself under some sort of control I lifted my head and apologised about his shirt, he just simply chuckled.

"When your ready to tell me what's going on I'll listen" he said in such a caring voice and we looked straight into each other's eyes. It was at this moment that I realised how beautiful, kind and gentle his eyes were.
"I just....wish my parents could be with me to finish school, I wish they could meet you but they are not going to be here. They aren't coming back. They'll never meet my kids or be there when I get a college degree or be there to buy my prom dress or be at my wedding" I paused getting ready for what I was going to say next "but the thing I wish they could be around for was so that I could say...goodbye" tears began rolling down my cheeks "I never told them how much I loved them Peter, I never thanked them enough for always being there for me. And....and now...they're g-g-gone." I finished in sobs and found my self in his arms once more

Peter's P.O.V
MJ was crying in my arms again and I felt so bad for her. She had been through so much but when her parents disappeared she would've had no idea what was going on. I knew the entire story of the blip and how it happened but everyone here on earth would've just started disappearing and not known what was going on.
"I know I can't promise you I'll get them back but I promise you that I'll always be here and so are your parents they're always with you MJ and I know that because if your parents were anything like you. They are amazing, kind and would never give up on there own daughter but what I think they would want there daughter to do is never give up on herself and live her best life". I finished and she pulled away.
Then before I even had the chance to realise what was going on her lips smashed against mine in a passionate but gentle way and I returned the kiss in the same way. We then pulled away with our foreheads resting on each others and panting slightly. We kept our eyes closed and hands wrapped around eachother.
"Michelle" I said shikily. Shit am I really about to do this?
She just simply looked at me curiously
"I...I think...I think I..I think I love you" BAM 💥 I did it
She stared at me with no expression on her face and I began to panic and but she grabbed the collar of my shirt and kissed me.
When she pulled away she said "I love you too Peter."

Author's P.O.V
⏭Time skip⏭

"I cannot even begin to explain how proud I am of every single one of these students. They have finished high school, most of them without there friends and some even without majority of there family. The worldwide catastrophe that led to half the universe leaving our presence scarred many people but they continued to go on with there lives while learning to live in this new world. I wish you all the very best with your lives and I hope that you will forever remember this; it is good to have an 'end' to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end."
The crowd erupted in cheers after the principle finished his speech.
"Congratulations, graduation class of 2021" finished the principle and tossed his hat into the air.
The graduates followed his gesture and soon the air was filled with hats and the noise of cheers as the school hugged and cried as one. thus was an extremely happy day for midtown high and its students ever since the blip.
Once all the speeches were over the school began to disperse out of the hall.
Peter and Michelle decided to walk to the park before they went home.
At the park they walked hand in hand in comfortable silence until it began poring down rain and they ran in there graduation coats in the rain laughing together, to the rot under in the middle of the park. Once they were there they stood there for a while just looking lovingly at each other.
Peter pulled his phone out of his pocket and turned on thinking out loud by Ed Sheeran. Once his phone was back in his pocket he pulled something else out of his other pocket.
"we have been together for around six months now but I know that you are the person I wish to spend my life with, you are the women I want to wake up and make breakfast for on Valentine's Day, because I love you and I was wondering.." he got down on one knee and MJ's heart got caught in her throat. He opened a small petite box to reveal a beautiful ring.
"Michelle Jones, will you marry me?"
Michelle choked on her tears of joy and cried "yes, a thousand times. YES!!"
The two of them shared a wonderfully long kiss then looked at each other in the eyes and just simply hugged on another.
"I love you to Peter Parker" MJ whispered into peters ear.