My Spider Senses

My Destiny Part 3

I feel something I've never felt before after my date with Liz... Happiness.

That all changes when I get home. The instant I walk into my room, my body just turns to hell. I lose my balance and fall down onto the floor. Luckily I barely catch myself on the bed so my fall doesn't make such a big noise. I'm grateful for that because the last thing I need is my Aunt and Uncle worrying about me. The room starts spinning out of control and my body temperature is changing dramatically from burning hot to ice cold and back. I start seeing the room go black and then all at once, I pass out.

I wake up on the floor hardly remembering anything that occurred last night after I got home. All I seem to remember was my date with Liz. I get up slowly not wanting to pass out again. I look at my clock and it's one in the afternoon. I rush to the bathroom and fix myself up. I come out about ten minutes later, showered and dressed ready for the day. I go downstairs and find no one home. I go to the kitchen and find some pancakes with milk on the counter next to a note. I pick up the note and read it.

'Peter, Ben and I will be out for the day. I made you breakfast. Make sure you do all your homework and don't do anything dangerous, you know how fragile you are. We will be back around six o'clock. Love you.'

I set down the note and warm up the pancakes in the microwave. I eat the pancakes bite by bite enjoying how delicious they are. Once I finish, I do the dishes as usual and head upstairs. I check my phone and see a text message. I expect it to be Liz but it's Gwen. She texted me an hour ago to meet her at the library at two. I look at the time and realize I have ten minutes to get there. I grab my wallet and keys and put them in my pocket. I hurry downstairs but can't find my skateboard. I decide I'll run it but I have to hurry if I don't want to be late. I run out and head towards the library. I'm too focused on why Gwen wanted me to meet her so impromptu that I don't realize I'm crossing a road that is about five blocks away from my house. The cross sign had the red hand saying I can't cross but it was too late. I run in the middle of the road as cars are flying by. I start to think I got lucky by not hitting any cars but my luck seems to run out as I see one car inches away from me. It is going about thirty miles per hour and is less than an arms distance away from me. My mind thinks I'm already dead but the car hasn't hit me yet. Instead, it seems as if everything around me, including the car, has slowed down. My body, which isn't in my control at this point, jumps up ten feet, leaping to the nearest building. Everything goes back to normal as the car drives by and the driver is cursing at me. My eyes are wide open as I look at the car and I notice I'm looking at the vehicle from above. Cars passing by stop in shock and pedestrians walking stop and stare at me as I notice I'm on the wall! I cling to the wall like a fly, or a cockroach, or a spider!

I jump down and run to the nearest alley way. Completely in shock of what just happened, I try thinking of excuses for why I can do that. All I can think of that would be logical is the spider bite. I realize that maybe that radioactivity did had a strange effect on me when the spider bit me. 'Maybe it passed on its unique powers to me after it had bit me. Maybe that's why I dodged the car in a split second, and why I was ten feet high on a wall, and why I just ran five blocks in a matter of ten seconds and I'm still breathing as if I was walking the whole way.' I think to myself.

"What's happened to me?" I ask scared of my new, impossible abilities. Suddenly, I remember Gwen. I run out and head towards the library. I try thinking of what else I can do, but I decide to figure that out later. I get to the library in half the time I would have gotten there by car. I walk in the library and sit at a table waiting for Gwen. She walks in a few minutes after I sit down and immediately spots me.

"Hi Pete." She smiles at me as she sits across from me.

"Hey Gwen, how's everything?" I smile back with the thought of why she called me here coming back to me.

As if reading my mind "Look Peter, the reason I called you here is cause I need to talk to you..." she pauses "I need to talk to you about Liz."

I look at her confused yet getting worried by where this is going. "Okay, what about her?"

"I don't think you should date her. Something about her just doesn't seem right to me." She says solemnly.

My confusion grows and I can't help but ask "Why? Are you jealous?"

She doesn't expect my question and pauses. "No... No why would I be jealous? I have a boyfriend."

"Then why don't you want me to date Liz?"

"I've heard some things from people who are saying that she's only trying to make Flash jealous because she wants to get back with him. And who better to date than the guy he despises most?"

Her crazy thoughts start to get me annoyed and I stand up. "How about you worry about 'your' love life and not mine. I finally start liking someone who likes me back..." her face looks up at me and I can see she starts feeling bad, but not for what she's saying about Liz; she's feeling bad for when I made a fool of myself by confessing my feelings for her when I was unaware Harry was her boyfriend. "and... and you start telling me these things to get me to break up with her? Well, I'm not buying it." I push in my chair and start walking to the exit. "See ya later... friend." I say sarcastically as I pass by her. She doesn't move as I head out the door.

I start to wander carelessly. I find myself on the top of a building, sitting down on the edge with my feet dangling. 'Is this my life? Never being happy, always just focusing on school? Being the outsider?' I look out and see the city standing tall before my eyes. "No... I will be happy for once. Things are going to change. I can't just wait for things to get better, I need to make it better myself." I say confidently.

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