Peter Parker- I'm with you, no matter what

Chapter 2

We all entered the classroom in which we were to be detained. As soon as we entered we saw Mrs. Turner sitting at the desk, it looked like she was the custodian for these two hours. It would be exhausting, because Mrs. Turner was a very exhausting person and generally bad tempered. We were still standing in the door frame and looking into the room. Other students were scattered around the room.

"I'm sure they were all sent here by Mr. Miller.", Peter said and smiled at me.

"Yeah, probably." I replied and smiled back.

Liz had already taken a free seat and because she and MJ wanted to talk about the academic decathlon anyway, she sat down next to her. In the back of the room there were still a few seats left. Ned was just taking a single seat in the penultimate row. I saw some empty tables in the back row so I decided to sit behind him.
There were still enough place to sit, but Peter chose the one right next to me. Mrs. Turner had already started to check the attendance and now she rattled down our names in annoyance.

"Ned Leeds, Liz Allen, Michelle Jones, Peter Parker, Lyra Adams ..." and numerous other names.

To my surprise, the two hours passed pretty quickly, which was probably due to the fact that Peter and I talked quite well the whole time and even laughed together. I had never really noticed him before, sometimes I had seen him talk to Michelle and walk down the hall with Ned, but nothing more. There were only five minutes of the detention time left and suddenly Liz came up to us.

"Hey Lyra, MJ told me about your good grades and all that, so I wanted to ask if you don't want to be part of our team after all?"

I looked at her a little confused. "Um, well, yes," I stammered.

"Okey, cool, our next meeting is the day after tomorrow, we always meet on Wednesdays in the 8th and 9th hour.", she explained to me, turned around and went outside with the doorbell.

Everyone got up and left. When I got up, Peter touched my arm, I turned to him and he said:

"I'm happy to have you on the team!"

I smiled at him, thanked him and left the room with the others. MJ squinted me sideways and grinned.

"What?" I asked her.

"Oh nothing, it just seems like you've got on well with Peter Parker lately. "

" So what ?! ", I muttered annoyed, knowing exactly what she was alluding to.

We got on the subway, drove a few stops and then we parted ways, I ran home, went to my room and did my numerous homework.

The next morning I was later than usual, so I hurried. Since math was due in the first lesson, I was particularly quick because it was better not to be late. When I got to school I ran to class and when I got to the door, I ran into Peter. In the classroom he sat three seats away and now I noticed that recently he has often been arriving pretty close to the start of classes.

"Have you heard, This morning Spider-Man prevented another bank robbery and fought four armed men.", MJ whispered to me.

"I saw it on the news on the train. Tell me, do you think that it looks like Peter is hiding something?", I asked her.

Michelle looked at me with raised eyebrows and said: "Where did the sudden interest in him come from?"

I just rolled my eyes and went back to the math problems. Math was pretty much the only subject I wasn't very good at. The lessons that followed dragged on, so I was very happy when I got home.