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

Chapter 11

We got back in the car so Happy could drive us back to Peter's place.

"Oh and Peter, you will surely get tired quickly because of the painkillers and you shoud rather tell your aunt you were beaten up by some stranger or something.", he advised him.

When we entered his apartment May called from the living room: “Peter! Where have you been for so long? Why don't you answer when I call you?”

She sounded very angry. May came to us in the hallway.

“Oh my goodness, Peter! What happened to you?”

He didn't answer her and before he said anything wrong, I did it for him.

"We - we were on the street and then suddenly there were these guys. Maybe they wanted to rob us, but I don't know.“, I answered and looked at Peter.

May hugged him and then turned to me.

“It's too late for you to walk home now. You better sleep here, Peter certainly doesn't mind.”

“No, of course not.”, he said and put his hand on my shoulder.

His aunt grinned and looked back and forth between us, then she made the sofa ready for me to sleep. After she had disappeared into her room and I was about to lie down on the couch, Peter came to me.

"Will you come over for a second?"

He looked so dejected, so I nodded and came into his room. He closed the door, turned to me, and gave me a jerky hug. He hugged me tight and I could feel his heartbeat.

“Thank you!”

“For what?”

“For everything that you don't betray me, that with May and ... and above all for earlier. You came as soon as I needed you, helped me and stayed with me.”

It was strange that he hugged me so long and tight, but I still enjoyed it. We pulled away from each other and lay backwards next to each other on his bed.

"Are you still in severe pain?"

"All the painkillers are finally working."

I realized that he was not doing well. He turned his face away from me and I moved closer to him.

"Peter, what's going on?"

"I failed today!"

Peter turned back to me, I saw the despair in his eyes.

“No, you didn't.”

“Of course, look at me. I wasn't strong enough!”

“But you were, because if you weren't, you would look much worse now or… would be dead."

After that we said nothing more, after a while I turned on my side and when I did I was just about to fall asleep when I felt Peter put his arm around me. He was so close to me that I could feel his warmth, as well as his heartbeat. Every time I felt this, it brought me an incredible calm. His hand was on my stomach, I put my arm next to his and my hand on top of his. When I woke up that morning we were lying there just as we had fallen asleep.

I cautiously freed myself from under his arm and stepped over him, out of bed. I checked my cell phone and saw a new message from MJ.

"Hey, do you want to go in the mall again? I'll be right at your home.”

The message was only two minutes old, so I replied quickly: “Hey, yes I would love to, but pick me up from Peter's, I'm at his place.”

I quickly got ready and put a message for Peter to the place where I had just been lying.

"I'm out with MJ, but I'll be back later if that's okay."

His aunt already seemed to be at work. I left the apartment and waited for Michelle down on the street. After a few minutes she was there, we walked to the next bus stop and drove to the mall.

"Aaaand, what's going on with you and Parker, huh?”

“Nothing, what shoud going on with us?”

“And then why were you with him overnight? Don't pretend!”

“It was just too late to walk home alone and I didn't want to leave him alone yesterday.”

“Why, what happened?”

“Nothing in particular, he just needed someone .“

Michelle just looked at me with a broad grin and shaking her head.

It was a pretty fun couple of hours with MJ, we bought a lot and just had a lot of fun. MJ checked her watch and realized she had to go. She wanted to meet Ned and prepare for the academic decathlon tournament with him. So I drove back alone, my cell phone vibrated, a message from Peter.

"Of course that's ok. I would be happy if you would come back."