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

Chapter 15

I woke up and saw the clock. Already 10:00 a.m.

"The school!", I uttered.

"Happy has already taken care of that, we are unfortunately "sick" today!"

Peter was already standing in the middle of the room and seemed wide awake, so I got up and got ready.

“Ned wrote in the group chat earlier this morning that he and Michelle were going to one of Liz's parties again this evening. Maybe we should go too... after all the excitement yesterday."

“Yes, we'll do that!”

So a party at Liz's, I wondered why Peter really wanted to go there. To distract us or at least because he might still be into Liz. Why did I even think about it? He could do whatever he wanted, we were just friends.
We left the room and Mr. Stark was waiting for us. He handed me my suit which had been touched up a little. Peter and I made our way home, we reached the building in which I lived and said goodbye.
I watched him go briefly as he set off, then I went upstairs to the apartment and my room.

After a few hours, MJ rang my doorbell. She was already ready for the party, unlike me.

"Ned and Peter are going to pick us up in an hour, why aren't you ready yet?"

"There's still enough time, I wasn't going to dress up too much anyway!"

"Don't you want to look extra good for Peter?”

“Are you starting again?! Peter and I are just friends, just like we are all!”

I changed, a black skirt that ended just above the knees and a white blouse. MJ helped me to put my hair back and then the doorbell rang. We went downstairs and the boys were amazed when they saw us.
We went to Liz's house, the music could be heard right out into the street. On the whole inside we had a good time, we laughed and danced and just had fun together.

"Hey Adams!", someone called from behind me.

It was flash. "What do you want?"

"Nothing in particular."

"Then you can go away again!"

"Why are you hanging with these losers again?"

I just rolled my eyes and MJ interfered. "Go away, Flash!"

We were about to walk away from him when Flash grabbed my arm rather roughly. "Hey, I'm talking to you!"

"Let go of me, you're hurting me!"

Ned and Peter noticed us with Flash. Peter pushed him away.

"Take your hands off Flash! You have no right to do that!”

“Oh yes, and you do? Fuck off Parker! Nobody talks to you here!”

“Just leave us alone, Flash.”, Ned demanded.

But he just smiled provocatively, reached out and punched Peter in the face. In the same place as last time. Peter was about to hit back, but by then I had grabbed his hand.

“Come on, he's not worth it. You're not like him!”

I didn't let go of his hand until he finally turned to leave with us. Halfway through, Ned and MJ said goodbye.

“Well then, we have to go that way now. See you tomorrow.”

Michelle and Ned turned the corner and were no longer to be seen.

Peter and I stood at my door. "Your wound is bleeding again.". I said, pointing to his cheek. He carefully wiped some blood from his face.
“Maybe you'd better stay here. May wouldn't be happy to see you come home bleeding again!”

He laughed. "Yes, she probably wouldn't.”

We entered my apartment and Peter wrote May a message that he was with me and that he would collect his luggage for the short trip to Washington tomorrow before school.

"Where are your parents actually?", he asked me.

“Oh, they're on a business trip for weeks again, I'm quite often alone. I think that's actually pretty good.”

We sat down on the couch in the living room and I could feel Peter's tension.

"What's wrong? Why are you so tense?”

“Nothing, I'm just still really angry with Flash!”

“Don't let him provoke you like that, he's just a stupid, rich idiot with a mouth that is too big!”

“I know, but he is just so incredibly rude, he just doesn't know when he's going too far and he hurt you!”

“It wasn't that bad, everything's okay!"

"And it's just annoying how he keeps reminding me that I'm a loser!"

"Stop it, don't say that! You know this is not true! You're a thousand times better than him!”
He smiled sadly at me.
“Why do you let someone like him make you feel so insecure? I think you underestimate yourself and you don't even know how happy Ned, MJ and I are to have you as a friend. And even if Flash were a millionaire and looked better than you, which he doesn't, he still wouldn't be as wonderful a person and friend as you. Because of that!”
I put my hand on his heart and looked into his brown eyes.

He hugged me. "Thank you!"

"You don't have to thank me, I just told the truth."

In his eyes I could see that despite everything I had said, it wasn't really getting any better. So I just sat leaning on his shoulder until I fell asleep.