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

Chapter 33

Michelle and I wanted to buy a few things briefly and then go to my place. We had almost reached the store when Cloe and Lilian came towards us, they were good friends of Flash, which is why I didn't feel like meeting them.
I didn't look at them and hoped they would just walk past us, but they didn't. Lilian hissed a "slut" at me and spat at my feet as I passed.

MJ turned around immediately and called after them.
"Hey are you crazy?!"

I nudged her from the side and shook my head. "Come on leave it, I don't want to mess with them."

But it was already too late.
“What do you want loser?”, Lilian asked arrogantly.

Actually, I wasn't that insecure and shy, but I'd rather not mess with people like them. Michelle got really angry.

"What's your problem? Why are you all so disgusting?”
By “all”she meant Flash and his friends.

Now Cloe said something too.
"We disgusting? Who do you think you are? If something is disgusting here, then your behavior, you bitch!"
She turned provocatively to me. “You are so pathetic and by the way, because Flash was suspended, he is under house arrest and can therefore not come to my awesome party. It's your fault!”

"It's his own fault and you don't have to act like that, come down! It's really disgusting how snooty you run around here and act like that.”

I shouldn't have said that, because I caught a violent slap in the face from Cloe. So violent that I stumbled against the wall next to me and scraped the skin a little on my knuckles and my right temple because the wall of the house was so rough. Cloe turned around and went ahead and before Lilian followed her, she hissed at me again.

"Better watch what you say! Someone like you shouldn't mess with someone like us, it always turns out badly for you!”

When she turned around, she tried to spit in my face, but luckily she couldn't. We went on to the shop we wanted to go to and when we went to my place, a strange silence spread.

"Is everything o ...", Michelle wanted to ask, but I interrupted her.

“Let's stop talking about it, we want to have fun today. Oh and please don't tell Peter, he shouldn't know anything about it.“

She just nodded silently and we reached my home. The rest of the afternoon went really well and we had a lot to laugh about. We talked about everything girls talk about. We watched a movie and then decided to bake muffins. There was a short silence again, but not for long. MJ threw some flour in my face.

"Hey, don't forget to laugh, you mourning dump!"

"Itself mourning dump.", I laughed and threw back some flour.

We laughed out loud. After that, we cleaned the kitchen while the muffins were in the oven.
After we took the muffins back out of the oven, I put them on a plate and brought them to my room, where I sat on the bed and turned on my television.

"Are you coming?", I called to MJ in the kitchen.

"Yes, right away!", it came back.

We ate our pastries with relish, watched a little TV and eventually fell asleep on my big bed.
I woke up in the middle of the night and thought about the day. In front of the others I always pretended that the taunts and hostility from Flash and his people weren't too bad, but if I was honest they were. It just sucks, but I didn't want to show that to Peter, Ned and MJ. They would only worry about me, and yet it would affect them all the time.