The Barnes Twins

𝚂𝙴𝟸 ᑕ ᕼ ᗩ ᑭ T ᕮ ᖇ 19

𝚃 𝚁 𝙾 𝚄 𝙱 𝙻 𝙴 𝙰 𝚃 𝚂 𝙲 𝙷 𝙾 𝙾 𝙻

All was well till Bailey got an unexpected call from the popular kids' table.
It was Like who'd yelled, "Hey B, you wanna come to have lunch with us?" he asked. No one called her B other than her brother.

Bailey looked over at Peter and Ned "oh my God! You got invited over to the popular bench! Bailey that's amazing! Go go" Ned exclaimed with a smile on his face, proud that his friend got invited to the popular bench?

"I-i can not go if you don't want me to Pete," bailey said slowly lowering her head to meet Peters's eyes which were staring at the table.

"Y-yeah sure go, why not," he said moving his hands in favor of his speech. Bailey saw he didn't look like he like her going out of his reach, but she wanted a life away from the avengers for a bit, having a friend from outside could help that.

"Are you sure?" bailey asked one last time, Peter nodded in response. Bailey then smiled and grabbed her lunch and headed over to the 8kids who were sitting at the table around the corner. They cheered and patted her in the back and she sat down with them.

"There we go," luke said as he patted bailey on the shoulder. "Hey, just friendly advice, don't hang around with those creeps, they're no fun and they're weird." another boy said from the corner. "They aren't weird," Bailey says as she took a bite of her apple. "Woah. Someone likes those creeps" another said from beside her, "ew" one of the girls said as she swirled her hair next to a boy looking at bailey up and down.

"You know you could be one of us, you need to stop hanging out with them obve." another said from around and soon everyone in the group was making fun or bullying Peter and Ned,
Bailey couldn't take it anymore,

"There's no reason for you to dislike Peter and Ned, they are cool kids and I'd much rather eat with them than you."
Bailey said as she sat up with her plate of food with one hand and the apple she was eating in another, as one boy named Josh as she remembered, grabbed her by the waist and hugged her whispering, "don't leave B, you want us... You want me...You know that" into her ear, while the others giggled and cheers and turned around to see them.

Bailey couldn't be more uncomfortable. "Get the f*CK off of me!" bailey said through her clenched jaw as she tackled Josh and slammed the food tray on his head as she hovered over his groaning body lying on the floor she bent down and said to him, "Don't EVER call me B again. And I don't need anybody" as she picked up the apple from near his head and  bit her apple in his face, she stepped over him and left the cafeteria leaving all the students rushing and gasping towards Josh,

Ned and Peter just stood near their tables, stunt looking at what happened. They didn't know what they said. All they saw was Josh hugging bailey and bailey slamming the tray on his head. Ned had his mouth hanging open.

After a while, Josh's friends helped him up and to the nurse's office while the others gossiped about the event. Ned and Peter tried looking for bailey but they couldn't find her.

The bell rang and they needed to be in class. So basically praying that she'd be in the class they went to the class, and to their luck, she was there.

Both ned and Peter released a breath they didn't know they were holding. Peter headed straight near bailey and sat in the vacant seat beside her. Ned understood the situation and sat behind Bailey.

The two boys seemed stressed and nervous to even start a conversation with Bailey. Peter finally came up with the courage to talk to bailey, but as he was opening his mouth to speak, Bailey beat him and raised her hand. "Miss, may I go to the restroom?" she asked and as the teacher excused her she walked off not even looking back at Peter or ned.

Baileys POV
I saw that Peter was about to ask me something and to be honest, I don't want to talk about it. Mr. Stark trusted me to not cause trouble in school and I broke his trust on the first day!
I didn't know what came over me at that moment but he's the one who grabbed me. He asked for it.

I raced to the bathroom and put my hands on either side of the sink. I slashed water on my face hoping it would calm my thoughts

I was hyperventilating and I couldn't stop.

"Trouble in paradise?" a voice asked, I jolted around "Woah won't it's okay, I'm MJ." a girl with dark curly hair said as she stretched her hand for me to shake.
But I didn't, I just nodded and exhaled slowly trying to calm my breath.

"You okay?" MJ asked again. "I-i can't B-breath." I stammered.
"Just sit on the floor? Take slow breaths" she said as she helped me to sit down.

I eventually calmed down and now my breath was steady.

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"Thanks," Bailey said as she looked at MJ properly this time. She had a sweet smile spread across her face.

"No problem, that happens to me sometimes. Mostly stress and depression and stuff" she said nodding,

I nodded in agreement. "The counselor is pretty good if you want to give it a shot," MJ suggested. Bailey can't be telling high school counselors about her life. She knows that it's too risky. "Nah, I don't think that'd be a good idea." bailey told MJ.

"Your peters friend right?" she asked Bailey nodded. "You know Peter?" bailey asked since Peter never told her anything about MJ. "Yeah he's in some of my classes and we're teammates in the academic decathlon competition team" she explained.