"I'm gonna worry about you either way Peter. Not knowing, I'm gonna worry because you keep disappearing and ditching me coming home with bruises. And now knowing I'm gonna worry because a giant lizard did this to you. Basically either way I'm gonna...
"How are you going to join us if you're out here?" I joke trying to cheer him up but it doesn't. "Peter, what's wrong? Are you alright? It's the same look." I start to feel like this isn't going to end well.
"I don't know what I'm doing." He looks away from me.
"It's about Gwen's dad again? I thought we already talked and got through this." I try not to tear up.
"I know... I see him everywhere I go. I can't- I don't know what to do. And I can't get him out of my head." He explains to me.
"It's not his choice. It's mine. We weren't even that close for him to say that for me."
"Maddie. I promised him that I would keep away from you both. Especially you since you lost the most. And now I'm gonna come and eat dinner with your family. How can I do this? What does that make me?" He tears up.
"I don't know. What does that make you?"
"It makes me not able to live with myself." He walks away a little.
"I thought that it meant you loved me." I look over at him.
"I do love you. I love you."
"Then why isn't that enough? Huh? Why break every promise you make with me but not with other people? If you truly loved me..." I walk up to him with tears falling.
"What if something happens to you? What if something happens to Gwen just like it did with him because of me? You both put yourselves at risk to help others and get the antidote while he was on the way there." I try to speak but he cuts me off.
"I cannot let that happen again because what if... what if it turns out different? Both of you or one of you? You and Gwen have created this close bond and I don't wanna see you lose someone who means a lot to you."
"Listen to me. You're Spider-Man... and I love that. But I love Peter Parker more. I've loved Peter Parker since I was eight years old. That's worth it to me." I cry to him.
"I can't let you lose Gwen too. And I can't lose you."
"If because you can't lose me, we can't be together... who does that work out for, Peter?" I ask him.
"I can't. I'm sorry, Maddie."
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"You have done this to me... again and again, Peter. I can't live like this anymore. You don't care how much you hurt me when you think you're doing what's best for me. I break up with you. You're still a friend in my eyes and heart but you are no longer my best friend. Because even if you weren't my boyfriend... a best friend wouldn't do this to their best friend." I walk away from him trying to calm down my crying as I walk back into the restaurant.
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Since the whole break up, I lost track of how long has passed. Gwen was pissed at Peter for his decision to not talk to us anymore. I mean I still saw and spoke to him a few times whenever we saw each other. You know since we were neighbors and I was still close with May. Basically our relationship was like how mine and Gwen's was before we found out we were cousins.
