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Chapter 22: Who the hell are you?
Ned wasn't picking up his phone. Maria had been driving aimlessly for about five minutes now as she tried calling Ned for the 80th time in the last hour. Maria pulled over to the curb as she ended the call from her car screen and instead decided to use her phone. Maria pulled her phone from her pocket and looked at herself in the reflection of her phone.
"Should I?" Maria whispered to herself as she thought of something she knew was crazy. But what other choice did she have if Ned nor Peter were answering their phones. "Here goes nothing."
Maria put her phone down and turned her car off as she sat back and relaxed. She placed her hands softly on her thighs as she closed her eyes, sitting in complete silence in order to concentrate. Maria struggled for a bit, but finally found herself in her mind which was dark and empty, nothing coming to her or brightening up.
"Come on. Please, please, please work," Maria whispered to herself in frustration as she tried to reach out to Peter, Ned, or even Michelle's minds, but nothing was working. "Please work!"
Maria shouted in frustration as she tried to use her telepathy that wasn't working. Maria tried one more time, but it was to no avail. Her powers couldn't help her, and she was getting really tired of them not working. Maria decided to try to use her telekinesis as she reached her hand out and tried to lift her phone. Maria got excited as she noticed her phone shaking for a bit as she tried harder to lift it into the air, but her excitement was crushed when her phone barely made it off the seat before falling once more. Maria screamed frustrated with herself.
"Why is this happening to me?" Maria cried out as she closed her eyes, and reached her hands up to her face to wipe at her watery eyes angrily. Just as she had begun to calm down and get control of her breathing again, Maria noticed a text appear on her phone. Praying internally that it wasn't her dad or mom, Maria reached over to the car seat to get her phone and noticed it was a text from Ned. "Yes!"
Hey, we are at my house. You should come by and quickly if you can, the door will be open!
Maria threw her phone aside as she quickly turned her car back on, and pulled out of her parking spot as she headed to Ned's house in a hurry. Maria was in such a rush to get to Ned's house, she didn't notice the hint of orange glowing in her eyes as she drove away.
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Maria pulled up outside of Ned's house. Maria looked to Ned's house as she turned her car off. His house looked dark except for a small light coming from the left corner. Maria got out of her car as she walked up the steps to his house. She entered without knocking, Ned had told her it would be open, getting ready to lecture the hell out of Ned.
"What the hell is going on Ned? I have been calling Peter since yesterday and he hasn't answered his phone. My dad got a call from Matt that Happy was arrested for trashing his apartment building like what the fuck is that about?! Then I tried calling you almost a hundred times and all you say is to come to your house!" Maria yells out as she walks in and to the dining room where the lights were coming from. Maria was about to yell again but she stopped in her tracks as she noticed Ned and Michelle standing in the living room with two other men. One being an older guy and the other a young adult dressed in a Spider-Man suit.
