Spiderman Into The Spiderverse: Y/n X Miles Morales Reader

~chapter 16~

As I listen to my English teacher ramble on and on, I can't help but think about the conversation I had with the girl in the toilet.

I really shouldn't have asked if she was lesbian or transgender, I was wrong for that. It definitely isn't my business, and it was really rude, but I only wanted to know if these girls' rumours were true. I guess I only wanted to know more about her. I frowned to myself and fiddled with my pen. Well, she was rude to me as well. I'm not entirely in the wrong, right? She looked at me funny. How was I supposed to react? All I did was ask about her. It's hardly my fault that no one had anything nice to say.

"Y/n, seeing as you seem very focused in this class, can you tell me more about Shakespeare?"

The teacher snapped me out of my thoughts as he stood directly in front of my table. He looked down on me for an answer as I stared up at him.
Literally, no one is focusing in this class. Why call on me? I bet it's cause I'm new.

"Shakespeare? Umm... well, he hated Jews."

That's all I've got.

"Well, everyone hated Jews in his time -"

"Jews didn't!"

"What? Jews didn't hate Jews?"

"Exactly."

The classroom went silent as the teacher squinted at me in confusion. Am I wrong, though? Jews didn't hate Jews that wouldn't make any sense!

"Not quite what I was looking for...." the teacher mumbled at me as he walked away.
Okay, rude.
"Gwanda, what do you know about Shakespeare?"

My heart skips a beat as my head shoots up to see her sitting in her seat at the front. She's in my English class?!

"Shakespeare was a well-known poet who wrote plays and stuff," she mumbled, not looking up from her copy book.
Oh shit why didn't I just say that?

"Very good, finally something relevant..." The teacher said as he walked back to his seat.

What I said was relevant because he made Shylock a character because of his hatred for Jews, like how is that not relevant?

I sigh as I go back to spacing out about Gwanda.

I was out of line for asking about her personal stuff, but she was the one randomly judging me! I was only trying to see if she was okay, I don't know. Maybe I'm just overthinking it. To be fair, I definitely have other things I could be overthinking right now...
Like Miles literally fighting some guy for me? Why am I not thinking about that right now? If Miles only liked me a tiny bit, he wouldn't even bother, so my logic is that he definitely likes me more than a tiny bit.

I smile to myself as I keep thinking about it. What if he actually does like me like I like him? Yeah, I've only known him for a couple of days now, but still!

The bell rings, dragging me out of my thoughts. I shoved everything into my bag as I got up out of my seat. I don't even know my dorm room yet. I tried to force my way through the door, but everyone piled in on top of each other, trying to get out of it. I stood back behind everyone a little, waiting for them all to leave.

I turned around to see the teacher sat at his desk. Maybe it's my chance to redeem myself.
"Hey, I only said Shakespeare hated Jews because of the Merchant of Venice. You know that play, right?"
"I'm an English teacher, so yeah.."
"Okay, well, if you're an English teacher, then you should've known that me saying Shakespeare doesn't like Jews IS, in fact, relevant because of his character Shylock. He made Shylocks main bad character trait be the fact that he's a Jew. That's why it's relevant because his hate for Jews was incorporated into his work!"
The teacher sighed as he looked up at me, "I guess that is partially true, yes-"
"YES!"
He looks at me blankly as I settle down, "Sorry.. "
"Okay, well, if you wanted such relevancy to be known, then you should have elaborated like you did just now, during class time when I had first asked you -"
"But -"
"Another argument you used that did not back you up in the same way you just backed yourself up now is using the fact that at this time, 'Jews did not hate other Jews'..." He looked up at me with another dull expression on his face.
"I mean, that's right though... Jews didn't hate other Jews..." I say, subtly trying to lighten the mood.