I got to school late on Monday morning. I hadn't been sleeping what with everything playing on my mind. As a result I missed my alarm. By the time I got there something became pretty obvious to me. The incident at the bridge and this mutant lizard thing that had appeared was all anyone seemed to be talking about. Somehow it had gotten around the entire student body that I was there that night. The only people that were aware from me personally were Peter and Gwen. Peter, obviously because he was there and also because I'd told him afterwards under the pretence I didn't know his secret. Geez, that was an awkward conversation.
Just like the mugging, within an hour of me getting home Peter was banging on my bedroom window. Before even that though I had to deal with a tearful Aunt Penny because she'd seen it all on the news. She put two and two together, guessing that because I was late home from Oscorp then I must have been caught up in the lizard, bridge fiasco. Of course she was right, she always is. After convincing her I didn't need to go to the emergency room she let me go up to bed and that's when he came.
When he stepped into the room, it took every ounce of my inner strength not to pummel him with my fists. Not to scream and shout at him, asking why he'd kept this from me, why he'd go and do something so stupid and put himself in danger. To ask him how he went from awkward, slightly off kilter Peter Parker to the friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man.
Of course I didn't, of course I just stood there. I feigned ignorance. I told him the whole series of events, starting from when my phone died, right up until when Spider-Man left me in the safe hands of the paramedics stationed at the side of the demolished Williamsburg Bridge. There was one kind of major part I left out though, the part where I saw him, the part where I discovered the truth.
I shook the whole time he was there that night, just like I had when we'd been on the bridge an hour or so before. He must have thought it was from the shock of what happened. Part of it was, but not all of it. I couldn't wrap my mind around it all. There was the whole thing with Dr Connors earlier which I couldn't even begin to work out, the Lizard thing and now to top it off Peter. No wonder I couldn't keep still, calm down. I'm surprised I wasn't internally combusting.
Peter spent the time before he went home going over his fears about Dr Connors. Saying it was too much of a coincidence that I'd seen him surrounded by cross-Gen stuff, injecting himself and then just a short time later some lizard mutant was attacking the city. It was too much for my brain to compute. Was that even possible?
The other person who knew I was there that night was Gwen. She'd called me up on Sunday morning to apologise for the whole cold shoulder treatment she had given me, saying she'd made a huge mistake for whatever reason. I told her the whole story, excluding certain parts obviously. I knew Peter wouldn't be going around spreading the fact I was present. That only left her. I wasn't mad, wasn't angry. I just wanted to get away from it and I thought school was the way.
"Gwen, how does everyone know I was at the bridge?" I asked when I bumped into her between classes that afternoon. For the last 2 hours I been faced with questions like, "What does Spider-Man smell like?" "How close were you to death?" How much blood did you see?" "Was that lizard thing really as big as they make out?" My brain was frazzled.
"It might have been me. Kaley Watson was arguing that it was a giant frog not a lizard and before I could think, it kind of slipped out that you saw it yourself. I'm so sorry."
"Don't worry about it." I could see she really did regret the momentary lapse in judgement.
After school let out I grabbed my things, walked out into the sun and was met with the sight of Peter waiting for me, skateboard in hand by the gates.
"Hey," He smiled, squinting his eyes as the rays impaired his vision.
"Hi."
"You feeling ok?" Peter looking at me closely as we started walking in the direction of home.
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Catch Me // Spider-Man (BOOK 1)
FanfictionAll anyone ever wants from life is to feel safe, protected, loved. I never had any of that growing up. If you looked back on my life now you could come to the conclusion that it was Spider-Man who gave me all those things in the end. You'd be wrong...