Along Came A Spidey

CHAPTER 15

I was so consumed with rage and jealousy and disappointment and hatred for Michelle that I didn't notice Flash come up beside me.

"Told ya. He's gonna leave you." He sing songed and laughed in my face.

Not caring that I still had more than 10 detentions to cover for kicking him, I glared at him and I was sure my face was completely contorted by anger. Breathing heavily, I balled my fist, and with as much force and rage I could muster, I punched him in the throat. He fell back. I didn't care what happened to him next.

I stomped over to where Michelle still had her lips on MY Peter. My boyfriend was struggling to get away but he didn't want to use his whole strength.

I had no such qualms. I grabbed MJ by her shoulder and wrenched her away from him. I pushed her back.

I would have hit her, if it weren't for Pete's calming hand on my shoulder, the fact that MJ was one of my closest friends and that she was drunk.

Instead, I grabbed her by her hair and dragged her out to the parking lot where I proceeded to yell at her. 

"How could you, you...you bitch?! You're my friend. You said you were fine with us. Then why!!?" I screamed.

She was sober enough to argue properly (She was louder and more emotional, though.)And therefore I conclude she had been sober enough to know what she was doing. 

"Why? Why? Because I've liked him for more than a freakin' year. Because I've been waiting and waiting and waiting for when his interest in Liz would wane. But then you. You came along. I hadn't thought of you. Every goddamn girl in our school and I never thought of you as competition. I thought you and the guy you went with to Homecoming were happy. Then why'd you go after Peter?" She asked sharply, looking rather deranged. I doubt I looked better.

"I wasn't dating him! We just went to homecoming together, for God's sakes. And I never 'went' after Peter. I didn't force him into something he didn't wanna do. I like him. A lot. He's brave and smart and funny and cute and shy and nervous and everything. I'd had a small crush on him from the day I ran into him when I was 9."

"You had?" Peter interjected.

His voice pulled out of the reverie I'd been in with MJ. Practically the whole school was watching us and the teachers looked like they couldn't decide between punishing us or buying popcorn to watch us.

"Yes. Don't interrupt, Pete, please." I sighed. This night was definitely not going how I wanted it to.

"I'm the one who deserves him. You don't." She cried. Drober. Drunk+sober.

"Newsflash, Missy: No one deserves him. Ok? Not you, not me, not Liz, not Mary Jane, not anyone. He's amazing. He doesn't do everything right but he wants to. And that, for me, is worth more than anything else. And-" I laughed hysterically "for some reason I still don't know, he fell for me. Clumsy, stupid, insane, bitchy, sarcastic, fat me. And you have no idea how grateful I am for it. We've been dating a month. But it feels like forever, however cheesy that is." I held Peter's hand. I smiled shyly at him and he looked so happy it made spiders spin webs in my chest.

Michelle looked like she actually was gonna cry. Then her face softened and she walked towards me but then she noticed Peter and I's linked fingers. Her face hardened and the pain in her eyes became more prominent.

"I don't need to hear this." She muttered. "I'm leaving. I never should have come here. Peter...I hope you're happy with Sanya. And Sanya, you were my best friend. But now, everything has changed. Look what you've made me turn into." She looked desperately around.