Chapter Five: Natural Selection

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When it comes to my Dad and Norman Osborn, our families haven't really been on good terms. After Mom died, Dad hated Norman Osborn will all of his being. I don't know, but I just have this feeling that if not for me being friends with Harry, Dad might have tried to make sure I was never around the Osborn family. There have been times where I've gotten into trouble and Dad's got pretty heated because usually it involved Harry, but it was never quite intentional.

The principal or anyone else can say that Harry started the fight and I merely stepped in to help and got hurt, but the truth was that I was the one that usually started the problem because I wanted to help somebody and I got attacked because of it. Harry would step in and take care of the problem, and if he couldn't, well Scott and I would step in. Scott never got in trouble because he was trying to break the fight apart, but because of my early involvement with it, I would always get in trouble. There have been about five times I've been in trouble for fights, and each time I got away okay because technically I never threw a punch during it. I would be taken to the principal's office to have a word over the matter but the punishment usually went towards that guy who hit me.

I could be the only one that was fought, but if Harry even lays a single hand on somebody, he's immediately marked as the other side of the fight.

So, what could have possibly happened that really marked a bad day for my friendship with Harry Osborn? Well, that was because I got involved into an altercation with Eugene "Flash" Thompson, and instead of letting Harry take care of it by himself, I was stupid enough to get involved even more...let's just say Dad and Norman won't be very happy to see each other.

The following day...

"Put him down man," was the four exact words that started the problem in the first place that Stiles spoke, looking at Flash Thompson, a friend of Jackson's, holding a guy by the name of Gordon by his legs, nearly having the poor guy in a tray of food.

Before anything else happened, let's clear things up, Midtown High School, or sometimes known as Midtown Science High School wasn't exactly known for it having the brightest students in the world, they did have quite a few, earning the "science" in the name... but there were a few that could be described as giant idiots who wouldn't know how to breathe if it wasn't automatically known when they were born. Stiles, for one, had inherited his mother's level of intellect thankfully, easily making him a genius. There was a price of being a "nerd," and that price was the classic penalties of being the targets of bullies, or in Stiles's case, Jackson and his friends. It wasn't that bad if it was only Jackson, but when it came to his friends they were kind of a big threat.

There were a few people in Jackson's group that Stiles knew: Kenny "Kong" McFarlane, an obese but very strong guy that was Jackson's best friend when it came to torturing Stiles or any student at school. There was also Eugene "Flash" Thompson who was the biggest troublemaker by far at Midtown, and there wasn't much to say about Flash. There was also Danny Mahealani, but he wasn't like the rest of them, Danny was the only guy who didn't bother Stiles or any other students. Danny was actually a friend to Stiles, as they often partnered up for some projects in Biology. The few times they didn't team up in class Danny was forced with Jackson as a partner.

There was one thing that had always kind of bothered Stiles when it came to a few things, like how there was literally no consequences for Jackson and his gang, but Stiles couldn't really complain as he simply learned to basically ignore it, he just didn't like it when other students were targeted. There was going to be eventually a breaking point and Stiles was going to hate the fallout of it, and sometimes it couldn't be helped, and this... this was the precursor to the breaking point.

"Eat your vegetables Gordon!" that moment was just something that occurred routinely. Stiles didn't like this at all, seeing that Flash always chose random students as his next victim, and today that victim was Gordon. Flash was ignoring Stiles, and for some god awful reason, he was trying to get the one guy who could easily beat the living crap out of him to face Stiles. One question was going through Stiles's mind at this moment. AM I INSANE?

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