Believer [Peter Parker]

18 - New School Year

The new school year started and Hannah was dreading it. She had some summer assignments from some of her classes that she was able to finish over the summer. In the last week of summer, Tony finally let Hannah go out as Spark again. The media was starting to focus more on Captain America. 

Hannah was relieved that she can finally able to start going out as Spark again. It's been so long that she forgot how easily she can get hurt. After going out the first time, she went back to the lair with her body aching. Nora Hudson was monitoring Hannah a lot. Hannah didn't mind at all. She liked Nora a lot. She was really nice.

Whenever Hannah went back to the lair, Nora was always there with Luke and Anthony. Nora finally realized how annoyed Hannah would get when Spider-Man would start chasing her. They would be able to fight alongside each other but in the end, Spider-Man would always start chasing her. 

Hannah met up with Anthony outside the school on the first day. They were greeted by their friends that they haven't seen all summer. Anthony noticed Peter Parker in the distance before Hannah.

"Why don't you tell Peter how you feel?" he asked his friend.

"Why don't you tell this mystery girl that you like her?" Hannah asked she looked at her friend.

Anthony sighed. "Alright, I'll drop it."

"Thank you," Hannah said. 

"Hey, Hannah," Ned Leeds greeted Hannah as she and Anthony passed him and Peter in the halls.

"Hi, Ned," Hannah said. "Peter."

"Hey," Peter smiled. 

Hannah felt butterflies in her stomach when Peter smiled.

***

The first week of school went by pretty quick. Hannah started getting homework on the second day of school, which she wasn't too thrilled about. She was already slowly started getting used to being Spark again. The homework load wasn't helping. 

On Thursday, she had to pay a guy in her class to do her homework for her from all the work she has outside of school.

The weekend came around and Hannah had a lot more time to go out and be Spark and work on homework. She had enough time to hang out with her friends if she wanted to.

The sun was setting and Hannah kneeled down on the edge of a building. She was taking the view of the city. From how busy she is, she never got the chance to take everything in. It rarely ever happens in the city that never sleeps.

"Quill?" Nora Hudson said. "Are you okay up there?"

"Hm? Yeah, I'm okay," Hannah responded. 

"Are you sure about that, Hannah?" Anthony asked.

"Yeah, I'm sure," she assured her friend. "Is there anything I can do?"

"No, you and Spider-Man took care of most of it," Nora said. 

"Oh," Hannahs said, disappointedly. "I'm still convinced that Peter Parker is Spider-Man."

"Will you drop it?" Luke asked. "That little guy can never be Spider-Man?"

"You'd be surprised," Hannah said. "Peter may not look like it, but I'm pretty sure he's capable of being Spider-Man."

Luke sighed. 

"Doubt it all you want, Uncle Luke, I'm not changing my mind," Hannah said.

"Changing your mind of what?" she heard a familiar voice ask behind her.