There are three simple rules Nellie Jenkins must follow as she orchestrates an article for the school newspaper on fellow classmate, Peter Parker.
Rule #1. Do not observe the person you are writing about outside of school grounds.
Rule #2. Do not mi...
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September 28th, 2017 The Final Observation Peter Parker. . .
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At this point, Nellie had nearly given up on writing her article for the school paper on Peter. She'd uncovered his secret of being Spider-Man, yet here she was, keeping her own secret from him.
Things between the two were becoming more and more personal; Nellie had been completely honest in her article about everything she'd learned about Peter Parker, from the start of their friendship all the way up to their kiss. However, Nellie had not been completely honest with Peter.
She even included his secret in her article.
Of course, she would never actually publish any of the content she had so far. It was too dangerous and completely deceiving. Peter would never speak to her again, and he'd probably even have to leave school. Any enemy of Spider-Man's—or anyone threatened by him—would know the face behind the mask, leaving Peter in constant danger. She wouldn't dare do that to him.
She sat staring blankly at her computer screen, Observation 13 typed outat the top of her screen. Her mind was blank and she couldn't seem to get her fingers to move across the keyboard as they usually did so effortlessly.
Her mind still replayed the events of last night over and over, at least what she remembered. Her foster mother had found out Tony Stark's arrangements for Social Services to come for Nellie. While Nellie was at school that day, Brenda had taken all of Nellie's belongings to the trash can outside of the apartment building. Nellie's pictures of her family were either broken or torn, her clothes were ruined from the garbage, and her books were missing pages and stained.
Luckily, her laptop remained safe as she took it to school in her backpack everyday. But everything else was now simply gone. All because Brenda could no longer snake money from the government to use for her own selfish purposes.
Nellie was so upset and angry that she'd been locked out of her home, she did something she'd never done before—went to a high school party.
In fact, she went to Liz Allan's party, despite the fact that Peter was once interested in her. She just wanted to do something normal, after the recent chaos that had been created in her life since discovering who Peter really was.
However, she ended up right where the chaos was, anyways. She remembered crawling through Peter's bedroom window, hoping to talk to him about what her foster mother had done. She remembered he wasn't listening to her and before she knew it he was promising her that everything would be okay as he left her alone.
"Nellie," she heard Peter's muffled voice approaching from behind her.
She took her headphones out and turned around, feeling a bit unhappy with him. Other than the two of them, the school library was a ghost town due to the pep rally going on in the gym.
