• Perfect Strangers •

Chapter One

Peters PoV

Walking beside Ned I fiddle with the Web-shooters on my wrist "Should you be doing that in public?" He asks as he turns to face me, shrugging I pull my sweater sleeve over it immediately "Not really, but I had trouble yesterday when I saved this little girl and I just wanted to make sure they were working." I reply, pulling my bag closer to my back "What kind of trouble?" He asks, stopping I go to speak but am stopped when a high pitched scream fills my ears and my senses scream at me "crap! Cover for me." I say boldly hurrying down an alleyway, I kick my clothes off and shove them into my bag, practically jumping into my suit I tap the centre as it tightens around my physic, webbing my bag to the wall casually.

Swinging past Ned towards the source of the scream, I watch out the corner of my eye as my best friend runs after me, obviously to see what was going on rather to witness me as he has many before. Hanging on the wall I stare at the burning library, swinging into the building I gesture for the civilians who are able to walk and stand to run out, my eyes falling on a familiar dark skinned girl, her head on the table makes it difficult to clearly make out it is actually her, nonetheless I ran over and hauled the book shelf off of her, lifting her chin I nod in response that it is in fact MJ, picking her up bridal style I look over to a handful of civilians who are climbing out an exit, covering MJ's Mouth and nose with a spider gadget that Mr Stark had created, I look around for remaining civilians, seeing no signs of others I make my way towards the exit, looking down when her hand tightens on my arm, her eyes open as they fall on me "don't worry Ma'am, your okay" I murmur in a low tone so she doesn't recognise me.

Standing with Officer Yuri I cover my own mouth with an Oxygen mask "Great save there Spider-man." She says happily, nodding I look over to MJ who's stood with Ned "glad I was there in time" I reply, watching as the dark skinned female stares at me, not once looking away.

Walking into school with the news blasting through the hallways about the fire yesterday and the fact Michelle had been in it, I ignored the constant chatter about it, Ned hurrying to my side "Hey Pete, can you believe you saved MJ yesterday" he says quietly, shrugging I open the door to our home room for him "well, sort of, She has always been a library girl" I reply, jolting when that same library girl appears in front of us "who's always been a Library girl?" She asks, her eyebrow arched in a manner of sassy attitude "Uh..No one!" I panic, watching as Ned covers his mouth quickly she furrows her brows "Your acting weirder than usual Nerd." She hums, shaking my head rapidly I hurry to my seat "not weird, just, you startled me." I return, watching as she rolls her eyes she sits behind me next to Cindy "dude that was close.." Ned whispers as he sits beside me.

After class had ended, I made it a top priority to get out of the classroom first so I didn't have to deal with the curious questions of Michelle Jones, Ned attempting to catch up with me fails and falls to the luxury of dealing with the same Dark skinned female who's watching me practically run away quite skeptically.
"Thanks for throwing me under the bus, Peter." Ned groans as he walks out of the school "Sorry, You know how I am when I get nervous" I laugh scratching the back of my neck as we walk down the street "Yeah, unbearable, honestly I don't know how I get by with you" he chuckles, pointing to the little spider stitching on my cap I tilt my head "I don't know, maybe your friends with an international superhero, who's been to space may I add" I smirk, watching him roll his eyes as he nudges me.

Biting into the sand which as we walk towards the library to check on the damage the fire caused yesterday, I spot a familiar brunette who's stood holding her books to her chest, her brown eyes meeting my own hazelnut ones "Hey look it's MJ" Ned chirps as he waves her over I practically facepalm as his Naive attitude, the fact we were just speaking about me avoiding her and now he's waving her over to us at the same place I saved her from yesterday "what are you nerds doing here?" She asks as she finally reaches us, i swallow a lump in my throat nervously "oh you know, wanted to know the aftermath." I say, practically sweating from the anxiety that's coursing through my veins "Yeah, the fire looked pretty bad yesterday, I'm glad Pe- I mean Spider-Man was there to save everyone" Ned says, feeling my heart stop I refrain myself from facepalming again and instead smile and nod "Spiderman huh... he was the one to save me yesterday, always wondered who he was. Maybe I should make it my top priority to find out" she hums as she faces me with an arched eyebrow, nodding I shrug "yeah! Totally, I don't know, he seems pretty desperate to keep his identity hidden, I guess we should allow him that much privacy you know" I murmur looking at the building as a way to avoid eye-contact with the intimidating cleverness of Michelle Jones "Hm, maybe your right Peter. I'll catch you later dorks, I have some research to do" She smiles sarcastically as she walks away "you look a mess man" Ned laughs as we continue our way home.

Looking down at my phone when it looks up with a familiar name, I arch an eyebrow 'hey Nerd, your a dork so wanna tell me what you know about Spider-Man?' groaning at her constant need of knowledge I click on the messages casually 'MJ, it's 23pm, what could I possibly know about him' turning over in my bed I ignore the singing of May who's dancing around in the kitchen 'so you know it's a him, that's one thing' groaning again I sit up now 'of course it's a him, man is literally in his name!' Refraining myself of smiling I look over to my mask 'and Is he an avenger?' Furrowing my brows I tilt my head "even I don't know that and I am him.." looking back down at my phone I breath 'I don't know maybe, he was wearing that iron suit that Tony had made for him, maybe that's a clue' nodding I watch as the typing bubble appears 'iron spider, You sure do know a lot Pete. Thanks' exhaling as I turn my phone off I turn over in my bed.