Broken But Not Alone

Chapter 2

Trigger warning
Peter woke up the next day on the top of a building and still in his spidey suit. He didn't remember falling asleep but he knew he needed to go home quick.

As he climbed back in his window carefully and took his suit off replacing it with his pyjamas and walked out his room to find aunt May asleep on the couch.

He covered her with a blanket and went and got a shower. He looked at the scars and a few cut that were nearly healed, on his wrists, upper arms and all he could think about doing it again.

Once he got out the shower and back into his room he took his blade out and cut a couple times. Just then his aunt May woke up and came knocking on the door telling him to get ready for school.

Peter cleaned up as fast as he could getting a bandage and putting it round the cuts on his wrist to help it stop bleeding but he'd forgot to put his blade back into his drawer. He got dressed and tried to leave as fast as he could.

"You not having breakfast? Or even saying bye?" She said smiling but concerned he hadn't been eating around her very often.

"I can't sorry, I'm going Ned's. His moms not seen me in a while and wanted to make me breakfast," Peter lied, "love you."

"Love you too Pete. Have a good day at school," she said eating the breakfast she'd made for Peter.

•

Peter met Ned once he got to school, Peter had been at his locker getting the books he needed for his first couple classes.

"Hey man, how's it going?" Ned said as he got to Peter.

"I'm good, I was thinking I could probably come over on Saturday or Sunday." Ned looked confused obviously he'd forgotten the conversation from yesterday. "You know your mom misses me" Peter said smiling.

"Oh shit how did I forget that," Ned laughed. "Yeah that sounds good."

Mj and Travis soon found them, "hey losers," she always said that when she met them.

"Hey Peter," Travis said smiling.

"Hey," Peter was also smiling.

He had no idea what he was doing. Ned and MJ walked ahead to let them talk and they did up until the bell. Peter then walked Travis to his class.

"Seriously Pete, your gonna get in trouble," Ned said as Peter walked in late sitting in his usual seat.

"I'll be fine," Peter said with a smile, his fake smile that everyone seemed to believed.

Ned just looked at him with worry in his eyes. He was worried because he could see through Peter sometimes, very rarely but he could now. And he could tell that he wasn't as okay as he seemed, not even close.

He'd noticed that no matter what the weather was he always had long sleeves he never questioned it, he didn't know what to say but he wanted to help.

•

At lunch Ned and Peter sat outside since the cafeteria was too loud for Peter. He usually brought money for a lunch or brought food but today like the last couple weeks he hadn't.

His excuses was usually that he forgot or May forgot or that he wasn't hungry or he had a big breakfast or May was making a big dinner and he wanted to save space for that. Ned had stopped believing this a while ago.

"So your not eating again?" Ned said taking his sandwich out his bag.

"Oh I was in a hurry this morning and I just forget the pick up the money May had put on the table for me," Peter lied.

"Oh come on Peter, you forget that I know you better than anyone else in this place, so I know when your lying. Question is why?" Ned snapped.

Peter had been expecting that for a while but was hoping he was wrong, "I don't know.." he knew he had to answer better than that for Ned but he didn't know what to say.

"Come on Pete, you can talk to me, you know th..." Ned was interrupted by Flash.

"Penis Parker!" He shouted like he usually does, he walked over to Peter and slammed his head against the table and kicked his bag against the wall.

A teacher came outside just as that happened, Peter's English teacher, Mr Stewart. Peter got up and picked his bag up as he sat back down he wiped the blood away from his face.

Shit, May is going to freak

"What's going on out here?" The teacher shouted, as Flash tried to walk away "Don't even think about it. You and Peter come with me now!"

Great, now I'm probably going to get into trouble, May is definitely going to freak. Peter thought as he grabbed his bag and got up, following his teacher with Flash to the principals office.

Mr Stewart explained what happened passing Peter a tissue who's eyebrow was still bleeding. After his teacher stopped talking, the principal looked at Peter, "Is that what happened?"

Looking at Flash he realised that if he told the truth things would get worse.

"No sir, h..he tripped over my bag and fell into me," he lied, "my fault really I uhh, I should have..shouldn't have left my bag in the way."

He believed it and turned to Flash, "is what Mr Parker said true?"

"Yeah, I wasn't looking where I was going," Flash lied more believe able than Peter, he must have been used to it. "Tripped over his bag and fell onto him, that's all that happened really."

"Ok well I don't see any reason to punish either of you then. Peter, Mr Stewart will bring you to the nurse to clean that," pointing to his eye.

After seeing the nurse Peter found Ned who was worried and wanted to know what happened and if he was alright asking a thousand questions a second.

"Alright, Ned I have no idea what you just said. But I'm fine, neither of us are in trouble."

"What!? Why!?" He said loudly the people around all stared.

"I lied said he tripped, I figured its best to have just a cut and a slightly happier Flash than have him beat me half dead because he got suspended," he said with a smile.

"Shit here he comes," Ned whispered.

"Parker. Thanks for that, my parents would have killed me," Flash said, the first time he'd ever been nice to Peter.

Peter laughed slightly. "Yeah no problem," he said with a smile knowing this wouldn't last long.

"What, wouldn't yours?" He asked with a smirk turning to look at everyone, "oh that's right their dead, forgot that," he said louder than before, then walked away with his group laughing.

Ned looked at Peter trying to figure out what he was thinking. He couldn't.