My Sweet Captain a Steve Rogers love story, Book 2

Chapter 24 - The Amazing Spiderman 2

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        Steve and I are currently in New York, again. Well I am. Steve, Sam and Bell are away looking for Bucky. I am at our house which is in a decent neighborhood getting ready for the baby. It's not the best house, we could have gotten better, but I just love our neighbors. My neighbors are a sweet older lady named May and her nephew Peter. May has been helping me with everything as I slowly get bigger. She has also been having Peter move things for me, they are such nice neighbors. 

        Today Peter is graduating, and he is late as usual. His excuses are always so pathetic. I may not be able to heal anybody, but I can tell when they are lying... And boy is he lying. Pretty much all of the time. I watched as Gwen Stacy, Pete's girlfriend walked up to give her speech. 

        "t's easy to feel hopeful on a beautiful day like today, but there will be dark days ahead of us too. There will be days where you feel all alone, and that's when hope is needed most. No matter how buried it gets, or how lost you feel, you must promise me that you will hold on to hope. Keep it alive. We have to be greater than what we suffer. My wish for you is to become hope; people need that. And even if we fail, what better way is there to live? As we look around here today, at all of the people who helped make us who we are, I know it feels like we're saying goodbye, but we will carry a piece of each other into everything that we do next, to remind us of who we are, and of who we're meant to be."

         After Qwen's speach the graduation ceremony was over, May and I went over to Peter who had finally arrived half way through Qwen's speech. "I'm so proud of you. Sweetheart, I'm so proud of you." May said hugging Peter tightly. 

        Peter held up his graduation certificate as May tried to take a picture of him. "No. No. This is for you." He said gesturing to it. 

        "Oh, I am so proud of you." She said smiling/ 

        "You earned it." Peter said. 

          "Sweetheart, I'm so proud of you. I know the first thing that your Uncle Ben would say." May said. I never got to meet Ben, he seemed like such a nice man. 

        "Yeah, I know too. "You better hurry up, the party's over."" Peter said. 

        "No." May said. 

        "You've got to...you've got to get a job." Peter tried again/ 

        I laughed. "Alright, the second thing he would say, "don't just follow the path, make your own trail." May told him. 

        "Ralph Waldo Emerson?" Peter asked. 

        "No. Ben told me he made it up." May said as we all started laughing. "Well, you really did learn something here. I wish your Uncle could have been here." May said looking at the certificate. 

        "Yeah, me too. And my folks." Peter said. 

        May looked down unhappily, what's that about? "Yeah. Yeah." Peter was looking over at Qwen and her family. "Alright, you can go. Go on." May said to Peter. Qwen saw us and came over. "Alright, guys, get together. Get together, right now. A quick one." may said holding up the camera. 

        "Peter put his arm over Gwen's shoulder as May took a picture of them. "Cheese!" Peter and Qwen said. I smiled and gave them both a hug. 

        "Okay." May said as she turned to leave. "I'll just go over there." She said. 

          "Yeah, just give me two seconds. Alright?" Peter asked.