Isabella Winchester has been best friends with Peter Parker since they were babies. Their parents were close before Peter's died but they were also close with Peter's Aunt and Uncle. Isabella's father is a drunk, a gambler, and a wife beater. More...
AN: The boss at the track and the Phantom Rider are the same person (Portrayed up top) I was 13 when I was cursed with powers. I've been training for a couple years now, but what I wouldn't give to be a normal 15 year old techno genius. Peter and I still are best friends so we go to school together but I dont go straight home. I have to go to work and train before going home at 9 at night. Peter doesn't know about my powers. He believes that I am a workaholic looking for a way out of my miserable life. My mom went back to school and got her nursing license. She still goes to school and I strying to be a doctor. My older brother, my dad son from a fling before I was born, is currently going to the police academy. My younger siblings are still striving in school and side hobbies I keep them interested in. I believe one sister wants to be an actress and the other wants to be a singer but that tends to change a lot over a period of months. Due to my Ghost Rider abilities I work in a metal welding shop down by the boat yard on the weekends. The money is good and looks good on applications to the Science schools I plan to apply to. It also doesn't hurt that I'm allowed to keep some of the scrap for my own projects. Peter became friends with a Harry Osborn about a year ago as well as starting to have a slight crush on MJ Watson. Once I finished work my brother picked me up to take me home where mom forgot to cook the younger ones dinner before she went in to work. I started dinner as my brother started cleaning. Katerina and Kaitlyn had been cleaning their rooms and doing their homework. I finished dinner and prepped the table.
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We ate and talked for an hour before going to bed. This is a basic everyday for me. My mom is more concerned with her budding new lifestyle and constantly working but never there for us. My father still enjoying the fun that is Hell. My brother focusing on trying to start his career plus helping me raise my younger sisters in my mom's absence. Peter may be right on the fact that I do want out. I am 15 with more obligations, not of my own making, than most adults. I worry that I will be stuck having done nothing with my life because my parents refuse to be parents and put the responsibilities on me. I woke up the following day at dawn. My siblings and I try to keep up a very active lifestyle so we run a couple miles at dawn before Mom gets home. When we returned mom had already made herself something to eat and was dozing on the couch in front of the TV. Mom was watching us basically ignore her as I fixed breakfast and we talked about our preparations for the day. Summer was coming up and my work schedule would increase slightly but another was basically me on the phone all day answering voicemails and setting appointments. I got the two youngest to the school bus to go to their school while my brother would take me to pay the bills before school. "Hey I want all of you home by 7. We're going to have a family dinner and I want you to meet my boyfriend." Mom said expecting us to just say yes "I can't. I work until 9. Then I come home and help the girls with their schoolwork." I said and Mom already started glaring at me "Well you're little 'job' can wait. I am your mother and when I say I want you home I want you home." She tried to demand "You may be my mother but it is our paychecks that pay for everything since you prefer to act like your a single non obligated woman. If you bother to check the house is currently my name only the bills are under yours. Now we dont want to be late for school plus we have to pay the bills before we get there." I said leaving our Mother with mouth gaping wide open as we left My brother and I rode in silence the entire way to school. By the time I got to class I was back to normal and not so fuming mad. I pulled out a modified recorder and let the teacher lecture as I split my concentration between a new gadget I was working on and school work. I was making straight A's not that anyone really knew about it besides the teachers. I don't volunteer like some know it alls and I'm not a class clown. I work hard and keep my nose clean. Tomorrow we will be going to Oscorp labs where MJ volunteers as an assistant lab tech. The teacher called on me thinking I wasn't paying attention. "Miss Winchester what was I just discussing?" The teacher, Mrs. Romney, sneered as the class started laughing "You were discussing how Romeo and Juliet are still relevant as something more than just Shakespean literature." I said "Ah so you disagree with me do you?" "Absolutely. Let's take this more from a moral statue for a moment. During this time period it is apparently perfectly okay for one to encourage pedophilia. Juliet and Romeo are currently still under the age of adult age of consent but yet the parents instead are more concerned with a family feud then of a child's innocence. Where Juliet and Romeo eventually kill themselves to be together I don't believe the families are crying about the loss of life, but, as is more accurate for the time period, they are more upset over Juliet disgracing the family and killing herself to shirk her duties as a brood mare for the family. Romeo is in similar position. The story is a tragic tale in the fact that is so realistic in the time of our now past, where young girls were wed, bed, and pregnant by 14 which is now frowned upon here in the US but not illegal. The practice of child brides is still out there in some countries. So Mrs. Romney I disagree on the front that your beginning argument was that the Shakespearean tale Romeo and Juliet is important and valid today outside of a 'romantic tragedy' story, but I agree that it gives a look into the past of women history today and how much times have changed but how much further we still have to go." I lectured Mrs. Romney stared at me hard and the class looked at me open mouthed. "That is a...very well thought out response to our discussion. I wish you would participate more often." Mrs. Romney said looking at me thoughtfully "I'm good, Mrs. Romney." I said as the bell rang I hurried and grabbed my stuff and headed for my next class. Peter followed behind me. "I don't think they were expecting that." He said with a smirk "I doubt they were either." "Did you see Whitney Cross face?" Peter said laughing before mimicking what Whitney looked like mad Whitney is head cheerleader and is dating the quarterback of the football team. While the quarterback bullies Peter, Whitney attempts to bully me. Whitney brags about her rich lifestyle and slightly above average grades so she feels that it is perfectly okay to use your popularity to bully others just like her boyfriend and many others. Thankfully the rest of the day goes just like normal as does work. At 9pm my brother picked me up so we could go eat dinner with our sisters. I went ahead and picked up McDonalds. As we pulled into the driveway another car was there as well as my mother's. I was hoping she would be gone already. When my brother and I entered the house, everything was tense but you wouldn't be able to tell with how my mom was talking. Everyone was at the table with dinner laid out and two spots put out for my brother and I. "Ah...there you both are. I would like you to meet Andrew." My mother gushed I nodded at Andrew and my brother shook his hand. I felt my powers act up and I could almost see his greatest sins pop up before me like on a screen. Andrew had a thing for girls my sisters age. I was ready to attack him now and send him packing but I restrained myself. "Come on sit down you two. Dinner was just laid out. Andrew agreed to a late dinner to accommodate your schedules." Mother said We all sat and mother went ahead and told us how Andrew was a plastic surgeon at the hospital she worked at. They had been dating for over a year. Andrew owned a big house on the other side of the city. Of course that wasn't all, Andrew had asked mom to marry him before even meeting us. I'm assuming mother was expecting a better reaction than what she got. We didn't even bother eating the food. "So when are you leaving?" Lyn asked "What do you mean leave? We'll be moving in with Andrew a couple weeks after the honeymoon." Mother answered and finally noticing the angry tension in the room directed at her and Andrew "I would love to adopt all of you as my own and be a father to you." Andrew said realizing that we were not happy at all "Well I'm not moving. Besides a little too late to worry about us having a father now. We're all almost 18 if not over already." Rina said "I'm getting married and we are finally going to have a decent life with a full family why are you not excited?" Mother demanded getting upset "You've known him for a year and never even bothered to introduce him to us or at least mention him. You can be happy all you wish, but your so called full family won't be with us moving in with you and Andrew. Andrew we don't need a father thank you. Now Lyn, Rina time for homework and then bed you have school tomorrow." I said standing just to be knocked back a step My mother slapped me and everyone froze. "I've had enough of your attitude young lady. How dare you be so rude to me after all I have given up for you? After all I have sacrificed so you had a decent life?" MOTHER screamed at me "Sacrifice...you wish to speak to me about sacrifice. When did you sacrifice anything for us. Was it when you let our father beat us half to death over even the smallest of details? Was it when you gave him every dime we had for bills and food to gamble or whore away? Or how about when I had to get a job at age 9 to take care of us? How about every time the teachers or coaches called me when there were problems at school because you were too busy partying? I raised these girls. I pay the bills alongside Samuel. I make sure we are taken care of both legally and mentally. I made sure that while you played deadbeat mom that this family had someone to fall back on. Before you even think you have the right to take anything, I will have you in court so fast Andy here won't even know up from down. Now if you ever lay your hands on me or the girls again I'll put you, your man, and stuff out on the curb and change the locks." I ranted back loudly Andrew quickly gathered my mother and got her out the door. I stayed up and help the girls with homework before they went to bed and Samuel went to bed as well. I bundled up the food and put it in the fridge before cleaning up the house and going to bed myself. Just another messed up day in my messed up life.
