❝ c'mon Parker, can't I have one last dance? ❞
Two years after Kaelyn
and Peter started dating,
she finds herself forced into
the superhero world and
finding out just how much trouble
she can get into
PETER PARKER X FEMALE!OC
INFINITY WAR - EN...
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RETURNING HOME WITH ONLY PETER BY HER SIDE, Kaelyn felt like an alien. All around her, loved ones reunited and rejoiced, others sobbed on the streets for fear that their loved ones were dead or had aged. Her heart raced as she and Peter stood hand-in-hand in front of her apartment door. Tony was dead and she felt empty. She had no idea if she could handle what was beyond that door.
Looking at Peter with watery eyes, he squeezed her hand reassuredly. With a heavy heart, she grabbed the spare key from under the mat and unlocked the door. Caden was standing in the kitchen, but there was someone else. A dark-haired woman stood around the kitchen counter with her back facing the front door. As soon as the door opened, Caden's eyes met hers and she already knew. His face was covered in a dark red stubble now, his figure had bulked up a bit, but he had grown in the way he looked at her. His eyes looked as though he had seen a ghost.
Upon realizing someone had entered the apartment, the dark-haired woman turned. With a heartbreaking notion, Kaelyn knew exactly who that woman was.
"Beth," Kaelyn's voice quivered as she looked at the woman in front of her. Five years. Beth had to be almost twenty-two now. All that time without her. Tears began to flow freely as everything overwhelmed Kaelyn at once. She collapsed to the floor, Peter slowing her fall as both her brother and best friend ran over to her.
Beth pushed Peter and Caden away, enveloping her best friend in a hug as she began crying, too. "Kaelyn, Kaelyn, I thought I would never see you again. I thought I lost you."
Kaelyn pulled away from the hug to cup her friend's face. Her jaw had thinned as she lost her baby-fat. Dark circles had formed under her once energetic eyes, a sign that the last five years had been tough on her. Her hair was shorter now, coming down to just above her shoulders. Something dark black on the girl's skin drew her attention, Kaelyn raised her pale fingers to brush over the girl's inner-wrist. It was a tattoo, reading K.A. in a script font with the words "she persisted," beneath it in the same font.
"You got a tattoo? For me?" Kaelyn asked, her voice shaky as her hands gripped her best friend's wrist, still in the girl's arms. "Beth, I missed you, so much. And Caden..."
The boy shook his head, "Catch up with Beth, I'm right here when you're done."
She nodded hesitantly, grabbing her best friend in a bear hug once again as they sat on the hardwood floor. "You had to do all of this without me. You graduated, got your first tattoo, are you going to school? Where do you go? I missed so much, I missed everything we were supposed to do together. We were never supposed to leave each other, but I left you. I left you, Beth."
"Shush, shush, none of that," the girl shook her head with teary-eyes and a gentle laugh, "Knowing you, you fought as hard as you possibly could. If you had stayed here, nothing would have changed if they still lost. You didn't have a choice. It's okay."
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Kaelyn couldn't stop apologizing. Everything she and Beth were supposed to do together was ruined. Prom, graduation, college. All of it was over now. She had been left behind, but it wasn't even hers or Beth's choice to make.
