Fighting for you ~ Peter Parker and MJ

Harry Osborn

I have never met someone with a bigger ego than Harry Osborn. He's your typical rich boy in my eyes, but obviously everyone thinks differently. Hes tolerable most of the time, besides we have all known him since kindergarten. We've taken a lot of fieldtrips to oscorp during our highschool years, the business Harry's dad, Norman Osborn, owned. Harry always used to tag along in the back of the group, he hated the spotlight his father always put on him. Norman and Harry didn't have the best relationship, Norman seems to expect so much of Harry. Harry never seems to be able to live up to his father's expectations. No matter my personal opinions on Harry I had sometimes, I was apart of the family we made to replace Harry's bioligical one. He annoyed me, but I did care about him. He has this thing about him that makes you have a gigantic soft spot for him no matter how big of a jerk he was. He also had his way of charming girls with a bat of his eyelashes, its never worked on me though, never.
I found myself sitting in a booth alone with Harry, at our usual icecream parlor waiting for the rest of our little group. As we sipped on our milkshakes, he was prying into my personal business. As usual.
"So you and Pete huh?"
He knew how to bother me, he used his usual lift of an eyebrow to further express that sentence.
"Yeah, I guess you could say that."
"It's cute, he's always had this thing for you. You were a bit of a weirdo last year though."
"Oh? Why is that?"
"Always reading books, being places at random moments of time. Watching Peter like you were supposed to be studying him for a school project."
"What's wrong with reading books? And i didn't study Peter, I don't get what you mean."
"You don't get what I mean? Here let me explain, Pete would get a phone call and you'd question him like he was some type of russian spy."
I rolled my eyes, sometimes it was hard to keep Peters secret identity secret. Harry didn't know yet, it made it hard sometimes.
"Well maybe Peter is the weird one" I said that with a soft shrug, and taking a big sip of my milkshake.
"Besides you shouldn't be talking, how are things with Olivia?"
"Olivia? what about her."
It was obvious Harry and Olivia had a thing for eachother, sometimes i felt bad for her, falling into his annoying charm.
"You guys are always hanging out by yourselves, just admit, you like eachother."
"Well yeah she's hot, but i don't like her like that."
That really set me off.
"Does it kill you to not act like some hard rock? Why can't you just admit you have feelings for her instead of using the word "hot" as an adjective to explain Liv. She's an amazing girl, honestly if that's how you're gonna act i'm happy you guys aren't a thing."
That made him look at me and blink a few times to think of a rebuttal.
"No i didn't mean it like that, yeah she's great. And she's gorgeous okay? that doesn't mean i like her. We can hang out without liking eachother." He said quietly while looking down, fiddling with his fingers. I just smiled, I got through to him, and not many people can do that. I just have that ability I guess.
"Whatever you say, Osborn."
With that, Gwen and Olivia walked in, Gwen sitting next to me, and Olivia taking the spot next to Harry.
"Took you guys long enough, I've had to deal with Miss darkness for 5 minutes."
I again just smiled and rolled my eyes. As they all talked happily about random things I kept my eye out for Peter. He was most likely out doing spiderman things like usual, even though he knew that he could get arrested any second.
"Mj, where's Peter?"
Gwen and Olivia didn't know about Peter either, really only me and Ned did. Which like i said, made things difficult because you always had to come up with new excuses to explain Peters absence all the time. I'm suprised no one else has ever caught on.
"Oh, he said he had to run a few errands for May before he came here. I'm sure he'll get here soon."
No one questioned that, and moved on with the conversation. Ned walked in, looking bothered. He basically experiences everything Peter goes through, they're like some duo that fights crime together. Ned the guy in the chair and all. I thought it was cute.
"Ned! Hey, come sit." Gwen always tried to be extra nice to Ned, because a few years ago he said he had a crush on her. He probably doesn't anymore, but she still feels the need to make him happy. Ned sat down on Gwen and I's side, and immediately ordered a milkshake.
"Hey guys, sorry i'm late, i had to spend extra time at Delmars because some lady thought you could adopt cats there. People just get more insane everyday."
"Sounds like something Gwen would do, dumb blonde type of things."
Gwen playfully punched Harry's shoulder with that remark as we all laughed, Harry did know how to be funny sometimes i'll admit.
A few moments later, Peter came rushing in like he was really racing against time. He made quite the show grabbing a chair and sitting down, almost falling over twice. I looked at him and smiled simply, I knew how flustered he was, I understood.
"Hey hotshot, where have you been?"
He looked at me, taking a few moments to gather his thoughts to respond.
"Oh yeah, sorry guys there was a lot of traffic getting here."
"Don't you walk, Pete?"
"..Yeah?"
"Maybe he got kidnapped by spiderman on the way, but is to scared to admit it."
That made Harry, Gwen and Olivia laugh genuinely, but the other three of us just laughed fakely and squirmed uncomfortably. We finished up our icecream and moved on to walking around the busy streets of New york, stopping into stores and enjoying the nice weather. Summer in New York was the best, there was no arguing about it. Peter and I stood by eachother the entire time,while everyone looked at us and smiled. We all stopped and decided to sit on the grass of central park, basking in the sun. Harry and Olivia quite close to eachother, mildly flirting while Harry joked around by braiding her hair. Peter had his shoulder touching mine.
"So Gwen, wheres your boyfriend?"
Gwen never really liked to talk about her love life, she always thought it was uncomfortable, but only not uncomfortable when it was mine or Olivias.
"Actually...I have met someone."
That made Olivia and I perk up instantly, going over to her and sitting closely while the boys just sat there awkwardly."
"Really? who is he? does he go to our school? what's his name?" We blurted our questions all at the same time, Making Gwen flustered while trying to listen.
"Well, you guys wouldn't know him. He took pictures for me, for my oscorp id card. After we were done, we talked for a bit in the elevator and he asked me out on a date. He's really nice, and I think this could go well."
We then sandwiched Gwen in a big group hug, eventually falling on the ground on our back in a pile of laughter, the boys still staring at us.
"Gwen i'm so happy, we've been waiting for actually so long. When do we meet him?" I questioned right away because obviously I need to make sure personally he is good enough for her, because Gwen is the sweetest soul and we can't stand her getting hurt. She was kind of the glue of the group, always wanting us to be together, always caring for us when we need her. Honestly, I don't think we could survive at all without her.
Just then, before Gwen could answer,  the moment was interrupted by loud screams, and people running away from a busy street in the city square. We all got up and looked to see a green glowing figure flying around, causing havoc all over the place. Before I could say anything, Gwen and Olivia grabbed my arm, yelling at me to run in the direction away. Harry was trying to call his dad, who wouldn't answer after 5 tries. When I didn't see Peter running with us, I knew he went to go after whatever this was. And whatever it was, I knew it was going to be a problem. A big one.

Hey guys, I hoped you liked this chapter :) I went a little farther into Harry's backstory because i feel like i haven't touched into him enough before, but he is going to be a big part of this book. Thank you for reading, have an amazing day <3