Beginnings and Endings

Are you ok?

(AN: this chapter is dedicated to a great friend of mine, who I've talked to for about a year now and I would hate to lose him, I'm so very thankful that he gave me the right to use his OC as a character in this story, I hope you all have a good reading, and good day/night)

Alice was walking down the street with Peter when someone shot him from behind and then ran off "Peter?!" Alice had fallen to the ground beside him "Alice" he coughed up blood "No, Peter, I-" she choked on tears trying to use her powers to heal him "Alice, there's no time, you couldn't even get me to the-" he started "No! There's time" she felt Peter grab her hands "Alice..." his breathing got slow "No, there- we can-" she had started crying softly "Alice, it's ok, you'll be fine, I'll be fine" he looked at her "No, you're my only friend I-" she wiped a tear "You'll make a new friend Alice" he slowly stopped breathing "Peter?" she shook him, nothing "Peter?!" she shook him again then started sobbing

About a week had passed Alice was at her locker looking through it trying to find her pencil when some kid came up to her "How's it knowing your best friend is dead?" the kid said "You know what Jason-" she looked at him "No, tell me, I'll love to hear it" he pinned her into her locker "Jason please get-" she hid the fear on her face "Oh come on Alice, you're fine" he said pinning her into the locker even more "Leave her alone Jason" a kid walked up behind him "And what are you gonna do?" Jason turned around "Or I can help her press charges on you for harassment" the kid said "She doesn't even understand math how would she be able to-" he started "I'll have you know that is taking advanced Algebra, Engineering, and advanced physics, and Engineering isn't even a class here, so I think she's smart enough to press charges" the kid spoke "Fine" Jason walked off

"Are you ok?" the kid asked "Yea, how did you know I take those classes?" Alice looked back into her locker "That's good and I like to pay attention to people around the school, helps me understand people better, I'm Freddie" he smiled softly "That makes sense, I do that during lunch, I'm Alice" she turned around "That's a nice name" he smiled at her

"Thanks" she smiled "I'm sorry about Peter by the way" he looked at her sadly "It's fine" she put on a smile but he could tell that there was sadness in her eyes, he didn't push it though because he didn't want to pry "That's good" he smiled "Yea" she smiled then looked back into her locker "Need someone to sit with at lunch?" he asked "I- You know I might just-" she didn't get to finish before she was interrupted "Nope, you're sitting with me, I want to learn about you" he looked at her as she grabbed her notebooks "Fine, and what about the Engineering? How do you know I take that if it's outside of school?" she looked back at him while starting to walk to him to go to lunch

"My...friend's dad teaches the class" he stuffed his hands into his jean pockets "You're friend?" she looked at him with a raised eyebrow "I just know the guy who teaches it and all that" he shrugged "Ok" she looked at her shoes "Yea, and I've heard you're very good at it" he smiled softly "Ah" she chuckled "Even better than me and I'm in the 12th grade" he laughed slightly "Well I don't have a lot to do as 10th grader with no friends" she looked at him "Well, Alice, I guess you'll be spending a lot of time with me after school" he smiled and looked at her as if she were his younger sister "Let me just write down days that I'm free" she joked "Sounds good to me" he chuckled

Alice had sat down with her food with Freddie then looked at it "This day would be a lot easier if I didn't have to eat whatever this is they call 'Pizza'" she pushed her food away "Do you always slander this school's food?" he looked at her "Yea, it sucks and 6 kids have gotten food poisoning in the past week" she laid her head down "We could leave and get some McDonalds or something" he suggested "No, you don't have to do that" she looked at him "You sure?" he raised an eyebrow "Yea" she pulled her hand through his hair "Alright" he looked at her "I hate this place" she mumbled "You should eat something at least" he sighed "Fine" she sighed then grabbed her plate and started to eat "Thank you" he smiled

After school Alice walked in through the front door and looked at her dad "Hey dad" she sighed while pulling her hair back with her hand "Hey, how was school" he looked at her "It was ok" she took her coat off "That's..good..I think" he thought "I made a new friend" she smiled softly "That's good" he smiled back "Mhm" she hung her coat up on the coat rack "Got any homework" he took a drink of his water "Yea" she sighed "Ok, and we'll be leaving for your class around 5:30" he put his cup down "Ok" she walked up to her room

Alice was in the car looking out the window while Bucky was driving "So, who's this friend of yours?" he looked at her for a moment then back at the road "His name is Freddie" she looked at him "Last name?" he asked "I don't know" she sighed "Ok" he pulled into the driveway of the compound "Yea" she got out the car then followed Bucky inside

Once Alice's class had ended she was just talking with Wanda about how her powers progressed before she started to leave before she ran into Freddie "Freddie?" she looked at him "Hey" he chuckled softly "You- wait a minute, your friend isn't Starks son" she raised an eyebrow "You're technically my only friend so" he answered "Ok" she saw Bucky walking over "I knew that I knew a kid named Freddie" he looked at Freddie "Hi, Mr. Barnes" Freddie smiled softly

Alice was in her first period class almost asleep when her teacher noticed "Alice! Am I gonna have to send you to the office again?" he shouted "No Mr. Crossgrave" she sat up "Good, anyway, as I was saying, biogenetic engineering has been used all around the globe-" he started before a loud bang was heard

"What was that?" he saw Alice's nose bleeding as she lifted her head while half asleep then side "Go to the nurse, then the office"

"Yes sir" she got up then walked out