I'm Always A Text Away -- Peter Parker Texting Story

twelve

THE DAYS SLOWLY TURNED INTO WEEKS, which turned into months. Peter had taken his GEDs, only to have passed (and Karen, who had read out the email to him, had said smugly, I told you so) and he was off to MIT in just two months. 

He was nervous; he was going to the university that he had always dreamed of going, because it was the university that his dad—no, Tony!—had gone to. But there was MJ and Ned, who he had heard had gotten into MIT too. 

Maybe they could all become friends again, but really, he was dreading it. Because last time...last time, things had gotten bad. 

But what else was worse than the entire world forgetting him? 

No, he couldn't be selfish: MJ could die. Ned could die. Mr. Stark could die. Morgan could die. 

So many factors and variables that he couldn't see, that he didn't want to see. Because knowing too much of the future isn't a good thing. 

He still worked at Delmar's, where Mr. Delmar still gave him double the pay he was supposed to get. But Peter had gotten used to it and he didn't complain—he actually had food that wasn't Delmar's sandwiches in his fridge! And that was good enough for him for now. 

When he'd told Mr. Delmar about his acceptance to MIT, Mr. Delmar had been happy for him. He'd pulled him into a hug and had given Peter a free sandwich to celebrate, and Peter, for the first time in months, felt happy. 

"I'll miss you around here, of course," Mr. Delmar had said. "But come visit some time whenever you're free, yeah?" 

Peter had agreed. 

Slowly, the days stretching out with nothing interesting happening, Peter found himself on a bus to MIT, a suitcase in his hand and a wide smile across his face. 

It was strange, really; how the world worked. How something seemed to be against you only for what you wanted to happen really happened in a strange way. His path to getting to MIT had been completely cut off because of Spider-Man, but after the world forgot about him, he managed to get on track toward the future he had always hoped to have. 

But this future was a future without Mr. Stark, MJ, and Ned. And of course, he didn't like that, but getting into MIT was enough for now. 

One step forward at a time. 

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I'm supposed to be doing my homework but I get really distracted easily and I don't focus on one thing at a time (should've seen me yesterday, I was doing my English, Geography, and Math homework at the same time. They were all out in front of me, and when I looked away from my trig questions for Math, I saw English, and decided to do English. And then five minutes later I lost focus on English and turned to Geography. Went to sleep at 1 am, which isn't that bad. It's 12 am right now.) 

I have homework that might be due tomorrow but who cares, I'll do it at lunch tomorrow. 

The last part in this chapter where it talks about how life is unpredictable actually came from something that happened two days ago on the bus when my friends and I were going home from school. The four of us were sitting together and we were calmly talking and laughing when the bus suddenly stopped and broke down in the middle of the road. The driver sent us out and we had to walk all the way to the next stop and wait fifteen minutes there until the next bus came. When it came, we were all squished together and it was really uncomfortable. 

My friend said, "Haidlyn, we were literally sitting and were all comfy like twenty minutes ago." 

And I said, "Well, this is just an example of how life can change in just a couple of seconds." 

Don't underestimate the time you have! Enjoy life, spend time with friends or family, learn and be kind to everyone...because you don't know what might happen in your future. :) 

Anyway yeah, that just sleep-deprived me talking. (Ooh did you know that I didn't sleep the day before a math test and I basically rested my eyes for like five minutes during the test and then when I woke up I saw the questions and I was like, "lol nope not today" and then I skipped those questions and now my math grade is suffering because I'm so stupid and I don't sleep but it's not my fault that I have a lot of work to do and my stupid brain can't focus right like that's not my fault. Why can't the afternoons be longer like dude why can't the school day be shorter that would be amazing because then I could take naps, get my school work done, and then actually sleep early too. I really don't like the Earth's rotation like SERIOUSLY DUDE JUST GO A BIT SLOWER WHY DON'T YOU? Wait but then that means the weekend would actually come slower and then because there are five days of the school week and only two days for the weekend, there would actually be more school than weekend. Wait no but there is always more school than weekend. Waiiiiiiiit why is that? Why are there seven days of the week? Why not eight? Why not six? Why seven? Like who thought of seven? Wait weekends actually don't matter either because I wake up early on weekends BECAUSE OF STUPID MATH CLASSES. I can't wait until I'm older and all I get to do is sleep because that would be really nice. Also like I really want chocolate but I already ate six Hershey chocolate nuggets and I think that my mom will get mad if I eat more. Also I nearly wrote "six Hershey chicken nuggets". Imagine chicken flavored chocolate? I'm not sure if that's actually disgusting or not but I think it depends on the chicken. I forgot what chicken nuggets taste like because I haven't eaten it in like eight years. I wanna learn how to do karate because then I could eat chicken nuggets and then maybe even karate chop them. Uhhh I also don't know what I'm saying like today in math class I kept giving the wrong answers to simple calculations and me and this smart girl were in the same group and we were both being really dumb and we kept on apologizing to each other and we were just like "Oh I'm sorry what am I even saying" and "No, what am I saying?!" and then "wait what are we even saying what". That was kind of funny and like yeah. Also my friend really doesn't like my gym teacher. I'm in an all  girls gym class but I have a male teacher, like how messed up is that??? He was also hitting my leg with a hockey stick two days ago like dude don't touch me why are you touching me? I told you not to touch me and you can literally see that I don't touch random guys and I don't like touching random guys. I bet you're just salty that I didn't high five you and you were just really confused about what to do and it made you look really foolish. But you're kinda nice sometimes too, like thanks for the measuring tape that you let me borrow today. But you're also kind of annoying because I've been asking you if I could use your gym for two weeks now and you keep forgetting that I asked. And now you're making me go to the weight room and you told me that I'm so weak because you said your two year old son could lift the weights I was lifting. But you said I could do better but I'm not sure if that makes me feel better or not. Also to my pigeon friend who I met this weekend I'm really sorry I left you behind it made me really sad but you looked really scary because you have red eyes. I don't like red eyes. I'm sorry. It's not you, it's me. Ummm yeah and my brain hurts right now it's been hurting for a very long time and my friends say I look dead but that's because I don't sleep. Poor me. Also I kinda want to go somewhere hot but I'm in my basement and it was snowing earlier today so I'm cold :( I don't like being cold because it's like you're gonna freeze to death and I don't wanna freeze to death! I don't wanna become like Arnold from the Magic School Bus! He took off his helmet in space and became an ICICLE! I don't wanna become an ICICLE! My fingers are freezing and it's so hard to type but also why is my dad's water bottle over here. Why is it gray? It looks so ugly and like it's like musty dusty because he's had that water bottle for YEARS! 

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