THE DAY WENT by quick; the duo walked home together like usual. It was a sunny Tuesday afternoon, no crime had been committed and their walk home seemed easy. Neither of them were ready for the rathe of their guardians when they got inside their homes. Before they parted, they gave each other a mumbled 'good luck' and a hug. As they walked through their doors, both of them turned around at each other, smiled and walked in their own houses. When she got in, (Y/N) daren't call out like she normally would. Even though her grandma would be asleep, she didn't want to invite her into anything. Since she'd never been in trouble before, the fear of what her grandmother would say flooded inside of her. Opening the fridge had never sounded louder.

"(Y/N), dear, is that you?" Elizabeth called throughout their apartment.

"Yeh?" (Y/N) winced at what was yet to come.

"Could you come here, please?"

"Yeh" she sighed, closed the fridge and slumped over to the living room.

"Sit down sweetheart. I bet you know what this is about, huh?"

"Yeh, and look, grandma, before you punish me I just wanna say I'm sorry and I deserve everything you throw at me. Well, not literally throw but any punishment because I deserve it for leaving school and ditching with Peter. I'm so sorry, gran. I know it goes against your morals and everything and I'm extremely sorry for it all" (Y/N) rambled on.

"Sweetheart, I know you always mean well. I'm not going to punish you, I just want to make sure you don't do it again, OK?"

"OK. Thanks, gran" she smiled at the woman in front of her - the women she looked up to.

"But why did you really leave? You've been revising all week for this exam, and you throw it away to hang out with a boy! What's gotten into you?"

A frown appeared on her face; apart from the fact that she wanted to know what he was doing, why did she go? "Honestly, gran, I don't know why. I think it's because he's my best friend and I care about him and I'm not sure we left, I just wanted to get away. I forgot all about the test" she lied. She hated that. Her stomach turned as she kept spiralling and twisting the truth.

"OK, sweetheart. Don't worry about it, just do your punishment and ace that test" Elizabeth smiled.

"I will" (Y/N) smiled back. She immediately got up and walked out the room. Her shoes were thrown off and, as she walked upstairs, a small "I'm sorry" escaped her lips as tears threatened to fall.

***

A muffled buzz sounded around (Y/N)'s ear. The sound was recognisable as it was Peter ring. Her tired hand slowly reached to her phone; the blinding light was a shock to her sleepy eyes. She saw a text from Peter asking about what had happened with her grandma over the ditching school incident. She unlocked her phone and replied,

nothing bad, got let off the hook, had to lie to her tho, i hate doing that 😢 xxx

well, thanks for keeping my secret, you could've spilt it to two people and you didn't, and i'm grateful xxx

what about you? what did May say?? xxx

i'm grounded for a week, i can keep my phone but no going out after 8pm. no spider-man for me at night 🙃 xxx

thank god. nothing bad'll happen 👻 xxx

yeh, yeh 🙄 xxx

😂😂 xxx

i just wish i was let off xxx

you knew that would not happen, not in a million years xxx

true, i'm sorry i got us into this xxx

it's my fault too, i should've stayed in school and waited for you. but after last night, i knew you could've been in trouble xxx

thanks xxx

it's okay xxx

anyway, gtg (Y/N). sorry xxx

it's okay, night burger 🍔 xxx

night pizza 🍕 xxx

She locked her after closing the messages app. When she looked at her alarm clock, her brain registered the time - 21:37 - and her body decided to get changed into pyjamas. She slipped out of her leggings and t-shirt and changed into her grey, black and white shorts and matching top. Then, she quickly hopped into her warm, white sheets, snuggled far down into them, closed her pearly eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

***

As she woke to the sound of her annoying alarm clock, (Y/N)'s hand reached for it to shut it off. She groaned as her body twisted and turned in her messy sheets. Another dreaded day in school. She got ready, waved bye to her grandmother and left the apartment for another long, awful seven hours.

She met Peter outside her door at their usual time and walked to school as normal. The pair battled against the torrential rain. That day was like a normal day; maths first, biology second, english third, then chemistry, gym, history and geography. It was one of those lucky days where she didn't have all three sciences in a day. Even though she hadn't been blessed with triple science, she still had a bad day: Peter got taken away from her at lunch to help set up the science fair for that night, Ned had a detention for missing a question on his most recent maths quiz and there was no one else (Y/N) genuinely liked enough to sit with at lunch.

So, after one of the most horrific days she'd ever had, she had the pleasure of walking home with Peter. Once they arrived at their apartment complex, they walked the many stairs to (Y/N)'s apartment. She knew her grandmother was out and Peter had informed her that Aunt May was out as well so invited him in to study before Peter had to leave for the science fair.

"So, how was your day, (Y/N)?" Peter ask after he stepped into the apartment, closing the door behind him.

"Great!" she smiled, "My two best friends left me at lunch" she frowned.

"(Y/N), I'm sorry, but you know I had to set up the fair. What happened with Ned?"

"Didn't you hear?" He shook his head, "Ned got a detention for missing a question on his last maths quiz. A detention?! For that?! Our school's wack, man" Peter chuckled at her response, shaking his head while looking at the ground.

"You know, you'll forgive me for leaving you" he smirked while shuffling closer to (Y/N).

"And why's that, Parker?" she mirrored his smirk while his hands snaked around her small waist.

"Because, I'm your best friend. And you love you; you said so yourself" he gave you a toothless grin. Your lips parted to release a small giggle.

"That is true. You know what's also true?"

"What?" he grinned.

"That I really wanna kiss you right now"

"Oh, really? Well, it's a good job I want that too" the pair smiled while leaning in, their faces inches apart. Their lips partially met when a loud beeping sound erupted from Peter's watch. He glanced down at his wrist and (Y/N)'s eyes followed. She gasped when she saw the place a fire had broken out in. Peter looked up worryingly at her, panic settling in on both their faces.

"My grandmother, she-she's there, right now. Pete, you have to go!" she shook his arm.

"I will, I will" he leaned forward and quickly pecked her lips. She stood in shock as his emptied his bag to find his Spider-man suit, undressed and pulled it on. Before he put his mask on, he walked over to (Y/N) and lightly grabbed her arms.

"Be safe Pete, okay?"

"You know I will" he smiled. They gave each other a kiss before Peter rushed over to her window and escaped through it, leaving (Y/N) alone with a cool breeze flowing into her apartment.

When Peter got to Forest Hills Greenmarket, it was pandemonium. He swung in, much to the police departments dismay, and waded through the fire, saving as many victims as possible. Crowds shouted as Spider-man swooped in and saved people as they screamed for help. The fire department threw buckets upon buckets on the fire, trying to tame the beast. The Forest Hills Greenmarket was destroyed, leaving nothing but the ashes of market stalls and the injured victims.

But when the fire was almost out, that's when the world went black for Elizabeth.