Sasha and I walked through the hallways and to the cafeteria. As we walked in, all kinds of noises filled the room. Laughter, talk and shouts.
We sat down with our food tray. I looked at the chicken sandwich and the delicious fruit next to it.
"It's like you're on a diet," Sasha said.
"Why do you think that?" I asked.
"You're having a low fat chicken sandwich, having fruits on the side and drinking water," she chuckled and shook her head. "Girl you're crazy."
I just laughed it off and put a piece of strawberry in my mouth. Suddenly I heard someone laugh higher from the other laughs around the cafeteria and I turned around to see Peter. He high fived a boy. Peter looked up and our eyes met. He gave me a cheeky smile and winked at me.
I turned around to face Sasha who just looked at me with big eyes.
"He's totally flirting with you!" She squealed silently. "Did you see how he-"
"Stop Sasha. I can't even bear the thought of it. it's disgusting."
I gagged and pretended like I was about to throw up.
"But he's cute tho," she said.
"Yeah, but that attitude and just how he's behaving.. it's painful to watch."
I looked at Sasha and saw she had a straight face. She pointed behind me and I turned around and faced Peter. Fuck.
"Are you guys talking about me?" He said and smirked.
"Umm no!" Sasha exclaimed and looked worriedly around.
He just laughed in a slightly tone and without saying anything he sat down next to me. Great.
"Mind if I sit?" He said as he sat down.
"I didn't knew you could talk about someone behind their back, pumpkin," he said to me. "Thought you were a good girl." He then winked while biting his bottom lip.
Pumpkin. He called me pumpkin. I was so close to smash this guy's head in. I ignored him tho.
"Well we weren't like.. saying bad stuff," Sasha said trying to save my butt.
"Well Maybe you didn't," He said and looked directly at me. I tried hard to ignore him. "But this one," he said and wrapped his arm around me. "She has a pretty bad mouth.."
I sensed he leaned closer to my ear and stopped. His lips were almost touching my ear flip.
"Wonder what else it could do," he whispered.
That's it!
I slammed my hands on the table making both Peter and Sasha jump in shock. I stood up and looked directly into his eyes.
"You asshole!" I exclaimed. "Don't you ever dare come near me again. Or I swear to god I'll destroy you!"
"Oh please do, pumpkin" he said cheeky.
My face burned and my whole body was shaking in rage! I raised my hand and slapped Peter across the face. Sasha's jaw dropped and the whole cafeteria went silent.
"Jackass!"
I ran to the exit and left the awkwardly silent cafeteria. I looked at my hand. I had just slapped Peter. Something I've been wanting for a long time, but now.. I was honestly scared of what he might do next time I saw him.
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The whole day I had avoided meeting Peter. When I saw him in the hallways, talking to his friends I turned the other way around. When school had finished I waited for the most people to leave school before I did. I took a shortcut home. A street where there weren't that many people.
On my way home I thought about how I slapped him. How the slap echoed in the whole cafeteria and everyone went silent. how embarrassing..
I stopped thinking about it when I bumped into someone.
"Sorry," I muttered and walked away, but someone grabbed my arm and smashed me to the wall.
"Hey!" I exclaimed.
The guy who had slammed me against the wall grabbed a knife and put it near my throat.
"If you scream, I'll slit your throat so listen to me and do what I say."
The bearded guy licked around his mouth. I felt the fear come creeping from my stomach and spread in my whole body.
"Please don't do this!" I whispered while tears filled my eyes. "I beg you. I have money!"
He hit me in my stomach and made me curl while I gasped for air.
"Please!" I cried.
He ignored me and grabbed my neck and dragged me to an alley he pushed me into. He pointed at me with his knife and smirked.
"Strip," He said.
"No please.." I whimpered. "Please don't do this.."
He ignored me and stepped closer. Making the knife almost touch my throat. I gulped. Slowly I unzipped me jacket while sobbing uncontrollably. Was my life really ending now?
I let my jacket hit the ground and looked up at the man who just enjoyed himself.
"You're going to slo-"
"Hiyaaah!" A yell filled the air and we both looked up where the famous Spider-Man approached us. He came swinging from his webs and in full speed he kicked the guy backwards so he landed on the ground.
Spider-Man looked back at me.
"Take your Jacket on again. He isn't gonna hurt you."
He looked forward again and I grabbed my jacket and took it on. Spider-Man came running to the guy who had stood up again. The guy fought him with the knife, but Spider-Man dodged him and hit him.
"You should know better than assaulting young women!" Spider-Man said while beating his ass until the guy didn't do any resistance.
The guy had a bloody nose and his cheekbone was red and swollen. He spit out blood and leaned up against the wall while holding his hands up.
"And you.. you shouldn't walk around here all alone."
I nodded surprised. I couldn't believe he had just saved me from a creep.
"Now go home. And be safe, all right?"
His voice sounded nice and soft.
"Thank you Spider-Man," I said before running past them.
"See ya around Pumpkin!"
I stopped around the corner and gasped. He called me pumpkin. No one called me pumpkin except for one guy..
"Peter?" I muttered.