Chapter 9 I own nothing

Peter's P.O.V

I pull up in front of the homeless shelter and take a sigh, I really hope this works I know it's been a couple of days, but I miss talking to Emily. I turn off the car and walk to the front door and walk in.

"Can I help you, young man?" a woman asked

"Yeah, is Mr. Walters here?" I asked, last time I was her Mr. Walters was the one in charge I'm not sure if anything has changed so I figured its best to ask for him. Before the woman could answer we heard

"Peter Parker is that you?" Mr. Walters asked as he walked over and hugged me

"Yeah, how's it going?" I asked

"It's going well, how about you?" he asked

"Can't complain" I said

"So Peter what can I do for you?"

"Well, May and I use to come her a lot and I have been thinking about it for a little while so I decided to come by and see if you could use any help"

"We could always use some help, we were just getting ready to serve lunch, you mind helping pass it out?"

"Not at all, that's what I'm here for, lead the way" He lead me over to a whole bunch of food

"People are going to start lining up in about 5 minutes and one by one you can give them their food, and if you need more food just knock on the door right there and the people in the kitchen will bring some more food out" he smiled "ok?"

"Yup, I got it" I said he patted me on the back and walked away, while I was waiting for the people to start showing up I was looking around seeing if I saw any sign of Emily, but sadly I didn't

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About 20 minutes after serving we were running out of food so I knocked on the door and I heard someone say

"More food coming up!" a few seconds later some people came walking out and put some more food on the table, and walked back into the kitchen but as they started walking away I saw Emily

"Hey Emily" I said with a smile doing my best to sound surprised, she turned around and looked at me with big eyes and then quickly ran back into the kitchen. I sighed, man I probably just embarrassed her a little. I just walked back over to the table and continued to hand out the food.

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After everyone had gotten there food I helped everyone clean up the entire time Emily just continued to ignore me, and I felt really bad.

"Peter" I looked up and saw Mr. Walters "I just wanted to say thank you for helping out today, we can always use the help and we would like to see you again."

"Well if you'll have me, I'd love to come back next weekend"

"We would love that. It's good to have you back Peter"

"Thanks" I said as he walked away, at that moment I looked up and saw Emily looking at me

"Emily…" I started

"Can we talk in private?" she said before I could finish, I nodded and followed her out to the back. We stood there for a second

"Emily…" I tried again

"How long?"

"How long have you known?" she asked

"Known what?" I asked

"Peter…" she said giving me a look warning me to cut the act

"A few days" I mumbled

"How did you figure it out?"

"I heard you talking to your mom"

"My mom? I don't understand"

"You know those apartments over there?" she nodded "before my Aunt May died we use to live in one of those apartments, and the other day I felt like taking a trip down memory lane, and before I went home even though it was late I decided to take a walk and I saw you and I over heard your conversation" she sighed and sat down on one of the crate boxes

"So, you know why I figured it would be best if we were not friends"

"Emily, I want to be your friend, I have missed talking to you seriously" she smiled

"So, you're not disgusted that I live in a homeless shelter?" she asked

"What? No of course not" I said and sat down next to her

"So, you're originally from this neighborhood huh?"

"Yup, and I loved it" we were quite for a moment and then I said, "would you like to see where I use to live?" she smiled and nodded, I held out my hand out and she took it and stood up

"So, I guess you're wondering how I ended up living in a homeless shelter huh?"

"Emily it's ok you don't have to tell me if you don't want to"

"No its ok, basically my mom was an amazing baker, still is her cakes are amazing… anyway she wanted to open an bakery but at the time she didn't have the money, but her long time boyfriend did and he said he would buy the building and pay for it and of course she was over the moon"

"Sounds great" I said

"Oh it was" she took a deep breath "not long after the bakery opened they got married and a year later they had me, and my mom thought her life was perfect and it was until I turned 14 my mom found out my dad was cheating on her with our neighbor, and confronted him. Anyway they got divorced and it was a really messy divorce, and they both said things they didn't mean…well at least my mom regretted saying those things. After one of their many arguments my dad decided to get back at my mom by selling the bakery

"What?" I said

"Yup, after all these years my mom had forgotten that the bakery was in his name, so one day she went to work and there was different locks on the door and a for sale sign on the door"

"Wow" I mumbled

"My mother pulled every penny she had left, you know after paying for the lawyers and everything from the divorce and she went to buy it back but of course my dad had a good idea how much money she had so he put the bakery for sale at a price that he knew she would never be able to afford" she took another deep breath "Anyway my mom tried everything to get another job anywhere but no matter how much she searched she couldn't find one, and with all the bills it didn't take long for the money to run low. So my mom did the only thing she could think of she decided to sell the house, which was basically the only thing she got to keep from the divorce"

"Emily…" I mumbled when I noticed she was crying

"Anyway sadly she didn't get much for it and with my mom not having a job and all the bills she had and everything that she needed to buy like food, and other expenses the money didn't last long and not long after that we ended up at the homeless shelter"

"Emily, I'm so sorry" I mumbled, she just shrugged her shoulders

"I mean it is what it is, of course it sucks but there's nothing I can do about it so" she gave me a sad smile "so this is where you use to live?"

"Yup" I said with a smile "c'mon lets go upstairs" we went inside and took the elevator and went to the apartment as I put the key in the lock to go inside I realized something, this the first time I have been here since May's death. I took a deep breath and pushed the door open "after you" I said she giggled and walked inside

"This is a nice little place, really cozy it must have been nice living here" she whispered

"It was, and May made this place amazing, she was incredible"

"From what you tell me about her, I can tell" I smiled I walk over and hugged her "Peter?" she asked

"I'm sorry I just want you to know I'm here for you"

"Thank you" I took a deep breath

"Emily I need to be honest with you" she looked at me confused

"What's wrong Peter?"

"I don't want to be your friend" she looked at me and I could see tears in her eyes "No Emily that's not what I meant, what I'm trying to say is that I like you I want to be more than your friend" she smiled

"Really?" I nodded and before anything else could be said she closed the distance between us and kissed me, her arms draped around my neck and my hands went to her hips, we kissed for a few seconds and when we broke apart she hugged me "if it was not obvious I want to be your Girlfriend" I smiled

"It was very obvious" I said she giggled, and out of nowhere I got an amazing idea "Emily you like it here right?" she nodded and I reached into my pocket where the keys to the apartment were and handed them to her

"Peter…"

"Emily, I want your mother and you to live here"

"No, No Peter I can't let you do that"

"Yes you can and will" I kissed her hand "May, would have loved you and I know she would have wanted me to do whatever I could do to help you and I want to do this for you" I saw tears in her eyes and then she kissed me again when we broke apart she said

"Thank you so much Peter" and I smiled today has got to be one of the best days of my life