-=A/N: Don't worry, Chapter 12 of "A spider and the angel" is almost done, it's going to be longer than any of the other chapters I had written. I had this idea for a fic on my mind for a while after I read a "reversal role" fic for "10 things I hate about you" so I decided what it'd be like to do one for Spider-man. I know everyone is writing about Mary Jane getting bitten instead of Peter by the spider but I'm doing "Mary Jane" in the role of the nerd and Peter in the role of Mr. Popular, I thought it would be interesting to see the characters in opposite roles. This will also include MJ's friend, (Gwen Stacey is placed in here, I know it doesn't fit by comicverse but hey I'm going by movie-verse and I'm making it up so it'll have to fit) I had to get this out before someone else did it because I couldn't get it out of my head. But don't worry I do plan on finishing "A spider and the angel" a promise, oh and btw if you're looking for a good Mary Jane and Peter Parker site or spider-man site, try mine out, I have pictures, fics from several authors, sounds from the movie, music etc. *I know I know shameless promotion, yes I am ashamed of myself *.-=
Peter wrapped an arm around Mary Jane's waist hugging her tightly as the Ferris wheel stopped at the very top over looking the beautiful city. It reminded Mary Jane of a glittering jewel as she watched the twinkling lights giving life to the city. It was a perfect night, spending a date with the man of her dreams at the carnival. The Ferris wheel slowly began to descend, letting passengers off one by one.
"I'm glad you came with me tonight, MJ." Peter said as he left the line for the Ferris wheel. "I've been wanting to ask you out for awhile." He said smiling slightly with a hint of a blush.
Mary Jane felt her stomach flip-flop as her cheeks began to flush. Oh how she had desired to hear those words. "Really Peter? You mean that?" She looked up at him with hope. Then she heard the laughter behind her.
"You think that Peter would actually want to be with a nerd like you?!" A girl's voice demanded with cruel intentions. Mary Jane felt her giddiness dissolve with utter despair. Allison Perry. The school's beauty queen, head cheerleader, and the Prom Squad committee leader. Peter's girlfriend. She whirled around to find half of the football team accompanied by their girlfriends who were of course cheerleaders. Flash Thompson grinned cruelly from behind Allison. He was the head quarter back of the football team and teammate in basketball to Peter. He and Peter weren't especially good friends but they hung out once and awhile. Flash and Allison enjoyed teaming up and making Mary Jane miserable. Peter just pulled Mary Jane into his arms holding her as he glared at the two.
"Don't listen to them…they just think that just because they excel in sports that they rule the school and everyone in it." He lifted her chin as she looked up at him. "But they don't own us…" He stopped as he lowered his mouth onto hers kissing her softly.
BEEEEEEEP! BEEEEEP! BEEEEEEP!
The alarm began to screech breaking Mary Jane from her dream. She cracked an eye open with a disappointed groan. '7:30', she was late getting up. But what a good dream. She tried to roll herself out of bed but her feet didn't respond to touch the ground and her body hit the ground with a thump. "Oof." She grunted painfully as she got to her hands and knees.
"Mary Jane! Are you out of bed yet?" Her aunt called up.
"Y-yes. I'm up. I'll be down in a few minutes." That's right, she had to get to the bus stop today or else she'd be late and miss her ride. She grabbed her black-framed glasses and slipped them on her face. She looked at her reflection in the mirror. Her red hair was sticking almost straight up from the static in her blanket. She groaned trying to smooth it down and movement from the window next door caught her attention. Her neighbors were the Parkers. Peter Parker was next door just then getting ready for school. He pulled on a t-shirt and ran a comb through his hair before he looked back into the mirror to make sure he had it on straight. She felt her cheeks go red, as her eyes had lingered on his back, gazing over the taut muscles in his back. She peeled her eyes away as she realized how late she was going to be. After all there was a field trip to go to that day and she wanted to make sure that she went through with her promise to the editor of the school paper to get the best pictures. (I wasn't sure whether I should make her a writer or a photographer so I then decided to just reverse roles and have her as a photographer)
Within ten minutes Mary Jane was dressed and ready for school. Her hair was pulled back into a braid, and she wore a blue flowered blouse accompanied with blue jeans and sneakers. She slinked down into her chair as she poured herself a bowl of cereal. Her uncle was at work and her aunt was finishing her own meal.
"Have nice dreams, dear?" Her aunt asked as she watched Mary Jane sitting there with a daydreaming smile glued on her face.
"Hmm?" Mary Jane snapped out of her daydream as she forced the spoon into her mouth.
Her aunt chuckled as she got up going to the sink. She knew of Mary Jane's crush on the boy next door and had gotten to know Peter quite well approving of Mary Jane's choice. "Try not to get any drool on the table cloth." Her aunt teased. "You should hurry dear, you'll miss the bus."
"The bus? Oh! I almost forgot! Well Peter told me that the bus would be there at 8." Mary Jane said as she stood up and placed her bowl on the sink. Her aunt leaned over and brushed a few red tendrils behind her ears as she leaned in and spoke softly.
"I like Peter as much as the next person. But when has the boy been right when it comes to time?" She chuckled lovingly.
That was true, Peter had a poor sense of time and Mary Jane had now just realized this with a pang of dread. She grabbed her backpack and flashed out of the door yelling.
"Bye Aunt May, see you when I get home!"
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It was unfair. What did the bus driver have against Mary Jane? She had jogged most of the way to the bus stop and the bus was sitting there waiting to pick up any more high school students who were just a minute late. She could see the driver look in his rear view mirror just as Mary Jane got towards the bus and he pressed on the gas emerging from the sides of the street. With panic beating in her chest, she started running as fast as she could after the bus managing to reach to the side. She began to hit on the side of the bus trying to get someone to stop the bus.
"Please! Someone stop the bus!" She yelled hitting harder. She could see her fellow students looking out the windows laughing at her and mocking her. She almost felt like crying but this wasn't the time. Get on the bus first, cry later. She continued to hit on its sides even as it took a corner.
"Stop the bus! Please stop the bus!" She saw Flash Thompson stick his head out of the window sitting just in front of her.
"Stop the bus! Stop the bus!" He mocked with a whining tone. He laughed in an irritatingly high pitch giggle. "You're so sad Pipi Long stockings!" He yelled calling her by her horrible childhood nickname. She felt her breath coming out in ragged gasps. She was sure she was going to collapse to the ground at any second now if no one came to her rescue. Then she heard his heavenly voice call out.
"Stop the bus!" Peter yelled as he ran up to the front of the bus to speak with the driver. 'Oh thank god! My savior!' I thought humorously indeed grateful to Peter for even caring. "She's been chasing us since Wood Haven Blvd. C'mon give her a break, man." He added furrowing his brows. The grumpy driver grunted as he began to slow the bus down and edge it towards the side of the street. Peter returned to his seat amongst the groans of his fellow students.
"Thanks a lot Pete!" Someone called from the bus.
Peter shrugged amongst it all not really caring. "Hey, you guys wouldn't like it if it happened to you." He said
sitting up in his seat. Allison
cushioned her head against his chest protectively.
"Red could have used the exercise, Petey." She said softly. Peter snorted slightly ignoring his comment.
Mary Jane ran to the doors gasping for breath. She climbed up the steps and stepped into the bus facing the driver. "Thanks, I'm sorry I'm late." She gasped as she wiped perspiration off her forehead. A wad of paper smacked her in the face almost driver her backwards into the windshield. The driver grunted irritated by her presence and moved the bus from the side of the road.
"Sit down." He grunted to her not bothering to look at her. Mary Jane looked down the aisle of the bus dreading to find a seat to sit down in. She slowly walked down the aisles spotting the other nerd of the school Liz Allen sitting in the front alone. Liz caught her stare and plopped her books down noisily. "Taken!" She said with a glare. MJ blinked almost confused and moved to the next seat. People began to block open seats with their feet spouting its unavailability. Even one of the chunky kids who sat in front of Peter and Allison eating a jelly donut denied her access with a muffled "uh-uh!" She began to wonder to herself. 'What have I done to really be so detested by my classmates. I'm not that ugly am I? Am I that annoying?' She asked herself. She kept on going down the aisles meeting Peter's eyes along the way. His beautiful blue eyes. She felt her heart melt as a shy smile crept its way onto her lips. But that was quickly ended when Allison shoved her foot into MJ's way tripping her. Mary Jane fell forward and landed hard on the ground, her glasses skittering across the floor. Laughs erupted once again as Mary Jane found herself staring at the dirty floor. This was going to be a long day.
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Mary Jane was the last one off the bus since she had sit in the very back in the crappy seat working on her journal. The bus driver nearly closed the doors on her before she exited the bus. She followed some of the students over to the entrance of the museum where a teacher stood trying to direct the class in rules. Peter glanced back completely devoid of Allison's presence. He glanced back over in Mary Jane's direction and gave a smile raising his hand in a slight wave.
'I exist! I exist! He's waving and smiling at me!' Mary Jane screamed to herself as she smiled back shyly waving back.
"Yo, Pete!" She heard one of the athletes call as a group of them made their way past Mary Jane ignoring her. She felt her eyes widen surprisingly as she realized her error. He wasn't waving to her. He was waving to his friends. She felt her heart beat fast in humiliation. He probably saw Mary Jane standing there smiling and waving like an idiot to Peter. Who the hell did she think she was? She'd never be worthy of getting Peter Parker's attention.
With a sigh she stepped forward ready to follow the class in.
"Mary Jane!" She heard someone call her name. Mary Jane slowly turned slinging her backpack onto her shoulder. Her friend Gwen Stacey stepped out of her uncle's Rolls Royce. She waved cheerfully as she pushed her blonde tresses from her eyes as she ran forward to her.
"Hi Gwen!" Mary Jane called, feeling truly happy to see her friend finally here. Gwen Stacey was new to the school coming from a private school. She needed help with her classes and came to Mary Jane for help. Actually she tried to pay Mary Jane to write her reports but Mary Jane refused and decided to teach her how to succeed in her classes getting Gwen a passing grade.
"Gwen!" A man's voice called as he stepped from the backseat of the Rolls Royce. Gwen's uncle, Norman Osborn walked over to Mary Jane and Gwen holding up a black leather backpack. "Won't you be needing this?" He asked as he looked down at his niece. Reluctantly she took her backpack from him dropping it on the ground. Gwen's father had been the chief of police. He mysteriously died a few years back and Gwen was sent to live with her rich businessman of an uncle Norman Osborn. She had known him when she was little. Norman would come to see them all the time when her mother was still alive. But when her mother died, Norman stopped coming around. Gwen would come and see him during Holidays but they never had a real close bond. Nothing like Mary Jane had with her aunt and uncle. Gwen looked over at Mary Jane then at Norman deciding she should introduce them.
"Uncle Norman, this is my friend Mary Jane. Mary Jane, this is my Uncle: Norman Osborn." She said making introductions.
Mary Jane leaned forward shaking his hand in awe. "Heard so much about you." Norman said arching a brow as he looked at Mary Jane.
"It's a great honor to meet you, sir." Mary Jane said with true sincerity. She sort of looked up to Mr. Osborn. He seemed like a real genius from what she said.
"Gwen tells me that you're a real science whiz. Y'know, I'm something of a scientist myself." He said with a smile.
"I read all your research in Nano Technology. Really brilliant." Mary Jane said feeling her mouth agape.
Norman's eyes widened impressed. "And you understood it?"
"Yes, I wrote a paper on it." She said not trying to sound as if she was bragging.
"Impressive." He said his mouth almost agape as well. "Your parents must be proud."
Mary Jane felt a slight sting as she thought about her parents. She didn't have any, not since she was little. "I live with my aunt and uncle. They are proud." She said not trying to let her emotions on her parents show.
"Hey you two! Let's move!" Their teacher called from the museum. Gwen and Mary Jane glanced back momentarily and Mary Jane turned back to Norman.
"It was nice to meet you." She said shaking his hand again.
Norman smiled sincerely as he shook her hand in return. "Hope to see you soon." He said before turning and making his way back to his car. Gwen and Mary Jane turned back to the steps and began to make their ascend.
"He's not so bad." Mary Jane smiled resting a hand on Gwen's shoulder.
Gwen turned her head to look at her with a skeptical gaze.
"Yeah, not if you're a genius. I think he wants to adopt you." She said giggling. Mary Jane laughed in response with a look of doubt on her face. Yes this day will truly be interesting.' She thought to herself before they made their way inside.
-=End of Chapter 1, so what do you think? Good, bad annoying? Ah yes I forgot to mention, the names are the same Mary Jane Watson, Peter Parker. Peter Parker has parents in this one but his father is sort of an abusive drunk like MJ's father was in the movie. Mary Jane lives with May (Watson) and Ben (Watson), they are related to Mary Jane's father, her parents passed away in this fic.-=