SPIDER-MAN

MIDTOWN HIGH SCHOOL 24TH SEPTEMBER 2019

The classroom was full of small wooden desks and chairs with students sitting down, most of them not paying attention. The far wall had loads of windows, a few of them open, allowing you to hear people shouting and screaming the football pitch outside. The rest of the room was filled with bad physics puns, possible careers in physics, and a pretty ugly collage of high-end universities like MIT. At the front of the classroom was a large desk with papers and pens everywhere with a shabby office chair. It had a large chalkboard at the front that looked like it's been here since World War Two with a short and plump teacher with a grey suit and tie writing on it. He was almost fully bald and had a full beard. "Can anyone state and explain" he spoke somewhat disinterested and the screeching sound of the chalk in the background didn't help. "Which region of the electromagnetic spectrum has photons with the highest energy?" He turned around to face the class

At the front, a hand was raised. The boy was quite skinny and had nice-looking brown hair. He had some exaggerated big round glasses on his face and he wore a blue sweater and brown jeans. He had blue eyes hiding behind his glasses and his demeanor was sky and enclosed, like he was blocking himself from everyone. He was also surprisingly quite tall around 6 ft and 1 inch despite his stature. His notebook was the only one filled with notes and answers and he was the only one who bothered to take out his pencil case. 

The teacher looked directly at him and very obviously ignored him hoping someone else would attempt to do anything in his class. "Anyone but Parker, please. He's not the only one in this class." He looked around the chairs filled with disinterested kids just slouched and leaning in their chairs. "Flash! How about you give it a try" He crossed his arms.

Near the back of the classroom was Flash. Parker's bane of existence. He would almost always beat him up and humiliate him for everyone to watch. He tried reporting it to the principal but his family is loaded and let's say they are quite generous with the donations to the school. He was your bland fuckboy. He always wore the school's football shirt and jersey with expensive Gucci trousers and white Jordans. He was quite hench and had that fuckboy blonde hair, he grew quite a reputation for trying to bang any woman that existed. He was cocky and arrogant, he believed he was king of the world and everyone else was simply there to do his bidding. He was completely repulsive and he would hang out with the rest of the football team. The rest of them were alright for some reason it was just Flash who was a massive asshole. "I don't know. Is the answer Peter. Oh wait sorry I mistook the question, you said the word spectrum, and well" He looked directly at Parker and pointed to Parker "Enough said really." It wasn't even a funny joke but the class thought it was as they erupted with giggles. 

"Real funny Flash. Next time you attempt to make a joke make it outside the classroom at least for our sake" He wasn't even annoyed. School only started about two weeks ago and he was already sick of everyone in this class except one. He looked at Peter "Alright can you please tell me the answer, Parker?" 

Peter dropped his hand and started fiddling with his pen "Gamma because they have the shortest wavelength". He used his finger to push his glasses back up to his eyes. His voice was quite confident when it came to answering questions at least. 

"Correct! Well done Peter as always" The teacher slightly smiled and the bell rang. Everyone except Peter immediately left the room talking loudly and heading towards the canteen for it was lunch time. Peter was almost finished packing his bag and ready to leave when the teacher spoke "Peter can you stay behind for a while, I want to talk to you about something" The teacher began to wipe the chalkboard to clean it while Peter put on his backpack and waited at the teachers desk. After a couple of seconds, the teacher turned around and sat at his desk looking at Peter. "Peter, do you enjoy science? Like really enjoy science" He clamped his hands together and placed them on the desk. 

"Yeah. It's my passion, I love science it's so cool and interesting. Just when you think you know everything there's always another question that needs to be answered" Peter replied. 

"The Grade 11's have a once-in-a-lifetime field trip to the bioengineering facility at OSCORP, we don't know if we'll be able to do it again. You may only be in Grade 9 but I think you have the talent to change the world. You're on par with people much older than you when it comes to science and it seems you truly have a love for the subject, I would like to invite you to the field trip." He handed Peter a piece of paper. "It's next week on Monday. The rest of the details are in the letter, just make sure to hand it in tomorrow." 

"Thank you very much, Mr. Dirk" He took the letter and very clumsily placed it into his backpack. "I'll ask my aunt if I can go" Peter began to leave the room with haste. 

"Have a good day Peter" The teacher yelled as Peter was leaving before packing his equipment and papers into his suitcase. 

Peter made his way to the canteen, sat by himself, and took out his packed lunch from his backpack. He was casually enjoying his sandwich when a familiar face sat on the side of the table with his usual grin. 

"Hey Pete, you doing alright today you look a bit shit no offense." He spoke with some energy and he portrayed himself with confidence. The boy had wavy black hair and dark brown eyes. He had a posh red jumper with brown trousers and a designer coat on. He had his backpack on his shoulder before he placed it on the floor to talk to Peter.

"Hey, Harry."