A Punch In The...Nose?

CONTINUED

"...are you ok?" He sighed.

I looked around my room. My table was a mess. It was dark outside. I hadnt eaten dinner yet. Blood was on my ground, leg and hands, and my suit was on the ground.

"Yeah, I'm pretty good I guess." I said casually. "Why, if I may, do you care?" I asked.

I didn't want to sound rude, but he seemed pretty over me a few minutes ago.

I heard sighing on the ever end. "Because I'm bored. And you got me out of a meeting."

"Ew you're an adult?" I assumed.

"Ew? I'm going to assume you're a kid." He said in return.

I opened my mouth to speak, but decided not to.

"Anyway, what are you doing?" He asked.

"Wow, you must be really bored to ask a kid what they're doing." I said.

I finished bandaging my leg and cleaned up my floor.

I heard a little snicker from the other end. "You really are a kid." He repeated.

Shit, I gave that away.

"Yeah well, I bet you're a fifty year old creep." I snapped and laughed to myself.

"Ouch. And I am not a creep." He said. I could imagine him rolling his eyes.

"Where are you right now?" I asked, having an idea.

"Uh, at my work. Why?" He responded.

"Are there people near you?" I asked with a grin.

I limped towards the kitchen and put on a pot of water to boil for some mac'n'cheese

"Uh, yes? Kid, what is with these weird question-" he tried to say, but I cut him off.

"NO OLD MAN, I DONT WANT YOUR NUDES!"

I could hear gasps in the background and his speaker being covered.

After a minute of inaudible noises, he spoke again. "Shut up man! Oh my god my workers think I'm a creep now!"

I laughed to myself. "Yeah well, that's what-" I started, but noticed somthing was off.

I turned around and see the put of water over boiling and hot water sizzling everywhere. "Agh!"

"What?? Kid-" I hung up the phone and rushed to get the water all cleaned up.

●○●

30 MINUTES LATER

I sighed and flopped onto my bed, tired. But Karen spoke up. "Peter, just a reminder that you have 4 unread messages from: Ned"

"Oh, right," I sat up on my bed and my phone.

•••

NED

Hey, kid?

Hello?

I'm bored.

Ok, I'm genuinely curious, what happened?

•••

He must have been very bored to actually message me, but he seemed nice.

•••

ME

Hey, lol, I'm fine.

NED

Good.

What happened?

ME

Oh, just

Cooking mishap

NED

What were you cooking??

ME

Oh uh, nothing important

NED

kid just tell me

ME

...

Mac n cheese

NED

...

•NED CHANGED 'ME' TO: MAC N CHEESE KILLER•

MAC N CHEESE KILLER

HEY!

NED

Haha

MAC N CHEESE KILLER

Yeah, well 2 can play at this game

•MAC N CHEESE KILLER CHANGED 'NED' TO: 50 YEAR OLD•

50 YEAR OLD

Hey!

Theres no need to get personal!

MAC N CHEESE KILLER

I'll only change it if you change mine

50 YEAR OLD

...

Fine

You first

•MAC N CHEESE KILLER CHANGED '50 YEAR OLD' TO: RANDO•

MAC N CHEESE KILLER

a deal's a deal. Now you

RANDO

Hmmm

•RANDO CHANGED 'MAC N CHEESE KILLER' TO: KID•

KID

thankyou

RANDO

You are NOT welcome

Hey kid, what's your name?

KID

Guess?

RANDO

Hmm...

Jack?

Jake?

Daniel?

Steve?

KID

Nope

Nope

Nope

That's an old person name

RANDO

*gasp!*

HARLEY?

KID

what?

No

RANDO

Oh

You wanna guess me?

KID

um,

Ben?

Richard?

Tim?

RANDO

sorta kind of close with the last one

Not really

And nope

KID

This could take a while..

And i got school tomorow

RANDO

Oh thats a hard life

Does your mum make you sleep early?

KID

guess again

RANDO

Do you just sleep early?

KID

Not what I meant

But yeah kinda

I just decide everything

RANDO

Wish I had that kind of freedom

KID

It gets lonely

RANDO

Thats just life kid

KID

I doubt anyone has a life like me

RANDO

You never know

What, do you not think you're normal?

KID

Normal is overrated

And defiantly not

RANDO

How come?

KID

You dont wanna know

RANDO

Then why did I ask?

•••

I yawned. I was telling more about my life than I do to ned, and that's more than I tell anyone.

It would be kind of nice telling somone about my double life, and my problems.

But what if he bad too many problems. I wouldn't want him to feel responsible for me.

But hes nice, I'd want him to trust me.

•••

KID

I just, dont have a lot of..good..people in my life

Or parental figures

RANDO

How so?

How many do you have?

KID

Uh

None

And I really only have one friend but he seems occupied

RANDO

why aren't your parents good parental figures?

KID

they're dead dude lol

RANDOM

Oh

Sorry kid

No hot aunts or cool uncles?

KID

nope and nope

RANDO

Oh

Well, I'm very sorry kid

Sorry I brought it up

KID

Nah, it's ok

They've all been dead for a while!

...

If that helps

RANDO

and you said your friend is occupied?

Is that the one that gave this number?

KID

yep, that's Ned lol

RANDO

well, he needs to open his eyes

Cause you seem cool

KID

Thanks man :)

RANDO

All good

And did you say you have to sleep?

Kid?

Guess you fell asleep

...

G'night

○●○

THE NEXT MORNING

I woke up with my phone in my hand.

I read over the messages RANDO sent.

He seemed nice. I was scrolling through my phone, when Karen terrified me.

"PETER IT IS NOW FRIDAY, 6:45!" she yelled.

"Oh! Thankyou! I gotta get ready." I said.

I quickly got ready for school, packing bluetooth headphones I connected Karen to. It was the perfect way to hide her!

I left and quickly got to neds bus stop with a minute of two befor he got there, I decided to send a message.

•••

KID

Sorry for falling a sleep!

I got school now!

Will message after 3

See ya

...

Have a good day

•••

I looked around for the bus but didn't see it yet.

But to my great surprise, RANDO quickly responded. He must of been bored again.

•••

RANDO

all good kid

Hope you slept well

...

And have a good day too :)

Wow its weird to use emojis

•••

I chuckled to myself and just minutes later, neds bus arrived.

I put my phone away and waited until he got off the bus.

He walked over and stared me down.

"You're here." He said cautiously.

"Yeah?' I responded as we started walking towards school.

"Oh, and by the way-" I said before he could talk. "You gave me the wrong number."

Ned laughed. "So thats why you didnt call me."

I then realised somthing. "You know, you could have just messages me. You know my number." I stated.

Neds eyes opened wide. "Oh yeah." He said.

We both laughed. "Haha, text anyone interesting?" He asked.

I smiled, "kinda!" I said.

Ned laughed and we got to school.

○●○

AT LUNCH

Me and ned both finished our tests and handed in our assignments, now, we were making our way over to our table in the court yard.

"Dude I thought you said you studied?" Ned said. I had been handed back my test results and had scored a 89% out of 100. My average was 97%

"Yeah, I know. I should have studied more." I admitted.

If somone knew I hadnt even read the practice words, they would have thought I had amazing luck on that test. I just went with the flow and finished before everyone.

"Is you're uncle gonna kill you??" He asked. No one knew he died.

I turned towards ned. "What?" I asked. I had been focused on the people outside to really pay attention to what he was saying.

"I asked if you were free tonight?" He said.

Thats when I snapped back. "Wait what? You asked about my uncle?"

"Well, yeah. Like 5 minutes ago." Ned said with an arched eye brow.

I ignored that and went on to ask what I had been wanting to. "What's the new girl look like?"

Ned looked around. "I cant really remember.." he said as he searched. He gave up and began eating his lunch. "But She's not in here." he said.

I sighed. My next class was HASS. I was thinking too much to have an appetite, but time flew by anyway.

Like always.

●○●

AFTER SCHOOL

As soon as school finished, we grabbed our stuff and left to neds bus stop as always.

We said a quick Goodbye, and I whipped out my phone. I walked over to a near by bench and sat down. Nothing better to do, and I didnt feel like hanging in the house just yet.

•••

KID

ello!

RANDO

Oh hey kid

I'm In a meeting

KID

Sorry

RANDO

I wasn't going to tell you to leave!

Pls stay

Im bored

KID

lol I wasn't going to leave

I'm bored too

I was just sorry that you're in a meeting

RANDO

you remind me of me

KID

Thanks?

RANDOM

It's a compliment kid

Take it

KID

If you say so

•••

I stopped texting when I could hear something near by. I turned around and saw flash.

"Yo Penis!" He called. That was a nickname he quite enjoyed for me.

•••

RANDO

Hey, can we call?

I'm like super bored

Hey?

....

•INCOMING CALL...•

•••

"Why are you sitting out here all alone?" Flash teased. He roughly ruffled my hair.

"Peter, incoming call..." I got a warning from karen through my ear peice. But, I hadnt checked her coding.

"You all alone like some loser?" Flash teased more. I just gritted my teeth.

"Hey Kid, I'm bored so whats up?" Rando said.

Forgetting my calls instantly connect, I panicked. I stood up from the bench and tried speaking quietly into the phone. "Shh please, I'll call you later-"

But nope.

"who ya talking to, idiot?" Flash laughed. He grabbed my phone.

"Hey, shut up!" I said without thinking.

Flash's eyes narrowed at me.

"Kid, whos that?" Rando asked.

"What did you say?" Flash spoke with a sour tone. He stepped closer to me.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to snap-" I tried apologizing, but got very rudely interrupted.

Flash pushed me towards the ground, knocking my head agaisnt the ground. "Ow-!" I said.

"Hey what's going on?" They asked, but without my phone, I couldn't do anything.

"Why even bother?" Flash asked as he lowered down to my level.

"...bother what?" I asked. Bother...getting up? Bother...fighting?

Before flash responded, he threw a punch right at my nose, and i didn't see It in time to dodge.

My nose throbbed instantly and bblood quickly ran down my nose, mouth and chin.

"Dont bother trying." He said. He rubbed his knuckle and started walking away, dropping my phone in the bin.

After he left, I ran to the bin and retrieved my phone.

"What the fuck was that?" He asked immediately.

I inspected my phone and saw a new crack.

"That's just a classmate." I said. "You know how it is."

I could almost hear the anger through the phone. ''And he just punched you?''

"Yeah. In the nose. But I'm fine." I said as I walked home.

And that was true. I'd be fine within just a few house because of my advanced healing.

"Ok, kid, I barely know you, at all. But you seem to be treated like a loser." He said.

Ouch.

"Yeah. Thanks dude. that really summarized the day." I responded sarcastically.

As i walked past a pole, I saw somthing interesting.

"Kid, I didnt mean it like that, I meant that you are cool so you should be treated like-"

"Hey cool!" I interrupted excitedly.

"What?" He responded.

"Tony stark needs a new assistant Helper!" I examined the poster on the pole.

He wants somone my age, with free time and a knack for science.

Cool!

"Oh. Really? That's, uh, really cool." He said casually.

How was he being so casual?! Tony stark's amazing!!

"Cool? Hell yeah it's cool!!" I said. I took a quick picture of the poster and continued walking.

"Oh. Why so excited? Hes just an old guy who makes tools."

My mouth nearly dropped onto the ground!

"You MUST be joking! Tony stark is the best person in the world!" I exclaimed.

I heard a slight pause on the other side. "Why?" He asked.

"Why!? Have you been living under a rock!" I asked. I reached my apartment and walked to my room like always.

"Hes like the coolest inventor ever, and he's just awesome!" I said. I looked over my wall. Hanging up was a poster of bruce banner and tony stark. They were my idols.

"Why so fond? Tony stark just talks about science." He said.

"Yeah, exactly! He and  Mr. Banner are the coolest scientist and inventers ever. I love their books!"

No one else my age understood bruce banner's book on radiation physics, but I read it for fun!

"Wait you actually understand those books?" He asked in shock.

"Yeah," I said as I loomed out my window. "I love Mr. Stark's book on quantum mechanics!" I stated matter-of-factly.

"Wow." He said. He genuinely seemed shocked. Was It that hard to believe?

As I was about to explain how Bruce deserves more recognition, I heard somthing on the street below my apartment.

I looked out the window and saw somone trying to steal a locked up bike.

What is with all these bike thiefs?? I asked myself.

"Sorry, I need to go do somthing now," I explained. "I'll text you later!" I said as I quickly changed into the suit.

"Ok then kid, be safe. Bye." He said before hanging up.

I throw my phone on the bed and pulled on my mask, with karen instantly connecting.

"Hello, Peter." She welcomed.

I smiled. "Hey Karen."

Then I jumped out the window to go catch the theif.