Hi everyone. Welcome to the sequel to "told you I'll be here forever".

Sorry for the delay in posting.

The plan had been to take a break for a few weeks to cover my holiday and give me some time to write some new chapters.

But I was experiencing some pretty bad wrist pain the day i uploaded the last chapter and by the morning it was excruciating.

Turns out I've got a case of tendonitis...and its in my writing hand, so no writing for me these past 6 weeks :(

I'm now at about 85% functionality so thought it was time to start again.

But my typing speed and the amount of time i can type for is limited so updates on this story may be a little slow while i recover.

I managed to write 6 chapters before this all happened so fingers crossed it's all sorted by the time io get to chapter 7!

For now i hope you enjoy chapter 1 and I'll be back with an update next Sunday.

8am on Monday morning and Ned was pacing anxiously outside the doors of Midtown High School waiting for two of his best friends to show up.

He was in no doubt after leaving Peter's apartment on Friday night that Chrissie had at least heard part of their conversation and that she was gearing up to start the mother of all rows with their best friend.

Ned felt bad that because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time he had made the situation worse between the two of them. He had wanted to fix things but now that Chrissie knew Peter was keeping a secret from her and was asking Ned to help cover it up he had a feeling that things were going to get a lot worse before they got better.

As soon as he'd gotten home that evening he'd texted Peter trying to find out what had happened but once he heard the rain pattering against his bedroom window and heard the news stating a storm was on it's way he knew he wouldn't be hearing from his friend for the rest of the night.

Everyone in their close circle knew of Chrissie's intense fear of storms and how she and Peter would hide themselves away until the storm died down. In one respect Ned felt bad knowing that Chrissie would be frightened, in another he felt better about the whole situation, knowing it was the perfect opportunity for Peter to talk to her and finally sort everything out.

Ned had gone to sleep that night hopeful that his friends may finally be back on track - it was when he woke up the next morning (and then the next) with no contact from either of them that he started to panic a little.

That panic had eased just a little bit when he'd gotten to school that morning and MJ had told him her part in Peter's plan to make it up to Chrissie.

He'd spent the best part of 10 minutes pouting at her for not telling him in the first place and making him worry about it all weekend but ultimately he was glad that things seemed to be on the mend between Peter and Chrissie.

After all if MJ was involved Ned was certain that the two would be best of friends again and he could finally apologise for whatever part he had played in causing such a massive rift between the two of them.

Ned hated the idea that Chrissie may hate him for agreeing to keep Peter's secrets from her and he couldn't wait to apologise to her.

He also couldn't wait to ask Peter the million and one questions that he had about Spiderman.

And to try on the suit of course but he couldn't do any of that until the pair of them showed up.

All of this waiting was making him anxious!

By 8.15 when they still hadn't shown up he began to pace backwards and forwards, biting nervously on the corner of his fingernails, an action which caused MJ to groan in disgust whenever she looked up from her book and saw him doing it.

"Dude, just stop. Not only is that disgusting but your making me dizzy. Just stay still and leave your fingers alone!"

"I can't MJ! Not until I know where they are. If both of them have made up like we expected them to then they should have been here 15 minutes ago. Look around MJ. They're not here! Something is wrong - I know it!"

"Maybe she finally killed him and dumped his body in the woods and that's why you've not heard from either of them."

"MJ!"

Ned's anxious shriek caused MJ to grin ever so slightly as she put her book down and stared at him. She knew messing around with him like this was a little mean but Ned made it so easy - like shooting fish in a barrel!

"Come on you have to admit that it is a possibility. Even with his master plan Peter has been acting like an ass lately."

Ned spluttered, trying to come up with some way to defend his friend, but he couldn't not really - after all Peter had been an ass, especially to Chrissie.

Anxiously be began to bite on the corner of his thumbnail again completely ignoring MJ's look of disgust.

"You don't think she's actually killed him do you?"

MJ didn't even bother to answer she just rolled her eyes and went back to her book, muttering something under her breath which sounded suspiciously like "boys are so stupid" but Ned was too preoccupied looking out for Peter and Chrissie to pay much attention.

By 8.20 with only 10 minutes until school started Ned was really beginning to panic wondering if something had happened to the two of them.

Neither Peter or Chrissie were ever this late to school - what if something had happened over the weekend?

What if they'd had a massive fight and stopped talking to each other?

What if Peter had been so upset he'd gone out as Spiderman and done something that had got himself hurt? What if...

Suddenly Peter was standing right there in front of him, looking a little worse for wear but-

"Oh thank God! You're alive!"

He yelled excitedly and rushed forward, practically crushing Peter he was hugging him so tightly in relief he barely registered Peter patting him on the shoulder and breathlessly asking him to let him go.

"When we didn't hear from you after this weekend MJ was sure that Chrissie buried your body in the woods somewhere!"

Peter looked around his best friend to stare at MJ who casually raised an eyebrow at him, as if daring him to say that she was wrong.

"Seriously MJ?"

"What? Even with my help there was the potential for you to still screw it up. By the way if she had killed you and buried you in the woods I would totally be her alibi."

Ned laughed nervously, before taking one look at MJ's face and realising she was telling the truth.

With a gulp he stopped laughing and turned his attention back to Peter - just Peter.

He frowned deeply.

"Dude where's Chrissie? Now that you two have made up shouldn't you be walking to school together like usual."

Peter's mood shifted completely and he began to shuffle from foot to foot while rubbing at the back of his neck - a clear sign that he was nervous about something.

Ned felt a shiver go down his spine at the look on his friend's face.

"Peter..."

"Um yeah about that-"

Before he could even say anything MJ's phone pinged letting her know that she had an incomming text message and the two broke eye contact.

Peter watched as she read it and her face slowly changed from disinterested to irritated.

She gave a huff and quickly threw her book into her bag with one hand while furiously texting away with the other.

The second her eyes locked with Peter's again he knew exactly what had happened and who was texting her.

"Dumbass." She spat as she pushed past him, not so gently knocking his shoulder as she made her way to the drop off area located at the front of the school.

Peter sighed deeply knowing exactly what was going on, Ned however just stared after her mouth open in shock wondering what the hell just happened.

Ok MJ was never really the nicest person, especially first thing in the morning but this was something else!

After a couple of seconds of staring he turned back to Peter.

"What the hell was that?!"

Peter sighed again, his shoulders sagging in defeat as he leaned heavily against the side of the school building.

"That." He started before running his hands through this hair in exasperation.

"That was Chrissie telling MJ what happened this weekend and how she doesn't want to see me anymore."