Chapter One – School Field Trip

Kiendra's POV: I was talking to my friends when I heard loud laughter coming from behind me. My friends and I looked over where the laughter was coming from to see what was going on. I turned away immediately; I hated how the popular guys liked to pick on all of the nerds, especially this nerd. Peter Parker was their favorite target. My friends looked disgusted too, we all looked at each other awkwardly and so I spoke up, "I've got to get going to class, see you guys!" I waved and left. I walked past the group of boys surrounding poor Peter Parker. I had enough!

I stepped into the circle and stood in front of Peter Parker and told the boys, "that's enough! You've had your fun now get to class!" I was an athlete and boys were actually sometimes afraid of me because I once beat up the biggest toughest bully in the school because he started teasing one of my friends.

"Aw come on, we're only having a little bit of fun!" Jake teased.
"Go!" I ordered and pointed my finger away from Peter Parker and myself. The boys sighed and left. I heard them laughing and talking down the hall and I knew they were talking about what they did to Peter. I turned around and helped Peter pick his books up. I handed them to him, and he took them gratefully.

"Er… thanks." He stuttered.
I shrugged, "it was nothing, I just got sick and tired of them always having to bully everyone around." I winked. Peter started walking down the hall, I caught up to him, "where are you headed?"

"Chemistry."

"Me too, I hope this field trip that we're going on isn't going to be too dull." I grinned.

Peter looked up and said, "We're going to the Genetic Spider Research Facility and they are supposed to be working on something big, and we will be one of the first ones to see it!" He seemed really excited.

I smiled politely and continued walking.

We arrived at our chemistry class and took our seats. The bell rang and everyone stopped talking and started whispering instead. The teacher stood up and said, "all right class be quiet!" The class whispered more quietly and the teacher must have thought this was the best he would get because he started talking again, "In about ten minutes we will be going on our field trip." Two thirds of the class groaned. The teacher ignored this, "now let's go outside and wait for the bus."

The class stood up and filed out of the class talking loudly. I walked over to one of my friends and started talking to her.

We waited outside for fifteen minutes until the bus finally came. We all went into the bus and sat down. I looked up and saw Peter Parker trying to find a seat. 'He's been having a rough day today,' I thought to myself. I looked over at my friend and said, "Do you want to let Peter sit by us today, and he's been having a rough day." I winked.

She scowled but nodded, "I guess, but why?"

"I just feel bad for him," I shrugged. Peter walked by, and my friend and I scooted over. Peter's eyes widened and he looked down at the empty seat. "Sit down." I ordered. Peter sat down and looked down at his feet. My friend rolled her eyes and looked out the window.

I started to drift off to sleep until someone was shaking me, seemingly yelling into my ear, "Wake up you dork!"

I opened my eyes and realized that we stopped, my friend was grinning at me, "you fell asleep and so, I decided to wake you up, is that ok?" she giggled.

We stood up and got off of the bus and joined the crowd.

Peter's POV: That girl I sat next to on the bus was really nice, the nicest anyone at school has ever been to me. I wonder why she was so nice to me, I bet it won't last long though. The class followed the teacher up the steps and into the spider research lab. I was excited to see what they were working on. I muttered to my friend Harry who had just arrived, "Wow, amazing, this is the most advanced electron microscope on the eastern seaboard." Harry rolled his eyes showing that he wasn't interested.

We walked around with an Asian lady telling us about the spiders that they were mixing DNA into fifteen Super Spiders, but one was missing.

As the class was leaving I took pictures of the super spiders. I did not notice the lost super spider drop down onto my hand from its web above. I felt pain shoot up my arm. "Ow!" I shook my hand and a red and blue spider fell off. I looked at my hand and saw two bite marks between my forefinger and my thumb.

"Parker lets go!" My teacher said clearly frustrated when he came back looking for me.

I walked away from the super spiders and followed my teacher.

Kiendra's POV: I was about to leave the lab when I saw a red and blue spider scurrying across the room. I knew it needed to be put back in one of the cages. Without thinking I ran over to it, kneeled down and caught it. I closed my other hand on top of it. I walked over to the empty super spider container until I felt a sharp pain spiral up my arm. I dropped the spider; it had bitten me!

I started to feel drowsy and dazed at once, I walked outside and scrambled onto the bus. I sat down next to my friend and my head immediately dropped down onto my chest. I was hardly aware of Peter sitting next to me and dozing off as well.