It was a hot sunny day at Montero High School.
Gwen Stacy was busy. Too busy to notice her phone buzzing.
   Too busy to notice a spider slick down from the tree shade she was under.

***
Gwen Stacy was three times more busy this week than she'd ever been. 
    Her science projects included making a talking robot. Her team, too lazy to care, had left the whole thing to her.
     Now she typed code. Now she drank a bit of coffee. Now she punched some more code.
   Now coffee... Now code... Coffee...
        Code.
Coffee.
  "Ouch! " She slapped at her neck. "A spider? "
She picked the thing up, examining it's multicoloured abdomen.
   No time for biology.
Coffee.
    Code.
Coffee.

***
It was close to 4:00 p.m when she typed the last snippet of code.
"Awww! " She yawned and stretched. 
   Tomorrow, her robot code would be up and running.
"Best science project, Stacy. The award goes to you. "

She imagined Professor Kim saying.
Oh yeah, how fantastic she would be. Like that time she'd fallen for Miles.
A long time indeed! She thought as she parked her laptop.
***
After supper, her neck still ached a bit. But it was just a spider, Gwen Stacy thought switching off the lights.
   Did I look like a fly to it?

Just a spider, were Gwen Stacy's last words before she fell asleep.
   Just a spider.

Except it wasn't just a spider!