Peter walked me to my 1st period, Science. As we walked together, he told me all about himself. About his parents and his uncle and how he lives with his Aunt May. I could feel the sadness through our bond. I couldn't help but take my hand in his. I just wanted his sadness to go away. He smiled at me with genuine happiness in his eyes and I melted into his beautiful brown eyes. We had most of our classes together, and it almost killed me to be away from him. At least we had lunch together!
He introduced me to his friends Ned and MJ at lunch that day.
"Hey guys. This is my soulmate! Claire." he introduced me as his soulmate! I blinked at him in surprise.
"Hey-wait what?! Soulmate?" Peter nodded with a proud smile that made me blush. "That's so cool! Congrats dude!" MJ nodded in my direction. For some season I took a liking to her. I sat next to Peter across from MJ and Ned. I smiled when Peter's hand found mine and smiled even more when I saw that he was looking at me.
"You're beautiful." I knew that I looked like a tomato at that moment.
"Th-thanks. You're not so bad yourself." I joked. Oh god. I'm making a fool of myself. But I felt better when he laughed. He brought up my hand to his lips and kissed them.
"Get a room!" MJ rolled her eyes at us, causing me to giggle. All this happiness and inclusion almost made me forget to tell him that I have 10 other soulmates. And that Peter doesn't even know yet.
"Hey. Peter?" He turns toward me with a smile. "Do you want to go to the park afterschool? I saw it on my way here. We should talk."
"Sure, Claire." when he said my name I felt waves of pleasure. This was going to be hard.
After the last period of the day, World History (my favorite). Dad came to pick me up. I didn't want to tell them yet. I felt that I should wait until Mom is there too, so I told him I'm meeting a friend and that I'll walk to the park. After constant reassuring that I can walk there and that I know where it is, he reluctantly let me go.
As soon as I got there I found myself smiling and looking for Peter. Soon I found him sitting on a park bench fiddling with his fingers. I slowly creeped up behind him.
"Boo!" I yelled, causing the attention of an older couple. But he wasn't affected. He turned toward me and smirked.
"I saw you coming," he chuckled at my pout and patted the seat next to him.
Now I felt nervous. What if he rejects me because of my unnatural amount of soulmarks? What if what he wanted to talk about is that he wants to reject me? Even after he called me beautiful? I blushed remembering the simple contact we made earlier that day. And why does he look so nervous?
"So. Was there anything specific you wanted to talk about, Claire?" he searched my face and I knew that he could feel the waves of anxiety coming off of me through the bond.
"Umm yeah actually. Do you have anything you want to tell me?" he gave me a shy nod.
"So.. go ahead,"
"Ok," I started "There's something I really think you will want to know. I'm sorry. I really am. I just... Ihavetensoulmates." I blurted. Peter looked at me, confused.
"Wait... what? Can you repeat that but slower." he chuckled nervously.
"Okay. I have ten soulmates." I made sure to put gaps between each word.
"What?!" he yelled, making me slightly flinch. His gaze softened when he noticed. "I'm sorry. It's just... wow. I'm glad you told me but... what if you don't love me anymore after you meet your other soulmates. What if they're better than me?" I froze at his words.
"Pete, there's no way I'm rejecting you! You're my soulmate! I'm not leaving you! I thought you would leave me because... well I have 11 soulmates!" I giggled nervously.
"No! I'm not going to leave you." he smiled shyly.
"Well... now that that's settled, what did you want to tell me?"
"Ummmm. Right..."
I waited nervously wondering what he was so anxious about.
"I'm Spider-Man!"
"You're WHO?!"