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  I woke up pretty early that m, st night was fun and awesome, but even with a few hours of shut-eye, I feel eid well-rested. May was lying beside me, resting on my chest. The m sun rays were entering through the window and bathing her bare form in e-yellow rays of glory. Damn, she looks seous.

  I carried her to her room without waking her. 't let MJ catch us together in bed, no matter what. After that, I took a quick shower, phew... Finally, the sticky feeling of st night is gone. After putting on some fresh clothes, I was about to go to the kit for breakfast and saw MJ wearing her jogging dress heading toward the front door.

  "M," I called out.

  "M, Peter. You are up early today," She replied, fshing me a smile.

  "Going fging?"

  "Yep, wanna join me?"

  "Yeah. Give me a minute," I replied, heading toward my room. It's cold, so I put on a bck windbreaker jacket and white sneakers before heading outside with MJ.

  "Ready?" She asked.

  "Yep, let's go."

  Both of us then started jogging across Queens toward a seretle park not far from our neighborhood. A refreshing m jog... Well, I would have called it a m swinging if I were in my spidey suit... But you know, m walks with MJ aren't so bad either.

  "So, how's your ag csses going?" I asked.

  "Well, it is okay for now," She answered, shrugging. "Still trying to impress and grab the right kind of attention... But you know, yood luck is rubbing off me."

  "My good luck you say?" I asked with a hint of surprise in my tone.

  "Yeah, right. I have nded in two short-time roles retly. Both were nothing big, just some brief background roles, but that's something right?" She g me with a smile as we turhe er.

  "Yeah... Wait! Yoing to be on TV?!" I stopped in the middle of the street, surprised.

  "Yeah, it isn't a main role... But it is definitely something! I was going to tell you and May over breakfast..." She opehe water bottle and took a sip.

  "So, what's your role?" I asked while tinuing .

  "They aren't telling us until the shooting starts... They are trying to keep the secred stuff... But if everything ght... I might even have a ce to audition for a bigger role! Imagihe day I finally make a real debut!" She replied with a chuckle, raising her hands and stretg, "Anyway, we are not even sure how that might go yet, don't want to jinx it... "

  "That's J, way to go!" I patted her back, happy for her achievements.

  "What about you? You seem busy these days. I rarely get to see you even though we are living in the same house. So, what kind of super sce research thingy you were up to?" She asked as the little path we were jogging o beh the lush opy of the trees in the park. We took a sit on the park's bender the shadow of a huge tree. The winter air was cold, and the snow on the ground made the enviro even colder, but both of us were warmed up thanks to our little jog session.

  "A lot has happeely," I started, taking a big sip from my water bottle. "First was... Well, someone mugged Fsh a him bleeding oreet, and that lucky bastard... I 't believe I took him to the hospital. I assing by, saw him, and just did that without even thinking... you believe it? Me saving his life after everythi me through! Guess what? That's not the end... After admitting him to the hospital, I was driving bae and there she was at the gunpoint. Liz Aln of all people, on the very edge of being mugged and probably raped or worse. Spiderman showed up and I, well... He saved her and asked me to drive her home. Haha! What a ce. First Fsh and then his girlfriend, same day, same evening. Yeah... that's not even the end of the story."

  "No kidding! Well, what happened ?" MJ asked, looking intrigued.

  "Liz threw up in my car."

  "You are making all that up, aren't you?" MJ rolled her eyes.

  "Nope, I am not," I answered in a deadpanned manner. "Anyway, that's that. That's my story about saving both Fsh and his girlfriend the same evening."

  "You did good..." MJ said, taking a sip from her bottle, "Not many would have dohat if they were in your pce. I mean, helping your bullies who tormented you since... Forever... Especially, someone like Fsh who probably 't remember the amount of times he left you broken and bruised."

  "And you think I did good?" I chuckled in disbelief.

  "Hey, I ain't no saint. If I was in your pce, I would have let Fsh bleed oreet for all I care. Let karma get him and bite him in the ass! But, what you did after all that, it takes a lot of... How do I put it? Yeah, strength a to pull that off," She added with an impressed look on her face.

  "So, Fsh being mugged was karma ing for him?" I chuckled as we sat o each other on the park bench.

  "You could say that, yeah. Plus, if that wasn't bad enough, Liz decided to puke inside your car, poor you. First, your car gets smashed by a criminal mutant and now Liz pukes all over the inside. Your week's been crappy as heck..." She ughed, spping my arm.

  "And not tet Fsh's blood all over the seat. This week has been the worst one for my car's ing bill," I joined her ughter. "But, keep it between us, yeah?"

  "Yeah, yeah, your secret's safe with me. And be careful ime. The streets aren't that safe anymore," She reminded me as she stood up and looked toward the pathway to tinue our run. "Ready to tinue?" She asked as the strong gust of winter wind blew past us, fluttering our clothing and rustling the dry leaves on the ground.

  "Yeah," I quickly shot bad we began jogging.

  "We got Spiderman, that ts, right? Dude, taking down thugs and all kinds of bad guys?" I started our versation as we tinued our m run.

  "Yep, but he 't be at all pces all the time. There are plenty of pces that even Spiderman 't rea time," She replied, watg the m birds on the branches, singing and chirping. "And, the other heroes are too busy with all their own messes they created."

  "Like Abomination or Red Hulk?"

  "Yep, just to mention a few, a's not even discuss thue mutants. They just do whatever they want. Blowing up gover offices and schools and attag military camps. Letting out a bunch of criminals like Mago. Wreaking havoc across the city, killing tless i civilians. Tearing and ripping their families apart... Who knows where Mago will strike ? Hopefully, not in New York," She went silent after saying that as her eyes darted on the pavement.

  "The st time the X-meed him. Maybe the mutants will sort this problem once again. They might beat him again. Also, New York seems to attract bad people. As you said, we o be just careful and keep it to ourselves," I replied while we made aurn and were ba our apartment's street, and at the same moment, I spotted Gwen around the er, running toward us.

  "Gwen!" MJ noticed her as she waved back, and I nodded back to her.

  Gwen was jogging and looked eic. There was a satisfied, almost arrogant smirk pstered on her face. Probably something has gone down the way she likes it. But she definitely looks pretty, even from a distance.

  "What are you two doing this far from home?" Gwen asked as she stopped jogging, looking fused at MJ and me.

  "We moved into the neighborhood a few weeks back," I answered her.

  "Moved?" Gwen looked at both of us with a fused look, "Wait! Moved? As if you two were, like... dating and stuff?! Live-iionship?! Not bad, MJ!"

  "You say that..." I replied with a smirk.

  "What?! We have not! You are misinterpreting everything. Shut up, Peter. Geez, Gwen," MJ awkwardly chuckled as Gwen narrowed her eyes at both of us. "We are just staying together for the time. Things happe home aer helped out a lot. And things ended up like this."

  "Ok. I won't pry into your private matters. But since you two are not dating," Gwen smirked. Oh, I know that look. She's about to drop a bomb, "Hey, Pete, you wanna hang out tonight? Dad's on a new case, so he won't be back tonight... We watch a movie or two. What do you say?"

  MJ gred at me as if I had itted the greatest of sins. What do I even say? 'Sorry, I 't as I already got a pn tonight'? Well, teically, I have not.

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