Forgotten
beep..beep..beep..
Miles groaned and slammed his alarm clock, he yawned and slowly blinked awake it was Monday another day of a boring school life. He got up and got dressed and then when he realized what day it is, it was his birthday!
”im 16… I’M 16!!” Miles yelled out and laughed in excitement, he quickly ran to his parents room but they weren’t there. It was weird but he shrugged it off as he probably thought they were getting something for him and wanted it to be a surprise so he shrugged it off, he grabbed his jacket and headphones and walked out the door closing it behind him.
Miles squealed in excitement and skipped around the neighborhood. He stopped and sees a cat and pets it, “guess what..it’s my birthday kitty!” *cat noises* “Ehehe!” Miles giggled and walked away from it feeling happy.
He was so happy that he texted ganke right away, he knows his best friend? He should be telling him happy birthday.
M: “gankeeee! Guess whattt?!”(≧▽≦)(≧▽≦)(≧▽≦)
G: “what?”(◕∈◕)
M: “cmonnnn you know already!”
G: “know what?”
M: “it’s a special daayyyy”
G: “really? Is it..pizza day? Wait no- hmm..am I missing something?”
M: “haha, no! Your fine, it’s fine! (´∀`)“
G: “oh alright! Come to class on time! I’m serious!(｀皿´＃)”
M: “alright alright! ！Σ（￣□￣;）Bye!”
G: “see you later!”
Miles put away his phone feeling a bit funny, but shrugged it off, maybe everyone was a bit busy. Miles started to get his stuff out the locker fumbling with his books as he closed his locker. He sat down in class still feeling a bit anxious, he doesn’t know how to feel but he still thinks a surprise was going on. It felt weird that no one texted and called still but he thinks he’s just overthinking it or being over dramatic. He tried to focus in English but started to think about his surprise and how everyone was gonna be there.
“Morales!” The English teacher clicked her tongue in annoyance “sorry ma’am. Just thinking..” Miles replied quickly as everyone laughed a bit and turned their attention back on the board. Miles just slouched in his chair and payed attention for the rest of the class.
Ring! Ring!
The bell finally rung and it was 3rd period, math time for miles. He groaned at the thought of math and went to his locker feeling drained from English class already, he unlocked his locker and grabbed his books and placed them into his bag and two in his hand school was hard.
Miles went to math class early greeting his grumpy math teacher all the time and just sat on his chair, he didn’t want to interact more with the teacher and started to doodle. He drew Gwen, Hobie, Pavitr, his mom and dad, Penni, noir, Spider ham, he drew a lot of the spider people he met especially Sakura-spider. She was so pretty, her powers were interesting and nice.. she was nice.
“Morales. Class is starting.” The teacher exclaimed. Miles nodded and put away his sketchbook and pulled out his math textbooks to start studying. He hates math but hey.. at least he has an A.
ring..ring..ring..
The bell finally rung what felt like days, miles ran out of the classroom and to the hallway to get his history textbooks and assignments, he HATED that his history teacher would humiliate him if he was late so he figured if he got out early and went to his locker earlier he thinks he’ll be fine. Except..a girl stopped him.
”heyyyy your miles right?” Miles fell confused but nodded. “I’m /&@;$. You look a little dull, let’s talk during lunch IF you have 6th period lunch.”
He does have that time of lunch, he doesn’t know why her named was censored out his mind it was weird..so weird. “Well..alright then.” He made a slight smile until he heard the bell ring. “OH NO!” Miles ran down the hallway as the girl looked at him in a panic state as he was running.
He understood that the history teacher was gonna gonna yell at him, and embarrass him, and humiliate him, and AND—
“ah..h-he’s not..here?” Miles looked around in shock, “yea.. he’s out sick for a week” a student said throwing a paper ball in the trash, “alright then..” Miles walked out feeling happy that there’s no history class and he went to his dorm to take off some time, ganke wasn’t there, that made his expectations higher so he smiled warmly to himself. He yawned and slouched in his chair, he’s a bit tired so for now he starts to drift off to sleep.
11:23am.. 11:35am.. 11:48am..12:04pm..
Miles yawned and awoke from his nap realizing it’s probably his lunch, and he missed…Spanish.. but that’s ok at least his grades are decent. He remembered the offer that the girl said so he got up, fixed himself and walked out his dorm. He met up with her, she had short Dark brown hair, hazel eyes, and Darkskin. “Hey.. you’re here.” She exclaimed and bopped her head up as in a way of saying ‘hey’. “Hey..uh..you wanna speak with me?” “Yea.. go grab your lunch and we’ll start to talk.” Miles nodded and grabbed his lunch and followed her outside, he doesn’t understand why she wanted to talk to him but doesn’t question it.
they found a table and sat down. She started to stare at him intensely, “so..how are you?” She stared him down. “I-I’m fine.. how are you?”
“I’m great..” she continued to stare.
He started sweating bullets and as he’s about to speak she hits him with “I know you’re spiderman..” she says with a low voice. Miles almost jumps out his seat and started to scramble his words, “WHAT? No I-I- well y-you see, uh- it’s uh-“ She stared at him wide eyed, “I was joking.. but now I definitely know you’re spiderman..” She paused for a moment and began to speak again
“so what’s it like?” It’s almost like her eyes lit up but she expressed it in a different way. “Well…it’s uh- it’s something alright, I can barely focus in classes and the stress builds up and I try to please everyone and the constant fighting, dealing with traitors, then I have this really mean boss, my grades are slightly declining, and then I try to take advantage of my potential too much to help others and..and-!!” She grabbed his hand and sighed, “maybe..just for one day..spiderman should take a break..and the police can get everything else under control.”
“W-what do you mean, I’m perfectly fine.” Miles tried to make a smug look but she wasn’t having it. “Miles..you’re killing yourself off, that’s not ok.. you’re not ok. You need rest. If no one cares..now you have a person who cares..about your mental health..you’re still a kid.”
Miles blinked in awe and looked very shock. He couldn’t believe someone was actually LISTENING to him and considering HIS feelings, it was HIS life after all. She sighed and let go of his hand. “Let’s change the topic…got any girlfriend?” She popped a fry in her mouth as miles laughed, “nahhh..” “boyfriend?” “Nope!” She chuckled and rolled her eyes, “you gotta be eyeing someone by now? Right..?” Miles took a moment and went back to memory lane about Gwen.. but..right now, he needs to focus on himself. “yea but..I’m tryna do my own thing, yknow?” He took a bite of the burger. “Hustling and taking care of yourself? Wow, looks like I met my best friend” The two laughed and had a good time talking.
”by the way, my name is Dakari, it’s a boy’s name but me and my mom adores this name, I hope you do too.” For some reason her name wasn’t blurred or glitched out anymore, “dakari…I like that name..” She smiled and He smiled back only to hear the agonizing sound of the bell. “Welp- I’ll see you later, spiderman.” She winked and pointed as she got up to throw out her trash. “Ok, bye!” He waved and also did the same, he made a new friend!
At 4:25PM
School was finally out and he still didn’t hear nothing from ganke or anyone, so he decided to go to his parents house. “Mom dad! I’m home!” His mom hugged him and smiled, “Hola miles!” She gave him many kisses in the cheek, “ahaha! Mamí!” “So how was school?” Rio smiled. “It was cool, made a new friend today, her name was dakari, she’s nice.” Rio hugged miles into a tight squeeze. “Awhhh! My little boy is growing uppp!”
Miles laughed but he felt something in his stomach..it’s like..his heart dropped. “Hey ma.. do you know what day it is..?” “It’s April 24th, why?”
“Is there..a special day.. on that day..?” Miles felt nervous for the answer he really hoped it wasn’t what he was-
“nope! It’s just a regular day míjo”
thinking…
it feels like it he’s gonna burst into tears, he felt upset and nodded slowly trying not to make a scene and make his mom upset, but how can she be upset if she forgot her own son’s birthday!
”oh Miles I have an extra shift today, so I’ll be ordering Chinese food if that’s ok?” Miles slowly nodded as his breath was shaky, he couldn’t believe it..at all. “Is dad.. gonna be here?” Rio sighed and shook her head, “sorry miles, he’s not gonna be home until 7:40am” Miles felt dizzy so he sat on the couch. He felt sick of the fact no one remembered his birthday, he figured that ganke also forgot his birthday.
“I’m gonna..shower..” He slowly walks towards the bathroom and locked it, after 30 seconds of shock he started to cry silently, he couldn’t believe it, he wouldn’t believe it but it was real. He didn’t bother taking off his clothes and he hopped in the shower crying his eyes out.
For 2 hours he cried and beat himself up for being so ‘sensitive’ but he has every right to be..don’t he? He heard a knock at the front door, he turned off the shower and got ready to fight someone. He opened the bathroom door and slowly approached the front door when all of a sudden he hears something in his room, he ran to check it out and found.. Dakari?! “Whooooa- what the hell are you doing here?” Miles helped her up but felt freaked out. “Did you..follow me?!”
“no! Well.. actually yes, uh- it’s because you couldn’t hear me since you had your headphones on so I figured to follow you to give you back your sketch book.” she handed the sketch book to him. “Thanks..” he hugged his sketchbook tightly.
“No problem.. uh- so, I was wondering if we—“ just now the hearing rumbling and then a big yellow light with a mix of every color was on the ceiling. “Oh my god…” Her eyes widened, Miles eyes widened too. Just now 3 spider people jumped down the portal.
Gwen..Hobie…Pavitr!
“Heyyy! Miles! It’s good to see you!” Pavitr hugged him tightly. “W-wow guys- hey-“ Gwen cut him off. “Not now guys, miles, we need your electric venom. Come to HQ now!” Gwen grabbed his hand but Dakari grabbed his other hand. “I don’t think so.” Gwen looked back at her and got upset. “You don’t understand-“ “NO! YOU don’t understand, he is tired, you can’t just come here randomly and just drag him to battle! You selfish people!” That remark selfish got their blood boiling. “You don’t understand! We need him! He knows how to defuse it!”
“defuse what?! Your entitlement?” “Listen ere mate, we just need him for a bit and that’s it.” Dakari rolled her eyes and fully dragged miles out Gwen’s grasp. “Go home.” The 3 spider people got heavily angry when all of a sudden she pushed them in the portal causing one of the watches drop from their wrist. Dakari mashed random buttons to close the portal and it did. She sighed and slowly turned to miles, “these your friends?..they seem nice..” she hands miles the watch. “One of them dropped it, probably that white spider..” she looks at him, and she sees him tear up. “Why are you cry—“
Full on sobs started to fill in the room, she couldn’t understand why miles was crying. She’s doing what’s right! …right? Before she could talk again miles hugged her and smiled, “you care…you made sure I don’t stress out, thank you.. thank you so much!” Miles wiped his tears and smiled brightly. An infectious smile.
Dakari smiled back, all she knows is that she has a friend, a friend to protect mentally and physically. She was ready to protect that friend.
”so..I was thinking…if you wanna go get ice cream? It’s not much but.. I just want you to feel better” Miles was ecstatic, “really?! You’re the only one who made my day special today.”
She fell confused so she asked a question. “Miles…is it your.. birthday..?” Miles looked at her and slowly nodded, she couldn’t believe that everyone forgot she couldn’t have that!
“cmon miles! Let’s go get ice cream and go to the late night arcade!” She got up and grabbed their shoes. “It’s your special day today! You don’t mind if I let my girlfriend come along though right?” Miles didn’t care..as long as his birthday couldn’t go to waste, so he nodded eagerly. He grabbed his keys and they both went out the door.
”Happy Birthday Miles.”
”Thank you..”