8 Family time

"PETERRR" I run down to the living room and look at the news being played on the TV "As we can see from the video, the young man handles the situation very well like a trained fighter. The ease with which he handled the gun made our experts suggest that he must be either from a military family or has a police relative who taught him. Our expert further says that his use of flashlight as a distraction was a good move on his part considering the effect it has on the robber as seen in the video, the local county netizens expressed their admiration for his bra..." aunt may and uncle Ben watch as the TV keeps on repeating my awesome looking takedown for the audiences viewing pleasure.

I cough which seems to get their reaction as they both turn towards me in unison, aunt may is the first to ask me "who taught you how to do that?" I immediately shrug and tell her "the internet mostly" aunt may looks horrified for a second as she shouts "OMG did you buy a gun to practice that stuff?" I widen my eyes as i rush to answer "Nooo that was the first time i even held a gun" that seems to calm her as she hugs me as she says "look peter I used to suffer a lot of anxiety when ben was still in the force and this is making me feel the same way, don't ever do something like that again" I look into her eyes as I say in a low voice "You know I can't promise that" may looks at ben as she says "you are just like him" and smiles, I smile back and say "i can never be uncle ben" as soon as I said that the mood in the room turned a little dark for some reason.

Uncle ben shakes his head while aunt may seems sad, I was just confused and afraid I said something wrong so uncle Ben explains the situation "she meant your dad peter" I nod in understanding as peters memories make me gloomy all of a sudden.

I didn't want to be the reason everyone is gloomy so I changed the conversation "Hey let's watch the YouTube video now" they seemed to know I wanted to dodge the topic but let me anyway "yeah let's watch it" I go upto my room and take a couple of deep breaths to push what happened to the back of my mind before bringing back the pen drive and playing it on our old but upgraded(by me) TV.

The video played and aunt may and uncle ben sat with me in the middle as we watched the video, as the swearing part of the video played aunt may looked at me "peter that kind of language isn't allowed" I ducked down my head and smiled through it all and when the sciency parts of the video played may asked me in surprise "Is this what they teach in school these days?" I was about to answer but uncle Ben cut in "Hell no, atleast not until the damn government changes because they want the children to stay dumb, they want an easily controllable citiz.." aunt may cuts him off in a scolding tone "ben I told you to stop listening to conspiracy theorists"

Uncle Ben defends himself by saying "I didn't 'hear it' from somewhere, I know it from what I observed" aunt May looks at him and snarks "So what you are saying is you're a conspiracy theorist" uncle Ben sputters as he says "No I'm not, let's watch the video" me and aunt may laugh but don't call him out and continue watching the video.

As the video reaches the watermelon part of the video I wince as the room descends into silence and aunt may yells "don't tell me you did that?" I panic and say "no I didn't" but the peter in the video betrays me "So, I am gonna test this thing on myself" aunt May yells, once again "PETERR" I shout too "WHAT, he's going to explain himself look" and pointed towards the TV.

The diving part again elicited questions from her "does he know how to dive?" Uncle Ben answered "he doesn't" just in time for the uncle ben in the video to say "you don't know how to dive" aunt Mays mouth hangs open in shock as she turns to me "I don't want you to make another video if you are going to be doing dangerous things all the time" I start whining after hearing that "come on aunt may nobody got hurt" she nods but doesn't reply.

As the video is completed I ask "So, what do you guys think?" I was nervous but they both smile and sing praises for the video "by the way did you have two cameras because how did you shoot the last dive both underwater and you jumping" I tell her "oh no I just dived twice and uncle ben got in the water to shoot that" she nods asks after contemplating about something "Do you wanna learn how to dive. PROPERLY"

I got confused by her question and asked her "why?" She looked thoughtful before she answered "your father was a great diver too" that made my blood run cold as the bodies instinct to freeze whenever his parents are mentioned came back in full force.

I said "I'll think about it" and ran away to my room I could hear uncle ben with my spydey powers "you shouldn't have said that may, you know how he is" I ignore aunt mays reply and close the door to think about what is happening, I didn't have any attachment for peters parents but the familiar feeling of missing your parents hit me like a truck and made me remember my own parents from my own universe.

I wanted to cry but I can't, for some reason i never could cry just from feelings. I always needed assistance to cry like a movie or a song. My mind is going to dark places where I don't want to go, I usually cool myself with some music so I get on my laptop and search for a song that is perfect to make me cry and be done with this emotional shit only to find out there isn't any song with that name.

That throws me in for a loop as I search for other songs and find out something neither I nor the original peter noticed until now. The music in this world is completely different from my own so I couldn't find the music to cry myself to sleep, I could feel the sad feeling in my heart spreading and locking my throat.

-Uncle ben POV-

I watched as peter left and told may "you shouldn't have said that may, you know how he is" may turns towards me as she asks "How much longer?" I got confused at her question "What?" She looks at me with red eyes and asks "How much longer are we going to ignore his parents death?" 20 years of instinct and love made Ben hug her before she starts crying, she hugs him back as she says "I don't want to ignore their sacrifice" Ben nods as he says "I know that's why you insist on him calling us aunt and uncle" may nods on his shoulder as she says "I don't want him to forget them, they were good people and deserved better" Ben doesn't say anything to that and holds her closer.

After crying herself to sleep she mumbled "Go check on peter, I'm tired and ill go to sleep" I let her rest on the sofa and put a blanket on her before going upto peters room, before I could knock I heard rapid breathing and ask "peter are you okay" the breathing doesn't stop and Ben identifies it as a panic attack from his time in the force "Peter listen to me breath slowly, really SLOWLY okay" I could hear the slowing of his breath and asked him "What made you have a panic attack?" I waited for a while before he answered.

"Music"