That Little Spider or Whatever

Cecilia lost a game of spin the bottle with her friends. Her punishment was to confess to Peter, the class nerd.

What a joke!

That gross nerd, who couldn’t even look a pretty girl in the eye and was so skinny he looked like a chick. Someone like that would definitely say yes right away, then become the biggest embarrassment in her dating history!

Cecilia carried out her punishment reluctantly. She confessed without much thought, picking at the rhinestones on her manicure as she wondered whether she should dump him tonight or tomorrow morning.

“Sorry,” the nerd said, adjusting his black-rimmed glasses. He politely and seriously turned her down. “I’ve been busy lately. I don’t have time to date.”

Cecilia: “Hmph, I knew you’d say yes. To tell you the truth, actually… huh? Wait, what did you say?!”

Stunned, Cecilia snapped off one of her acrylic nails.

*

Peter realized someone was following him.

Cecilia, who was pretty but awful and had supposedly dated the entire football team, seemed unable to get over the fact that he’d rejected her. She carried a camera around all day, secretly photographing him from every corner. He had no idea what she was up to.

She wasn’t dangerous, but being followed constantly was incredibly annoying.

Peter finally lost patience. One day, he dropped upside down from the ceiling, snatched her camera, and told her to stop following him.

He’d worn a proper mask that day and disguised his voice, making himself sound as menacing as possible. He’d even grabbed Cecilia by the face. As expected, she was terrified and burst into tears. But the first thing she said through her sobs was:

“Peter Parker, you broke my camera! I’m telling the teacher!”

Peter: “…”

Wait, how did you recognize me?!

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Gulshan was a freelance assassin who only took odd jobs, spending every day focused on her perfectly ordinary assassin life, until the League of Assassins suddenly kidnapped her and forced her to work as their young master’s assistant.

Gulshan couldn’t understand why an assassin needed an assistant. Was the young master going to make her mop the floor after he finished the job?

Life as an assistant went smoothly. The young master killed people quickly and efficiently, and he even gave Gulshan presents after each mission.

He didn’t take a salary, either. He simply had all his earnings credited to Gulshan.

Gulshan thought she wouldn’t mind living like this forever.

Until one day, after finishing a mission, the young master brought her back to headquarters to report. His unhinged boss fondly told him, “You’ve grown up, son. I have a very interesting new mission for you, and it involves your little girlfriend.”

The young master’s “very interesting new mission” was to kill Gulshan.

Gulshan, forced to listen in: …I knew it! Working for a traditional family was always going to end with me being silenced! But what does this mission have to do with the young master’s girlfriend? Wait, where did he get a girlfriend? I’m with him all day, and the only woman around him is his mother!

The good news: The young master was loyal to his friends. He refused the mission, ran away from home, and swore to cut ties with his dark and evil family.

The bad news: He ran away without taking Gulshan. Now his crazy birth family is ordering Gulshan to hunt him down.

Even worse: Gulshan has been blackmailed and has no choice but to accept the mission.

Thinking of the young master’s earth-shattering skills and his cold, ruthless nature…

Gulshan figured she was doomed.

*

Damian once had a girlfriend, back when he was still with the League of Assassins.

Later, she died, and Damian left the League.

Damian spent a long time trying every possible way to forget her, even trying to hypnotize himself.

Perhaps he’d hypnotized himself so many times that he started hallucinating. He actually saw his long-dead girlfriend mugging people on a street in Gotham.

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