the river
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the bougainvillea by ZucchiniBread
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man - All Media Types
06 Sep 2024
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She skips all her afternoon classes and sits in the grass by the baseball field watching dragonflies bump into each other. When school lets out, she camps at the library and flips through the cooking magazines and looks at glossy photos of cakes and pies and the happy families being fed them by happy mothers.
When she goes home, May eats quietly while her mother rants about the other secretary at her job at the steel mill, and wonders if everyone’s parents are like this.
After dinner, May cleans up and washes the dishes. Dries them. Folds the laundry that her mother started but didn’t finish, and goes to bed. Every so often, it hits her. The idea of forever going through each day, almost exactly like this. Sometimes better, sometimes much worse.
She goes to bed and wakes up the next day and does it again.
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May, and the understanding that abundance takes many forms.
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- Part 1 of the river
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The relationship therapist tells them they’re both a pair of old maids, and Ben barks out a laugh. She tells them to get out, go on a date.
A date. They were probably in their twenties the last time they did a ‘date.’
It's precisely what they needed. They shed their skins behind them and laugh like kids again. They go to a hole in the wall, because it’s cheap, and they sit on a bench by the river and watch a man fall off a party boat, and then watch the Coast Guard pick him up. They laugh over it. They share an ice cream. They don’t fight.
When they get home, Skip’s watching TV, Peter’s asleep, and her and Ben feel better than they have in a long time.
That’s how it starts.
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- Part 2 of the river