If any of them bothered to look up at her, they would assume that she was gloating over her innate superiority to them. How little they understood.
Out there were people that had families. Families that were sane and alive.
She had money and privilege. She had stocks and investments. She had grown up with servants and whatever toy she desired. And if she broke something she could always get a new one.
She looked down and caught sight of one girl, very much like her, a young Japanese-American just out for a day of fun. That girl would go home today, and she would greet her parents and maybe a sibling. And she would chat for long hours on the phone with her friends, and complain about such things as homework and chores while discussing the virtues and attributes of whatever heartthrob was popular now.
These were the things she had seen on television and had glimpsed through dirty, fog-enshrouded windows while listening to her teammates occasionally.
The one thing she could say that put her above her family members, aside from the newly gained clearness of thought. She at least understood how those people out there could be so happy with so little while she was miserable with so much.
"I shouldn't have come," she whispered in Japanese. After this...this...mass going home to her silent and empty home would be a near torture.
She sighed and shook her head.
****
Down below, Peter had caught sight of her as he scanned the balcony to take his mind away from the headline on the Daily Bugle. For a moment he was struck by the melancholy of her manner, even as he recognized his younger classmate.
Peter had a brief thought that he was travelling in higher social circles than someone of his background should have been in. The Osborns and now it seemed that Kodachi was also rich in some manner. And then his eye travelled further down the balcony and what he saw drove thoughts of Kodachi from his mind.
There stood Mary Jane and Harry, on the balcony and talking together like what they where, girlfriend and boyfriend. Even after hearing from Mary Jane, it was still a shock to actually see his friend with the love of his life.
And then that feeling started.
That feeling that he had begun to associate with danger. Inexorably his eyes were drawn toward a small figure in the distant sky, growing closer by the moment.
Above him, Kodachi was similarly pulled from her melancholy mood as the Goblin approached and the time for destiny was at hand.
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(Posted Thu, 25 Dec 2003 10:56)
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