Along came a new spider.

In all my life...I can't say you being born was the greatest achievement me and your mother shared...its her death that made my day...now the question upholds son, do you oblige?

Alex gasped as he woke up from his nightmareish slumber,he left his friends after coming up with a somewhat beliveable lie regarding why he stormed off. He sighed, he was feeling dread inside him. Not only did he brutally injure a man, he let it win again. He knew it couldn't let it happen again, not now, not ever, but his nightmares... it seemed so real. But they all were the same. He paused, what did it all mean? What did his father mean by:the question still upholds? He sighed again. He felt a migraine coming forth as he rubbed his forehead as beads of sweat rolled down his face. All these questions needed to be answered at another time, for now,sleep

The next day...

Alex slumped over his bunk, another day, another grind. After getting properly dressed he made his way downstairs, surprisingly, Earl was sober. However he was wearing a scowl on his face. Obviously disappointed in something. Alex couldn't help but think it was him that caused him to be like this.

At least he's sober...that's one good positive I guess.. he thought to himself as he made his way past Earl, heading for the door.

"Wait."

Alex froze, unsure what to do. Nervously he turned around to meet Earl. Still bearing the scowl on his face, only for it to turn to a sad smile.

"You know...the school wanted me to let you know that your not officially registered in the class elections,so your disqualified from it." Earl stated bluntly, still hungover.

"Thank god." Alex muttered

"Also, why are you suddenly at throats with a sophomore? You didn't call her names now did you?" He asked.

"No, I just got annoyed by her and called her out on her big ego...only to then find out she's a sister to the chief of police and I dropped the act. She hung onto it and now she's out for revenge." He stated

"Apologize to her." He stated.

"But Earl--"

"But nothing, it doesn't matter if you or her insulted one another and now your enemies. You shouldn't be picking fights left and right. And she shouldn't be picking on you because she's related to somebody important. You should apologize to her. Maybe she'll do the same." He said

"And if she doesn't" Alex asked.

"Then your terrible with women." Earl replied with a gruff laugh. "Anyways, get to school, you're late as it is."

"Right." Alex said as he bolted out the door.

Later, Alex arrived at Midtown, stopping briefly to catch his breath, only for his spider-sense to go ablaze again. Turning around he came face-to-face with a furry of eyes. Making himself shrink, and obviously, wanting to leave immediately. As Twilight and her friends stood over him.

"Well, hope you're having a pleasant day so far, too bad you'll be out of the election once debates start up again." Twilight hissed.

"About that..." Alex said while his voice was trailing off. "I got disqualified for not being registered properly and now I'm out of the race so..."

"Well it's a good thing that--wait, what?" Twilight asked in shock.

"Don't play that card with me, you set me up so you can find out more dirt about me during debates." He groaned as he rolled his eyes. "So what now, are you going to gang up on me?  Taunt me because I can't do anything about it because of your brother? I'm already making enemies the first four days into high school and I'm sick of it. I'm not gonna fight you with my own smear campaign, but do what my orphanage supervisor told me to do."

"Which is?..." Twilight said nervously.

"I'm sorry."

"What?" They all said in disbelief.

"I'm sorry" he repeated " I should've been less of a douche, and more aware of my surroundings. But that doesn't mean you need to parade over that."

"Which means.."

"Which means you should also apologize for treating me like shit for the past few days. You seem like a nice gal, so what's it going to be?" He replied, cooly.

"I'm...sorry..."

"Good, now let's start over," he extended his arm. "Friends?"

Taking his hand, Twilight replied,"Friends."

"Good."

Later on Alex found the day to be quite boring, he may have patched things up with Twilight. But he seemed to forget something, perhaps it was the history between his friends that he needed to patch up as well.

"That's for another day.. he thought while smiling. Suddenly he was approached by some familiar faces.

"So I heard you got disqualified from the race" Sarah said glumly.

"...Yeah...you guys are not mad at me?" He replied nervously.

"Nah not at all," Jay continued. "We really didn't expect it to go far. I'm surprised you made it the first time around."

"Well at least something good came out of it." He said.

"Oh?" They all said.

"Yeah I patched things up with Twilight, we're not at each other's throats anymore!" He said while slicing a piece of lasagna. Oblivious to the shock on his friends faces.

"H--how?" Luis exclaimed.

"Easy, we both apologized and started over. What, is there something I'm missing?" He asked.

"It's impossible to like,make popular kids apologize. It's like, the written rule."

"Says who?"

"Says the author!" Luis exclaimed while pointing up at the ceiling.

"Luis...what the hell are you talking about?" He then turned to Sarah. "Is he always like this?"

"You'll get used to it. I hope."

"Uh-huh." He then shook his head. "I've been meaning to ask. When did you guys meet?" He asked.

"We meet in the seventh grade, started a band in the eighth. And here we are" Sarah replied.

"So what's yours?" Asked Michael.

"Well I wasn't always an orphan. I had a family. Three sisters. A mother. And what I thought was a loving father. One thing led to another and here I am." He finished. Sighing on having to mention his father again.

"So..what happened?" Asked Sarah nervously.

"I think that's a question for another day" he finished quickly. Suddenly the lunch bell rung. Announcing the end of lunch.

As Alex exited the lunched room, he was grabbed by the shoulder and turned around to see two familiar faces.

"What's your plan mister?" Rainbow Dash questioned

"What plan?" He asked dumbfounded.

"You know...getting friendly with us..so you can stab us in the back once you steal all of our songs so you can trade them off to your friends at insomnia!" She exclaimed.

"Rainbow dear, surely there are better options than that." Rarity intervened.

"Is she always like this? No offense by the way."  He asked.

"None taken darling. Rainbow is always a bit...brash." She said.

"So are you not conspiring with the enemy!" Rainbow exclaimed again.

"No, I'm not. And I never was. I was just sick of the whole smear campaign thing. Can I go now? I'm late for physics." He replied.

"Ok,you can go now." Rainbow groaned. Obviously unsatisfied with his answer.

"Thank you." He said as he turned to make his leave.

"Somethings up with him, I don't like it." Rainbow said.

"Well if push comes to shove you can always do what you normally do. Which is being aggressive." Rarity smirked.

"Well, that is right--hey!" She exclaimed.