Mina Morales

“So… you didn’t live with your parents either?” Mina asks as we finished up with our tour. It didn’t take long, just a quick show around the back rooms, storage, the kitchen. So May had put us on inventory duty so Mina could get a good look at all the products FEAST gets.

“Nope. It’s been me and May for as long as I can remember.” I say as I pick up one of the abnormally heavy boxes and put it on top of a shelf with ease. I then hesitate slightly before letting out a small sigh. “Well… her and my Aunt Beth. But she passed away a few years ago.” I say with a small shrug, doing my best not to dwell on it and bring the feelings down.

“I’m sorry…” Mina says awkwardly as a quick blush grows across her face. “I live with my Aunt too! Her name is Erin. But she isn’t nearly as nice as your Aunt May is.” Mina says with a quick giggle that I couldn’t help but smile at.

“May… is a very special woman. Honestly she is a great person to have in your life.” I say with a small smile as I remember all the times that she’s helped me out, and even got me a job here to help me get my life together whenever I was having trouble processing Beth’s loss. “But I’m sure your Aunt is great too!”

“She is! Kind of. I mean, she took me in whenever I had nowhere else to go.” Mina says, and I just raise an eyebrow in her direction. I could see the solemn look on her face and I decided not to pry much further. I just walk over and put one hand on her shoulder and smile.

“Family is family. Your Aunt loves you, and you can always come here if you need something too.” I say with a smile. “In fact, give me your phone real quick?” I ask, holding out my hand for a second. Mina pauses and hesitates slightly, but hands me the phone. I then quickly add my contact into it and hand it back to her with a smile. “If you need anything, help with homework, a ride, girl trouble, whatever! You can always call me too.”

Mina takes the phone from me and stares down at it almost wide eyed, before a small smile grows across her face and… was that a tear? Before I even had time to process it she quickly runs up to me and pulls me in a big bear hug that, while not as big as Aunt May’s… seemed almost just as genuine.

“Thank you.” She whispers, and I could hear a pain in her voice that broke me inside. I wrapped my arms around her softly and held her close, almost more confused now, but knowing I’d protect this girl with my life if I had to. We sat there silently for a couple seconds in the silence, holding each other, whenever something pulled us apart…

Spider-senses?

KABOOOOOOOOOOM!

The entire warehouse started to shake and the two of us fall down flat on our asses in a small huff. Mina was taking a second to recover, but very quickly I stood and looked out towards the window where I could see some commotion happening outside.

“Stay here.” I say to Mina quickly as I run over to the window and take a quick look outside. For a second there is nothing but people running and screaming in the streets, but I couldn’t see what they were running from. I kept searching as my spider-senses continued to ping.

“What is it?” Mina says as she pushes me to the side so she can look out the window too. “What’s going on out there?” My eyes quickly glanced down at her before staring back outside again, slightly annoyed.

“Didn’t I tell you to stay back? What if something came through the window?” I snap quickly, though make no moved to push her away.

“Oh, so you are allowed to be in danger but I’m not?” Mina snaps back with a quick smirk before the two of us hear it at the same time, and look back out the window.

We see a large station wagon getting thrown across the street, tumbling and smashing all over the pavement with, luckily, no passengers in sight. It had already been beat up pretty bad, it had to be something big… and then we heard the muffled laugh, before a body appeared down the block.

It seemed to be a completely naked woman, toned, with a mechanical cock swinging between her legs, and a large mechanical tail like a scorpion hanging just above her ass. She was shooting some sort of goo out of her tail, and also using it to whip around cars, trash cans, and anything else she could possibly reach to cause more chaos. I could see she was laughing, enjoying the carnage… and she needed to be stopped before anyone got hurt.

“I mean it this time. Stay. Here.” I growl as I turn to run out the front door, but before I could even take two steps I felt Mina grab my sleeve and hold me in the room, turning me back to meet her gaze once again.

“What the fuck you gonna do, Parker? Fight that thing? Or invite it in for a nice warm meal?” She asks in a harsh tone I wasn’t expecting out of her, and it took me back a bit.

“I’m going to go find Aunt May and make sure she isn’t hurt.” I lie, easily. It made me feel bad how easy it was to lie, but I’ve been doing it since high school so, I guess it would be easier by now. “But this warehouse is the most structurally sound building in this entire block. So stay here where it’s safe.”

Mina stared at me, almost with a glare, before she let go of my arm hesitantly and took a quick step back. I just gave her a quick nod and before she could say anything else, or try to stop me, I run out the front doors, grab my backpack, and head to the bathroom to change.