Riverdale: A Ghost Town (Male Reader Insert)

Part 1

Guilt. Innocence. Good. Evil. Life. Death. As the shadows around Riverdale deepened, the lines that separated these polar opposites blurred and distorted.

Cheryl had a mask that's matched the sketch of Jason Blossom's killer, but why?

"Ever since Jason died, I've been receiving all this texts and phone calls from Jason's phone." Cheryl starts by explaining most of by the audience already knows. "It's always in his voice, Jason's voice, then changes into something else." 

"How is that possible?" Keller questions, the idea of someone speaking in a dead kid's voice is perplexing to him.

"I don't know, it's not like the creep ever explains it." Cheryl shrugs, unknowingly. "It's always about how he killed him, and that I'll never get him back. Even then, I tried looking for him at Sweetwater River."

"Why there?" 

"Because that's where Jason and I were supposed to go, when we had this bizarre plan to fake his own death." Cheryl reveals, catching the sheriff's and principal's completely attention. "Then, at the river, I heard a gunshot, and I got this call from Jason saying that he already left town. That's.....  when I think the killer first called me." 

"And the mask, where did it come from?"

"Came in delivery to our house, no address, name or anything. Just more taunting messages." Cheryl regretfully shares.

"And after weeks of this... stalker harassing you, you only now decide to come fourth with this?" Keller questions, sitting on the desk with a suspicious look.  

"How do you tell the police your dead brother is calling you a day after his body is discovered!?" Cheryl exclaims, surprised that this of all things is what the sheriff choses to say. "I was upset, my brother was murdered!" 

"So upset, that you sang and danced at a pep rally yesterday." Keller mentions, not exactly mournful behavior. And that was a day after the body is discovered, so the fake death excuse doesn't work here. 

Suddenly, the office door bursts open, Penelope and Clifford Blossom come in, and they do not look happy. "What the hell is going on here?" Mr. Blossom glares at the scene.

"Mommy-"

"Don't say another word, Cheryl." Penelope silences her. "Get up." Before any discussion can be made,  they pull Cheryl out of the office and down the hallway where everyone watches. "Why, didn't you call us?"

"Cause she's a liar Penelope." Clifford is the one who answers. 

"When we get home, you're telling us everything." Penelope declares as the three exit the school. Y/N watches them leave with a smirk.

Looks like he's got the Blossoms nervous. 

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Archie glances inside the music room before heading to the principal's office, part of him feels bad for Geraldine, but he has to do this. 

"I think I know something that can help with the Blossom investigation." Archie states to the sheriff and principal. "People are saying Cheryl heard a gunshot?"

"That's what she's claiming, yes." Keller confirms, and Archie swallows, knowing there's no turning back.

"I heard it too." Archie reveals, and the two adult figures share a glance. "I was there, that morning. I-I didn't say anything because at first, like some people, I thought Jason could still be alive. But then, when the autopsy came out and said he died later...."

Keller at first doesn't ask anything. That gunshot could've meant anything, Jason aside, why didn't he report it. "What were you doing down at the river so early on July Fourth?"