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"Jason's gone. And I'll never get to tell him I love him face-to-face even for the last time." - Diana Kennedy.
A story in which she mourns her first love but finds out that life has more to offer her and that this is not the...
Author's Note: Riverdale, it's plot, cast and characters do not belong to me. Only Diana and Daniel Kennedy do. Everyone is 16 and starting their Junior year in this story.
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Our story is about a town, a small town, and the people who live in the town. From a distance, it presents itself like so many other small towns all over the world. Safe, decent, innocent. Get closer though, and you start seeing the shadows underneath.
The name of our town is Riverdale. And our story begins, I guess with what the Blossom twins did this summer.
On the Fourth of July, just after dawn, Jason and Cheryl Blossom drove out to Sweetwater River for an early morning boat ride. The next thing we know happened for sure is that Dilton Doiley, who was leading Riverdale's Boy Scout Troop on a bird watching expedition, came upon Cheryl by the river's edge.
Riverdale Police dragged Sweetwater River for Jason's body, but never found it. So, a week later, the Blossom family buried an empty casket and Jason's death was ruled an accident, as the story that Cheryl told made the rounds. That Cheryl dropped a glove in the water, and Jason reached down to get it, and accidentally tipped the boat, and panicked, and drowned.
As for us, we were still talking about the "July Fourth tragedy" on the last day of summer vacation, when a familiar face rolled back into town.
Diana Sapphire Kennedy.
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Diana stared up at Evergreen Manor as the butler unloaded the bags and carried them into the house.
"Welcome home, Di." Her twin brother, Daniel said as he put an arm around her and they both looked at the home they left behind for over a year.
"It doesn't feel like home anymore though, Dan." She said with a sigh.
"You'll get used to it again and it'll be just like the old times." He said optimistically.
"Jason's dead, Daniel. And nothing will ever be the same." She replied as she stepped forward and started walking towards the house.
Daniel sighed as he looked at his broken sister. He only wished that coming back to Riverdale would help them heal.
(WITH BETTY AND KEVIN || COOPER RESIDENCE)
"Are you excited? Nervous?" Kevin Keller asked his best friend, Betty Cooper as she got ready to hang out with her childhood best friend, Archie Andrews.
"Both. I haven't seen him all summer." Betty admitted.
"Which is why nerves are acceptable. But we agreed, Betty... It's time. You like him, he likes you." Kevin said as he tried to pep talk his friend into admitting her feelings for her childhood best friend.
"Well, they why, Kevin, hasn't he ever said or done anything?" Betty asked him.
"Because Archie's swell, but like most millennial straight guys, he needs to be told what he wants. So tell him, finally." Kevin explained as he got off Betty's bed and looked out the window to check if Archie was next door.
"Well, we'll see. I mean, it depends." Betty said as she looked at her reflection in the mirror one more time.
"Oh, my God!" Kevin cried out as he stared out the window.
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