Collateral Damage ▻ Riverdale [1]

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THE BEGINNING
CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
June 28, 2017

It was night time once Queenie got back to Thornhill mansion to meet back with Jason. Jason and Queenie made their way outside to go in the pool. The couple smiled at each other as they stood on opposites of the pool. Jason gestured for her to go first, but Queenie shook her head in disagreement before gesturing for him to go.

  "How 'bout at the same time?" Jason asked her and Queenie nodded her head as a way of saying yes to the offer.

   At the same time, they both jumped in, even though they both still had their clothes on. The two dove into the water at the same time. Both, sinking to the bottom. The duo opened their eyes underwater as they swam over to each other. Once meeting each other at the bottom of the large swimming pool, Queenie and Jason kissed each other for a long water.

Once finding the need to go up for a breath of air, they swam back up to the surface. They took about a minute to get enough air before going back down. Jason began to pull off Queenie's clothes and Queenie did the same did the same to Jason's. She started with his shoes, then his socks, pants, and shirt. It left him in just underwear .

  Jason helped the girl get out of her clothes, leaving her in just a bra and under. After just doing childish things under that water, they came back to the surface.

Jason and Queenie stayed in the water for a while before getting out. The two teenagers laid on the single towel they brought outside with him together on the ground. Queenie rested her head on Jason's chest as they both stared up at the sky.

   "Queenie?" Jason spoke up, breaking the surprisingly comfortable silence between them.

    "Yeah?" She replied and Jason sighed before he began to confess something to his girlfriend.

     "I've wanted to tell you this for a while, but I just didn't know when to tell you. My father, his maple business isn't just actually what it sounds like. It is actually a cover for something way worse. It's for selling drugs like heroin. My father, he wants me in on it and I don't want to. That's actually one of the reasons why I actually want to leave Riverdale," He explained to his girlfriend and Queenie listened closely to every single word he spoke to her, "I don't want to be apart of it and I think he's going to want my head for that when he finds out."

   Queenie sighed as she lifted her head up to stare at Jason directly in his beautiful blue eyes, "What?" She asked him shocked, her voice sounding as if it were both shocked and scared at the same time.

  "I'm scared for my life if I stay in this town any longer than July Fourth," He confessed and Queenie could see the fear in his eyes and she could also hear the fear in his voice.

   'Why didn't you ever tell me that?" She asked him concerned, wondering why her boyfriend never told her this shocking news.

     "The same reason you don't tell me things." He replied and Queenie nodded her head in understanding.

         "Good point," Queenie remarked and Jason smiled at her.

   She sighed as they both became quiet for a long minute. Queenie took about a minute to process what she heard from her boyfriend before speaking up, "While we're being honest with each other, I've been dying to tell you something." She announced to Jason.

  "Tell me what?" Jason asked his girlfriend concerned, looking down at her.

    "For the past few days, I have been feeling really guilty about what we're about to do. I'm leaving some of the people I love the most in this town. Jughead, Sweet Pea, Mandy, Joaquin. Hell, even Toni and Fangs. But most of all, I'm leaving my dad." She explained, "For the past year, it's just been my dad and I. Jughead's mom left. Jellybean left with her. And Jughead moved out. I'm all my dad has for family besides the Serpents. And I'm over here,  planning to leave town with boyfriend while he's going to be all alone." By now, Queenie was tears falling down her cheeks, "I'm letting him down and I'll never forgive myself for it."

  The guilt was being revealed. The guilt she didn't know she had. It was deep, down inside and she never noticed that she even had it until now.

    "Are you saying that you want to stay now?" Jason asked her after being dead silent for a long while, trying to figure out what she was getting at.

   Queenie quickly sat up from laying her head on Jason's chest quickly wiped the tears from her green eyes., "You know what? Just forget everything I just said in the past minute. I take it back, okay?" She informed him, "I take it all back. I am going with you, okay? And I have no regrets." She changed her mind, even though she didn't mean it fully.

   Jason gave her a concerned look, "Why do I get the feeling you're lying, Queenie? If you want to stay in Riverdale, you can. And I'll stay with you. I'll go wherever you go." Jason told her, which honestly made Queenie feel any worse.

  Even if she did want to stay deep down, she wouldn't admit it now. Not when Jason's life could be threatened by his father if he stayed along with her.

   "I'm not lying," She disagreed with him, shaking her head.

    "Are you sure?" He asked her concerned.

  "Yes, I'm sure, Jason." She gave him a small smile, "We're still leaving town on the Fourth of July and nobody is going stop us. You hear me? Nobody." " She stated and Jason nodded his head.

   He, too, sat up from laying on the ground. He cupped Queenie's neck with his hands before they kissed each other. Both of them had regrets about leaving, but both for different reasons. Jason didn't want Queenie to leave if she didn't want to and Queenie didn't want to stay, knowing that Jason would too. Now that she knew that Jason was scared about his father going after him, she knew she had to leave with him. To help protect him. She did still want to leave for herself, but she also felt guilty for the people she was leaving behind. Especially her father.

  If only the two teenagers knew their whole conversation was heard by someone. A person who wanted to hurt them, more specifically Jason.

  

An: I've figured out that there will be 27-28 chapters altogether (Probably 28).Which means, there will be only four more chapters. I'm going to try and finish them by tonight. Then, it will go to Season one of Riverdale. Let's just say, a lot is going to happen in the beginning of part two for Queenie. Probably even more than what happened in part one. I