5 years away

Part 4

It had now been two weeks after the night Sweet Pea claimed he had forgiven you. Your dad's funeral had passed and so had Christmas. There had been no exchange between you and Sweet Pea since that night he claimed to have forgiven you. You had now figured out that he, in fact, hadn't forgiven you. But you had many other things to worry about rather than to dwell on it. It had been your first Christmas without your dad.

Your mom had not been handling it well at all. She usually had all the decorations set up the day after thanksgiving but your trailer was bare. Not once thing Christmas decoration was in sight. It saddened you even more because it was your dad's favorite holiday. He wouldn't have wanted your mother this way.

But pushing that all aside, you decided that you were going to join in on the one serpent thing he loved to do. Heading to the Whyte Wyrm, you stopped to pick up Toni. You decided a couple days ago that there was just too much going on to worry her lying to you. "You know he is going to be there right?"

You nodded your head. "Of course I do. But I need to stop mourning my dad and start celebrating him. And plus they always lied spending Sunday nights at the Wyrm drinking, playing pool and watching football." Silence filled the car after you spoke. Toni was afraid to upset you more, but actually you got caught up in your memories of Sweet Pea and your dad. Y/D/N had always liked Sweet Pea, but after bonding with him in this was, he grew to love the boy like his own son.

Pulling up to the Wyrm, nerves started to fill your stomach. Taking the keys out of the ignition, you took a deep sigh and leaned your head back on the head rest on your seat. Letting out a loud groan, Toni laughed and you both got out of the car. It was getting way to cold to be riding the motorcycle. You straightened out you made your way to the doors.

Walking in, you took a look around noticing that it was more of your generation of serpents. You smiled because you actually felt like home being surrounded by familiar faces. The first person to approach you though was FP with a fake smile placed on his lips. "Y/N! Let me buy you a drink."

As you tried to reject his offer, he threw his arm over your shoulder pulling you over to the bar anyway. FP moved behind the bar motioning for you to take a seat. Rolling your eyes, you sat down and watched him make a rum and coke. "I know you are going to be here longer now, but I don't think hanging around the Wyrm is the best move Y/N."

He placed the drink and a shot in front of you. Downing the shot, you looked over to him. "I'm not here for him FP. I'm over having this conversation with you and Jughead. Leave it alone and let it go." FP shook his head and hissed out, "It aint that easy kid. You might not be here for him but that doesn't mean you aint a distraction for him."

His eyes moved past you to who you were assuming was Sweet Pea, but you didn't have the courage to look back at him too. FP and Jughead had been giving you the same speech every time you stepped in to the same room as Sweet Pea and it was beginning to piss you off beyond belief. "FP, I respect you and I love you like a uncle but you and your son are really pissing me off. I just barred my dad and you are more worried about how my presence effect Sweet Pea. I am not going to tell either one of you again. I am not here for him."

"Who are you not here for?" You tensed as you heard his voice. FP's eyebrows raised at you which caused you to roll yours and bring your drink up to your lips, downing this one too. Before FP could answer him, you spun around in your bar stool. Looking up and down Sweet Pea, you met his eyes and spoke a simple "You" before getting up to walk past him.

Reaching Toni, Fangs and Jughead, they all turned their heads like they weren't creeping on the interaction that just happened. "Can we just ignore what happened?" The gang all nodded before returning to their teasing of Fangs for still not being able to win a game of pool in 5 years.