ROYALTY | RIVERDALE

chapter -8

chapter 8 || 008

'point of no return'

FP pacing wasn't really something I thought I'd ever see. He's a very fear striking man and to see that I've got him pacing, it's strange. 

"Okay can you stop pacing? It's not so far fetched that I want to become a serpent. I mean I wear the jacket and my dad basically sent me to you with that same intention." I can only act calm right now, for FP's sake.

He stops in the middle of his pacing rage to give me a stern look. "Diana your father didn't want you to become a serpent, he just wanted you to have the protection. It's one of the rules." rules? This gang is seeming less and less of a low level group and more like a high level operation.

"So how did Jughead become a serpent? Obviously you let him. And what's so bad about it anyway FP, I'm a ghost in this town." I explain moving around the food on my plate. I had to get to school sooner or later but I'd prefer later.

"I didn't- I wasn't there when he joined. And I didn't want him to. I wanted him out of this life. And I sure as hell don't want you in it too. Doesn't matter if you're a ghost or not. Let's get you to school." He grabbed his jacket off the counter and headed out of the trailer.

Damn it.

Groaning I got up out of the chair and grabbed my jacket too. 

-

FP pulled his truck up to the front of the school and put it in park. 

"Diana I don't want you to become a serpent because this life it isn't for you. It's not what your dad would have wanted, or your mother." He spoke but that last word really hit me. My mother? I don't even know her name.

There is a whole country that knows her name, but I don't. There is a whole country that is waiting for her to show up but she won't. 

I shook my head silently. "She's the one who got me into this mess. Why did she have to go and flirt with danger? Why did she have me and decide to leave? I don't think she gets to want anything for me, seeing as she could clean this whole mess up. But she's not." I open up the truck door and before stepping out of it I take off my jacket.

I close the door and lean against the window of it.

"Diana, I never knew your mother but no parent wants this life for their kid." He was right. No one willing wanted to be a part of a gang, but shit happens. And shit is happening in my life. Some very dangerous shit.

"She may be my mother, but she's not my parent." I shook my head to stop before I got too far with my words and went into Riverdale high.

-

Lunch was probably my least favorite period. It meant that the serpents had to sit in a cafeteria filled with students looking at them with disgust. And I can't take the looks right now, not with all the stress I'm under.

"Diana, you still thinking about becoming a serpent?" Toni asks from beside me. You see even the serpents want me to become a serpent. Why couldn't FP see past the whole dangerous side?  

I shrugged at her and looked around the cafeteria. "FP doesn't want me to, says it's not what my father would want. But I do want to join." Maybe if I confided in the younger serpents they would make this easier.

"Well we're planning something on Pickens day and if you join us, you'll be a serpent to me." She nudged my shoulder with hers and slapped a smile on her face. In the short amount of time that I've known Toni, I can say that we agree on the same things. And if this is as important as it sounds to her, why not?

"Of course. What's it about anyways?" I want to know a little more about what I'll be getting myself into. 

"How Pickens day is basically a lie and it white washes the history of a people that were slaughtered. I'll fill you in a little bit more later, less prying ears." she explains and nods over to a table other right.

I moved to my right to get a slightly better look at who she was talking about. 

Reggie.

Why was it always him?

"Toni I'll be right back. Gotta handle something really quick." I mutter over other, getting up from the table and charging straight for Reggie. This boy was really beginning to get on my nerves. Showing up at the dinner more than usual, apologizing to me, I mean what did this kid want?

The table filled with jocks and a few cheerleaders laid their attention on me as I got closer and closer. 

"I don't know whats your damage but you need to stop." I didn't intend on the whole cafeteria becoming eerily quiet as I spoke to Reggie. All of his friends looked at me- a little with disgust and a little with amusement.

He scoffed at me "Stop what? I don't even know you." His words hit like a ton of bricks. Now he didn't know me? But he's at my booth, he's staring at me, apologizing to me? When they say northsiders are really a handful, they mean it.

I peered closer to him not wanting to speak to a whole table of people, but just him. "Good. Keep it that way." His head bowed down as I left the table the way that I came. 

Not before a red head came walking up to me and blocked my path to freedom.

Rolling my eyes I sigh. What is it with me? Do I attract the northsiders here or what? I'm confused. I'm like borderline confused as to what's going on.

"Listen here Serpent Pincess, you better change your tude when talking to a bulldog. They tend to bite." Cheryl warned me, not without a single hair flip and a fake smile before strutting away to some destination behind me.

Serpent princess?