ROYALTY | RIVERDALE

chapter -11

chapter 11 || 011

'a time for everything'

It was tallboy all along. I mean I would have never guessed it. I never really hang around the older serpents as much as the younger ones. And we all look pretty sketchy. 

Right now though, it was a cause for celebration. Toni poured Fangs, Sweets, Jughead, Betty and me some drinks. For figuring out the case of the missing head. And for getting rid of the rotten apple amongst the snakes.

Was I a drinker?

No.

Was I drinking tonight?

No.

I slid my drink over to Fangs. "Not tonight. Just not in the mood." I explained shortly before looking around for FP. He was my only ride back to the trailer- Betty and Jughead were definitely gonna bone after this and I was not going to hear it through the walls of a trailer.

I saw his tall frame heading out the door and jumped out of my seat to catch up to him. "I'm gonna get a ride from FP! See you guys tomorrow! And love birds? Make your little session quick, yeah?" I knew I struck a nerve when Jughead's eyes popped out of his head and Betty started blushing.

Running to catch FP I caught him getting into the truck. He saw me and waved me over. 

Getting in on the passenger side I close the door behind me.

"FP, I didn't tell you the whole truth about how I got here to Riverdale. And I figure that you need to know everything." I admit quietly just above a whisper. I slowly look to my left and wait for himont scream or something at me.

But it never comes.

He starts the engine. "Let's take a little drive and you can tell me all about it."

-

I spoke the finally word and after I did FP leaned back in his seat. He was shocked to say the least I could see it on his face.

"I know I should have told you when I got here but I didn't think anything from my past- besides those men- was gonna just show up. I'm sorry. Truly." I apologize, not looking at him at all. I could feel the fatherly stare he was probably giving me. Instead I look out the window of the truck.

The truck is filled with silence for a while.

Did I really make a bad decision in keep it all to myself? Was he that mad at me? 

I can't take it back now!

"Diana you did what you had to do to survive. And what happened with that man, we never have to talk about it again. I'll handle it." He finally spoke to me and I turned around to face him when he did. Handle it? How was he gonna handle it?

My heart rate spiked at the thought of FP handling things. He could get in trouble because of me? And then where would he be? In Jail?

"FP, no. Just leave it alone. If she tries to use it against me you'll be the first to know. I promise you. But right now, she's not doing anything." I hold out my pinkie finger for him to promise me. 

He looks at me and then my finger and then back at me. FP smiles and wraps his pink around mine. "Okay, Dirty Diana."

I shook my head at him, laughing at the nickname. We unlock our pinkies and he sits up straight in his seat and starts the truck back up. 

Good. 

I didn't have anything in the wind that could potentially come back and hit me across the face. Nothing could come at me now that I wasn't prepared for.

"I'm kind of hungry from spilling my guts to you. Can we make a stop at Pops?" I ask him, putting my lips just incase he tries to play any parental card on me.

He doesn't even look at me fully.

"Put that pout away, we're already on the way." 

-

I closed the trailer door after us as FP went to his room. Jughead was on the couch, looking disheveled and all. I can't stop the smirk from forming on my face.

Walking over to him on the couch I toss the paper bag at him and he catches it. "Good catch Jug. Catch anything else tonight?" I raise my eyebrow so he can catch my hint and he chuckles at me as I sit down beside him.

"Um we didn't- she had to leave she got a call." His hands went into the bag and pulled out the burger that FP saved for him. "And why would you want us doing that on your bed?" He asks and then it finally hit me.

I stood up quickly and dusted myself off. "Ew! Are you guys serious? You couldn't take it to literally any room? The one place that I sleep? Jughead!" I shut my eyes in disgust at the mere thought of laying my head down where those two just- practically did it.

"You were the one who said that you'd fix us. We'll we're fixed." I open my eyes to find him with a shit eating grin on his face. That disgusting little snake!

I swat his shoulder lightly as he takes a bite out of his burger. "I mean I hate it when I'm right sometimes. But there is just no stoping my great divine streak." I laugh and toss my curly strands of hair over my shoulder with sass.

Jughead shakes his head and then focus back on his burger. For a little while. Enough for me to take my jacket off and get comfortable on the other corner of the couch. There is no way they touched this corner. NO way.

"Diana, what was all of this business with Penny about? I asked Fangs and them but they said to wait until you were ready to tell me." It was inevitable that he would ask. He is one pesky kid if I do say so myself.

I bring my feet up onto the couch and hug them close to my chest. "You might wanna finish you're food before I tell you."