Serpent By Blood

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Jugheads POV:
I was sitting in my seat while Veronica was talking about some party Cheryl was throwing. I was pretty much zoned out just glancing every now and then to make sure they didn't think I was ignoring them. "So what do you say Jughead?" That was the only part I caught of this whole ten minuet conversation, I couldn't exactly say anything because for all I knew I could be agreeing to becoming a clown for Veronicas 6 year old niece, but for some stupid reason I said yes. "Great so we will pick you up for the party tomorrow at 7:00." Crap I had just agreed to go to a party.

When the bell rang I practically ran out of the school because I had a busting headache. I went to my car and searched for some ibuprofen, without any luck I decided to give up. I drove to river middle to go pick up Jellybean. She got in my car and began talking about her day at school. "So I met a friend today."
"Really what's her name?" I say.
"Lexie, she says she has an older sister named Betty Cooper, do you know her?" I found it odd that the same day I met Betty Cooper my little sister met Lexie cooper. "Yeah, I actually met her today."
I dropped Jellybean off at the house and I went to pops. "Hey pop, can I get a vainilla milkshake and a burger?"
"Sure thing Jughead." Pop replies.
When I turn around to go to find a seat I see a blonde girl. I go sit down in front of her and she looks up from her phone while sipping on her milkshake. "Hello." She said in a soft voice. "Hey, so apparently our little sisters met." Her eyes widened a bit. "Oh god I'm sorry, did she do something to her?" I laughed. "No nothing like that they seem to like each other." She smiled. "So what's your story?" I asked.
"My story?"  She said as she tilted her head slightly. "Yeah, your story everyone has one." She bit her lip before replying. "Mines kinda tragic."
"I like tragic." She laughed and pop brought me my order. "Okay So I was born into this perfect family, pink walls, perfect neighborhood yada yada And when I was 14 my dad, Hal cheered on my mom with Cheryl's mom Penelope, mom found out and she left, we struggled for about a year bouncing from hotel to hotel until the serpents approached my mom with open arms, I turned 15 and about 6 months later I decided to join the serpents and found this guy, his name was sweet pea and we dated up until last year when he tried to cheat on me with guess who, Cheryl, but we got really close after our parents got divorces and all that bull so she told me, then the principals daughter Sophie was talking shit about me and was all like 'oh I'll kill you if I have to." She mocked her and we both laughed a little. She continued. "So I took it into my own hands by breaking her nose with my fist, that didn't go well, obviously and Cheryl offered for me to live with her so that I would be closer, and now I'm here." She drank more of her milkshake before continuing with. "Now you have to tell me your story." I finished off my burger. "You sure." She nodded. "I've always kind of been a loner, so my story's pretty short but when I was 4 Jellybean was born and my parents didn't really raise her that good, they were always out clubbing, but it wasn't that bad until she was about 5 and I was 10, that's when they started coming home drunk and that's when I had to start taking care of her, i remember never letting Archie come over in fear of my parents coming home drunk, anyways I think it was two years ago that Veronica came to Riverdale, and about a year ago her and Archie started to date."
"Nice story." She replied. We talked for a several hours, it was 7:00 and then all of a sudden it was 12:00. She checked the time on her phone. "Holy shit. We talked for like 5 hours!" I didn't believe her at first because who could sit in a booth for that long. "I should probably get going, Cheryl's waiting." I smiled and agreed that it was probably time to go. "See ya!" She waved and then got on her motorcycle and left. I had just told her everything, more than I had even told Archie, what was I doing?

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