ROYALTY | RIVERDALE

chapter- 22

chapter 22 || 022

'look what she's become'

I had to lay low for a few days and miss school and work. It was better that way anyways. If Penny or her little Ghoulie dog came poking around they wouldn't have another shot at me. At least not when I was still recuperating.

A lot had happened in those few days.

Jughead talked to me about being safe past Penny, since there's some killer loose. A girl in our school got killed. And the sheriff isn't doing enough to catch her killer and get justice. 

Also Alice Cooper- Betty's mom came over once. She was a complete wreck. I left her alone with FP for a while and stayed outside until whatever it was that was going on was healed. She even smiled at me on her way out.

Everything was slowing down and steadying for me. There was no trace of the men I was running from. Penny hasn't dared to step foot into the Southside. I was okay.

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Another meeting. I swear Jughead is definitely a serpent prince with the way he calls meetings and shit. Is this what it was to be royalty? 

I was sitting behind Sweetpea-

I haven't talked to him alone since Fangs blurted that weird info about him. And he hasn't talked to me either. He hasn't even called me pool princess in a while. He only talked to me when I got back from Penny's house of horrors.

Truth was I didn't know how to navigate the situation. 

Without warning the door slammed open with Reggie strolling in angrily with the rest of his bulldogs. I jumped out of my seat a bit but Sweetpea caught onto me a little bit and held me steady.

"Which one of you reptiles was screwing Midge Klump?" Reggie demanded entering the private meeting that he was not invited to neither were his friends. 

I could see all the serpents go on high alert. Especially Sweetpea who stood up even taller if that was humanly possible.

"What the hell is going on here? This is a private meeting." Jughead tries to confront Reggie but that boy never seems to take no for an answer. 

Instead he just looks past Jughead and points at Sweetpea. 

"I'm guessing it was you Sweetpea" The bulldog threw the accusation and sure enough Sweetpea caught it. 

Before Sweetpea could add in a word of his own that redhead intervened. 

"Reggie that's enough." He held back his friend, making Reggie look around to see who was in the classroom. His eyes found me instantly and I rolled my eyes at him. 

"You ass I didn't even know Midge." Sweetpea started getting closer and closer to the bulldogs. "But yeah I get why she wouldn't want fleas from you mangy bulldogs!" I knew it was gonna happen.

They were egging each other on. The testosterone in the room was enough to make me want to take my leave through the window. But I'm better than that. 

As the two started their little scuffle I got up from my seat, with my bag in tow and waited next to Toni.

"I'm gonna throw a guess and say that there is history between these two that goes way further than Midge Klump." I whisper into her ear and she nods her head back to me.