ROYALTY | RIVERDALE

chapter- 30

chapter 30 || 030

'quick to run'

I had ditched the wrym a long time ago. Of course to get out of there I had to hold the man who helped me out of the car before at gunpoint. He started up the car for me and then I threw him out of it so I could speed off.

Now I was on the road again.

Well not again.

I was still in Riverdale, just on the Northside. I need to find a place that they wouldn't dare look for. But I needed to ditch this car first. Who knows if Hiram has a tracking device in his car. I wasn't about to be screwed over again.

Andrews.

Their house wasn't that far away. Neither was Betty's.

Betty or Archie?

I did help Betty with the daed body that one time. As for Archie- he might still be in jail. I don't wanna stress his dad even more.

Betty's it is.

-

Walking up the nice steps and up to the front door I knocked on it softly. I don't know if she and her mom are here or sleeping, I didn't want to be rude.

I can hear some moving coming from inside- good I didn't interrupt anything.

The door opens up a bit and I can see in the darkness Alice Cooper.

"Diana, what are- honey what's going on?" Her mother instincts shone through as the door opened even wider and she was already welcoming me in. I didn't know it would be this easy.

"I've gotten into some trouble. I wanna be honest because I wasn't before and it didn't serve me well." I started off and she has this hardened look on her face, but she looked like on os those innocent wives that wouldn't hurt a fly. "I need a place to stay. No one can know I'm here. Not even FP. I need to keep everyone I care about safe."

Alice ushered me into her kitchen without any other words and poured me a glass of water. This place looked like everyone's dream house. Not too big, not too small. It was good enough. 

I drank some of the water but left some in the glass.

"I'm sure you know some things about me. The assembly at the school the other day laid out some of it. But," I intertwined my fingers in top of the counter and looked her in the eyes. "I can't go to the serpents. They've already offered their help but I can't. I can't let anyone else I care about be killed because I couldn't woman up to do what needed to be done."

Alice shook her head at me and joined me by my side, her hand rubbing my back trying to sooth me. "Honey what needs to be done? Why can't you get help?"

I let a tear slip down my cheek before sniffling whatever else was about to come down. 

"Because I finally understand why I'm being hunted. My mother ran away from her arranged marriage and had me out of wedlock. And then she left her bastard baby and her lover because she was trying to keep us safe." I had no idea it was anything like this. And maybe I was still far off from the truth. But I have a feeling in my heart that I was wrong about my mother.

 "But now the man she screwed over is looking to take all the power she has." Alice deducted and I nodded in agreement.

"It's what he's owed. And he'll be damned if the baby she created out of love without him will have it." I sniffled again and placed my eyes on the cup in front of me. 

There was a sad silence between the two of us. On my part it was because I had looked at my mother in suck a harmful light this whole time for leaving the both of us that i never stopped to give her the benefit of the doubt. 

And on Alice's part maybe it was because she is a mother and she can sympathize with my mom or because she's wonders if it was her kid in this situation what would she do.

"What are you going to do?" She asks with those motherly instincts again. 

I can finally look up at her now, not thinking about my mother or my father. But about me. And what I have to do in order to survive.

"I'm seventeen now, or close to it. I'm going to get into that country and sit on the throne."

-

The tossing and turning wouldn't stop. I couldn't stop it. I tried to shut my eyes but I either thought about the serpents and how I'm about to leave them. And how angry that makes me. Or I think about that man.

And it makes me even angrier. That I didn't kill him at the podium, or at the wrym. I let him breath. I keep on letting him breath when he has yet to take his foot off my neck.

Some of the daylight was flooding through the window.

Great.

Knock! Knock!

Why would Alice knock on the door? I mean besides being polite this was her house. She could just barge in whenever she wanted to. She didn't owe me anything really.

The door opened and it wasn't Alice. It was Betty.

"Diana? Can I come in?"  She asked politely but her head was already peeking through the door. All she had to do was step through the door frame and she would be inside.

I nodded and she came in as soon as I did.

She was still in her pajamas. Maybe she just woke up and was about go get ready for her day to start. A normal day.

"So I never really got to thank you for- you know-" She stopped, probably thinking about the body still. That was something that stayed with you forever. At least she didn't kill him, she just buried him. "Anything I can do for you?"

I thought for a few seconds.

A message.

So they know that I'm not dead and that I went on my own. 

"Actually Betty, I need you to relay a message for me. To the serpents and FP."