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Sweet Pea

It's been a week since Kathryn and the ghoulies situation calmed down. Archie Andrews was just arrested for a murder and Kathryn is finally back at school. It came to a shock that pretty boy Archie is a murderer.

"Sweets!" I heard, knocking me out of my thoughts. "Huh?" I reply.

"Where are you going to take Kat on a date?" Toni asks me. Fangs joins us and stares at me.

"Why are you taking my sister on a date?" Fangs laughs. "You are so bipolar with your relationship with her."

"Shut it," I say, kicking his foot. "I plan on taking her on a picnic at the park."

As soon as I say that, Kathryn pops up and sits with us. "What you guys talkin' about?" She says, laying her head on my shoulder.

"Nothing," We all say in unison.

She sits up and sighs. "You guys suck. Anyways, Fangs did Mom and Dad tell you about the move?"

"The who, the what now?" Fangs stutters.

"Mom and Dad are moving back to Riverdale and they're gonna have a house in the Northside," Kat explains.

"Must be nice to have a house to live in," I joke.

"They said you can live their too Pea. I told them about the trailers and about us," She put an emphasis on 'us' and smiled at me.

"So you guys are official now?" Toni laughs.

"I guess so," I say looking down at Kat.

I stood by Kat's locker during passing period, waiting for her to grab her things. "Kat?" I ask.

"Hm?" She mumbles as she puts away her books.

"Let's skip fourth, I wanna show you something," I say.

"Uhmm," Kathryn hesitated for a bit. "Why not? Just bring me to Pop's after. I barely ate at lunch."

I nod my head and we quickly leave the school. We get into my truck and drive off. "Where are we going, babe?" Kathryn says staring at her phone.

"Babe?" I say laughingly. "When did you start calling me babe?"

"Sorry, I meant Sweetie Pea," She says hitting my leg.

"Well babe, we're going to Evergreen Park," I say. "We just have to stop by Pop's first."

Kathryn

After stopping by Pop's, we arrived at the park and Sweet Pea drives me to where we had a carving in the tree. He opened his tailgate door and had a blanket bundled up, along with two pillows. I watched him struggle to lay out the blanket and set the pillows.

"Oh my gosh Pea," I laughed. "Let me do it."

He moved out the way and watched me in defeat. I fixed the blanket as Sweet Pea went back into the car to get the food. I sat down in the back with a pillow in my lap.

"This was supposed to be romantic, Kat," Sweet Pea says, climbing into the back.

"Sweet Pea, you can't do romance. Especially if your name is Sweetie Pea," I say, reaching for the food.

Sweet Pea moved the bag of food away and glared at me. "What's my name?" He said sternly.

"Sweetie Pea," I smiled.

"No food until you call me by my real name," Sweet Pea glared.

"Come on, Bubba. I'm hungry," I groaned.

I called Sweet Pea, Bubba, when we were little. He would always bug me about calling him that.

"Okay, get out of my truck," Sweet Pea pointed away from the truck.

"Okie, I'll just walk home," I smiled. I attempted to leave the truck but Sweet Pea grabs my arm.

"Wait! I was joking!" He says. "Please don't leave."

"Fine, fine... Cheryl is right," I laugh. "You do turn soft for a girl." I munch on some fries as Sweet Pea rolled his eyes.

"Kat, I'm sorry about everything," He starts. I tilt my head at him and listen. "I'm sorry about the bullying since middle school, about hurting your feelings and about being bipolar when I found out who you really are. I don't deserve to be with you."

He looks down but I bring his chin up so we can make eye contact. "I could never stay mad at you. I liked you since we were little kids. After elementary school in Greendale and transferring to Southside Junior High, seeing you just made me happy. When you bullied me though, I felt worthless and that you hated me. I never gave up that crush though... I really like you Sweet Pea," I say.

Sweet Pea leans over and kisses my cheek. "I like you too Kat." He whispered. I put my hands on his cheeks and leaned over to kiss him.

I broke the kiss and smiled at him. "You're adorable," Sweet Pea says.

"Enough flirting, let's eat!" I cheered.

A/N

im just tryna make this cute and short for now

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