She was young and completely in love with Riverdale's local bad boy, FP Jones. No-one could break them apart; except for each other. Living on the Southside wasn't easy to say the least. So they joined the serpents, a notorious gang but they had a family, and everyone knew damn well that the serpents took care of their own.
It wasn't until Alice realised she was pregnant at 17 when she realised that she couldn't live the serpent life forever let alone raise a baby on the Southside. So she broke up with FP. It was the most painful thing she ever did, but she knew that she needed to give this baby the best life she could and that life was not on the Southside.
Hal Cooper was your classic douchebag. He was rich and loved to boast about it. He was a mommas boy to say the least, but he could provide Alice with stability and that was something that the Southside couldn't do. So, after breaking things off with her true love, she let Hal take her out. There was no real chemistry there but she reminded herself why she was there, to give her baby the best life possible.
It was at Homecoming when Alice decided to Hal the she was expecting. By that time she was four months along and was definitely starting to show. Hal wasn't happy to say the least. He suggested an abortion but Alice could never do that to her unborn child. So she was forced to go away.
The Sisters of Quiet Mercy was hell. Alice spent five painful months there, pregnant and alone. All she wanted was to go back to her life outside, with FP. She dreamt about a life she could have with him and their baby but then she remembered that it was her choice to leave. Her misery was her own damn fault.
When she gave birth to her baby boy she got barely five minutes with him. Enough time to call him Charles and tell him that she loved him and she was sorry. When sister Woodhouse took her son away she brokedown. She knew she had made a mistake. She would regret this decision for the rest of her life.
A week later she left the sisters and went back to Hal. They went off to college together and returned to Riverdale four years later. Both with Journalism degrees in hand. They started working at the Riverdale Register and eventually bought it.
Alice was 25 when she had her second child, a beautiful girl Polly who resembled her mother greatly. A year later she have birth to another daughter Elizabeth. Her life was perfect.
She loved her life in the Northside with her big fancy house but there was always a little part of her that longed for FP.
Hal never satisfied her. It was when her daughters got to the ages of 14 and 13 that she had finally come to realise that she could never be happy with Hal. But she knew that it was too late and her divorcing him would break her little girls hearts. It's not like FP was waiting for her anyways, he had moved on with Gladys Lawrence of all people, Alice's ex best friend.
So she stayed, for her daughters sake. She hated every second of it but she smiled through it and kept up her perfect facade. The town believed it and that was all that mattered, they couldn't hear the fights that went down at the Cooper house when the kids weren't home, they couldn't see Alice crying herself to sleep, the didn't know that for the past three years Alice drove past Sunnyside Trailer Park once a week debating whether she should go talk to FP or not.
She never did. She wanted to but she never had the courage to look at his face after all those years. She never forgave herself for what she did, she should have told him about their baby. It was when she looked back now that she realised they could have raised that baby together. They could have had a life together.
One day after a massive fight with Hal she sped to his trailer tears running down her face and knocked on the door for the first time in 25 years. The door opened and she saw a shellshocked FP.
"Alice, what are you doing here?"
"FP, I, I needed to see you, to talk to you, I have to tell you something." she said as she she clutched onto his shirt crying.
"What is it Al?" that was when she lost it. She hadn't heard that name in 25 years, it was what FP called her when they were in highschool.
"I had your b- I had your baby. Its name- I named him Charles. I- I- I had to give him up for adoption. Do you remember FP in high school?"
"Of course, I remember Alice"
"Its the biggest mistake of my life, I never should have left you, my life has gone to shit ever since we broke up, We, we could have had a life together. But I had to ruin it, like I ruin everything else."
"No, Alice, you didn't ruin anything. The Southside wasn't safe you did what was right for our baby"
"I'm so sorry FP"
"I know you are baby"
She stayed at his trailer that night. Curled up to him on the couch until she fell asleep. She woke the next morning to the smell of pancakes. She realised where she was and sat up. She thought about everything that had happened the night before and then realised that FP was still married.
"FP, where's your wife?'
"What was that?" he said from the kitchen.
"Gladys, where is she?"
"Same place she's been for five years, Toledo. She walked out on me and Jug and took Jellybean with her. Our divorce is being finalised."
"What does that mean for us?"
"Whatever you want it to"
A month later Alice was set free from her marriage to Hal. She moved in with FP and they found their son. Charles was a handsome young man who lived in Centerville and was more than happy to meet his parents. He understood why Alice gave him up and he went to Pops with his parents every Thursday night. They were happy. For the first time in 25 years they were both completley happy. They had a perfect dysfunctional family.
