Is This Real? [HIATUS]

chapter 1

is this real?

CHAPTER 1

b e t t y c o o p e r

My name is Betty Cooper, and I've been born and raised in a small town called Riverdale since I was born. My parents are Hal and Alice Cooper, and of all of their children I am the youngest. I have one older sister, and an older brother. Chic, my brother, is the eldest of all of us, and 9 years older than me. Polly, my sister, is around 7 and a half years older than me. She's like my best friend, but she doesn't live with us, neither does my brother. I'm 17, and in my final year of school.

Riverdale is the kind of town where, it's so small, when you know it, you know it. And people who live there know their way around like the back of their hand, but then those 'out-of-towners' have no clue where they're going. It's pretty funny a lot of the time, but you always end up helping them. Such a small town, people don't have time to get lost.

Currently, I was listening to music on my phone while I was walking to my friends and I'm hangout spot of choice, Pop's. I've never been the most popular person, that was my brother and sister. But, slowly over the years, I've been starting to realize that the amount of friends you have doesn't matter, it's the quality of the friends you have that do. And among all my friends, I can always tell who the true friends are.

A few years ago, I was about to go into high school, when I had a seizure. No one understood why, but my doctor, Dr Petal, said at the time that it was probably just due to stress. I've always been very prone to stress, and going into high school I was super stressed because I didn't know what was coming. But then I had another. So they ran tests, did scans. And I was diagnosed with epilepsy. I'm controlled right now, I've been seizure free for a while, and hopefully it will stay that way. But after this happened, I found out who my true friends were. My friends, Kevin, Veronica, Archie ad Cheryl, we're always there for me after they found out about everything, checking I was okay. It got a little annoying sometimes, but I didn't let it get to me, because I knew they just had my best interests at heart.

While all these thoughts were gong through my mind, I found myself walking through the doors of the iconic Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe, hearing the bell ring with the steps I took inside the diner. Looking around, I found my friends sitting in the booth at the corner. I saw V wave me over to I went and slid into the booth; next to Cheryl and opposite Veronica.

"Hey guys," I say as I sit down.

"Hey B," Veronica says.

"Hey," everyone else replies towards me.

"How are you guys doing?" I ask.

"We're good, how are you?" Cheryl replies.

"I'm good. How are you guys' college applications going?"

"Ugh, so hard," the group chimes in unison.

"Wow. Thank god I don't have to do it yet," Cheryl laughed.

"Yeah but you will at some point," V stated.

"And before I do you'll all be gone!" Cheryl shouted lightly, in a joking manner.

"Well it depends where we go!" I defend.

"Oh, yeah okay." Hours go by of us all sitting in that booth at Pops; laughing, with countless numbers of milkshakes each, and fries and onion rings shared between us. But, then, we're back at my house, with V and Cheryl.

c h e r y l b l o s s o m

"So, where are you guys thinking of applying?" I asked as we were sat on Cousin Betty's bed.

"I mean, I think we're both thinking NYU, right?" Veronica asked, looking over at Betty.

"Tisch Academy for the Arts!" Betty squealed clapping her hands.

"Wish I could come with you..." I trailed off.

"Hey, don't worry baby cuz, you can come stay!"

"Yeah! Every month you can come stay with us!" V added. I just nodded and smiled.

"You're both applying through Tisch aren't you?"

"Fashion!" V shouted.

"Photography and imaging!" B said proudly. Then, my phone binged.

mum
come home honey xxx

"Sorry, I gotta go. Talk to you guys tomorrow," I said before grabbing my stuff and running downstairs, saying bye to my aunt and uncle before making my way home.

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Welcome to 'Is This Real?'

This is a kinda short chapter so you can start to kinda get a feel for what I'm doing here.

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