The Mystery of Y/N

Chapter Five - Walking Through the South Side and a Wild Y/N Appears to Jughead

Walking back after a late night at Pop's became a consistent thing for Jughead. He would walk past the same houses down the same streets with the same people. He would hear the same dog barking and the same group of kids laughing and riding their bikes. It was the same every evening except for tonight.

Jughead was well into South Side territory now. He walked past the house with the peeling paint on the mail box. Then turned a corner and walked past a man walking his dog. Further down near the crossroads he saw a black SUV. A black SUV? That's hasn't been there before he thought. He slowed down taking a good look at the car. It looked familiar but he couldn't quite remember where. Jughead took a few steps and three people came into view. Two young men, a little older than he is, wearing South Side Serpent jackets and a Y/H/C girl. The girl turned slightly and when Jughead saw the side profile it clicked that it was your car and you were on the South Side for some unknown reason. He watched intently, the plan of going home to a warm cosy bed was soon forgotten, as you were having a heated discussion with the two Serpents. Wanting to know what you were talking about, Jughead removed his headphones and tried to listen, straining his hearing but only hearing mumbles and snippets of words like 'money ' and 'he' and 'owe'.

Car doors were slammed shut and the sound of a car speeding were then heard. Jughead's head shot up and saw the two Serpents were now gone leaving you alone on the street. You stood there glaring at the two men as they sped away before going back to your car. As you did you saw Jughead across the road. You hurried into your car and turned the ignition on hoping to get out of there before he came over but you were too late. He tapped on your window causing you to jump and made a gesture for you to wind your window down which you obliged to. "Hey, Y/N. What are you doing this side of town?" Jughead asked.

"Oh, I was just passing through." You answered. "Those two guys you saw me talking to helped me. I got a little lost."

"Okay..." He said skeptically. Before he could ask you any more questions you interrupted.

"I should really get going though." You insisted. Jughead reluctantly nodded and stood back watching you as you pulled away and sped down the street. He knew that you weren't telling him the whole truth and he told himself that he will find out what you are hiding.
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"What is it, Juggy?" Betty asked. Everyone still looked at him in confusion.

"I think I know where she may have been getting her money from." Jughead told everyone.

"Where?" Archie questioned.

"The Serpents." Was all Jughead could say before he was met with a mixture of 'wait, what' and 'are you serious' as well as gasps from Veronica, Kevin, and Betty with Archie looking stunned.

"How do you know this?" Veronica interrogated after she got over the shock of what Jughead just said.

"I saw her one evening talking to two Serpents on the South Side, well more like a heated discussion. When I asked her what she was doing she told me she was asking for directions." He answered putting 'asking for directions' in quotation marks as if to say he didn't believe you.

"Why didn't you say anything sooner?" Archie asked.

"Because I didn't think much of it. I had no reason to think she wasn't telling me the truth at the time. Now, however, it's beginning to be clear that she was lying. I did hear them talk about money and someone owing someone and a mention of a he but I didn't hear a name though."

"So, let me get this straight. Y/N was secretly dating Reggie but broke up because of money issues with her parents and now she may be involved with the Serpents? This is the stuff you see on TV." Kevin chimed in causing Betty to shake her head.

"Do you think it's a similar deal they had with Jason?" Betty questioned.

"I have no idea." He answered honestly.

"Maybe that's why Y/N is missing. Something went wrong with the Serpents and she's in hiding or..." Veronica trailed off.

"Don't finish that sentence, V." Betty stopped Veronica before she could continue not wanting to think about the worst case scenario.

"Or what, Veronica? Or they killed her? Like Jason, right? The rich kid goes missing so let's blame the low life thugs on the South Side." Jughead asserted.

"That's not what I meant." Veronica tried to say but Jughead wasn't having any of it.

"Of course it was. You assumed that they had something to do with Y/N's disappearance just because she was talking to two of them. We don't even know what she was doing for them in the first place, if anything."

"Exactly. So let's maybe take a breath and find out the whole story before jumping to anymore conclusions." Archie inserted himself in the conversation between Jughead and Veronica to try and diffuse the situation.

"Maybe we should ask your dad, Jug." Betty suggested. "He might know something."