Sweet Like Candy | Sweet Pea

2 - Meeting A Mystery

It was a few days after Archie's dad had been shot, the town was taking a turn for the worse. Everyone was in fear of the shooter returning and pops was most likely shutting down, the heart and soul of riverdale was in danger and I was mad!

I was at school with Betty, Veronica and Kevin talking about pops. We were going to do absolutely anything and everything to help keep pops open. In the end we decided to throw a retro night at pops in hopes of earning enough money to save it.

- time skip -

I was beyond happy to be working at pops for the night. Pops was my childhood and I needed to do everything I could to keep it open. Suddenly I heard the doorbell chime and three Southside serpents entered taking a seat in the nearest booth. Pop Tate immediately tensed up at their presence  but I reassured him it was okay.
"Don't worry pop, I'm sure they're just here to enjoy your world class burgers" I take another look at the three serpents studying them before going over. There was a short girl with gorgeous pink hair, a smaller boy and a handsome guy with a snake tattoo on his neck. Damn was he attractive. I snapped myself out of it and began walking over to their table. "Hello, welcome to pops. What can I get you guys?" I said scanning the three serpents, they were all very attractive but there was just something about that neck tattoo guy. "I'll have a strawberry milkshake and a cheeseburger thanks" the girl with the pink hair said. Next was the smaller boy "I'll have a vanilla milkshake and cheeseburger" he said with a smile, his smile was pretty contagious. Finally was the neck tattoo guy, his voice was deep and enchanting "uh, I'll have a chocolate milkshake and a cheeseburger" he had a smirk plastered on his face and wasn't breaking eye contact. I left the table and gave pops the order.

A few minutes later as I began to take the serpents orders over Reggie stopped me. "Hey Freddie" he said before kissing me softly. I half smiled "hi mantle what are you doing here?". "Am I not allowed to see my girlfriend, and might I say you are looking good tonight" he said looking me up and down. I rolled my eyes "sit down, I'll see you in a minute".

Once I reached the serpents table I gave everyone their milkshakes. "so, is there anything else I can get you guys?" The tall serpent smirked and said "yeah, your number would be nice". I smirked back at the guy and began writing on my note pad. Whilst I was writing I asked what each of their names were. I found out the pink haired girl was called Toni, the small but attractive guy was called fangs and the skyscraper of a guy was called Sweet Pea. I was a little confused by the name but decided not to question it. I handed Sweetpea the piece of paper and left winking at him.

"Wait, did she actually give you her number?" Toni said to Sweetpea.
Sweetpea began opening the piece of paper to reveal that is said "Never Gonna Happen - Freddie x". Sweetpea laughed to himself and said "nope, but I will get it".

For the rest of the night I waited tables and sang 'Milkshake' with Josie and Cheryl. But the only thing on my mind was Sweetpea.