The hidden truth

Chapter 87 - Trust

After Veronica was calmer and Betty wasn't feeling so unhelpful towards her best friend and how he was sent away and now her other best friend was basically a waterfall of tears, I made my way home with Jug, he wasn't okay ether but he'd say he was to try not to get anyone to worry or whatever the typical Male excuse was to not show emotion. I found myself wondering how Sweetpea's day with Fangs was since that was his best friend and they had been close since Fangs got into the serpents, he was a new comer to the serpents when Jughead went to southside apparently which meant he hadn't been a serpent for long much like me or Jughead.

Jughead got to my fathers trailer and I went inside for abit, this was the first time I had actually been inside the Jones trailer and it wasn't as bad as I expected. It wasn't the Pembroke or the five seasons but it was homie and I liked it to be completely honest. I found it cute and comfortable.

"Dads heartbroken that you don't live here with us" Jughead said out of the blue and I knew he was right but they said they didn't have the space for me or they didn't want me to be crammed in somewhere, this trailer only had two rooms I think much like Sweetpea's and Dad was in one and Jughead in the other.

"I know, we'll find a place to live together eventually" I said honestly, I liked Sweetpea but this was a family I missed some much time with already that I wanted to live with them and have the family fights about having an annoying brother and their being no space for me to call my own or be on my own.

Jughead sighed and waved me off as he decided to go to bed, I knew the whole serpent king business was getting to him and now this? I didn't know how to help him or at least make it easier on him in some way. I also didn't know how much more of this he could take and deal with before he exploded like a volcano. I walked out of the trailer and made my way across sunny side and towards Sweetpea's trailer, I was excited to see him and ask how his day with Fangs was and see if it was better than my day with the gang.

I knew him and Fangs loved each other like bothers so it was nice for them to have time alone sometimes and I loved giving them it so they could do whatever it is that guys do, I had already completely forgotten that I had seen Fangs on the northside with some girl and it hadn't crossed my mind that Sweetpea wasn't there with him.

I walked towards the trailer and I stopped when I saw the door open and a person come out and then reality hit me, like a ton of bricks or even mike Tyson with a sledge hammer as I watched Josie McCoy come from Sweetpea's trailer with Sweetpea behind her with the biggest smile I had seen as he reached down and the twos lips connected. As soon as the connection happened I felt my heart disconnected from each side and fall down into my stomach.

She walked away and off towards the Northside as Sweetpea closed the door of the trailer and turned off the sitting room light and turn on the kitchen light.

My heart was in my stomach and I couldn't face him tonight so I grabbed my phone and desperately searched through my phone for names of people I could call in a situation where I needed a place to crash for awhile.

Lorna to Kevin: You busy?
Kevin to Lorna: My dad and Mayor McCoy want to have words since it's been told to me that they're sleeping together!

Ouch Kev, tough break I thought to myself but I thought not to message him back Becuase Mayor McCoy was obviously the mother of the girl who had just helped someone destroy my heart. I didn't want to ask Jughead since he was going through a lot right now and I knew this wouldn't be any more helpful to him if he had to deal with my stress on top of his own.

Lorna to Toni: Can I crash on Cheryl's couch?
Toni to Lorna: what the hell happened? Get over here now!

I laughed to myself at the thought of Toni sounding like a mother to me right now which was convenient since I didn't remember my own mother and what she was like. I wondered about her sometimes but not very often it was on a rare occasion that I thought about her and what she was like.

I reached into my pocket to see if my bike keys were in there and smiled when I found them, I wasn't bothered if he heard my bike leave or even if he saw me. He was a jerk. I started up my bike and raced off towards Cheryl's house, ignoring whether he noticed me or even bothered to scream after me.

I didn't have a helmet but I also didn't care at this point I hadn't had an accident and I didn't plan on having one now or being in one so I'd be careful. I raced down the roads and turns towards the thistle house. A place I hadn't been since the pool party, ironic that this is the place I last saw Josie and Sweetpea together before all of this and I'm back.

I pulled in through the gates and Toni came racing out the doors of the house and tackled me once I got off my bike making me laugh, she reminded me of a dog sometimes in the way she acted. She didn't miss me but she was happy when I turned up.

"What happened?" She questioned as Cheryl came out too, she however didn't tackle me but just gave me a friendly smile.

"Sweetpea is a jerk" I said simply trying to have the conversation over with as quickly as I could, it wasn't something I wanted to have right now and I wasn't going to talk about him to his friends.

"Oh boyyyy" cheryl said while laughing as she guided me in and showed me where I was going to stay, she showed me to the spare room over the garage which was cold but I wasn't going to complain since she was being so nice in letting me stay her at all. I knew from Toni's look when I said that Sweetpea was a jerk that she took it very seriously and that there was no doubt in my mind that everyone would know by tomorrow but I couldn't stop it and maybe I was wrong?