"Nova?!" Fred calls from the kitchen.
I'd just come downstairs after a shower, it's been a few days since Archie, Veronica, Betty and Jughead had returned from their disastrous weekend away. From what I heard, with Cheryl causing shit, A Veronica and Jughead kiss, and a home invasion, for some reason I'm now glad Sweet pea and I hadn't been invited. However, we did find out that Hiram Lodge brought Sunnyside trailer park, meaning no one, including Sweet pea, has to move.
"Yo?" I ask, entering the room.
"I wanted to ask you something, as a concerned father?" Fred asks, inviting me to sit, I do so, giving him a confused look.
My heart races, does he know about what happened with the shady man? Or what happened with Penny? My brain scans every bad thing I've done in the past 6 months in terror.
"Concerned father? Ok, shoot." I tell him nervously.
"Is everything... Okay with you and Sweet pea?" Fred asks. I blink in surprise.
"Uh, yeah?" I say with confusion.
"I'm just getting a little worried about you." Fred states.
"Why would you be worried?" I ask.
"I've just... I've noticed some things, Nova." Fred tells me.
"Huh?" I ask.
"Like... You've been distant recently; Archie and I hardly see you. We don't talk like we used to... And... I saw those bruises on your neck, Nova. If he's been hurting you; you're allowed to ask for he-"
"I know you have the best intentions, Fred, and I love you for it. But I promise you, he's not hurting me." I assure him.
"But your neck?" He asks.
"I got in a fight at the Wyrm." I lie.
"Why didn't you say anything?" Fred asks me, still clearly concerned.
"Imagine if I did! I'm already pushing it being in a gang." I sigh, Fred smiles a little.
"You're right. I'm sorry Nova, for assuming." Fred apologises.
"It's your job to worry. It's fine. But Fred, we love each other; I don't think either of us are willing to risk losing one and other." I tell him.
"I hope so." Fred smiles at me.
"Thank you for caring Fred." I tell him.
"Always." He smiles again, I hug him tightly. "Oh, and don't forget! You, Archie and I are having dinner with the Lodges tonight."
"Ugh, do I have to come?" I whine.
"Yes, you do."
*
"If you remember correctly, the only house in Riverdale with a pool was Thornhill." Mr Lodge says, him, Mrs Lodge and Fred tell Archie, Veronica and I old stories over dinner.
"There we were, two drunk dumb teenagers looking to cool off." Fred laughs.
"Why didn't you just go to the quarry?" Archie asks.
"Or Sweetwater River?" I add, Veronica and Archie laughing with me.
"What I remember is someone borrowing the school van for a joyride, you and Mary-"
"No! That was Alice and Juliet, not us!" Mrs Lodge chuckles, correcting Fred. I perk up hearing talk of my mother.
"Oh my god, this sounds like an episode of 'Saved by the bell'." Veronica laughs, drawing a laugh from the whole table.
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Resilience | Sweet Pea.
FanfictionResilience; (n.) the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. "I came to the place I felt the safest." I tell him. "With you." Nova Daniels, the adoptive sister of Riverdale's very own Archie Andrews, has had trouble after trouble...
