This is My World, Baby Boy

Chapter 2

Fangs grew up on the edge between The Southside and The Northside. Never really fitting in with either group. 

His father left when he was too young to remember even knowing him. 

His mother... To say he came from a broken home was an understatement.

He was always trying to fit in with the people at his school. Riverdale High wasn't too excepting of him. He grew up too close to the tracks for their liking. 

The Southside wouldn't except him that much either. He was technically on the Northside of the tracks. It wasn't like his mother let him hang out with anyone from the Southside anyway. 

She would turn her nose up at them. As if they were lesser then her. As if she hadn't been born on that side of the tracks. As if she wasn't running from her past but still never managed to really make it in with the Northsiders.

In elementary school, Fangs was endlessly teased and bullied. Kids would say things like 'My mommy says you're from the wrong side of the tracks' or 'Your momma can't even come to pick you up because she barely remembers you exist' 

At a young age, he built up walls. Walls that protected him from the words and taunts of the people around him. Never letting anyone get too close was his specialty. Piece by piece he made a mask for himself. Hiding all his insecurities and pain. 

A cocky smile on his face, Fangs walked into Junoir High a completely different person. He was snarky and radiated confidence. False confidence, but confidence none the less. Jughead quickly befriended him seeing himself in Fangs. The two grew very close. Fangs imprinted on Jughead quite quickly. They both lived on the edge of the railroads. 

Jughead was everything Fangs wanted to be. He was confident in who he was. Excepted that if the Northsiders didn't want to accept him he wouldn't make them. He had Archie and Betty, Those two were the rocks that kept him grounded. And if all else failed his father was Serpent King. Regardless of the fact that Jughead wasn't a serpent himself, He was accepted in their community. He was the serpent prince after all.

Fangs longed for that, A place he fit in. For now, Jughead seemed to be all he needed. Junior High passed them by so quickly and suddenly they were in High School. 

Jughead had lost a lot of his confidence and became very insecure even if he would never admit it. He was ashamed of his family, The Serpents. 

Going as far as being homeless all freshmen year. Fangs would have joined him if it weren't for the fact there would be no one to care for his mom. She needed to be carefully watched. If there wasn't someone for her to take her violent outburst out on, She would harm herself. So fangs volunteered to be there for her. 

The beating got to be too often. He wouldn't be able to hide the bruises somedays. Jughead quickly took noticed and told him to come on the run with him. Fangs was grateful but leaving his mother alone like that. What kind of son would that make him? 

He really wasn't sure why he stayed with her. He could get a nurse, With all the extra hours he put in at work and the money his mom left in his name. A nurse for his mom, someone else to take on the burden. Maybe a home for people like her.

He wasn't sure why he let her do this to him. He kept telling himself When I turn 18. When I turn 18. When I turn 18.  Like 4 years of time wasted on more pain was going to change anything. He had the money to put her in a home that could take care of her in Greendale. Instead, he clung to her through the good and bad days because after all, she was his mother. The only person, other than Jughead, that he had left. 

In the end, Jugheads offer had been turned down and Fangs continued to live with his mother. Summer rolled around and like every other summer, Fangs would have to sneak out to even see Jughead.  They spent the summer riding around Riverdale on their bikes. A summer well-spent Fangs thought. Of course, it had to come to an end and sophomore year started up. 

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Jughead and Fangs had both just lost their job thanks to it shutting down. It seemed so big to him, losing his only source of income. But suddenly a storm hit, Jason blossom was found out to be murdered. As well as a whole bunch of other drama that ran past Fangs. Why should he care? He had bigger fish to fry.

Jughead had dived head first into trying to figure out this mystery. Look where that landed him. His father was in prison, Serving accomplice to murder charges. Suddenly the Serpent King role was tossed upon Jughead. While Jughead felt more confident wearing that jacket then he had felt in a year, Betty brought him back to reality. He was a high schooler and being the king of a biker gang was the last thing he needed right now. 

Jughead promised betty he would never really join. This was just temporary. As soon as his father was free he was done. He'd be 'normal' again. But Fangs saw threw Jugs lies. Jughead would go on and on about how the idea of leading brought him such joy. Being part of a group that accepted him when no one in the northside really did. Not even his own girlfriend.