Take Me to The Races

Brave New World

"Anyone you want, my Queen. You get first dibs." Malachai had his arms wide open as we walk around the trailer park.

"Hey, it's what every girl dreams to pick out her trailer." Penny rolls her eyes from behind us.

Malachai shot her a glare while I ignore her. I look around Sunnyside Trailer Park, my eyes lock on the Jones trailer. It was as if I could see 6 years old me running around it, trying to get away from Archie and Jughead who had a lizard in their hands. I didn't know if I should pick it so that none of the others could trash it or if it would be adding insult to injury to have Malachai living there. I felt myself moving to stand in front of the trailer.

"FP's trailer, you just know where a king is supposed to live." He waves his hand to the ghoulies behind us. They began moving our boxes and suitcases into the trailer.

"Watch out there a dog in there." I yell at the ghoulie who was struggling to carry Pebbles. Maverick went over to grab the crate from him. He carried her over to me. "I swear some of these new prospects are weaklings." He grumbled putting her down by my feet. As soon as she saw me, she started to whine.

"There are other qualities than strength, that one is a hacker." He reminds one of his founder members. Maverick snorts in response.

"Yeah well, people should know their strength and weakness so they don't hurt my dog." I bent down to take her out of the crate and put her on the leash. I left the guys to their talk about the new people, while I walk into the trailer.

"Who the hell has a typewriter?" Greg pokes a button on the old machine. They were all looking around the trailer touching things.

"Thank you guys for carrying everything in, but I can take it from here. I'm sure you all want to move into your new place too." I yell out to them. They were happy and quick to get out of there.

"Call me if you need any heavy lift. Don't want to hurt the baby." Greg rubs my stomach as he walks by.

I walk around the boxes and suitcases that were in the middle of the living room to look at everything that they had to leave behind. That was everything: clothes, electronics, and pictures. I ran my fingers over the couch that I spent many nights sleeping on as a child. I was so busy looking around I didn't notice Malachai enter the trailer.

"If you want we can send their stuff to them. Nothing with a Serpent symbol on it though, that shit burns." Malachai look around the trailer in glee. It was funny, he sneers when we were in the luxury cabin, but now in a rundown trailer he was beaming with pride.

"Sounds good to me," I smile. For the day, he let me boss him around. We made piles of trash, burn, and send back. Then we unpack and organize our things and packed theirs into the boxes.

"I'll order food from Southside cafe and drop this off in front of the Whyte Wyrm." He picks the car key off of the hook by the door.

"Are you its safe?" I look up from mashing the dog food that I soak in hot water to make it easier for the puppy to eat.

"I'll take Maverick and Verne with me." He pats Pebbles on the head and gave me a kiss before walking out.

I put the bowl on the ground for it to be an attack by the dog. I laugh shaking my head at her. When she finish, I sat down on the couch to find something to watch on the TV. "Abby! Abby! You got to get out here." Cricket runs in to the trailer.

"What's wrong?" I went outside to get my question answer. Archie was walking around with a determined look on his face. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" I met him halfway.

"I could ask you the same thing, leaving in the middle of the night to run away with your criminal boyfriend. They plan to destroy Riverdale, you know that right?" He shouts. The ghoulies form a circle around us.