Resilience | Sweet Pea.

42 - Too many guns.

A week passes, and as we have our regular meeting, we're met with Jughead pacing the room obviously about to deliver bad news.

"Jug you're gonna put a hole in the floor, what's wrong?" I ask him.

"War Baby called my father and I from Shankshaw prison. Our old adversaries, the Ghoulies, have been released." Jughead informs us

"Shit." I mutter. "What does this mean?"

"Word on the street is they want Serpent blood. They're gunning for a rematch, they want war." Jughead says.

"Well, what do we do-"

Toni's question is cut off by Reggie and a bunch of the Bulldogs, including Archie, bursting into the room with anger written all over their faces.

"Which one of you reptiles was screwing Midge Klump?" Reggie growls.

"The hell is going on?" Jughead asks, walking towards the group. "This is a private meeting."

"I'm guessing it was you, Sweet pea. Since we know all about you and other people's girls." Reggie snaps, looking over at me.

"Reggie I swear to-"

"Reggie, that's enough." Archie demands.

"You're a fucking asshole, I didn't even know Midge. And I'd never, EVER do that to Nova." Sweet pea yells. "I have honor. But yeah, I get why she wouldn't want fleas from you mangy Bulldogs."

Reggie attacks Sweet pea, to which obviously Sweet pea retaliates, Jughead attempts to pull the two apart as the Bulldogs and Serpents start trying to fight.

"Reggie, no!"

"Serpents, back off! Now!" Jughead yells. I yank Sweet pea and Fangs backwards, getting them away from the bulldogs as Archie and Jughead try to separate their idiots.

"Reggie, screw off." I snap.

"Serpent slut." He snaps out of anger.

"You wanna get punched by another girl, Mantle?" I snap back, so much for friends.

"You wanna be the first girl I hit?" Reggie asks me, only angering me further, I clench my fists and walk up to him.

"You come in here, acting all tough, Mantle, harassing my friends, accusing my boyfriend, trying pick a fight over a girl who lost her life! Don't come in here with your dumb ass and use a dead girl as an excuse to start a fight. We get it, you want people to think you're a man so bad, but in reality, you're just a salty little bitch who didn't get the girl." I yell in his face.

"Fuck off, Daniels. Go be a moody orphan somewhere else." He snaps.

"Watch it, Reg." Archie grumbles.

"Stay the fuck away from the Serpents, Reggie, or I'll put you in the hospital, and you know I mean it." I yell.

"Archie, get them out of here." Jughead demands.

Archie gives me a apologetic look before pulling Reggie out of the classroom, still spitting abuse as he goes.

*

Hermione Lodge, the mother of one of my best friends, and Fred Andrews, my adoptive father, neck and neck in the mayoral elections, although Archie works hard to promote our dad going door to door promoting him, yet that seems to be the least of our worries as I'm sat in my best friends trailer next to him with my dear friend Fangs Fogarty sat before us, his knees bouncing with anxiety, and his head in his hands.