Unholy

5

"Heather?" a soft knock at my door stirs me from my sleep. The clock next to my bed says 7:30 a.m. I crashed when  I got in yesterday and have been asleep since.

"Yeah?" I call. She pushes the door open and enters my room. She is fully dressed for the day.

"I just came to tell you it's almost time to head to school. Come on, cousin. Get ready." She says softly. I groan and roll over, burying my face into the pillow. I get up and pull on some red leggings, a white cropped top tee, and vans. I comb my hair over the wrong way for a messy look and leave the room. 

"Ready?" Toni asks me with a sympathetic smile.

"As I'll ever be." I shrug. We pull up to school and when I walk through the doors, cold air raises the hair on my skin.

"Heather!" A voice calls to me and I see Reggie running at me. He greets me with a warm hug and frowns at me. "I am so sorry that happened. I tried to catch the guy but he was faster."

"You didn't run off and leave me?" I ask.

"No... who told you- fucking snakes. Of course. I knew I shouldn't have left you in their care." He growls, turning angry and looking for a serpent jacket.

"Let it go, Reggie." I plead.

"Yo, Faggotry!" He yells and a small serpent boy turns around. Small compared to Reggie and Sweet Pea but big compared to me. 

"It's Fogarty." The boy sighs.

"Not when you are fucking Keller." Another football player joins Reggie and several others follow. Jughead, Fogarty, and Toni have taken a stance, standing their ground. Betty and Cheryl stand on the side with a blushing boy with nervous looks.

"Sweet Pea!" Jughead calls over his shoulder as the footballers grow in numbers. Archie has come to stand with the serpents.

"Andrews, move. I don't want to hurt you." Reggie demands. 

"I am not moving until you stand down. There is no need to fight."

"They told her I ran off and left her last night." Reggie growls.

"We don't know what happened and neither does she because she was high." Archie tries to reason but a smartass serpent speaks up.

"Because you drugged her!" The one called Fogarty yells. "If it wasn't for us, who knows what would have happened." Reggie springs from his spot with his fist raised. Fogarty ducks just in time for Reggie to miss him and nail Sweet Pea in the face, successfully busting his lip. He spits out a mouthful of blood and grins at Reggie.

"You've done it now." He growls before launching himself at Reggie. the other three footballers that joined Reggie attacks the other serpents. Reggie slips something over his hand and lands another rough punch on Sweet Pea's cheek. The brass knuckles are covered in the other boy's blood. Sweet Pea stands up slowly from where he hit the lockers and pulls something from his pocket. The switchblade opens easily and Reggie glances down in fear for only a moment. His brass knuckles make him almost evenly matched with the serpent. The other boys are fighting cleaner.

"Sweet Pea!" I shout out without thinking. I run around the fighting group to get closer to the two boys.

"Not now, Princess. Your little boyfriend wants to play dirty, so I'll show him dirty." Sweet Pea runs his tongue over his bottom lip, lapping at the blood running down his chin. Reggie lands a hard punch to the stomach and Sweet Pea yells out, swinging the knife around. He snags Reggie's shoulder good enough to have the footballer reeling back which is just enough time for me to grab Sweet Pea's hand and drag him away from the scene. Reggie looks around confused and only catches a glimpse of us rounding the corner.