{1} Tempest {Sweet Pea}

IV

Jughead was waiting at Pop's like he said and Storm walks in, and Pop slid a coffee over to her.

"Pop, how did you?" She asked him and he just nods at Jughead and she looked at him. "Thanks Jug." She said and sat across in the booth from him.

"You're writing a novel I hear. About Jason Blossom's death." She said, and he looked at her, and nods.

"Yeah, I found it to be a topic of undeniable interest and importance to myself and our town's history." He murmured as Pop slid him a coffee as he went by. "Also... I wanted to know if you would be alright with me and uh... me putting you in the story. With your name and stuff." He said and she looked at him.

"Of course, Juggy. I don't mind if you use my name or anything for the book unless it is my social security number. I think then if you do we might have a wee bit of a problem." She said and he shakes his head.

"I'm not putting anything like social security numbers in. The only thing I need to put in, is our addresses of our houses." Jughead said.

"All right. I can't very well just say no to you Jughead and I think that you're fully aware of that fact." She said, and he nodded at her.

"So, do you want to take a read at what I've written so far?" Jughead asked her and Storm shrugs at him, as he turns the computer screen around, so that she could read it.

After scanning the page for a long time and he smiled at her as he turns the computer back around to face him and she looked at him over the laptop.

"It's amazing Jug. I mean, I could've never written anything like that. I do not know anyone but you, who could have." She says as she went up to Pop and ordered a couple burgers.

"I know you like food Jughead and I also know that you need energy so the creative juices keep flowing." She says tapping his temple lightly with fingers that were freezing cold.

Suddenly her phone rang and she looked at it and then at Jughead, her eyes flashing with guilt.

"Is it Archie?" He asked and she nods slightly her eyes still aflame with guilt of an old friend. "Pick it up, he's your twin brother. I'll still be here." He said and she nodded.

"You can have my burger when it comes around Jughead." She said as she hugged him quickly, and ran out to take Archie's call.

The next day, she was back at school when Jughead came up to her in their shared PE class.

"I need to talk to you about Archie, can we meet after school?" He asks her, and she looked up at the clock on the wall of the gym.

"That's in like 6 minutes Juggy. Are you sure that you can't tell me right now? I mean, how bad could it really be?" She asked and he inhales sharply.

"All right Jug. I don't have anything going on after school anyways. I don't have any friends except for you, and a girl who acts more like a guy is never gonna have any friends anyways."

She mumbled as the final bell finally rang out for the day. As they walk out of the school together, she hoisted her bag over her shoulder.

"So, what's so urgent to know about my brother?" She asked and he looked at her.

"He's dating our Music Teacher. Miss Grundy." He said and she flinched and looked down at her hands. "Hey, are you okay?" He asked and Storm was shaking from head to toe, and her lip was quivering now.

"I've got to go." She whispered and shoved past him quickly, and running down the street towards her house.

She dropped her stuff in her room and ran immediately into the single bathroom and barely making it before she was heaving into the toilet.

"Storm, honey? Are you all right?"

Her father called up to the bathroom and a strangled sounding... "Yes" came out of the bathroom.

"I'm okay, I just ate something that didn't sit too well." She whispered as she walked into her room, as then she shut the door behind her.

She looked around quickly and she shut her blinds quickly, and pulled off her jacket.

She rolled up the sleeve of her t - shirt under the flannel, and there it was. At first glance someone would think that it was a scratch from a fingernail.

But really, it had a more dangerous story behind it one that would put her in more danger then she would ever be in before, when she had ever been before.

She threw herself onto her bed and began to cry, her head in her pillow as she did.

Then, about an hour later when she was just about all cried out, her phone buzzed. She looked at it, and opened a window, climbing out quickly.

She climbed down to the porch and looked at Jughead, who was waiting for Archie.

Archie walked up to the porch like it was clockwork and Jughead stood up.

"Jug? What's up?" He asked and Jughead shakes his head at his old friend.

"What's up is I saw you, Archie. In the music room. With Miss Grundy." Jug's voice was deadly serious and Archie's eyes flared up immediately.

"Keep your voice down. My dad's inside." Archie says sharply, pointing a finger at the house and Storm stood up as well.

"I'm trying to help you, dude. I'm trying to be your friend here, even though we're not anymore. How long? You and Grundy?" Jughead asked.

"Since the summer. I like her." Archie began and Storm had a tear rolling on her cheek already.

"And... and you're worried about some-- Some cougar." Jughead snaps at Archie, who was basically yelling, threatening Jughead now.

"Stop Archie. I know what it's like. To deal with the love you got from one of your teachers. But for me it didn't end so well. Because I didn't love him back and it didn't end. Definitely not when it should have." She said quietly and she looked at Jughead.

"Night Jug." She murmured and he muttered a quiet reply, as he walked away from their house and she walks inside without looking back at Archie.