Alone

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As I reached for my knife, I felt my arm be twisted against my back. "I don't think you'll be fighting." My body froze. I knew his voice.

"A-Archie.." I felt him smirk against my ear. I kicked his knee and got away from him. I pulled my knife out and pointed it at him. "Why are you here?" Then I turned to Penny. "And you, why are you bugging my family?"

"Well, blondie, I'll tell ya why. Your brother has some business he never finished with me. But when that happens with people, I go after the things they care about."

"How righteous of you. Now my brother and my father are tied up because my brother owes you a stupid debt?" She charged at me and I stroke her with my knife. Her arm started bleeding and she grabbed onto it. I pushed her against the wall. "Now I want you to untie my family right now."

"You're dumb for thinking you're going to make me do that. Archie, get her." On cue, he grabbed at me and I turned around and stabbed him in the stomach.

"Yeah, no luck to you, Arch. I'm stronger than I once was." I pushed him to the ground and went to untie my dad first. After he was untied, I went to my brother.

"Ghoulies, come out." A whole gang of crazy looking people came out of the hallway. I scoffed and turned to her.

"You bring your whole gang to this? That is so unfair since we don't have ours." I cut Jug's hands free and he stood up.

"Unfair or not, Jughead still owes me blood." I charged at her and pinned her to the wall.

"No. He doesn't. What you owe us is to leave us the hell alone and stay away from every single Serpent." I stared into her eyes as I proposed this to her. "You and your little gang can all hop on your bikes and leave. And never let us see you again. Hell, while you're at it, take Archie with you." I let go and she stormed out of the door, her gang following closely behind.

"This isn't over." She yelled out before she rode off and away. Bad thing is she left Archie. So there he was, in my dad's kitchen.

"Alissa- Listen to me, please." I'm surprised he's still breathing. I crouched down to eye level with him.

"What, Archie? What do you want me to listen to?"

"I'm sorry I never told you the truth about your family, about anything." Surprising.

"Well why should it matter if you're sorry or not? I'm happy I came to Riverdale. I fit in perfect here. Unlike my home town. I was an outcast there." I explained to him.

"Look, you need to be careful. Penny will be back. She'll be back until she gets what she wants."

I got close to his ear. "Then I guess I'm staying with my family." I stood up and left him on the floor and ran to my family. "Dad, Jug, are you guys okay?" I hugged them both.

"We're okay, thanks to you." Jug confirmed. I smiled and nodded my head. "Now, what are we gonna do with him?" We looked at Archie on the floor.

"You guys can decide that, I'm not deciding that." I stepped over him and walked down the hallway to my bedroom. It took me fighting my anger to not punch the wall. Instead, I decided to text Toni.

A: Hey Topaz :)

T: Hey Ali! :)))

A: I'm glad we went out tonight. Do you wanna go out again sometime?

T: Yes. Definitely!

A: Awesome! When?

T: Anytime we're both free I guess