Meraki

There was a girl in Riverdale, a girl we all knew, one who shined before and during the darkest times of our town.

She lived in two houses, one on each side of the tracks, and they couldn't be more different, while she remained the same. She spent her life alternating between two halves of a broken home, two halves of a divided town.

Lollipop Eurydice chose to become a beacon for every person she came across, Northside and Southside, Bulldog and Serpent. She wrote compliment columns for both the Blue & Gold and the Red & Black. She was mostly homeschooled, but she somehow charmed both schools into allowing her to take certain classes during the day.

One could say she was living a double life, but no one saw it that way. If there was one person who could have it all it was Lollipop.

She'd make cookies to solve problems, she knew the names of every person she met, she made flower crowns for Serpents and brownies for Ghoulies, she forgave and forgot with ease...and we all waited for the day reality would hit her.

Except she kept defying our expectations, at every dark turn she'd find a way to smile. She giggled through Jason's murder, Blackhood's killing spree, the war between the North and the South, and Hiram Lodge breaking her heart.

But when we least expected it the darkness did get to
her.

In the end we all knew she was too good for Riverdale.

And if you asked anyone in the town of Riverdale they'd say: there was a girl we knew once, a girl that we couldn't have saved.