The entire week had been interesting. Hotdog had become her shadow when she was in the trailer and she was happy to have him. None of the Serpents had said anything to her about being in the Jones trailer late that night but it didn't mean she couldn't feel the stares at school. She had liked being a no one but now she was someone.

She was standing at the window of the trailer watching the events of Jugheads final initiation and it was not pretty. She felt for him he had just went through the emotional turmoil of being broken up with than the physical torture of being punched multiple times. She called it torture because she knew no matter what that he couldn't fight back. Those situations were the worst. She knew them all too well.

After the last punch was thrown she stood still in the window watching them. She hadn't planned on being noticed spying on something that she wasn't supposed to witness but when she made eye contact with dark brown eyes she knew she had been caught. Nova refused to break eye contact with the Serpent who looked back at her with a curious look on his face. She wasn't sure of his name but she knew who he was. He ran the Serpents at the High school they had a respect for him and seemed to listen to the tall boy. She hadn't planned on being the one to look away but when someone opened the front door she tore her graze from him to the door. She hadn't noticed anything except him.

Jughead and Toni came inside talking lowly and Nova took it as her hint to leave. Grabbing her wallet, she silently went to the door. She would check on him before she went to sleep tonight. Slipping out the back door hoping to go unnoticed by the other occupants of the trailer. Nova was focused so much on not disturbing Jughead that she didn't notice the Serpent from earlier that was still outside and ran right into him. She hadn't been walking slow so it felt she had ran into a brick wall losing her balance Nova fell to the ground.

Sitting in the dirt Nova tried to get her hair out of her eyes. Her hair was long reaching passed the middle of her back and it was dyed maroon. Sometimes too felt like chopping it all off but knew she would regret it the moment she did. After getting her hair out of her face she was greeted with a hand held out to her. Nova let the Serpent pull her up off the ground. Did she say thank you for helping her up or sorry for running into him? "Thanks..." Her words trailed off when she realized that she didn't know his name.

As he pulled her off the ground with ease he realized why she had paused. "My name is Sweet Pea." He let go of her but didn't move an inch.

"I'm Nova." She felt like it would be rude to not tell him her name now that she knew his but she hoped it didn't affect her status at school. She was fine with being stared at but as soon as Serpents started approaching her people would make it their business to know who she was.

"I know." Nova simply raised her eyebrow to question him. She couldn't deny that she recognized him from school but she hadn't known his name till today. "I was here the other night dropping Hotdog off." When he said that it hit her like a ton of bricks.

Dusting the dirt off herself and she gave Sweet Pea a smile and a little wave. She wasn't too sure what to say so she just decided to head on her way. She pulled the tarp off her bicycle and just before she could start to peddle away Sweet Pea stopped her. "Do you need a ride?" His eyes went from her bike to his as if to say it would be faster to just to accept his offer. Nova nodded in return putting her bike back under the tarp.

She was hesitant to just jump on the back of his bike. "Have you ever ridden on a motorcycle before?" When she didn't answer right away he knew the answer. "Just throw a leg over and put your feet here." Sweet Pea pointed to a certain spot. When she finally got onto the bike she left some space between the two only for Sweet Pea to grab her hands and wrap them around his torso. "It's so you don't fall off. So where are we heading?"

The first time she tried to speak her words are muffled from her face being pressed into his back. But she tried again. "I need to go to Pop's. I'm supposed to start waitressing there tonight." Sweet Pea doesn't say anything and simply cranks the engine up and starts heading in the direction of the diner. Nova held on tight even though he wasn't driving fast but she was still so nervous to be on the back of a motorcycle. She honestly couldn't believe she accepted his offer not because he was a Serpent but the idea of not having any seatbelt or protection scared her. Some people just couldn't drive.

All the time that Nova had been thinking about how unsafe motorcycles were she didn't realize the bikes engine cut meaning that they were at their final destination. But she did notice when Sweet Pea started to move around. She got off the bike fixing her clothes and combing her fingers through her maroon colored hair she had what you would consider beach curls it was funny because she had never been to the beach. Sweet Pea was now standing next to her. "Coming in?" He simply nodded before following her inside the fifties themed diner. Sweet Pea went and got a booth while Nova went to find Pop.

Nova spent five hours training and learning everything she needed to waitress at the diner and that entire time she was working when she would glance over at the very last booth Sweet Pea still sat there. She hadn't had a moments rest since walking through the diner doors so when she was told she could head out for the night she pretty much fell into the booth seat across from him. "Don't laugh at me." Nova said when Sweet Pea let out a chuckle as she complained about her feet hurting. "I'm not usually on my feet this much."

"Are you ready to go?" He looked around the diner there were still people hanging around inside so he wasn't completely sure if she was done for the night.

The entire night Nova had been waiting to glance back at the last booth only to see it empty but she never did. She couldn't believe he had waited around to give her a ride home. "If you are?" It came out more as a question. When she said this, he seemed to give it some thought.

"I don't mind taking you home now." With that they silently agreed it was time to go. When they were sitting back on the bike he asked if home was the Jones residents. On a really good day she probably wouldn't have answered. It wasn't like she was ashamed of the Jones men in her life more that she was a private person. But for some reason she had no issue of the yes slipping off her tongue. With that they were off headed for the Sunnyside trailer park.

The cold air felt amazing on her cheeks Nova just took in the lights blurring by and it was amazing. Just a few hours before she had been scared to death to ride on the back of Sweet Peas motorcycle but now it was something she could see herself craving as odd as it sounded. "Don't become an adrenaline junkie on me." Sweet Pea tells her when she urges him to go faster but he does it anyways.

In no time they made it to the Jones trailer. Nova got off the bike and looked at the windows to see if the lights were still on to see if it was safe to go inside. They were off so she deemed it safe that she wouldn't walk into something she didn't want to see. She turned her attention back onto Sweet Pea to tell him good night and thank you for the ride. But before she could say anything he held out his hand. It took Nova a good thirty seconds to realize he wanted her phone. So, she handed it over. "I'm assuming I'm the only Sweet Pea you know." He let out a chuckle at his own joke as he handed her phone back after putting his contact in it.

She waited patiently for him to give her his phone so she could do the same. "Do you want my number." She asked after he didn't move to pull out his phone after he had returned hers.

Sweet Pea shot her a smirk when he did pull out his phone and showed her the screen quickly. "I already have it." It had a missed call from her phone. She hadn't even noticed him calling himself. At that she said good night and started heading up the trailer stairs to the front door. Just as her hand reached the door handle Sweet Pea called out her name. "You have my number now if you need a ride from now on call me. There's a serial killer lurking around."

"Thanks again Sweet Pea, but I wouldn't wanna be a bother." With that you head inside leaving the lights off as you navigate around the furniture in the trailer hoping not to trip over anything. She didn't hear the sound of engine for a good ten minutes by than she had found herself in her bed.

As Nova laid in her bed watching her ceiling fan going around and around in circles she wondered if she had made a mistake by accepting Sweet Pea's offer to give her a ride tonight. She hoped she hadn't but she would find out later if it would come back to bite her in the ass.

Hi everyone! First off Happy Thanksgiving! I just want to say thank you for the reviews from last chapter and I hope you review again. I love it when you do. I've been reading Sweet Pea stuff like none stop since last week so if anyone is wondering there are some stories on AO3 but the place I've found the most is tumblr. But please review and thank you for reading my story.