Riverdale, parker residence (Peters pov)
Well after the previous mornings conversation with May, and the text to Ronnie, I kinda realised I may have overreacted alittle towards Ronnie, I went into the kitchen again and saw May holding two bags of lunches for me.
"Have you cooked them?", I asked with a freightend look on my face.
"No, I bought one for you and veronica, so its safe to eat", she said and handed me the lunches.
"Thanks May, I'll see you later", I said and went to the front door, and went outside and started to walk to school, I put my earbuds in and started to listening to a playlist that, Michelle, Ned and I made before I moved here.
*bing*, I got a text, I looked and saw a text from Michelle
Michelle: hey loser, hows riverdale?, I heard about a dude was shot and dumped in a river, scary stuff, by the way, when will you come back to new York for a visit, since Ned misses you, well I dont, so its not for me obvious.
Peter: hey Michelle, riverdale is kinda great, well until the whole shot and dumped part, and I dont know yet, well I miss him too, and I'll text when I get a chance to visit, and I miss you too Michelle.
New York (Michelles pov):
What why does he miss me, well I dont miss him not at all, not one bit, okay maybe I miss his smile, his eyes, his hair, okay I miss my loser.
Riverdale, parker neighbourhood (Peters pov):
I saw Betty and Archie walking together, but I just walked in my own world, with my Music and ignored them, dont fell like round two with Archie, or I'll end up kicking his butt.
Riverdale high:
I arrived at the entrance to the school a little before Archie and Betty, so I went to my locker, to get the books I needed for my first few classes, my spider sense kicked in and I was slammed against my locker, "guess who parker", Chuck said.
"Well I would say Chuck the clutch, well since you broke pops window and all", I said and smirked at him.
"Why you, I should punch you right here", Chuck said.
"Sure you do that, right in front of all these students, walk away Chuck", I said.
"Fine parker, but his isn't over, not by a long shot", Chuck said and started to walk away with his goon squad.
I noticed Archie and Jughead talking, when Reggie and his goons came walking towards them, Jughead left, but was pushed into my row of locker, by Reggie, "watch it Wednesday Addams", Reggie said.
Jughead just gave him a look before he turned around and walked away.
I walked away from my locker and ran into Kevin and Betty, we had the same class, "hey Peter come on walk with us", Betty said as I joined them on our journey to the class rooms.
"Now that romance between you two is of the table, are we even sure Archie is straight, becuase no straight man has his body", Kevin said.
"Is that why you and Archie were fighting, when I got home last night?", I asked Betty and she turned to me and just stared at me.
"Were you there Peter?, I didn't notice, sorry, but yeah it was just a quick fight, were friends again", Betty said and gave me a smile.
"Well on the subject of bodies, have you recovered from finding Jasons body?", Betty asked Kevin.
"Were you the one who found him Kevin?", I asked and faked ignorance.
"Yeah that would be me, but it was more traumatazing, explaining to my dad what moose and I were doing by the river, and this is yet another perk of being the sheriffs son", Kevin said, and stopped in his tracks, before he whispered to us, "but we were not the only one there, someone else was there, someone scary, we only heard his voice, when he said he wasn't Jasons killer", he said.
"What", both Betty and I said at the same time.
"You could have been killed", Betty said.
"I dont think so the person left right after", Kevin said, and started walking into the office, since Betty was called in here, before we would move onto our class.
When we arrived into the Office, all of us noticed a big bunch of yellow roses, and Kevin said "oh my god, those are gorgeous, are those for Betty miss Philips?".
She said yes, and Kevin went over to them and took out the card and read it out loud " 'dear Betty please forgive me, xoxo, v', who the hell is V?", Kevin said as he read it out loud.
Betty looked at me and we both said "veronica", and speak of the devil, and she will arrive, (okay, let be honest, she is like the devil, but in a good way, and I also couldnt think of another wordplay for her, so sue me, again dont actually sue me, i'm just a high school student, sue Tony Stark he is Rich), just as we said her name she entered through the door to the office.
"The yellow ones are for friendship, I also had Magnolia cupcakes, flown in from new York, because as my mom always says, there is no wrong the right cupcakes can't fix", she said and handed the cupcakes to Betty, and she continued "I also booked hers and hers manipedis at the chez salon, and lastly Betty i'm so, so, sorry, I dont know what happend to me that night, it was such a basic bitch move, it was like I was posessed by", Kevin interupted her and said "madam satan?", veronica continued "the old veronica, and I'll never, ever do something like this again, can you please forgive me", she finished.
Betty said "okay", and both Kevin and veronica said "what", Kevins in a 'why the hell would you that', and veronica in a 'yes, thank you' kinda way.
"Awesome, I'll take it, and you won't regret it, maybe should save the cupcakes for lunch, so we can celebrate it", veronica said and looked at me for the first time, and gave me a small smile, I smiled back.
I looked at them and decided to walk away, "see you guys around, i'm not gonna be late over cupcakes", I said and smiled at them.
I walked into the science lab, when I heard the announcment on the pda.
"Good morning students, this is your principal speaking, there have been many inquaries about the upcoming pep rallies, so let me state clearly, it is happening as scheduled, now you'll give your attention to sheriff Keller", mr. Weatherbee said.
"Most of you already know the details, but your classmate Jason Blossoms body was found late satuarday night, so as of this weekend, Jasons death is treated as a homicide, its and open and ongoing investagstion", sheriff Keller said and Cheryl intereupted "and may I interject, neither I, nor my parents will rest before Jasons killer is walking the green mile, to get into the chair to fry, I for one have my suspensions, #riverdalestrong", she finished and Keller continued "if you know anything, that can help us, and help us find his killer, I strongly suggest you to come forward and help us catch his killer", he ended the announcement.
Riverdal high science lab:
Everyone was in the science lab, I just stood by the side and watched everyone, until I noticed Josie, she saw me and smiled and waved.
The teacher entered the class and said "seats everyone, pair up, gloves on and scalps ready", as he walked towards his desk.
Archie said "Can I be with Cheryl?".
Veronica said "and I wanna be with Betty"
"But i'm parterning up with Kevin", Betty said.
Moose came over to Kevin and placed his hand on Kevins shoulder and Moose said "Kellers with me, we like talked about it", and Kevin moved to be with moose.
I moved forward towards where Josie sat and said, "hey Josie, you wanna pair up?".
"Sure Peter, come on sit down", she said and smiled.
We put our gloves and Googles on, and picked up the scalpel, as we were about to gut a frog.
"So Peter, thanks for everything these last couple of days, it means alot", Josie said as she starter to cut open the frog.
"Well, hey it was nothing, I had a good time at the dance with you both before and after, and at Sweet water, it was not nice, but I was glad I could be there for you, so hey should I cut it open or do you still wanna do it"? I said and went for the scalpel.
Josie grapped it and said "no, no, i'm gonna do it", and she continued to cut it open.
Veronicas pov:
I took Kevins place besides Betty, and I said "well it looks like, fate once again puts us together", and smiled at her.
"Well I guess so", Betty said.
I noticed that Peter went over to sit besides Josie, and he do look happy with her, but I still wonder if it would be us if I hadnt kissed Archie in the closet, would it be me that made Peter smile, would he look at me the way his looking at Josie right now, well I guess I have to settle for just friends for now, maybe someday I can swoop him up, maybe someday we'll be the talk of the school.
Betty snapped her fingers infront of me "veronica, if you stare any Haarder at Peter I think you'll burn a hole through his skull", Betty said.
I blushed and said "well erhm, what did you ask other than the thing about Peter?", and turned and looked at her.
"I asked if you would cut the frog open or I should just do it", Betty said and turned towards the frog.
"Go for it, these nails aren't for cutting open a frog anyway, so yeah be my Guest", I said, and looked up once again, and saw Josie giving Peter a quick peck on the cheek, did something really happen after that party?, maybe I should ask him or Betty did say that Peter got a lift from Fred Andrews after the Sweet water river thing, maybe Archie knows something, I could just ask him, but then Peter might get angry again, but if he is with Josie know, he shouldnt care right?.
I noticed Archie sitting with Cheryl, and they talked about Jason and if the police had found out anything, she said no, and she got that evil eye, that she would do something, or hurt someone again, like she hurted Betty, and by default she also hurt, Peter and me.
*ring* *ring*, the bell rung, and now its finally time for lunch, we all started to head out of class
"Hey Ronnie, wait up", I heard and turned around and saw Peter coming up.
"Hey Petey, whats up?, didn't think you would be talking to me", I said and laughed to lessen the tension.
He laughed and said "well, haha, yeah i'm still trying, but we're cool right?, and May gave me these lunches for us, so heres yours", he handed me a lunch.
"Wow, do you hate me so much, that you would give me some of her cooking, here I thought we were friends, but I guess we are archenemies now", I said and laughed.
"What, no, I wouldn't give my worst enemy her cooking, let alone a friend, I actually did say the same to her this morning, that if I were going to be your friend again, her cooking was not the way to go", he said and laughed, and continued "she bought them", he finished.
"Well then I would gladly have one", I smiled, we walked together and were joined by Betty and Kevin, when we were making our way to a table outside.
And I started the small talk "so what did moose want?", I said and looked at Kevin.
"Oh my god, I dont even think he know what he wants, well i'm devastationly handsome in that classic pre-accident Montgomery Clift, and sexuality is fluent, but can someone named Moose actually be that fluent", Kevin said.
I laughed and said "okay, well I ship it".
"Well ofcourse you would, your a big city girl with loose morals", he said, and well everything just got awkward after that, I could see Peter tense just a smidge, when Kevin said I had a loose moral, did Peter actually think i'm a slut?, and Kevin continued to ease the tension "well I just meant, moose has an official girlfriend named midge", he finished.
We were almost at the table, I could see Archie, and I saw Peter giving him the stink eye, okay now I really have to find out what really happend that night, and Kevin said "anyway its terrible to say, but a part of me just wishes he would have stayed in that darn closet", all of us just looked at him, and sent him an 'are you for real' look and he continued "well I didn't mean litteral closet".
I sat down across from Archie and said "Archie, do you have any new material, you would like to try on a very forgiving audience?", I really hope so, because this can escalte quickly if we dont get something else to focus on, I just got Peter and Betty back i'm not about to loose them again, I could tell that Peter was on edge, maybe he wasn't ready for this afterall, maybe it all went to fast.
Archie said "well I dont know", he started but I interupted him and said "please", and moved my eyes over to Peter and Betty, to let him know they were okay with this for now, and Betty sat down and said "would you?, because I would love to hear it".
"What about you Peter, won't you like to hear him sing?, I said and turned towards Peter.
"Well I guess so", Peter said and didn't bother to look at Archie, okay Peter wants to be my friend, maybe he didn't wanna be friends with Archie.
"Well, i'm still working on the lyrics so bare with me", Archie said and started to sing, we all were listening to his song.
Peters pov:
I totally zoned out, and didn't listen to the song, but I heard veronica and Kevin clapped so I did the same, but them I noticed Betty had tears in her eyes.
"Hey Betty are you okay", I asked as I put my hand on her shoulder, she shook it of.
Betty said "i'm supposed to say yes, its what the nice girl always say, but no i'm not okay, I want to be, I thought I could be", she looked at me and then turned to Archie "but its to much to fast, Peter how are you okay with all of this?, I have seen the way you look at veronica", she finished and stared at me.
"Who says i'm okay with any of it?, Betty it hurt more than I like to admit, but i'm trying to move past it, the key word trying", I started, and began to think about how I felt after the closet fiasco, I stood up and went over to Betty and putney hand on her shoulder again and continued "but I understand why you aren't okay Betty, no one expects you to say your okay, no one expects you to forgive and forget, but you have to atleast try, not now, maybe not tomorrow, but at your own pace, thats all they expects off you, I know veronica tries, and i'm trying to be friends with her again, but its hard, like I said betty, set your own pace, because otherwise you'll just end up in the same place you are now, and that will hurt you even more, than either Archie or veronica ever could", I finished and Betty flung her arms around me and gave me a big hug.
"Thanks Peter, i'm sorry your hurting too, you dont deserve this", she whispered and let go of me, but still walked away, Archie stood up and went after her.
I walked back to the table and picked my lunch up and said "sorry guys, but after this i'm just gonna sit by myself", I said and walked away from a sad looking veronica and an excited Kevin (wonder why his excited, porpally because of the new gossip he can spread).
Riverdale high:
I walked in the halls and saw jughead walking, I walked besides him, we gave eachother a nod, and nothing else, we went by the Music room, but stopped in our tracks, and went back to look inside, what we saw was Archie and the Music teacher miss Grundy in a makeout session, "what the hell", I said, but continued to walk towards my next class.
Rivervixen practice (veronicas pov):
We were praticing our routine for the peprally tomorrow night, and if I say so myself we were quite good at it, but then Cheryl went infront of our squad and said "stand down vixens, and listen up, the weather forecast predicts a downpour the night of the rally, but your already raining on my parade, all eyes will be on me because of Jasons prescence in everyones mind, so everyone of you will have to be perfect, but we also needs Star power, so i'm gonna make a phone call, we'll need the pussycats, so while i'm calling them, all of you take 5", Cheryl said and walked away.
I went over to get my waterbottle to get a bit to drink, and I sat next to Betty and said "after this party, I totally gonna need a pedicure, and you?, I said.
Betty looked at me briefly and said "I'll have homework".
"Okay, well I know everyone grieves diffrently, but Cheryl is hosting a peprally to deal with her loss, thats either brilliant, psychotic or both", I said as I tried to lighten the mood just a smidge.
"Well atleast Cheryls not putting on an act, pretending to be a butterfly when she really is a wasp", Betty said.
Okay, I had enough of this, lets get this straight now "for the record, the only reason, I went into that closet with Archie was so Cheryl wouldn't", I said and looked at her.
"Oh, so you did it to protect me?", Betty said.
"Damn straight", I said and looked at her.
"So nothing happend with you and Archie in that closet?", Betty said.
I couldnt answer that as it would harm us even more.
"Yeah thats what I thought, you know Archie and I were fine before you got here", Betty said.
"If by fine you mean, he was complety clueless, and you were longing for him in quiet desperation", I said.
"We were friends atleast", Betty said.
"You were walking on emotional eggshells, scared to tell him the truth", I said.
"You dont know me veronica", Betty said.
"Its not my fault he doesn't like you", I said and realised I might have crossed a line.
Betty stared at me and said "its funny you say you like Peter so much, but the moment hes not there, you were all over Archie, do you really think he has forgiven you?, because I dont, he told me today he was still trying to move on, so when you said you were just friends, what did it mean exactly?, and lastly what the hell would you have done if it was Peter and Josie or Peter and I in that closet, and we kissed, what then?, do Peter even know about the kiss?".
I looked down at the floor and said "okay Betty, yeah Peter and I were more than friends, I screwed it up with him okay, his a Great guy and I screwed up, just for one kiss with Archie, I lost someone I held dear, he means so much to me, I have told you about how he forgave me for how I acted towards him, and then I did this, do you think I'm proud of it, because i'm not, well for the if you and Peter were in that closet and kissed, I would probally be pissed, so yeah I can understand why you're like this, but give me a break, i'm trying here, Peter did know about the kiss, because he was there, he saw us exit through the closet and saw the lipstick on Archie, so yeah he walked out, and I went after him, if he wasn't such a nice guy i'm Pretty sure he would have said 'go fuck yourself', but now I see how happy Josie makes him, and I just have to bite it down and hope today event hasnt screwed everything up for my chances of Peter and I's friendship, but I also feel like this has ruined a possible friendship between Peter and Archie".
"Peter and Josie?, well they didn't seem rather close at Sweet water river, and the friendship between Peter and Archie, I think they can be, but there is a long way, I did see Peter in the Andrews driverway after we all got home, I was in my room, when I saw Archie say something and then Peter was all up in Archies face, but he didn't do anything just walked away, but he looked pissed", Betty said.
"To return to the subject of Archie, its nobody fault, its not archies, its just how it is, most of the time the people we like dont like is back", I said.
"Again, veronica can you even hear yourself, you talk about him not liking me, you had Peter that liked you, and yet you threw him out like garbage", Betty said, and it hurt.
"Look Betty, never speak to me again, if thats what you want, I'll accept that, but what exactly did Archie do wrong", I asked, and again I should just have shut up.
"Are you seriously taking his side?", Betty said and looked hurt.
"No i'm not taking anyone side", I said and we ended up arguing even more, until Cheryl came and interupted.
"The pussycats are in, am I interupting something?", Cheryl said.
"As a matter of fact", I started but was interupted by Betty "actually, I was about to come and find you Cheryl, I have a gift certificate for hers and hers manipedis, st the chez salon, do you wanna come with me", Betty asked cheryl.
"Dont do this", I said.
"Back of closet monster, you have forfited your right to take the high and Mighty Road, but for me, I would love to come for the pedis, come on Betty", Cheryl said.
Pratice is over so I decided to text Peter
Ronnie: hey Petey, would you like to come to pops with me after school, my treat.
Petey: sorry Ronnie i'm helping Josie with her science homework, raincheck?
Ronnie: sure, hey Petey are you still mad at me about everything?
Petey: after today?, not really sure, i'm not that mad anymore, so dont beat yourself up over it okay?
Ronnie: thanks Petey, thats what I wanted to hear, see you tomorrow or maybe tomorrow night?
Petey: yeah see you tomorrow and also at the peprally, Josie is singing afterall, so i'm not gonna miss that, sorry I have to go, Josie is about to throw her sciencebook after me, just kidding, see ya.
Ronnie: see ya Petey.
Pops:
I was at pops and looked at my mom working, I said "you're doing Great mom, better than i'm doing this week".
"Yeah, we're surviving Ronnie, with pur wits, because thats what we Lodge women do, if dad could see us now", mom said as she cleaned the countertop of pops.
"He'd say you look stunning in that new uniform", I said and smiled at her.
"I'm going for this Joan Crawford-Mildred Pierce thing is it working, speaking about things working, how are things between you and Peter" mom said.
"Deffently, and we are working our way towards friendship, so thats good I guess, we're speaking again so thats also a plus, but I think he has a girlfriend now", I said alittle sad.
"Really?, who?", mom said and was interested.
"A girl named Josie", I said, and the door bell rang and in came Archie
He walked towards the front desk, we said hey and my mom looked at me and said "well who might this heartbreaker be", I looked at and shook my head to let her know to drop it.
"I'm picking up an order for Andrews", Archie said.
My mom looked at Archie and said "oh your Freds son, your as handsome as your father was".
"I'll see you at home mom", I said and started walking when mom stopped me and said "wait, i'm sure Archie wouldn't mind walking you home".
Riverdale:
"Is Betty still mad at you", I asked as we walked.
"We're back to no texting, what about you?", Archie asked.
"I'm back to being the shallow, toxic, richbitch, who ruins everything in her path, which is unfortunate, because eventhough I only just met her itmfeltmlike we would be best friends, like its our destiny, and its like the train for the rest of my left, and I missed it, I said.
"What about you and Peter, hows everything going there, is he still mad?", Archie asked.
"Not that much actually, we're back to texting and talking, so thats good, he really is a good friend of mine, and it would have been a disaster if I had lost him, well Betty told me about something that went down between Peter and you in your driveway, she told me that you said something and Peter was in your face, so what happend?", I asked.
"Well it was after the Sweet water thing, my dad and I were going home, but my dad offered to take Josie and Peter home, I noticed lipstick stains on his mouth so they must have kissed, well we talked alittle and got into an argument, where he told me to leave him alone, because at that moment he didn't want to have the discussion about what happend between you and I, sp he walked away, and I yelled to him he shouldnt be using Josie, and before I knew it he was in my face, I actually thought he was gonna punch me, but he just said that I didn't know anything about what he and Josie were, or what you two were, nothing more happend, I haven't seen him that much since, and I would actually like to be friends with him, since he seems like a nice guy", Archie said, and now I understand why Peter doesn't wanna hang out with him.
"Well I think were all are going to become friends at one point, just wait Archie your story with Betty isn't over and mine with Peter neither, so just give her time and she'll be your friend again, and hopefully Peter snd you can be friends again, well Archie this is my stop, see you around", I said and walked into the Pembrooke.
"See ya around veronica", Archie said and walked away.
Riverdale, parker neighbourhood (Peters pov):
I had just arrived home from my studying with Josie, well it wasn't as much studying as it was her on top of me giving me these hickeys, well okay we finsished our report fast and then had some fun, what?, is it wrong to have fun?, because getting the hickey was kinda fun, anyway lets move on, I walked out with the trash, and to collect the mail from the mail box, when I saw Jughead sitting on the frontstep of archies house, Archie arrived and greeted Jughead, so I hid the only resonable thing to do when you need more information.
"Jug whats up?", Archie said.
Jughead rose from the step and walked while talking "whats up is we saw you Archie, with miss Grundy in the Musicroom", Jughead said, why the hell would he say we now archies gonna know I know.
"Hey keep it down jug, my dads inside, and what do you mean we?, who is we", Archie said.
"I'm trying to help you, dude, i'm trying to be your friend here, eventhough we aren't anymore, how long you and Grundy?", Jughead said.
"Since this summer, I like her jug", Archie said.
"So shes the reason you have been acting weird since summer?" Jughead said.
"One of them", Archie said.
"What, there more?", Jughead asked in disbelife.
"Grundy and I were a Sweet water river the of july, we heard a gunshot, the gunshot", Archie said.
"Dude you have to tell somebody", Jughead started, but Archie interupted him "I can't do that, neither can you, if people find out about miss Grundy", Jughead interupted him and said "a kid is Dead Archie, and your worried about some cougar", Jughead said.
"Dont call her that, shes not like that, she cares about me", Archie said.
"A shot in the Dark, I'm guessing she cares more about herself, its her that telling you not to say anything right?", Jughead said.
"Look, Peter and I saw you guys, shes messing with you man, shes messing with your mind", Jughead said, why did he have to say my name, now I have to deal with Archie.
"What the do you know about it Jughead, or about me even?", Archie said.
"Nothing, but I used to know this guy Archie Andrews, he always tried to do the right thing", Jughead said and began to walk away, Archie grabbed Jughead and said "jug, if you tell anyone about this", Archie said.
"What?, what are you gonna do Archie?", Jughead said, well he is threatening a friend, just who the hell does he think he is?
The front door opened and out came Fred and said "hey jug, are you coming in, we have take out from pops", Archie said "he was just leaving", Jughead walked away, and noticed me on my front porch, I gave him a nod and he gave me one back before walking away.
Well riverdale is certainly an interesting town, well its dinner time, so see you around.
