I woke up to Archie's arms wrapped around me, I felt safe, warm and comfortable. I opened my bedroom curtain to find my Mom's car parked in the driveway. Oh shit! How was I going to get Archie out without her seeing him? "Hey" Archie said stroking my hair, "Morning" I said giving him a gentle kiss on the lips. "Mom's home" I groaned, "So?" he asked looking confused. "Oh will she be mad?" "No she'll love it that's part of the problem" I said rolling my eyes. "Um, can you have breakfast at yours?" I asked feeling apologetic. "Yeah, sure" Archie replied. Suddenly I heard a knock at the door "April" Mom yelled. "Just a second mom" I yelled back mouthing the words to Archie "get in the closet", Suddenly with no second warning my mom opens the door to find a semi naked Archie and I in our underwear. "Honey, i'm doing a round of whites… Oh" Mom stopped. "Archie Andrews, what a surprise" she said winking at me. "Hi Mrs Kennedy" he said awkwardly "Hi sweetheart, just Mandy to you. I was just about to make us some breaky, would you like some? I can't really cook but I can make pancakes and nipple, Ah maple, maple syrup" Mom laughed curling her hair with her finger. I raised my eyebrows and lifted my sheets over my head in embarrassment. "Actually Mandy, I should probably drop by home, I need to shower and my Dad is probably wondering where I am right about now, but thank you" he smiled huddling up his clothes and being no quicker to run out the front door. "Come round soon sweetie" Mom yelled from my room, "Will do Mandy" he yelled back.

Mom looked at me smiling and crossing her arms "What?" I asked laughing "You and Archie? I remember when you two and Betty used to play in the Kiddie pool together" she laughed "and now my babies are all grown up and having sex" "Mom, can you stop being so embarassing?" I said wanting to actually go die in a hole. "Honey, I'm a nurse, I've seen it all nothing is off limits with me. Besides you don't think I'm going to be over the moon about this? Fred's one of my best friends and Archie is such a sweet boy, not to mention hot" Mom giggled. "Okay Mom, that's enough" I said putting my hand up. "Sorry baby, by the way the curfew has changed to 10 now so I want you home not a second after, and if you're not even if I'm not home, I want a text or a phone call as to where you are, I can't help but worry after hearing the news about Jason last night" Mom worried holding my hand. "I know Mom I promise I'll keep you updated, I have cheerleading practice today" I smiled. "Honey, I'm so proud of you and everything that your doing, please don't let this whole Jason mess get you down, April no one will ever tear us apart" Mom said hugging me tight. I rested my head on my mom's shoulders "I love you Mom" "I love you to April"

I arrived at school to find Betty "Hey" she said hugging me "Hi, oh my god, what's going on with you and Veronica? And Archie?" I asked, "I guess we kind of made up, Veronica bought me flowers and cupcakes and Archie walked me to school this morning, I think we've all just agreed to move on" she explained "I'm happy for you" I smiled pulling my books out of my locker. Suddenly we heard an announcement from Weatherbee about the pep rally and asking us to direct our attention to Sheriff Keller "Most of you already know the details, but your classmate Jason Blossom's body was found late Saturday night. So as of the weekend, Jason's death is now being treated as a homicide. It is an open and ongoing investigation." "And may I interject" another privileged redheads voice interrupted "Neither I nor my parents will rest until Jason's death is avenged and his cold hearted killer is walking the green mile to sit in old sparky and fry, I for one have my suspicions. Hashtag Riverdale Strong" I glared at Betty in disbelief, but of course trust Cheryl to make everything about herself. Sheriff Keller continued on to tell us if we had any information to come forward and I looked down at my feet Archie and I knew what we had to do.

I walked into Biology and stood in the corner talking to Betty and Veronica about what we had just heard and started putting some whacky conspiracies together, until our science teacher came in and told us to partner up. We were dissecting frogs, fun. "Can I be with Cheryl?" Archie asked, I raised my eyebrows he was clearly trying to get information out of her, "And I wanna be with Betty" Veronica announced "I'm with Jug" I shouted going to sit next to him. "Archie" I said glaring at him sitting behind me. I was about to listen in to overhear everything that Cheryl was saying, "Cheryl we haven't talked since summer, I wanted to say I'm really sorry about your brother" Archie said, "Jason was the best" Cheryl whispered. "If I can do anything to help," Archie said. "Me too Cheryl" I said turning around. "That's sweet Archie and April but unless you were at Sweetwater River and know who shot Jason…" Archie and I looked at each other intently. "Do you know if the police have any leads?" I asked "What?, No April you ghoul, but it's only a matter of time, and my twintuition is telling me it's someone we all know" Cheryl proposed. I turned around in my seat and took a double take at Jughead who clearly knew that I knew something. "What Jug?" I said, shaking my head. At the end of class, Archie grabbed me "We need to talk" he said "Archie, I think I'm going to throw up?" I said feeling extremely queasy. "What? Is it from Jason? Or the frog? Are you okay?" he asked worryingly "I don't know I think I need to go home" I cried.