Ali received a lecture from her father before she left for school. He was always worried about his 'precious princess'. Cecile had informed Theo about Reggie during dinner and Theo had his own thoughts on the matter. Cecile had to calm Theo down since he was worried about a young man becoming too friendly with his daughter. The conversation ended with Ali placing her head onto the table and sighing in frustration.

Ali thought that she'd be able to leave for school without having this conversation again, but she was mistaken. Theo stopped what he was doing at the breakfast table and began to warn Ali what men were after when it came to women – especially young men. Ali rarely gets into an argument with her father, but whenever there's a boy involved – they never see eye-to-eye.

"What's with the long face?" Ali climbed into Reggie's car and sighed after closing the door.

"My father." Reggie pulled the car away form the curb and started heading towards school.

"You're going to have to give me more than that." Reggie laughed as he kept his eyes on the road.

"He's worried about you spending so much time with me. He thinks you'll pounce on me at any time." Ali explained as she looked out the window in front of her.

"Well if I was a rapist then…" Ali's head snapped to his direction. Reggie noticed her confused face and quickly retracted his sentence, "I would never! Shit. That came out wrong. Fuck. Ali, I would never do such a thing."

"You better not or I'll rip your balls off and replace your eyeballs with them." Ali threatened. Reggie was slightly intimidated by her words.

"I mean, if I had a daughter then I'd be worried about guys too. So many of them are disgusting and would take advantage of any woman, no matter the age, so I get where your dad is coming from."

"Wow, that's pretty mature of you, Reggie." They reached a red light, so Reggie could look at her.

"I'm not a disgusting human being. Give me some credit, Ali." Ali shrugged her shoulders and went back to staring out the window. "I also talked to Archie about having Veronica back off a bi-"

"Why would you do that?" Ali practically yelled at Reggie.

"I thought you would want me to-"

"I told you not to!" Ali groaned as she rubbed her face with her hands. Ali found Veronica annoying – this was true, but she didn't want to make her feel bad. Ali knew that Veronica just wanted to make a new friend, but Ali didn't believe that they would mix well.

"Shit, Ali. I didn't think you'd react like this." Reggie pulled into the parking lot at Riverdale High. The surrounding student body all paused as they saw Reggie's car pull in, but stared into the car when they noticed Ali was sitting in the passenger seat. The other Bulldog members nudged each other and started making howling sounds as the car went into its normal parking spot.

"Thanks for the ride." Ali plainly said as she opened up the door and got out. She swung her backpack on her back and began to walk away. Reggie quickly locked his car and jogged up to catch up to Ali.

"Are we having our first fight?" Reggie teased Ali. He bent down to her and said to close to her ear. Ali bit the inside of her cheek in order to stop herself from smiling. She took her arm and nudged him as she said,

"Shut up." Reggie knew that Ali wouldn't stay mad at him for long, so he wrapped his arm around her and walked with her into the school. Everyone basically stopped in the hallway. No one saw any social media updates that said that Reggie was in a relationship, so girls started checking their phones to see if they missed something. Ali noticed this and pushed his arm off of her shoulders.

"I'll see you after school. I have to go do damage control because of you and your big mouth." Ali then turned away from Reggie and walked in the opposite direction. Ali went searching for Veronica, so she was pleased to see her standing at her locker. Ali sighed to herself before walking up to Veronica. Ali was a very blunt individual, so certain sensitive conversations were hard for her to execute. Ali tapped Veronica on her shoulder and was prepared for the worst, but was surprised when Veronica turned around with a smile on her face.

"Hey, Ali!" She greeted Ali.

"Hey, Veronica."

"What's up?" Veronica closed her locker and placed her bag on her shoulder.

"Look, I don't know if Archie talked to you or anything-"

"He did." Veronica nodded her head.

"I get it, I came on too strong and I'll back off a bit." Veronica placed her hand in front of her as she talked.

"I don't want you to feel bad or anything. I know you're just trying to be friendly, but I'm just not like that, you know? It's overwhelming moving to a new country and shit and I just really need to make friends in my own time." Ali explained.

"Hey, I completely understand. I moved here from New York, so I get it." Veronica tried to empathize.

"I don't think New York to Riverdale is the same as England to Riverdale…"Ali awkwardly said.

"Oh, of course not. I mean that I understand the whole moving thing at least, but hey, I'm happy you came to talk to me." Veronica smiled at Ali. Ali gave Veronica a small smile in return.

"Well I didn't want any bad blood between us. Reggie opened up his big mouth to Archie when I specifically asked him not to." Ali sighed as she rubbed the back of her neck.

"About you and Reggie…" Veronica leaned in closer and wiggled her eyebrows as she smirked at Ali.

"It's not a thing." Ali quickly spat out.

"I knew that Reggie drove you here this morning even before you came to talk to me." Veronica explained.

"Fuck, what's the rumour mill like here? Why are you all so fast at spreading information?" Ali groaned as she placed the palm of her hand on her forehead. She's never experienced any type of rumour turning machine like Riverdale High before.

"It's better we're spreading rumours and not STI's, but I did hear that the baseball team might-"

"Nope! I'm not listening to this." Ali raised her hands up at Veronica as she shook her head. "I'm going to head to class."

"Well you're not with anyone from the baseball team! You're more into the football captain." Veronica winked.

"Yup, I'm going to class now." Ali began to walk away, but stopped and turned back around. "Veronica!" Ali called out. The raven-haired girl turned around to the curly haired girl. "I think I can come over for a movie night or something." With that, Ali turned around and walked to class. Veronica was left standing there with a massive smile on her face as she walked away to her class. Two onlookers were watching the exchange of the two girls. Reggie had his arms crossed over his chest while Archie leaned up against the wall. Reggie smiled as he looked at one of his close friends.

"Looks like we'll be able to go on double dates soon, Andrews." Reggie beamed.

"Who would've ever thought that you'd be settling down, Reggie." Archie joked as he nudged the Korean man.

Is Ali making a friend?! FINALLY! And we may have a special appearance from some Serpents in the next chapter...