The two schools maintained their names but ended up joining together as part of a community initiative to end the divisiveness. They were both campuses of Sweetwater Secondary. Betty and I took courses at both, maintaining our friends at RSS while also making new ones at SSS. By the time we graduated, Serpents had garnered as much respect from the community as the jocks and they really helped clean up this town. Chuck, who was kicked off the team by his own father after getting in trouble for vandalism and other harassment charges, even tried to join. He was thoroughly rejected, of course. Against all odds, Betty and I were crowned Prom King and Queen.
After graduating we both went to NYU and stayed in Veronica's vacation home there. She majored in journalism and I in creative writing. We were heading back to Riverdale, because if there was one thing I learned, it was that you have to be mindful of the past or you're destined to repeat it. We would keep the town in check; no backsliding. And that's where we are, here in my book.
Tonight I'm going to ask Betty to marry me after watching Murder on the Orient Express. I'm hoping we will get our own place. Maybe a house, maybe a trailer, though I have a sneaking suspicion she'd be happiest with a condo since it was neither one nor the other. Whatever she wants, though, I don't care. All I can say for sure is that maybe we can start our own family now, and they can grow up in the Riverdale I romanticized as a kid with no fear of judgement. Whatever the future held for us, we would face it together. Against all odds, the greaser got the cheerleader, and we could take on the world, one milkshake at a time.
Fin.