A/N: I have updated all of my chapters so now there's more detail and Archie isn't such a jerk! Anyways, enjoy 3
Lucas led me through the hallway while pushing me behind him, out of sight. Every once and awhile someone would wave to him and look at me, but they didn't seem to care for the moment. Everyone was shuffling into their classes with a few lingering students.
"Shouldn't you go to class like everyone else?" I whispered to him following behind as we entered to the front of the school. Not even the teachers and citizens were lurking outside. "We don't have to go to class. Plus, I've gotta help you." He turned around and walked towards a shady corner of the school and told me to stay. I leaned against the wall and looked around for a few minutes before he came back, holding something behind his back.
"Found you something!" He smirked, walking towards me with his hands behind his back. I pouted. "Come on, show me!" I tried to look behind him but he always swerved back around leaving me always seeing his face. I whined for a few more minutes before he gave up. "Okay, okay, I give up. Here." He draped over a strange article of clothing around my shoulders and stepped back examining me. I cautiously looked at my shoulders and saw a leather jacket draped all the way down my torso and covering a little bit of my pants. I looked back at him and he took out my ponytail and ruffled my hair a little. Lucas grinned. "There we go. Now you look somewhat fit to be a Serpent."
"Where did you even find this?" I asked him, fidgeting with the jacket until I could poke my hands threw the armoles. The sleeves were slightly longer than my own arms. "Oh, it's mine. Did you even notice I didn't have mine on the whole time I was with you?" He said. I shrugged and shuffled around trying to get used the jacket. On the back I saw, "Demone" in blocked letters under their Serpent symbol. "Will anyone ask why I'm wearing your jacket?" I asked him, getting a mixed response. "Well... it'll be a little weird, but no one pays attention to the back anyways. Plus the font is pretty small so they'll never figure it out."
I nodded. "Is there anything else I need to know to fit in? Like a specific code going on between Serpents or a way I'm supposed to act?" I asked. He tapped his chin. "Well I don't know about any code, but I think you'll be fine if you just act the exact opposite of what you do now. Why did you even transfer here in the first place? You don't seem like you would even care about the Southside."
"Well it's... complicated. Someone I care about came here and was forced to join back here for certain family circumstances, so I'm just here to look out for him!" I answered. Lucas raised an eyebrow. He seemed to want to know more about who it was, but he stopped and hit my back. "Come on, we need to get back to school." He started walking towards the front door and motioned for me to come. I grinned and ran over to him.
"So, you want to suddenly go to class, huh?" I poked his shoulder as we walked into the school. He shoved me away and smirked. "I'm only going to class so you can get used to the classes. Of course you'll need to come to all my classes because honestly, this school doesn't even care if you're enrolled in a class."
We both walked near all of his classrooms, and the rest of the day he showed me around the school and pointed towards all of the important places such as the cafeteria room and the common room. They seemed exactly like Riverdale High's facilities except more destroyed, yet more homely. He explained about how after school he met up with all of his friends and had chats like they did at lunch. It was a great distraction from their outside school lives.
"I can't wait to meet them!" I told him, insisting I meet them too, especially if they managed to be friends with him. He didn't seem too keen on meeting them, but he eventually agreed when I agreed to be cool. "Just don't act too Riverdale High-like. We don't exactly have great history with them." He insisted.
When it was finally after school hours, everyone met in an empty alleyway. Thankfully for us, everyone was already there and waiting for Lucas. When they saw me, they immediately looked at each other and then back at me. "So..Lucas, who's this?" A bright red-headed girl asked, eyeing me up and down while the girl sitting next to her moved closer and looked at me too, except less murderous. Lucas cleared his throat and pointed at me. "This is Betty. She's new to the neighborhood and she's trying to fit in. Like Bryce." Lucas motioned towards a scrawny little boy with bleached out hair sitting in the corner and waved. I waved back happily.
"Betty, this is Rose." He pointed to the girl who first spoke to me, who had a scrunched up face. He then pointed to the girl next to her and said her name was Cyndil, who had beautiful waves of brunette hair with multiple streaks of silver. He proceeded to name everyone in the room, both Bryce and a new guy named Hunter, until he was done. Afterwards it was pretty awkward so I tried to start up a conversation. I catched a glimpse of something on Rose's ankle.
"Hey Rose, I like your tatoo!" I complimented, getting a weird look out of her. "Thanks, but we all have one. It's kind of like a initiation kind of thing." She pulled up her jeans to show a tiny snake, or serpent, hanging out on her ankle. Hunter turned around and pulled down the back of his t-shirt, showing the same tattoo, and Cyndil just turned around and pointed to her neck. Bryce hesitantly showed me the one on the upper part of his leg. I looked over at Lucas and he pulled up his sleeve to show one on his on his shoulder. I don't know why but I started giggling at the sight and everyone probably thought I was crazy, but I started laughing louder.
"What?" Lucas asked, looking at everyone for an answer, for which they just shrugged their shoulders. I laughed harder and Lucas started poking me in my shoulders ,which only made me giggle furiously. "S-Stop Lucas I c-can't breathe!" I giggled, punching him as hard as I could against his chest, trying to get him away. Everyone else started chuckling too, chanting on as we weirdly started teasing each other. Someone behind me, someone familiar, spoke. "What's going on here?" He chuckled, looking at Lucas and the gang. I was still giggling while I looked at whoever was behind me.
It was Jughead. With the same girl who tried to hit me a while ago.
"J-Jughead, hi." I greeted, awkwardly becoming dumbfounded in an instant. Lucas looked at both of us and he put a hand on my shoulder. "You know him Betty?" He whispered. Jughead looked up and down both Lucas and I. His expression was blank. He gulped and made eye contact with me.
"Hi Betty. Long time no see."