I realized that I skipped updating yesterday, so two chapters today! I was tired as heck because of overtime xD Looking forward to hearing what you guys think :D

Info:

Fandom: Riverdale
Pairing: Sweet Pea/OC
Rating: T
Word count: 1893
Chapter count: 7/15

Master of procrastination and his jailer

From the first day of studying with Sweet Pea, and occasionally his friends, Ruby knew that it was going to be a steep way up towards good grades. While she certainly didn't have too much trouble completing her workload, her study buddy had issues. More specifically, procrastination and attention span issues. Sweet Pea was the undeniable king of getting distracted. A notification on his social media, a text from Fangs or a phone call from FP were somehow always first priority. And, when there weren't any distractions like that, he made himself busy by bothering her. He loved playing with her hair, lazily braiding it into weird dreadlock-like lines that Ruby didn't have the heart to tell him took her hours and tonnes of conditioner to get rid of. And, when it wasn't her hair, it was something else. Doodling, playing with his rings, searching for interesting tattoos online, twirling his pencil or clicking his pen. Sweet Pea was an annoying mess of a master procrastinator.

But, what Ruby hadn't been privy to was the information that he actually didn't understand half of the material. Most specifically, the physics material. She wasn't sure if it was because he didn't pay attention in class or because he simply didn't get the tasks, but Ruby knew that more than seventy percent of his work was always wrong. So, she made it her own, personal goal to get him to pass physics without him noticing how much she was trying.

The first step had been roping Sweet Pea into a study session every day except the weekend. Ruby had managed that easily enough. Promises of alone time in her room or doing something he wanted when they were done got the biker to eagerly oblige. The next task on Ruby's list had been getting Sweet Pea to actually study during those sessions. He was like a small child, constantly distracted and pulling her attention away from the material. So, she set up an odd reward system, which she didn't voice to the boy, instead only acted upon it. Ruby would hold his hand, kiss him, sit on his lap or even go a little further when he did a good job in order to encourage him. When she got to her third step, the actual testing, the teen realized her mistake.

Sweet Pea spent the first half of the practice exam trying. His hand kept going to his hair, messing it up when he didn't understand something or hit a wall. He kept scratching out his answer and progress, before going back to the top and trying again. However, by the time Sweet Pea started the second half of the practice test, Ruby could clearly see that he'd given up. A small curse here and there, a shrug before writing down the answer and not even bothering with his calculator were all setting off alarms in her head.

"Is it too difficult?" Ruby finally asked when she'd finished her own test, sitting still and watching the biker struggle for the last half an hour or so.

"It's fine," Sweet Pea countered, eyes not leaving the page. "Just like at school." Ruby saw him scratch out an answer and write another one.

"Then, what's wrong?" She asked. Sweet Pea sighed, his head rising and eyes meeting hers.

"I'm just stupid for this school shit, cupcake," the biker shrugged like the words meant nothing, but Ruby could see the way his fingers were clenched around his pen. "Sorry to disappoint your dreams of me being some kind of hidden, dyslexic genius underneath all the leather and Serpents pride." Sweet Pea's grin pissed Ruby off to no end.

"Give me your test," she held her hand out, waiting, tone icy. Sweet Pea obliged soundlessly. "Now, get your butt over here and listen to my explanation or we're going to have an issue." The chair rolled over, crackling along the old floor of Ruby's room. She grabbed the armrest, making Sweet Pea lean back slightly. He knew her pissed mode was on. "Listen to me. You're not stupid, Sweet Pea," he huffed, making Ruby smack his arm with the back of her hand. "You're not. Otherwise, FP and Tall Boy wouldn't be grooming you to take over as second-in-command." His dark eyes met her pale ones, reluctantly shifting to the side.

"Whatever you say." Do you really think so, he was asking. She knew. Ruby knew Sweet Pea better than he thought.

"I know I'm right," she adamantly told him. "Now, just like you listen to them when they're teaching you the ropes of gang bullcrap," when he opened his mouth to correct her, Ruby put her finger up readily. "No, that I don't want to know. But, just like you listen to them, you listen to me," he didn't reply and Ruby frowned. "Are we on the same page here? Do you want to pass this?"

"Yes." Sweet Pea grumbled.

"Good," Ruby smiled. "No more texting in class and you pay attention. You also have to stop procrastinating when we're studying."

"Alright, Miyagi," He was grinning at her. "Lay it on me." And Ruby took up her red pen, getting started on his test.

Toni and Fangs picked up Sweet Pea on Monday at his locker, the tall biker looking like he hadn't slept in a week. The purple haired Serpent gave him a once over before leaning on the wall and smirking.

"Ruby riding you hard?" She caused Fangs to choke on his coffee and attempt to prevent it from spilling out of his mouth and all over his travel mug and front.

"You have no idea," Sweet Pea groaned, making his two friends stare in shock. "She's an absolute beast! I think I've studied this weekend more than ever in my life. Please hide me or something if she comes looking." The two bikers exchanged glances.

"Sure, because your tall ass is easy to hide." Toni shook her head.

"C'mon, man, can't be that bad having a study session with a girl?" Fangs tried to diffuse the situation. But, Sweet Pea turned to him with a clear face of absolute misery.

"You try it." He spoke with conviction. "She won't let me step out of line, like some military camp. I need Ruby-free time."

"Then you'd better start running now," Toni remarked, nodding her head at something behind Sweet Pea. "Here comes your jailer."

"Shit." Sweet Pea tried to grab the right books and close his locker but didn't make it. Ruby had already bounded over to him with a cheerful smile on her face.

"Morning, everyone," she greeted, the two Serpents returning the gesture. "Sweet Pea." Her hand extended expectantly. With a groan, the tall biker fished his phone out of his pocket and handed it to her. A piece of paper was placed in its spot. "Study hard!" With that, Ruby bounded off again. Sweet Pea slumped against his locker. Toni's eyebrows rose while Fangs' smile widened to an impossible size.

"Oh, wait! I have something!" He cheerfully said, digging out his own phone and searching before playing a soundtrack. A whip swishing through the air and cracking sounded out in the busy hallway, making Toni lose her cool. The girl barely managed to stay upright against the wall.

"Ha ha." Sweet Pea glared at Fangs. "Laugh it up until she sees your grades." Fangs paled.

Sweet Pea found focusing in class much easier without his phone. While his hand did constantly go to his pocket on impulse when he got bored, only to find it empty and have a small heart attack, he kept his eyes on the board and his notebook filled with lines of examples and explanations. And, Ruby's little notes also helped. She kept passing him small pieces of paper whenever they saw each other, each spelling out a little encouragement in her writing. Some were quotes, others were her own words of praise at how he had done well in class and the last kind, his favorite, were promises of rewards which he would get for his efforts.

So, the tall biker did his best. He actually sat in his chair, for once, instead of on his desk, in physics and wrote down problem after problem. When the exam came, he didn't find it a head-scratcher, as usual. Instead, Sweet Pea turned his paper in less than thirty minutes after it had been handed out to him by the teacher, surprising everyone. He even got permission to leave the classroom early, which made Toni and Fangs gape after his retreating form. Ruby found him that day, after finishing her own test, by his locker.

"Hey." She greeted in a soft tone, the hallway still empty because class was in session.

"Hey." Sweet Pea shot back halfheartedly, expecting a reprimand for leaving early. However, Ruby surprised him, yet again. She took his hands gently, interlocking their fingers and standing on her tiptoes to plant a soft kiss on his lips.

"I knew you could do it." She whispered against his skin, their breath mingling.

"I had plenty of help and a merciless jailer." Sweet Pea joked, taking her bottom lip in between his teeth gently and pulling a bit. Ruby groaned and her arms wrapped around his neck, tugging him closer to her. He loved the way she pressed the whole length of her body against his, a rare show of intimacy in a public place.

"I wasn't that bad, was I?" The girl asked between kisses, which became longer and more heated with each passing moment.

"Fangs has a new ringtone for you now," Sweet Pea told her, pulling his head back a bit to see her reaction. "It's a whipping sound." Ruby lost it, giggling against him, her forehead hitting his chest.

"Alright, I was pretty bad," She concluded with a sigh. "Here." Sweet Pea felt her slide his cellphone into his back pocket, where he normally kept it, coping a feel along the way.

"Aren't I supposed to be the one squeezing your ass, tater tot?" He cheekily commented, their heated mood from before gone. They were back to their usual teasing push and pull. Ruby didn't reply, though. In fact, her face was as red as a tomato and she was staring at the contents of his locker.

"You kept them?" There were two dozen small papers there, carefully left beside his books and notebooks. All the encouragement she'd written for him along the way.

"Of course, I did." Sweet Pea shot back, watching the way she hid her face from him. He actually had her embarrassed, for once.

"Throw them out, stupid!" Ruby tried to take the notes, but Sweet Pea slammed his locker shut with a smirk.

"No, they're mine now. I decide what to do with them," he told her smugly when he saw her incredulous expression and red cheeks. "Besides, isn't it your ongoing theory that I'm not stupid?"

"I take that back, you're stupid and you're a jerk!" She was already planning to get his locker combination somehow, he knew.

"No take backsies." The comment earned him a slap across the chest. Sweet Pea laughed and leaned in, kissing Ruby one last time before pulling her towards the cafeteria, ignoring her grumbling about revenge and never doing anything nice for him ever again.

That's all folks!

My thanks goes out to FoxFabled and cotychan for their support in alerts and favorites. Also, valerie for her wonderful review! :D

valerie: Hello again and thank you very much for the continuous support! I'm going to have updates every day until we reach all 15 days of the challenge :D Unfortunately, I skipped yesterday because I'm an idiot, but I got two of them out today to compensate xD
Every drabble is very different from the previous one, I think :D I have a list of prompts on my tumblr which I'm following which you can check out :D
Alright! I'm definitely writing something a bit longer, 4k word chapters and multichapter, with slower updates, though :D I'm aiming to get to ten pre-written chapters before publishing, though :D It should be out in a week or two, when I'm done with these drabbles :D I also have another set of prompts which I'm considering writing drabbles for :)
Cheers!

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