I pulled away from Ty's embrace after a few moments. A lock of Tyler's brown wavy hair had fell to his face and I gently brushed it away. It was so good to see him again! I had missed him terrible; I was always too busy to call or text, and I felt so bad for that!

"Why didn't you tell me you were coming?" I questioned, shoving his shoulder while smiling.

"I wanted it to be a surprise" he told me, his gaze going over my shoulder.

"Well, a surprise it was" I replied, turning to see what he was looking at. Ryder. I had forgotten about him again. I really needed to stop doing that!

"Uh, Tyler this is Ryder" I introduced them to each other. "Ryder, Ty is from Toledo."

"Hey" Tyler greeted him, raising his hand in a still wave.

"Hi" Ryder looked at me with an odd look.

"Well, do you two want to come in from the cold?" I asked them, suddenly thinking of something. "Ty, do you have a place to stay tonight? Because if you don't, I'm sure the Cooper's wouldn't mind if you stayed here".

"They already offered actually." Ty told me. "I'm staying here until I can find a place."

"That's great!" I exclaimed, Ryder only scowled. What was up with him?

"Well, I better get home, but thanks for your offer, J", Ryder mocked, using the nickname that Ty had called me earlier.

"Is everything alright, Ryder?" I asked, wondering at his behaviour.

"I'm fine", He said, walking away. He didn't sound fine, but I put it to the back of my mind as I turned back to Tyler.

"Let's go have dinner", I said, putting my arm through his.

At the table, Tyler caught me up on all the happenings in Toledo. Not that much had happened, it had only been a week and a half since I moved to Riverdale.

"How's Mercy?" I asked Ty after he told me about the new ice-cream parlour opening – which he claimed had the best milkshakes which I knew wasn't true because he hadn't tried Pop's yet.

"She's good", he answered. "We went to the opening of that ice-cream place together."

"Let me guess, she ordered a vanilla cone as always", I laughed, knowing my friend well.

"I don't know why she even likes vanilla!" Tyler exclaimed. "There are so many other flavours!"

"I know!" We laughed.

Betty and Alice looked at the two, sharing a smile. Betty wondered if they had dated before, or even if they still were. If JB was with someone, why did she kiss Ryder?

…oOo…

"You can join me in my classes", I told Tyler as we were walking with Betty to school the next morning. After a long night of idle conversation, Tyler crashed in the guest bedroom, since I had moved to Polly's old room last week.

"Cool", Ryder swung his backpack over his shoulder. He had been organized and had brought a few notebooks with him, although I assumed it was his sister's doing.

When we arrived at school, I took Ty with me to Principle Wetherbee's office. After a quick chat with the old-black man (I'm not racist, I swear!) we had Tyler's locker number and code and his schedule, which matched mine exactly.

I showed Ty where his locker was, and after he had put his bag away and gotton his books for the next class – maths- I took him to the Student Lounge.

Before we got to the room, we were intercepted by a certain redhead. "Cheryl!" I greeted her. We exchanged an awkward hug. I introduced her to Tyler. When Ty and I were walking away, he whistled.

"She's hot", he commented, causing me to wack him.

"Don't even think about it" I warned. "Cheryl already has a girlfriend."

"Why is it that all the hot girls root for the other team?" He whined.

"Excuse me!" I wacked him again, motioning to myself.

"You and Mercy the exception, of course" He corrected.

"Thank you", I replied smiling.

Jughead, Betty, Veronica, Archie, Kevin and Ryder were all sitting on the couches and chairs like yesterday. When I smiled at Ryder he averted his gaze, frowning. I made a mental note to talk to him later.

The others looked up from their conversation as Tyler and I sat down at a free couch.

"New friend already, JB?" Jughead asked.

"Not, really" I explained. "This is Ty. He came from Toledo last night". I looked at Jug. "You know Amanda who took care of Caddy while I came here?"

Jughead nodded. "Well this is her younger brother, Tyler Mains."

Ty raised his hand is his signature motionless wave.

"Ty, this is Veronica, Kevin, Archie, and you already met Betty and Ryder", I motioned to the fellow teenagers as I introduced Tyler to them. "And guys, this is Tyler, my b-… friend… from Toledo."

I smiled at Tyler at my near mistake. Ryder stood up from the couch and walked out of the room, scowling. I looked after him.

"I have to go", I told the others, standing up to follow Ryder.

"I'll come" Tyler stood up.

"No, you stay here", I told him. It was time to find out what was bothering Ryder once and for all.

I trailed after Ryder, keeping at a distance so he didn't notice me at first. He finally stopped outside, sitting down against a tree-trunk facing away from the school. I walked towards him.

"Alright if I sit here?" I asked cautiously.

He looked away a scowled. I took that for a yes, even though it probably wasn't. Sliding my back against the great-oak, I sat beside Ryder.

"What's the matter?" I asked him, as if I were comforting a small child.

"You lied to me." He was angry, but he spoke calmly and quietly, which was even more scary.

"What?" I asked confused, mentally recalling any memory of me lying to Ryder. I got nothing.

"You told me you didn't have a boyfriend back in Toledo", He stared at me, as if daring me to deny it.

"I don't…"

I was cut off by Ryder. "Don't lie to me again. You were going to call him your boyfriend in the lounge."

I thought back to a few minutes ago. I suddenly understood everything.

"You kissed me – twice – and then you lied to me about having a boyfriend."

I tried to speak up, but he interrupted me again.

"I wouldn't have minded if you had told me about Tyler -well, maybe a bit- but I am mostly hurt that you lied. All I want is honesty." His lifted his face to look into my eyes. "I like you, Jellybean, and I thought you liked me too, but I- we- can't do this if we're not honest with each other."

I sighed. "I you done?" He nodded, looking solemn. "Ok, first of all, I never lied to you." He looked confused and tried to speak up, but I shushed him. "Let me explain. In the lounge earlier, I was about to call Ty my brother, not boyfriend. He has been my honorary brother since I meet him in Toledo on-and-a-half years ago. I never thought of him in that way, in fact, he's dating my best-friend back in Toledo, Mercy."

He was quiet for a while. Then he looked at me, his eyes finding mine and the intensity in them taking my breath away. Ryder lowered his head, placing his soft lips on mine. Palming my face, pulling my face closer to his, it was wonderful. I wrapped my hands around his neck, pulling him even closer. He broke away when we both needed air, but he didn't go far, leaning his for-head against mine.

"Do you promise that there are no other guys who I think you're involved with, but turn out to be your brother, or 'honorary brother'?" He breathed.

I chuckled, remembering Jughead's stunt in Pop's, the morning when I arrived. "I promise, none others. But if there somehow is someone else, I'll be sure to tell you before that wild imagination of yours comes up with a crazy idea".

"It wasn't a 'crazy idea'! Ryder exclaimed. "You practically laid it out for me; it really looked like you and Tyler were together, I'm sure others would agree!"

I chuckled again.

"Are we good though?" Ryder question, his eyes searching mine, suddenly serious again.

"Yeah, were good" I smiled.

"And you'll tell me if anything wrong, won't you?" Ryder asked.

I nodded.

"Because that's what boyfriends are for," he said slyly, "listing to their girlfriends."

My smile grew. "Because that's what boyfriends do" I agreed.

Our smiles melded together as he kissed me again.

Authors note: Hey guys! I hope you liked this chapter, I know I really loved writing it, especially the ending! Please let me know what you think. Also, I need help with a ship name for JB and Ryder, I can't think of anything! Please review and tell me any ideas. And I'm not just doing this to get more reviews, I genuinely need help :I .

Thankyou to everyone who has reviewed and given me ideas for what to write next. I am going to use some of your suggestions, they are really good!

I should update soon, so stay tuned!

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