Chapter 11: This is my quest, to follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far. {2/2}
"Mmm..." Dante made a small noise as he woke up from his sleep. Opening his sea-green eyes to get the sight of the ceiling.
Last night, Dante Parker, Kevin Keller and Betty Cooper, decided to watch a marathon of movies after watching some peculiar videos of himself during his summers in Greendale.
Laying on his back on top of his bed, Dante didn't really remember going to sleep the previous night. Probably because he was tired. The boy with dirty blond hair stayed like that for a bit, until he remembered that Kevin and Betty were with him. So he decided to search the room for them. Only to get the sight of a sleeping Betty, laying on her side right besides him, with her face dangerously close to his. The blond girl was sleeping very peacefully and he couldn't help but think that her sleeping face looked adorable. Hearing a sound coming from his right, he moved to also get the sight of Kevin, sleeping on his front with his face facing the other direction right besides Dante. The boy dressed in black could only chuckle in response.
Noticing that it was morning already, Dante decided to check the time. Slowly and quietly, he extended his hand towards the drawer next to his bed, passing his arm above Betty, in order to reach his phone. Once he did, he realized that it was almost time to go to school. Placing his phone down again, he decided to wake his friends up.
First, he gently touched Betty's cheek to wake her up. With her beautiful soft washed out green eyes opening up slowly and meeting his sea green eyes. She smiled at him before speaking. "Again?" She asked, referring to the fact that they fell asleep next to one another once again.
"Again." He confirmed while gently caressing her cheek with his thumb. "Good morning by the way."
"Good morning..." She said it back before sitting up on the bed. The blond stretched herself a bit before asking. While she does that, Dante finally notices that Betty's hair was loose. And honestly, Dante thinks that she looks like a goddess. "What time is it?" She asked as she rubbed her eyes.
"Almost time to go to school." He told her. "Which brings me to..." He sat up and looked at Kevin. "WAKE UP!" He yelled to wake him up.
Kevin abruptly woke up from his sleep. "Hey..." He spoke in clear annoyance over the way he was awoken.
The Dark Gentleman then sat up on his bed, right next to bed and got off from the bottom of it. He stretched himself up for a bit before he spoke. "Coffee,cereal or toast?" He asked the two of them.
"Some toast and coffee would be nice." Kevin told him as he sat up on his bed.
"Just coffee please." Betty told him as she got off of his bed. "Do you mind if I take shower?" She asked him.
"Nope, go ahead." Dante replied to her.
After a pretty weak breakfast provided by Dante, the trio made their way to Riverdale High. Dante put on black jeans, a black Henley shirt, a black Blouson Jacket and black chukka boots. But they had to make a stop in at Betty's room because she needed to pick up a paper that she had to deliver that day and Kevin remembered that he had to deliver as well and asked Betty to let him copy her work. So Dante stayed outside in order to wait for them.
As the boy dressed in black waited for his friends, he noticed Mr. Andrews coming out of his home with a bag. "Going somewhere?" He asked from a distance.
"Hey Dante." Mr. Andrews greeted him. "I have to go solve a few things outside of town ."
"Is it regarding the construction?" Dante asked as he approached him.
"No, just some..." He seemed a bit awkward. "I'm going to finally resolve the situation regarding my divorce." He revealed it to Dante.
"Oh... Sorry." The dirty blond haired boy immediately apologized for prying.
"It's okay, you didn't know." Mr. Andrews spoke before placing his bag inside his car. "I have to get going now, but it was good to see you." He entered the car as he said that.
"Likewise and good luck." Dante said as he waved him goodbye.
"Thanks." It was the last thing he said before he turned his car on and drove away.
Betty and Kevin came out of the house a minute after that and they all made their way to school afterwards.
As soon as they arrived at Riverdale High, before the first class of the day started, Betty and Dante had to do something.
"Veronica, there's something we need to talk to you about."
Dante, Betty and Veronica were all sitting down at the student lounge to discuss what Dante overheard at the tree tapping ceremony with the Blossom's board of trustees in town.
"Bring it." Veronica spoke as she drank a cup of coffee. "After the morning I've had, I'm ready for just about anything.
Dante was about to ask what happened.
"Okay, well," But Betty spoke first. "Dante was with the Blossoms while their Board was in town." She was going to continue but Veronica interrupted her.
"Speaking of which, what exactly happened between you and Cheryl in that ceremony?" Veronica asked Dante.
Dante, who was eating a bag of chips, looked a little confused. "Why are you asking that?"
"Because the poison that she was spilling the other day got worse and, believe it or not, I heard her call you Dantekins."
That immediately got a reaction from Dante and Betty, who stared at each other in shock. Dante thought he was hallucinating or something when she said that.
"Oh my god, I thought she was joking." Betty spoke while looking shocked.
That made Dante even more confused. "Who was joking and about what?" He asked her in an attempt to kill his confusion.
"Ummm..." Betty seemed to be trying to find the right words. "Polly called me the day after the banquet and told me that she saw a very weird scene involving Cheryl messing with the photo that you took together with the Blossoms and her."
"Messing?" Veronica asked, sharing Dante's curiosity.
"She saw Chery... Marking both Dan's and Polly's faces on the photo with a marker." Betty told her. "According to her, she completely marked her face on the photo but..." Both Dante and Veronica just stared at her, as they waited for her to continue. "She drew a heart on Dante's face."
That really, really, really disturbed Dante. Which is hilarious since he genuinely believed that nothing could disturb him anymore since that night at Bald Mountain.
"If something happens to me, Cheryl Blossom is the prime suspect." Veronica immediately spoke up in response. "Because this smells like a pretty disturbing case of an apple falling too close to the tree." She pointed out, clearly referencing the information that they possess regarding Cheryl's mother.
"Note to self, avoid Cheryl Blossom at every cost from now on." Dante spoke out loud for the two girls to go hear. "But, continuing with the subject." The boy dressed in black stared at Veronica's face to say it. "I... Overheard Mr. Blossom says that he's the one responsible for your dad being arrested and put in jail."
That, of course, surprised Veronica. "Are you kidding?"
"V, my jokes usually involve a lot of cursing." Dante pointed out to Veronica.
"Why the hell would Clifford Blossom have anything to do with why he's in prison?" Veronica asked the important question.
"Honestly," Dante decided to reveal his theory. "I think Jason's murder is just piece of a very large puzzle."
After speaking with Veronica, Dante and Betty had to go to class. It passed by slowly, but it eventually ended. Afterwards, Dante joined Kevin, Veronica and Betty in the cafeteria for lunch.
The food was terrible and he mainly heard Betty and Veronica justifiably complaining about their parents. Making him wonder if there's anyone in this town without problematic parents. Dante has zero complaints about his dad, other than the time he spends away from home because of his work. The thing that gave birth to him on the other hand...
"Oh, my god," Suddenly, he heard Kevin speaking. "Don't turn around."
Obviously, Dante turned around, only to catch a very unpleasant sight. The sight of Chuck Clayton entering the cafeteria.
"Holy Chuck, I think his lats got bigger." Kevin commented as Chuck passed through them, causing Dante to look at him apprehensive. "Not that I care, because he's evil incarnate." He quickly clarified to the Dark Gentleman.
"Damn, his face looks like it went through a back alley plastic surgeon." Veronica commented as Chuck's face did look weird.
"I heard Dante fractured his cheekbone with a kick." Kevin commented.
"Can't say I feel bad, he should have gotten ten of those kicks to the face for what he did." Veronica added.
Chuck made his way to the table where Ethel was sitting, causing Betty to immediately stand up and go there.
"Oh, my god." Veronica spoke as Betty approached him, causing Dante to immediately stand up to follow her.
"Get away from her, Chuck." Betty ordered him as soon as she got close, but Chuck only gave his disgusting cocky smile, which kind of looks disturbing with the way his face looks.
"Easy." Chuck replied. "Look, I only came over to apologize."
"Then apologize and get the fuck away from her because your presence clearly makes her uncomfortable." Dante told him bluntly.
His disgusting smile only grew once Dante appeared. "Relax, I'm just inviting her to my party." Chuck revealed it to them.
"Party?" Betty asked in confusion.
"A party at my house, to celebrate the end of my suspension." Chuck explained to them. "I invited everyone." He added. "You two are invited," That surprised them. "Especially you, Parker."
Dante immediately sensed something wrong with that. "Yeah, right..."
Chuck then stood up from his seat and stood in front of Dante. "I just wanted to say... No hard feelings." He extended his hand to Dante, with Betty and Ethel, and basically everyone in the cafeteria staring at them with really strange looks.
The Dark Gentleman could tell that there was something off about that, but he decided to just play along for now. "Likewise..." He took his hand and shook it.
"See you at the party then, it's tomorrow at eight." Chuck finished before moving away from them.
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"He's probably gonna try to get revenge on me for beating his ass." Dante told Betty, who was standing besides him.
"Is he stupid or something?" Betty asked in confusion. "Does he genuinely believe that you're going to a party at his house?" She looked at Ethel. "Ethel, if he tries to do anything or say anything nasty to you, just let us know, okay?"
Ethel just nodded in response.
With that Dante and Betty moved back to their table to rejoin Kevin and Veronica.
"What was he doing?" Veronica asked right away.
"No, he was..."apologizing" and inviting her for a house party that he's going to throw tomorrow." Dante informed her.
"House party?" Kevin asked.
"To celebrate the end of his suspension." Betty added. "He actually invited Dan, thinking that he's actually crazy enough to go."
"Oh, I'm going." Dante announced, causing the three of them to look at him with both shocked and confused expressions.
"Come again, Danticho." Veronica asked in confusion.
"I'm going." He repeated.
"Why?!" Betty asked in deep confusion.
"I'm curious what his revenge plan is." Besides, he would love to have an excuse to hit Chuck again.
Betty just made a shocked expression as a response.
Veronica just stared at him with a somewhat similar face, until she sighed. "Any excuse to wear a cute party dress." She spoke. "Count me in."
Betty then directed her shocked expression towards Veronica.
"Do you think guests are allowed?" Kevin asked. "I want to take Joaquin to the party."
Betty's shocked expression just reached an all time high and she touched her face in deep frustration.
"I don't think anyone gives crap, just bring him along." Dante replied to his gay friend. "Actually, could you pick us up? I really don't have any idea where the hell Chuck Clayton lives."
"Sure..." Kevin accepted.
A loud sight came from Betty. "Pick me up too." She decided to go with them."
"Alright." Veronica seemed happy to hear it.
Once the school day was over, Dante decided to go to Pop's to enjoy a meal. Sitting on his favorite sit, the boy with dirty blond hair ordered a BLT Burger, Onion rings and a vanilla milkshake.
As he appreciated the taste of his Onion rings slowly as he received a text Veronica.
Veronica: Guess what?
Dante: What?
He eats an onion ring.
Veronica: I was digging on some of my dad's files and I found something.
Dante: What did you find?
He drank a bit of his vanilla milkshake as he awaited for an answer.
Veronica: I found a spreadsheet of monthly payments from Blossom Maple Farms to Lodge Industries until about five months ago, when they stopped.
Dante: Your father was arrested five months ago if I'm not mistaken.
Veronica: Correct.
He ate more Onion Rings as he thought about it.
Veronica: There's more.
Veronica: The payments, which are significant, by the way, have been happening for 75 years.
Dante was confused.
Dante: WTF? That's gotta be a ton of money.
Veronica: What if Clifford implicated my father to get out of paying the monthly fee?
If Clifford Blossom orchestrated Veronica's father's arrest. Could it be...
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Taking a deep breath, Dante decided to text a question that he was afraid to know the answer to.
Dante: V.
Veronica: Yes?
Dante: Is there any possibility that you're father had something to do with Jason's murder?
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Dante stared at his phone, waiting in fear for an answer. He already suspected but he's now afraid of the answer.
"Hey!" Only for him to get startled at someone calling his attention. Moving his head up, he noticed that it was Cheryl. "Dante, what a coincidence." She was wearing a red 50s-style dress with a Short skirt, elbow-length sleeves with white rhinestone collar, tied with a slim white and red belt. She was also wearing a white Faux Fur Coat.
The boy dressed in black sincerely doubted that. "Hi, Cheryl..." He greeted her, despite the fact that he was still pretty weirded out over what Betty told him earlier.
"Mind if I sit here with you?" She asked, despite the fact that there was a pretty considerable number of empty tables in the diner.
"Umm..." She didn't even bother to wait for his answer and sat in front of him.
"You know, I mean to talk to you." The redhead girl grabbed his milkshake and started to drink it with the straw that he used just now. "My father asked me to call you to visit our house sometime to discuss more about your role in the company."
Dante wanted to slap his forehead in frustration as he actually forgot about that. But it would be an excuse to see Polly, so he's not going to complain. "How about tomorrow after class?" He asked awkwardly before eating an onion ring.
"Perfect." She answered him with a smile. "I'll be waiting for you in the parking lot then." Cheryl stated, pretty much establishing that she's going to drive Dante to her home. And he clearly doesn't have a choice in the matter.
"Okay..." Dante decided to not argue. "Can I have my milkshake back?" He asked as Cheryl was still holding it.
For an hour or two, Dante basically sat on the table listening to Cheryl mumbling a bunch of stops that he either didn't care about or didn't listen to, but she didn't seem to notice his disinterest and just kept talking. Until it got late and Dante decided to go home, and Cheryl offered herself to drive him there. Which he accepted since he was feeling a little lazy due to the absurd amount of Onion Rings that he eats in order to pass the time.
After they arrived at his home, Cheryl kissed his cheek and offered him good night, and it still disturbed him quite a bit. The first thing that he did once he got home was take off his clothes and do some exercise on his underwear. In reality, the Dark Gentleman was a little ashamed of how out of shape he got. Working in the construction is helping him regain some of his original shape, but it will take some time.
He did a few pull-ups, sit-ups and some Kata practice. Once he was done, he simply took a shower and ate a chicken sandwich before going to sleep.
The next morning came quickly enough. He woke up earlier than he should and put on a pair of black cargo, black combat boots, a black polo shirt and a black M65 Field Jacket. Then he drank some coffee with sugar before leaving his house.
The walk to school was peaceful enough but part of him was really nervous to finally hear Veronica's answer about the subject of her father's involvement on Jason's murder. The closer he got, his worry increased, until he was finally at the school's entrance, but he couldn't find Veronica anywhere. So he decided to go through the day normally until he bumped into her.
After several classes, Dante finally managed to find her in the corridor wearing her practice outfit, clearly on her way to the cheerleader practice.
"Hey." Dante greeted her, but V immediately raised her hand to signal him to stop.
"I didn't mean to ghost you or leave you hanging," Veronica decided to explain herself. "The truth is, yes, the possibility of my father being involved is there but I really want to make sure before making any drastic conclusion."
"Fair..." Dante wasn't really expecting a concrete answer, but he really, really, really hoped that he wasn't involved. "But, don't think that I'll get angry or anything like that..." The boy dressed in black decided to assure her.
"I'm the one that is going to get angry if that is indeed the case, Danticho." Veronica told him, before she approached him and wrapped her arms around his neck. "I'll figure out my dad's involvement, mark my words." She assured him with conviction.
Dante simply made a sad face, before he pressed his lips into hers. Giving her a tender kiss on the lips. The kiss lasted a minute, but eventually they separated.
"Now... Excuse me, I'm late for practice." Veronica gave him a final kiss on the lips, a chaste one this time, before walking past him to go to practice.
"See you tonight."
Once class was over, he decided to encounter Cheryl in the parking lot of the school. She seemed annoyed with something, but she put on a fake smile for Dante. Not really caring about the reason for her annoyance since Cheryl gets annoyed super easily, the boy dressed in black simply entered her car and allowed him to give him a ride to her home.
Cheryl spent the whole ride, talking about Chuck Clayton's party. That she will be attending as well. Truth was, Dante was only going because he wanted to see what exactly Chuck would do to get some pay back from him.
Soon enough, they arrived at her home. Mr and Mrs. Blossom were waiting for him. They greeted each other, and he sadly had to endure Mrs. Blossom's uncomfortable stare. But it didn't last long, since Mr. Blossom took him to his office so the two of them could talk. The conversation was extremely bland, with Mr. Blossom basically talking about the business and some backstory that Dante already knew about it. All that he did, was so there and wait for it to end.
Eventually, after an hour or two, it did. Once he was done talking, Dante basically excused himself to go find Polly. The boy with dirty blond hair always hated that place, because it reminded him of the mansion owned by a vampire child that he met once, which brought him the annoying memory of the event when he was obligated to have a fist fight against a Werewolf. But he was able to shake the memory aside, because he found Polly's room.
Upon entering, he saw her laying on top of a big bed, wearing a simple blue dress, listening to headphones with her eyes closed. A smile appeared on Dante's face, he slowly approached the bed and laid on top of the bed beside her. Polly opened her eyes and saw him, smiling as soon as she saw him.
"Hey..." Dante kissed her cheek as soon as she smiled at him.
"Hi..." Polly greeted him back before touching his cheek. "What are you doing here?" She caressed his cheek after asking that.
"False reason, to talk business with Mr. Blossom." He informed her. "Real reason, to see you." He held her hand after telling her that. "How are you?"
"Much better now." That was her answer. "How are you doing, buddy?" She stared at his sea green eyes with her blue ones.
"Kind of annoyed with something, but I'll tell you later." Dante was referring to the possibility of Veronica's father being involved in Jason's death, but he prefers to tell her when he has more concrete evidence. "I'm going to a party with Betty, Kevin and Veronica later." Saying that caused Polly to look at him with a dumbfounded expression.
"Dante Rembrant Parker, going to a party?" Dante can perfectly understand her tone of voice, because it does sound unbelievable. "Is the world ending or something?" She joked, but she certainly shouldn't since the apocalypse is indeed a possibility if Lucifer has his way.
"Nope, I'm just curious about what Chuck Clayton will do to get his revenge on me." Dante admitted, and Polly immediately frowned in response to that.
"Are you kidding me?" Polly was visibly pissed off with Dante's response. "You're not going to that asshole's home, Dante." Clearly, she wasn't asking.
"Ummm..." Dante regretted telling her that, but he can't back out. "Betty, Veronica and Kevin are going and I really don't feel comfortable with letting them go by themselves so..."
"Why is Betty going?!" That was the part that she didn't understand.
"Errrr..." He was trying to find the right way to tell her that it was because of him.
"It's because of you isn't it?" It wasn't a question and she gave him an apprehensive stare in response.
Dante basically looked away embarrassed in response.
Polly sighed in response, before speaking. "Promise me that you won't get yourself into trouble." She requested the boy dressed in black while sitting up.
After hearing her request, he turned to look at her again and said, "I promise." He sat up as well.
Both of them stared into each other's eyes while they were facing each other on top of the bed, then they connected their foreheads together and smiled at each other.
"I missed you..." Dante told her with a smile.
"Me too..." Polly smiled as well.
It didn't take long for the two of them to lay down on the bed and for Dante to basically describe his boring day at school, but Polly wanted to hear eagerly since she actually misses it and basically confessed that she felt a little trapped in that house and in a painfully ironic way, she was. So Dante gave her a full description of the class, how his relationship with Veronica is progressing and how Dante actually misses his dad since he hasn't seen him in a while. But eventually, he got tired of talking about himself and asked her something.
"Have you chosen a name for them yet?" He asked as he moved his head to place his ear on her belly.
"I'm still deciding." Polly caressed Dante's hair as he listened to her belly. "Any suggestions?"
"Nah... I'm not good with names." He once had a cat called Mr. Midnight, but it wasn't really a cat. "But, try to pick something original." That was his only suggestion.
"Something original..." She seemed to have taken note of that. "You got your phone?" Polly asked him and he nodded in response. "Hand it over."
Dante decided to do what she said and he handed his phone to her.
"Say cheese." Polly then took a picture of the two of them, with her smiling while caressing Dante's head, while it was still on her pregnant belly. "There you go..." She clearly loved that photo as she had a wonderful smile on her face. After touching the screen for a bit, she giggled and showed it to Dante.
Betty: OMG!
Dante smiled in response to that. Before he made his way back to Polly's said and laid next to her as she messages Betty through his phone.
Dante: Try to keep him from getting into another fight with Clayton, please...
Betty: Why do you think I'm even going?
Dante: I don't know, to not get left out.
Betty: Well, that too.
Dante chuckled after hearing that, with Polly also giving him a small chuckle.
Betty: Mom is here, I have to go.
With that, Polly gave him back his phone and he put it back in his pocket. Then he laid on his back next to Polly. The two then held each other's hand as they stared into each other's eyes.
"Can you stay a little longer?" Polly asked him.
"For as long as you want."
"Oh my, what a lovely sight."
Dante Parker and Polly Cooper, ended up falling asleep together on top of the bed. The two of them were sleeping deeply while spooning together, until they were woken up by the voice of Cheryl Blossom, who was standing in front of the bed with her arms folded.
"The cliché of comforting the widow seems to have some appropriateness after all." Cheryl spoke in a very disgusting tone that really pissed Dante off.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" He asked with a frown on his face as he sat up from the bed, and Polly had to touch his arm to make him calm down.
"Not cool , Cheryl." Polly responded to her comment while looking at her apprehensively as Dante sat on the edge of the bed in order to put his boots back on. "What do you want?" The blond girl asked while touching her belly.
"I came here to ask the godfather of my future niece or nephew or both, if he wanted a ride for Chuck Clayton's party." Cheryl spoke in her usual fake smile and fake friendly tone, causing both Dante and Polly to look slightly annoyed with her.
"Sure..." Dante actually wanted a ride, since he didn't really want his friends to drive all the way there to grab him. Cheryl was clearly ready for the party, since she was wearing a dark dress and a fur coat. So the Dark Gentleman stood up and went to retrieve his coat which he took off to lay on the bed with Polly.
"It isn't too late to change your mind." Polly decided to point out as she also stood up from the bed.
"Betty, Kevin and Veronica are probably already there, I would rather not leave them there by themselves." Especially since Veronica and Betty were the ones that actually got him suspended. "I'll be fine, don't worry." He reassured her as he placed his jacket back on.
"Okay..." His pregnant friend was still not fond of the idea of him being in the same house as Chuck Clayton, but she ultimately sighed in defeat and just accepted. The blond girl then adjusted his hair for him, which was messy from the bed. "Would please try not to get into any trouble?"
"I promise to try, but trouble always follows me." His aunt once told him that it's a result of his birthmark, but he never really believed her.
"Good enough." She planted a kiss on his forehead.
"You two are so nauseating adorable." Cheryl decided to comment. "I'll wait for you in the car, Dantekins." With that, the redheaded girl made her way to the door.
"Dantekins?" Polly was visibly shocked by what she just heard.
Dante simply sighed in response. "Don't ask..." Because he really didn't want to talk about it. "Stay well, okay?" He planted a kiss on her cheek, before making his way to the door.
"Okay."
After leaving Polly by herself in the semi-haunted house. Dante Parker and Cheryl Blossom took a ride together to Chuck Clayton's party. The ride was quiet, which was something that Dante was grateful for. But unfortunately, the silence didn't last long and Cheryl broke it in the most unbelievably unpleasant way possible.
"Are you still in love with Polly?" Cheryl asked him as they drove down the street, with Dante sitting besides her on the passenger's seat of her car.
Obviously, that question made Dante look at her in surprise. "What?"
"Oh please, don't play dumb." Cheryl rebuffed in response. "You give Polly the exact same look that David gives Jade in Endless Love." Dante didn't get the reference, which was coupled with his confused face. "It's the movie that you and Jason were watching together during the night that I tossed soda over your head."
"Ahhh..." Now he remembers, it was a movie with Brooke Shields. Dante kind of hates her because the thing that gave birth to him was a fan. "I think you're exaggerating, I admit that I do stare at Polly in a similar way but never at that guy's level."
"You used to stare at her in a way that surpassed the level that I'm referring to." She informed him , which made Dante a little embarrassed as he did stare at his best friend's girlfriend with an intense stare that he never gave anyone. "I mean, what exactly did the two of you even see in Polly Cooper to begin with?" Cheryl clearly couldn't understand their attraction to Polly.
Dante honestly just wanted to change the subject as this topic was way too embarrassing to speak about , especially since the person whom he's speaking with, isn't exactly someone that he would ever open up about this kind of stuff. "I don't know," But for some reason, he decided to respond to his best friend's twin. "We just saw something on Polly that made us feel that way about her." Most people can never describe what made them fall in love with someone.
Cheryl rolled her eyes in response. "That was a very cliché answer, but I'll accept." She clearly didn't like his answer.
"Cheryl, have you ever fallen in love with anyone?" Dante decided to ask her, causing the red head girl to look at him with a confused face. "Because if the answer is no , you have no right to judge."
Cheryl's face then changed from a surprise expression to a neutral one, before she moved her face back to the road. An awkward silence ensured, which Dante was somewhat grateful for, but then Cheryl spoke again. "Except that I do have a right to judge." She answered, and as soon as she said that, Dante understood what she meant.
"Who was he?" Dante asked.
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"Who was she?" She corrected him.
The Dark Gentleman widened his eyes in response to what he just heard. "You're a lesbian?"
"I'm bisexual," She answered him. "Though, I have a preference towards girls."
The boy dressed in black was about to ask the girl wearing a fur coat about why no one knows about this, only for him to shut his mouth as he easily figured out the answer. "Let me guess, your parents..."
"Imagine their opinion about Jason and Polly's relationship, plus fifty." Cheryl pointed out.
Truth was, if they acted like that with their son having a normal relationship with a girl simply because of an old problem between their families. God knows how they would react to their daughter dating another girl. "I see..." Yet another thing that disgusted him about Mr. and Mrs. Blossom. But Dante had a question. "Did you... Looked at her... That way...?" He asked.
Chery took a while to answer. She closed her eyes for a few seconds and took a deep breath. "Yes..." She seemed sad by mentioning that. "Dantekins, no offense but please don't ask me anything else." That sounded very serious.
"Okay." He could tell that this was a touchy subject and she really didn't want to talk about that.
Luckily, it didn't take very long for them to arrive at Chuck Clayton's home. The home actually looked nice, it was a two floor house, with a very interesting painting in the color baby blue and midnight blue, the front of the house was filled with people with a lot of members of the Football team having a beer chugging competition.
"Here we are." Cheryl announced as she parked the car in a spot next to the other cars around the area.
Dante noticed Kevin's truck parked away from the house. Indicating that his friends were already at the party. "Thanks for the ride."
"You're welcome, but go inside without me." Cheryl instructed him, clearly because she didn't want anyone to see the two of them together.
"Alright..." Dante decided to do what she said before he got out of the car. He placed his hands inside his jacket's pocket, walking towards the house that belonged to a guy who's ass he kicked in front of the whole school. As soon as he stepped inside, he received several looks from the Jocks that were in the front yard chugging beer cans. Probably because his presence there was surprising, considering what happened between him and Chuck.
Upon reaching the door, Dante saw most people from school inside, which was a surprising sight. Making his way inside, he saw several people dancing to loud music in the living room. However, only one person called his attention. Luckily, he called her attention as well and she immediately approached.
"Hey, Danticho." Veronica closed the distance and launched herself at him.
"Hey, V." That was his reply as the two embraced each other. "Where's Betty and Kevin?"
"Betty is in the kitchen with Ethel and Kevin is hooking up with his boyfriend somewhere." Veronica informed him. "Come on." Then she tries to pull him to dance.
"I'm a terrible dancer, V." He tried to deny it.
"I don't care." But she was having none of it and simply pulled him to the improvised dance floor.
With that, Dante Parker and Veronica Lodge started to dance together, despite him being a pretty lousy dancer. Him and her were all over each other moving according to the shitty music that was playing. It only took a minute of dancing before Veronica grabbed him and passionately pressed her lips into his, and he gladly returned the kiss. The moment they separated, V looked behind him and smiled, before walking past him. Turning around in confusion, he noticed that it was because of Betty, who was standing a few steps away from them. Veronica then decided to drag Betty to join them and although their blond friend was clearly reluctant, Veronica just dragged her towards him and basically got the two of them to dance with her. The three of them ended dancing together with Dante"s arms wrapped around the two of them.
"It's official, you and I are going to drag Danticho to a club sometime."
After basically dancing with Betty and Veronica for basically an hour. The three of them eventually went to the kitchen to get something to drink. Where the two of them practically decided that they would drag Dante to dance with them more often and he has no idea whether he's in favor or against the idea to be honest. Ethel was there too, just smiling and eating some snacks.
Dante simply drank a can of beer as he listened to the two of them. Chuck's kitchen was a mess, and it was filled with empty cans and cups. The party was pretty lively with most people from school having fun there. The Dark Gentleman wasn't exactly a fan of parties, but this one was fun mainly because of his friends' presence.
"Oh, there you guys are." Suddenly, they heard Kevin's voice, coming from the back door that was next to the refrigerator. "Come on, I need you guys for something." Kevin called them out.
Neither of them really bothered to actually ask him what exactly he needed them for, and followed him without question. Ethel decided to stay behind in the kitchen and simply waved at them. As they passed through the door, they arrived at an empty backyard where there was a bunch of people sitting around a wooden table. The people were Cheryl, Moose, Kevin's boyfriend and Chuck Clayton.
"There you go, now it's complete." Chuck spoke with his disgusting smile as the three of them arrived at the table as Kevin moved to sit next to Joaquin.
"Ummm... What is complete?" Betty asked, already not liking where this was going.
"We're playing a session of truth or dare, and we need more players." Cheryl informed them. "Though, Kevin bringing the three of you into it is a pleasant surprise." Or it was something that she was already expecting.
Dante immediately saw that there was something off about this, but it was nothing that he wasn't already expecting, so he decided to humor everyone. "Alright..." The Dark Gentleman decided to surprise everyone by saying that and moving in order to sit at the table right opposite to Chuck and Cheryl, who just stare at him with pretty annoying faces. Betty and Veronica were equally surprised, but decided to just follow his actions and both took places on Dante's side, with Betty on his right and Veronica on his left.
"There we go, this should be fun." Cheryl exclaimed. Clearly back on her bitch mode despite their heartfelt conversation from earlier.
Dante simply sat there, with a neutral face while Betty and Veronica just stared at Chuck apprehensively while he gave his arrogant smile in response.
"Who's going first?" Dante asked.
"You're the honored guest Parker, you go first." Chuck pointed out.
"Alright," Dante decided to go with the flow. "Truth or Dare, Chuck?"
"Truth, I got nothing to hide." Chuck acted cocky at that.
"Besides Veronica and Ethel, who else in that lame playbook of yours was a lie as well?" That was clearly the question that was going to bother Chuck the most, since everyone on the table stared at him with amused looks in response.
Chuck's arrogant smile faltered for a second. Truth was, Betty told him that only two girls actually admitted having actually slept with Chuck but they didn't do anything of what he wrote in the playbook and even commented that Chuck was the worst that they ever had.
"What can I say, I have a vivid imagination so I end up exaggerating sometimes." That was the best response that he managed to come up with.
"Is it to overcompensate for something?" Dante couldn't resist.
"From what I heard, there is no amount of overcompensation in this world that can help him." Veronica clearly couldn't resist it as well.
Everyone actually chuckled at what Veronica said, causing Chuck to look at her with hostility. But Veronica simply smiled in response and didn't care one bit.
"My turn now." Veronica decided to take charge. "Truth or Dare, Danticho?"
Dante just looked at her with his sea-green eyes and said. "Truth."
"Continuing with the subject of "sexual conquests", I'm actually curious." The boy with dirty blond hair did not like where this was going. "How many girls did you have, Danticho?"
"Umm..." The truth was, the number was quite considerable. Practically every single girl that was around his age or a little older at the Academy of Unseen Arts, the vampire twins that slept with him in exchange of his blood, the mermaid that wanted his mana, the elven family that wanted him to impregnate the wife and the daughters and the list went on and on. His aunt always tells him that it's because of his powers, but he never really understood what was so special about them since he couldn't do half of the things that his cousins could. "I literally never counted."
"Was there more than those three sisters from the video?!" Kevin, in a perfect example of inappropriate timing, ended up asking.
Obviously, everyone but Betty looked at Kevin in deep surprise. But Dante simply answered his question in order to try to put an end to that topic. "Like...Every single girl you saw on that video and more..."
"What?!" That question came from Betty. "There were like ten girls on that video?!" Hilariously, everyone moved their head to look at Betty in shock.
"Okay, what video are you guys talking about?" Veronica decided to inquire as she was clearly clueless about the situation.
"Ummm..." Dante really didn't want to talk about that and he was really regretting showing it to Betty and Kevin. "I'll tell you later..." He really didn't want to have this type of conversation in front of other people.
"I'm gonna hold you to that, Danticho." Veronica made that exceptionally clear. "Next?"
Suddenly, Kevin's boyfriend, Joaquin, decided to go next. Since they clearly had no way to actually decide each one's turn.
"Okay, Dante, Truth or Dare?" Apparently, no one questioned the fact that it was Dante again.
"Truth, but please don't ask anything involving sex." He practically begged as he had no desire to speak about that.
"No, I actually wanted to ask where you learn to fight the way you do." Joaquin asked the Dark Gentleman, probably because he saw his fight against Chuck online.
"Oh, I learned how to fight in a Karate dojo in Detroit, but I also got into a lot of street fights and I ended up learning what worked and what didn't from that." He revealed it to Joaquin. Although he got the techniques and the physical training from the Karate classes, it was in the streets that he learned how to apply everything in a real fight.
"Cool, some of my friends actually saw the fight and tried to imitate the moves you did." Joaquin informed him, and Dante immediately realized that he was talking about his friends from the biker gang.
Then, Moose lifted his hand up and asked. "Okay, Kevin, Truth or Dare."
"Dare." Kevin said without hesitation.
"I dare you to go inside the house and ask Reggie for a kiss." Everybody looked at Moose apprehensively after he asked that.
"What are you fucking nuts!?" Dante was the first one to say something about that dare.
"Yeah, I don't know if this is some type of closet punishment that you're trying to inflict here but Kevin isn't doing that." Veronica spoke afterwards, with Moose shifting uncomfortably once he heard the word closet.
"Oh come on, I can do that." Kevin tried to argue.
"Kevin, I want you to imagine Reggie's reaction to that and you try to tell me if anything pleasant comes into your mind?" Dante asked while folding his arms.
Kevin opened his mouth but decided to shut it as he probably understood what it meant.
"Fine, I dare you to ask Dante for a kiss." Moose decided to change his dare after getting berated by Kevin's friends.
Before anyone could complain about that as well. Dante stood up and basically said. "Fine, come on." Which surprised everyone on the table.
"Seriously?" Kevin asked him in surprise.
"I'm one hundred percent straight and I have zero insecurities about my sexuality and if your boyfriend doesn't mind." Dante informed him in order to get that over with.
Joaquin simply gave them a thumbs up in approval.
"That's the spirit, Danticho." Veronica gave her approval.
"Okay..." Kevin stood up from his seat and approached Dante, with everyone actually watching them in anticipation.
With that, Dante and Kevin kissed in front of everyone, with everyone having amused faces in response to what was happening. Everyone except for Moose. It was just a chaste kiss and it only lasted a few seconds. Until they finally separated and returned to their seats.
"Tonight is turning out super interesting." Cheryl commented, clearly amused by Dante and Kevin's kiss. "My turn..." She announced. "Betty, Truth or Dare?"
"Ummm... Tru-" Betty was going to say "Truth", but immediately stopped because she probably predicted that Cheryl would ask something really embarrassing and uncomfortable. "Dare."
Cheryl then gave them a somewhat evil smile before asking. "Taking Moose's example. I dare you to either kiss..." Betty immediately seemed worried. "Chuck," A frown appeared on her face at the prospect while Chuck simply smirked in response.. "Or Dante." The second option caused her to widen her eyes in response.
Both of them looked at each other in response to what Cheryl just dared her to do. With Betty clearly embarrassed, but she obviously already picked.
"Really?" Veronica folded her arms and looked at Cheryl, clearly not amused by the situation. But then she moved to look at the two of them. "It's okay, like hell I'm letting Betty kiss that poster boy for botched plastic surgery." Everyone chuckled at what Veronica said, except for Chuck, who looked at her with a hostile look that she just smiled in response. "Actually, give her your best kiss, Danticho." She encouraged him while affectionately touching his shoulder and smiling at him.
Dante didn't respond to that, he just looked at Betty, who seemed reluctant due to embarrassment. But the boy with dirty blond hair simply touched her face tenderly and stared deeply into her eyes, waiting for permission. Which she gained when Betty closed her eyes and parted her lips forward. So Dante Parker pressed his lips into Betty Cooper's lips in a slow, tender and gentle kiss. It wasn't like the quick kiss and chaste kiss like the one that he just gave Kevin, it was an long, open-mouthed and really hot kiss. Betty's embarrassment apparently disappeared, since she actually grabbed the back of his head in order to pull him closer. He didn't know how it was for her, but for him, it was the same as kissing Veronica with a slight difference. That something he didn't know if it was a good or a bad thing, but the kiss way too sweet to be bad and that was something that he took into consideration. After a minute or two, the two of them finally separated and his sea-green eyes met with her soft washed out green eyes in an intense stare.
"Wow, I guess he really went all the way with that kiss." Cheryl ended up commenting, which served to break both Dante and Betty from their intense staring.
"What can I say, my best friend simply deserves the best." Veronica however, reacted completely casual about it, which just enraged Cheryl even more. "Who's next?"
"Me." Kevin requested to be the next. "Dante, Truth or Dare?"
"Why the fuck am I the one getting asked all the time?" He had to ask because so far, he was the one that got asked the most.
"Because you're the most interesting person here." Kevin informed him, with some people actually nodding in response to that and other just making confused faces because they don't know what is interesting about Dante.
"Fine... Truth." Dante wasn't going to risk with a dare.
"Okay, what is the name of the first girl you ever fell in love with?" Kevin asked, clearly being one of the few that didn't know the answer.
"Polly Cooper." He answered almost instantly, surprising some of the people there.
"Wait, seriously?" Kevin asked, clearly being clueless until now.
"What?!" It was Betty's reaction.
"You best friend's girlfriend?" Moose pointed out in surprise.
"That's a surprising turn of events." Chuck commented with an amused smirk.
"Are you all seriously that surprised, even Jason knew that." Cheryl told them. It was truth, Jason was perfectly aware of Dante's feelings for Polly, but he never said a word. Probably because he trusted Dante. "Your turn, Betty." Despite the fact that Betty, Moose, Kevin and Chuck were still surprised by what Dante just revealed to them. Cheryl decided to push the game forward, probably because of the subject of Jason's knowledge on Dante's feelings for Polly.
"Ummm..." Betty was clearly clueless about what she's supposed to do, though, it's really unknown if it's because of the game or the kiss that she just share with Dante. "Cheryl, Truth or Dare?"
"Dare." Cheryl immediately answered.
"Well..." Betty was clearly unsure of what to force Cheryl to do, since she sadly lacks the malice to make her do something embarrassing.
"Small suggestion, how about you put her through the same thing she put you, just much less pleasant?" Veronica told her friend with a cheeky smile, clearly pointing out that she was lucky to have kissed Dante instead of Chuck, which Betty clearly agreed.
"Okay... I dare you to kiss the person that you hate the most." Betty dared, sadly she didn't really specified who was it.
"Alright." Cheryl spoke with a cheerful smile towards them, which made this even more confusing. Then she stood up from their seat and moved towards Veronica, Dante and Betty, the boy with dirty blond hair immediately expected her to kiss Veronica. But to everyone's shock and surprise, she simply stood in front of Dante Rembrandt Parker and without any type of warning whatsoever, she grabbed his cheeks and pressed her lips into his in front of everyone.
"What the?!" Kevin spoke in surprise.
"Woah!" Moose was just a surprise.
Chuck chuckled in response, despite the fact that Dante was basically getting more than he ever did in a single night.
Both Betty and Veronica looked at them apprehensively, but mostly towards Cheryl.
Dante was simply way too surprised to react in any way to that kiss, though he noticed that Cheryl was a little too enthusiastic, mostly because he could feel her tongue inside his mount. Eventually, she pulled back and stared deeply into his eyes like the girls did earlier. "My Lipstick's maple red, by the way." She touched his lips which were covered with her lipstick. "In case you're wondering why it's so sweet." As much as Dante hated to admit, it was indeed very sweet.
Before anyone could properly reacted to what happened, Chuck Clayton spoke up. "Okay, my turn." Everyone moved their eyes to look at Chuck. "Parker, Truth or Dare?" Chuck asked with his arrogant smile and Dante basically knew that if he said truth, he would probably ask something that would piss him off.
"Dare." Everyone was surprised because this was not going to be good.
Chuck dared Dante to go to the abandoned house located at the end of his street and take a selfie of himself and then send it to Veronica to show everyone. Justifiably, everyone was skeptical of this dare, and immediately suspected that Chuck was up to something. But Dante didn't really care and simply went to this abandoned house to check, thought he knows that something is going to happen, so he went prepared for the worst. Walking down the street slowly, he was able to reach the abandoned house that has sale sign in the front, the house was in perfect condition with everything seemly perfect for anyone that wants to buy it.
"Let's get this over with..." Dante said to himself as he made his way inside, passing through front yard and arriving at the window that lead to the living room, the window was open and he was able to make his way inside. Once he reached the empty living room of the house, Dante took a few steps inside but instead of picking up his phone and taking the selfie, he decided to simply call out. "Look, if you want to get the drop on someone, you shouldn't smoke while you wait, the smell is pretty to notice." The interior smelled like cigarettes, and empty houses wouldn't smoke like that, at all.
"I told you, you goddamn moron!" His suspicion was correct, as he heard someone complain to someone.
Suddenly, five guys passed through the door frame that lead to the kitchen, All five were wearing Riverdale High Hoodies and balaclavas to hide their faces. One of them turn on the lights, illuminating the area. He saw that two of them were carrying baseball bats. But Dante just stood there, unimpressed. "Now, Parke-" One of them tried to speak but was interrupted by Dante.
"You're the five jackasses that got suspended with Clayton because of his lame Playbook, and now want payback." It took less than a second for him to understand the situation. "Fine." Dante took off his jacket. "I don't what the bright idea is, but I don't care, just come at me already because I was in need of some practice anyway." He informed them as he prepared himself by getting into a Karate stance. Truth was, he was glad that this happened as it actually gave him sometime to avoid the awkwardness of him kissing both Betty and Cheryl a little more.
"Fuck, he knows who we are." One the guys spoke to the others.
"I don't give a fuck, I lost my scholarship because of this asshole!" Another one yelled in rage.
"Yeah, my parents already stopped talking to me because it, so I don't care!" Another one also yelled.
"But , what if h-" Before one of them could try to argue.
One of the guys, who was holding a baseball bat, charged towards Dante. He tried to swing at him, but Dante simply ducked and perfomed a front sweep kick, which landed at his calf and caused him to fall into the floor and Dante basically stood up and delivered an axe kick into his face while he was at the floor, knocking him out cold. Doing that, however, caused the rest of them to charge towards Dante. The Dark Gentleman, made his way to the right, passing a door frame that lead to a small corridor located in front of the front door. The four guys were chasing after him as he passed through the corridor that was a decent narrow space, that Dante took advanage of it, by suddenly turning around and delivering a side kick into the chest of the one that was running in front of the others. Which sent him stumbling back into the others, colliding and causing the two that were behind him to fall on the floor. But one of them managed to avoid it and passed by the trio to reach Dante. The guy tried to punch him with a wild haymaker, but Dante easily parried the punch with his left forearm and delivered a reverse punch into his solar plexus, which caused a diaphragm spasm and abrupt exhalation , but Dante followed by a delivering an vertical elbow strike with his left elbow, which sent him into the floor where he smashed his head on it. Unfortunately, the other guy that was carrying a baseball bad appears and tried to hit Dante with it. But the narrow corridor made it easy for him to evade his swings, until he tried to swing vertically, which was when Dante finally countered by delivering a front kick into his face as soon as he brouth the bat high enough, which caused more damage because of the combat boots that he was wearing so the guy got knockout easily. But, there was two more to go, and Dante simply took a few steps back towards the kitchen as he sees the two clown trying to get pass his two friends.
"FUCKING ASSHOLE!" One of the guys yelled in anger as he charged at Dante, sadly, he decided to tackle Dante into the backdoor, once he collided with the door, the guy tried to pull back and punch Dante with a cross, but he evaded by moving his head to the left and the idiot punched the door instead, making a hole on it. Which Dante responded by giving him a knee strike into the balls. But after he pushed the guy off of him, the last one appeared and punched Dante on the face before he had time to react. The punch was enough to send Dante into the floor and the guy started to kick him on the ribs.
"Not so tough now, asshole!" The guy yelled as he stomped into Dante's back. "Come here!" He grabbed Dante and stood him up, before punching him in the stomach and then on the face. That made Dante stumble into the wall behind him. The guy tried to hit him again with a haymaker, but Dante recovered and simply parried the punch with his right forearm and delivered a spinning backfist with his left hand, that landed on his jaw. Once he was rocked by the attack, Dante delivered an oxjaw strike into the guy's nose and by the loud crack, it apparently broke it and it was enough to make fall into the floor. "AHHH!" The guy screamed as he held his nose in pain.
The other guy finally stood up from the floor after getting kneed on the balls, but Dante wasted no time and simply closed the distance and delivered a jumping roundhouse kick to his head. Knocking him out cold.
"That was fun..." Dante commented as he folded his arms in response to what just happened. Then he picked his phone up and decided to record himself to send it to Veronica. As soon as it started filming, Dante made a goody face to the camera despite the bruises on his face before he started to film the other guys one by one casually. Once it was done, Dante blew Veronica a kiss and sent it the video to her.
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Dante moved to the living room again to retrieve his jacket as he awaited for a reply. His reply finally came at the form of another video that Veronica sent.
The Dark Gentleman played the video to see what it was. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Only to burst into laughter after seeing that it was actually a video of Veronica, kicking Chuck Clayton in the balls with the addition of Betty, Kevin and even Cheryl, all dumping Maple Syrup into his head in response and calling sticky maple. "I fucking love you guys..." He admitted while laughing.
Thanks everyone for reading my story, in truth, this chapter was very hard to write because it was mostly focused on Jughead, so making up original stuff was pretty complicated.
Sorry if you guys didn't like the chapter but I promise that the next one will be better.
Questions and Answers:
You gonna add hermione in the harem. I mean she's a Latina MILF, I was watching the first episode and dang she has some nice when wearing that night gown.
I agree, but Dante woudn't screw his girlfriends's mom.
where is Jughead
With his mom and sister at Toleto, but don't worry, he will come back soon.
Thanks for the awsome work
Thanks
Amazing chapter, I just started reading both books yesterday and they are amazing. I've been looking for cobra Kai fics with an oc or si as it's main and this is totally it. Cant wait for the next chapter!
What?
When I searched about fatal attraction, the name of the main lead are Dan and his wife, Betty. I don't know if that's the reason why you named him Dante. Anyways, good job on the story, feels like I'm reading first season of Riverdale
Thanks, this will mostly follow season 1 faithfully with a few alterations.
Okay liked seeing some of Dante's past
Especially like seeing how close he and Sabrina are guessing from the video it's the kinda deal of when the two are together it's hard to get them apart
Shame that Dante and Sabrina's fun was interrupted by Billy being a dickhead jock still was fun reading how Dante wasn't having any of that shit and started kicking his ass
When it comes to Dante's shape glad it's pointed out that despite being a tad lazy Dante still has a good shape but maybe have it be noted soon he's quietly reattaining his old form
So I'm just going to assume the "Accidental Orgy" was the explicit thing Dante didn't want Polly and the others to see haha
Nice to see Dante and Prudence get on haha even with Dante not liking how she is with Sabrina
Betty and Kevin learning that Dante can fight with swords is also fun
By the way with that accidental orgy was Sabrina the one filming Dante there? Also I can't help but think during the fact it was in the middle of a orgy Dante only fucked the sisters and Sabrina well all she did was watch and enjoy herself to the show Dante was putting on haha
Also great now alongside hoping Sabrina and Polly are added to the harem I'm hoping Prudence is to haha
I'm glad you did.
Precisely.
He never takes shit from anyone or allows anyone to give shit to his friends.
He's actually ashamed of how out of shape he got, but he's getting back in track.
MMore or less...
She has a deep attraction towards Dante.
Prudence taught him.
Oh no, Sabrina doesn't know about that, she would probably get mad at Dante for not inviting her.
Well...
Is Dante aware of the supernatural or not and just how powerful is he?
He is completely aware of the supernatural but he thinks he's just like his aunts and Sabrina.
The plot in this episode is quite relaxed and expands the dark gentleman universe more, allowing one to better understand the events that will take place in the future.
-Besides Sabrina and the Weird sisters, what other girls in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina are interested in Dante?
-Will Sabrina make an appearance soon?
-Which actor do you think would be a good fit Dante's mom and dad?
Thanks.
Dante has a track record of girls that he hook up with there.
Yes.
Dante's Dad: James Van Der Beek {His character in Rules of Attraction is pratically how I imagine Dante's father.
Dante's Mom: Eva Green {Every single character I ever saw her play is a perfect incarnation of Dante's mother.}
Great chapter, love the story. Hope to see more soon.
I hope you enjoyed.