"I'll talk to that idiot Keller and tell him we won't be pressing charges. After all, nothing happened to Cheryl." Abby, Veronica, and Cheryl were listening through Veronica's door as Penelope spoke to Hiram and Hermoine.
"This is bullshit." Abby hissed.
"Cheryl, I'm... so sorry." Veronica turns to the thin redhead.
"Don't be silly. I'm used to it. And besides, you heard what Mommy said. Nothing happened to me." Cheryl put on her coat.
"Not, because of him. If it was up to him, he would have raped you." Abby wanted to go into the other room and punch Penelope in the face.
"I'm fine, Abby. Everything's fine." Cheryl snaps.
"If everything's fine, why did we call Sheriff Keller and make a statement?" Veronica didn't want her to back down because her mother was making her.
"A momentary lapse insanity. I mean, can you even imagine? Me, facing off against Nick St. Clair in a courtroom battle royale? I'd be a laughing stock." She grabbed her clutch and went for the door.
"Cheryl, wait. It's not just you. He's done it to other girls, I mean, hell, he even tried to do it to me. The night before the open house." Veronica revealed.
"Did you tell your parents?" She asked. Veronica shook her head no. "And yet you were happy to fill them in on my after-dark-drama, weren't you? Well, I won't be a puppet for your thirst for vengeance. You want justice? You go after Nick in court, Veronica. Come on, Abby." Cheryl was angry at Veronica for trying to manipulate her by pretending she cared.
Abby followed her friend out for a silent elevator ride with Penelope to the lobby. "I'll see you later, Cheryl." Abby waved to her as she got into the car with her mother. Her phone rang. "Hi, dad."
"Where are you?" He demands.
"I'm at the Five Seasons." She told him.
"Stay there, I'm coming to get you. You're in trouble missy." He hangs up the phone. She looked down at her phone, wondering what that could be about.
Abby found out she was in trouble for going to Nick's party because of the drugs. She was sitting in The Coopers house, with all the other families that had teens at the party. They were waiting on Archie and Betty to start this meeting. "Why, do I have to be here? I didn't do any drugs." She turns to her father.
"You're here be.." Alice tried to explain.
"I wasn't talking to you." She glares at Alice before turning back to her dad. "I don't see why we're here at all. Can't everyone handle it in their own families?"
"Abby, be quiet." Fred hissed making her pouts. Betty and Archie came in and sat down.
Alice stood up to start this group grounding. "When I heard what happened at Nick's party, I decided that we should come together to deal with this motley crew of liars, dope-fiends, and fornicators. Except for my Betty, who was smart enough to leave the party before it descended into a bacchanalian free for all."
"So, this is for clarity, Alice. You're hosting this little get-together to what gloat?" Fred asked. Abby looked over at her father, realizing he didn't want to be here anymore than she did.
"Careful throwing stones there, acid-queen Alice. I'm not the only one in this room that knows the story behind that mugshot that your daughter printed in her paper." Hiram like Fred wasn't here to listen to Alice brag about her parenting skills when it was obvious that her house wasn't in order either.
After rolling her lips in to keep from laughing at her husband's comment, Hermoine asked. "Well I, for one, would like to know who brought the Jingle Jangle to the party?"
Reggie raised his hand for his mother to smack it down. "Reginald, not a single word out of your mouth until we get a lawyer."
"No, all Reggie needs to tell us, Melinda, is how he acquired it," Hiram promised him immunity.
After getting the nod from Keller, Reggie spoke. "Some gang member who deals on the Southside…"
"Oh, my God, you have a dealer?" She stared at her son shocked. Abby bit her bottom lip, knowing he had a supplier, he was the dealer.
"Once again, Mayor, the Southside is the source of all our problems." Hiram looked over at Mrs. McCoy.
"Was he a Serpent?" Sheriff Keller asked.
"Does he go to Southside High?" Hiram looked over at the letterman-wearing teen.
"I think so, yeah." Reggie nods.
"What does it matter? Not all Serpents are drug dealers." Archie spoke up, thinking about Jughead.
"Serpents don't deal jingle jangle, only weed." Abby clarified.
"Archie, Abby not helping." Fred shook his head at them.
"Look, we shouldn't have taken the JJ, but Nick's the one who asked Reggie to get it and then pushed it on us. He's the one who should be in the hot seat. I mean, he's the one who roofied Cheryl and tried to assault her." Veronica wanted Nick to punish in some way.
"Prosecuting Nick St. Clair would be difficult given that all witnesses were high," Keller told the room.
"Yeah, but Josie, Anna, and I saw Nick with Cheryl the night after the party, and none of us were on Jingle Jangle." She was tired of hearing excuses as to why Nick couldn't get in trouble.
"The drug stays in your system for three days. So if I drug tested you right now, you'd have a credibility problem." Keller explains.
"Well, I didn't take it. What next? Are you going to say that what I saw doesn't matter because I broke into his hotel room?" Abby glared at the authority figures in the room, who seem to want to use this as an excuse to arrest Serpents.
The mayor didn't hear anything after she realized that Josie had the jingle jangle in her system too. "Josie, you took that drug? You put that poison in your system, knowing the way your father's struggled with addiction?" Mrs. McCoy turns to Josie. After she nodded with tears in her eyes, she stood up. "I see. From this moment on, bringing the Southside under control is my number one priority as mayor. If it means razing it to the ground or arresting every single Serpent insight, starting at that high school, so be it. Let's go, Josephine, now!" She marched out the door with her daughter and Sherief Keller on her heels.
"Dad, I need the keys." Abby turns to her dad.
"Abigail." He sighs.
"Toni, Sweet Pea, and Fangs shouldn't have to be punished for a crime they didn't commit." She knew none of them were dealing hard drugs.
"Neither does Jughead." Archie stood behind her.
"Jughead..." He sighed before passing them the key. The teens ran out with Alice screaming for them to come back.
Abby ran into the school while trying to call Sweet Pea on her cell but he wasn't picked up. "Toni! We got to go! We have to get as many Serpents as we can and go." She ran up to the pink-haired girl, grabbing her arm.
"What are you talking about?" Toni asked.
"The Mayor is about to raid this place, we have to go." She pulled her towards the door.
"Shit!" Toni cursed.
"Sweet Pea!" Abby yelled when she saw him turning the corner. Sheriff Keller and Mayor McCoy enter the building with officers and drug dogs.
"Come on, we have to go." Archie, who had Jughead by his jacket collar, pulled her towards the door. Toni ran after them.
"Sweet Pea!" She gasped, seeing him get slammed against a locker as an officer searched him. The door shut in her face as Archie pulled her through them.
Abby was picking up trash at Pickens Park as punishment for going to Nick's party. "So, did your boyfriend get arrested?" Reggie asked.
"He's got detained, yes. He'll be out tomorrow when they can't charge him with anything." She put a piece of trash into her garbage bag.
"And if he's not out by tomorrow?" He stabbed a few pieces of trash to put them in his bag.
"What do you want, Reggie?" She glares.
"I'm just wondering how long you're willing to wait for him while he's behind bars." He shrugs.
"Is that why you said it was a Serpent when you know it was a Ghoulie?" She tilts her head.
Reggie was shocked for a second that she knew who the Ghoulies were, but then remembered she was dating someone from their rival gang. "That's not why, look I know it was a coward move but you don't know what the Ghoulies are capable of."
"You mind if I borrow Reggie for a New York minute?" Veronica came over to ask.
"No, it's fine." Abby walks away to give them some privacy.
Abby was in Whyte Wyrm waiting for Sweet Pea to come through the doors. They were using them getting out of jail as an excuse to throw a party. "Baby, I'm home." He busts through the door. She screams, jumping into his arms. Despite knowing he was going to get let out today, there was still a part of her that was worried they would find a reason to keep him.
He spun her around before putting her back on her feet and kissing her. "Me next, me next." Fangs grab her to spin her around and kiss her on the forehead.
"I'm happy my boys are home." She gave them both a hug.
"It was only 48 hours." Toni playfully rolled her eyes.
"Easy for you to say." Sweets flick her forehead. She punched his arm.
"I got some news to share." Jughead came over to their little group.
"Oh come on man, we just got out." Sweets groans.
"I find it's better to rip the bandaid off." He sighs. "I agreed to a race with the Ghoulies. If we win, we get the High School and they give up the Jingle Jangle."
"And if we lose?" Sweets asked.
"We lose the Whyte Wyrm, the trailer park, and… Abby." He whispered the last word, but everyone heard it.
"Excuse me!" They yelled.
"I'm not a bargaining chip, you asshole." She was holding herself back from swinging on him.
"He made it non-negotiable. It was including you or no race. How does he even know about you?" Jughead put his hands on his hips.
"Are you trying to blame me?" She put her hands up to her chest.
"Let's step outside." Sweet Pea nods to the door.
"Okay, Sweet Pea, calm down." Toni got in between them.
"He put my home, my hang out, and my girl on the line." He growls.
"I know, but he's going to win. You're going to win, right?" Toni looked over her shoulder at him.
"Of course." He nods.
"With what car?" Abby tilts her head.
"Archie is going to see if we can get Reggie's car." He kept his eyes on Sweet who looked ready to rip his face off.
"That car isn't modified for racing. You better hope you have rookie luck, because if I have to go off with some strange..." Abby's anxiety was at an all-time high. The thought of having to go off with a guy because he won her in a bet made her want to dry heave.
"That ain't happening." Sweet Pea wraps his arms around her chest to pull her close.
"It better not." For the first Jughead was under Fang's harsh glare.
"It won't." Jughead nodded his head. He was determined to get this win for all of them.
"Alright! Let's do this!" Tall Boy screamed, getting the crowd to cheer. Abby was leaning against Sweet Pea who was sitting on his bike. "Get these cars up in a row!"
"I'll be back for you princess." Malachi smacked his lips at her. Sweet Pea grabbed her face to pull her into a hard kiss. The curly-haired gang leader laughed at the dominant display, it wouldn't matter when he had her in his bed tonight.
Toni walks over to them. "You're not going to flag the race?" Fangs asked. Sweets and she pulled apart to hear her explanation.
"No, Abby's crazy friends doing it." She nodded to the girl between the two cars.
"Thanks for letting her have this." She looked over at her stressed-out friend. Cheryl raised her arms in the air before dropping them as she leaned back dramatically. The crowd cheered as they took off.
"Now, we wait for them to come back." Toni sighs.
"Jones better cross that finishes line first." Sweet Pea grips on Abby's hips tightened.
"If not, we're going to have to crack a few Ghoulie's skulls." Fangs wasn't about to hand her over to the enemy. He didn't care about the deal Jughead made.
"Everyone scatter! The cops are rounding up Ghoulies!" A man screamed.
Not about to be arrested twice in the same week, Sweets started his bike. "Get on." He nods to Abby. She did as she was told, as he sped out of there. Fangs and Toni were right behind him on their bikes.
The bikes stopped at Sunnyside Trailer park. "The least Jones could have done was tell us his plan. I mean what if we got arrested again." Fangs got off his bike.
"Because he knows we wouldn't want to be in bed with those damn pigs." Sweet Pea helped Abby get off the bike before getting off himself.
"I don't think Jugs did that. It was probably someone else." Toni looked over at Abby.
"Yeah, probably Archie." She nods.
"I wasn't going to say his name." Toni shrugs.
"That's Jones' fault either way. He shouldn't be involving outsiders in our business. The guy just became a Serpent, what right does he have to be making deals for us?" Sweet growled.
"Now, we got to have our guard up when they come out." Fangs agreed that Archie shouldn't have been involved in the deal. He wasn't the one that would have to deal with the consequences when this all turned sour.
"I'm just happy I'll be in a familiar bed tonight." Abby skipped into the trailer.
"Amen to that." Sweet chuckled as he followed her inside.
Cheryl and Abby were in the student lounge, drinking their Starbucks. Veronica walks over to sit on the chair across from them. "I have some very good news for you guys."
"Well, don't keep us waiting." Cheryl nods for her to go on.
"It seems that the St. Clairs got into a car accident and Nicks got badly injured. It's going to take a few months to recover and there might be permanent damage." She smiled.
"God willing." Abby hummed.
"Yes, let's bow our head and pray." Cheryl grabbed Abby's hand and bows her head.