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Chapter 1 River’s Edge (Part 4)

AN: I finished this a week or so ago but have been so busy with work I forgot to post it. It was edited by the amazing @alexa-playafricabytoto as always.

Pop music filled your ears as your replayed the conversation you and Sweet Pea had a few days before. After he found out what was really going on, the two of you began to brainstorm ways to get this to play in your favor.

“I got it!” Sweets exclaims raising from his spot on the foot of your bed, “makes friends with her.”

“Oh real funny Pea,” you reply sarcastically while staring at the boy, “how is becoming friends going to help when I was told to stay as far away from her as possible?”

“Keep your friends close and your enemies closer Y/N. If you avoid her then you look suspicious, so don’t avoid her. If you make friends she’ll trust you, confide in you.”

“And I’ll be able to make sure my family isn’t suspected,” you add with a smile, “Sweet Pea you’re a genius.”

“I know.”

Scanning the room you found the pair you were looking for located at the punch bowl with a red head by their side. “What is it with this town and attractive redheads?” You mumble to yourself before shaking the thought off. There was a task at hand you needed to complete before you let your mind wander.

With a deep breath you make your way over to the two girls as the redhead leaves. Your nerves jump a little at the realization that there will no longer be a mediator until you remember what Toni said. “Betty is nothing but the typical girl next door, I just gotta get past Veronica,” you mentally remind yourself.

The two notice you instantly and tense causing you to offer them a slight smile, “Hi.”

“Can we help you?” Veronica asks speaking up before Betty got the chance to speak.

“Yeah, I uh actually wanted to re-introduce myself. I think we got off on the wrong foot at the tryouts, I mean I didn’t even know anyone else was going to be there since Cheryl came up to me about them,” You explain trying to sound sincere.

“And why should we believe you?” the brunette asks crossing her arms.

Taking a deep breath you roll your eyes at the girl and turn to her friend instead, “I don’t expect you to believe me but, I honestly had no clue about any of this happening. I mean I’m just as new to Riverdale as you are.”

The two friends look between each other almost as if they are having a silent conversation but say nothing causing an annoyed sigh to escape past your lips as you spin on your heels to leave.

“I tried,” you mumble to yourself before making your way to the dance floor prepared to have fun anyways.

Eventually the music stopped and Cheryl appeared in front of the microphone looking stunning with a smile on her face, “Good evening friends,” she begins before looking around the crowd, “Are you all having a good time?”

Cheering erupts through the gym causing Cheryl to silence once again, “As honorary chairperson and de facto queen of tonight's semi-formal, it is my great pleasure to introduce this evening's main entertainment. To know them is to be obsessed with them. Though they usually perform their own material, tonight, they're making an exception and debuting a cover of the song my parents claim they were listening to the night Jason and I were conceived. This one's for you, JJ,” she says as three girls with cat ears walked onto the stage, “I give you Josie and the Pussycats.”

As a slower tempo song begins to play throughout the gym you make your way off the dance floor and towards where the drinks are sat. You weren’t paying attention to anything but your cup of punch causing Cheryl’s sudden arrival to startle you.

“Hello my fellow River Vixen,” the redhead greets causing you to jump slightly.

“Hey Cheryl.”

“You’re coming to my after party right?” she asks as soon as you acknowledge her presence.

“I was actually going to head straight home-” you begin in an attempt to come up with an excuse.

“Oh no! You most definitely have to come, this party is going to be one for the history books. Especially since I'm in the mood for chaos.”

After seeing what Cheryl did at the tryouts you weren’t sure what was going to happen tonight, but you knew you weren’t going to miss it, “Okay. As long as I can bring a friend.”

“Of course. The more the merrier.”

You left the dance soon after with a quick call the Sweet Pea on the way to inform him that you were on your way to the Whyte Worm where you knew they would be. The moment you entered the bar you heard Sweet Peas voice call out over the rest, “What happened? Northsiders can’t hang or something?”

“Quite the opposite actually. Cheryl invited me to her after party and said I could bring friends,” you reply smugly as you approach your friends.

“When she said that she didn’t mean us Y/N/N,” Toni explains with a sigh.

“Why? Because you’re Serpents? I don’t give two shits about that fact and I know you don’t either, so what’s the big deal? I asked to bring a friend and she said yes, neither of us specified anything further so that is her fault. Now get ready because the dance is almost over and we have to drive all the way to that mansion Cheryl lives in.”

The tone in your voice made it clear that this wasn’t up for discussion and your three friends didn’t try to argue. Instead they mumbled about needing to change their clothes before they went and ushered you out of the par and towards the trailer park.

“It's game time at Chez Blossom, kiddies and we're going old-school tonight,” Cheryl announce to the people sitting in around the coffee table in her living room including you and Sweet Pea, “Seven Minutes in Heaven. Who wants to tryst in the Closet of Love first? My vote is "A" for Archie, anyone care to second it”

“Wait, actually-” Achrie starts in an attempt to get out of the game only to be cut off by one of his bulldog buddies, “Yes, Andrews! Yes.”

At the insistence of his friend Archie releases a nervous chuckle and gives in, “All right.”

“Gather round, kids. Let's see who's riding the ginger stallion tonight,” Cheryl announces before giving the bottle a spin.

After a couple turn it stops between Veronica and Betty causing Reggie to let out a laugh and exclaim, “Oh, no way!”

“It's clearly pointing to The new girl,” Cheryl declares, “This should be fun.”

“Um I'm not doing this,” Veronica states.

“That's up to you. But, if you don't, house rules decree the hostess gets to take your turn,” Cheryl replies with a smirk.

Knowing the seriousness of Cheryl’s threat, Archie and Veronica let out a sigh and head to the closet.

While everyone waits to see what is about to happen in the closet Betty bolts out of the room. After a minute you finally understand what was going on and how to get in with the girl. Tugging Sweet Pea over to the others you mumble that you’ll explain before rushing off after her.

You found her some ways down the street crying her eyes out and rushed to her instantly, “Betty, are you okay?” you question while trying to catch your breath, “You ran out of there pretty quickly what happened?”

“Nothing, it’s stupid,” she says dismissively while whiping tears from her eyes.

“It has to be something if it has you in tears,” you insist, “I get that you don’t really know me, but I’m here for you Betty. If you want we don’t even have to talk about it, we can just go back to my house and hang out to take your mind off of it.”

“Actually, that sounds like a good idea, thank you Y/N.”

“You don’t need to thank me, Betty,” you reply sincerely while leading her to your car that is parked right behind the vehicle Fangs followed you here in. On the way to the car you shoot a text to Sweet Pea explaining why you ditched them ad asking him to cover for you with Toni and Fangs. He understood completely since he helped you make the plan in the first place and made you promise to hang out again soon.

Betty was silent until you reached your bedroom, once inside she threw herself onto the bed allowing the sobs to overtake her. You didn’t say anything, instead you opted for just comforting the girl. Climbing onto the ed beside her you wrap an arm around her waist and rub soothing circles on her back.

“It’s okay Betty. You’re going to be okay. Just let it out,” you murmur knowing that even though the words might not magically heal her they can still help.

Eventually Betty’s sobs stopped and her tears dried up, but you knew that she still felt the pain. At that point you forgot that you were purely doing this for your own gain. You had been in her position so many times for her and now you simply felt bad so when you seen that she had calmed down enough you climbed out of bed grabbing pajamas for both of you. You couldn’t send her home where one or both of them would go looking for her.

“Here,” you murmur handing her the clothes, “I’m going to change in the bathroom so you can get some privacy.”

As you finished changing you heard a knock at your door. Confused you grabbed one of the switch blades out of the draw before walking over to see who it was. Opening the door you revealed that it wasn’t an enemy who stood on the other side of the door. It was the redhead from the party, Archie, seeing the culprit of all Betty’s pain you still wanted to use the knife on the boy.

“Can I help you?” you question crossing your arms over your chest.

“Uh, I heard from some kids at the party that Betty was left with you and since she wasn’t at home I was wondering if she was here?” he asks nervously as you stare through him.

“How do you even know where I live?” you retort ignoring the question he initially asked.

“You’re new, it’s not hard to figure out where one of the two new people in this town live. Is Betty here? I really need to talk to her.”

Just as you are about to tell him to get lost you hear a confused Betty speak from behind you, “Archie? What are you doing here?”

“I came to look for you. I was hoping we could talk,” he explains while he looks at Betty sorrowfully.

After thinking about it for a minute Betty nods hesitantly and follows Archie outside. You don’t know what was said since you wanted to give them some privacy, but know you wished that you eavesdropped. When Betty returned she was fighting off tears causing you to sigh and tug her back to your room where she could cry in peace.

That next morning by the time you woke up everyone was talking, texting, and posting about Jason Blossom and how his body was found with a Bullet wound in his head. How the world around us has changed, maybe forever and Riverdale wasn't the same town as before. It was a town of shadows and secrets now.

Riverdale Rewrite

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