U N H O L Y - [Sweet Pea]

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Kate took a deep breath and grabbed onto the handles of her bag, the weight of it suddenly feeling as the jacket carried bricks in its pockets. She opened the door of the Southside Highschool, jumping as the bell just rung and students spilled onto the hallway. Kate kept her head down and managed to get through without too many people calling her names or shoving her aside. She followed the other guy with a Serpent logo on his back, walking through the cafeteria and eventually finding the tallest member of the gang at a table in the back.

Sweet Pea lifted his pure chocolate eyes up to her face, one eyebrow cocking upwards and he sat up a bit more straight. "Who is she?". Toni whispered in his ear and his eyes lingered on Kate a bit longer before he looked at the curly haired girl. "The girl who had my jacket". He simply replied and it caused the other Serpents to look up at her. Fangs whistled through his teeth. "Pea's girl, nice". Kate looked down at the floor and hoped they didn't see her flustered posture. Sweet Pea shoved the laptop aside that he had in front of him, his arms leaning on the table.

Kate studied him for a brief moment, the blouse he wore, the denim that replaced the leather and oh god he was still unbelievably attractive. There was something about him she couldn't get over. "Staring is impolite, babe". His deep voice pulled her out of her thoughts and she swallowed hard and ignored the nickname that rolled off his tongue so easily before putting her bag on the table to get his jacket out of it. "How did she get his jacket anyway?". One of them snarled and Kate parted her lips to speak up, however Sweet Pea was quicker than her.

"I'm simply a gentleman, don't you all know?". A grin spread his lips and made her knees weak. Fangs rolled his eyes and pushed Sweet Pea's shoulder. Everyone looked up and Kate looked over her shoulder in confusion. Jughead walked up to them, his face serious and all, yet a glint of surprise was visible when he saw Kate standing in front of the table where the Serpents were seated. "Guess we're not watching funny cat videos?". He said and looked at the laptop which was probably showing something everyone was interested in all in sudden. Sweet Pea looked up at Jughead, his tongue running over his lips and made Kate looked away from him with a heated face.

"Check this out". Sweet Pea turned the laptop around and shoved it over the table for Jug to see. "Some sick in the head Northsider posted this crazy ass video and we we're just talking". The tall Serpent shrugged as if it was nothing. Kate held her breath as she recognized Archie in the video. "About what?". Jughead asked, a little annoyed by now. "Fogarty wants to earn his Serpent stripes, I say, bring us the head of the Northsider and you're in". He padded the friend that whistled at Kate earlier on his shoulder and he looked pretty content with what Sweet Pea just said. "I'm down with that". Fangs shrugged and Sweet Pea's grin grew, his fist banging a couple times on the table.

"Guys". There was a somewhat urgent sound in Jughead's voice and Kate didn't really know what to do. Other guys and girls were looking at her and she wasn't comfortable with walking back to her car all alone now. She just stood there, watching it all. "What, Jones". Kate could practically hear the eyeroll in Sweet Pea's voice. "Alright, I know this guy, he's a milquetoast, he's a-... he's a football player, he's kind of a lame target is all I'm saying. You want to prove something? Why don't you go after the Black Hood?". Kate had no idea what they were talking about and she dearly wanted to understand as it sounded quite dangerous.

"And why would we do that? The Black Hood's targeting Northsiders who do nothing but blame the Southsiders for everything's what wrong with this town and we're sick of it! Black Hood is doing the work for us, he's a hero". Sweet Pea replied, his eyebrow arching as if he was ready for another smart remark or either slam his fist into Jughead's jaw, Kate already figured Sweet Pea didn't really know a way in between. Jughead's jaw clenched and he walked away without saying anything. Kate innocently looked up as the eyes were back on her again. "Do you have the same stupid opinion as he does?". One of them snarled and Kate's eyes widened.