My eyes fluttered opened to sunshine from a open window and singing birds. Pfft yeah right. When I fell asleep everything started black. Then I started to see my brother and all of the serpents fighting the ghoulies. I tried to run to my brothers aid as I watched him get beat with a studded bat but I couldn't move. When my brother couldn't move anymore the man pulled out a gun and shot him. Then the scene transferred to Toni I watched as she sat duct taped to an old sofa with Malachi and Penny close by arguing I tried so hard to untape her but I still couldn't move. Then I saw Sweat Pea he was fighting with Archie and then Archie pulled out a gun. The shot rang in my ear when the tears came out all at once. Then I saw Fangs Reggie appeared with a gun but didn't shoot him someone else did. And I just stood there watching crying trying to warn them about what was coming. I shot up from the bed screaming and crying I started to panic because I couldn't breathe. My head turned quickly to take in my surroundings when I felt hands rubbing on my arm soothingly. "Are you ok princess?" I nodded my head no as my head sank into his chest and started sobbing. "What happened," he asked. I could practically feel him staring down at me worried." It was terrible they killed Jughead and then Archie shot you. An-and then Malachi had Toni," I started to cry again as he rubbed my back in circles gently. "Hey its ok. We're all fine," I nodded and went to check the alarm clock. 6:30. I smiled as I realized that I could finally get to school on time. I ran to the shower I stripped and stepped in the warm water. I could feel my muscles relax. Then I realized I didn't have any clothes. I finished the shower stepped out and told Sweat Pea bye. When I got back home I found my dad sleeping on the old pull out sofa. I walked into my dads room confused and Jughead awake pacing. "Oh A.J. hey um I've been meaning to ask you this. Um ok I'm running for student body president and I was wondering if you would be my co-president with Betty?" he looked so hopeful but I nodded my head no. "Sorry Jug I was for real when I said I don't do politics, but you will for sure have my vote and Sweat Pea's," he still looked sad but nodded anyways. I ran into mine and Jug's room to find Betty sleeping in my bed. Her soft snores made me laugh as I walked out of mine and Jughead's room shaking my head. "Ok don't tell me Betty is living here," I chuckled as I walked back in my dads room. He nodded. "Dad said it was ok and I didn't want to give her my bed because everyone who lives here knows you have the best bed. She can move over to mine if you want her too," I shook my head rapidly. "No it's fine I was just wondering but one more question why is dad sleeping on the couch?" his eyes flickered to the hallway that led back to the living room area. "He said he wanted to get use to sleeping on the couch. He figured you could sleep in my bed and I'll sleep in his," I could feel my eyebrows get closer to each other as I tried to figure out why I couldn't just sleep on the couch. I shrugged and walked into my room and started to search my side of the closet. I pulled out a shirt, jacket, pants, and my serpent jacket. I wore this:
I walked out of my room to find my dad up and eating cereal at the table. I grabbed an apple and sat down. "Hey dad so I was thinking. Jughead should take his bed back, then you can have yours and I can sleep on the couch," he nodded his no at me. "Nah you don't have to," I sighed and chuckled. "Dad you and me both know you have a bad back. Besides I'm younger so if I hurt myself it should heal faster," he chuckled at me and shrugged. "Ok I guess. I feel like a bad dad letting you sleep on the couch," I nodded my head no. "Dad it's fine just let me," he nodded and I hugged him then ran out. Sweat pea pulled up and I pulled myself on the back of his bike. We pulled up to school and I jumped off and started to walk in. "Aren't you gonna give me a kiss," he fake pouted as he pointed at his cheek. I walked over and went to kiss his cheek. I stopped and pulled out my tongue. I wiped a line on his cheek. I laughed as he started to chase after me. He caught up to me and I ran into the auditorium. He pushed me on the ground and started to tickle me. I giggled and begged him to stop. When he did stop I pushed myself off the ground to find there was a questioning for the running student body president. I felt my cheeks heat up as I sat on the closest chair I could find which was one away from Fangs I smiled at him while he just laughed at me. Sweat Pea sat next to me still grinning. They talked for awhile and Sweat Pea asked a question but I didn't care I was to busy trying to not fall asleep. When it ended Jughead and Betty ran off and I couldn't find them so I walked outside. I sat under an old tree and pulled out The Seventh son. I started to read when I felt my phone vibrate. I pulled it out and slid the answer button. I put it to my ear and shivered when his raspy voice hit my ear. "Hey princess how you doing? You see I decided I just had to call you I was meaning to tell you I get out in two weeks. Which means I can get to see more of you. I guess we'll get to have a little fun," I stared at the grass in front of me frozen in fear. "We'll see what my boyfriend has to say about that," I whispered under my breath. "Oh don't worry I'll deal with your boyfriend later," I gasped. "You wouldn't. You need to stay away from him," I could hear him chuckle from the other side. "We'll see," then he hung up. "Hey," I jumped when I watched Sweat Pea sit next to me. He started to look worried. "What wrong princess?" I could feel a tear race down my cheek. "It's him," his eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "Who," I could feel the tears poor out of my eyes. "Malachi. I'm sorry for not telling you Sweat Pea he's been texting me and calling me. Sweat Pea he's getting out in two weeks. And he told me if I don't- if I don't go with him when he gets out. He-he-he promised me he would kill everyone I loved including you. And Sweat Pea I can't stop crying," he looked worried as he rubbed gentle circles on my back. "Hey it's ok. Look princess we're not gonna let him get to you or us," I nodded as I tried to wipe my tears away. "And everyone needs to cry sometimes," I smiled weakly at him when he picked me up bridal style. "We're going to pop's," I nodded and he carried me to his bike and placed me on the front. He sat behind me and placed his arms around mine to control the controls. He directed the motorcycle to pop's and we walked into it and pop smiled at us. "What would you two lovebirds like," I laughed at him. "Double chocolate milkshake please," Sweat Pea ordered a chocolate milkshake and we sat down. We talked for a couple hours and we decided to go back to school. When we got there we had a swords and serpents meeting. I sat there pondering if I should tell my dad about Malachi or not. When I looked up I saw Sweat Pea standing up and talking to Jughead. "Your partnering with the traitors daughter. To us that's a slap in the face for that you won't get our vote," he looked at me sadly but never said anything then left. I sighed and shook my head. "I'm sorry Jug," he nodded at me and we headed back to our trailer. Jughead and Betty sat on the couch opposite of me. "What are Sweat Pea and Fangs's problem. What do I have to do to prove I'm a serpent? Wear more plaid," I looked up and felt my anger start to overcome. I swallowed it down and sighed. "Your mother is serpent enemy number one Betty. She's been attacking the serpents for a long time now," she looked at me worriedly. "Your right," she looked down obviously thinking about something when my dad walked in with his phone pressed to his ear. "Turn on channel 8," I grabbed the remote and turned on the t.v. I quickly changed it to channel 8 which was the news channel. They found it. They found the car. I watched and could feel a seed growing in my stomach. It was a seed of fear. We went to pop's with Alice. "I can't believe they found it," I said. "We should've dealt with it better," Jughead said into his hands. "How were you supposed to know the scrap yard searches the river for throw offs. It's dumb luck," my dad said. "More like Jones luck," I said sarcastically back. The doorbell rang as the sheriff walked in. The whole table tensed up and watched him walk to the bar and talked to the waitress. "Look if anyone comes asking questions we don't know anything. We are going to act completely normal," my dad instructs. "Which means your coming home young lady," I almost wanted to laugh at Alice for saying that but Betty looked infuriated by her. "No you are not going to use this as a way to manipulate me to go back there," I sighed as I got up and walked to pop asking for a refill. I came back and looked at an angry father. "What? You said act normal?" I heard Jughead slightly chuckle when pop walked over with my milkshake. "Thanks pop," he nodded at me then left. We went back to the trailer and I decided to go to sleep. My dad let me sleep in his bed after about thirty minutes I could hear the door open and close. I assumed that it was just Betty and Jughead and went back to sleep. I drifted off and everything went black that's when I started to see everything that I did last night. I tried to help my friends but I couldn't move again and then I couldn't breathe and then I died. I watched my own funeral, I watched all of my friends come and go. I watched Sweat Pea kill himself and I jumped out of bed. Someone was banging on our door I checked my dads alarm clock. 7:00. I sighed and threw the comforter off of me. I walked into the living room to find Alice and my dad scolding Jughead and Betty. I was still a bit scared as I sat down next to Chic. Jughead looked at me worriedly. "So help me F. P. If you don't back me up with this I will rip this trailer apart with my barehands," my dad looked at me worriedly to and I smiled at him reassuringly. Then he looked back at Alice and nodded. Betty sighed" Well I'll go pack," I heard Alice say she would go to help and they went through the hallway towards my room. When they were gone my dad and my brother looked at me again concerned. "Are you ok A.J.?" "Yeah why do you ask?" They looked at each other then back at me. "You look whiter than a ghost," I shivered because I could feel the room go cold. "I'm fine," I went to my dads room and walked into the bathroom. I looked at myself in the mirror. I really did look terrible. I started to picture Sweat Pea killing himself again and I ran to the toilet and threw up. I sat on the ground next to the toilet silent. I couldn't feel anything I couldn't think anything I was empty. I eventually decided to make myself look presentable so I walked into my room and went to the bathroom where I found Betty and Alice. "Can I grab the make up bag please," Betty looked at me through the mirror and I could see the worry grow in her eyes. "A.J. are you ok?" I nodded and grabbed the make up bag and walked out. I grabbed some more comfortable clothes from the closet too. I walked back to my dads bathroom. I sighed as I changed into the sweats.
I took the makeup and rubbed it on my face to cover up the black bags under my eyes. I walked out and grabbed a book and Jughead's laptop shoved it in my backpack, and went for the door. "Where are you going?" My dad asked and I shrugged. "The Wyrm maybe or pop's I don't know," he just shrugged at me and I walked out the door. As I was going for the stairs Reggie was walking up the stairs. "Hey A.J.," "Oh great my knight in shining armor has come to save me from this terrible home," I put my hand on my forehead dramatically and pretended to faint. He chuckled at me and I laughed. "Nah I'm kidding what's up Reg," I asked. "Well I was wondering if you wanted to go to pop's with me..... As friends of course," I laughed and nodded. "Sure," he smiled as I ran down the stairs and tripped. "You might need a knight," he muttered sarcastically as he went to help me up. "Hey I got Sweat Pea for the saving ok. Remember?" I asked him and he nodded. Then Sweat Pea walked up to us. "Glad to know you think that princess," I laughed as he pulled me into a bear hug and kissed my cheek. "Where you guys going?" Reggie looked at me awkwardly and I smirked. "Pop's, you wanna come?" He nodded and we walked to Reggie's car. Reggie looked at me angrily and I laughed evily. "You can have shotgun Sweats," he nodded and smiled. "K," he sat in the front seat and we drove in awkward silence till I could hear my song being quietly played on the radio. "Oh my gosh it's my song," I turned the volume to full blast and started to sing with turn the music up by Nf. "Turn the music up!" I was screaming while Reggie and Sweat Pea just laughed at me. We got there and sat down in the booth right next to the one me and Sweat Pea normally sit in. I pulled out Jughead's laptop and started to edit his article some more because I was behind. I looked up and saw both of the bus were staring at me. "What?" I asked feeling my cheeks heat up. "Nothing," the both said looking down. I laughed and folded the laptop and put it back in my backpack. "Let's play a game," they both nodded and smiled. "Let's play twenty questions," they nodded and I told Reggie to go first. "What's your favorite color?" He asked Sweat Pea. He answered blue and Sweat Pea turned to me. "What's your favorite t.v. show?" I took a while to think. "Um on my block maybe. Or teen Wolf.... I don't know," I said throwing my hands up in the air. We spent almost an hour like that until Jughead called me and said he needed to talk. I tried to walk home by myself but of course Reggie and Sweat Pea were not having that. So I sat in the backseat silently watching the scenes of Riverdale pass by. When I got home I walked in and found Jughead siting on the worn yellow sofa staring at the ground. "Hey Juggie," I put my serpent jacket on the coat hanger and sat next to him. He looked over at me. "A.J. what's wrong," I wanted to tell him so bad. I wanted to tell him about the nightmares I wanted to tell him that I was scared to sleep I wanted to tell him about the Physcosis, but I couldn't let him worry about it. "Look Jug I think I'm getting a little sick. you know a fever or something..... but it's nothing I couldn't deal with," he nodded at me and I smiled at him. I pulled his computer out of my backpack and gave it to him. He thanked me and I nodded to him then went to our room. (Her and Jughead have separate closets but they share the same thing room.) I looked around not knowing what to do. I opened my closet door and sat down. I closed the door and turned on my phone. I clicked spotify and listened to my music. I still couldn't felt like nothing. I stared at all the expensive clothes Veronica bought me. I stayed like that for a while. What felt like a few hours must've been longer because Jughead threw my door open and started screaming in happiness. "Oh my god I found you. A.J. we've been searching for you all night," I looked up at him. "What I've only been in here for like an hour," "A.J. you've been missing for 12 hours," I quickly grabbed my phone and turned it on. 7:30 am. "That doesn't make any since it was just pm. He looked at me curiously and I shook it off. "You know what I probably fell asleep. I'm sorry Jug I didn't mean to scare you," he nodded at me. "It's fine just don't say anything to dad he doesn't know. I told him you went to bed early," I thanked him and got up. The weirdest part was my phone was still on 82 percent which was the same percent my phone was on when I sat down. I know I didn't fall asleep. I don't know what's wrong with me. Me and Jughead decided to go to Whyte Wyrm after I was still wearing my same clothes that I was yesterday. I sat in the corner when Toni walked over. "You okay?" I nodded at her and she smiled. "Good," she didn't want to but I made sure she left and had some fun. Eventually my brother got a call from Betty. We didn't know what is was about until he came in and rallied the younger serpents to go to her house. There were people holding her hostage. I felt terrible. We went and Jughead tried to open the door. It didn't work. I was starting to get angry I ran up and kicked it down. Sweat Pea pulled off some other parts so the others could get through. "You brought back up. Smart one blondie," and old pale woman said to Betty. "Shut the heck up," I said, she looked at me surprised while I pulled my pocket knife open. "It's all of us verses you so you should probably leave," Jughead said. "The Coopers are very respected people in this town so why don't you go back to Greendale then maybe we won't have any problems," they nodded and left. Which kind of surprised me. "Well that was easy," Fangs said. I laughed and nodded. We all filed out except for Jughead. I assumed this would be the conversation that caused Betty's mom to think better of us serpents but I couldn't plan on it. I quickly texted
Jughead to explain what happened when he was done. He responded with a quick K and that was the end of our conversation. I went home and started to get ready to sleep when my phone buzzed. I looked over to see the text message. I unlocked my phone and gasped as I read it. You might wanna check on Topaz. Bombshell will be gone for a while
A/N: So this chapter is kinda weird. I got inspired while doing some research for something else. Also kind of cliff hanger. It took me awhile to figure out how I was gonna out this but I think the chapter after the next chapter will be one of the best. It might take a little while to write though. Sorry :(