Summertime Sadness, Chapter 1- Sweet Pea
Summary: Sage arrives to Riverdale to spend her summer holiday with her cousin Toni. She gets introduced to the Southside Serpents and cannot help being drawn to one of them. Soon, their adventures begin, even on the same day they met and will continue!
Warnings for this chapter: underage drinking
A/N: Soooo this is something @soff-ie and I are sooo excited to show you and will hope you’ll enjoy! Ten chapters are all written and more are planned! If you enjoy the beginning, I’ll post second chapter tomorrow! Also, not much happens in this chapter but it’s more of a introduction to the main characters but it’s alll about to change- we hope you’ll enjoy!
‘Are you sure they won’t mind me? Like you just told me that you’re in a gang and I can’t help it, but to worry what they’ll do to me if I accidentally roll my eyes at one of them’ I mumbled trying to talk Toni out of taking me to meet her “friends”. I came around 2 hours ago and did not expect that my summer holiday will start off my meeting a bunch of gang members.
‘Sage, they’re really not that bad- in fact, they’re pretty harmless… Well unless you piss them off or they just hate you’ I looked shocked at her.
‘You’re not helping!’ I groaned and she laughed.
‘Don’t worry, you’ll be fine- besides, we’re here’ she said and we took a sharp turn and my eyes shot open seeing a group of well build men wearing thick black leather jackets with a snake patches. Toni was wearing the same leather jacket, decorated with a snake as many others’ had but I didn’t think it meant anything until now… I looked down at my very different ‘fashion’- I was wearing cropped but oversized baby pink sweatshirt and a black tight skirt with a decorative ‘chain’ belt and a platformed Puma sneakers. Well, at least the belt matched their style a bit, right?
‘Everyone, this is Sage, Sage meet the Southside Serpents! This is Fangs, Jughead, Joaquin, Sweet Pea…’ I stopped listening when the giant guy ironically named “Sweet Pea” was staring at me as if he was reading me inside out. I felt so intimidated that I sneezed making everyone chuckle and I wanted to burn. I sneeze like a broken squeaky toy…
‘You look young, how old are you?' Joaquin asked.
’16… Well 17 in few months’ I answered leaning on my left leg.
‘Oh she’s like a baby’ I lowered my eyebrows feeling my pride being shattered.
‘Oh and how old are youse?’ I asked crossing my hands over my chest.
‘I’m 19’ said Joaquin ‘and the rest are either 17 about to turn 18 or 18… Or 89 like this guy right here’ he pointed at the oldest - yet still handsome man walking out of a trailer.
‘Very funny Joaquin, Sage right? I’m FP Jones, Jughead’s father’ he came up and shook my hand.
‘That’s the gang leader’ Sweet Pea said and I heard Jughead grunting.
‘And who am I?’ He asked visibly offended.
‘A mere copy’ he snapped back.
‘Jealous much Sweet Pea?’ Jughead commented back.
‘Oh Jones don’t flatter yourself’ he smirked and the area was filled with many arguments I didn’t really understand.
Few hours went by at this “Serpent Gathering” and I was left on my own without Toni, as she went somewhere with the red-haired girl named Cheryl. I felt as if I was bothering everyone there, so I decided to go home as it was already dark outside.
Suddenly, I heard a deep voice behind my back- ‘Pretty new thing’. I stopped and turned around to see four boys with baseball jackets, who I have never seen before.
‘Excuse you twat’ I hissed back at him.
‘Woah, calm it there babe- anger hurts beauty’
‘Stupidity hurts the world and you’re the reason why it’s always in so much pain’ I spat back.
‘Oh and she’s feisty- I like it’ he took a few steps closer as I took a few back. The other three bulky guys following behind the dark haired boy.
‘Go back to where you come from, I’m sure you don’t belong here you high school brat’ I snapped back at him. They got much closer to me trying to get in physical contact with my body. My hopeless “Get off!” cries were as helpless as ever, until a loud growl on a motorcycle engine disturbed the deadly silence of the park.
‘And what are the dumb dogs doing here? Your bitch of a mothers never taught you not to invade our territory?’ I hear a known voice and as I saw Sweet Pea getting off his bike- Fangs and Joaquin right behind him, I felt a great sense of happiness- I’ll live- I thought…
‘Shut your mouth you dirty Serpent and go back to where you came from- she has nothing to do with you so she shouldn’t concern you’ the one who approached me first spoke back.
‘Are you sure about that?’ Sweet Pea came closer to him and I got slightly worried.
‘You Serpent dicks trespassed our Bulldog school- we’ll invade your territory as you invaded us. Go back to hell you dead snakes’
‘You just made a bug mistake’ Sweet Pea smirked and pulled out his pocket knife making me a little more scared of the gang which Toni described as “harmless”… Yeah, I don’t think so…
‘Chill man we were just playing’ the “Bulldog” said. ‘Let’s leave boys, we’ll sort out our business some other time’ he hissed and all four left.
‘You’re all right?’ Joaquin asked and I just nodded my head as a “yes”.
‘Have they done anything to you?’ Fangs said and I answered with a short ‘No’ and quickly added a ‘thanks’ after that.
‘We’ll take you the the Wyrm- Toni might be there’ Sweet Pea said and got on his bike the same time as the other two did.
‘Need help getting on’ Sweet Pea smirked and I slowly walked up to him and sat behind him.
‘Hold on tight’ he commanded right before he raced out towards some “Wyrm” place, making me squeak and hold on to him tightly.
We got to the Wyrm around five minutes later. Today’s night in Riverdale was bitterly cold due to a chill wind, which made me shiver. Sweet Pea looked me up and down and also concluded that I was cold and took off his leather jacket, placing it on my shoulders. He turned back around- Fangs and Joaquin were weirdly looking at him, with a hint of shock and confusion.
‘What? She’s Toni’s cousin- and Topaz would kill me if I’d let her freeze’ he said and the other two shrug their shoulders with an inert facial expression.
Later that night, I was peacefully sitting on a single bar stool and carefully watching Sweet Pea play pool- I never played it and therefore I was fascinated by his constant “wins” and successes and didn’t even realise when he caught me staring at him. When I finally did, I looked back at his face and he smirked at me making me roll my eyes as far as I possibly could. I faced the other way as I saw him coming my direction.
‘Nope’ I carelessly answered.
‘Let me teach you then’ he demanded and I looked up at him as if he was speaking Latin.
‘Are you serious?’ I asked.
‘More than ever’ he nodded his head at the bartender and few second later he reached for two shots of vodka.
‘Here, drink this first so you’re not so moody’ I rolled my eyes with a light smile and swallowed the bitter liquid, keeping a straight face after to show that the taste didn’t bother me. Sweet Pea dragged me towards the massive pool table and attempted to teach me how to play. During this time we drank more and more, getting further drunk with every shot. Sweet Pea many times attempted to be cocky but his confidence was crushed with every mean joke I made. We play fought a lot, until I was so tired and could literally sleep on the pool table itself. He suggested he’ll walk me to Toni’s trailer, but I said that I know my way home. The sense of knowledge I felt towards Toni’s trailer was demolished when he told me that earlier I was going in completely wrong direction, at the same time winning me over and walking me home.
We had the most random conversation about how he met Toni and how I really like photography. When we got to Toni’s trailer, it turned out that I was locked out so we had to walk back to the Wyrm as Sweet Pea put forward, to see if maybe she appeared there. We walked all the way back to find so trace of the pink haired girl. Both of us got even more drunk while sitting on a black coach, waiting for Toni to magically show up. We didn’t last and ended up falling asleep.
In the morning, I was woken up by a loud and angry scream of Toni. Her voice made me jump and I fell on a hard surface. I looked up at Sweet Pea, realising I slept dangerously close to him- meaning I slept on his laps. I was shocked at how close we were and worried at how wrong I may have looked to Toni.
‘What were you thinking?! I came back home and you were nowhere to be seen and in the morning, I find you in some dude’s arms and may I remind you that you only know him for one day?’
‘Some dude’s? Really? Oh, and if you wouldn’t have locked her out she would be home but since you did, I think it’s better she stayed the night here with someone you can trust Topaz’ Sleepy Sweet Pea with a deeper and huskier voice than ever spoke up to uneasy Toni, who staring at me and him ready to illuminate us both straight away.
‘Just get back home’ she said and pulled my up my my arm and dragged me out. So it’s all my fault now?
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