Little Lion Man

Wrong side of the tracks.Tried to leave, but you came right back.You think you're smart, but you don't know jack.It's in your blood and that's a F A C T.

[serpent-fangs]

serpanttopaz·:

Toni didn’t expect this to be an easy conversation, but what she did know was that despite his fussing Fangs was grateful. It may not have been her actual job to take care of her friends, but she felt as if she was the mom of the group. The two boys didn’t have people, besides the serpents, in their lives that were solely there to provide and ensure their safety; that’s what Toni felt she needed to be for them, felt she had to be. She didn’t know her role in the friendship without it. “It’s technically not even my bike yet. All I’ve done is pay the service fee for the bike to built. Sweets can sell it at anytime,” Toni began. It was the same line Fangs had told her more than once: let yourself have something. If it were her choice she give all she had if it meant the boys need not worry every again. “I have you guys, I don’t need anything more. You two get your trailer, have your adventures, just be in a place where you both feel safe and don’t have to sell to get by.”

Fangs wanted to ask Toni if there was more to this, if she was okay, what all the money was for originally and why she wouldn’t stay with them, but he couldn’t get his thoughts and questions into words. This was too much for her to do, but he knew all too well once Toni decided on something there was no stopping her. With a little sigh he reached out to pull her into a hug, his chin resting on top of her head as he said ‘thank you’ to her once more. As he pulled back he smiled down at her and warily put the envelopes into his backpack. The guilt settled into his stomach, but he tried to hope for the best, that he wouldn’t have to sell any longer and that they would all be okay. “Does Sweet Pea know you’re doing this?” Fangs would have no way to explain how he could afford a place or food on top of his mother’s hospital bills being caught up. “Well then we’ll have a good crash pad for our movie nights again.’ He tried to say with a lighter tone as he pulled his backpack back up on his shoulder.

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serpanttopaz·:

“You would do it for me,” Toni quickly interjected. They were all the same. Each other trio loved working for everything they had and providing for those around them however it was few and far between that they asked each other for help, but they were all close enough that there was never a need to ask the other always just knew what to do. “Pay me back by not selling Fizzle Rocks anymore. I’m working more doubles, I’ll make the money back. I don’t want you to payment,” she explained. “And Sweetpea is going to happily be the one to move in with you once I tell him to sell my bike to take up rent with you. I promised you both I’m going to take care of you.” 

Fangs stared at Toni for a few moments before nodding once more, she wasn't wrong, of course he would do it for her because she was his family and family took care of one another, but it was easier to be the one taking care of others than being the one who needed help. When she told him to stop selling Fizzle Rocks he found himself nodding because he really was trying to not have to do it. He knew it was wrong when he first started, but the need to feed everyone and take care of his mother trumped doing the wrong thing, but now no matter how much he'd try to stay away, he was getting in bed with the enemy and needed to do whatever he had to to prove his loyalty. "He's not selling your bike, he's been working really hard on it. Let yourself have something, T. Stay with us, let us drive you crazy, you don't have to be our caretaker." His voice was almost pleading, wishing she'd let him give back to her in some way, even though it would never measure up to what she has done for him.

[thevmontgomery]

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og-mantle·:

“Doesn’t sound like you’re complaining,” Grace grinned. She wouldn’t mind spending a little more time with the Serpent boy. He was nice to look at and so far seemed easy to converse with. As long as her brother never found out, what would be the harm? “Yeah we definitely wouldn’t have noticed each other. While you had your monster trucks and probably GI Joes, my parents had me running division equations and practicing grammar. Not the funniest kid if you ask me,” she giggled. Grace missed out on a lot growing up, which is somewhat why she wasn’t sad to be back in Riverdale. She’d be able to have the fun that she missed out on while she was gone. 

Grace immediately shook her head, letting out a light laugh. “I’d guess… football? No wait, wrestling? You look like you could tackle someone if needed. Depends do you count Cheerleading as a sport? I’d happily just cheer people on from the sidelines than have to actually worry about sports equipment flying at my face,” she explained. “Let’s keep our fingers crossed then that you’re secretly a sweetheart somewhere down there then,” Grace responded. Though she couldn’t help but laugh a little quieter to herself. She could never imagine herself ‘ending up’ with anyone. As if her parents would ever give her the freedom to do something that didn’t involve books or learning. 

She nodded even though she couldn’t really understand where Fangs was coming from. She was used to having everything she needed prepared for her and most of the things she wanted. Grace couldn’t wrap her head around education not being up to par to her expectations. “I’d say I’m the lucky one,” she smiled back. As Fangs pulled the blankets around her, Grace felt a sense of warmth that had nothing to do with head. She moved closer, tucking herself into Fangs to get more comfortable. Every so often she would see the scary parts coming, hoping to catch Fangs jumping but instead noticed his eyes were wandering to her. “You know the movie’s up there right?” she teased whispering up to the boy.

“That’s because I’m not, movies and present company are far from something Id complain over.” So far Fangs was getting on with Grace pretty well, time would tell, but she definitely seemed a bit different from the classic Northsider who wouldn’t have even looked his way. “No GI Joes, but I did have those tiny army men that are about as bad as a lego if you step on them.” He chuckled. “Sounds like your parents at least cared about your education, though I don’t think I would chose a math problem over midnight hide and go seek.”

“I play some basketball with my friend actually, but wrestling is a good time as well." He nodded. "Are you kidding? I would have a very angry best friend if I said cheerleading wasn't a sport." With a small laugh, he continued to listen to her talk, his head bouncing from side to side as though he wasn't sure if he was a sweetheart under the rough exterior. He wouldn't agree that he was, with certain people he was just more himself than others and with a select few he was simply a nightmare, especially when paired with his partner(s) in crime.

Another thing he wouldn't say was that as comfortable as he could be dropping a lame line every now and again, he didn't hear much of it back and here she was, reciprocating most of his comments and causing a happy grin to rest on his face. She'd catch his glance from time to time and he'd just grin his little lopsided smile and look back up until she commented on it. "I think we've both seen it a few times seeing as though you're not getting scared." He whispered back. "Plus I think I've got the real show right here, I'm not missing anything."

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jfcveronicalodge·:

school, vixen practice, homework, work, repeat. try throwing in extra study hours, owning a business and having a social life. veronica was a ticking time bomb, she didn’t know it yet but any moment she would crack under pressure and come crumbling to pieces. she placed her hand under her arm and leaned her head into her palm. she could feel herself doze off for a moment on accident and she snapped out of it “i’m sorry, that was rude of me.” she gulped “i’m all yours now.” 

Fangs had taken a seat at the front counter of Pops and watched as Veronica started to doze off in front of everyone, causing him to shake his head. "You alright? Looks like you're even more tired than I've been." He didn't have much of an opinion on the raven haired girl before him. She was definitely a Northsider and her deal with her father caused the Serpents to lose the Wyrm, but she had also stood on their side from time to time as well. As far as he could tell she was a boomerang that looped back and forth. "I think sleep is on the menu for you, Little Lodge."

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northsideprepster·:

Kevin had decided to tag along with his father to South Side High, he wanted to hang out with his father who provided him with an ‘excused absence.” There had been a fight in the hall way that his father had to break up, and Kevin decided to slip away towards a lounge area where he spotted Fangs Fogarty napping. He sat down across from him. “Just a fight in the hallway. My dad is breaking it up. Can’t say it was too exciting, it was over a calculator.” He smiled. “How are you doing, Fangs. Feel like we haven’t spoken in forever.”

Fangs sat upright and craned his neck from side to side, trying to stretch the kinks out from sleeping on seriously uncomfortable furniture. “A calculator? Guess we do have some geeks here after all.” He said in a tired yet amused tone. “I’m alright, yeah it’s been some time. How have you been? What are you doing here? I didn’t expect to see you on our side of the tracks.”

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serpanttopaz·:

“Fangs,” she started. “You know I love you… And I know your mother means the world to you. I already put a donation at the hospital on your behalf so don’t worry about the next two months. Anonymously because I know she won’t take it if she knew it was from me,” she explained. He was right, it wasn’t just her only savings, it was all the money Toni had to her name, but for Fangs she thought it was worth it. Toni put her hand on her friend’s thigh, knowing he was going to be stubborn about this. “It’s my money, Fogarty, you can’t tell me what to do with it, but I can suggest you finally rent that trailer you’ve been looking at.”

When Toni mentioned already putting in a donation at the hospital he felt his chest growing tight. If anyone was going to know how much it all meant to him it would be Toni or Sweet Pea and he was desperately trying to think of how he could get her this money back. “Tiny, you shouldn’t be doing this-” He bit his lip and shook his head, but when he looked at her she had the most determined look in her eye and he nodded with a heavy sigh. “Thank you, seriously, I don’t deserve this. And I’m going to pay you back, don’t try telling me you won’t accept it.” As she mentioned him getting the trailer, he gave her a small smile. “If I’m getting a trailer then I could use a roommate.”

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serpanttopaz·:

Toni reached into her bag, pulling out a stacked envelope that had to be taped together with clear tape. She dropped it in Fangs lap, then moved back into her original position. “And before you say anything, I’m not accepting it back or allowing you to try and repay me.” 

Fangs took the stacked envelopes and looked at Toni curiously. “What is-” as he looked inside one he immediately looked back up at her and shook his head. “Tiny, I’m not taking this. I can handle my stuff without you giving up what I’m assuming is your only savings.”

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ser-pea-nt‌:

“I don’t know much about it except it’s just some old ass abandoned house, apparently you go in but you don’t come out. You know the gig.” He said waving his hands around in an act to playfully spook Fang’s out only to laugh as his friend quickly went for his stash of snack. It was just like him to always be prepared with food. “I’ll get some necessary shit together.”  Sweets’ brows furrowed when Fangs brought up Jughead. “Fuck Jug. If he can run off for a damn month without a word I can go out of fucking town for a day. Trust me, he knows I’m not in any temper  to be called out for something like this.” Sweet pea said still wearing the fresh bruises from their fight. “Besides, it’s not like we are doing anything illegal, unless trying to flirt with ghosts is a criminal offense now. You think Toni would be pissed if I can get a spirits number?” He joked to lighten the mood. The last thing Sweet pea wanted was to think about the code or that his closest friends were not part of them anymore… well not officially. “Where are the extra batteries?”

I’m down to stay in a haunted house forever, sure as hell beats Riverdale.” Fangs replied almost all too quickly, still grinning never the less. They were finally going to get away for a night, nothing could take away from that. As Fangs sorted what snacks to pack, he looked up and nodded. “You know if we’re going in and never coming out then I think food is pretty necessary.” He replied, happy to turn Sweet’s own spook back on him. However he was clearly wrong to mention Jughead and nodded without saying anything more on the subject. Sweets had a point, the Serpent King was gone for a long while and returned with anger as to how things were being run, he couldn’t exactly get mad at Sweets for taking a day for himself. At Sweets’ question, Fangs laughed. “I think she’d be cool with it! And even if shes not you still have to try. Do you think you need like a ghost phone to call a ghost? Or do they answer normal phones? When you get a butt dialed call from someone, what if it’s just actually a ghost calling you?” As per always, random questions spouted from Fangs’ mouth as he put all the snacks in his bag and looked over at Sweet Pea. “They’re in the fridge, I’ll grab ‘em!” He stepped over to the fridge and pulled the batteries out of the bottom drawer before handing them over. “Think Toni will kill us if we bring that old ass spirit board?”

[thevmontgomery]

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og-mantle·:

“There’s a lot of cult classics we’re going to have to get you caught up on,” Grace grinned in agreement. She was knowledgable at a lot of things, but movies and trivia was really where Grace shined. She shook her head at his next comment. Back then Grace still went by Olivia and was a shy, little girl who trailed her brother’s side.She was too timid at the time to even look at boys let along talk to them. Besides, even back then the Mantle family was just as strict about Southsiders. She doubted that even if they did run into each other she’d be allowed to acknowledge him.  “I’m sure you were just as good looking then as you are now. Just probably without the bike,” she teased. 

She nodded, “My family is everything to me. But I listened more so because I actually wanna know about sports, but I never really got the hang of it like I did other stuff.” The blush appeared back on her face once Fangs began complimenting her. She wasn’t usually so easy to charm, but something about the way he spoke about her made Grace feel light. “My movie role either goes for the bad guy who secretly is a sweetheart or I fall in love with the best-friend I never noticed until my heart was broken,” she joked back. This time though, because of the way they were walking there wasn’t much of a way to hide her smile and she knew Fangs could obviously see. “Surprised you were even welcomed at all from some of the stories I’ve heard, but I’m glad you were able to meet a few nice people before transferring bacl. Are you glad to be home?”

Grace made herself comfortable wrapped in Fangs’ arm, pulling one of the blankets to cover her legs.  “My date,” Grace whispered back teasingly. 

"And now this weirdly feels like a takeover." Fangs joked, not at all disappointed at the idea of watching more movies. It was one heck of a way to pass time and Sweet Pea, Toni and himself did it often, always going through whatever stash of movies Fangs had burned for them for the week in no time and then making a new list for the next week. "Eh, I had questionable style, really into monster trucks, so they were on just about everything I owned until I was about seven." He admitted with a low chuckle as he remembered what an odd child he was at times.

Fangs nodded, appreciating the statement that family meant everything to her, even if he didn't mention it, it said a lot about her character. Family, blood or not, was one of the most important things to him as well. "Don't feel too bad, I've never been the most into sports either, but throw me into a game and I'll figure it out. Are there any sports you're getting the hang of?" Fangs nodded as she explained her role in movies. "Well you might not want to ask the general public of their opinion on that one, I'm surely pinned as the bad guy. You just might fit the movie cliche." He kept his voice light despite the truth of some of the trouble he had been in in the past and as of recently, instead he matched her grin and walked alongside her.  

"Honestly, we were all pretty surprised too, but yes it's definitely nice to be back. The books are all missing covers and pages and there's no real funding, but there's something about knowing one place is yours." Even despite there being other Southsiders in rival gangs who could cause trouble, everyone typically kept to their own scene, not bothering one another all that much because it meant you were going to start more trouble in sometimes the one escape anyone had from their homes. "Ah, poor you, lucky guy though." He couldn't help but slip in a stupid line, but smiled her way in his own way of showing that he was away it was lame but still a good one. “I see we have a blanket hog.” He teased as he grabbed on end of it, pulling it over his own legs and reaching over to pull it up a bit more around her as the sound of the movie started playing around them finally and reached for the popcorn and pretended to watch the movie despite him glancing her way every few moments, little smile still in place. 

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gxldenpussycat·:

Josie was looking for a place to sit and quickly organize a few of her notes. She noticed someone who looked like Fangs asleep in one of the couches near the table. Josie smiled at the sight and shook her head while walking over to where he was. She placed her bag on the couch in front of Fangs and set her book down on the table. “Sorry.” She turned to pull her binder out of her bag trying to suppress a giggle. Didn’t get much sleep last night huh?” She asked pulling a binder out of her bag.

Fangs sat upright and let out a tired little huff as all his tired muscles came back to life. “S’okay.” He couldn’t exactly blame her for him choosing to nap on a busy campus. “Yeah, you could say that. Last night, the night before that and the night before that..” He gestured as to signal that she got the point. As he replied, Fangs checked his phone to see if his power nap had turned into a full sleep-session, but luckily and maybe a bit unfortunately, it had not. “I thought you spent all your time in the music room, this is a rare sighting.” He lamely joked as he looked over at whatever it was she was doing. “What’re you up to?”

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serpanttopaz·:

“I’m gonna hit my growth spirt and you’re not gonna have any idea what to call you,” Toni replied, smiling in her friend’s direction. She had been avoiding everyone since moving back to the Southside, but Fangs was the one person she couldn’t hide it from. With everything going on it just felt wrong to try and keep things secret. “Depends are you going to force me to sit though a bunch of jump scares or will you finally watch a RomCom with me?”

"You've been saying that since we were kids, you have yet to prove me wrong." Fangs couldn't help but laugh as he grinned down at his best friend. He knew things were..different since everything happened, but tried to keep it all feeling as normal as he could in Fangs' own way of trying to help. He didn't want to lose anyone, especially his best friends. "Ah well I'm sure I've got something up the rom-com alley, I don't think I've reburned 50 First Dates yet. Does Juno count? I know I've got that one."

[serpent-fangs]

@serpanttopaz

Fangs was going to have to start working his way into joining the Gargoyles and he had no clue how secretive he was going to have to be with his other friendships, but one person he was incredibly lucky to not have to worry so much about was Toni. She just so happened to be the same person he was heading to go see right in that moment. "Hey, Tiny.” He grinned as she wandered out of her last class for the day and he sidled up beside her. “Movies tonight? I’ve still got a couple we haven’t burned through.”

[serpent-fangs]

Fangs had enough going on lately that once he sat down in the reasonably comfortable lounger in the break area of the high school, he was almost asleep immediately. It probably wasn't the best idea to nap on campus, but it was simply one of those days where he couldn't bring himself to care. That was of course until he heard a bang of sorts, a door being slammed or a textbook being dropped perhaps, and his head snapped back up, eyes still drooping slightly before he rubbed at them. "What's with all the noise?"

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ser-pea-nt·:

@serpent-fangs

Usually, Sweet pea didn’t pay attention when it came to the younger Serpents hanging out and shooting the shit with nothing better to do but now he was alone without Toni and Fangs around to make his company more tolerable. But some of them had started talking about some haunted house outside of Greendale and Sweet’s interest was perked. He knew if anyone would be interested in breaking in and checking it out it would be Fangs and they’d need Toni there of course. So, as a common occurence Sweets left the other Serpents behind for the night in search for Fangs. 

 Walking into his trailer he found the other boy watching tv and Sweet’s gave him a wicked grin. “Get some shit together, Fangs. We are going to hunt down some real ghouls tonight.” He said. “I heard some of the other serpents talking about a haunted house outside of Greendale and thought you’d be up to get the hell away from here for a while. I already texted Toni and she should be on her way.” 

Fangs was kicked back on the couch at Sweet Peas. He was thanking his lucky stars that his best friend still had a place to crash and wasn’t out in the dirt with so many of the other Serpents. Now that Fangs was out of the Serpents he knew he had to sell it, which meant keeping away from just about everyone, but that didn’t apply for Sweet Pea of course. Toni and Sweets were the exception to every rule in Fang’s world. 

When the big friendly giant walked into the trailer he looked up and an excited grin spread across his face at Sweet’s first words. “Really? Hell yeah! Where are we going?” He asked as he sat up, probably with more gusto than he’d had in a while. “Greendale? This will be sick, I’ll get the snacks!” He patted his best friend’s shoulder in their typical all-too-rough manner and immediately moved into the kitchen, digging around the large cooking pot that no one used in the cupboard, pulling out all of the in-case-of-emergency snacks he’d stashed, laying them all out across the counter. “Wait..Jughead isn’t going to get pissed you’re leaving right?” He knew a break from Riverdale would be a nice relief for all of them, but he’d been trying to make sure Sweets didn’t lose the rest of the Serpents over acting rashly in the all too typical Sweet Pea way.

[thevmontgomery]

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Grace let out a fake gasp pretending to be offended by the boy’s statement, only to move closer and steal a couple pieces. “Pop means cola like coca-cola or pepsi. If I want something specific I just ask for like Sprite. Though I know some people say pop and can mean any and every soda,” she explained, not having put too much though in her phrasing before this. “You haven’t seen Heathers? It’s literally the Mean Girls of Mean Girls! Drop whatever you have planned for the weekend and make that your number one priority!” Grace was a bit of enthusiast when it came to movies. She loved dissecting them and looking for a deeper meaning. “I promise I left Riverdale saying Soda, and who’s to say we haven’t? You just might not have been checking out the geeky little Asian girl with glasses and a bowl cut!” It was refreshing to not hear him instantly start talking down about the Northside. Sure there were a lot of bad people, but there was also some good–more good to outweigh the bad at least.

“I mean it was nice in the beginning, but I’m such a homebody that I missed being home and with my family,” Grace shrugged off. Too many birthdays and holidays were missed in Grace’s absences and she was hoping now that she was home to remedy all that. “I think my dad’s more happy to have me home than everyone else. I’m the only one in the house who knows nothing about sports so he likes having me there to explain things. It makes him feel useful,” she teased. Listening to him speak the two couldn’t be anymore different, but Fangs seemed chill and didn’t seem to care for the drama that happened on their sides of town besides his obvious allegiance to the Serpents. “So you’re a cute boy from the wrong side of the tracks. Could we be anymore cliche?” she teased.  Her voice grew serious for a second, “You know… I heard about how some of the Northsiders weren’t exactly welcoming to you and your friends. I know I wasn’t there for it, but I’m sorry you all had to deal with that.” If it were to get out who her brother was, Grace at least wanted to cover her ass to show she didn’t think like he did. She was taken a back once he pulled her into him. Grace’s smile was so big she wouldn’t be able to hide it if she were facing him. “I’ll admit that was nice… But I doubt you could do it again…”

She took his arm, moving to sit besides him. Grace moved in a little closer, resting her head on his shoulder. “I’m just getting ready for the scary parts.”

Fangs listened as she explained Pop and hummed in understanding. As she started telling him he needed to watch Heathers he chuckled and shook his head, it’s what he’d been told before. “Alright, I’ll get right on that.” Fangs said with a final little laugh and figured he could fill in some of his now free-time by watching more movies. His life was nothing if not a little up in the air right now, so in classic Fangs’ fashion, he would ignore it all as best he could.and distract himself. He looked down at her with a little grin. “Ah come on, pretty sure I would have remembered you. And don’t sell yourself short, I was a dorky kid too.” Hell he even went by his first name till he was about seven, Fangs was certainly not a cool kid. 

“I get that, nothing beats just getting to relax with family.” That’s why he felt lucky that even without the Serpents, he had Sweets and Tiny. “Your dad seems cool, I mean, you’re obviously willing enough to listen to him explain sports over and over again.” He was still smiling as they walked and talked, finding it oddly easy for someone he just met. “And you’re the gorgeous girl from out of town, finally returning home. You know, usually in the movies your role has better taste in men.” He teased and listened as she started apologizing for how the Northsiders treated them, momentarily his mind went to the truest night that showed how they felt, the night he was released for jail and shot, but he shushed that memory into the back of his mind and tried to focus on the more positive times at Riverdale High. “Well you don’t have to apologize for them, plus, some of your Northsiders are pretty okay I’ve learned.” He teased once more. “Not everyone was against us though, not that I can’t say we were the most eager to be welcomed. It was a bit of mutual destruction that you’re lucky to have missed.” 

At her comment Fangs looked down and quirked an eyebrow. “Guess you’ll just have to wait and see.” He hummed in amusement and rested back on one arm, humming out an mhm sound as she made her little comment and his arm wrapped back around her almost naturally. “Cute, but what is the scary monster is right beside you?” He whispered into her ear with a quiet laugh.

[serpent-fangs]

✧·ﾟ"FANGS" FOGARTY is 18 years old and from the SOUTHSIDE. They kind of look like DREW RAY TANNER ! They are known as THE INSURGENT of Southside High. In class they seem KIND, but I’ve heard they be can be IMPULSIVE. They are a SERPENT. ⟨Cali - 22 - she/her - MST⟩

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ser-pea-nt‌:

“Yeah probably. I mean the next thing we are going to see is him sneezing out those teeth and asking where everything is. I kinda feel bad for jughead, he’s got to live with the old man.” Even a respected retired Serpent was no match for Sweet pea and Fangs’ antics. Sweet’s rose in his seat the second the music blasted through the truck. “You are an asshole! Now where the hell are you taking me?” Obviously there was no fighting Fangs and Sweet pea was so close to just opening the door and letting fate decide if all the action movies he’d watched prepared him for jumping out of a moving vehicle. But as they rolled up to the tree lot he shoved Fangs. “You have got to be fucking kidding me right now. Picking out a damn tree? Why do we even need one?”

Fangs let out a laugh as Sweet Pea shoved him and reached out to turn down the music. "It's Christmas, if we get a tree then we can make anything and everything into ornaments and have the wildest tree ever." He looked over at his best friend and nodded his head side to side with the now quiet music playing in the cab. "I'll buy wonton and beer if you help me pick one." Arguing with Sweet Pea was never much in the way of arguing on the day to day, Sweets was a pushover for two people and two people alone, Fangs was just lucky enough to be one of those people. Opening the car door, the shorter Serpent hopped out of the truck and stuck the keys in his pocket so Sweets couldn't abandon him there as a form of getting Fangs back for lying about where they were going. "You don't have the tallest ceilings, so maybe we can just get a stumpy tree.. yeah?"