Cheryl’s Captive//A Riverdale Fanfic
"Get up, Chandra! You don't want to piss me off this early!"
Ugh. Cheryl is the bane of my existence. I didn't dare rebel because I'd be punished even more.
"Coming, sister." I get out of bed, put on a red ensemble and head downstairs. Cheryl immediately becomes infuriated.
"Change. You don't have color in your closet for a reason."
"But I like my outfit- and"
Cheryl comes face to face with me. "CHANGE NOW. I can make your life miserable just by one phone call."
"Now apologize, Psycho Barbie."
Tears flood my eyes. "I'm sorry, Cheryl."
"Good." She stroked my face and dug her red acrylic nail into my cheek. I let a yelp escape me. Big mistake. "Now go change into your clothes. Virgin Scary."
My savior in pink arrived when I came down stairs again.
Toni Topaz was Cheryl's girlfriend and she always was nice to me when Toni was around.
"And she tried to leave the house without breakfast."
I walk to school. On the way Archie and Betty catch up to me.
"Oh god, Chandra! Your cheek." Betty cries.
"I'll kill her." Archie says.
"Guys, stop. It was my fault. I came home past curfew and embarrassed her in front of Toni."
Betty and Archie exchanged a look. Then they sighed. "Look. You need to tell Jughead and Ronnie." Archie demands.
I shake my head and then I'm hit with a lecture about how I don't deserve this and how Cheryl was just hurting from mom's abuse.
They repeated the lecture when we arrived at school.
Cheryl was nowhere to be seen and I took a deep breath. Until I got to my locker.
"Cheryl. Please. The day has barely started."
Cheryl pushed the heel of her pumps into my shoe and pushed me up against my locker.
I couldn't breathe. She then took me to the bathroom. She only did that when she was angry with me. Get in. Cheryl points to a stall and I obey. She follows and begins to beat me to a pulp. Punch after punch.
This was the makeup test. I wasn't allowed to wear makeup or what I wanted.
"Cheryl please don't do this!" I plead.
"Help! Someone help!" I yell.
Cheryl pulls me out of the stall and pins my up against the wall.
That's when I see Betty run in with a guy in a beanie.
"Oh my god Chandra! What the hell happened!" Betty says.
The guy in the beanie feels my wounds with a wet paper towel. I'm afraid of what he knows.
"Oh shit Betts! She's got bruises... who did this?"
I look up. I wipe away the tears and I see Jughead Jones kneeling next to me.
"I got into an accident and Cheryl was helping me. It was last night and yeah."
Jughead looks at Betty and Betty cracks.
"Jug, I think it was Cheryl who gave her these bruises..."
"Shut the hell up Betty," I scream, "You don't know what happens behind Thornhill's gates!"
"That's it! I'm going to have Toni talk to Cheryl about this."
Toni? Oh my god this can't be happening... I can't tell her who knows what Cheryl will do to me...
Burn down the house again?
"Don't say a fucking word, Jones, especially not to Veronica."
"My lips are sealed." He winked at me and took me to class. Cheryl was at early cheer practice so she was nowhere to be found at this time.
"I heard what you said Archiekins!"
I walk up to the table with jug and Betty to hear this conversation. "Hey guys!" Veronica greets, then to me:
"Channa! We need to talk."
"Archie told me about your home problems and I'm planning on asking daddy to let you stay in our guest bedroom at the pembrooke."
"But nothing's wrong, Veronica."
"And you," I pointed Archie, "you betrayed me." I walk away but it's too late. Cheryl and the rest of the Vixens have me surrounded. She hauls me onto the table and I don't even resist.
"Oh shit, guys..." Veronica says.
"Are you alright Chandra?" Cheryl asks in a mocking tone. "What's wrong? Let me help you."
"Now girls, we need to get rid of the trash."
"No Cheryl please don't!" I plead.
She pulls my wrist and lifts me off the table and into the trash can. "The trash goes into locker 375!"
Jughead gets up with Veronica.
"Stop this, Cheryl!" A voice says but it doesn't come from either of them.
Toni topaz has just arrived at the lunch table. She slammed her tray down and walked up to Cheryl's face.
"Cheryl. What the hell is this!"
"Oh TT it's simply a little fun."
"Fun? If harassing your sister is your idea of fun then we're done. Bye Cheryl. Oh my god, Chandra are you ok?"
The whole cafeteria was in awe and I cried as Archie called his dad to see if I could stay over.
Archie gave me a ride to Thornhill and I gathered the bag I had packed for emergency and we drive off.
