"We're not just friends and you fucking know it." - requested by @siriussblackx
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“So have you guys always been friends, then?” Yaz asked, her eyes darting around the other four occupants of the table as she leaned forwards to sip at her milkshake.
“Yep,” Della replied without looking up from her phone, shooting Yaz an apologetic smile when Toni nudged her in the ribs. “We’ve been friends forever. Our whole lives. Fangs’ mom has pictures of us in our diapers on his dad’s bike-”
“-and those pictures are staying hidden-”
“-so like we have literally been friends since before we could talk,” Della shrugged, ignoring Fangs’ interruption. “Toni joined us in pre-school and then we got lumbered with Lurch over here when we were like, 8 or 9,” she pointed over her shoulder at Sweet Pea, who smirked and draped his arm around the back of the booth.
“And there’s never been like… anything else…?” Yaz trailed off, raising her eyebrows and grinning as four blank faces stared back at her. She rolled her eyes. If she wanted gossip, she was clearly going to have to drag it out of them. “Any of you ever hooked up?”
“No,” Della replied quickly, and Sweet Pea frowned down at her.
“Yes,” he corrected, and Della narrowed her eyes at him.
“What- you guys…?” Yaz pointed between them.
Fangs snickered. “Sweet Pea wishes. Nah, he’s talking about those two,” he gestured towards Toni and Della. “They were hooking up for a while.”
“Hooking up?” Toni scoffed. “We were together for like six months, Fogarty. We were girlfriends. A couple.”
“Really,” Yaz slumped back in her seat in surprise. “I wasn’t expecting that…” she paused, her eyes landing on Sweet Pea. “So you and Del have never been a thing, then?”
“Why so many questions about my sex life?” Sweet Pea grinned, removing his arm from the back of the booth and clasping his hands together as he leaned towards Yaz. “Like what you see, princess?”
“Stop,” Della snapped, hitting Sweet Pea’s arm when she noticed Fangs’ face fall slightly. “God, can you give it a rest? You don’t have to hit on every girl you see, you know? Sometimes girls and boys are capable of being just friends.”
“What, like us?” he asked with a scoff, and Della shrugged, nodding her head and crossing her arms over her chest and Sweet Pea scowled. “We’re not just friends and you fucking know it.”
Della opened her mouth to reply, to argue with him, but he was out of his seat and storming towards the exit before she could get a word out and instead was left in an uncomfortable silence as her three friends stared at her – Yaz in shock, Fangs in confusion, and Toni with an I told you so expression.
“Okay so you definitely have something you need to share with the group-”
“Yaz!”
“What?” Yaz turned to look at Fangs, who was shaking his head at her. “I can help! I am great at relationship advice,” she told him, turning her attention back to Della. “Tell me everything.”
“There’s nothing to tell,” Della shrugged weakly, picking at a napkin on the table. “That’s just Sweet Pea being Sweet Pea.”
“You’re kidding, right?” Yaz raised an eyebrow. “Come on, Della! There’s no way there’s nothing to tell. He’s basically just confessed to-”
“Listen!” Della interrupted, slamming a hand down on the table as she stood up. “I know you probably think you’re entitled to everything because that’s how you’ve spent your entire life, but this isn’t some shitty episode of Gossip Girl, Yazmin. This is real life in a small town and I’m not up for sharing secrets with a girl I hardly and who I can’t trust to keep her mouth shut, so drop it. You don’t know shit about me and Sweet Pea and that’s the way it’s gonna stay. Got it?”
“Della,” Fangs frowned.
“What? Why’d you even bring her, Fangs? It was just supposed to be us tonight.”
“You don’t have to be a dick to her just because you’re pissed at Sweets.”
“It’s okay,” Yaz said gently, placing a hand on Fangs’ arm with a small smile. “She’s right. It’s none of my business. I’m sorry for asking,” she apologised, her gaze flitting to Della. “I mean, I was only trying to help because Sweet Pea obviously has a thing for you-”
“Ugh,” Della interrupted with a roll of her eyes as she stepped out of the booth. “I’m out of here. Later, Topaz,” she waved over the shoulder as she made her way to the door, pausing and looking back over at her friends. “And hey, Fangs? Next time we hang out, leave the pet project at home, okay?”
She heard Toni and Fangs apologising to Yazmin for her attitude as she let the door slam shut behind her, freezing when she saw Sweet Pea leaning against his bike in the parking lot with his arms crossed over his chest, his lips in an obvious pout as his eyes met hers. Shoving her hands in pockets of her jacket, she walked down the steps and made her way over to him, taking the spare helmet he wordlessly offered her.
“Thought I was gonna have to hitch a ride with Toni or something,” she told him quietly.
“I thought about it,” Sweet Pea admitted. “But I’d never leave you behind.”
Della bit down on her lip, climbing onto the bike behind him. “I know.”
“You ready to get out here?”
“I’ve been ready for like an hour,” she snorted, and Sweet Pea turned to smirk at her over his shoulder.
“Where to, then?” he asked, his breath faltering slightly as he felt Della wrap her arms around his waist and press her cheek against his back.
“Your place?” she suggested quietly.
He grinned. “Yeah?”
“Your mind is trash, Pea,” she snorted. “Not for that. I just… I think we need to talk, don’t you.”
You have so many amazing riverdale OCs....how would they all get on if they met?? Who do you think would get on (put up) with Noelle the best?
I have 6 mediocre AT BEST Riverdale OCs but ok
Della -
- She would quite literally h a t e Riya. Despise her. Riya is nowhere near good enough for her Sweet Pea. Not at all. Della would rather abandon the serpents than let Riya become one. Riya would just hate her back on principle asdfkjhg - Della definitely would have taken Presley under her wing and helped her out with FP whenever his drinking got out of control, and that would be part of the reason she was so bitter towards Jughead when he came back to the South Side.- Della would adore Stevie. She’s so little and cute and she obviously cares about Sweet Pea a lot and isn’t afraid to show it. Sweet Pea would be so fond of Stevie as well Della would now the first time he mentioned her name that he liked this new North Side girl (not even being a Cooper or living on the North Side would put Della off her because Sweet Pea would just be so happy). Stevie would love her and would get all the gossip and dirt on Sweet Pea which Della would happily give up (she swears she was drunk when Sweet Pea demands to know why she told Stevie about that time he fell asleep early and Della gave him a makeover).- She’d be a bit indifferent towards Grace, I think. She’s an outsider coming into town with Jughead, no one knows her and Jughead is quite obviously taken with her so Della would be a bit miffed that she wasn’t enough to get Jug to leave Betty, but this new girl is (and she would be lowkey jealous that she was so close to Jug as well).- oh my GOD she would quite happily steal Sweet Pea’s tiny knife and use it to stab Amelia in the face. She hates her The Most. If you mess with Fangs, you mess with Della and she would want Amelia’s head on a spike outside her trailer to warn off anyone who even thinks about upsetting Fangs.
Riya -
- actual protector of Stevie Cooper. Would automatically adopt her and become BFFs. - Amelia would be one of Riya’s best friends, to be honest. Yeah she’d be pissed with how she treated Fangs but they’ve been friends since they were teeny tiny toddlers, so she’d forgive her in the end and even help her get her man back (sorry Noelle).- if Grace is good enough for Jughead then she’s good enough for Riya. She’s be super curious and nosy about her though and Grace wouldn’t know how to handle that because she’s very private. - I don’t think she’d know how to take Presley? Riya fiercely protective of Jughead and she loves FP so much, and Presley hates both of them. Presley would be annoyed af because has only just come into FP’s life and she hasn’t had to deal with his drinking for years, so she’d have no idea what Presley had been through.
Amelia -
- everyone hates her and she doesn’t give a fuck- (except she does really and she would be super upset when Riya was mad with her)- her and Stevie would have no choice but to get along- she’d probably be the closest to Presley tbh because Presley also does not give a single fuck about the South Side or the serpents - Grace? Grace who? Literally would not care or interact with each other.
Stevie -
- ray of sunshine and wants to be everyone’s friend. - everyone loves her. - wouldn’t really be too fussed about Grace because Stevie is #Bughead till she dies tbh.- would want to be friends with Presley and would try her best to make it happen and make her feel included (and would stick her nose in to try and fix Jughead and Presley’s sibling bond).
Grace -
- would REALLY want to meet Presley and be friends with her so she could find out more about Jughead and his ~~mysterious life that he is so unwilling to share with her.
Presley -
- just wants to be left alone and does not care about friends, wants to get out of Riverdale and leave everyone behind as soon as possible.
It would definitely be Della and Riya who got on the best with Noelle, I think. Maybe Stevie too, just because of how Soft Sweet Pea goes when she’s around.
“Well, well, well… Jughead Jones. The prodigal son returns. Finally deemed us South Siders good enough to mix with, have you?”
Jughead recognised the voice instantly and he let out a sigh as he turned around to see her stood there, her arms crossed over her chest and with a few of the other Serpents standing behind her. He should have expected this. He should have known that, out of everyone he was going to encounter on his first day at South Side High, he was not going to get a warm welcome from Della Lomax.
“Della,” he sent her a nod, unable to stop a half smile from crossing his lips. “It’s been a long time.”
“Not long enough, Jones,” she quipped, her shoulder purposely knocking into his as she strode past him and cast a withering look over her shoulder. “Not long enough at all.”
Headcanons for Fangs and Sweets crashing Doelle's sleepovers
They’d come in through the window even tho??? Noelle has her own house use the front door??? Fangs you have a kEY??
The girls would pretend to be pissed at first but, then again, they have brought snacks…
Fangs and Sweets would be highkey disappointed girl sleepovers didn’t go how they expected
(this would warrant a slap)
So they’d show them a proper girly sleepover, they’d plait Sweet Pea’s hair and paint Fangs’ nails and be so disAPPOINTED BECAUSE WHY ARE THEY ENJOYING THIS
They’d make a den in the living room out of blankets and cushions in the living room
They’d be proper teenagers for the night. Sneaking alcohol and gossiping about stuff that wasn’t murder
Y’know stuff that wasn’t usual riverdale shit
Dominos would know their order off by heart
They’d be up all night chatting, falling asleep at about 5am? Noelle and Fangs all snuggled while Della and Sweet Pea draw on their faces before falling asleep themselves
I feel like they will have known one another since they were little! I can imagine Fangs being the one to introduce them and there would be a bit of a power battle at first? But they’d soon get to know one another and they’d get on like a house on fire. All of their teachers are just like “wHY” to fangs because he was the one who brought them together.
If we’re talking remeeting after Noelle comes home I think they’d just slip right back into how they were before she left. It’d be like she never left, they would have kept in touch over text and FaceTime ofc but it isn’t always the same is it? I can imagine Fangs, Toni and Sweet Pea waiting for this epic reunion but they’d just continue whatever conversation they had been texting about as though it hadn’t been a while since they’d seen each other so they’d be SO disappointed 😂😂
