Reggie usually wasn’t one for compassion, but the moment Veronica Lodge walked past nearly in tears, that all changed. “Hold that thought,” the jock told his group of friends before jogging over to Riverdale’s very own princess. She may have lost her tiara the day her father was put behind bars, but she never lost her grace. So what had her holding onto her pearls while she walked through the courtyard with her head down? Two words: Archie Andrews. Ever since his father, Fred Andrews, got shot at Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe three weeks ago, Archie traded in his guitar for a baseball bat very similar to Negan’s Lucille. He thought he could find his father’s gunman and exact some kind of twisted eye-for-an-eye revenge. But all he’d accomplished was alienating all of his friends – and now his girlfriend Veronica. “Hey! Slow down. I haven’t had a girl run from me since … the third grade. Jessica Baker. I told her she was ugly and she ran home crying.” That was a lie. He asked her out and she laughed and ran to tell her friends how ridiculous he was. Ever since that day, Reggie changed his approach. He insults them first, asks them out second. This way if they say no, he doesn’t have to take it too harsh. He’d rather deserve rejection than wonder why people don’t like him. “Look, I know it’s your birthday today and your old-man was sprung. And I know he’s throwing you a kick-ass birthday party in New York. Please tell me, there’s an RSVP for Mantle the Magnificent.”