Desperado

Chapter Five

Body Double

"So, are you a suspect now?" Roni asks as we all sit around the couches in the lounge area.

"My dad says we all are, even me."

"Well, not us. We don't know these people." I tell them holding onto my cup of ice coffee.

"Guys, should we maybe re-binge Making a Murder on Netflix tonight?" Kevin ask the group.

Betty chuckles hearing this. "Sorry. Can't. Gotta stay late to work on the paper."

"Count me out, too. I've got a date tonight."

"Oh? With who?" I ask her.

"You do?" Says Archie.

"Which Riverdale hottie made the cut?" Kevin questions.

Roni head tilts and I look up seeing a football player talking to my sister. "Hey, Vee-lo. I'll swing by the Pembrooke to pick you up at 8:00."

"I'll be waiting."

"Chuck Clayton?"

"You're going on a date with Chuck?" Betty and Kevin say together. "He's kinda a player."

"Who cares? He's the hottest of hot, and he's the varsity coach son. In Riverdale, that's like dating a Kennedy."

"Roni. I don't like the sound of him." I whisper to her worry filling me.

"Don't worry about me, Kate. If anything I should be worried why you're not trying to get a date."

"Cause of my grades."

"Mm." She hums not believing me. That little glint in her eyes tells me this. She thinks I'm hiding something which I am.

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"Hey Veronica, how was the Sticky Maple last night?"

"The what now?"

"The Sticky Maple Chuck gave you? How was it?" I glare at the bubbly bitch.

"We had a brownie sundae if that's what you hyenas mean."

Suddenly Kevin phone rings and I look at him. " Oh, my God."

I snatch his phone looking at it. I feel my blood start to boiling as Roni looks with me. "What the hell is Sticky Maple?" I ask them my teeth clenching down.

"It's kinda of what it sounds like. It's a Riverdale thing."

"No Kevin! It's not a Riverdale thing! He's lying about my sister!"

"Oh no," Roni says noticing my pissed off state.

"I'm not going to allow someone to ruin my sister's name. I have done it before and I will do it again. Does he not know who he's fucking with?!"

"Katie, please. Don't go there."

I glare at Roni pissed. "I'm already there. I will cut the brakes on his souped up phallic symbol!"

"Or we can go to Principal Weatherbee."

"He won't help Betty. Now don't try and stop me."

"What?" Kevin ask.

"I'm not following rules any more Bets! I make them. And when necessary I will break them and I'm going to break Chuck Clayton a new one."

"Oh God," Roni says as I storm off leaving her with Kevin phone. I can hear both of them chasing me down as I storm my way to the boys' locker room. "Don't try to stop me. You're either in or you're out. Your choice. I'm going dark on this rich bitch!"