"I wanna be a part of your world" I whispered as I inched forward wrapping my fingers around the collar of his serpent jacket
Sweet Pea stood there not bothering to look me in the eyes. "You can't Madi. I need you to be safe and I don't want to tak...
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CHAPTER THREE
Every fairytale comes with the same warning: Good children should never go into the woods alone. Stray from the path and who knows what you'll encounter. A hungry wolf. A handsome devil. Or maybe something worse.
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•Tuesday October 5th•
Toni and I left the trailer before Jughead could return with their food. We started walking through Sunnyside trailer park in the hopes of finding the guy that I had met just prior to arriving at Jughead's trailer. He was a stranger, but hopefully not to Toni.
"Alright if he's a serpent it should be really easy to find him. Did you see anything about him before it got too dark"
"He had a bruise on his eye and a serpent tattoo on his neck"
Toni chuckled as she took my hand in hers and she started to run. In which direction, I do not really know, because I am not some kind of human compass. She stopped in front of a trailer and dragged me straight inside without saying a word.
She kept my hand in hers as she said, "Madison this is Sweet Pea. Sweet Pea this is my cousin Madison. I've been told you both have already met before"
"Yeah I met the north sider" he snarled at Toni
"Shut the hell up Sweet Pea!" Toni exclaimed back at Sweet Pea. "You may know my cousin's secret, but it's going to stay just that you got it. A secret. No southsider; including the serpents will ever know that she's a northsider"
"You want me to keep a secret from our family. Toni you're a piece of shit for even asking that"
Just as Toni was about to thrust towards Sweet Pea and possibly try to kill him I interjected and said, "She's not asking I am. Actually to correct that matter, I'm telling. The serpent's may be your family, but Toni is mine, so if you don't keep my secret; then you'll be losing a member of your serpent family"
Toni grabbed my hand once again and the two of us both snarled at Sweet Pea waiting for him to respond. He needed to keep my secret, or else I could never see Toni again. The entire feud with the north and south side is something so serious within the town of Riverdale that I actually could not believe I was begging somebody named Sweet Pea to keep the secret of where I live.
Sweet Pea just stared daggers at the two of us, but eventually he said, "fine, I won't say anything, but I won't lie to the serpents either"
"Deal....don't ask don't tell" I said putting my hand out hoping Sweet Pea would shake it in good faith of keeping the secret
Toni and I left Sweet Pea's trailer and started heading back to Jughead's. It was almost ten o'clock at night and I needed to be home at a reasonable time; considering I had both school tomorrow and I did not want my mother to be suspicious. Toni and I said goodbye after we were walking. Jughead was in his trailer munching on his cheeseburger like there was no tomorrow for him. I started to walk towards Fox Forest in order to make it back to the northside. The forest was completely pitch black, especially because it was October and the daylight was dark much earlier than it was during the summer.
