Legends [1] ▻ Sweet Pea

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"I don't think you guys have gotten the luxury of meeting Veronica." Izzy spoke up as she walked into the student lounge room beside Veronica.

"Veronica Lodge." She smiled, holding out her hand for Toni to shake.

   "Of the Park Avenue Lodges." Izzy joked, stealing one of Jughead's chips before taking a daring seat on Sweet Pea's lap. Sweet Pea quickly kissed Izzy on the lips before averting his attention back towards the Northsiders.

    Toni quickly glanced at Izzy before turning towards Veronica again, "Toni. Topaz." She replied, shaking the Lodge Girls's hand.

  "Oh, like the purple gem stone. Love it."

"I'm Josie McCoy. Formerly of the Pussycats, now just Josie," Josie spoke up sadly, "And this is Kevin."

Just as Kevin and Fogarty met eyes, Izzy could already see and feel the tension between them. Just like she saw the night of the closing night for the Twilight drive in between Kevin and Joaquin.

Izzy leaned her head forward towards Sweet Pea's ear and whispered, "You could cut tension in here with a knife."
She remarked and Sweet Pea silently laughed before nodding and agreement.

"What's your name?" Kevin asked after a long moment of silence.

"Forgarty," Fangs replied, twirling the twizzler he had in his hands between his finger, "Or you can call me Fangs."

"Your last name's Keller, right?" Fangs questioned and Kevin gave him a confused look.

"How did you know that?" He asked him.

"Joaquin and I used to hang out. Talked about you all the time."

   Both Izzy and Sweet Pea were watching their friend's conversation with Kevin Keller closely when everyone's head turned after hearing Principal Weatherbee shout, "You guys! Yes, you, come with me! Now!"

Everyone quickly got up and followed the Principal to the hallway. Reggie and a few other were Serpents were standing there, looking very satisfied. It took Izzy a minute to notice Reggie had a black eye and their was a green snake tagged on top of Riverdale High's Seal on the floor.

"Which of you defaced our school seal with–this—this graffiti. And which of you gave Reggie his black eye?"

"This is what they do, Principal Weatherbee," Reggie spoke up, pointing towards the snake logo, "They tag their turf, especially Izzy Blake. You can go check, she even tagged her own locker. When I caught her doing it, she gave me a black eye."

Izzy's eyes widened when she heard this. She never did that. Every single Serpent and Veronica turned around to face her, "Wha—I didn't—"

"My God, Reggie, could you be anymore transparent?" Veronica commented, sticking up for Izzy, "Izzy couldn't have, she has been helping me with getting the new students settled
in the entire day."

"Effective immediately, no gang related behavior of any kind will be tolerated at my school. As of this moment, no more Serpent jackets."

"What!" All the Serpents shouted in unison. Izzy knew this was Reggie's revenge for her mostly. Especially the jacket part of the punishment. When she first arrived here, she told him about how she never took it off during the day because it was like a second skin for her. Taking it away was the best way of getting back at her.

"No more Serpent Jackets!" Weatherbee shouted at them, "All tattoo are gonna be covered. Possession of any gang paraphernalia whatsoever will lead to immediate suspension. Are we clear?"

The Serpents hesitantly nodded before starting to walk away, "Miss Blake!" Izzy heard the Principal call her name.

Izzy quickly turned around, "Yes?"

"Because this is your first offense and you have already been here for two weeks before your friends arrived and started no trouble before this moment, I will let these accusations slide. One more strike and you will be suspended."

"Yes, sir." Izzy nodded as she started to walk away with the Serpents.

"Are you actually going to listen to him?" Sweet Pea questioned curiously.

"What do you think?" Izzy scoffed and Sweet Pea laughed at her. He thought the old Izzy was gone before, but he was wrong, she was still that same person, just a tiny bit before lenient towards Northsiders. But he knew why, some were actually nice, but some were assholes like Reggie.

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"I can't believe you guys don't even see it, at least Izzy can see it," Jughead sighed as he stood next to Izzy while talking to Toni, who was sipping on her drink, and Sweet Pea, who was playing on the game machine, trying to beat Izzy undefeated high score, "Weatherbee is profiling us."

As Jughead explained, he lifted up Serpent jacket slightly, "Telling us what to wear. What's next? Brain implants? Controlling what we think?"

"Jones, you sound like a crazy conspiracy nut!" Izzy remarked as she walked over to Toni's table and gulped down the drink she had left there in one sip, "Ah, I needed that." She sighed in relief.

"A school closed down." Toni continued Izzy's commented.

"A crappy school." Sweet Pea butted in, still trying to beat Izzy's high score.

"Hey, I loved that school!" Izzy argued as she walked over to Sweet Pea. Izzy noticed how Sweet Pea was close to beating her ultimate high score and knew she had to distract him before he did. Izzy smirked as she leaned her face into the crook of Sweet Pea's neck and began to trail sloppy kisses up his neck. Sweet Pea quietly moaned and ended up closing his eyes, causing the Serpent to lose the game.

Izzy sighed as she pulled away from his neck, "I honestly forgot how easy you were to distract." She commented.

"That's not fair, you cheated!" Sweet Pea groaned.

Both Toni and Jughead snapped out of watching Sweet Pea and Izzy fool around with each other and began to argue again, "Yeah, and now we're at a better one! With a computer lab and text books..."

"Toilets that actually flush." Sweet Pea replied, adding into the conversation while still trying to beat Izzy's high score.

"Riverdale High's girl's bathroom isn't that much different, honestly. Only difference is it doesn't smell like cigarettes and weed." Izzy spoke up again.

"Getting transferred to Riverdale High is that best thing that could have happened." Toni explained and Sweet Pea couldn't help but add in another comment.

"Maybe ever. I finally get to go to school with my girlfriend again, she was the only reason I actually enjoyed school for so long." Sweet Pea smiled when he saw Izzy smile slightly from the corner of his eye. He loved her smile, he liked that she did it more often now. It was the kind of smile that made you want to smile.

"If I have to take off my jacket, eight to three, Monday through Friday, Hey, I'm down with that." Toni smiled, taking a sip of her drink.

Izzy couldn't help but agree with Jughead. She sighed before walking over to Jones, "Sweets, I'll be back in like five or six hours," she spoke up, "Jones, you're coming with me."

"What? Why?" Jughead asked confused.

"I've got a plan," She told him quickly, starting to walk towards the door. Jughead stood in the same spot as he stood before, making Izzy turn to face him, "You coming or not?"

Jughead hesitantly nodded before following her out the door.