Riverdale

The serpent princess

Sweet pea x reader

Word count: 2676

Summary: Sweet pea falls for the cute girl he lays eyes on at Jughead’s trailer. Later does he find out that y/n is no other than Jughead’s sister.

A/n: f/f = favourite flavour, f/m = favourite meal

Sweet pea and jughead walked back to his trailer after a serpent meeting to work on their school project. Lately they had been faced with so much work. Even though at southside high they didn’t really care about what you did, jughead wanted still wanted good grades and sweet pea wanted to get out of riverdale. The only way of doing that was getting this project done. Jughead never would have been sweet pea’s first pick for a project partner but at least he didn’t get paired with someone he hated even more.

Jughead opened the door to his trailer with sweet pea coming in right behind him. It was the first time that Sweet pea had been to jughead’s place even though they both lived in sunnyside trailer park. But since they were only newly friends, sweet pea didn’t know too much about jughead except for his dad was serpent royalty.

The first thing sweet pea really noticed wasn’t that jughead’s trailer was laid out identailly to sweet pea’s with old vintage couches and miscellaneous beer bottles lined up on the floor, but rather the girl lying down on one of the couches asleep.

Despite the fact that she was asleep during the middle of the afternoon, she still wore a pair of converse and jeans, her plain shirt hanging off her frame with a red flannel tied around her waist like jughead wore. She had h/c hair, a few strands falling on her face but still looked absolutely perfect.

“Who’s that?” Sweet pea asks as jughead gets them some drinks from the fridge.

“Y/n. She’s my-”

Y/n sprung to her feet with a groan like she was just waiting for jughead to say her name. She flicked her hair out of her face and straightened herself up, tightening the flannel around her waist.

“And you must be sweet pea.” Y/n said, offering him a smile. He was ridiculously good looking. His coffee brown eyes were beautiful along with his raven black hair. The tiny serpent tattoo stamped on his neck gave him away to y/n. So he really was the infamous sweet pea.

Y/n being serpent royalty along with jughead never got the same exposure to the gang as jughead did. No way was her father ever going to let her join, so it’s not like she even knew any of them. But jughead always rambled on about what a dumbass this one fucker was and here he was, staring right at her.

“Nice to meet you.” Y/n smiled again, holding out her hand to his. A blush crept up on his cheeks, one so bright that it was impossible for y/n to notice. Jughead took some snacks out of the cupboards and laid them in the middle of the table, along with a few handouts and a guidelines sheet of what they had to do for their project.

Sweet pea took a seat in the living room where y/n followed him back and sat down next to him while she waited for jughead to kick her out so he could get some work done. Sweet pea’s cheeks were still warm, like he was going to burn up just by looking at y/n.

“So, Are you jughead’s boyfriend?” Sweet pea asked hesitantly.

Jughead heard sweet pea’s question and gawked at y/n, y/n returning the same how did he not know expression.

“Please.” Y/n scoffs jokingly as she grabs her jacket from the hook by the door. “Would you date that?” She pointed to jughead.

Sweet pea still looked confused as jughead finished gathering all the supplies.

“He’s my brother, dumbass. Anyways, I gotta bounce. See you around, sweet pea.” With that, y/n was gone out the door leaving sweet pea feeling like a fool.

“Since when do you have a sister?”

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Another few weeks had passed by, sweet pea still on the hunt for y/n. The worst part wasn’t that she was all he could think about, or even the fact that Sweet pea didn’t want jughead knowing even though sweet pea felt like everyone already knew anyways. The absolute worst part of it all was that while Sweet pea and jughead along with all their friends went to southside high, y/n went to Riverdale high.

Which to be honest, sweet pea didn’t understand at all. According to jughead, y/n got better grades and there were more opportunities for her at riverdale high, so that’s where she stayed.

“Wait, that means that Fp is her dad. Fp is y/n’s dad? Her actual dad?”

“No sweet pea. We’re full siblings but have different parents.” Jughead said sarcastically. All these questions about y/n were really starting to get him going.

Y/n was all sweet pea could think about in class while he would be attempting to do his work but he’d end up simply staring off into space, imagining all the dates and things he and y/n could do together. Sweet pea had definitely fallen head over heels for jughead’s sister, which was the last thing he expected to happen. But she was beautiful.

As the bell rang for lunch, sweet pea booted it out of class. Toni, fangs and jughead all had the same science class together while Sweet pea had math so they wouldn’t see him until he made it down to the cafeteria to meet them. Instead, he ran straight outside and onto his bike, heading right for riverdale high.

Sweet pea had already tried everything to see y/n, just to get to talk to her. But he made no progress as nothing worked. Sweet pea did so much as invited himself over to jughead’s one night because “Hey, Jones, you know…I’ve been thinking. We should spend some more time together.” The only other one home was Fp, which made things so awkward that sweet pea wanted to curl up in a ball and die.

So here he was, ready to walk on in and ask her for out for lunch. Was sweet pea’s plan a little too extra? Maybe. But that wasn’t going to stop him even if y/n barely knew him, he’d get her to agree one way or another. Besides, he doubted that she wanted to be cooped up in school all day.

Sweet pea had no trouble finding the office. Once they paged her for sweet pea, they could get on with things, hit it off and fall in love. Sweet pea was love struck- and blind. Who the help was he to think that this plan would actually work? Why couldn’t he just muster up the courage and tell jughead? Probably because he knew that Jughead would never approve, but sweet pea could dream.

Y/n arrived in the office a minute later and walked up to the front desk where sweet pea leaned against the back wall, watching her. She didn’t even notice him standing there until she asked the receptionist why she was called and the woman kindly pointed to sweet pea.

“Hey, you!” Y/n exclaimed. “It’s nice to see you again.”

“Yeah, you too.” Was all sweet pea could say. Y/n looked so different in a cardigan and jeans unlike when he had seen her before. Sweet pea wanted to say something else but couldn’t even seem to form words around y/n. What was he supposed to tell her now? That he had come all the way over to the northside and ditched lunch with his friends to take y/n out when she probably already had plans?

“So, uh,” y/n felt uncomfortable with all the various teachers and students in the office watching her and sweet pea. She led him out towards the front door before she said anything else. “Is there a reason why you’re here?” Y/n didn’t want to sound rude but why else would big, tough sweet pea be here? Maybe she was in trouble with the ghoulie again. Or maybe- “Jughead. Is he okay?” Y/n asked, an edge to her voice.

Sweet pea took put his hand on y/n’s back and led her outside of the school towards his bike. He wasn’t going to lie to her- but she made things so much easier for him. “Yeah. It’s jughead.” Sweet pea smiled sarcastically but y/n didn’t notice. “Little rascals got himself in shit again.”

Y/n shot sweet pea a look he couldn’t interpret. He wasn’t so sure that y/n was buying into the lie he was selling her, but she didn’t let him know. They kept walking until sweet pea reached his bike and hopped on, y/n getting on behind him. She didn’t ask questions, just hoping that her brother was safe. But of course she knew better than to think any of that. Sweet pea was adorable when he lied.

Sweet pea drove to pop’s with a smug smile on his face. He felt like such an ass for lingering her along, for making her worry about jughead. But he just wanted to talk to y/n alone, sans weirdo brother. When sweet pea pulled into a parking spot to the local diner and took y/n’s hand, dragging her along, y/n couldn’t help but blush when she felt his hand against hers.

They made their way to one of the booths in the back as y/n looked around for her brother, but he was nowhere to be seen. Y/n wondered if sweet pea knew that she understood better. But Sweet pea still had some serious explaining to do as he simply sat across from y/n, smiling in her direction.

“So,” Sweet pea sighs. “I might have lied earlier.”

“Yeah, no shit.” Y/n said jokingly. She wasn’t even sure why she wasn’t mad at him. Y/n knew there was nothing wrong with jughead from the moment she walked to the office and got a text from him.

Mr. I’m weird, I’m a weirdo: sweet pea fled the building. My bet is that he’s on his way over to see you ;)

Ever since that first day when sweet pea had been over to y/n’s trailer, she wasn’t the only one who noticed sweet pea checking her out. Jughead knew what sweet pea was up to as well seeing as he invited himself over and talked about y/n constantly.

Needless to say that practically the whole southside was aware of sweet pea’s crush. But no one seemed to notice that y/n liked him back. She couldn’t care more or less what happened to jughead if he was ever in trouble. He could handle himself better than any of them could. Maybe y/n just wanted an excuse to go to lunch with the cutest boy she had ever laid eyes on.

“But I was hoping I could buy you lunch? You don’t have to be back until two, right?”

Y/n smiled. She liked to assume that jughead was the one who told sweet pea that. That others cared about her and who she dated and what she did. Because that meant that sweet pea asked about her which was adorable seeing as he put on the tough act twenty four seven but when he was with y/n, he was as plain and simple as could be which y/n admired.

“You got it.” Y/n said. Before she could say anything else, Pop Tate walked up to them with his usual shy smile, taking a notepad and pen while he took their order. Y/n didn’t even get to say anything herself as sweet pea ordered for her, knowing exactly what she wanted.

“-and a f/f shake for y/n with an order of f/m.” Sweet pea finished.

Pop Tate ripped the order off and slid it over the counter to the kitchen chefs and disappeared out the back. There was barely anyone around which was odd seeing as usually pop’s was packed around this time. But y/n was thankful that it was only her and sweet pea. They had the whole diner to themselves.

“You know,” y/n says as she leans back in her seat. “This is all kind of low key creepy. You know what time I have to be back for class, my order…” She singsonged with a smile on her face. “What makes you think I’d ever say yes to a second date?”

“Who said this was a date?” Sweet pea asks, his brows furrowing as he pretended as if he didn’t know a thing. Part of sweet pea’s heart melted in his chest as soon as the word date left y/n’s mouth. The fact that she called this little outing a date was all sweet pea could ask for. He barely knew her but sweet pea instantly knew that she was already the coolest girl he had ever met. She was nothing like jughead.

“I didn’t say this was a date.” Y/n retorted.

“Yes, you did.” Sweet pea assures her.

“No,” y/n sighs as pop Tate plops down two shakes on their table. “I don’t think so.”

Okay. Maybe she was like jughead. Stubborn and loved getting her way, but that being said, sweet pea was the exact same way. The both of them always wanted what they thought was right. Sweet pea wasn’t letting y/n win this battle.

“Well what would you like to do on a second date?” Sweet pea wondered out loud, taking a sip of his shake.

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Jughead, toni and Fangs all walked into pop’s, immediately spotting y/n and sweet pea in the back booth of the shoppe. School had just gotten over and when sweet pea hadn’t returned for last period, everyone figured that they knew where he was. Sure enough they had been right, as the group watched sweet pea and y/n smile at each other over a couple of milkshakes and a basket of fries in the middle of the table.

“Jeez, Jones. Even your cardigan wearing sister ditched last period?” Fangs asks, his voice full of shock. Neither fangs or Toni had met y/n before. But sweet pea talked about her so much that fangs and Toni felt like they already knew y/n. Just by sizing her up from the door, Fangs and Toni both agreed that she was absolutely stunning.

“Hey, y/n,” Jughead greets as he slides in next to sweet pea, making sweet pea shoot jughead a look of disgust like he always did. Instead of pushing him out like he normally would, sweet pea just moved in and looked at y/n as if to say what the hell is your brother doing here?

“Are you aware that you missed last period? I bet weatherbee will be calling dad any moment now.”

Toni and fangs leaned on the back counter with smug smiles on their faces. Sweet pea and y/n didn’t even seem to notice them there as y/n was too caught up in whatever jughead was talking about.

“What?” Y/n exclaimed. “I’m going to be in so much shit.” She muttered under her breath as she got up. Y/n raced out of pop’s sans jughead but quickly walked back, grabbing one last fry out of the basket.

“See you tonight, sweet pea.” Y/n said as she planted a kiss on his cheek.

“Later, princess.”

Jughead stared at sweet pea with his jaw practically on the ground. Of all people, jughead’s sister fell for freaking sweet pea? Jughead was baffled, but he was still glad for his sister.

“Later?” Jughead questions.

Sweet pea smiled smugly. “Guess who just won himself the serpent princess?”

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