I'm right where I wanna be

Elle sighed as she watched sweet pea and some of the other sergeants circling her in parking lot, looking at her like a group of vultures who wanted her to rot. "You guys, I promise I'm not like my sister.. I don't know why they shut down South Sise, and I'd penny does have something to do with it, I don't know! I avoid speaking to her when I can." She pleased, pulling her leather jacket around her tight as she stared up at the school sign.

"Toni, cmon! I was at the white horse with you all weekend, there's no way I can be in on this" she stars, frowning as roninand all of the others began to peel away from her. Angrily, she kicked the tire of the car she stood next to, trying her best to hide it as the pain reverberated in her foot. Could today get any worse? Not only was she starting in Riverdale high as a serpeant, she was also the only serpents without other serpents to back her up.

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Jughead watched from his bike as he saw several of his crew surrounding the youngest Peabody. Hug of course had no personal sympathy for her, however he did understand she wasn't her sister. "Seeet pea, lay off!" He called out, watching as the group dispersed shooting dirty looks at the blue haired girl.

Hug was so busy watching what the serpents were doing, he hadn't even noticed that he was blocking a car behind him until he noticed the loud honks. He waved his hand to say sorry and pulled in to a spot before peeling off his Helmet. "Sorry about the backup, I was in my own world" he apologised havin approached the car. "Jughwad jones by the way" he said as he extended his hand to the driver.

@ Kol.

Archie was actually kind of upset that all the southside Serpents we’re being brought to Riverdale. He didn’t like the thought of them all being at his school where they could cause chaos. Plus he knew it was just going to be a major issue with them here. None of the bulldogs were happy about it though really. However Archie was going to make things work was the best way of putting things. He had a plan, a plan he hoped would help make things good at Riverdale.

He supposed he wasn’t expecting there to be so many of them. Archie knew there were a lot of them, and he did get that they had no where else to go given their school was kind of shut down. But he also wasn’t sure he wanted them at his school. And then he saw her. A blue haired Serpent all alone. By the looks of things she’d been abandoned by the rest of them, Archie had no idea why, but he did know she’d be perfect.

“That looks like it hurt,” he said as he approached her. “I’m Archie by the way,” he added holding out his hand for her to shake. He figured he could get close to this one girl and somehow find a way to use that to his advantage. After all, no one wanted to start a new school and not feel welcomed. And that was something he was good at. Making people feel welcomed.

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Lydia found herself rather entranced almost by all the chaos going on outside of the car she was in. She was still rather new to Riverdale and still trying to get used to the town. “I don’t want you getting involved with any of those Serpents out there Lydia. I know you don’t understand what’s happening right now, but trust me. They’re a bunch of thugs and will just drag you down to their level. So stay away from them. I don’t even know why Mayor McCoy let them come here,” Lydia heard her Aunt say pulling Lydia from her thoughts of what was going on.

“Surely they’re not that bad,” she muttered to herself stealing one more glance out her window at them all. Her aunt must not have heard her either because the next thing Lydia knew she was honking the horn trying to get the kid behind them to move. “I know who you are, Mr. Jones no need for introductions. Just keep moving along and we won’t have any problems,” her Aunt told the boy who seemed to just be being polite. “Have a good first day Lydia, and remember what I told you,” she said before Lydia nodded her head and stepped out of the car.

Lydia waited until her aunt had pulled out of the spot and was driving away to approach the beanie wearing boy her aunt had been kind of rude to. “I’m sorry about her, I wish I could say it isn’t like her but sadly it is. I’m Lydia by the way,” She told him holding out her hand.

Elle pulled her hair back out of her face, glancing up as she heard a voice coming in her direction. She glanced down at her foot, feeling it throb within her shoe she tried to laugh. "Oh umm, no it's fine, didn't even feel it" she laughed, her eyes widening a little as she took in his red hair and bulldogs t-shirt. Last she had heard, Jason Blossom was dead. Her face softened a little as he told her his name was Archie, and reluctantly shook his hand... she was wary of any of the riverdale preps.

"I'm Elena, new obviously" she said and tossed her hair over her shoulder, pulling her jacket closer around herself. Her eyes glanced over at Jughead as he spoke to some other student. Maybe he might have her back after all. "Hey, you don't happen to know where Ms.Frier's room is do you? I have calc with her first thing and well, I'm lost" she asked him, trying to appear confident as she ignored the looks coming from riverdale high students and Serpents alike

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Jug gave a curt nod at the driver of the car, before turning to put his helmet away under the seat of his bike. He was more than used to the riverdale people being aware of him, or anybody else in a serpent jacket. It bugged him, but he knew he had to avoid confronting it.

He was surprised to turn and see the blonde girl from inside the car talking to him. He wiped his hand on his jeans before extending it to her, nodding softly. "Don't worry about it, it's not unusual around here" he told the girl, shoving his hands in to his back pockets as he looked her over. "I've been gone a while, but something tells me your new?" He asked, fixing his beanie on to his head. He frowned softly as he realised Archie had stopped to talk to Ellena.

@ Kol.

[ sorry my replies have been a little slow this weekend. It's just been a really busy weekend for me. I'm also so freaking tired, but I'll do my very best to reply to our other RP tomorrow probably when I get off work. I just wanted to get a post up before I went to bed. ]

"Oh yea I can take you there right now," Archie said smiling at the blue-haired girl. "Well welcome to Riverdale, hopefully, you don't hurt yourself anymore while you're here, and I also have Calc with Ms. Frier first thing so we can just go together," he told her totally ignoring all the looks he was getting from not only his fellow Bulldogs but also the newest addition to his classmates, the serpents. Archie still wasn't fully behind the whole serpents coming to Riverdale thing, but he felt like he could use this to his advantage somehow. And maybe Ellena was the key to all of that, she seemed like she might be, so Archie was going to take what he could get.

Archie did wonder what it was going to be like though having them all here, and he did have to admit that even though he wasn't a huge fan of them all being there it was kind of nice to get to see his best friend again. That had really been the only upside any of the southsiders coming to Riverdale, he'd get to actually see his best friend again during school hours rather than just here and there visits after school at Pops. He had a feeling though that Jug wouldn't be too happy with the idea Archie had come up with, mostly because Archie knew that Jug ran with the Serpents now so they were like a second family to him. Either way, though Archie had made up his mind, and if he had to use this to also convince his friend to ditch the Serpents, then he would.

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Lydia tucked her hair behind her ear and smiled at the boy in front of her. "And you would be correct," she told him. "I just recently moved in with my aunt who lives here," she added wondering why he'd been gone awhile, though it might've had something to do with why her aunt didn't like him very much. "That doesn't seem very fair. I mean I know that the world isn't exactly a fair place but it doesn't seem right that people would just automatically assume you and your friends are bad seeds simply because you wear leather jackets and ride motorcycles,"

One thing Lydia really had never understood was just assuming the worst in certain people just because they looked like they were bad seeds. Honestly, in her own personal experiences, she'd discovered that some of the best and most loyal people were the ones who look dangerous. "You said you'd been gone awhile, so did you just move back yourself or something? I mean if you don't mind me asking," she asked him not wanting to pry or make him uncomfortable, but she did want to get to know him a little better. Partly because he was the first kid she'd met, he seemed really intriguing, and because she didn't want to just take her aunts advice and assume the worst in people she didn't even know.

Elle smiled at the red headed boy gently as she walked down the corridor with him towards the classroom. She certainly wasn't letting her guard down that easy, but it was nice to have somebody be friendly to her. Ellena walked in to the classroom, letting her hair fall in to her face as she avoided the other serpeants glaring eyes as she sat with Archie. "Sorry.. I didn't catch your last name.. you aren't a blossom are you?" She asked softly. Elle had tried her best to keep up with who everybody was, and who was a friend or a Foe of the serpeants, but with most of then icing her out that was harder than it looked. And it wasn't like her sister was any help, everybody was an enemy to Penny.

All Elle knew for sure was to avoid the blossom's at all costs, and after that she more or less just tried to watch who Jughead was pals with, his Dad had gotten a lot of Respect from the gang, even when in jail, so she couldn't see how any of that had changed since Penny bailed.

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Jug watched after the car that the girl had climbed out of, trying to catch a glimpse of her aunt and see if he truly knew her or if she was just another Serpeant hater. He simply shrugged as she mentioned how riding motorcycles didn't make him a bad person and it became apparent to Jug that she truly did not know very much about the town at all, if she had never heard of what a notorious gang the Serpeant's were.

"Yeah, you could say that" Jug told her with a boyish, lobsides grin, fanning out the hair that showed benetah his beanie with his fingers. "My Dad's been away for a while, so I was living with some friends in another part of town, but we've just been transferred back here" he filled her in, trying to simplify the situation as much as possible without placing any bias in her head for now.

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[ sorry about my late reply! I'll also get around to our other RP ASAP! ]

Archie couldn't help but laugh slightly at her question if it hadn't been obvious before that she was new it would've been now. Of course, Archie knew that he had very similar features to the Blossom's, but he was in fact not one. And honestly, Archie was kind of glad that he wasn't, from even just the small bit of information he knew about that family he knew he was much better off not being a member. "No, I'm not a Blossom my last name is Andrews actually," he told her wondering if she'd know who he was or not. He had a feeling that the serpents had been talking shit about him, which wouldn't shock him really. Not with all the crazy stuff that's been happening around town. Though Archie didn't think he was a bad person, or that he'd really done anything wrong. He was just doing what he felt was best to protect people he loved from criminals. And honestly, the last thing Archie wanted now, or would ever want, would be for his best friend to be dragged down by some low lives where he couldn't amount to anything. It wasn't likely that he felt his mind would ever be changed by that either. So maybe this all made him a bad person, but he didn't quite see it that way.

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Lydia tucked her hair behind her ear and smiled back, "interesting," she said getting a feeling that there was a lot more to the story then he was telling her, but she didn't mind. For starters she was sure it was a rather long story which they didn't exactly have time for at the moment, secondly, they'd just met and Lydia wasn't going to pressure anyone into giving her their backstory this quickly after meeting them. "Well, I hope everything with your dad works out in the end," she said not sure if that was a possibility or not, but either way she thought she'd try and be positive. It was all Lydia really knew how to do anymore. Honestly, being positive about other people's lives made her own a little better. It also made it a little easier for her to stay positive about her own life which hadn't been going to greatest as of late.