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"Archie? Why are you calling me right now? What did you do?" Clara questioned quickly.

"you gave me two options take you with me or text you" Archie stated and she responded with a quiet 'yeah' looking out her window confused. "Well we are in your drive way so hurry up"

"What?! God damn it Archie" She sighed before quickly leaving her house.

"Hey Clara" Reggie smirked winking at her, she rolled her eyes in return before getting into the back seat of the car.

"Someone wanna tell me what's going on?" She asked leaning forward so her head was in between the two seats.

"What I said we were doing, making the town safer" Archie stated and she leaned back into the seat now taking notice of the tools next to her. She glanced up to look at Reggie through the mirror but only caught a glimpse of his smirk.

"oh god" she muttered to herself before going silent for most of the ride.

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Clara sighed out of bordem laying her head back as the loud music Reggie was playing filled her ears.

"God don't you have literally anything else to listen to?" Clara asked after a moment

"Besides your whining? No I don't" Reggie stated making her scoff and cross her arms. After what felt like twenty minuets of listening to the bad music Archie had turned it down to answer his phone.

"Hey this is Archie" He answered "ok slow down are you sure? No don't do that just get somewhere safe ok?"

Reggie and Clara shared a look before Archie told him they had to turn around so they could get to whoever had called Archie.

The Keller girl groaned when her head smacked agaisnt the car window when Reggie made a very quick and sharp turn, muttering profanities under her breath while she held onto her head.

Suddenly, what felt like only a two minute drive ended with an abrupt stop making her smack her face against Archies seat

"For fuck sake" She growled before quickly getting out of the car and following Archie.

"Ethel?" Archie screamed shining his flashlight around before a van sped down the road they were headed away from. Archie and Reggie went to chase after it until Archie heard Ethel call his name.

"Ethel what happened?" Archie asked and she frantically explained how she thought a van was following her on her way home. Clara took a step forward to hug the girl to give her some sort of comfort.

"Did you recgonize it?" Archie asked

"No, I'm sorry" she cried holding onto Clara who was rubbing her back in a soothing way.

"it's ok don't be sorry" Archie said before he wrapped his arms around his best friend and Ethel.

"Come on, we'll give you a ride home" Clara said keeping her arm wrapped around the girl and walking her to Reggie's car.

After Reggied dropped off Ethel he dropped off Archie. Archie looked back at Clara with a questioning glance almost asking if she was ok with being alone with Reggie, when she nodded he hesitantly got out of the car allowing Clara to get into the front seat.

"So what happened to you?" He suddenly asked turning to glance at her

"nothing happened to me" She sighed not wanting to talk about anything with Reggie.

"Oh come on, something did happen, three months ago you were this sweet quiet girl never said a word to anyone now you're serving glares left and right never stop whining or talking back. So tell me what happened?" Reggie stopped his car as he reached her house.

"Thanks for the ride Reggie" Clara opened the door before turning to him and giving him her best fake smile before getting out.

"You'll tell me eventually" he called after her and she shook her head

"Not likely" she called back before walking into her house. She had finally gotten into comftorable clothes and was getting ready to go to bed when there was a pounding on her door

"What now?" she cried before making her way to the door only to find Betty standing on the other side. "oh hello Betty"

"Hey Clara is Kevin home?" Betty asked and the brown haired girl took notice of the way she was nervously playing with her fingers causing her to raise an eyebrow in suspicion

"No, afriad not" After she said that Betty let out a defeated sigh before nodding sadly

"When he comes home can you tell him i'm sorry?" Betty asked and Clara crossed her arms as she narrowed her eyes at the Cooper girl.

"And why are you needing to apologize?" She asked raising her eyebrows in impatience when Betty wasn't answering.

"I just messed up ok? can you just tell him i'm sorry? Please?" Betty asked and Clara sighed but nodded her head "Thank you"

"Have a goodnight Betty" Clara closed the door sighing before making her way up to her bedroom. She knew she said she would tell Kevin when he got home but it was way to late and she was way to tired to wait for him to come home.

She figured she would just tell him in the morning.
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The next morning it was the same usual routine, with Kevin waking his sister so she can get ready and they both have a quick breakfast before Kevin takes them both to school.

"Oh by the way Betty stopped by last night-" before she could even finish her sentence Kevin had cut her off

"Oh trust me I know. Dad had a talk with me about it last night" Kevin muttered tightening his grip on the steering wheel

"Well she wanted me to tell you she was sorry but from the way you got so upset about me mentioning she dropped by i'm sure you don't want to hear it" Clara sighed looking out her window.

"You're right I don't want to hear it" Kevin said turning off his car when they pulled into a parking spot. Clara quickly got out and followed after him.

"What happened between you two?" Clara asked holding her books to her chest.

"Nothing, Betty just wouldn't leave me alone about not going on my night jogs into the woods then she had the nerve to find me there and tell me she wanted me to have more respect for myself. She just doesn't understand what it's like to be me and not be perfect like her" Kevin sighed walking up to his locker.

"Kev i'm sorry, I'll make it up to you how about me and you have a movie marathon?" Clara asked happily but noticed his mood darken when he looked behind his sister

"I don't know Clara" Kevin sighed before slamming his locker and walking away

"Ok well just let me know" She called frowning at his sadness before turning to see it was Betty who put him in a worse mood.

Clara sighed, shaking her head before she turned and started walking to her class ready to get the day done.
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Ok i'm hoping my story is making sense so far and i promise Fangs will either show up next chapter or the one after that.

anyway Bulldog or Southside Serpent?

Southside serpent for me

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