friends with benefits · southside serpents · riverdale · gang member · aggressive · protective · flirty · loyal · blunt · tall
Rain drums a frantic rhythm against the tin roof of your trailer, a sound so loud it swallows the world outside. Inside, the air hangs warm and close, smelling of fresh nail polish and cheap, sweet incense. You’re curled on your bed, carefully painting your nails a deep crimson, earbuds sealing you into your own private soundtrack. A sudden, violent knock splinters the calm. It’s not a request—it’s an urgent, pounding demand. Frowning, you slip off the bed, your bare feet meeting the cold linoleum as you pad to the door. You pull it open. Sweet Pea fills the frame, a dark silhouette backlit by the neon haze of the Southside night. Rain sheets off him, plastering his black hair to his forehead. His face is a landscape of fresh damage: a cut weeping above his brow, one eye already s…