prologue ;
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DARREN CLAYTON.
Most people in Riverdale weren't even aware the boy, younger brother of the infamous jock Chuck, existed.

Of course they saw him in the hallways of Riverdale, always alone, but he didn't exactly stick out.

That is until he changed completely, this is what caught Riverdale's eye.

He started showing up to school less and less, making more friends with the local biker gang that hung outside, and in, Riverdale high.

He ditched his glasses and regular school clothes for contacts and cliché leather jackets and t-shirts.

He ditched his textbooks for a nose piercing and a serpent tattoo on his forearm.

And the money his father, coach of the football team, gave him for football equipment on a ran down motorbike.

This drove his parents mad, but it made him happy, at least he thought.

He grew even further away from his brother, and his parents, and began his journey on his own.

Trading his comfy bed for a sleeping bag on the floor of Riverdale's drive-in theatre's theatre room.

Even if he had to deal with his frenemy of a roommate and fellow loner, Jughead, He still considered it home. And himself alone.

Of course he had some friends, but at the end of the day, he only had himself to look out for him and it was like that sense he was born.

His older brother being the apparent favorite since birth, seeing as he prospered in every sport while Darren couldn't even catch a football if his life depended on it.

His parents favored Chuck, and Darren never connected with them and could never live up to him even if he tried.

And he did try, he tried to the point where it wasn't helping him as much as it was hurting him.

It wasn't his fault he wasn't as much of an 'inspiration' as his brother.

Or was it? His father happened to think that it was all him. Everything Chuck was and Darren wasn't, it all was Darren's fault.

He was content at the theatre, better then the fake place people called his home.

He would have kept on living this way, if it weren't for the death that turned everything in Riverdale upside down, The death of Jason Blossom.

It effected everyone.

But especially Darren, maybe because the serpent was involved, a tid bit more then anyone else.

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a/n:
heyooo
i know this is just a prologue
but chapter 1 might even be up tonight so yeee
Darren is such an angellll
AND OF COURSE THERES SECRETS ITS RIVERDALE
sorry if that's a tid cliche but who doesn't have secrets in this town
anyway leave comments on anything and everything cause I love them and they make me write faster anyway enjoyyy