So, does anyone remember me promising that I would be posting chapter 2 last week? I do! Anyway, it's a week late, and it's really only half a chapter, but I wanted to post what I already had, seeing as it's already a week late. Not going to make any promises on my next update, since I've been working literally every day (but not the whole day, thankfully) for the past few weeks. Also moving soon, so packing things has been taking up some time. But I love this story as much as you guys hopefully do and I have plans for it, so don't lose hope.
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Oh, also, Veronica's and Betty's dresses: Betty's dress is the white one that Lili wore to what I believe was 2018 san diego comic con. For Veronica's dress, I googled "Camila Mendes best looks" and found a pic of her in this green dress that I absolutely loved. If you go to google images, it was like the 5th result for me and it's this sleveless v-neck dark sage green dress. Anyway, now you guys can finally read the chapter lol!
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2
As Jughead got out of his car, he began to doubt himself. Should he really be doing this? Did it makes him a bad father that he was going out with some girl he didn't know rather than staying in with his kids? Toni had reassured him that it didn't as she pushed him out the door, promising again that she was an amazing babysitter.
He leaned his head against the metal of his car door, squishing the gray beanie atop his head. Toni had told him not to wear it, but hadn't absolutely insisted on it.
He tried to stop his heart and mind from racing. This was wrong. Wasn't it? Why had he agreed to it? No, he corrected himself. He hadn't just agreed to it. He had reminded Veronica about it and then explicitly told her to set him up with Betty Cooper. Why had he done that? Why had he let Toni convince him to do that?
He lifted his head off of the warm metal and opened his car door again before the sound of a voice made him stop and turn.
"Jughead?" Archie's voice called from a few yards away. The redhead was jogging over and quickly reached him. "Were... were you leaving?" He asked. The car door was still open.
"Tell her that I'm sorry," Jughead began. "Tell them both that I'm sorry."
"You can't leave," Archie protested. "Veronica will kill me if I let you leave." Jughead still didn't cave. "She'll probably kill you too, you know," Archie added.
Jughead groaned. Archie was absolutely right. If he left now, Veronica would no doubt show up on the sight on Monday and chew him out about bailing on the double date that she had set up. If he hadn't had so many other things occupying his brain space, he would've wondered why his first date with this girl was a double date. But he didn't have the brain space to wonder about that.
"Let's go," Jughead gave in, shutting the car door, locking it, and finally walking away from it and into the restaurant. It was easy to identify Veronica. She somehow stood out in the room, as she always did, in a lacy green v-neck dress. His eyes found the blond woman next to her next. Veronica had not lied when she had said that Betty Cooper was beautiful. She looked beautiful in the sleveless white v-neck dress. Her hair was completely up except for a small section in the front. When she looked up, he got a perfect view of her beautiful green eyes. They had a spark of life in them.
She turned her head, probably saying something to Veronica as her eyes kept glancing back to Jughead and Archie, Veronica's eyes quickly following. Veronica nodded at her friend, offering the guys a smile before her face scrunched up slightly as she focused on Jughead. Jughead knew that it must be because of his outfit choice. Specifically the beanie. He knew that it didn't go with the rest of look (it didn't go with any look, really). But he hadn't gone out without it on in the past 12 years and tonight would not be an exception.
In the time that it had taken Jughead to look over the blond's appearance, he and Archie had reached the table. The two women were now standing. Veronica's still hadn't quite recovered from the scowl that Jughead's beanie had caused, but she began to speak.
"Jughead," she introduced, "this is Betty, my best friend since high school."
"And mine since... basically since we were born," Archie added.
"I'm Jughead," he introduced lamely. "I work with Archie." He felt a bit awkward. Would it be weird to shake her hand? Would it be weird to not shake her hand?
"It's nice to meet you," Betty said, allowing Jughead to hear her voice for the first time. Like the rest of her, it was beautiful.
"You too, Betty," he smiled back.
The rest of the evening went on with Veronica making Betty blush and act modest while her praises were sang to Jughead. He found out from a proud Veronica that she had a few awards for her articles. He also found out that she had written the article that got the Sisters of Quiet Mercy, which Jughead hadn't even known existed till it's closure, was shut down as well as a series of articles defending the Southside, which had led to the mayor being pressured to enact the rent stabilization act that had been in effect in the Southside for years. Betty tried to downplay her accomplishments, saying that they were no big deal, but Jughead had never admired a woman more in his life. Betty Cooper looked innocent and sweet on the outside, but on the inside, she was a fierce warrior.
About halfway through dinner, Veronica excused herself to the bathroom and insisted that Betty come with her. When they had come back, Veronica had whispered something into Archie's ear and then announced that she and the redhead would be hanging out by the bar for a little bit. She then winked at Betty, which Jughead didn't know if he was meant to see, but he had.
"I'm sorry about her earlier," Betty began. "Sometimes she doesn't know when to stop singing my praises."
"Well you have a lot of praises to sing," Jughead replied. "What you've done is very impressive."
"It's not," Betty replied, "but thank you." Jughead saw the self-deprication in her that he also had. He moved on from the topic, as he knew he would want her to do if their roles were reversed.
"So how did you and Veronica become friends?" The question had been slowly moving to the forefront of her mind since Veronica had mentioned that she and Betty had been best friends since high school. To him, recent acquaintances would've made more sense than best friends.
"I got asked to show her around Riverdale High when she moved here. She had just come from this private school in New York City and she always wore these pearls and designer outfits and carried around thousand dollar handbags, so of course I thought that she was just some shallow rich girl," Betty paused to take a drink. "But I misjudged her and now she's one of my closest and dearest friends. I mean, she's been there through everything."
"Wow," Jughead responded, not sure what else to say.
"Yeah," Betty responded. "I don't know how you've managed to put up with her, though. I mean, I love her, but she can be a bit much to handle sometimes. Especially if you haven't known her for years."
"Agreed," Jughead chuckled.
So I hope that you guys enjoyed this little half chapter and Betty finally being brought into this Bughead fic (cus you can't have Bughead without Betty). So, I know that double dates don't typically happen as the first date. There is a reason why it's a double date, not sure when in the story it will end up being revealed though (the reason goes along with a deep backstory). Also, Jughead's beanie. I don't know if there's like an official backstory for it (maybe like in the comics or something- idk, never read them), but I have my own backstory for it (again, I don't know when I will be revealing it), which I felt made it very in character for Jughead to wear his beanie on the date.
Thank you to anyone who's had the patience to come back and read the second chapter of this after 2 weeks! I have big plans for these two, so I hope you guys will stay along for the ride and I continue to write this. Cannot promise when my next update will be, but if you follow the story, you'll definitely know as soon as I post it lol. I know it's annoying for those of you viewing as guests, so I'm going say that I'm still aiming for my next update to be next Sunday or the Sunday after that. May or may not be that soon though, so I can almost guarantee that it will be updated again with in the month (that's such a bad guarantee, I know).
Anyway, thank you for reading, and I can't wait to see whoever comes back for the next update in chapter 3!
