"Happy one-month anniversary," Josie sang when she found Veronica on the bleachers watching the boys. "How's married life treating you?"

"Josie," Veronica exclaimed looking around to find the area around them empty and glared at her friend. "You don't just sneak up on a person while she's watching her team practice, you especially don't announce things like that."

"Relax V, there's no-one here to hear me," Josie said rolling her eyes and sinking into the seat next to Veronica. "Speaking of, where is the rest of the Scooby gang."

"Betty and Jughead are investigating one thing or another, Kevin will probably hate me until he proves he's right about me hiding things from him or Betty gets over Archie enough for him to not care about me anymore, and Archie," Veronica said picking up the take-away coffee she brought to school that morning. "Is right there next to the hunk you came here to check out."

"Would you stop," Josie said rolling her eyes but Veronica could see her little embarrassed smile fighting to come through.

"Only when you do," Veronica shrugged. "Are you performing at the game tomorrow?"

"Yes, but not at the after-party," Josie said and Veronica nodded, that was the usual arrangement, Josie and the Pussycats wanted to enjoy themselves without having to worry about performing. "Should I perform a song for you and Archikins? What song was playing at your wedding?"

"Probably some Elvis song," Veronica laughed, she could fight Josie about never speaking about this or she could just play along until it was all over. "There's only 6 months left till my birthday, 4 months till Archie's."

"What if you stayed married?" Josie asked and Veronica raised her eyebrow in question, waiting for the singer to continue. "I mean, you guys are probably going to get married in a couple years anyway so why not save yourself the legal fees and paperwork and stay married."

"What if we meet other people?" Veronica asked challenging this ridiculous idea Josie had. "The things we think will last forever in high school very rarely do."

"Now you sound like my Nana who is a very lovely but not all there lady," Josie laughed. "I have a feeling that you and Archie will be the exception to all the rules, you guys have been through too much to not end up together."

"Look at that face," Veronica said looking out onto the field to Archie, who periodically looked back to her to make sure she was still there. "We don't have any idea where our futures will take us, I don't want to stop him from being great."

"Why do you keep assuming that you are not perfect for him or that you won't push him to be great?" Josie asked, furrowing her brows slightly, Veronica Lodge was the most confidant person until it came to her relationship with Archie Andrews, then she turned into a doubtful, insecure girl. "V, that boy loves you, he wants to be with you, give it a chance, if you're still unsure by your 18th birthday then go through with the divorce, but if you guys are together I think that you will be the Haley and Nathan of our little Riverdale."

"Are we still on that One Tree Hill reference?" Veronica laughed, looking out onto the field at Archie who was looking back with a fondness on his face that made her want to hide him from the world.

"Yes, they're the only couple I know who got married in High School, I could start with Glee but they only planned the wedding, it didn't actually happen and I refuse to compare this to Britney," Josie told her and Veronica snorted, Josie's couples weren't giving her much hope. "I can see what you're thinking and yes, Haley and Nathan had alot of problems but they came out stronger in the end."

"I think you have a very different idea of teenage marriage than I do," Veronica laughed and Josie pouted, she was a hopeless romantic at heart.

"Who's getting married?" Jughead asked as he, Kevin and Betty joined the girls and Veronica's eyes went wide but Josie didn't even miss a beat and smiled at them.

"We were talking about One Tree Hill's Haley and Nathan, and finding someone that you'd want to spend the rest of your life with when you're as young as we are," Josie said with a deep sigh, Jughead just raised an eyebrow and grunted, obviously not agreeing.

"I'd probably wait until I was 18 but it would be nice to have someone to be so sure off now," Betty agreed looking for Archie on the field and Veronica shared a look with Josie to say that this was why she couldn't just be with Archie.

"What about you Veronica," Kevin asked, Veronica knew he was watching her reactions for something so she smiled and looked out onto the field straight at Archie, even though from their perspective she could be looking at anyone.

"I would tell you that you were crazy but if I had to find the right person now who could convince me to marry him," she said smirking slightly as Archie met her eyes again and Josie nudged her from the side. "Then who am I to snub young love."


Veronica and the vixens waited with bated breath watching as Archie stepped up to take the free kick that would decide the outcome of the first game of the year. Veronica looked out into the silent crowd, she knew there were scouts already watching the boys on the team especially Archie, Chuck, Jason and Reggie.

Archie turned his head toward them after coach Clayton gave him a quick pep talk and caught her eye, Veronica nodded slowly and smiled, her heart beating a mile a minute as he started running. She shut her eyes and crossed her fingers when he kicked the ball, opening one eye to actually watch what happened.

Veronica didn't know why she ever doubted him, the free kick sailed easily to where it was supposed to go and the Riverdale crowd erupted in cheers. The cheerleaders did their victory cheer, as Josie and the Pussycats played their last song of the night, Veronica had just looked away from the crowd to see Betty jump into Archie's arms and the brightest smile on his face. She turned to Josie who shrugged and continued to sing.

"I thought they weren't talking?" Cheryl said stepping up next to Veronica to watch Betty with Archie and some of the other cheerleaders who had run out to the players on the field.

"Me too," Veronica said adjusting her headband and clearing her throat. "But they are best friends, that was bound to change."

"Of course," Cheryl said in a tone that implied she was holding something back and Veronica turned and raised her brows questioningly as if to ask what Cheryl really wanted to say. "I just want to know how an ice princess like yourself can look at best friends reuniting like you're going to set them on fire."

"I don't know what you're talking about Bombshell, you're the fire-starter, I'm the ice-queen," Veronica said, berating herself for not hiding her feelings all that well. "I'm glad they're finally talking again, maybe then I can stop walking on eggshells around them."

Cheryl didn't say anything, she just smirked and walked away leaving Veronica to her own thoughts, she looked up after a moment to see Archie and Betty still hugging each other. Archie looked up and Veronica held his gaze for a second, looked to the back of Betty's hair in front him before sighing and walking away. The day she ended their friends with benefits deal coming to the forefront of her mind.


"So he just broke up with you?" Veronica asked slurping on her milkshake and Betty nodded, they were just waiting for the boys to show up but Betty had informed all of them that her relationship with the Greendale quarterback was over and that they'd never see him again because it was the end of the school year and he was moving away for collage. "Because he's moving away? That doesn't sound right, it's not like he's moving across the country, it's not like he's going to be that much further away from you that he won't be able to make the trip to Riverdale every 2 weeks."

Betty looked around as if double checking that the boys weren't there before sighing. "He broke up with me because he said that he knew I wasn't over Archie and we had a huge fight over it," Betty told Veronica. "And the thing is V, I think he's right, I've never truly gotten over Archie."

"What are you going to do now?" Veronica asked, needing to clear her throat because she was sure that Betty was over Archie when things with Zeke started getting serious and that was when she and Archie began their midnight meetings, as she liked to call them, but now that this relationship was over and Betty was still in love with Archie, how could Veronica even think about changing her relationship with Archie to be a real, public relationship instead of the secret, casual fling that it was supposed to be.

"I don't know, I mean I'll probably just take some time to myself to get over it," Betty laughed sadly and Veronica reached out to take her friends hand. "Eat a tub of ice-cream and cry."

"And your feelings for Archie?" Veronica prompted, needing to know.

"It is very possible that I have been fooling myself this whole time about being over Archie," Betty said with a shrug. "We're going to Las Vegas in two weeks, so I'm just going to pull myself together by then and have the most amazing time there and then when we get back I'll figure it out."

"That's the spirit B," Veronica laughed and Betty nodded and laughed along with her. In the midst of a bad breakup, Betty Cooper had a plan.

"The boys are here," Betty gasped watching Kevin, Jughead and Archie enter the diner and before Veronica even looked up to see them Betty was already in Archie's arms, gripping onto him and Veronica knew that the chances of Betty not being in love with Archie was slim to nothing.

"So they are," Veronica mumbled to herself, watching as Jughead and Kevin went to the counter to place their orders before joining Veronica at her booth and watching Betty and Archie talk.

"Say what you want but I always knew that they would end up together," Kevin said almost dreamily and Jughead raised an eyebrow, reaching out to grab some of the fries the girls ordered earlier.

"She literally just broke up with someone," Jughead laughed popping the fries into his mouth. "Calm down there, Cupid."

"Ok but do you see how he's holding her right now?" Kevin asked throwing an arms out to Archie and Betty at the door and Jughead looked back at them and shrugged, he didn't see what Kevin saw, he just saw one friend comforting the other.

As Kevin began ranting about the reasons and signs that Archie and Betty should be together and would be together Veronica tuned him out, she didn't want anymore proof that the boy she thought she might love belonged to her best friend. Betty wasn't going to realize that her feelings are platonic especially not when they stood in front of Veronica looking like they were on the cusp of starting something real. And Archie ... Veronica didn't really know where he stood with his feelings for Betty.

"I'm going to go," Veronica said suddenly grabbing her bag and standing up, realizing belatedly that she said that in the middle of someone's sentence and that Betty and Archie had joined them and were sitting across from her together, with Betty's head on his chest and everyone turned to stare at her so she smiled. "My parents have that meeting in New York and they want me to go with them so I have an early start."

"Yeah, my dad said something about that," Archie piped in when the other's looked at Veronica a little confused, he was watching her with his eyebrows furrowed. "He said Hiram thought you'd want to visit your old city."

"I just want to stroll down Madison Avenue with a Frappuccino and a couple of shopping bags full of things from my favorite stores," Veronica said with a smile and Kevin sighed next to her, how he wishes he could do just that. "I will see you guys when I get back."

Veronica told Betty to call her if she needed to talk and then almost sprinted out of Pop's, she had just reached the car where Andre was waiting for her when someone grabbed her hand and she gaped and turned ready to beat them with her handbag.

"Archie," she said breathlessly, putting her hand over her chest and waving Andre back into the car when he got out to see if she were ok. "What's wrong?"

"That's what I came to ask you," he said his hands coming down to cup both her elbows. "You ran out of there really fast, your flight tomorrow isn't early enough."

"We have to stop," Veronica said blinking up at him, hoping that her eyes didn't look glassy.

"Stop what?" he asked furrowing his brows, gripping her elbows just a little bit tighter as if to stop her from saying the words.

"This arrangement that we have going on," Veronica said clearing her throat and clenching her jaw.

"Just because Betty broke up with her boyfriend?" Archie asked incredulously.

"Yes," Veronica said frustrated at his confused face. "That is exactly why, she's going to be watching you and she's still into you, this should end before we hurt her, after all there's no feelings right?"

"No," Archie said after a moment dropping his arms to his side, his face as blank as she hoped hers was. "No feelings."

"Exactly, so everything can just go back to the way it was," she said forcing a carefully carefree smile onto her face, hoping that he believed that this didn't hurt her at all and hoping beyond everything else that he was not in as much pain as she was. "I'll see you when I get back Archikins."

"Enjoy New York, Ronnie," he said softly after a moment, his voice without emotion.

Veronica got into the car telling Andre to drive and watching Archie, standing there defeated in the rear view mirror, only allowing her emotions to take over and the tears to fall when he was out of sight.

She knew that it would hurt when their arrangement ended, but the fear of not knowing what being with him was like, far outweighed the fear of being hurt by the fallout.


A/N: Hi guys, sorry its taken me so long to update, I've been wanting to but I've just been so exhausted, work is just getting worse and so for the next month at least I wont be getting any writing done, which means slow updates, which again, I'm so sorry

This chapter is one that I split up and I am very nervous about, I love it because I know where I'm going with it but I don't know how you guys are going to feel about it ... This chapter does bring us to the end of our flashbacks because just after this the kids go to Vegas. This flashback gives us the end of Veronica and Archie's friends with benefits, no feeling arrangement, it gives us more of why Veronica's reluctant to be with Archie publicly and her fears regarding his relationship with Betty, because no matter what he say to her, she's always afraid of his feelings changing or being confused for something else

With all that said, thank you for the lovely reviews on the previous chapter, please review this chapter and let me know what you think, also OMG how perfect are Varchie on the show? I love every single perfect scene we get with them and KJ and Camilla have such amazing chemistry

Until Next Time (^^,)