A starting from the beginning kind of fic
Lonely Sunny Betty
Archie and Jughead are sharing a piece of cake that I'm not allowed to join in with because I haven't been invited. I kick my flats along the concrete and mom sees it because she yells out the window. "Don't ruin those shoes, Elizabeth!"
I feel madder now than I did before. Mom is still watching me and I'm still sitting outside watching Archie and Jughead laughing and giggle-shaking as they share cake. Archie sees me and he waves, he yells out; "Morning Betty!" his eyes glitter-shimmer in the morning sun but mom would say it's from all the refined sugar but I don't even know what that is.
I wave back but I still don't get an invite.
I see Jughead sitting on the porch and he's wearing ripped jeans, he has duct tape wrapped around one of his shoes. He was weird and now he's getting weirder and now he thinks it's cool to have duct tape wrapped around his shoes and he tries to ride a skateboard now. He was wobbly-shakes on the skateboard but he told me the more he practices, the better he'll get and he'll be smooth-sailing on the concrete soon. I didn't know he could ride a skateboard and maybe he can't but now Archie and Jughead don't really talk to me much at school because they hang out with all the boys and they got mad at me for hanging out with all the girls. They also didn't like that I had sleep overs and I was too busy to come and watch them skate. They used to always make me come and watch them ride but now I don't get invited to that either.
I sit on the porch and I lean down to put my heavy head in my hands.
"Hey Sunny Betty," I hear in front of me and I hear the click of skateboard wheels on the cold-hard-concrete next to me. Jughead was smiling which is funny because him and Archie don't smile at me at school all the time anymore, only sometimes. "Don't call me Sunny Betty," I tell Jughead because he is mean. "I'm not your Sunny Betty."
"Ahh Betts," he says, teeth showing with a sunny-side smile. "You've always been Sunny Betty to us! That's what we always call you!"
I look around, I look behind him. "Where's Archie?" I ask him.
Jughead shrugs his shoulders. "Gone to take his plate inside, Fred and Mary let us have cake for breakfast, can you believe it?"
"I could have had cake for breakfast too if I wanted to," I say not looking at him because I am lying.
Jughead doesn't believe me anyways because he just laughs at me. His laugh smells like chocolate-happy-laughs and his clothes smell like dirty-pine and minty-fresh cool like his mom's chewing gum but his smile is making me want to smile because I miss my best friends. "Tell me another lie," he tells me.
"I'm not mad at you," I tell him madly.
"Sure," he says. "Are you doing anything?"
I groan. "No," I say. "Because Polly has gone to a friends house and I have to stay here alone."
"Alone isn't too bad," he says biting his lip and scuffing duct-tape-fixed shoes on the concrete. "But if alone is dumb for you then come and hang out with Archie and me!"
My lip pokes out and my eyebrows don't want to be happy and I try not to put my hands on my hips because mom does it but it happens anyways. "You and Archie don't like me anymore, remember?"
Jughead shakes his head and puts his skateboard down before putting his foot on it and rolling it in front of us. "We don't not like you Betty. But we have a crew now and girls aren't allowed in the crew."
"Screw the crew," I tell him.
He looks shocked and Archie comes running behind us. "Hey Betts!" he yells out.
Jughead's mouth is still dropped from what I said. "Screw the crew?" he asks me. "Betty jut said screw!"
I see Archie drop his mouth too. "What?"
I roll my eyes at the two friends in front of me. "I didn't swear! That's not a swear word."
Archie shakes his head and Jughead rolls his skateboard again, looking down at dirty shoes. "We won't tell," Archie says in the end.
I feel my face turning red-hot but I try not to care. "You guys can go," I say. "So you're not bored."
Archie turns around and waves at me from behind but Jughead stands still. "You should come with us to the skatepark," he tells me. "it will be cool and I'll give you a go on my new skateboard…"
I look down underneath duct tape shoes and I see his board is still shiny-sleek and unmarked. It looked cool, cooler than cool. Cooler than anything I have and it's shiny-sleek made me want to try it. I watch Archie try and lift his bike into the air and it looked dangerous and fun and something mom would never let me do. "Juggie," I whisper. "What if my mom doesn't let me go?"
"Just come!" he sounds a little bit like begging and he really, really wants me to go. "Please!"
I shake my head and I roll my eyes and I stomp my foot. "Will you promise to not ignore me at school anymore?"
He nods his head and crosses his heart. "We don't ignore you on purpose," he says slowly. "We don't talk to all girls, it's a thing."
Well I don't like that thing because it makes me miss my best friends and makes me shaking-grumpy kind of mad. "Well you made a promise, Juggie, and you gotta tell Archie too."
He nods and crosses his heart again. "We won't ignore you, we will wave out to you and we will hang out every single weekend is that ok?"
I nod. "It's ok."
Jughead grins at me with only one side and I see his teeth. "What if you tell your mom you're coming over to Archie's house and then we'll go to the park?" he whisper-hushes in my ear.
My eyes grow big. "You want me to lie?"
"I want you to have fun with us, Sunny Betty."
"You'll be there with me, right?" I ask him.
"I'm here, Betty, come on, let's go!"
More younger Bughead to come xx
