Hey, beautiful people! This is the second to last chapter of this story. I'm going to be so sad to see it over :( Also—I've got Pink's concert next weekend! She's going to be fucking amazing!
The day that the girls moved into their new home was a Friday. Cheryl and Veronica were just glad that they were moving out of an apartment and into an actual house, while Betty was just glad she was going to be able to have her own room and a bed, rather than crashing on the couch, or sometimes sharing the bed with Kevin when they watched TV in his room and fell asleep. The house that they were moving into also had a cute little backyard that wasn't huge, but was big enough to have a clothes line and a outdoor table and chairs set.
Veronica and Betty both got time off work so that they had a long weekend to move, and Cheryl took a day off visiting the hair salon or getting her nails done or whatever it was that she did. Kevin and Joaquin also came over in the afternoon to help them with moving the heavy furniture from the girls apartment, and Jughead drove down to Fred's second hand store in Archie's pick up truck to pick up the furniture that he had been holding for her. By five o'clock, the whole group was over at their new place, helping them unpack.
"No! No!" Cheryl squawked out as Archie and Joaquin moved her absolutely massive bed from one side of the room to the centre. "Nope, I want it turned around! It's making the room look too small." Kevin exchanged looked with Betty from the doorway where they were standing, and they turned around to hide their smirks. Veronica and Cheryl had the two rooms on one side of the house, while Betty was on the other side, which she was very happy about, given how all over each other the girls always were. She doubted they would even need the two rooms, but if they wanted them, they were welcome to them. "No, no, no!" Cheryl could still be heard from the bedroom as Kevin and Betty walked out the back door to where the outdoor furniture had been brought by earlier by Joaquin, Archie and Jughead.
"So this sounds as though it's going to be fun," Kevin smirked as he sat down on one of the wooden chairs, Betty sitting down next to him, a content smile on her face as she looked around the tiny back yard. There was a tree in the corner of the fenced off property, and the grass was trimmed short, with a washing line in the opposite corner from the tree. The sun was on their side of the house, and she tipped her head back, taking in a deep breath. "If she ever gets to be too much, you know that you're always welcome back to my couch."
"I know," Betty let out a laugh as she opened her eyes and reached out to grip Kevin's hand, giving it a quick squeeze. "Although you've got to admit, you're going to be happy to have your place all back to yourself. Especially now that you've got that hot piece of a ass inside."
"Sassy," Kevin's eyebrows shot up and he let out a surprised snort at the blondes words. "I like it." Betty laughed again and shook her head. Kevin was about to open his mouth and say something when Cheryl came outside, huffing and rolling her eyes.
"They're refusing to move my bed anymore," she grumbled as she sat down at the third seat around the wooden table.
"Maybe that's because they're here because they're doing you a favor as friends, and not because they're paid moving personnel," Kevin sniped. Cheryl responded by flipping the finger at him, and huffing again. Veronica came out a moment later, and she skipped over to Cheryl, sitting down on her lap and wrapping an arm around her, smushing a kiss against her cheek and leaving a smear of dark purple lipstick on her pale skin.
"I already love this place ten times more than our apartment," Veronica announced, making herself comfortable on Cheryl, slinging her legs over the wooden arm of the chair.
"Yes, except for the fact that my bed is angled in such a way that when the sun comes up in the morning it's going to shine directly in my eyes," Cheryl muttered.
"Well, maybe if you weren't being such a bitch, they would help you out some more," Veronica reasoned with a smirk, and Kevin and Betty snorted. Joaquin, Archie and Jughead joined the four outside a few minutes later, all of them outside now since Reggie had left half an hour ago to go meet some girl that he had started seeing. "Don't worry, babe, you can share my bed," she wiggled her eyebrows at her girlfriend, and the icy expression on Cheryl's face thawed just a little bit.
"Two windows have broken locks," Jughead said quietly as he came over to stand behind Betty, resting his hands on her shoulders. "Me and Archie are going to go to the store to get replacements and come back and get those fixed."
"Thanks," Betty covered one of Jugheads hands with her own, giving it a little squeeze as she let her head rest back against his stomach.
"And we moved the bed again," Archie said grudgingly, not looking happy to admit it to Cheryl. "So it's now opposite the wardrobe." Cheryl looked as though she was going to shoot back some smartass remark, but Veronica tapped her shoulder warningly and the red head rolled her eyes.
"Thank you," Cheryl bit out before turning her head away, tossing her hair over her shoulder. Jughead leaned down and pressed a kiss against Betty's forehead.
"We'll be back shortly," he told her. "And then we'll get those locks fixed."
The first morning that Betty woke up in her new home, she basked in the fact that she was waking up in a bedroom that was entirely her own. It really shouldn't be that big of a thing, except for the past few months she had been living in Kevin's lounge without her own space, and before that she had been living in the dorms at NYU, and sharing with a roommate. So the fact that this bedroom was all hers, and that she could stretch out without any worry of putting anyone else by remaining in bed was an amazing feeling.
She heard the shower start and was about to drift back off to sleep when she heard some high pitched giggles and then a thud, and assumed that Cheryl and Veronica were showring together. She rolled her eyes and hid her under her pillow, going back to sleep with a smile.
When Betty finally got up, close to noon, she pulled on a sweatshirt over the singlet and didn't bother to change out of her pyjama shorts. Cheryl was sitting at their small kitchen table, drinking some thick, disgusting looking green drink. Betty raised her eyebrow at it when Veronica came through the front door behind her, holding up a brown paper bag.
"Don't worry," she said with a grin. "I went and got us actual food."
"You mean a heart attack waiting to happen?" Cheryl quirked an eyebrow, sniffing in derision as Veronica got two plates out of the cupboard and put them down at the table.
"That's exactly what I mean," Veronica sung out, obviously used to Cheryl's hate for all things good in the world, like the incredible pastries that she tipped out of the bag and shared between the two plates.
"Oh my god, these smell amazing," Betty sighed as she fell down in the seat beside Veronica and pulled the plate closer to her.
"There's plenty of my spinach and lime smoothie to go around," Cheryl stated as she looked across the table at Betty. "And it's a hell of a lot better for you than those." Betty stared at the red head pointedly as she picked up one of the pastries and shoved it into her mouth, biting down and chewing down on it. Veronica laughed while Cheryl just rolled her eyes and sighed. "Well, I guess I'm going to have to accept you—disgusting eating habits and all—since we're practically sisters now."
"Uh," Betty swallowed her mouthful. "Moving in together does not make us related. Trust me, I would've put a little bit more thought into it if that's what I was signing up for."
"I don't mean because of our living situation," Cheryl rolled her eyes dramatically. "I meant Jason and your sister, Polly."
"Polly?" That surprised Betty and she froze for a moment, raising her eyebrow. "What's Polly got to do with this?"
"My darling brother, Jason, is dating your sister," Cheryl already looked bored with this conversation, although clearly it was new information to her or so she would have brought it up sooner. "When he was in town a few months ago—around when you first showed up—he mentioned to me that he was seeing someone, but he just wanted to give it a bit more time before introducing her because he wanted to tell mummy and daddy first. I guess he must have finally done it, because there's a photo up on Facebook."
"Jason..." Betty frowned, because that was the name of the guy that Polly had mentioned. So, Polly was dating a Blossom. "This is...A really small world," she said slowly, and Veronica smirked.
"Think about it," she grinned. "If me and Cheryl are still together when Polly and Jason tie the knot or whatever, then we'll basically be sisters as well."
"Married?" Betty's eyebrows raised up high and Veronica laughed, because Cheryl had a similar expression on her face.
"Hey, I'm just looking further down the track," she shrugged. "You never know."
"Right, well, I think that might be something far, far down the track," Cheryl cleared her throat and got up from the table to pour more of her smoothie into her tall glass. "Anyway, we're all set for the drive in tonight? We can just take my car down there, and then walk in to meet Archie and the rest of the boys."
"We don't have to actually drive a car in?" Betty asked.
"No," Cheryl answered long-sufferingly. "We can park it outside and just walk in and sit in the back of Archie's truck."
"The movie starts at seven, so we'll leave here just after six," Veronica said.
"Oh, I forgot to ask, what movie is playing?" Betty picked up another pastry, making a mental note to text her sister after checking her Facebook for this photo that Cheryl was talking about.
"Rebel Without A Cause," Veronica answered with a smile. "One of Jughead's favourites."
Now, my first thing is a Youtube video. It's only a couple of minutes, but it is absolutely fucking beautiful, my heart just...Shit. Anyway. Watch it. It's called Homophobia In 2018 | Time For Love on the channel BBC Social. Please watch it. It's just a few minutes, just a tiny bit of your day, but it's just incredible.
Okay! So I have so many songs! Okay, so Afterlife by XYLO. And then 1950 and Talia by King Princess—also, I heard that she and Amanda Stenburg are dating? Not sure if that's true, but damn cute couple if they are. Then there's Wild Love by James Bay. The music video for this is absolutely amazing, Natalia looks fucking heavenly. I can't get over that song. Then there's Skydiving, Saviour and We Were Here by Lights. And then an older one, Life After You, by Daughtry. And What's Love Got To Do With It, the cover by Prides, which I heard in Dynasty and fell in love with.
Cloak and Dagger has recently finished and it was amazing, and you should all definitely be watching it. There's also the show Castle Rock that we've just started with Bill Skaarsgard, and I'll watch anything with him in it. Movie wise, we've recently watched Game Night and Stronger, which were both really good. We're September now and there's so many new seasons of my shows starting! What ones are you guys looking forward to?
As a closing note, is anyone else keeping up with all this Jeffree Star drama and his ex-friends? I'm finding all of it hilarious. Me and one my best friends are in love with it all. Haha. Oh—and 21/08/2018 was apparently Fanfiction Appreciation Day! So, happy...That? Haha.
OMG—and everyone should watch Crazy Rich Asians. I fucking loved it.
Let me know what you thought of the story, let me know if you want a preview of the next chapter x