Veronica was bopping her head to the music blaring through her airpod's, it was well past midnight at this point and she was trying to keep herself awake for Archie, she didn't want to be asleep when he finally snuck into her room.
She knew that they were both so tired but this was the night that his parents were out of town so they wouldn't miss him and her brother was already lost to dreamland and she did not want to wait any longer to spend some uninterrupted time with him even if it were just to sleep.
Veronica closed her eyes as she threw a hand up into the air, mouthing the words of the Taylor Swift song she was singing into her hair brush/make shift mic. She swung her hips over to one side and then the other giggling to herself about how ridiculous she probably looked. She spun around and opened her eyes squeaking when she realized she was not alone.
She reached out and grabbed Archie's hand pulling him inside her room before shutting the door quietly. Veronica giggled uncontrollably as Archie pulled her in for a hug, burying her face into his sweater to muffle the sound.
"Are you trying to give me a heart attack?" she asked pushing her face off his chest and smiling up at him, she was at the point of exhaustion that she felt drunk.
"No, but I didn't want to disturb your pop-star fantasy," he told her and she rolled her eyes.
Archie took one of her airpod's out of her ears so he could listen to what she was dancing too but the song had ended and another song had begun. Archie took her hand and spun her around before pulling her back to him. Veronica giggled as he dipped her and then brought her up fast enough that her feet left the ground and she was swept up into his arms and spun them around.
"Did you have any trouble getting in?" Veronica asked pushing Archie's jacket off his shoulders and hanging it over the back of her chair once the song was over and they both had pink cheeks from all that dancing and trying to keep their laughter down.
"Nope, the door was open just like you told me," Archie said, kicking of his shoes and cupping her cheeks. "All I had to do was walk upstairs, which is very concerning, I think I need to talk to Jug about locking that door."
"I think you need to kiss me," Veronica said with a grin, closing her eyes as she leaned into his hands, she felt like she had been waiting the whole night for this kiss, the quick good luck kiss behind the bus they shared when they reached Sunnydale with Kevin as lookout, felt like an age ago.
Archie chuckled and leaned his head down slowly, finally capturing her lips in a long awaited kiss. Veronica smiled into the kiss, pushing herself up onto the tips of her toes so she could wrap her arms around his neck.
"Come on, we should sleep," Archie said tapping her nose when she yawned, breaking them apart. Veronica frowned deeply at him but nodded, she was exhausted and she could see how tired he was just by looking at him.
"You know I didn't invite you over here tonight just so we could fall asleep," Veronica told him with a frown pulling the covers back as he shed his jeans, switched the lights off and crawled into bed next to her.
"Oh yeah? And what did you invite me over here for," he teased blinking in the darkness as his eyes adjusted and found her sitting far away from him on the other side of the bed, if he could see her face he would have seen her blushing furiously. "You know nothing else is going to happen if you're all the way over there where I can't even touch you."
"Shut up," she grumbled taking the hand he had outstretched toward her and laying her head on his chest, feeling the awkwardness of them sitting on opposite sides of the bed in the dark melt away. "What are you thinking, Archie Andrews?"
"I'm thinking that I'm really lucky that I got to you in time today," Archie told her wrapping his arms around her, she thought this would be weird, she'd fantasized about him holding her like this multiple times but the fact that it was actually happening made her jittery. She always loved the beginning of a relationship when everything was new and there were always butterflies in her belly and awkwardness from both sides as they tried to figure out what boundaries they could push. "Nick had a strange look on his face."
"What do you mean?" Veronica asked adjusting herself so she could look up at him and see the pensive look on his face. "Nick looked like how he always looked when he doesn't get what he wants."
"Which is?" Archie asked with a raised eyebrow, his only interaction with Nick St Clair was standing in the background when Jughead threatened bodily harm if Nick ever hurt Veronica, actually causing said bodily harm without Jughead when Veronica was inevitably hurt and being there earlier that night when Nick was pressed up against Veronica and she knee'd him before Archie had the chance to.
"Like a baby who's favourite toy has been taken away and they just realized it," Veronica said and Archie chuckled, holding her just a little tighter and making her frown at the creases on his forehead. "Why do you look so worried?"
"Tonight was different Ronnie, I thought he was actually going to attack you," Archie told her and Veronica sighed, she thought that too, but she wasn't going to tell that to Archie and make him worry any more.
"Not with you being there to save the day," Veronica said leaning up to kiss his lips as a thank you, Archie looked like he was about to protest but she pressed her lips to his again, more firmly this time, shutting him up for good. "Nick's an idiot but he isn't dangerous, I promise, you have nothing to be worried about."
"Ok," Archie agreed after a minute, still not sounding completely convinced.
"You know I thought being with you would be awkward, especially since everything is so new," she said changing the subject and letting out a yawn that she hid in her hands. "But this feels like we've been together for years."
"We've known each other forever, Ronnie, I think we've skipped that phase," he promised pressing his lips to her forehead before curling himself around her, closing his eyes already half way to dreamland. "Now go to sleep, I could be wrong, we still have tomorrow morning to find the awkwardness."
Veronica woke up to Jughead knocking on her door and calling for her, she heard the shower on in her en-suite and smiled to herself that the night before wasn't a dream.
Then it hit her that the night before wasn't a dream and Jughead was giving her his usual warning knock before bursting into her room.
"Shit," she whispered to herself jumping out of her bed and sprinting into the en-suite shutting the door behind her quietly and pressing her ear to the door, listening to the tell-tale sounds of Jughead letting himself into her room so he could talk to her while she was in the bathroom.
"Good morning," Archie said happily, popping his head out from behind the shower curtain and Veronica rushed to him and placed her hand over his mouth, trying her hardest not to look at him completely naked in the shower. Archie raised an eyebrow but luckily didn't say anything else.
"Why are you awake so early," Jughead asked and Archie's eye's went wide in understanding. "I'm usually trying to get you to get out of bed for lunch."
"Betty and I have plans, remember," Veronica called looking up at the ceiling and waiting for Jughead to tell her what he wanted, if she told him to just get out of her room before he decided he was ready then he would sit in her room longer just to annoy her.
"Hmm," Jughead said noncommittally and Veronica rolled her eyes looking up at Archie who snickered softly causing her to use the hand covering his mouth to push him back into the shower. "Why do you have Archie's jacket?"
"Urm," Veronica cringed. "He gave it to me last night after everything with Nick."
"I don't remember you wearing it when we got home," Jughead said and Veronica slapped her forehead and cringed.
"Do you even remember getting home?" Veronica asked turning back to the shower when Archie stepped out, leaving the water running and her mouth went dry as she looked at him standing there with only a towel around his waist and drops of water dripping down his torso, did this boy even have an ounce of fat on him or was he just muscle, that was something she should probably find out.
"You have a point, we were dead on our feet," Jughead chuckled, if she weren't staring at an almost naked Archie she might have teased him for tripping over his own feet when they were walking to their rooms. "Why is your phone cover black? Don't you have that weird pink unicorn cover with glitter."
"You didn't bring your phone into the bathroom?" she hissed at Archie who shrugged, clearly he never expected Jughead to walk into her room this early in the morning. "Um ... Kevin got me that for my birthday, it's indestructible."
"You do need that," Jughead said and Archie nodded in front of her causing her to reach out and punch him as hard as she could and then making a face when her hand got hurt. "You have your face as your home screen Ron, even you aren't that narcissistic, oh dad messaged."
"I was really feeling that picture," Veronica said, her voice pitched high as she looked up wide eyed at Archie who just shook his head to tell her there was nothing to worry about.
"My message previews are off," Archie whispered shaking his head, these siblings had no boundaries, it was lucky that he checked his phone before he got into the bathroom and cleared Jughead's messages. Veronica let out a deep breath as she relaxed and then realized Jughead was asking more questions.
"Jug I'm getting shampoo in my mouth, is there something you need?" she asked, he was chatty this morning, normally she had no problem with him talking to her through her door while she got ready in the morning but this morning was a little bit of a problem in the form of a naked Archie Andrews.
"Just to tell you that I'm going to Harper's," he told her and Veronica involuntarily made a face. "Smither's is out, he might not be back before Betty get's here, leave him a note, I'll see you later."
"Love you," she calls back pressing her ear against the door until she hears it click shut before banging her head against the door at how close that was.
"Hey, stop that," Archie said, his voice still soft as if he expected Jughead to come back in and catch them. He reached out and took her upper arm turning her to face him and leaning down for a kiss. "Good morning."
Veronica closed her eyes and smiled but squeaked and ducked out of his way before his lips met hers and Archie turned to look at her completely confused. "I haven't brushed my teeth yet."
"Seriously?" he asked amused and she nodded covering her mouth with her hands, Archie sighed irritably but knew that there was no way that he was going to get to kiss her until she brushed her teeth. "Fine, I'm going to sneak into the guest room and get some clothes without being seen, and then I will lock your door before someone else decides to walk in and check up on you."
Veronica didn't think she had brushed her teeth, brushed her hair and made sure she smelled good so fast in her life before she burst through the doors and jumped onto Archie who dropped the clothes that he was carrying back into the room.
"I think I'll take that kiss now," she said wrapping her arms around his neck as his hands went to her butt, holding her in place. "I still can't believe this is happening, that you're here, that it's not a dream."
"Oh yeah, do you dream about me a lot?" he asked wiggling his eyebrows and she could feel the heat rising to her cheeks at his teasing. "What happens in those dreams?"
"Alot of this," she said kissing him. "Although you're usually naked this far into the dream," she said and Archie burst out laughing dropping them onto the bed and coming to hover above her.
"I'm pretty close right now," Archie told her and Veronica bit her lip, dragging her fingers down over his abs stopping at the towel wrapped around his waist.
"We should do something about that," she whispered, the humour in her voice slipping away as she tugged the towel off.
"You sure?" he asked knowing where she wanted them to go, his fingers already pushing up her nightdress and then pausing as he waited for her answer.
"Yes," she whispered watching his eyes darken in anticipation. "I'm sure about you Archie Andrews."
Her nightdress was gone before she had completed saying his name and Archie's lips were back on hers. Veronica's hands dipped down again, feeling the muscles under her fingers tense and she dragged them down to wrap her hands around his hard member. Archie groaned and reached down to grab her wrists, stilling them before he broke their kiss and shook his head at her.
"I'm not going to last at all if you don't stop," he warned pulling her hands up and trapping them above her head.
Veronica mewled at the lack of control that she had and pushed her hips up against him, Archie chuckled and used the hand not holding her wrists to hook his fingers into her underwear, feeling how wet she was for him.
"Ronnie," he whispered and she opened her eyes and raised her eyebrows in a silent question.
"Don't stop," she said wriggling one of her hands free so that she could help him get rid of the last barrier between them. "Archie."
Archie lined himself up with her entrance and Veronica rolled her hips forward, frustrated with how long he was taking. He slid into her and buried his face into the crook of her neck, sucking at the skin at her throat hard enough that she knew there was going to be a mark there but she didn't care.
"You're perfect," Archie whispered to her, pushing her legs further apart as he started to thrust. Veronica had never felt like this before, he was what she had been missing all along, he was her missing puzzle piece, they fit together so perfectly, in that moment she cared about nothing else but Archie.
Veronica pushed herself up so she could kiss him again, her teeth tugging at his bottom lip as she came, Archie followed close behind, spilling himself onto her stomach, both of them panting as they lay there in the aftermath.
Archie, grabbed the shirt that he had just brought from the other room and cleaned her up, tossing the shirt into the hamper and reaching up to push her hair back. "I need to shower again."
"Me too," she said squealing as he pulled her up and carried her bridal style back into the bathroom.
Archie and Veronica finally emerged from her room, dressed for the day, holding hands and whispering to each other. Someone clearing their throat ahead of them caused Veronica to drop Archie's hand and jump away from him.
"Smithers," she exclaimed bringing her hands up to her chest looking up the butler who looked as shocked to see them as they were to see him, holding the paper bags of groceries that he had just brought back from the stores, but he didn't look at her, his eyes were fixed on Archie. "You almost gave me a heart attack."
"Mr Archie, I wasn't expecting you here today," Smithers said, tilting his head up and giving nothing away, Archie nodded but didn't move as he waited for the older man to continue. "Mr Jughead's room is down the hall if you were looking for him but I think he's already left the building."
"I thought he said that I should meet him here but I think we got our stories mixed up," Archie said giving Smithers his most convincing smile and Veronica looked at him sideways wondering if he knew that Smithers was seeing right through him. "I'm sure you won't tell him about this embarrassing moment."
"Hmm," Smithers grunted and then nodded his head once. "Of course not, Mr Archie."
"Is there anything else Smithers?" Veronica asked, wanting this to be over as quickly as possible, so she could go back to being excited about everything that has been happening with her and Archie and not being worried about Smither's ratting her out to her brother.
"Yes Miss Veronica," he said finally turning to look at her and Veronica tried to give him her most innocent look which she could see Archie snort at as quietly as he could, it reminded her of when they were younger and their parents would leave Smithers in charge of them and how the boys would always send her to lie about the things they were getting up to because Smithers couldn't reprimand her but they would never let her forget how ridiculous her innocent face and lies were. "The service quarters, I think we should start locking those doors again."
"Oh?" Veronica asked raising her eyebrows, her eyes darted quickly to Archie who's expression gave away nothing. "Any particular reason?"
"Those doors have direct access to the house," he said matter-of-factly and Veronica nodded, making a face like she didn't already know that. "Andre and I wouldn't want anyone just wandering in off the street Miss Veronica, it's not safe."
"Of course," Veronica said seriously and then decided that she needed this conversation to be over so they could both pretend like they were oblivious because if she stood there any longer she would laugh at how hard they were trying to ignore Archie sleeping in her room the night before. "Thank you Smithers, we will be off now."
"One more thing," he said as the teenagers started to walk toward the exit. "Mr Andrews, do try to use the front door next time."
"Will do Smithers," Archie said tapping an imaginary hat to Smither's before grabbing Veronica's hand and running them out of the apartment. It was only when the elevator doors shut that they burst out laughing. "Do you think he'll tell Jughead?"
"Smither's might be concerned but he's not a snitch," she said tilting her head up so he could kiss her again, she didn't want to stop touching and kissing him, she wanted to be all over him all the time and it didn't look like he was complaining.
"Hmmm he might rethink that if he came home earlier, you are not very quiet," he said and Veronica gasped and playfully hit his chest.
"I resent that Archie Andrews," she said with a dramatic roll of her eyes and he pulled her closer to kiss her soundly.
"I'll make it up to you," he promised and she smiled bumping their noses together.
"I know you will," she said. "I wish you could cancel your plans today."
"Me too but Jughead will be suspicious if you hang out with Betty and your Instagram story isn't full of selfies to keep us entertained for hours," he teased and she stuck her tongue out at him, she and Betty were cute and they knew it, so did their followers. "And my dad was probably texting to let me know he was waiting."
"Oh give me your phone, which picture you used for your screen saver," she demanded digging her hand into his pocket before he thought about what she was doing and grabbing his phone, the picture was of her with one pompom hand on her hip and the other up to the sky, screaming out a cheer, she looked like she had just stepped out of a cheerleading movie, she looked good. "Archie, this is from yesterday, how did you even get it?"
"Kevin sent it to me," Archie chuckled, helping her into the truck before getting into the driver's side. "I should probably change it, if my phone is lying around, anyone could see it, like Jug did earlier."
"You're so lucky that my phone was under my pillow," Veronica laughed and Archie shook his head, they were luckier that Archie and Veronica both had the same type of phone. "Why is Ginger messaging you?"
"I don't know," Archie said coming to a stop at the stop sign before reaching over and unlocking the phone for her to check. "What does it say?"
"She said Jug and Harper are spending all their time together so you should go keep her company," Veronica said locking the phone with a full body shiver. "Ew."
"Well it's not like I'm going to reply to her," Archie said amused, when he glanced over at Veronica's disgusted expression.
"You better not," she mumbled, feeling her mood turn.
"What if I tell Jughead that I met someone and I fell hopelessly in love," Archie said as they reached his road. "He will complain to Harper that I'm not spending enough time with him and Ginger will back off, it will also give me an alibi so we could be together without all the sneaking around."
"I don't like lying to him more that I need to," Veronica said biting her lip nervously when he finally came to a stop outside his house and turned to her. "And won't my brother want to meet this mystery girl?"
"Let me figure out the details," Archie told her. "This will get Ginger off my case and it will give me an idea about when we can tell Jughead, I'll figure out the rest of the details."
"If you say so," Veronica said with a shrug and then started to smile, to which Archie just looked nervous at. "You're hopelessly in love with me?"
"If that wasn't completely obvious before," he told her reaching out to take her hand. "Yes I am."
"I love you too," she whispered leaning in to press her lips to his in a feather light kiss, her heart was pounding in her chest, was everything going too fast? "I should go before your dad starts wondering what you're doing just parked out here."
"They just got back from Greendale, he won't mind me being a little late," Archie laughed but jumped out of the van so he could run over to open her door for her and help her out. "I'll see you later?"
"Can't wait," she said, walking to Betty's house and adding an extra swing to her step because she knew that he was watching. When she turned back he saw him leaning against the truck and chuckling to himself because he knew exactly what she was doing, Veronica blew him a kiss before turning back to the door just in time for Mrs Cooper swing it open.
"Veronica, we weren't expecting you today," she said with the permanent fake smile she always had on her face. "Betty is still asleep."
"Oh no Mrs C, she's awake, she's expecting me," Veronica said knowing that if they were any closer to exam season she would not have been let into the house, she didn't wait for a reply, just sprinted up the stairs and jumped on top of Betty who was reading.
"Oh my God, V," Betty exclaimed laughing at the excited brunette on top of her. "What are you doing here? I thought you would be with Archie the whole day."
"I know but he had plans with Mr Andrews and I told Jughead I would be here and I don't want to lie to my brother about everything," she said and Betty laughed, of course, hiding a relationship was no problem but lying about meeting a friend and then not going was completely wrong.
"What is going on with you, you look like you're going to jump out of your own skin?" Betty asked sitting up and raising an eyebrow at Veronica who looked like she was going to burst on the spot.
"I had sex with Archie Andrews," she squeaked out, checking the door to make sure no-one could have heard her.
"You what?" Betty exclaimed gasping and jumping off the bed to grab onto Veronica's shoulders making her turn to look at her. "Tell me everything."
"I will but can we go to Pop's," Veronica asked sneaking a look at the hallway again. "I'm starving and I don't want your mother to walk in while we're talking."
A/N : Is everything going to fast? Hi guys I'm back with my monthly update of this story, this chapter was one of the hardest to write, mostly because I changed what happened in it a few times, it's been a journey. I was supposed to break it up into 2 chapters but it turned out to work better as just one chapter
The smut was kinda tossed in very last minute and I am posting it now before I go back and reread it and delete it all lol writing smut is still not my strong point and I don't think I'll ever get comfortable writing it but I hope you guys enjoyed it
Theres still a long way to go before this story ends and it has grown so much, we're already 9 chapters in, I can't believe it, I still haven't written much further on in this story but my deadline at work is monday so hopefully things will calm down then
I havent been watching Riverdale but I saw the spoilers for 4x13 and OMG I wanna skip everything and just watch that episode for all the Varchie goodness, anyway, happy Valentines day from me, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, please let me know your thoughts I will try and be good and actually reply to your comments this time
Until next time(^^,)