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A/N: Sorry for the OC/Shaggy stuff, trust me there will be more Velma and Shaggy now. C:
|Chapter Five|
Velma felt awkward being with Fred and Daphne, they had been flirting and being affectionate with each other in front of Velma, she felt like she was third wheeling hardcore. Velma thought of Shaggy, she was worried about him. She knew that he had been lying about doing homework because he hardly even does any homework, she knew that he was avoiding her and the gang.
Why is he avoiding us, what is it that he could be hiding from us…from me?
Velma looked at the happy couple again, she questioned how they could go back together if they agreed to stay as friends. They all agreed to stay as friends. It angered Velma a bit, she had to hide her feelings from her friends and the boy that she had come to adore and love. It wasn't fair that Fred and Daphne got to be happy but not Velma and Shaggy. But at the same time, Velma knew that Shaggy most likely didn't have feelings for her anymore.
How could she know? Velma noticed the marks on Shaggy's neck, the love bites. Sometimes Velma wanted to know so bad who was doing that Shaggy, who could he be possibly be sleeping with. Was it someone from school? Someone older than all of them? Velma couldn't possibly know because Shaggy never opened up about himself. There was a time where Fred and Daphne had noticed the love bites on Shaggy, they had questioned him and he said, "It's a rash."
They all knew that it wasn't a rash, even though Velma had never gotten a hickey from anyone, she knew that it wasn't a rash. Shaggy was fooling around and that made Velma feel a lot of things. At first, she felt very angry to know that Shaggy was fooling around then she was jealous because she wanted to feel like Shaggy only wanted her but who was she kidding? Velma knew that he had moved on while she stayed infatuated by him. Velma was concerned that he might of caught a disease if he was fooling around with a lot of people.
Velma felt the need to text Shaggy, just to check on him to see if he was alright or maybe if he needed help on his work. Velma did feel a bit lonely seeing Fred and Daphne all in love with each other. It made her wish that it was Shaggy and her. Velma took out her phone and texted Shaggy.
V: hey, how are you holding up with the work?
Velma waited for a reply but never received one, she got a bit more concerned. Shaggy always responded to her text messages. Should I go over to his place…?
After a while Velma looked down at her phone again, no text message from him still. Daphne saw the way Velma looked so she spoke up, "Hey is everything okay?"
"Yeah, I think I'm going to head off. I got stuff to do, see you guys." Velma stood up to grab her things and put them away, she started walking out of the Malt Shop. Velma started walking to Shaggy's place, he didn't live too far from school and the Malt Shop.
When Velma got to Shaggy's house, she texted Shaggy again.
V: I'm here at your house, can you open the door?
Velma waited for five minutes and didn't get no text message, she decided to knock on the door. Shaggy's mom opened the door and smiled, "Oh hi Velma, I didn't expect you to come over."
"Hi Mrs. Rogers, is Shaggy here?" asked Velma.
"No, I thought he was with you and the others." Mrs. Rogers looked a bit concerned then. Velma was surprised, now she began to worry. Velma lied then and said, "Jinkies, I remember that he was going to stay after school to study at the library" Velma laughed nervously and said, "My bad, Mrs. Rogers, I had forgot. I'm going to head off now, see ya."
Mrs. Rogers didn't think much of it and said "Oh okay, when you see him can you tell him to get home soon because I'm preparing his favorite dinner?" Velma nodded as she walked away. Mrs. Rogers smiled and waved goodbye leaving back inside the house.
Velma was very worried now not to mention upset at Shaggy for lying. Velma decided to call Shaggy then, she kept hearing the phone ring but eventually he answered. Before he can say anything, Velma angrily said "You better get to my house right now. And by now, I mean now."
Shaggy laid on his side of Greg's bed, looking at the wall...at nothing. Greg slept quietly on the other side while Shaggy stayed awake, feeling the effects still but not as much anymore. Shaggy heard his heart beat drum loudly in his ears, times like this is where he felt truly depressed. As much as Shaggy tried to get away, everything always caught their way up to destroy him completely.
No matter how much he wanted to forget Velma, he just couldn't. It hurt having to see her everyday, seeing her happy made him happy but at the same time sad. He wanted to be with her so bad but he knew that she would never want to be with him. Shaggy knew that the kiss was nothing to her, but to him, it was everything. Shaggy wanted to be the reason for Velma's happiness, he wanted to be the center of her world and be everything to her. He loved her so much and it just sucked that she was never going see that or realize it.
Shaggy knew that after high school, they were all going to go their separate ways. Fred and Daphne would settle down and have kids, who knows in a couple of years they might get to continue solving mysteries. Velma would go to college and find a boy who isn't a stoner and such a fuck up. Shaggy felt a sharp pain in his chest, his eyes began to water up wanting to let tears fall. The thought of Velma falling in love with someone, kissing someone else hurt Shaggy so much. Why couldn't he kiss her again at least one more time before she friend zone him? He literally wanted to punch himself then because he should have kissed her again, didn't she feel anything in that kiss?
Shaggy was overthinking too much that he hadn't heard his phone ringing, Greg had to kick Shaggy so he could answer it. Shaggy looked over to Greg, making a face at him because he had kicked him out of his thoughts. Greg was still asleep.
Shaggy grabbed his phone from the nightstand, he answered and before he could say anything, an angry voice said "You better get to my house right now. And by now, I mean now." At first, Shaggy thought it was his mom but he recognized the voice right away. It was Velma and he froze up, the effect of being high completely went away and he became more focus now.
"V-Velma, did I do something?" asked Shaggy.
"Where are you?" said Velma. Oh shit...she knows that I lied.
Shaggy felt the bed shifted and he looked back at Greg, who was sitting up looking at Shaggy. Greg looked at Shaggy, confused wanting to know who was on the phone. Shaggy needed to think of something quick.
"Look, I'll be there in a bit and we can talk." said Shaggy.
"Ok. You better get your lying butt here, Norville." said Velma, she sounded very upset. She hung up on Shaggy.
"Dude what the fuck?" said Greg, "Are you really going to let her control the fuck out of you?"
Shaggy hesitated, trying to choose his words wisely. "Not now, please Greg. I need to head off." Shaggy got up, he covered himself with the blanket and grabbed his clothes off the floor. "Can you give me a ride please?" asked Shaggy.
"Seriously?" said Greg, now he was upset too.
"Please man. I would have stayed the night but I can't have her knowing about me or-"
"Us." said Greg cutting off Shaggy. "She doesn't even like you in that way, she is probably just gonna bitch at you."
Shaggy held back his tongue from telling Greg off, he knew that Greg was just being jealous. He got a text message from Velma then.
V: If you don't come over in 10 minutes, I'm going to tell your parents that you aren't at the library and that you are somewhere else instead.
Shaggy knew that Velma had saved his butt so he really needed to think of something and get to her place quick. Shaggy looked back at Greg again, "Please, Greg."
Greg rolled his eyes and got out of bed, he started getting dressed. Shaggy went to the bathroom and got dressed, after he fixed himself in the bathroom, he noticed a red mark on the side of his neck. Fuck.
"Hurry up before I change my damn mind." said Greg out side of the bathroom door. Shaggy walked out of the bathroom and grabbed his backpack. Greg stood at the door, wearing a band shirt and some jeans. "This is really pathetic of you." said Greg, he lit up a cigarette and took in a deep smoke.
Shaggy just stayed quiet and stood in front of Greg, he waited for Greg to open the door. Greg looked at Shaggy and and sighed sadly, "I'm sorry."
"It's fine" said Shaggy quickly, "Can we go already please?"
Greg didn't say anything else and just walked out of the apartment with Shaggy following behind him.