Authors Note: Hello everyone! Here is chapter 2 of this story! I just want to say thank you to everyone who reviewed this story, favorited it and followed it! It means a lot that you guys are interested in the story. I hope you enjoy this next installment!
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Betty showered at Jughead's apartment and got dressed in a simple pair of jeans and a black long sleeve shirt. Typically, Betty would wear her hair up, but since she was straying away from her pastel colors she decided to add even more of a shock value. She was graced with surprise home-made pancakes when she left the bathroom from getting ready and she couldn't help the smile that seemed to stay plastered on her face around the Serpent.
"You made me pancakes?" She asked him as she went over to the table he had set up for them to eat. She watched him shrug like it wasn't a big deal.
Jughead ran his right hand through his hair as he carried the plate full of pancakes to the table. "Couldn't send you into the hellhole of Riverdale High School without a good breakfast." He responded as he kissed her on the top of the head.
The pair ate their breakfast in silence which seemed to suit them. Betty was consumed in her thoughts of how the day would go with having to run into the people she avoided all summer. She wanted to just stay in this apartment and be with Jughead like she had since she met him. After they finished their breakfast, Jughead walked her down and out of the building to his forest green jeep. They had agreed last night that Jughead would drop her off at school and she would walk home as her car was at her house.
As they drove from the Southside to Riverdale High, Jughead could feel Betty's anxiety rising. Taking his right hand off the steering wheel, he reached over and placed it on her left thigh and gently rubbed his thumb over her jeans. He held back a smile when he held her body relax under his touch, and his smile surfaced when her hand rested over his. All too soon, they pulled up in front of the school and Betty sighed. "Give them hell Betts." Jughead said as he leaned over and gave her a kiss.
She grabbed her backpack from the floor and gave him one last quick kiss before exiting the Jeep. Betty watched as he drove off and she slowly made her way through the front door of the school. She could hear whispers and the words "Archie, Veronica, crazy Cooper" too often for her liking. The blonde made it to her locker and was relieved that she had yet to run into her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend. She tried to hurry in her locker as she heard a voice she was familiar with.
"Betty Cooper as I live and breathe! I thought the rumors were true that you ran away from Riverdale on the back of a Serpents bike to become a lady of the night." Betty turned around and was greeted with the face of Kevin Keller. Her biggest regret of the summer was ignoring Kevin, but it was too soon to face anyone in her friend group after the break up.
Betty laughed and closed her locker. "That isn't quite how my summer went but I appreciate the rumor mills creativity." She replied as the duo walked down the hall. "How was your summer?" She asked to try to steer the conversation away from herself. She listened to Kevin as he recounted his summer of loneliness because of her disappearance. Betty smiled and laughed when appropriate although she could tell his words went in one of her ears and out the other.
After making it to their first class of the day, the rest of the day seemed to fly by until the lunch bell rang throughout the school. This was the part of the day Betty was dreading the most. She was in all AP courses so Veronica and Archie weren't in any of her classes, but she knew that she couldn't avoid them at lunch. Once she got her lunch from the cafeteria, she met up with Kevin to walk to a picnic bench outside.
She froze for a moment as she saw they were heading towards Veronica and Archie who were extremely cozy on their side of the bench. After letting out the breath she didn't realize she was holding in, she followed Kevin to the table and watched as Veronica and Archie jumped apart and sat shoulder to shoulder.
"Hey B! It's so good to see you. I tried to see you over the summer but no one was home at the Casa De Coopers. Archikins said he hardly saw lights on at all. Did you guys go away?" Betty looked at her once best friend and couldn't help but laugh humorlessly.
After tucking a piece of hair behind her ear, she looked up at Veronica and in her best happy tone she said, "No, I didn't go away. I just stayed away from the house at all costs to avoid seeing my ex-best friend fucking my ex-boyfriend. I'm so glad that you guys waited a whole two weeks after the break-up before you became Facebook official. Thanks so much for that by the way, because that wasn't embarrassing or anything. I'd rather not pretend that everything in all fine and dandy when the two of you couldn't keep it in your pants long enough to be decent human beings and have some sort of decency for how it may have made me feel. But instead you two decided to not give a shit about how I might have felt and decided to flaunt it to the world."
Veronica, Archie and Kevin's mouths all dropped open at Betty's outburst. Veronica scoffed, "B, you are being selfish. Why should Archikin's and I have to hide our relationship to shelter your feelings? You didn't respond to any of our text messages or phone calls and no one could find you anywhere to try to talk to you." The raven-haired girl flipped her hair over her shoulder as she gave Betty her best bitch face.
"Earth to Veronica. The world doesn't revolve around you. You claimed to be my best friend and not even two weeks after Archie dumped me, you two were in a relationship. Did you at least wait a day to end up in bed with him or did was it the same day?" The tone Betty took didn't even sound like her own, but she felt all the anger from the summer bubbling to the surface. When Veronica didn't reply, Betty laughed. "Thought so. Don't act like you are the victim and saint here, V. If you were my best friend, you wouldn't have fucked Archie the day we broke up. And don't try to deny it, it's written all over your face."
The blonde stood up with her untouched lunch and started to walk away from the table. She stopped once she got a few feet away and turned to slowly walk back to the table. "And since Cheryl named you captain when she graduated last year, I quit the Vixens." She spun around and walked back into the school.
She felt herself start to panic and quickly pulled out her phone. While her head told her not to call Jughead, she needed to hear him. She let out a sigh of relief when he picked up on the first ring.
"Hey Betts. Is everything okay? Shouldn't you be in class or something?" He asked as soon as he answered. As soon as she heard his voice she felt herself calm down and quickly tell him what had occurred during lunch. "God I wish I could have seen you in action babe." Jughead responded with when she finished her tale. They both sighed when the bell rang to signal that lunch was ending. All too soon they said good-bye to each other and Betty told him she'd text him when she got home.
The end of the day passed quicker than the morning did, but there were now more whispers of her freak out from lunch. She received a text from Kevin after lunch saying he couldn't believe that she stood up to Veronica and that it was quite the show. He also showed up at her locker at the end of the day to walk her home so she would have a friend. As they walked out of the school Kevin let out a gasp.
"This day is just shaping up to be better and better! Do you know who that hunk of a man is leaning against that Jeep over there? Someone at this school must have hooked up with a Serpent this summer because the man is holding flowers and looking for someone." He said as he stopped and put a hand over his heart. "First you make your return, you yelled at Veronica and now the leader of the Serpents is in our parking lot, without his leather jacket, and holding flowers. What kind of Soap Opera did we step into?!" Kevin let out a sigh as he turned to Betty and saw a smile on her face.
Betty turned her attention to Kevin and bit her lip as she saw the gears in his head turning. "Rain check on walking me home? I feel like we have some things to catch up on." She said as she started to make her way to Jughead while waving over her shoulder at Kevin.
The smile on her face was so big that it started to hurt as her feet picked up speed to Jughead. "Juggie." She sighed happily as she got to him and was enveloped into his arms with the flowers he held tickling her cheek. "What are you doing here?" She asked looking up at him.
A crooked smile came across his face. "I couldn't let my girl be alone after your first day." He said, following it with a kiss on her forehead. "Do you wanna go to the Wyrm or go to Pops for a milkshake? Is Pop's still the place to hang after school?"
Nestling herself against his side and felt the stress of the day wear away. "I could use a milk shake." She said smiling up at him. She took the flowers from him as they moved away from one another and got into the Jeep. Neither of them noticed a certain red-haired male watching them with clenched fists.
Author's Note: The End of this chapter. What do you think dear old Archikins is going to do now that he saw Betty leave with Jughead? I know it is unlike Betty to snap like that but, this is an Alternate Universe story so, she needed to speak her mind! Don't forget to leave a review. The more reviews the chapters get, the quicker a new chapter comes out! See you next time!