CHAPTER TWO: POPS CHOK'LIT SHOPPE
"Are you excited? Nervous?" Kevin questions Betty. Betty turns around.
"Both. I haven't seen him all summer." Betty says.
"Which is why nerves are acceptable, but we agreed, Betty... it's time." Looking up from the book her computer Ozzie closes her laptop.
"Time for what exactly?" Kevin, however ignores her.
"You like him, he likes you." Kevin says to Betty.
"Well, then why, Kevin, hadn't he ever said or done anything?" Betty asks.
"Because Archie's swell, but like most millennial strait guys, he needs to be told what he wants." Kevin says.
"He's right." Ozzie agrees. "So tell carrot top how you feel already."
"Well, we'll see. I mean, it depends." Betty mumbles. Kevin however is too busy looking through the window next door at a half-naked Archie Andrews.
"Oh, my God!" Kevin exclaims.
"What?" The Cooper sisters ask in unison, Ozzie getting up carefully to see what he's looking at and her jaw drops at the sight.
"Game changer. Archie got hot! He's got abs now-"
"Six more reasons for you to take that ginger bull by the horn tonight sis." Ozzie says and winks at her sister.
"So, what was the highlight?" Archie asks looking between the two of us. Having not really being paying attention to the conversation or at all interested in talking LA I simply shrug.
"The beach was cool. Lots of eye candy for me to choose from!" Archie laughs amused while Betty fakes a laugh, knowing something happened in LA. She didn't know what it was but Ozzie had different ever since. "I'm gonna the two of use alone and get me a burger!"
Sliding out of the booth she heard her sister begin to tell Archie about her internship as she made her way to Pop, stopping when she sees her old friend sitting by his lonesome, typing away at his laptop and made a b-line to the male.
"Hey Jugsie." She asks looking down at him. Sending a presence Jughead looks up.
"What do you want your highness?" Jughead asks, a sour look on his face.
The blonde sighs band slides into the seat across from Jughead.
"I'm not entirely sure what happened- but I need you Jugs-" Jughead cut her off.
"You should be a little more careful with who you date. Heard it's hard to tame a flower. Even harder to tame a snake."
If anyone were looking at Ozzie right then they would see the fear on her face. Not because of who the guy she 'had' been seeing was but rather the fact that anyone knew.
Sliding out of the booth Ozzie headed toward her sister and Archie, passing a new face as she did.
Ozzie had been sure that he had smiled. That he was ready to forgive whatever wrong she had done. But his face soured like he had eaten an entire lemon.
"I'm gonna go now Betty Boo." She whispers in her sisters ear, having snuck up behind her she made her sister jump in her seat.
"God!" Hand to her chest, Betty turns to her sister. "Two minutes?"
Ozzie nods and says goodbye to Archie as she walks out of Pop's. Looking at the friend who had turned against her in pain as she passed him by, unaware there was more to his sudden disconnect toward her then he said.