Prompt #175 (Dialogue) - "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
"I said I was sorry." Veronica sighed as she rested her head against the back of the couch.
"No you didn't." Archie looked darkly at her tilted head.
"I said that I was going to be bad for you." Her right eye opened to look at him.
"No you didn't." Archie denied. "You never said out loud … "Archie Andrews I'm just going to play you until Betty Cooper is ready to accept my love for her." He stood to his feet. His hands running through his hair in anger.
Veronica sat up as she watched the heartbroken boy. "If I didn't manage to get myself out of your system Archie; then you would have been hounding and hounding after me for years … then Betty never would have accepted that she honesty had a chance with me."
Archie barked in a harsh dry laughter. He swung around to face her. "Fool me once, shame on you."
"I never fooled you Archie. You just never truly were open to what the situation was." Veroncia sighed.
"Fool me twice, shame on me." Archie finished. He smiled thin. "But I think the shame will fully be on you. After I tell Betty …."
"Betty all ready knows." Veronica stood to her feet. "I'm sorry that I hurt you Archie. But in time you will realize that I was never meant to be yours. That you will find your soulmate now that you aren't foolishly holding onto a dead dream of you and I." She walked from the living room towards the front door.