this is being written at 2am by a girl whos high on coffee
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he stuffed things from his backpack into his locker sighing, the day for jughead had been going by really slowly and he wasn’t enjoying it. he had been called on too many times today during class and he had gotten shoved when he was trying to walk to his locker by those stupid jocks. jughead prayed to whatever was making his day suck to not do anything else to make it worse.
he quietly groaned and turned to identify who had just spoken to him. realizing who it was he straightened his posture a little bit.
“betty? what do you want?” he asked. jughead was surprised the blonde was even speaking to him. they were basically complete opposites, plus she was way more well known in school than he was. she smiled sweetly and her eyes seemed to sparkle a bit.
“the school said that they were running low on lockers, so they assigned me to share one with you!” she said cheerfully. jughead raised an eyebrow and eyed her, she seemed too excited over this. it felt like a forced intention of being kind, which humored him. he knew she’d rather be sharing lockers with anyone else, especially archie andrews.
he decided to shrug and continue to stuff things into his messy locker, he probably would barely even see the girl. nothing he could do about it anyways.
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“betty cooper!” he yelled in frustration. jughead’s messy locker was now neat and organized.
“oh, hi juggie! like the locker? my stuff on the bottom and yours on the top, binders are also color coded in order of colors in the raindow!” betty said smiling. jughead was deciding if he should be mad or be mad.
“listen betts, this is cute and all,” he couldnt help but notice betty go a little pink at what he meant to be a sarcastic comment, “but i like my stuff the way it was before.” jughead said sighing.
“but before you took a long time to get stuff out of your locker! now it’s quicker!” she said in defense stomping her foot.
jughead rolled his eyes and muttered a whatever while grabbing his math binder and heading off to class.
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jughead opened his locker and furrowed his eyebrows at a note that fell out. he picked it up off the floor and unfolded it.
“pop’s diner friday 6pm, u & me ;) -archie”
he laughed dryly and shook his head. jughead wanted to throw away the note and just play it off as if betty never received the note, but he couldn’t bring himself to do that.
“heyo juggie, someone send you a love note?” betty appeared and asked in a flirtatious tone.
“yeah, archie. but not for me though.” he said chuckling forcefully while handing betty the note.
“archie? no thanks.” she said rejecting the note. jughead was surprised.
“aren’t you two like not a thing but sorta are?”
“no.” she said with a tone of anger in her voice as she shoved her books into her part of the locker.
for some reason, jughead felt kinda relieved.
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“veronica, jughead. jughead, veronica.” betty said introducing her two friends.
“like the beanie thing you have going on jug.” veronica said giving him her hand to shake. jughead already liked this girl’s vibe.
“thanks, it’s supposed to make me look more into my character of creepy sarcastic teen boy.” he winked at her.
veronica giggled and smiled to betty, “i like him.”
betty forced a smile and nodded, “knew you would.”
“hey betts how about i share a locker with veronica and you take hers? then everyone’s happy!” jughead joked and laughed. but before betty could respond to him veronica replied,
“oh no jughead, i wouldn’t want to steal betty’s b o y f r i e n d.”
betty and jughead quickly looked at one another and turned red. seconds later they were both speaking at once, telling veronica how much they hated each other.
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“wanna go to pop’s diner afterschool?”
betty looked up feeling her heart race, honestly she’d love to hang out with jughead. she felt as if she had this weird connection with him. but she could barely speak to him in school for the short amount of time they shared at the locker, but imagine the struggle of only talking at the diner?
“sure! i love their milkshakes!” she blurted cheerfully.
jughead seemed to smile quickly and nod. “okay, i’ll meet you at pop’s right after last period.”
“actually,” betty bit her lip, “you want to meet here? at the locker? and walk to pop’s together?”
this time, jughead didn’t quickly smile, it stuck to his face as he quietly said “yeah okay.” and looked down.
later on betty and jughead would share a plate of fries and talk for hours.
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“homecoming huh?” jughead asked as he walked with betty to their locker.
“always thought i’d go with archie.” she said shrugging and look at andrews himself as they walked past him.
“i did too.” jughead responded dramatically wiping fake tear. betty laughed and gently shoved jughead.
“i’m going to show up with no date, and probably dance with kevin.” betty said upset and putting her bag down as jughead opened their locker.
“we could always go together...” jughead said looking into betty’s eyes.
this caused betty to stop breathing for a second. she needed to say yes, but she wasn’t thinking correctly. had jughead finally got the hint? she was bout to tell him yes when he spoke again.
“as friends of course.” he said shrugging and looking down.
“better than going alone.” she joked and elbowed her f r i e n d.
“so you and i?” he asked half smiling.
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jughead waited for the blonde girl at the doors to the dance. maybe she stood him up? no way. that wasn’t like betty. what if she got in traffic? oh god, that would be bad. and then she didn’t make it until after the whole dance? should he even be waiting outside of the doors? is that creepy? suddenly his eyes landed on a goddess walking towards him.
betty had worn a periwinkle dress that ended right above her knees, and had curled her hair so it bounced with every step she took. he also couldn’t help but notice how well the dress fitted her. she looked...
“beautiful.” jughead muttered out loud when betty approached him.
“oh gosh, thank you juggie. you look quite sharp as well.” she giggled and winked at him.
jughead felt himself blush and quickly locked arms with betty. “shall we enter?”
they went through the gym doors and were greeted by music blasting through the speakers. as if they were with on time a slow song had began playing. neither of them really had to say anything before they had started dancing.
“im glad i came with you jughead.” betty said in his ear.
“oh shush betts, i know you would’ve came with archie instead of me in a second if you could.” he winked jokingly.
“don’t kid yourself, and if i came with archie i wouldn’t be enjoying it as much as i’m about to enjoy it with you.”
“why? what’s bout to happen?” jughead asked smiling.
betty titled her head to the side and slowly leaned in.
jughead sorta freaked out on the inside but was able to kiss betty cooper back calmly. he felt sparks, and he understands that’s something cheesy people say in books and movies but now he understood. he understood what a spark was, what chemistry really meant. and yes, he does remember how much he didn’t really enjoy betty when they first met through sharing lockers. and no, he wasn’t in love with her. but he felt something. and he didn’t want that something to end. but the actual kiss did have to end though.
“wow that was-” jughead started to respond to betty but was cut off.
“you better say amazing because i had to work up so much courage to do that juggie! i have liked you for what, four months? and you’ve never got the hint? knowing you i wouldn’t be surprised if you said to me ‘well that was a wonderful f r i e n d kiss!’” betty said in an annoyed tone while she furrowed her eyebrows. jughead found it quite adorable.
instead of replying to her rant he just put his hand on her cheek and kissed her again, not as a friend of course. as a future c o u p l e he hoped.
