wc: 970

archie looked around for jughead and her things when he got back home, since the mattress in his room was gone and her things were nowhere in sight.

he went downstairs to see if she moved down into the guest room or the living room but no.

he can't have her homeless again.

what if she went back to fp?

he panicked for a moment before seeing a note in the kitchen. he picked it up and read it carefully.

i've decided i'm going to go stay with betty for awhile, it's nothing personal i just think it would be a more comfortable thing at betty's house. i hope you understand.
                                                      - jughead

he sighed, half in relief that she wasn't unsafe but the other half sad, sad that he upset her so much that she left. sad that he wouldn't wake up to see her face every morning.

he pulled his phone out of his letterman jacket pocket to call betty.

she finally picked up the phone after about 30 seconds of ringing, "what is it, arch?"

"you're letting jughead live with you instead of us?" he knew it wasn't her fault but he needed some kind of outlet.

she scoffed, "she came to me, asshat."

"well just tell her your mom doesn't want her to stay there."

it wasn't a reach, since jughead was from the south side, alice had a little vendetta against her.

"and have her go live with her dad, or be homeless again??" she was right.

"fine, bye." he hung up the phone and threw it onto the couch. sitting at the kitchen table running his fingers through his hair.

i get ready for my, well, hangout with scott. i don't really know what it is exactly but what else do i have to lose?

i get to pops after walking for a little while, seeing scott in a booth from the window. am i actually doing this?

i walk inside, the familiar bell sound rung through my ears as i walked through the front door. turning to where scott was sitting.

he smiles and waves to me as soon as he spots me, i do the same as i walk towards the booth.

as soon as i sit down on the opposite side of him i hear the bell again, meaning someone else just walked in. i obviously didn't think much of it but when i looked to see who it was i notice the notorious red hair before the rest of archie's figure.

i sigh, knowing he was looking for me. when his eyes made direct contact with mine, he smiled, glad that he had actually found me, but his smile quickly turned into a frown when he saw the top of a male head on the other side of the booth.

he walked over to where we were sitting and scanned scott.

"what's going on?" archie played off his jealousy with a light chuckle, looking at both of them.

jughead separates her lips to talk when scott beats her to it, "we're just hanging out."

"so you won't mind if i join you then?" archie starts to slide into the booth next to jughead, cutting scott off before he could even get the chance to respond to his question.

scott huffed, knowing immediately that archie must be the guy she was talking about earlier in the day.

"so you guys friends now?" archie asked, he was full of questions. he didn't even realize how odd the way he was acting until he realized his foot was tapping against the ground aggressively.

"actually we're kind of on a date." scott announces, jughead looks down at the table instead of at archie who was now staring through her brown hair.

"oh, really?" he asks, but to only jughead like it could've been a misunderstanding and they were just hanging out.

she nodded, as pop came up to the booth and asked what they wanted to eat, before they all said their regulars.

that definitely made things one hundred times more awkward than it was before. an ice breaker would be nice right around now.

"archie can we talk later?" jughead being the first one to actually talk.

"how are we gonna talk jug? you avoid me at school and now you're moving out?" archie seemed more sad than annoyed, jughead licking her lips and looking up to the ceiling as if god was going to solve this problem for her.

"i don't know what you want me to say."

scott sat there, watching the two of them try and communicate like he was watching reality tv show. he seemed entertained.

"i'll text you later okay?"

archie frowned, but settled for the minimum. leaving them to 'hang out'.

"i'm sorry about that." she apologizes to scott who was okay with it.

"so that's the guy right?"

"how do you know?"

"you're seem into him, and he's obviously is into you.."

"can we just talk about anything else please?" i take a sip of my milkshake and let out a deep breath that i've been holding in for way too long now.

archie stayed up longer than he should have, staring through his bedroom window at betty's, where he figured jughead would be sleeping in.

awaiting for her text message.

he finally decided after twenty minutes of just waiting on her, that he would be the first to reach out.

juggie?

he saw movements in betty's room, it looked like they were setting up an air mattress for jughead. then he saw her look down at her phone, probably reading his text message.

which she was.

she turned her phone off and slipped it into her back pocket.

a frown appears on archie's face as he realized they probably weren't going to end up talking tonight.