Soulmates - Core Four Fanfiction

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♥betty♥

Oh god, oh god, oh god this was humiliating. How was I ever gonna look Jughead in the eyes again? Not only because of my.... daydream, but also the fact that he had gotten a voice recording. Maybe I should text him saying that I'd walk to school so he wouldn't pick me up like we planned. 

I pull out my phone to call him, coincidentally getting a text from him in that exact moment,

Jughead: I'm outside.

Well, shit. 

I sling my bag over my shoulder before stepping out my front door, locking it up and breathing in heavily before turning around and plastering a smile as I wave at him. I bounce down my front steps, jogging to the passenger side of his truck. 

"Hiii!" I say, hopping in. 

"Hey, Betty Boop." he smiles, ruffling the top of my head, messing up my tied hair.

I giggle before taking out the elastic and freeze as I catch him staring with a stupid smirk. My eyes shift from side to side before raising my brows and shaking my head in question, "What?"

"Should I put on some ear plugs for your privacy? Or can you resist yourself right now" he says teasingly.

I feel my cheeks heat up, covering my ears as he mimic-kingly moans. I pull my knees up onto the chair and burying my face in embarrassment. "STOP, STOP, STOP IT."

His hands grasps at mine, attempting to pull them off my ears, "Okay, okay, I'm sorry, I couldn't help it."

I look at him with my jaw clenched, punching him as hard as I could, a heavy giggly erupting from his belly as he falls toward his door, putting his arms up in surrender "It won't happen again."

I shake my head, my face still burning like a fire, looking out the window. "Just drive" I say, trying to avoid smiling as I roll my eyes and tie my hair back up. 

He pulls out of my driveway, and we're off to school. 

~ At School ~

Jughead and I walk into the school together, talking as we do. God, I never noticed how blue his eyes are its crazy. Suddenly he grabs my hand, pulling me to the other side of him.

"What are you doing?" I ask.

"Keeping you away from them. They'll try to come to you expecting forgiveness." he says, his eyes to the right where I was walking before. "I won't let 'em take advantage of your kindness."

Archie and Veronica. 

"O-Oh, thanks." I say, my head hanging as a wave of reality hits me. Damn, this is depressing. 

"Betty! Jughead!" A voice calls behind us, footsteps approaching.

I smile wide at the sight. "Kev!" I embrace him in a hug before he and Jughead do the same.

"I missed you." he smiles, his books in hand.

Jughead chuckles, "It's been 3 days guys."

Kevin links his right arm through my left arm and we turn back in the direction we were walking in, continuing to find our way to my locker. "Exactly, far too long. How are you?" his eyes shift up across me to Jughead, "Both of you."

"Don't worry about it," Jughead smiles, the smile dropping with his head immediately after. 

I intertwine my fingers in his hand in response, giving him a face of comfort as my thumb caresses the back of his hand. 

"I'm alright" I say facing Kevin again, nodding my head and blinking away the tears, my ponytail bouncing. 

"I'm sorry I haven't been here for you," he rubs my shoulder as we come to a stop at my locker, Jughead leaning against the locker on the right of me and Kevin on the left. 

"Hey, no, I'm just happy you're feeling better. Your health is far more important that a lil' old broken heart." I half heartedly smile, blinking back the tears again, looking at Jughead for comfort.

"But we," I say, grabbing Kevin's hand as well, looking at my two best friends, lifting both of the joint arms up, "are gonna get through that as well. Together." 

I drop both hands, grabbing my books and pencil case and closing my locker shut with my hip, making our way now to Jughead's locker which was only a few lockers down on the side across from mine. 

He quickly grabs his floppy notebook and a single pencil, closing his locker. "Enough sappiness, we've got class to attend." He bops my nose with the end of the pencil, beaming saying, "See ya, guys," before spinning on the balls of his feet and walking to his class, tucking the pencil behind his ear.

He turns his head over his shoulder, waving again to Kevin and I. I stick my tongue out and scrunch my nose, a face that always makes him giggle. I see his shoulders bounce and his mouth turn up at the sides, hearing the faint sound of his laugh as he turns back walking away. 

With that, Kevin and I walk to our first period together. 

♪archie♪

"Did you see that?" I say to Veronica, "They walked right by us, Jughead literally pulled Betty away from us."

She sighs, "Oh, yea. Bummer." she frowns.

I furrow my brows at the half-heartedness to her tone. 

"Well, uh, I've gotta get to class." I say, point with my thumb to the right of me. 

Her hand goes to my bicep, the other wrapping her fingers through mine, "We have first period together, silly."

"Right." I respond, my palms sweating under hers.

I know it was wrong, but I can't control the way I feel about Veronica. It was a hell of a turn off the way she disregarded Betty and Jughead the other day, but she apologized and I think she meant it. If it counts for anything, we aren't dating. Just... comfortable with each other.

The next few seconds feel like a minute as it moves in slow motion. I look up to find Jughead walking past us, smiling to himself after, what I know through familiarity, laughing. His eyes meet with Ronnie and I's intertwined hands before looking up at my eyes, then looking away, the smile washed away from his face. 

I look down the hall to see Betty and Kevin's backs, arm in arm, I'm assuming they're what Jughead was smiling from. 

I look at Veronica and back up at my friends. Have I lost more than I gained? My best friends hate me, but I found my soulmate. 

I can't tell if this is a win or total, major, loose.. loss? I don't know, whatever word is englishly correct. 

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I'm gonna try my best to do the self-dialogue in a way that allows (as you can see from the last line) the characters' essence to be translated more. 

I'm so so sorry for the lack of updates, I know I've said it 100 times but it's the new year officially and I wanna write more this year, so we'll see how that resolution goes <3 thanks for sticking with me love ya's xx comment pls, uk I love to read em!