Betty and Cheryl were both at Thornhill getting ready. Veronica was at her penthouse, the Pembroke. She had told the girls that she'd meet them at pops since she was running a bit late after she had dealt with a business meeting.
After the two cousins had finished getting ready, they hopped in Cheryl's bright red 1964 convertible chevy impala. Cheryl rarely took her car out just because it was such a classic. She had another car that was a lot newer but, I guess this was a special occasion.
They pull up to pops and park right up front. Getting out of the car, they could see from the window that a row of 3 people were seated in booth. They weren't completely sure it was them but no one else seemed to be in a crowd of 3 tonight. They couldn't make out their facial features from afar.
With every bell that ring from the door, they noticed how at least 2 of the 3 would look back at the entrance in anticipation.
The two girls chuckled at them. Cheryl found it desperate but, Betty thought it was adorable how they just couldn't wait for them to come.
Cheryl felt her phone vibrate and ring. She looked down at her phone, reading her message quickly and then quickly repeated it back to her cousin.
"Veronica said that she'll be here any minute. She's on her way now and she said that we can get started and just come in when she's here since they've already been waiting too long."
The blond nodded in agreement and the two girls walked in to the diner. As soon as the bell above them rang, they noticed two men immediately looking back at them with huge smiles across their face. They were already sitting in a booth. There was a third person who sat on the end. But what surprised them was that it was a woman. They had expected all three to be men. This was exciting to Cheryl, considering she hadn't expected a woman here.
They looked around the diner to see if there was a chance it could be anybody else, just to make sure one last time but they seemed to be the only trio sitting in a row. Cheryl and Betty walked up to the group of three. There were two dark haired men. One taller than the other. And a brunette girl. She was focused on her craft project in front of her. She was stacking toothpicks in a squared and 3 dimensional shape, on top of eachother, trying to build a tower. She had used up all the toothpicks at the booth they were sitting at and had seemed to grab some from a neighboring booth. The tower that she had built must have been about 4 inches now, which had taken the girl about 30 minutes since she started when they got there.
"Jughead?" Betty questioned, walking over with Cheryl right next to her.
"Yes, that's me!" A man with a denim jacket responded to her.
He stood up, signaling the man next to him to let the woman at the end of the table know to let them out since they were both seated on the inside. Jughead was seated by the window, then it was a taller male with a muscle shirt on, and at the beginning of the booth was the tanned girl. As the taller boy in the middle stood up and nudged the girl next to her, he accidentally hit his knee on the table. The table shook and immediately the brunettes project had begun to crumble.
The girl reached for her toothpicks trying to catch the fall. At that exact moment the redhead instinctively reached over trying to help the girl. She picked up a few toothpicks, and just then their hands touched each others as they had went to reach for the same toothpick. The brunette finally looked up between them and found herself gazing into the redheads eyes. They each gave eachother a small smile as they both looked at eachother.
Redness flooded the pale girls cheeks as they locked eyes. At this moment Cheryl just felt utter admiration, being immediately attracted to the girl with just one single touch. It has never been like this with anyone. The touch of their hands made Cheryl tingle inside. The tanned girl couldn't help but think the girls blushing was the most adorable thing she's seen in awhile. Her heart grew tender, looking at the redhead. This hasn't happened to her ever. She's never just looked at a person and be completely infatuated with them. The brunettes heart pounded as Cheryl's palm began to sweat. The tanned woman felt the girls profuse sweating yet she didn't care. She was so distracted by her beauty and the way she felt just looking at her as they shared a touch that they had forgotten where they were. They had forgotten that there were others and that the world didn't stop with just them in it.
"Hurry up, Toni." Jughead scolded, becoming impatient.
Toni. Cheryl couldn't help but adore the name. She loved when girls had names that she'd only hear boys have.
Toni looked down to her hand. They hadn't noticed that their hands were still touching. Cheryl immediately pulled her hand back after hearing Jughead and chuckled nervously, looking at the tanned girl and wiped her sweaty hand on her skirt slowly, trying to make it unnoticed.
Toni looked over to the boys beside her and rolled her eyes as they had already ruined her tower. And now... The moment she had shared with the redhead. She slid out the booth, letting the two men get out.
Jughead immediately gave Betty a short but sweet hug. Both smiling as they embraced eachother.
Pulling away, Jughead started, "This is-"
"I go by Sweet Pea." The tall man in a leather jacket interrupted his friend.
He immediately went over to Cheryl, grabbing her hand, leaving a kiss on her knuckles. He gave her a charming smile. She smiled back at him, politely.
"And your name is?" He asked, so politely.
"Cheryl." The redhead responded with a fake smile. Almost no emotion behind it.
She was always repulsed by men but she could tolerate them enough to be around them some days. She had to tolerate him enough today. For Betty.
"And this is my other friend, Toni." The man in the blue denim jacket said, gesturing his hand over to the woman.
"Our other friend bailed on us last second. Toni's our roommate and she agreed to help us out. I hope its not an issue." He said.
"No, no. Of course not. Lucky enough, the two friends I brought are both into girls." Betty whispered over to him, sending him a smile.
He looked over to the redhead and saw his friend already talking to eachother. Or more so, his friend was talking and she was just smiling, nodding and listening... Maybe she was listening. It was hard to tell. She was good at acting like she wanted to be there.
"Well, I guess Sweet Pea already picked her. So I guess your other friend is Toni's lucky date." He chuckled.
Just then, the bell to the door rang, the door closed behind her and heels clanked as she walked over closer to the crowd where she saw the two familiar faces.
The raven-haired beauty came over, with her head held high, showing some class, as she always did.
"Veronica Lodge?" Toni asked, looking at her with an awkward smile.
"Yes." The latina answered and shortly chuckled.
"How'd you get here so fast?" Veronica asked, giving Toni a quick hug.
Toni hugged her back, awkwardly.
"After I left the casino, I sped to my place to change quickly and immediately just met the guys here." Toni started.
"I don't take long to get ready." The tanned girl added and chuckled.
"Better than me, it took me an hour." The raven-haired girl joked.
"Wait you two already know eachother?" Betty interrupted the conversation.
Veronica turned to her friend.
"Yeah! We actually met in person, today. My business deal was with her. We met for the meeting at the casino. We were finishing up the paperwork to hand over my speakeasy, La Bonne Nuit."
"Yeah I'm definitely changing the name." Toni remarked, chuckling.
"Oh okay! Well congratulations on the new business, Toni!" Betty acknowledged.
"We should get started on our date, now." Jughead said, trying to rush everyone.
Jughead slid in the booth, Sweet Pea following next to him, and Toni at the end. Across sat Betty by the window, Cheryl in the middle and Veronica at the end.
Veronica seemed a lot more excited about Toni being her date than the tanned girl herself. Don't get it twisted, Veronica was beyond beautiful. But Toni just wasn't interested.
Toni and Cheryl kept skipping glances at eachother all night, sending small smiles over to eachother if either got caught looking.
Cheryl couldn't stop thinking about the brunette since they touched hands. But she knew that she would probably only see her tonight and never again.
Toni and Cheryl both refrained themselves from saying anything, not wanting to disappoint their dates who both seemed so much more into them then the two were even interested in them.
Instead, they went through the whole date not exchanging a word.
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