*Your POV*
I wake up and stretch. I look at my phone and realize that I woke up before my alarm. Huh. I'm not tired at all. Eh, whatever. I get up and brush my teeth, and get dressed into some normal clothes. I go into the kitchen and pour myself a bowl of cereal and sit down. I check Instagram, and just scroll through the feed. Suddenly I get a text from Jughead.
Jughead:
Hey, want to walk to school together?
I figure it's early, sure why not.
To Jughead:
Sure
Jughead:
Alright
I put my phone down and get up and put my bowl in the sink. I stretch one more time and loosen up my neck. I check my watch, and it's 7:15. (oh yeah ig I never told you this but school starts at 8 for them 😂) I hear a knock on my door, and it's Jug.
"Hey." I say.
"Hey. You ready?" he asks.
"Yeah, let me just get my bag really fast." I go over and grab my bag and pull it over my shoulder. "Okay, let's go."
I follow him out of my apartment. He stops after a little while. "Hey, I just..wanted to say that I'm sorry about unexpectedly kissing you last night.."
I grin and kiss him on the lips, "It's okay." I smile, and he does too.
"Okay." I grab his hand and we start walking.
"So, what does this make us?"
"Well, I think that I'll be proud to walk in the school, announcing that (Y/N) (L/N) is my girlfriend over the inner come."
I laugh, "Okay don't do that. But, I'm lucky to have you, Jughead Jones as my boyfriend." I put my head on his shoulder for a second, and then put it back. When we get to school, we go our separate ways, and I find Betty and Kevin walking and I go up to them.
"Hey, guys." I say.
"Hey (Y/N). Now that romance is off the table, are we 100% sure that Archie's straight?" Kevin asks. "Because no straight man has that body." I lightly laugh.
Betty gives him a look, "Speaking of bodies..Have you recovered from finding Jason's?"
"Wait what?" I ask.
"Kevin was down at the lake and found Jason's body on the shore." Betty says.
"No way."
"Way." Kevin says. "But, I've gotta say, it was more traumatizing having to explain to my dad what I was doing with Moose at the river. Yet another perk of being the sheriff's son."
I raise my eyebrow, "What were you doing?"
"Nothing important." He says quickly. We walk into the office, and a bouquet of yellow flowers are sitting on the table. "Hey, look at these flowers!" He says, trying to change the topic. I just laugh and let it go. "Oh my God, those are gorgeous. Are those for Betty, Mrs. Philips?" Kevin asks.
"That's why I called her." She gives him a 'duh' face.
Kevin pulls a note from the top, "Dear Betty, please forgive me, XOXO, V." he reads, "Who the hell is 'V'?"
"Veronica." Betty and Veronica both say at the same time.
Veronica comes into the office with a small white box. "The yellow is for friendship. I also had Magnolia cupcakes flown in from New York. Because, as my mom likes to say, 'There's no wrong the right cupcake can't fix.'"
I lean over to Kevin, "Did I miss something?"
"It's what happens when you don't go to the dance." He says. I playfully roll my eyes and lightly punch him in the arm.
"Also I...I've hooked us for hers-and-hers mani-pedis at Chez Salon." Betty smiles, and Kevin is just looking at her. "Blowouts, too. I am so, so sorry, Betty. I don't know what happened to me that night. It was such a basic bitch move. It was like I was...possessed by-"
"Madame Satan?" Kevin intrudes.
"The old Veronica." She looks down, "And I will never, ever do anything like that to you again. I swear on my mother's pearls. Just, can you please give me one more chance?"
Betty thinks for a second, and then grins, "Okay."
"What?" Kevin and Veronica both say at the same time. I'm still so confused as to what's happening. But..I'm glad I didn't go to the dance.
"Really?" Veronica asks. Betty shrugs and smiles. "Awesome. I'll take it and you won't regret it."
"Okay."
"And I'll bring these to lunch so we can celebrate." The bell rings and Veronica and Betty leave.
"Mind, telling me what's up?" I ask Kevin.
We both walk out, "Basically, after the dance, there was this big after party at Cheryl's, and they were playing 'seven minutes in heaven' and of course, Cheryl made it so Archie and her would have to go in, but then Veronica stepped in and-"
"Betty got mad because they did something." I finish.
"Exactly." He pauses for a second, "So, why weren't you at the dance?"
I blush just a little bit..."Well..I was with Jughead."
He raises his eyebrow, "Really? What did you guys do?"
"We hung out at Pop's and then went back to my place, watched a movie, and he..kissed me?"
Kevin gasps, "Oh my God, (Y/N) that's great!"
I smile, "Yeah..I guess it is." We arrive at our first period and sit down.
The inner com thing beeps, "Good morning, students. This is your principal speaking. There have been many inquiries about the upcoming pep rally. So let me state clearly, it is happening, as scheduled. Now, on a less felicitous note, if you could give your attention to Sheriff Keller."
"Most of you already know the details, but your classmate Jason Blossom's body was found late Saturday night. So as of the weekend, Jason's death is now being treated as a homicide. It is an open and ongoing investigation." Keller says.
"Any may I interject, neither I nor my parents will rest until Jason's death is avenged, and his cold-hearted killer is walking the green mile to sit in Old Sparky and fry. I, for one, have my suspicions. Hashtag Riverdale strong." Someone different says, I think it's Cheryl.
"If you know anything that could help us find and apprehend Jason's killer, or anything about what happened to him on July 4th, I strongly urge you to come forward immediately. You can speak with me or Principal Weatherbee. A death like this wounds us all. Let's not let Jason down."
"I forgot that your dad's the sheriff." I say.
"Yep, it's pretty great." He says, sarcasm at its finest.
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The bell rings and I walk to my next class, science. I find Jughead and sit next to him.
"Hey." I say.
"Hey, he replies. Archie comes in and him and Jughead make eye contact for a second, and then he quickly looks away.
"What was that about?" I ask.
He sighs, "Nothing."
I shrug, "Alright."
"Seats everyone, pair off, gloves on, scalpels up." The teacher says.
"Can I be with Cheryl?" Archie asks.
"And I wanna be with Betty," Veronica says, rather loud.
"Wanna be my partner?" Jug asks.
"You know it." I look at the frog, "Although, I've never done this before."
"What, dissected a frog?" I nod my head and put my gloves on. "Well, it's not too hard." He picks up a scalpel.
"Don't worry, I'm fine." We hear Cheryl say behind us. "In fact," she stabs the frog with the scalpel and Jug and I both look behind us, "I'm amazing." She says as she's sliding the scalpel down the frog's body.
We slowly look back to what we're doing. "Well..that was disturbing." I laugh a little.
"Uh, yeah."
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