Lover & Beloved

Chapter 2|A Touch of Evil𓆙

Archie Andrews, a boy that was someone who frankly would love to do everything that was right, but right now he was torn, the world's weight on his shoulders, unspoken truths only he and Ms. Grundy know.

"Betty I went in that closet, because I didn't want anybody else to go in, like Cheryl" Veronica and Betty were in a middle of an argument, after Betty's little fit at lunch their cease-fire seemed to be erased in Betty's memories. "Oh, so that's it? You were protecting me?" Betty stood up. "You know we were fine before you came here" She crossed her arms as the raven-haired girl walked closer to her "If you mean fine like you were walking on eggshells of emotions because you couldn't confess-" Veronica was cut-off "No we were friends Veronica" Betty interjected.

Y/n marched around the empty halls, her head turning every so often searching for her brother Jughead she was outside waiting for almost 30 minutes. 'He's late, that's anomalous' She thought dialing his number bringing the phone up to her ear. Her gaze landed on a door with a familiar red headed boy, her eyes lit up expecting him to know her brother's where abouts. Peeking through the glass 'window' in the middle of the door she saw someone else in the room holding Archie's hand slowly walking towards him, her jaw almost dropping "What-cha looking at?" Jughead appeared out of nowhere. Y/n pushed him away, a finger on her lips indicating for him to shut up "What?" He strongly whispered, his eyebrows furrowed "Look" Y/n had a look of disbelief her brother having a confused one.

Jughead did what Y/n told him and saw Ms. Grundy and Archie making out in the music room "Jug we need to go" Y/n pulled on Jughead's hand pulling him away. Them ending up on the old tree house. "This gives me nostalgia" Jughead sat down "He was kissing a teacher" Y/n hissed turning the conversation a bit more serious this time "We need to tell him off" Jughead took off his beanie, resting his head on Y/n's shoulder "Yeah, most definitely" Y/n said snapping the small twigs in her hand. Y/n was
strangely calm, but Jughead knew it all was an act. Y/n was always like this, before a flare-up of course.

Archie was walking, and for a reason he found Jughead on his porch and an upset Y/n leaning on her bike. "What's up?" Archie stopped with Y/n glaring at Andrew's boy "What's up is we saw you guys" Y/n said while practically killing Archie with her eyes, she was mad, no angry because Archie was definitely being used, and he wasn't doing anything "Keep your voice down my dad's inside" Archie walked towards them looking between the twins "How long?" Jughead asked huffing "Since this summer" Archie bashfully admitted "Oh so that's why you were acting all weird?" Y/n crossed her arms "One of them" Archie bit his lip knowing what came next.

"There's more?!" Jughead and Y/n exclaimed in unison, a feeling of disbelief covering their hearts. "We were at Sweetwater river on July 4th and we heard a gunshot, the gunshot" Archie tried to calm the twins down only to fail "Dude you have to tell somebody" Jughead's eyes widened "I can't and neither can you if people find out about Grundy-" Archie was interrupted by an angry Y/n pressing a finger on his chest. "A kid is dead Archie, people are suffering and yet you care for some, some" Y/n thought of a word only for her voice to get stuck in her throat. "cougar" Jughead finished making Archie obviously stand up for Grundy.

"Don't call her that she's, I-I like her and she cares about me" Archie explained the twins only scoffing in exchange "Don't we all?" Y/n bashfully said her eyes glistening "She's the one who told you that, right?" Jughead placed a hand on his sister's shoulder, Archie couldn't respond "She's messing with you man, She's getting in your mind" Y/n held her tears back, she was never too good at arguments especially one with her best friend whom she treated like her brother. "What do you know about her?! me even?" Archie raised his voice "Nothing, we know absolutely nothing" Jughead said frostily Y/n purposely bumped her shoulders with Archie's making her slightly stumble. The red headed boy grabbed Y/n' jacket by the sleeve.