It's Only Seven Minutes..

Ride

Veronica's POV:

Jughead gets on his bike and scoots up to make room for me. I start to head over to him when I realize this might get awkward.

"Um.. how am I gonna ride your bike?" He turns his head and looks at me as if I'm the dumbest person in the world.
"Get on, behind me." He says and turns back around. I feel the heat rise up to my cheeks as I make my way over to him.
"Right of course," I say, feeling dumb.
I get on the bike and say "now what?"
Jughead shakes his head and grabs my hands. I feel a tingly feeling rush over my body as our hands connect. He wraps my hands around his waist.
Why do I feel so embarrassed around him...
He starts his bike catching the attention of most of the people outside. I hide my embarrassed face and bury it into Jughead's back not realizing what I'm doing. I feel Jughead's body go stiff and i look up.
  He sends a glare to everyone around us. Jughead grabs his helmet and hands it to me. I put it on and quickly catch the scent on which I believe is the smell of Jughead's hair. I always thought it would smell different.

I don't know what I expected. It smelled like Vanilla coconut. It was a really nice smell. I internally smack myself just by noticing what I'm thinking about. This is so wrong. I'm with Archie. And he's with my best friend! I snap out of my trance and notice we are already on the road. I instantly grab ahold of Jughead's waist and tightly grab him before I fall to my death.

Jughead POV:

I feel Veronica's hands tighten around my waist. I feel something weird in my stomach.
I push away the feeling and see we're near Archie's house. I park my bike around his house and nudge Veronica, letting her know we're here. I see her open her eyes, and I cock an eyebrow at her.
"We're here?" she asks still not noticing her hands tightly around my waist.  I nod at her.
We don't notice Archie coming out of his house towards us. " Hey, guys-"He starts.
I turn my head quickly to greet him but see him looking at Veronica and I's position. Veronica notices and quickly gets off my bike. I roll my eyes. I get off my bike and Veronica hands me my helmet.
"Thanks, Jughead" She mutters heading over to Archie.
"Hey man," I say walking towards them. Archie still has a confused look on his face.
"I asked him to give me a ride since you left early" Veronica explains trying not to look embarrassed.
I scoff.
Archie notices my jacket around Veronica's waist. 
This is just great.
Edited as of 2/29/24

This'll be fun...

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