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chapter three ✧ pranks & blackmail ( season one, episode three )
❝ you—you broke out of detention? this... this is why i don't socialize. ❞
𝐈𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 to know about Veronica Becker, it was how much she didn't like breaking the rules. She was a type-a rule follower—sometimes almost to a fault—but in her mind, rules had been put in place for a reason and should therefore not be broken.
But she somehow became best friends with some of the most troublesome people to walk the planet.
And Jack had somehow convinced her to join them after school for an afternoon of 'sliding on the newly waxed floor on a cafeteria tray'.
She'd much rather be sitting at home reading a book.
"Oh, yeah," Jack said with a nod as Veronica reluctantly trailed behind him. Milton was clutching his bicycle helmet to his chest in anticipation of his ride. "Waxy Wednesday; where a plastic tray meets a freshly-buffed floor and legends are born."
"Or, as I like to call it—" Veronica began and her friends looked at her. "—how idiots become more idiotic."
Jack frowned at her. "You still agreed to come," he reminded her with a smirk. "Which means that everybody owes me five bucks."
"Seriously?" she asked, crossing her arms. "You bet on whether I would come or not? You know, just because I'm a rule follower doesn't mean that I'm pathetic."
He opened his mouth to reply just as Eddie appeared at his side. "Hey, guys," he greeted them. "I got the trays."
"Any problems getting by Marge the lunch lady?" Kim asked him.
He shook his head. "Nah," he replied. "She said they don't pay her enough to care."
Veronica tilted her head. "She's not wrong," she said. "That's why I always bring them brownies every month. Try and brighten their day a little."
"You are too sweet for your own good, Ronnie," Kim told her and she looked at her best friend. "But you will give me that brownie recipe, right?"
"Duh."
"Guys!" The group of friends looked up when they heard Jerry's voice and saw him running down the stairs. "Did I miss anything?"
Kim shook her head. "Not yet," she said before furrowing her brows. "Hey, shouldn't you be in detention for putting a tollbooth in the boys' bathroom?"
"I should be," he confirmed with a smile. "But when you sit me in the back and leave a window open... I'm what they call a flight risk."
"You—You broke out of detention?" Veronica asked him before shaking her head. "This... This is why I don't socialize."
