𝕢𝕦𝕖𝕖𝕟 𝕠𝕗 𝕣𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕕𝕒𝕝𝕖

7

Arabella stood infront of a mirror in the girl's bathroom and wiped away her smudged mascara with a makeup wipe.

After reapplying her lip balm, she smiled slightly and looked at Betty through the mirror.

"Hey, Bet," she began in a soft voice, recieving the blonde girl's complete attention, "please don't tell anyone about this."

Betty's eyebrows furrowed slightly as she nodded vigorously, "I promise. Are you feeling better?"

Arabella nodded once before turning towards her friend completely, "definitely. I think holding in all of the feelings just made me feel horrible. I think I vomited it all up."

The two girl's laughed a little at Ara's statement before the young Queen slipped a piece of gum into her mouth, also encouraging that Betty take one as well.

"The Queen needs to keep her reputation clean," Arabella smiled at her friend, before taking the blonde girl's hand in hers'. "Let's get back to Bio like nothing happened."

•••

Upon entering the classroom once again from the empty hallways, Betty and Arabella strutted in hand-in-hand.

Most of the girls who followed Cheryl gave the two disgusted looks. Of course the young Queen brushed it off, but Betty couldn't help feeling a tad self-conscious.

Ara gently squeezed Betty's hand to comfort her before the two reverted back to their seats.

"Miss Queen," the Biology teacher announced, grabbing the dark-brunette-haired girl's attention, "would you like to give an explanation as to why you left my classroom in such a hurry?"

Arabella smiled at him and responded quite quickly, "well, you see it's my bloody eclipse and there was this... feeling. And I needed Betty there to haul ass."

"Language, Miss Queen," her teacher said, beginning to get more aggravated than he already was.

"Sorry, Captain America," the girl mumbled to herself, low enough for her teacher not to hear.

The class quickly got back on track to dissecting the frog and Arabella had Eric do all of the physical work while she filled out the lab work.

"Ara," he began out of the blue, "you're positive that you're okay?"

"Hey," the young Queen smiled weakly at the boy she had taken interest in, "don't worry, Eric. I'm fine, trust me."

The girl's eyes trailed from Eric's bright blue ones down to the frog once again. Flashes of what Jason's body looked like, before the police bagged it for the morgue, appeared in Ara's thoughts once again, but then reverted her eyes back to her current sanctuary: Eric.

•••

Later that day, Arabella decided that she would sit with her friends and not really Jughead yet, considering that she was still slightly recovering from their minuscule argument.

And when it came down to sitting with Eric, Ara was completely open to the idea considering that he didn't really want to sit with his football team and that she wanted to be near him as much as she could today.

It was weird sometimes for the young Queen because she noticed some traits in Eric that Archie definitely had. But other than that, he was completely different.