Calm Waters [Jughead x Archie]

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Okay so I just stuck on this chapter so I haven't updated for a while but I got help from @a_weirdo2597 with this chapter, and practically the plot of this story so shout out to them
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04.

I stare blankly at him for a moment, letting his words sink in a little more as he stares back in silence.

"You could of stopped any time." I said snobbishly, disgusted with the way he said what he did. Being so vulnerable like that for someone else is suppose to be something special. I quickly grab my jeans off the ground and began to put them back on; slipping my left leg in first.

"Jug," Archie's right hand found my wrist again, his grip was tight making me drop my jeans once again. I don't think I could of gotten out of his grip even if I tried. My eyes flicker back up to his face. But his features curved into an emotion I haven't seen Archie give me before. I stared at him harder, waiting for his grip to loosen or him to start talking.

"We have to talk." He said then leaning further; whispering "but not here."
Something in his tone was unsettling to me. What did he want to talk about? Still talking quietly he adds
"Tonight at eleven meet me at my window like old times." Archie nodded at me.

So many things raced through my head when he said that. Was I going to even go? What if he had a good reason? Was I going to get involved with Archie again? Before I could question him he turned away and walked towards Veronica and Betty who were still in the lake. My eyes followed him as he made his way towards them. I think what surprised me the most was the way he invited me back into his life suddenly.

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Standing in front of the Andrew's residence I felt a part of me missing. This was technically my second home, well use to. Instead of walking up to his door and knocking I snuck to the side of his fence. Hopping it like I've done so before many times. I quickly made my way towards the tree in his back yard; carefully staying in the shadows as not to get caught.

I grabbed the lowest branch which appeared so low to the ground now. Back when me and Archie were best friends I could barely grab a hold of this branch.
I lift myself up on to the shaky limb, slowly coming to my feet as I hang on branches higher for support. I step on to another branch and another til I was able to crawl on to Archie's roof. I knew exactly where his window was. I snaked around the corner of the chimney; Archie's room wasn't lit. Probably so it wouldn't be suspicious to his dad. I knock on it quietly.

Right away he was at the window, opening it wide so I could slip in.
Finally I got to my feet inside of his room. I scan it; taking in how different it looks from when I remember it. I turn on my heal to face him, before I could react Archie had forced our lips together with an open mouth... In surprise I stumble back a little; Archie's hands cupped both of my cheeks to steady me while my hands found his waist.

The kiss was so intoxicating. It reminded me of how much I missed him and how I could never get enough of him. Archie's tongue slid in between my lips; his taste overwhelming me. I had forgotten how desperate I was for Archie's familiar lips.

His hands move away from my cheek and to my coat. He slowly slides it off my arms making me anxious to know what he was going to do next. Finally my coat was off, Archie had flung it somewhere and now he was working on the buttons to my shirt. I wanted to tell Archie not to stop but his phone went off; scaring us both.
His hands immediately backed away from my shirt and to his phone.

"This is what I wanted to show you." He said in a shaky tone obviously shooken up about something. He suddenly held out his phone in front of my face. A text message from an unknown number read:

'I see you've been hanging out with Jughead again. Archie, your reputation is on the line. Don't make me show everyone this.'

Moments later a video sent. The big play button in the middle covered most of the cover to the video but I could make out that it was me and Archie- shirtless, in his room. I was nervous to watch it so I stared blankly at his phone. I couldn't click the video, I knew what it was.

"There's more, scroll up." Archie's worried eyes waited for me to scroll up more. I did so, discovering that this unknown number had sent Archie texts before. They dated to be about the time me and Archie were still friends. I began to read some- they were threatening Archie, and me just not to my face. I jerked the phone away from my face and back to Archie's hands.

"I kissed you to see if it would happen again." He said genuinely. "They always send them when I'm with you." He rubs the back of his neck nervously.
"They started when you and me hooked up, but before that." He took a long pause, hesitating. "When I liked you some how they knew and sent me all this social suicide threats. And also the reason why I pushed you away was because I was scared like I said before. But I was scared of what they might do to you."

There it was, the feeling again. The feeling I've been dreading. The feeling that I'm feeling all over again but as if it was for the first time. Except things were different. Very different.

"Why have you never told me about this?" I said in a low growl. If I would of known, my whole prospective of me and Archie would of changed.