Sitting in Pops surrounded by my friends, Archie, Veronica and Betty. Listening to Veronica and Archie exchange flirtatious comments completely oblivious to Betty's obvious feelings towards Archie. I watch the beautiful blonde sitting opposite me, both of us uncomfortable next to Archie and Veronica. Watching her deep green eyes fixed on on Archie. If only she look around and realised how much more there was in the world that him. Archie may be my best friend, but I know how much he screws Betty around, leads her on.
Finally Archie stands up and offers to walk Veronica home, she stands and they both give a brief wave to signal a good bye. So now it is just me and Betty, slurping our milkshakes. We make small talk, about the town and the murder but nothing significant, she is obviously off put by Veronica and Archie. "You can do better than him" I blurt out to break the silence. "Huh?" Obviously court of guard she replies "Me, feelings for Archie, no he obviously like Veronica!" I look at her blankly no convinced, and she catches on. "Ok fine maybe I do have feelings for him, but how couldn't I?!" I pause for a minute trying to strategically plan what I'm going to say, to make it not to obvious. "Look around you Betty, though our school is full of jerks, there are good guys out there, look beyond the house next door!" I can see her processing this"Good guys, like who? There is only two guys that come to mind and one of them is gay and the other I'm not so sure about." The first guy she is talking about is obviously Kevin, but the other? "Where do i fit in there, huh?" She looks me up and down and says "You can figure that out for yourself, walk me home?" I grab my jacket and jokely offer my hand, and to my surprise she takes is and say's "You're one of the good guys" and walks on ahead. I can feel myself blushing, and slightly confused. I run to catch up to her and get the door, to up hold my gentleman reputation in her eyes.
As we get closer to her house the silence grows. Though it isn't awkward silence, in fact it is very comfortable. Suddenly she blurts out "I love walking at night by myself, though obviously you're with me I feel quite at peace and comfortable. The moon just seems so safe, through all of my insecurities and the unhappiness in my life the moon is always there." A second of silence sways between us as I begin to process what she has just said, she feels comfortable with me? "you, um, you-a" I can feel myself blushing while I try to get my words out, and even more embarrassed when she turns towards me with a smirk obviously enjoying watching me squirm, in a friendly way not malicious way which is comforting. Suddenly I just say "good, I'm glad you feel comfortable and stuff" god I am an awkward creature. As we approach the front door I turn my gaze to Archies bedroom window, where I can him and Veronica kissing, and stupidly I forget who I'm with and Betty catches my gaze and also looks. She lets out a sigh says goodnight, thanks me for taking her home and runs to her room.
