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xxiii. archie & reggie

do re mi - blackbear

archie and reggie, for magcon5sos_

i took my phone out of my bag and hid my headphones inside my sleeve so i could listen to music in this boring class.

"hey, mikaela," someone said, making me jump.

"archie, what's up carot head?" i asked with a grin.

"uh, nothing," he smiled, "is anyone sitting here?" he gestured towards the seat to my left.

"yeah, sorry but reggie's sitting there," i smiled apologetically. archie nodded slowly and looked around for another seat.

"what was he doing?" reggie asked as he reached me.

"looking for a seat."

"not next to you, hopefully."

"nope, next to me."

"he's a dick," reggie muttered.

"how?" i asked, confused.

"he's only trying to get with you so he can piss me off."

"haha, sure," i laughed, "but chill reggie, who said that you're not trying to get with me just to piss him off?" i grinned slightly.

he rolled his eyes and the teacher appeared.

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it was after school when everything started to make sense.

reggie and archie were constantly asking me to hang out with them after school through out the day, and i only just realised why they were doing so.

i took my phone out my pocket and starting typing away when i heard people shouting.

"fight! fight! fight!"

i rolled my eyes at the other students and continued to walk but my path was being blocked by the crowd of students.

i decided to check what all the fuss was about, and as soon as i reached the middle of the circle i couldn't help but laugh.

my laugh caught the boy's attention and they both stopped.

"mikaela," archie huffed, he had a black eye and had bruises down his arm.

"mikaela," reggie sighed, he also had a black eye, blood was coming out of his nose.

reggie and archie glared at each other, realising they had just said the same thing.

"what is going on today?" i was still laughing.

"let's just talk in private, please mikaela," reggie said quietly.

"um, okay-"

"no, don't mikaela," archie spoke. i furrowed my brows at him.

"is this because reggie was sitting with me in class?"

"what? no!" archie exclaimed, "it's a lot more than that," he sighed.

"okay, everyone leave," i told everyone that was crowding us,  everyone left, including archie, "not you carrothead!" archie came back. "okay, what is this all about? archie, you start"

"um, i wanted to ask you-" archie started.

"archie sucks." reggie butted in, this made me giggle.

archie glared at reggie again then turned back to me.

"i wanted to ask you-"

"he's a loser." 

"i wanted to ask you on-"

"he's the worst football player."

"i wanted to-"

"he is literally a vegetable."

"i-"

"he can't fucking sing-"

"SHUT THE HELL UP REGGIE!" archie shouted at reggie who rolled his eyes but listened to him, "i wanted to ask you on a date."

i looked at him, wide eyed.

"um..."

"yeah, and that's it, but reggie here has stopped me from doing that." 

"reggie! you're mean!" i told reggie, who seemed quite shocked by my reaction.

"what? i was only doing it because i was planning on asking you out first." he said quickly.

"this just makes things a lot more complicated," archie groaned.

i shook my head and smiled.

"it's okay, i already have my answer," i looked up at them.

the boys focused on me intently.

"i choose..." i stopped and waited.

...

reggie looked at archie from the side, archie looked at reggie from the side, the two made no noise.

...

"reggie..." i finally said, reggie's eyes lit up and he smiled "you suck, so i'm saying to archie." 

archie jumped and wrapped his arms around me, reggie shook his head and walked away, kicking a bin as he walked out the school.

"so, where are we going, carrothead?" i asked archie who looked way too happy to notice that i had just spoken.

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a/n 

this is really bad and i'm so pissed off that i didn't work harder on this idk i feel really bad for making bad chapters

sincerely yours, liz