alibi [jughead]

three

School had let out and Acacia was looking for Jughead. It wasn't long before she found him in the empty student lounge typing away, however before she could take a step over its threshold she was pulled back.

Whipping her head aroun Acacia opened her mouth to give whoever it was a piece of her mind when she saw it was only Betty. In a cheerleading uniform. Grinning from ear to ear.

"I mad the squad! Can you believe it?" Betty squeals. Jumping up and down still holding on tight to the brunette arm. "And I'm going to the dance with your brother, which means-"

"No. Absolutely not!" Acacia tries to pull herself out of the cheerleaders hold.

"Please? I'll do your home wor for a week-"

"A month!" Acacia deals. Betty let's go before running off down the hallway.

Shaking her head, mumbling under her breath she walks over the threshold, across to the love seat and jumps over it landing beside Jughead who looks up from his work.

"Shouldn't you be in class, Ace?" He asks.

"Class is over burger boy, time to walk me home. I'm gonna have to stretch for the shopping trip with Bett-"

"You're going shopping? Why?" He laughs as he packs his laptop away.

"Because Betty's going to the dance with my brother-" Jughead looked at her with raised eyebrows "-and she may have agreed to do my homework for a month if I complied." Both laughed at that.

"Are you going to get a dress too?" Jughead asks.

"Why? Are you asking me to accompany you to the dance?" She asked a little afraid of his answer. He laughs.

"No. But considering... it'll kind of be like our first date at Pop's even if we did go, wouldn't it?" He asks. Jughead doesn't see Acacia's face fall. He does however see the smile that doesn't quite reach her eyes.

"Absolutely!"

Shopping. An activity in which, while necessary, was something that Acacia Andrews detested with her entire being.

Cruising the clothes racks with Betty, the brunette didn't understand what was the big fuss about the semi-formal. It wasn't like it was the actual formal and yet Acacia was a little disappointed that Jughead hadn't asked her to go.

The prospect of going to the Chok'Lit Shoppe however did lighten her spirit somewhat, that was until Betty demanded even though she wasn't going to the dance she but a dress to wear tonight at the Chok'Lit Shoppe to show Jughead exactly what he would have missed out on.

While not interested in shopping, she did want to have one of those moments with Jughead where he realises he fucked up, so she ran around and managed to find a simple black dress that went great with her grandmothers heirloom necklace she wore on special occasions.

Having some heels at home she parted ways with Betty, running strait to her bedroom to shower, do her hair and makeup before putting on her new dress.

When she came out of her room that night both her twin father believed that she was going to the prom, that is until she told them she was going to meet Jughead at Pop's Chok'Lit Shoppe.

Fred Andrews wasn't happy that his daughter was getting dressed for a dance she wouldn't be going to, that her own boyfriend hadn't even asked her to go to while Archie started questioning whether the two were even actually an item.

Getting a lift from her father she was there before Jughead and ordered three burgers, two orders of fries, a large onion rings, and a strawberry milkshake with extra cherries.

While waiting for Jughead and her order she took out "The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe" opening it to the last page she was reading when someone slid into the booth across from her.

"Holy hell you look like heaven tonight, Angel." She knew that voice. She spent four hours a week listening to that voice and almost the entire summer having conversations with its owner.

"Leave or I'll scream." Acacia says above a whisper, not daring to look up into his eyes.

"Angel-"

"She asked you to leave O'Connell. So I suggest you do, unless you want the school board to know exactly what kind of a teacher you are." Acacia looks up hearing Jughead and smiles at him, happy and greatfull for his arrival and stepping in.

Keeping her head down, not looking at Mr. O'Connell slides out of the seat, Acacia tenses at the mans words.

"Go ahead. I won't give up on her."

As he turns and walks away Jughead slides into the booth beside her and wraps his arms around her as best he can.

"Are you alright? I'm so sor-"

"I'm okay, Juggie. You're here now."

Time passed by quickly and pretty soon Acacia was leaning her head in Jughead's shoulder, reading each word he typed entranced, never having thought just how great a writer he truly was.

Acacia was in the middle of pointing out a grammatical error, much to Jughead's horror, just as her brother can storming in. Disheveled he walked up to Pop Tate asking if he'd seen Betty around and at that moment the brunette Andrews phone started to ring.

Lifting it up to see the caller ID, the picture of herself and the blonde immediately told her it was Betty calling, and from what she was seeing she wasn't willing to speak to her friend in hearing range of her brother in case they were fighting.

"Move over Jugs, I gotta take this outside." He opens his mouth to ask why when she shows him the screen. Seeing the ID he slides out letting her out of the booth and watches as she brushes passed her brother who's heading toward their booth before answering the phone.

"Acacia?" She can immediately hear the tell take signs of her friend trying to cover up her cries.

"Betty, what's wrong?" She asks.

"It's Archie-" Acacia shook her head and looked through the window of Pop's to see her brother sitting across from Jughead "-and Veronica."

Hearing their names together confirmed Acacia's feeling when she first set sight on the new girl that she would only cause trouble.

Acacia kept silent listening to the indecipherable words spoken on the other end until she saw her brother coming toward her, and heard a soft "thank you" in the other end.

"That's what best friends are for, Betty." Acacia says, her twin stopping hearing what his sister just said.

"That was Betty? Is she-" Acacia walks up to her brother and slaps him.

"Betty is my only female friend, best friend even. She's like a sister to me Archie and I know you've never thought to mine or any other persons feelings before your own, so I'm going to warn right now that if you hurt her, your dead to me."

Turning in her heel and walking back in to Pop's, Acacia rubbed her palm as she walked back to Jughead who had a new serving of onion rings and a strawberry milkshake waiting when she arrived.

"Great first date?" He asks. Acacia smiles and slides into the booth beside Jughead.

"Yeah. The best."