Jokes On You (Veronica Lodge)

Chapter 9

Queenie wasn't dead, I had a mental break down for no reason. She just got a gash on her stupid face. Had me all worried about a stupid gash, and like six million bruises. All right let's be completely honest, I wanted to beat some gang members asses after I saw Queenie. F.P. said I couldn't though.

Queenie, F.P., and I also had to get new phones and phone numbers after last nights misadventure. I don't save peoples phone numbers under their real names, but F.P. was still terrified of the fact that another gang had our numbers. It was a whole big ordeal when nobody would have known that Virgil was Queenie and Boring Boss was F.P. Who's that smart? Or who's stupid enough to have a mind like mine?

Doesn't matter, F.P. was upset over something that small and insignificant so he made us change numbers. We had to text Betty and explain a slightly altered reason behind why we had new numbers. It was a mess, but our mess.

So, now the two of us are entering Riverdale High School with busted lips and bruises. The other kids giving us weird looks. Which was to be expected; they always give us weird looks now. They don't even need a reason anymore.

Queenie and I approach Betty's locker, where we see Betty and Kevin. I'm sure Betty, Kevin, Queenie, and me make quite the odd looking pair. I mean Betty the girl next door hanging out with Queenie and Joker the kids from the wrong side of the tracks.

"What were you two hens gossiping about?" Queenie asked Betty and Kevin. Betty gave us light greetings while still getting stuff out of her locker. When Betty's head was no longer in her locker, she got a concerned look on her face.

"Did you two get in a bar fight?" Betty asked looking at our faces. A bar fight would probably be the safest answer.

"Yeah, the boys at the Whyte Wyrm need to be put in their place from time to time," I say the lie just rolling off of my tongue. I didn't want to lie to Betty, especially since Veronica already knows what really happened, but it's best she doesn't know how we really got beat up.

"We were gossiping about boys and Cheryl Blossom," Kevin said with a smile. What did Cheryl do? I leave her alone for one day.

"What did Cheryl do?" Queenie said voicing my earlier thoughts. Betty just shrugs it off. Weird. Normally Betty would talk to us. What is happening here?

"How are you and Veronica after yesterday?" I question. Her face fell. She looked just like a dog that just got in the garbage. I'm going to take that as a no. Wow, we're really good at this conversation thing.

"Okay, when did we get so bad at the whole conversation thing?" Queenie asks. That's the question, normally conversations with Betty just flow, but today, they aren't. What happened last night that Betty doesn't want to tell us about? There's one person in this equation who can't keep her opinions to herself.

"Does anyone happen to know where the red headed devil is? She hasn't had her daily dose of Joker annoyance," I say with a smirk. I'm going to figure out what happened, whether Betty tells me or Cheryl. Betty and Kevin share knowing looks and I roll my eyes.

"I'm not going to ask what happened. Much to everyone's disappointment I'm not a heartless snake!" I say offended. God they act like I've betrayed them before. I'm lying of course I'm going to ask what happened, but I'm just trying to help!

"Whatever, I'll find her on my own. Let me know when you see me as more than a snake," I mutter before walking away. Is that how Betty sees me? After all of this? A snake who will betray her friends at the first sight of a fight? What did I do to her?

I end up just walking down the halls absentmindedly not actually looking for Cheryl anymore. I don't feel like trying to figure out their problems anymore. Maybe I should just skip again. Sure F.P. would be disappointed in me, but who cares right?