The Sad Breakfast Club // BUGHEAD + VARCHIE + KEVIN

DIX-SEPT

"Oh , you're a tease and you know it. All girls are teases."

~ Andrew Clarke, The Breakfast Club (1985)

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KEVIN

EVERYONE TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT the essay that Mr. Weatherbee required them to write. Kevin scrambled to stand up once realization hit him, and he started looking around for a pen and paper since he had drawn figures on the one that was handed to him earlier that day. "What are you doing?"Archie asked, his voice devoid of any emotion as Kevin entered the room and rummaged through the drawers.

"The essay!"Kevin panicked, finally picking up a piece of paper and stared down at it, picking up a pen from the table before he set to work on his essay. Unforunately for him, he had no idea what to write, and so he spent minutes staring at the blank sheet in from of him, trying his best to form sentences in his head. but all that came to his mind were the events that happened earlier, and his mind did a replay of the unfolding of events he had witnessed with his own eyes, and he was pretty sure that somewhere in the school, more events were beginning to unfold.

"Fück the essay."Archie told him, groaning loudly as he laid back down on the couch, staring up at the ceiling. "We've got so much more better things to do that the essay."Veronica had gone out and wandered around the library.

Kevin couldn't even comprehend what Archie was saying, because his mind was elsewhere, doing a play by play of everything that happened that day. For the first time in his life, he had received detention, and if he was being honest, if this was what detention was like every single time, then he would sign himself up for it every Saturday. It could have gone better without the fights, though, but come to think of it, if these people hadn't fought, they wouldn't have gotten closer. It was like they needed to go through a whole deal of trouble and despair before they found each other.

Kevin thought of Betty and Jughead. He bets his whole life that they were together somewhere, probably where Weatherbee kept Jughead for detention. He bets that Veronica helped her find him, or maybe in some way helped them get together in more than a friendly way. And Kevin couldn't stop thinking about their fight, and that if they hadn't released all those emotions they kept bottled up inside all those years, they wouldn't have gotten so much closer.

It was nearly the same situation with Betty and Veronica. Their first encounter ended up in a disaster, but then not more than an hour later, Veronica was apologizing for her behavior and then Betty was enthusiastically accepting Veronica's offer for them to be best friends.

Kevin smiled at the thought, and he started to write. But he didn't write about who he was, no. He wrote about who they all were. A bunch of teenagers thrown into different stereotypes, but at the end of the day were just as messed up and broken as everyone else.

They were the Sad Breakfast Club.

VERONICA

VERONICA WAS USED TO rejection, she tries to tell herself that over and over again as she wandered around the library, sobbing softly. She replayed her confession to Archie earlier, maybe she said something wrong.

But what was it? What did she say that scared him? Why does she have to scare everyone away?

"Where did I go wrong?"Veronica asked herself, leaning against the bookshelf, bumping her head softly on the wood, letting tears fall down her eyes. I like you, for some reason I haven't discovered yet. But I like you, and it scared me because I didn't know how to react to it so I pretended to hate you so much.

Obviously, Veronica's reaction wasn't the right one because all she did was scare Archie away, like everyone else that she came close to. She screwed it up once again.

"Why does this always happen to me?"She cried, lightly punching the wood. "Why do I have to scare everyone away? Why do I always manage to screw it up and make them run from me?"She muttered, letting herself slip slowly down to the floor, pulling her knees up and resting her head on it. She rarely cried that way, because she never let herself.

But now all her emotions bottled up inside has once again tore out of her, and she was a mess of waterworks. "Why do I always get hurt?"She whispered to herself.

"You never scared me away."

Veronica didn't dare look up from her knees. She had been hallucinating once again, her mind was fúcking her up and she hated herself for it. "Stop messing with my head!"She angrily yelled at herself, covering her ears with her hands, squeezing her eyes shut.

Archie stood beside her, not knowing what to do. He stared down at Veronica for a minute, trying to figure out what to do. He could tell that he was the reason Veronica was crying, and his heart squeezed painfully at the thought. He dropped to his knees beside her, his hand reluctantly reaching out to touch her.

"Ronnie, you never scared me away."He whispered to her, and she lifted her head from her knees, mascara running down her face with her tears. She turned to face Archie, unable to stop the tears that escaped her eyes. Archie offered her a small smile and held her face in her hands. "You were wrong, about you making everyone run away from you."He told her.

"It's true, Archie."Veronica said, shaking her head in disagreement. "I make everyone run away from me, because I'm a bìtch like you said, and I'm nothing in this world."She sobbed, trying to reach up to push his hand away, to push him away from her. But Archie kept his grip firm and since Veronica was too tired, she was weak.

"You're not nothing, Veronica. You're not a bìtch, and I didn't mean it when I said that. I was just pissed, but that's not really an excuse. I'm sorry, I swear I am."He told her, leaning closer to her. "But you didn't scare me away, Veronica. None of those things you said about yourself is true, because I'm still here."He said, staring into her eyes. Veronica met his gaze and felt her heart melt. She nodded her head slowly.

"I'm here to stay."