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Chapter 10

Monday, 5:00pm, Riverdale

Veronica's P.O.V
"Shh it's okay, I'm here now" I hear Archie say. Part of me wanted to slap him for how he had treated me, but the other part of me couldn't resist his touch. I finally remove myself from Archie's grip and I am sat facing opposite him. I stare at the shattered glass all over the floor, realising that it was once Archie's mirror and that I had broken it. "I'm sorry, I'll give you money to pay for that" I say emotionlessly, trying to get up quickly to leave. I just wanted to hide myself from the world. "So that's it, you're going to leave just like that" Archie says, getting up too. "Just like that. You've had no problem letting me go before, so it should be easy for you to do it again." I state. I start to walk out what was left of the bathroom door before I feel him grasp my wrist. I flinch as the pain was still there from when Josh had squeezed it. He slowly slid his hand from my wrist down to my hand so that they were clasped together. I look down towards my hand before looking up at a very distraught Archie. "Veronica, I can't even begin to say, how sorry I am," He starts to stroke my bloody knuckles with his thumb, "I know everything I did was so wrong, in every way, but I didn't know what to do or how to feel, so I only let myself feel pain and anger. I was being so selfish and I wasn't thinking about how you felt. Truth is, I never stopped loving you Veronica, I was a dick because I cared." He stops. "I needed you Archie, I needed you when we broke up, I needed you in the diner, but you weren't there by me. I needed you most and you pushed me away" I say, tears falling from my bloodshot eyes. I was surprised as I thought I had no more tears left to cry. "Veronica.." Archie starts but I quickly cut him off. I let go of his hand. "Archie don't you get it? I need you in my life. Not Josh, not Nick, not anyone, you. So when I saw you with Olivia, I was so indescribably hurt. She was my literal enemy and you were sat there gazing at her. That right there, broke me." I began to cry again and so did Archie. I had only ever seen him cry when his dad got shot, but right now, tears was just streaming down his face. "Veronica , I am so sorry, I don't know why I did it, I love you, I really do, I never wanted to cause you any pain. Knowing that you got hurt from that girl because of me honestly kills me. I will never forgive myself for what I have done to you" Archie finally manages to say in between his sobs. "Archie, don't blame yourself-" I start. "No, I am the worst person for you. You do not deserve me, in any way". I can see that he is starting to get angry as he walked out of the bathroom, kicking the sink. I start to follow him out and down into the kitchen. "Archie, stop" I shout. "Stop what!" He yells back. "Stop loving me! I am breaking you and this is not what relationships are supposed to do to people" I shout back. "I can't! I can't stop loving you and I don't think I ever will" he says slamming his hand down on the table. I walk up to him and he is facing away from me, as if he is ashamed to show his face. "Archie look at me", he ignores me so I carefully turn his head to face mine with my hands. I start stroking his cheek as I stare into his eyes. I could tell that his apology was genuine, I had never seen him so damaged. "From now on, no more fighting, no more intense jealousy, no more exes, no more" I start to say. I smile a little as I stare at his gorgeous face. "You're staring" Archie says, slightly chuckling, disregarding the tears that was still falling out of his eyes. "Promise?" I ask. "I promise" he finishes, wiping his and my tears away. "I love you, Archiekins" I say admiring deeply, the brown eyes that were in front of me. "I love you too, Ronnie" he returns. Our lips collided, passionately moving at the same time. I move my hands onto his head, feeling the softness of his hair. We both pull away and are left smiling widely. "By the way, you've got a hell of a punch", we both laugh and he pulls me into the tightest, but comfortable hug, as if he didn't want to let me go ever again. I rested my head against his chest and he rested his chin upon the top of my head. There was suddenly a knock at the door. I walk to get it but realise I'm not wearing any makeup and I look a mess. "I can't get that, I look a mess and I have no make up on" I say to Archie. "Oh please, you don't need it to look pretty, you're naturally pretty. Besides, I actually prefer you without it" he says walking past. I smile to myself at the comment he made. I walk into the storage room to grab a broom so that I could sweep up all of the glass upstairs. Thinking back on the whole situation made me laugh. God, am I really that melodramatic? I start sweeping away at the floor and I make sure to collect every piece of glass as I didn't want Mr.Andrews or Archie to step on it. Before I walk downstairs, I decide to go into Archie's room and change into some more comfortable clothes. I remove my dress and my heels and rummage around in his drawers, looking for some jogging bottoms. I found some grey Nike ones, I knew that they were too small for him so I would always wear them. I put on a black vest top to tuck in underneath my pants and tied my hair into a messy top knot. I pick up the bag that contains the pieces of glass and walked downstairs. I completely ignored who was at the door and walked straight to the kitchen to put the glass in the trash. I feel a tap on my shoulder "V?" I turn around so quickly that it felt as if I broke my neck. "Jesus Betty, make me snap my neck why don't you" I laugh pulling her into a hug. "I came over to check on you two as I could hear you screaming at each other from next door, I thought you guys were getting held captive or some shit like that." She finished. "Oh my gosh, I am so sorry" I say bringing my hand to my mouth in shock. "No it's alright, well I don't think the other neighbours approved, but they'll get over it. And another reason why I'm round is to tell you that , the serpents are having a party, in honour of Cheryl joining. Do you and Arch wanna come?" She says getting a juice box out of the fridge. "Okay help yourself, yep" I hear Archie say behind us. We both ignored his comment and carried on our conversation. "Yeah sure, a think a party would be great. To be honest, I need a reason for underage drinking right now." I giggle. "Great! It's this Friday at 7, Jug is coming to mine before so maybe we can all go there together?" Betty suggests. "Sure Betty, that sounds great" Archie said leading her out the door. "Well I'll see you two tomorrow?" She says putting on her jacket. "Definitely, catch you later B" I say waving her off. Archie shuts the door and then proceeds to wrap his arms around me from behind, pulling my waist into his. He kisses my non-bruised cheek all the way to my neck. "Archiekins". "Hmm" He says, breathing softly down my neck. "You know that I know what you're trying to do right?" I say. Archie starts running his hand up and down my arm slowly. "Not at all, I'm not doing anything" He seductively whispers in my ear. I feel that I am slowly falling into his trap, but I snap out of my trance. "Sorry babe, but no make up sex today" I say pushing him away. I turn around to see a shocked Archie with his arms out wide. I laugh at him whilst trying to find my phone in my bag. I see that I have a ton of missed calls from my dad and I immediately get worried. What if Josh has said something? What if I've ruined the business? Shit, Dad will kill me, like actually. "Ronnie, what's wrong?" Archie questions. "Oh it's nothing" I lie. I can't go back home because Josh will be at the Five Seasons and who knows what lie he will say to my dad. I texted my mom to say that I was staying at Betty's and she said that was fine. Since Josh will be leaving tomorrow, hopefully early, then I can go back; but for now, I need to stay at someones place. "Can I stay here tonight?" I blurt out. "Sure Ronnie, you're always welcome to stay, why is there something wrong at home?" Archie questions. Yes, there is something wrong at home. Literally everything, my dad being back is the worst thing, this whole 'I'm not going to do anything' act is bullshit and I know it. " I just don't want to see Josh" I say. "Okay well I've texted my dad, he said he'll bring back food, what do you want?" He asks. "I'll just have a milkshake from Pops if that's okay". "Are you sure, you don't want any onion rings or anything?". "I'm sure, I've kinda lost my appetite and plus, I don't want to chew anything since my cheek is still sore" I say rubbing it. Archie nods and texts his dad what we wanted and then put his phone down. "You wanna watch a movie?" He asks running his fingers through his hair. "Sure why not" I say as I walk over to the living room and grab some blankets.

10:00 pm

Archie's P.O.V
After minutes of deciding what film to pick, Veronica wanted to watch Moana. I guess that's what I get for letting her pick the movie. During the opening song of the movie, we heard my dad come in with our food. "Hey Mr.Andrews" Veronica says lifting her head up slightly to look at him. "Hi Veronica" he pauses for a second and stares at Veronica's cheek. "Hey Arch, can I talk with you for a second". I look down at Veronica who is just watching the movie, humming to herself. I get up and walk to my dad, grabbing the food out of the bag. "Dad what's up" I ask taking a bite out of my burger. "Now son, I know I raised you to be a good man and to always treat a lady right, but did-" I stopped him before he could continue. "Dad, if you're insinuating that I hit Veronica, then you obviously don't know me. I would never hit any girl, let alone the one I love." I argue. "You do have anger issues" He replies. I scoff at him and grab our food. I walk over to the couch and Veronica was sleeping soundlessly. I quickly ate my food and put Veronica's milkshake in the fridge, she would probably like to drink that in the morning. I return back into the living room and turn off the tv. I pick Veronica up and walk upstairs into my room, I place her in my bed and put the cover over her. She shifted and woke up, not fully, but long enough to remove her jogging bottoms as she doesn't like sleeping with pants on, only her underwear or shorts. I changed into some joggers and climbed into bed next to Veronica. Her breathing was slow and very quiet. I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her close. This was the girl that I wanted to be with forever, I smile to myself before drifting fast asleep.

A/N - Woo finally Varchie is back. I tried to write this as fast as I could but it didn't really go to plan so there was a lot of editing and deleting that had to be done. Can we just talk about how Cami has a bf!!! Whatt, my kjmila heart is bleeding ;( it's okay, 8 more days (it's the 2nd of July here) until the cast start filming season 3! Okay I'll go now, don't forget to vote and comment on what you'd like to see in the future. I love every single one of you, thank you for reading this book ahh, so much love 💗💗💗xoxo