Forbidden rhymes with tempting.
A story where the girl next door, her G.B.F. and the rich, manipulative mean girl adventure themselves in the Southside - or, commonly known as Serpent territory.
p.s. In this AU, there is no Veronica (at least, not f...
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
Wednesday, October 3rd
7:21
Hiding your feelings and emotions behind a coat or red lipstick and killer outfits was something Cheryl excelled at. Every single day, she'd sit in front of her vanity and spend an hour - sometimes more - on her look. The more layers she put on, the safer she felt. The second her makeup sponge toucher her porcelaine face, Cheryl sighed, immediately feeling less naked. Unlike most teenage girls, it wasn't the makeup that made her feel more confident but the whole facade she put up in front of her walls for extra protection. Putting up a character made Cheryl feel secured. No one could hurt her when she was Cheryl Blossom, the manipulative, self-absorbed mean girl.
With her brother's recent disappearance, keeping up her facade had been challenging. She wanted to stay strong for Jason and show she wasn't weak despite everything but it became harder and harder every day. Waking up without Jason poking his head through her doorway as she got ready before school, eating dinner with an empty seat next to her, not having him to keep their mother from her everyday abuse. Cheryl missed all this. She missed it so much. They were small, mundane things but they meant a lot to the red head.
She was almost finished with her face - and body - makeup when she caught a photograph taped on her mirror vanity. Cheryl picked up the photograph, water filling her eyes immediately. She let the tear slide down her cheek, her lashes sticking together as the water touched them.
''I'm gonna bring you home, Jay-Jay.'' Cheryl pressed her lips to the photograph and brought it over the turquoise floral nightgown that covered her heart.
.
10:03
Sitting a row behind Archie in Calculus, Betty went against the rules and pulled out her phone in class for the second time in her life. Just like yesterday, her heart was racing at the mere thought of getting caught. She had been so scared Mrs. Brenner would demand to see the messages between her and Jughead. Luckily, she let it slide and Betty stayed focussed on the course for the rest of the hour.
Today again, Jughead Jones was the reason behind her rebelliousness.
Rare were the times Betty couldn't tear her eyes away from her phone; unlike most teenagers, she wasn't addicted to her phone and could very well survive without the device.
Except today.
Ever since she had woken up, the blonde had been stealing glances at her phone every ten minutes, waiting for the Serpent prince to get back to her. Her unusual behavior had Alice question the teenage girl during breakfast but Betty got away, saying Kevin had to start over with his article for the news paper due to his computer crashing on him and needed her help. Luckily, Alice bought her lie.
Betty had stayed strong and resisted looking at her phone for the first period and half. She was proud of herself. But, the inevitable had to happen and Betty caved.
