"Are you excited? Nervous? Both?" Kevin Keller said to his best friend, Betty Cooper.
"I haven't seen him all summer." Betty exclaimed to her gay friend.
"Which is why nerves are acceptable, but we agreed, Betty It's time. You like him, he likes you." He explained.
"Well, then why, Kevin, hasn't he ever said or done anything?" She said nervously.
"Because Archie's swell, but like most millennial straight guys, he needs to be told what he wants. So tell him, finally."
"Well, we'll see. I mean, it depends."
"Oh, my God!" Kevin practically yelled looking at the window from Betty's bed.
"What?" She called, running to the window.
"Game-changer. Archie got hot! He's got abs now. Six more reasons for you to take that ginger bull by the horns tonight!" He said with a small chuckle.
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"So, what was the highlight?" Archie asked
"Of my internship? The Toni Morrison book release party I organized, by far. At the end of the night, Toni Morrison, who is, as you know, my literary hero, Yes. Yes."
"Don't rush this time, Betty." Archie said comfortingly. "It goes by so fast at your age. One summer can change everything."
"Wow. That's so true. How was working for your dad?" Betty asked, changing the subject from her to him.
"It was Pouring concrete, every day, all day long. To pass time, I would start composing these poems, in my head. And at night, I'd go home, I'd write them down" He explained.
"You don't even like reading poetry." Betty said, baffled by the news she just received.
"They weren't poems, they were song lyrics. And working on them made me feel like-"
"What, Archie?"
"It made me feel like I'd finally broken through to something real. About my life and what I should be trying to do with it. Music. Starting this year, tomorrow. Amazing.
"Will you ask Ms. Grundy to tutor you?"
"I'm not sure, maybe.
"What about football?"
"Can you do both?"
"I'll try out, at least."
"Well, have you told your dad?"
"No. Until I've got things more figured out, you're the only person I'm telling, okay? Well, I'd love to hear them sometime. Your songs."
"Yeah?"
"Yes."
"Yeah, I'm finishing a couple of demos tonight."
"Great. Also I've been thinking about us, Archie, and our friendship, and how it's time we-" Betty's voice started to fade away from Archie's mind as a Raven haired girl with a black cloak on walked through the door of Pop Tate's Chock'litte Shop.
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Pt. 2! I'll be introducing J.J. soon. I'll tell you a little more about her in the next chapter's a/n. That's it for now!
-maycen
