jealous - a jeronica fanfic

Chapter Two

The morning bell rings through the halls, and I raise my eyebrows in surprise- Betty's not here. It's unlike her to not show up to school, so she must be sick.

"Veronica, do you know where Betty is?" Jughead asks, sliding next to me. I roll my eyes. Even though Jughead would probably consider me a friend, I can't name a time where the topic of any of our conversations was anything but Betty. Man, Jughead really was in love with her.

"No, probably sick," I reply, breaking off from the mob of kids to get to my locker. Jughead's locker is right next to mine, so he follows my lead.

"Oh, okay. Anywa-" Jughead starts, before getting cut off by a voice I know all too well.

"Jug!" Archie Andrews calls from behind us, and I roll my eyes. Archie is the last person I want to see right now, or at any time for that matter. I turn my attention to my locker, unable to hear the joke that Archie whispers into Jughead's ear- I only know it was a joke because of how hard Jughead laughed afterwards.

After slamming my locker shut I spin around to see Archie almost directly behind me, and his eyes quickly flicker up to meet mine- they'd apparently been staring at my ass before.

"Beat it, Andrews," I say, rolling my eyes and hitting my shoulder against his as I storm past him. I hear him pick up his pace to try and keep up with me, but I quickly turn into my homeroom and he has no choice but to keep on walking.

I let out a breath I didn't know I'd been holding, and let my mind travel back to Jughead. Betty hates whenever Jughead talks to Archie, mostly because of what Archie did to me- Jughead doesn't know that though. Jughead knows that he hurt me though, so I couldn't help but be hurt that he was still best buds with Archie.

But then again, who was I to tell Jughead who he should be friends with? We only hung out over the summer because of Betty, and even though I've known him for almost four years now, we've never really considered ourselves friends. Still, it hurt my feelings Jughead never stood up to Archie- even when it came to Betty. Betty is his girlfriend, the only person Jughead seems to care about, and not even for her will he stand up to Archie.

I sigh and bring my attention to the whiteboard at the front of the classroom. It's Math, something I'm usually very confident in, however that's changed a lot this year. Ever since the incident with Archie last year I've been much more timid in class, even with the subject that used to be my favourite.

Archie Andrews. God that boy used to have such power over me, and he still does to some extent. Not just over me, but over all of us- boys and girls. I don't know what it is, but none of us were prepared for the storm he brought and the damage he would cause when he came to Riverdale High.

Me least of all.

{Sorry there hasn't been a whole lot of jeronica yet!! I promise as the story goes on there will be wayyy more chapters with them as they get closer & stuff. Any ideas as to what Archie did to Veronica?}