The Muse ~ Vughead

Ch. 6, Ferris Wheel

Jughead

After we got off the saucer ride and we could stop laughing and the world stopped spinning. Veronica laughing, it made me feel less stressed about the situation that hovered over my thoughts and mind like a dark cloud hovering yet never disappearing.

Yet the cloud above my head seemed to go away, not forever, but just a little while to let me able to enjoy the moment. I think Veronica is a good person, even if we have not always agreed on many things that happen with her father of the Serpents, she's pretty cool.

Veronica laughed once again as she steadied her feet, she moved some of her loose hair strands out of her face, "that was fun, wasn't it Jughead?"

I sighed and let out a small quiet laugh, "yeah I guess it was fun, but we're not going on it again."

She nodded, "yeah okay, your right, we don't want those hotdogs to be wasted" I laughed.

Veronica looked around the fair at all the rides, stands, attempting to figure out which one we should do next, she looked at me, "so what do you want to do next?"

I look around, the maze caught my eye, "how about we do the mirror maze over there?" I pointed, she looked back at me.

"I hate mazes"

I laughed, "well I hated the cup saucers, and look at me now, I really enjoyed it, so you will come go with me and you will love it."

I began to walk towards it, I could hear Veronica walking a few steps behind me. We eventually got to the front of the line, we walked into the maze after we gave the man our tickets. We walked into the maze, Veronica looked at me, "okay how about you go this way and I'll go that way."

I nodded, "okay" I walked left.

She went right, I kept my hands out making sure I didn't slam into a mirror, I turned left and I could see Veronica's back, I walked closer, she then turned her head, she smiled and walked closer to me, I laughed as I walked closer to her, I am expecting to run into the mirror instead of her, she put her hand up, I did the same, then we slowly moved closer.

My hand touched her soft warm hand, she turned her hand slightly and closed her hand, it felt weird touching her hand or rather holding her hand.

I have never really held somebody's hand, I mean I held Betty's before, but that was only twice when we first started dating and she didn't care that I was a 'freak' and showed public affection with her boyfriend. But it's not a bad weird, it feels nice holding her hand.

Stop thinking like that you freak, if you get a crush she is going to see how worthless you are and then you will have no actual friends, actually she is probably using you for your money, so don't get to attached freak.

She then let go and put her hand back to her side, I quickly did the same, she pointed to the right, "found the exit come on."

I followed her and now we were in the bubble maze, great, going to smell like shitty soap for the rest of the day.

Veronica threw bubbles, "hey!" I laughed as I wiped the bubbles from my chest, I threw some at her, she laughed and screamed.

"Ahh! my hair!" she snorted, I couldn't help but laugh when she was laughing it was impossible not too.

I watched as she looked up at all of the bubbles flying through the air, I quickly got out my phone and took a picture, "what's the picture Jones?"

She smiled and asked, I laughed, "just a good moment to capture on camera."

Veronica then led us out of the bubble mess and then we played many games, we talked and talked for hours. Usually, I can't talk to the same person for an hour without being annoyed, it's been three hours, now she really is my friend. Veronica counted our tickets, "okay we have four left, so Jughead what would you like to do?"

I looked around, I smirked, "how about the merry go round" Veronica laughed as we began to head towards it."

We both got on courses and we laughed historically, as it got faster I hopped off my horse, "Jughead what are you doing!" she laughed, I was stood on the horse holding on my one arm and one leg in the air posing.

She couldn't stop laughing, I am glad she is laughing, I'm glad I'm the one that's making her laugh. I could tell that she hasn't been very happy since Archie and Betty for that matter.

The guy running it yelled at us, it only made us laugh even harder. When he stepped on the merry go round we got off and ran. We stopped when we got to the end of the fair, Veronica was snorting due too how much laughter she had just experienced.

"That was so awesome! He was chasing us until we managed to get off the ride."

I wiped my eyes of tears, not tears of sadness, but of joy and laughter. I haven't laughed this much in years.

Once we were able to breathe and be able to look at each other without bursting into another laughing fit Veronica pulled the two tickets from her pocket, "so we have done ever ride here except for the fairris wheel."

I froze, she noticed and looked at me, her eyes filled with concern and mystery, "Jones? You okay?"

I quickly nodded "yeah, of course, why wouldn't I be? How about we go on there right now since there is no line."

Once we were secured in Veronica looked at me, "are you afraid of heights?"

I nodded in disagreement, "no,Betty and Archie and I would spend hours on this thing. The old guy who works for the fair knew us by name every. We loved the Ferris wheel. I just felt like on it like all my worried we're down below on the ground, and I could escape them from up here" I admitted.

She slowly nodded her head processing this new information, "you can still feel that up to here, even without them, you can feel that with me."

I froze as she placed her hand over mine clenched to the bar, we stopped, we were at the top of the farris wheel, I looked into her beautiful brown eyes, "I don't need to be up here too feel that with you" I whispered.

She slowly moves closer, I leaned in, are lips clicked like puzzle pieces, they were soft, tasted of blackberry, something that I am rather fond of, and rather fond of Veronica too.

She placed her hand on the back of my neck and pulled me closer, I reached and wrapped my arm around her waist. She placed her other cheek on my cheek, her hands were soft and warm. When we broke our puzzle pieces, I let out a shaky breath, she then scooted towards the edge of the seat, far away from me as she could be. What have I done?