Definition of Want (Bughead)

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I am so sorry for the lateness of this! The new update day is Thursday, but I started student teaching this week and god I literally fell asleep in the middle of doing homework last night XD So, yes, hopefully, I'll be on time next week. As it is, I'm updating this during a break hour...editing smut during work (school) hours makes me so paranoid lol. It's a long one though, hope you enjoy it!

This chapter was one of the Reader's Vote chapters. We had over 400 votes which I think is so fantastic! We had a lot of other votes for things (maybe they'll show up in other places), but this one won with 29%.

The other ones with the scores, if you were curious, were:

-Boss & Assistant (13%)
-Rich Owner & Maid (12%)
-Police & Criminal (11%)
-Werewolf & Red Riding (9%)
-Secret Agents (8%)
-Nurse/Doctor and Patient (7%)
-Pirate and Captive (5%)
-Delivery Person and Poor Person (3%)
-Celebrity & Fan (2%)

There are still some more polls for upcoming chapters if you want to vote!

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Despite Betty's continual best efforts to avoid any contact between her mother and her college, somehow Alice Cooper still managed to get her hands on the news that her daughter had made the Dean's High Honors list as the semester wrapped up in May. Betty, who hadn't even heard herself before her mother was calling her and barraging her about her achievements, wouldn't have had any desire to tell her mother if she'd known. She would have gone as far as to systematically ban the college from contacting any home address at all, alas, but she just hadn't realized. She had thought that all-important documents were forwarded to her apartment here or to her grandmother, who on average was a much more reasonable person.

She wasn't sure if it was a stray email, a wayward letter postmarked to her childhood home, her mother's journalism digging skills, but somehow Alice had figured it out.

It wasn't like it was news that Betty had flunked out after her sophomore year, though perhaps that would have been better. Daughters disappointing Alice was all the norm. A daughter getting on to a very exclusive list, however? Well, time to call the presses.

Literally.

Betty found out because Polly sent a clipping from the Riverdale Register overnighted. It came from the front page and proclaimed proudly for the entire town to see that Elizabeth Cooper was a smart cookie, more or less.

Betty supposed when you owned the newspaper, you could afford to do such ridiculous things.

This was only stage one of the nightmares, however.

Jughead found it unreasonably hilarious. It had been a mistake showing it to him, Betty decided. Jughead wasn't an idiot. He'd gotten on the Dean's List too. Not high honors, but still on the list. She doubted her mother would care. As it was, Jughead snorted and snickered as he read over the little feature on her, glancing at Betty like he couldn't quite believe it.

The next day, he'd posted it on their fridge with a bunch of magnets surrounding it for all to see.

Betty threw it out.

The next day, a photocopy of it was back.

When Betty burned that one, Jughead responded by printing it out to the size of the entire fridge and (and spent $2.56 at the local library printer, he informed her) and duct-taped it.

Betty ripped it to shreds.

It was gone from the fridge the next morning, and she breathed a sigh of relief until it started showing up tucked between the pages of her books. And in her backpack. And blocking her shampoo bottle. And rolled up in her boots.