Our Lustful Summer

Chapter Seven: Your Song

(Jughead's P.O.V.)

Are you fucking kidding me?

I was shaking with rage, and felt emotions that I'd never felt before.

Jason and Archie?

I kept imagining the picture that I was emailed. And what probably happened afterwards.

Jason's hands all over Archie's chiseled body, stealing kisses from his lips, slowly make his way down his neck, moaning louder and louder with every kiss going further and further. Jason and Archie's hands intertwined while they continue getting more and more intimate..

"AHHHHH!!"

I yelled and kicked a rock in my path, flying up in the air and hitting a sign ahead of me.

I  just wanted to be left alone; I needed to be left alone.

I didn't want to go to Pop's, as great as a cheeseburger and a shake sounded. That's the first place that they'd look. I was thinking hard about a destination in which to cool down and try and relax. I must have been thinking for a long while, because I looked up, and read the sign that my rock had knocked into.

Jesus, I've walked to the other side of town already?

The sign stood low, but still hung up visibly and proud:

FOX FOREST: NO TRESPASSING

Of course, everybody'd come to Fox Forest, against the wishes of Riverdale's Parks and Recreation department, to hook up and do Jingle Jangle, among many other things.

I passed the sign and followed the trail laid out, getting lost in my own thoughts. I'd gone to Fox Forest before, but left as soon as I saw two teenagers getting a bit too comfortable with one another behind some trees. No thanks.

I found a place for me to sit and gather my thoughts, and I sat myself down. As I took my laptop out of my bag and opened it, I heard an almost whimpering sound, and then saw a familiar figure from out of the corner of my eye. I got up and walk into the nearby clearing to find Kevin Keller, sitting on a tree stump with puffy eyes and trembling breaths.

I manage to make my way to where he's sitting, and the noise of my footsteps must have startled him, becuase he jumped pretty far up from the tree stump when I first approached.

"Kevin?" I ask, slightly worried. "Is everything alright?"

Kevin took a breath and began to speak.

(Archie's P.O.V.)

Betty and I immediately headed out to Pop's to see if Jughead was hiding out there.

None of us said a word for almost the entire ride there, until I broke the silence.

"Was it you, Betty?" I asked without looking at her.

A few seconds passed by before she replied.

"Was what me?" She asked while looking ahead, sounding like she's struggling to stay calm.

I took before a deep breath before replying back, my knuckles grasping at the tail-end of my shirt.

"Was it you that sent Jug that picture of Jason and I?"

The sentence hung in the air longer than I thought, and we were back to being quiet again, as we pulled into the parking lot of Pop's.

Before I got out of the car, Betty put her arm out, signaling me to stop.

"I would never do that to you, Arch," Betty started saying to me, with almost a solemn whisper.

I took Betty's hand.