Smiling Slut | Bughead story

Chapter 1-Permission

It was white almost silver, by looking at it I could see glitter appear. It was gonna highlight my whole body. It was... Beautiful, I couldn't stop smiling at my phone, but as soon as my smile appeared, as quickly it faded away when Archie said "No, wear the one I send to you it hides your curves." It wasn't like I had the right to say something back so I just nodded. "My colleagues are coming to this wedding remember?" He said as sweet as he could I would assume. "Yea I didn't even like the dress that much," I said trying to convince him, but also myself.

We were walking down the street exploring the new stores, diner's and Cafés we were gonna be seeing every day now, the quietness was apparently too loud because I almost jumped when his phone began to ring, "Gotta take this honey it's the boss, you can go into the diner" he said as pointed to the red neon lights. It was like he was giving me permission to do something, and I didn't like it but instead of saying something I did what he said.

I was immediately greeted by the strong scent of fresh strawberry's and burgers, it was nice and peaceful in here. "Well hello, you're new to town aren't you?" A sweet voice behind me said, turns out it was a nice man who owned the diner. "Yea just moved here" and my smile emerged again without realizing. "Well, what about a milkshake on the house?" The man said like it was obvious I was gonna get it for free, something he probably did a lot. "Really? Thank you, maybe the one with strawberry?" I said, "coming right up," the man said with a genuine smile on his face.

I wish I had that all the time... happiness, genuine happiness... But then I saw someone who's smile wasn't there, and to be honest, looked like it never been there. "Here, my name is Pop, hope to see you again," Pop said pulling me out of my thoughts, as he handed me my pastel pink liquid, "Thank you so much," I said before my eyes saw him again. I felt brave and decided to slide into the red leather both across him. "Hey," I said before I quickly took a sip from my milkshake. "Uhm hey?" He replied sounding slightly sad but also irritated by my presence, that whole persona went well with his dark brown hair and his vintage leather jacket.

"You okay?" I couldn't help myself, and I knew if Archie saw me, he would be extremely mad, but I wanted to know why this guy across me seemed so sad.

The guy took a deep breath before saying "actually I'm not, my girlfriend just broke up with me, so isn't that just great, she literally said, and I quote 'I'm more into girls anyway." The mysterious guy stated. "Wow, that's not good..." I said feeling very sorry for this guy, "What's your name anyway? I haven't seen you here before" he said as he was fiddling around with his dark hair locks.

"My name is Betty, and I just moved here," I said with a smile on my face, then I remembered Archie again, shit! "Uhm I gotta go, nice to meet you" I stood up, trying to locate Archie, to my luck he was still on a phone call. The stress and panic were slowly creeping away from my body. I decided that I had enough time to ask him his name, it was only fair, he knew mine. "Sorry, what's your name?" I asked. "Jughead, Yea I know my name is very... strange." I was about to let out a laugh but I held it in, thinking I didn't wanna piss off this emo boy.

"Jughead... that's interesting," I looked out the window again and I looked like Archie was finishing off with his call. "Sorry gotta go... Jughead" I said and made my way out the diner, waving at Pop who seemed too sweet and happy to be true. "Hey, James can't wait for dinner" James where his boss at whatever job he was working at, all I really knew was that he could bring back money enough to both of us, (because I didn't have a job.) "Wear the dress I picked out, I don't want him to the impression that you're cheap," he said not even trying to sound kind this time. "Yea of course," I said. It's a reflex at this point, just saying whatever makes him 'happy.'

I was about to put my purple yet slightly Blue dress on when my thoughts went to Jughead, I wanted to hear him talk about his problems again, way more than I wanted to go to this fancy dinner where there was a possibility that the one making me feel like shit wasn't only Archie but also his Boss... I pulled the dress down as much as I possibly could without damaging the thin material, it was so short than I could barely walk without something exposing. It wasn't tight, Archie always made sure of that, 'my curves were too exposing' he once said. "Honey, let me see you before we leave" he shouted from downstairs. I walked down the stairs and I could see Archies face, it looked too disappointing. He took a deep breath when I made my way down to him. "Not the red lipstick babe, you're gonna look like a hooker" he laughed as he smeared the red pomade with his thumb away from my lips. He said those words as it was the most obvious thing in the world, of course, a short dress and a red lipstick, I should have thought about that...

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