Hometown

Saturday

    I open my eyes to friends still playing on the tv. I smile at Betty who is still asleep on my chest. Her eyes flutter open making my heart stop.
    "What?" She asks.
    "Nothing, you're just nice to look at."
    She smiles and curls in closer to me.
    "You're funny."
    "No, I'm serious, you are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen in my entire life."
    "Jug, stop, you're making me blush." She says, hitting my chest as she sits up.
    "That's my job. So what do you say? Be my girlfriend?" I did my breath, waiting for her answer. She seemed like she wanted to be my girlfriend last night when she took me to the kitchen.
    "I will make my decision by the end of this weekend." She kisses me on the cheek before standing. I sit up pulling her back into my lap and hugging her from behind.
    After getting ready for the day we head back to the living room where all of our friends were sitting. "Okay, I have a game for us all to play to get to know each other better." Cheryl says as soon as we sit down.
    "Okay, what is it?" I ask.
    "Well...it doesn't have a name, but we just basically ask a question and we all have to answer, for example...weirdest place you've had sex."
    "That's from friends." Veronica chuckles.
    "I know, but answer the question, for me it would have to be...the park."
    "Janitors closet." Veronica adds.
    I sigh. "Umm, Arcade."
    "Jeez, " Veronica's eyes widen and she laughs. "Betty, Archie, what about you guys?"
    Betty and Archie share a look. "Actually, I've never had sex before." Betty admits. "You spend all of your life in different mental hospitals...you don't get around much."
    "A mental hospital with some girl. I guess that would be a weird place." Archie says.
    "Really, you two never?" Cheryl starts, wagging her finger between Betty and Archie.
    Betty shakes her head.
    "Okay, next question." I say, breaking the uncomfortable silence that fell over the room. "Umm, let's see. If you could have lunch with one person. They could be alive, dead or fictional, who would it be?"
    "Jack from the Titanic, I'd ask him why he didn't get on the board. He could obviously fit." Veronica says.
    "It wasn't if he could fit, it's if they could still float. The water would have gone onto the board and killed Rose too." Cheryl rolls her eyes. "Mine would be...Heather Chandler to ask her why she's such a bitch."
    "That's coming from you." Archie laughs.
    "You better shut your mouth before I shut it for you." She jokes back.
    "Mine would be Stephen King." I say after pondering my answer. "I'll ask him how he comes up with such descriptive works and mind-bending plots."
    "I would like to meet Romeo, make him fall in love with me so he won't die for Juliet. Ultimately they're both stupid for killing themselves for the other, but maybe he can learn."  Cheryl whoops and Veronica claps.
    "I would like to meet...Daisy from Mario. Any female Mario character who isn't always getting kidnapped, I mean, seriously. How is peach always in that situation?" Archie says, making us all laugh.
    "Okay, my turn. Biggest sexual fantasy." Veronica says, shifting on the couch. "Mine would have to be on a roller coaster."
    "Really?" Cheryl asks.
    "I like danger. You got something better?"
    "Yeah, I do. A field of flowers."
    Betty awwwed before Veronica shot back. "That would be so itchy."
    "But romantic." Cheryl said. "And not in front of an entire carnival. Betty, what's yours?"
    "Uh...I don't know."
    "Oh come on, when you have sex what would be...how would you understand this...really neat?"
    Betty chuckles. "I guess the kitchen floor." Noted.
    "Ahh, the Lily and Marshall special." Archie says, squeezing Betty's shoulder.
    I smirk at Betty and she blushes, looking at the floor.
    "Jughead, what's yours?" Veronica asks.
    "I'm not sure."
    "Come on, you have to have some kind of fantasy."
    "I guess I would just have something romantic, nice."
    "Why's that?" Cheryl asks.
    "Because my first time was none of those things and I deeply regret it."
    "Gee, thanks." Veronica scoffs. "It was good for me too."
    "That was you?" I exclaim.
    "Duh."
    "Well, I was drunk and it was dark."
    "Betty...you okay?" Cheryl asks.
    I look over at Betty. "Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"
    "Because you...nevermind."
    "It is in the past. I've moved on from Jughead's crush on Veronica. He didn't even know it was her. Archie, what's yours?"
    "I don't have one."
    "You have to. Just like Jughead."
    "I just don't have sexual fantasy's often and when I do they're just normal."
    "I think we should just leave him alone." Betty says,  resting a hand on Archies thigh.
     "Thanks." I hear him whisper to her and she nods. "Betty's turn to ask a question."