midnight calls | jarchie

broken bone

archie had never gotten a letter in his life, and he never thought his first letter ever received would be from jughead jones. and he never thought he'd be reading it in a toilet both while skipping first period.

archie was scared, scared of what the letter would say. no matter how much he wanted to not give a fuck about jughead nor their past, he did still care. 

'archie,

i've been thinking, thinking about us. everything about us. our past, our future, our current state, and it's a mess.

i know that what we did last summer is something you're ashamed of; you don't have to tell me that for me to know. the fact that you try to show everyone you're not into me by breaking my nose says enough.

but archie, you don't understand, i loved you, and i'd do anything for you, and if you knew it had to end the way it did, why did you even start talking to me anyway?

why'd you treat me in a way that made me feel like the only guy on the planet if you were just gonna leave it behind and regret it all?

why'd you had to fuck me up?'

archie rips the paper in half and flushes it down the toilet, but he doesn't ignore it, it will stay on his mind for way longer than he wants.

he washes his face off and looks in the mirror, making sure no one could notice he had been crying while reading that stupid letter. he doesn't even understand why he did cry, it's not like he cares about jughead, right?

right.

he walks out of the bathroom and starts walking to his locker so he can grab everything he needs for second period. he unlocks his locker and takes out some books, and when he shuts his locker he sees reggie in front of him.

"hey dude!" archie doesn't reply, he just shuts his locker again, but then he looks up at reggie and is about to answer, but he doesn't. something behind archie had caught reggie's attention, he could see it in his eyes.

archie looks behind himself, at first he doesn't get it, there's a lot of people behind him, but that's before he sees jughead. archie takes a deep breath as he knows what's about to happen. "look at him, wearing a black hoodie, headphones on, looking down. is being depressed his only personality or what?" reggie laughs, and so does archie.

"yeah i know right, it's pathetic," all archie wants is for the stupid bell to ring so he can forget this because he knows reggie will make a scene.

reggie walks past archie, on his way up to jughead, "watch this,"

fuck, okay, here we go.

reggie walks right into jughead, of course, and starts yelling. "fuck's sake jones, watch where you're going!" jughead looks up for a second, but just continues walking. "i'm fucking talking to you man," reggie says as jughead had only walked a few steps away from him.

jughead turns around and looks at reggie, "what the fuck is your problem? get a fucking life instead of ruining others just to make you feel better about yourself," he says, which he knew he shouldn't have, and archie who's watching it all happen, also knows that was probably the worst thing jughead could've said, and he's not surprised when reggie walks up to him and grabs him.

jughead looks reggie straight in his eyes, then spits in his face. badass. but archie knows that reggie will think it's weird if he doesn't do anything so he runs up to them. 

archie pushes jughead away and grabs both his shoulders. "stay the fuck away, jones," he yells, and hopes for jughead to just let go of himself and leave, but of course, he doesn't. 

"you're a fucking pussy," 

archie knows what he has to do, but before doing it he gets closer to jughead and whispers, "i'm sorry," 

only seconds later, archie and reggie are gone, and jughead is on the floor, with a broken arm.