midnight calls | jarchie

dancing with yourself

coming out to betty at a party while she's crying over the fact that he doesn't like her more than a friend, was... weird. but the night is far from over. 

betty didn't really say anything when jughead came out to her, she just said "okay," smiled a little, and left the room. jughead takes a few minutes to just calm himself down, then he takes up his phone and sends a message to archie. 'wya?' archie reads it instantly, and jughead sees how he starts typing. 'i just arrived, i can't see you' he replied. 'upstairs' he puts his phone beside him and lays down.

he looks up at the boring white roof and listens closely as he hears someone walks up the stairs. he hears how the door to the toilet opens, and he heard archie say "sorry," and the door closing. he can't help but smile over the fact that he did the same thing as betty, but he forgets the thought quickly when the door opens. he sits up again and looks at archie as he walks in and closes the door behind him. "hi," he says and looks at jughead.

jughead smiles, "are you just gonna stand there, or what? come here," he says and archie walks up to him, sits next to him, and leans in for a kiss, just like betty did, but this time jughead didn't pull away. because this time he got kissed by archie, the only guy in the world that matters.

though, he notices the taste of alcohol when he kisses archie, so he stops and looks at him. "don't drink too much tonight, okay?" archie doesn't say anything, he just smiles and continues kissing jughead, and it doesn't take long until jughead had forgotten that he said anything.

"jughead i- i think ill- ill go downstairs," archie says in between kisses, but jughead doesn't want to let him go. archie kisses him one last time, then he stands up. "c'mon why don't you come with me, it'll be fun," he says and holds jughead's hands.

"maybe later," jughead says, knowing he won't come down later.

archie looks at jughead shit puppy eyes, hoping for him to change his mind, but gives up quickly. "fine-uhh!" he lets go of jughead's hands, "i'll go down myself then," he looks at jughead for a few more seconds before he starts walking up to the door.

jughead walks up to him, "don't do stupid shit," he whispers in his ear, and then looks at archie.

"i won't," he kisses jughead's forehead and leaves the room.

jughead just stands there for a few seconds, then he walks up to the window. he can see people partying in the garden, and he can hear them too. he sees betty dance with a raven-haired girl who he's not sure who she is. it doesn't matter though because the girl has clearly made betty get in a better mood, and that's what matters.

jughead want's to go downstairs and leave the party, but it's probably too soon, and archie will probably see him on his way out. so he picks up his phone from his right pocket and his headphones from his left pocket.

he puts the headphone cable in his phone and the buds in his ears and opens his playlist. he puts it on shuffle, and 'na na na' starts playing. he can't help but think of archie, and he smiles for himself.

music like this isn't music you can stand still too, so jughead starts to move around in the room and eventually sings along. song after song he gets more deeply into his own world and forgets all his problems, and without notice, it had gone an hour.

when he realizes, he takes out his headphones and walks up to the door. when he opens it he sees toni and realizes that she opened the door at the same time as him. "h-hi," jughead says, he almost got a bit scared.

"yo," she says and enters the room. jughead closes the door again and looks at her. "why are you alone in a bedroom at a party?" she asks.

jughead really can't think of something good to say. "well i was just about to leave," he says and is about to open the door again.

"jug! whenever i see you, you have to go, or you're busy when i wanna hang out what the fuck," she says annoyed. 

"i promise we can hang out soon, just not right now okay! or was it something super important you wanted?" jughead says, and toni walks up to him. She's quiet and looks at him, then she comes even closer.

 whispers in his ear, "i heard a rumor you're gay,"

shit. fuck. fuck's sake betty. 

jughead is panicking, his whole body is frozen, he has no words. toni looks at him with a serious look. then she starts laughing. jughead is confused and doesn't know what to do. "i'm kidding with you jones, meet me sweetwater river like good old times tonight will ya?"

"yeah, haha," he forces a smile.