After break-up, Jughead and Betty managed to be friends for entire year, having calls and texts, sharing things about their lifes in university. Jughead tried really hard to keep it that way until he couldn't. One drunken call and their lifes changed in many ways. They started the hating competition - how rude and mean you can be to each others, how can you hurt other one even more?
They don't see each other often, only few times in past several years, but they keep leaving messages here and there, hurtful ones. They hear things from their friends and family, but no, they don't wanna see each other. Jughead knows Betty likes to go out with Veronica and she works hard, she has a cat. Betty knows Jughead has a girlfriend, again, and he writes still.
Now they have to meet after years, and they have one new thing in common besides the hate and their history, a job at the same office.
⚠️ mature language and scenes
Also kind of a warning - slow burn.
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Almost five years ago, Betty Cooper took off and fled the town of Riverdale. Rumors were spread and the townspeople whispered about why she might've left, some suspect that her dreams of living in New York were the cause. But those who knew her best, knew that wasn't the case. Now, after she is called in to investigate a recent murder within her home town, she is forced to work with none other than Riverdale's own investigative journalist-Jughead Jones.
Betty is hiding huge secrets from her old friend, and the feelings she's locked inside herself are dangerously close to resurfacing. Will she be strong enough to resist Jughead's pull on her even after all these years? Or will she allow her heart to be broken once again by her high school sweetheart?
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"How many times Jug? How many times are we going to push each other away?"
"Until it sticks."
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A/N: I don't own the Riverdale characters they are property of the CW.