@bartcnbartoff / closed starter;
jughead’s doing what he does best. staying away from everyone. for once: not on his laptop, if only because he needs time to actually process this past week. it’s alarming how easy it is for jughead to MISS things. he’s trying so hard to catch everything in the palms of his hands, but he can’t. he knows jelly’s had a dance recital because he’s seen the facebook pictures, knows he missed archie’s first real performance. meanwhile, he’s getting himself further & further underwater, trying to catch a break, but the tides keep drawing him back in.
it makes him sick. numb. riverdale used to be predictable. in a way ? it still kind of is. he spots a man go over to the vending machine to his right before sighing, repeating the same thing he’s told to ten people now, ‘ the vending machine’s jammed. ’ it was why he had chose to stand here in the first place. he thought the clear way the lights of the machine aren’t on would be a sign that trying to but something would be a lost effort.