Overture: Chapter 24– All Is Well & All Is Cool
(BPOV)
“Well, I didn't want to get myself into a situation later where you would go all big bad bossman in front of everyone and ask me why I didn’t tell you,” Toni whined.
“I don’t do that,” Jughead grumbled.
Betty had to once again try to not burst into uncontrollable giggles at the situation.
You’re the king of grumblers.
“Fine!” Jughead yelled and threw his hands in the air. “Fine. I grumble and get mad and love Betty way too much and worry way too much and I can’t help it so can we just please get out of this godforsaken bathroom and head over to my car because I would like to find my girlfriend.”
A small twinge of guild started to snake its way up Betty’s spine. She unlocked the stall door and opened it to Jughead, mouth agape, and Toni, hands clenched over her own trying so hard not to erupt into giggles.
“Okay, fine,” Toni huffed. “She was in here the whole damn time. But at least she knows how crazy you are?” she said in a questioning tone.
Betty walked over to Jughead and looked at him with wide and innocent eyes. She knew that messing with Jughead like this was going to make him go crazy in the long term.
But in the short term?
It was just too much damn fun.
(JPOV)
He had never truly contemplated killing Betty before.
And sure, these weren’t thoughts with the thought of committing a true crime, however, they were pretty damn close.
He was angry with them for tricking him, angry with Toni for actually deceiving him, and making it seem like she had absolutely no idea where Betty was and making him think the worst, angry with Betty for being so mischievous and probably just giggling at his expense behind a stall door. But on top of that, he was mostly angry at himself for not believing Betty in the first place. For brushing her off about Andrews.
It was an uncomfortable feeling of guilt that was slowly pressing in on all sides. Logically he knew that there was nothing short of punching Archie again that would have accomplished anything that had happened earlier in the day. However, he could have paid more attention to her stress regarding Andrews and maybe walked her into class.
Except he was trying to be less of a helicopter boyfriend/gang leader with abandonment issues these days.
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