Jughead's Novel

Chapter Three: Body Double

Guilt, innocence. Good, evil. Life, death.

As the shadows around Riverdale deepened, the lines that separated these polar opposites blurred and distorted. 

"I'm guilty," Cheryl said in Biology class. But of what?

Good and evil. Light and dark. Betty and Veronica. Two sides of the same Janus coin.

Given Betty's article, Weatherbee needed a sacrificial lamb. Needed to make an example of someone. So, after Hermione Lodge negotiated a lesser sentence for our two avenging angels...Coach Clayton, to save his job, to save the school's reputation, was forced to cut his own beloved son, and his goon squad, from the team.

An action that, though none of us knew it at the time, would have terrible consequences in the weeks to come...

But one thing was certain, Betty and Veronica, now B&V, and maybe forever, had been forged. They walked through the fire, and survived. 

We crave absolutes. They comfort us, but life is infinitely more complex than that. 

Despite all of our recent troubles, I would've done anything to protect Archie. But Dilton Doiley had just opened Pandora's box, and now, there was nothing I, or anyone, could do to save him.