#( * verse: archie comics —— your queen shall be gentle yet extremely demanding! )

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starter requested by: @pcrfectstorms​​ / for veronica ( ! ).

“huh, ronnie?” the affectionate nickname rolls off the tongue effortlessly when she straightens her posture whilst doing stretches at the bleaches. honestly, she wasn’t expecting veronica to approach her like this . . . wasn’t she usually busy vying for the attention of a certain someone or was she sorely mistaken?

exercising during lunch was a past time of hers. especially when the stress of home suffocated her and she craved an adrenaline rush during the break.

regina stood up and dusts off her shorts with her palms, raven ponytail swishing side to side before dark irises lingered on the approaching girl. “what’re you doing here? thought you were eating in the cafeteria?” she inquires smoothly, but, it’s crystal clear by the expression painting her visage that she was surprised.

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starter requested by: @spcedcowboyz​ / for betty cooper !

dark irises rolled to the back of their skull when she hears those familiar, approaching footsteps making a beeline toward her lock and reg turns around in an instant. ah yes, betty cooper —— the goody two shoes, the girl next door archetype. oh how she enjoyed pestering her on some days when she wasn’t [ ... ] busy working on her car or doing other things.

“wanted to see me, gorgeous? or did you need somethin’ from me?” the raven haired femme inquires curiously, leaning against her closed locker door with the curve of her mouth curled into a tiny, mischievous grin. 

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starter for: @pcrfectstorms​ / veronica !

STARTER CALL.

“and the prettiest girl decided to come by my house because?” her parents weren’t home. well, were they ever at home? her mom was busy as ever with her charity work and her dad was working at the gazette again for his next big scoop. it means she practically spent her time in the mantle household alone when she wasn’t throwing parties.

but it was how her heart skipped a beat when she saw ronnie on the other side of the door the moment she opened up.

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behttys said:

❝  i want to kill every person responsible for leaving you scarred. ❞

“you don’t need to.” her voice sounded shaky when she heard betty say this.

it was a strange ordeal, opening up to betty about scarring on her back and even going so far as to showing her when betty asked. ‘only if you feel comfortable’, was what the blonde told her but she PROCEEDED to anyway.

but it’s betty. sweet, golden betty who was stubborn about those around her and cared and unironically, regina was one of those people. even as they never saw eye to eye half of the time if you asked her.

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starter requested by: @liiabilities​ / for betty ( ! ).

“NO, i totally didn’t get in detention for leaving blue tack on a teacher’s seat.”

denial. or more so, regina’s futile attempt to cover up her crimes as she was seated outside the classroom. it’s always this way with her [ ... ] trying to grab attention where she could find it to make up for the LACK of she never received at home from her absent parents.

yeah, there was her mother but they weren’t too close at the moment.

but causing trouble gave her a thrill, a sense of adrenaline she never knew she needed. even if these antics hadn’t gotten her suspended for two weeks the last time she was called to the principal's office and promptly plopped into detention. 

“aish, betts. don’t give me that look of sympathy for doing some dumb stuff. it’ll boil over.”

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starter requested by: @behttys​ ( ! ).

a startled yelp escapes the taller girl as she whirls around on her heel, her own ponytail almost smacking her face when she was face to face with the blonde. a very early morning jog at this hour (as an excuse to escape the suffocating emptiness of the mantle estate) and she didn’t expect to be snuck up on like this by betty.

“aish, betts, do not scare me like that unless i’m needed for something!” arms crossed themselves over her chest defensively, a shuddering breath escaping tightly closed lips and into the cool air. “that isn’t at 6am in the morning.”

overdramatic as always, aren’t ya, reg?

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pcrfectstorms asked:

does that sound good to you? // from veronica

the surprise colouring the brunette’s visage was plain as day, crystal c — you know, you get what she means. it’s just the two of THEM [ ... ] going to hang at her place. alone. which was weird. either of them went to parties or did regular teenager shenanigans.

i mean, it wasn’t as if regina was always alone at home. her parents were never home and sure she held parties at her place on the weekends. wouldn’t v wanna do something more fancy and more entertaining than sitting around on her couch watching whatever they could find on her laptop and tv?

“i, uh  — yeah, sure.” the grin touching upon her features was gentle and yet there was twinge of nerves stirring in her gut, regina mantle? nervous? absolutely not. she would NEVER admit it, not in a million years. not even if the sun breathed her final breath and exploded.

“i like the sound of that but i’m worried you’ll get bored easily, ronnie.”

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gotta do a tag dump since i’m back here so excuse me.