And it was best he got the shock out of his system now, before she got there. That way they could have some kind of reunion without just staring blankly at each other from opposite sides of the room, which would only serve to make the whole thing that much more unbearably awkward.
"Yep," she said, pushing herself back up again and tossing the Lampent in the pile with the other stuffed Pokemon. "And soon she's going to be here here. She actually seems pretty cool, which is going to make this whole thing suck even more." But, really, if Betty was anything like her comic book counterpart, maybe this would be weirdly normal for her? What with the whole strange Archie and Veronica triangle that had existed since the beginning of forever and the Neopolitan drama that was introduced with too-hot-for-Riverdale Cheryl Blossom. She was absolutely not going to bring any of that up, though. Because that was weird.
Audrey shifted off the bed when she heard footsteps coming down the hall and moved to perch on the long shelf that cut the room in half, her legs dangling about a foot off the floor, putting some space between the two of them. Really, it should have been Jughead who moved, but it didn't really matter as long as they looked like they were just hanging out waiting for the third party to join them. And Audrey would move soon enough to introduce herself, then the motion and excitement would blur everything else. It would be fine. It would be. So why did her heart feel like it was trying to claw its way out through her throat?