CHAPTER FOUR:
˗ˏˋjealousy, jealousy'ˎ˗
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  VERONICA AND THE BOYS arrived to the palace with their bikes. this was veronica's first time at the palace. the brunette wasn't a huge fan of arcades and in her eyes, they were just boring and waste of time.

" so, veronica, have you ever been here before?" mike asked.

the young brunette shook her head. " no i haven't actually. i find arcades rather, boring."

  the boys faces were in full shock. how could someone not like arcades?

  " well, maybe today you'll change your mind about arcades." mike smiled.

  veronica giggled, " hm maybe!"

  lucas, dustin and will then rushed into the arcade. before mike and veronica went in with the others, mike decided to explain a bit about his favorite arcade game, dig dug to veronica. while the chat carried on, across the street from the arcade, a short haired brunette girl, spotted the two. it was el. the girl had lived pretty far from hawkins high school so she was still walking home.

  something el had noticed was, the way mike looked at veronica. he'd never looked at her the way he did with veronica. this easily made el jealous. it was so obvious he liked her and el was most definitely not happy about that. the short haired brunette knew she couldn't do anything about it at the moment so, she just took a deep breath and walked away. there was something she did know and that was telling max about veronica and mike hanging out the next day.

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  " holy shit! you're a natural veronica!" dustin exclaimed.

   veronica had been only playing dig dug for five minutes and she was already a pro at it. the brunette couldn't even deny that she was having fun.

  " damn! how are you so good?!" lucas's eyes widen.

  veronica shrugged, " like dustin said, i'm a natural!"

" you can say that again!" will smiled.

  mike walked out of the restroom and headed over to his friends. he raised his eyebrows once he saw veronica playing dig dug. " remember when you said you hated arcades?"

  veronica rolled her eyes, " i guess there not as bad as i thought they would be. i mean come on! i'm basically a pro at dig dug!"

  mike had a big smile on his face. he was definitely falling for veronica even more.

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the boys and veronica had been at the palace for about three hours. as much as veronica didn't want to leave the arcade yet, she knew that it was almost dinner time.

  the group all walked out of the palace and said their goodbyes, as they got onto their bikes. veronica had one last thing to say to mike before he took off. "before you go, i just wanted to thank you for inviting me to hangout with you and your friends today."

  mike got onto his bike. " no problem. i'm glad you had fun."

  veronica waved a goodbye and took off on her bike. the brunette was confident enough that max nor el had seen her with mike, so this definitely lighten up her mood. she had nothing to worry about and that feeling was great.

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once veronica got home, she went into the kitchen where her mother and father were, getting ready to eat dinner.

  " veronica, you're home just in time for dinner." veronica's mother smiled.

the brunette smiled back and took a seat on one of the chairs at the table. the girl's mother then placed a plate of food in front of her. the plate had chicken that looked dry and some canned peas. veronica made a disgusted face. usually, dinner was good but in this case, it definitely wasn't.

" i'm actually not hungry." the girl smiled nervously.

veronica's mother put her hand on her hip, " hungry or not, you're eating it."

the brunette rolled her eyes and began to eat the disgusting food.

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AUTHORS NOTE:

this chapter was pretty short but i hope you enjoyed! also, i've been really stressed out so that's why i haven't updated in a while. like always, please let me know if i misspelled something or made any mistakes and please tell me what you thought about this chapter.
chapter five should be out soon!
take care! <3

  — much love, -ANGELIC_THINGS- 2021