Cracks of Light

His phone buzzes on the table. Have you done it yet? Of course Chuck would be questioning. He had told him that it wouldn’t pass him by. Paris seemed like a perfect place to propose to someone. Even if you think it’s a tired old cliche, it’s freaking Paris. City of love and all that jazz. And Chuck had witnessed every moment Jughead had second guessed his plans. Every doubt that crippled him in a way he doesn’t fully understand. It’s marriage, he thinks. And maybe past trauma. But the very notion of it. Both their set of parents had royally failed at marriage. In his head, he argues, that the reason they failed is because they married for the wrong reasons, that they never loved each other. Betty loved him and he loved her. They were already one step ahead of them. Or Jughead wants to propose. He fails multiple times. And then what might come after.