Playing Hard to get

An Archie Comics Age Old Story in Reverse

A little Background:

The town of Riverdale, Anywhere, USA

     Betty Cooper was a beautiful blond haired, blue eyed girl of eighteen.  Betty and her friends were getting ready to graduate from high school. She used to have a major

crush on this red headed, freckled faced fellow named Archie Andrews.  Archie was a first class jerk.

     Her relentless crush on Archie was part of Riverdale’s, if not the whole universe’s greatest and oldest love triangle. It was between Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper and

Veronica Lodge. Veronica Lodge was an obscenely rich young girl, who was a gorgeous brown-eyed brunette, and had a killer body. She was also very vain, selfish, spoiled,

haughty, and snobbish.  Betty was the ‘good girl’. Not so rich but was talented in many ways and been kind to anyone in need. You get the picture.

     Veronica was also the supposed best friend of Betty Cooper. Veronica quickly forgot their friendship when Archie was the subject of interest. Veronica was actually the

primary girlfriend of Archie. Veronica led Archie around by the nose and, Archie led Betty and Betty led, well Betty ran after Archie. Betty had always played second or third

fiddle in Archie’s world.

      Adding to this, when Veronica had her beautiful brown eyes set on another guy, she would dump Archie (for a day or two) in a heartbeat unless he decided to date Betty,

then she returned to Archie. Sometimes Archie acted as if he was Betty’s boyfriend. Anyone who knew these three people could see Archie did not really want Betty, and he

was just using her. Everyone saw this, but Betty. Betty would pay for their dates, cooked delicious meals for him, allowed him to cop a feel or two, and fixed his jalopy free of

charge. Archie was a nice enough, cute enough fellow, but was very selfish when it came to the girls. Archie took Betty on cheap dates. All of Archie’s money went to

Veronica. As if Veronica needed money.

     Archie would break a date with Betty, ‘like that’ when Veronica called him. And Veronica did call if she found out that that Archie was going to take Betty out. A third party in

this group is Reginald Richard Mantle III. Reginald, or Reggie was an ultra , but not  obscenely, rich stud muffin. He was the bad boy in town- a womanizer, prankster and

class clown. Despite his reputation, Reggie had become a good friend to Betty Cooper in the last few years.

     Reggie saw that Betty would forget the pain of Archie's infidelities when he, Reggie, was around to pick up the pieces. Betty poured her heart out to Reggie all of the time

about how bad Archie was hurting her. As nasty as Reggie was to others, he never laughed at Betty, or told anyone else about her feelings. Betty was like the sister he did

not have. Reggie became her champion.

“Bets, why do you keep doing this to yourself? That idiot is not worth your tears. If I  kick his  ass for you, would that make you feel better?”

“Don’t you dare Reggie! I’ll be alright.” But he did get a laugh out of her.

“Hey Bets, let’s go see that hot new movie. It’s on me, of course.” Reggie could always coax Betty to go out with him. She rarely would go out with other boys. Betty could go

out with Reggie and have a great time, and not worry about him trying to get into her pants.  Reggie was always very generous when he took a girl out. He would confess to

Betty that he knew many of the girls were using him for his money.

 “But it’s all good,” he’d quip,” I get ‘bonus’ from them. ” He did not elaborate on what the ‘bonus’ was.  Reggie treated Betty very well. and best of all, he made her forget

Archie.    Thus, Reggie was becoming her best friend, instead of Veronica. Reggie stopped teasing Betty a few years ago; He did not want to add to her troubles. Reggie

really hated to see Betty cry or be sad because of Archie.  However, he had to admit, she was extremely cute when she was angry.  Angry at Archie, not him.

Because of Archie’s treatment of Betty, Reggie set him up many a day in order to see Betty get angry and go crazy on Archie’s freckled ass. Sometimes Reggie would let it '

slip out' about Archie and Veronica having a date, knowing Archie had made a date with Betty as well. Archie had once made a date with Betty and Veronica on the same day

and Reggie heard about it. Reggie made sure they both found out. They both almost tore Archie apart one particular day. Archie had two black eyes after Betty and Veronica

was through with him.

    Now that Betty was eighteen years old, and a senior in High School, she was getting very tired of Archie. She was thinking it was time to finally move on. Betty was ready to

be the first and only girl in some guy's life.

What about Reggie and I as a couple? But she noticed that Reggie had his eyes on much wilder game and seemed to be chasing after the ‘fast’ girls in the school. 

    Unknown to Betty, Reggie had become sexually active last year.  It happened when he went to his family's ranch in Montana. An older cowgirl named Beverly Sue Richards,

whom  he had met at a party there had  showed Reggie that she knew all kinds of little tricks to keep a man coming and coming... back for more, that is. This talented young

woman taught Reggie about all kinds of 'head and bed games'.  

“If a guy does it right, Reggie, the girls would want more.”  Beverly Sue taught Reggie well, and she was correct. The girls who went out with Reggie kept coming back

because Reggie did it right.

     Reggie set his sights only on girls who 'put out' as they called it.

 Or plain simple, girls who were sexually active. Hence, there was Cheryl Blossom. Cheryl was another ultra rich bitch who made Veronica Lodge look like a girl scout.

Cheryl led men and boys around by their little noses. She exuded sex appeal. No girl's man was safe from her. They all wanted to be with Cheryl. Cheryl had deep, fire red,

very long wavy hair, curvy, shapely body and huge D cup breasts that seemed to have an entourage all of their own. They were not surgically enhanced. Cheryl showed off her

huge bosoms in many ways: low cut tops or skin tight blouses or sweaters. Whenever she was at the beach, she always caused a riot. Cheryl only dated the richest, most

gorgeous guys around Riverdale, the US, and Europe. She was a worldly  girl and proud of it. She had a special soft spot for Archie, and now Reggie. She was the only girl

who could make Archie ditch Veronica. Cheryl had noticed how Reggie Mantle had changed this past year. Riverdale High School's biggest dirty rat, egotistical, tyrannical

brat had matured this past summer. Reggie grew three inches in height, making his six foot two inch frame tower over most of the boys in school now, except for Moose

Mason.  Moose stood six foot five. Reggie was much more muscular now and had the most beautiful, glossy black hair. Reggie had  amazing eyes. They were feline in the

sense that  they turned colours, depending on his mood. They were hazel when he was calm and relaxed, green when angry or passionate. Reggie was also an all-

American athlete, guitarist, singer, and dancer.

The Mantle, as some called him, was always seen with an entourage of beautiful girls or 'groupies' around him.  Cheryl had heard about Reggie’s skills and tried him out.

Now she was hooked on him. Betty thought Cheryl was disgusting how  she just hung onto Reggie.  Even worse was how Reggie seemed to puff up, show off when he had

Cheryl’s attention.

Like bees to honey, she would grumble to herself.

    Worse yet, Reggie never tried to make a pass at Betty. He acted as if he was her brother, to her chagrin.  Nice girls really intimidated him. He steered clear of them. This

was their senior year and Betty always seemed to catch Reggie in a compromising position with different girls, but lately it was mainly Cheryl Blossom. Other times it would

be Midge Klump, Moose Mason’s long time girlfriend. Reggie loved flirting and sleeping with Midge and vice versa. Moose kicked Reggie’s derriere almost daily over his

flirting with her.  

Moose would kill them both if he knew how far they went.

Reggie just took his ass whippings in stride, like badges of valor.