My Love -A Bughead Story

The First Touch

Betty's Point Of  View: 

The past couples weeks haven't really been special, Monday to Friday- School, after school I have homework and sometimes I stay back at the 'Blue and Gold' to work on the newspaper. I have a couple classes with Jughead which is always nice. Lunch time we all sit at the table and talk, nothing special, like I said. We all have gotten pretty close lately, our group went from 5 of us to 8 pretty quickly. It's Friday and I am hanging back at the 'Blue and Gold' because I don't want to go home and become the 'sick daughter' again. I have stayed after school for at least an hour now, crying. When I hear foot steps leading up to the door I turn around and see.. Jughead? "H-hi?" I say wondering why he is here. "Oh my, are you ok? I didn't mean to interrupt.." Jughead starts. "No, no. You aren't interrupting anything." I say cutting him off and wiping a tear off my face. "Oh, ok." He says. "So.. why are you here? Not that I don't want you here it's just I didn't think you would want to be at school, you know.. after hours" I say trying not to offend him. "Well I'm here because Veronica said you would be here, I was going to ask if you had time to go over my work?" The raven haired boy asked me. "Oh ya, I looked it over. It's really good. Your in!" I say trying to sound happy. "Awesome, thanks. Again I know it's not my place to ask but are you sure your ok..? I mean your crying, alone." Jughead said sympathetically. "Oh, well I mean. I'm supposed to say yes, aren't I?" I ask forcing a small laugh. "Well, if that's not how you are feeling then no, you don't need to pretend your ok if you aren't. I know we met like 3 weeks ago, but you know, you can talk to me. I'll always be someone to trust." Jughead says sweetly. "T-thanks" I manage to say before breaking down into tears. God I'm embarrassed. "Hey, hey. It's ok, it will get better." Jughead says well running up to me and hugging me. He holds me for a minute until I calm down. I loved it, his body curled over mine. He smelt amazing. The worse part was that he didn't know it wouldn't get better. 

Jughead's Point Of  View:

I run up to her and hold her until she manages to calm down. I have no idea what's wrong but I really want to know, I am not going to force her into saying anything she doesn't want to tell though. I didn't want to let go. I didn't know what was wrong with me either. I would have never comforted someone like this before, but for some reason I am, and it's with Betty. She starts to untangle herself from my arms, god I wish she didn't. "T-thank- yo-you" she manages to say. "Your welcome, I am always here for you. Always." I say putting a hand on her shoulder. She nods her head. "Look, I'm not going to push you into saying anything but if you want to talk about whatever is going on know that you can come to me." I say trying to comfort her. She is silent for a minute, and for a second I think she is going to break down into tears again. I can see her holding them back. "I-I" She tries, "hey, take your time. If your not ready to talk about it now because you are upset and you've only known me for so little. You can tell me another time. Any time." I tell her, she nods. "T-thank you, Jug. I mean Jughead. S-sorry." She looks down. "I like that." I say looking at her. "What?" She asks and looks back up. "Jug. I like that." I say smiling at her. "O-okay, Jug." She says trying to match my smile. I give her another hug because it feels right. 'WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME?' I think. "Do you think if we spend some time together, and get to know each other better, you would feel more confident telling me?" I ask. "Yes. I would like that, a lot." She says smiling bigger. "I would to." I stay with her and work on the newspaper for about 30 minutes or so, realising the time. I've stayed after school 2 more hours then I could've. "It's getting late, do you have a ride home?" I ask her. "No. I'll just walk." Betty says. "I have a motorcycle, if you want a ride." I tell her. I don't want her to walk home, alone, in the dark. "I think if my mom saw me getting off a motorcycle she would come out with a shotgun." Betty says with a chuckle. "Would you like me to walk you home? I don't mind." "Sure." Betty replies. 

Betty's Point Of  View: 

Jughead walks me home, and waves to me well I walk inside. "Hey sweetie, how was school?" My mom asks me when I shut the door. "Good." I tell her. "Ok, well you need to take your medicine and have some dinner, I ordered pizza and made a salad." She tells me. I'm not really hungry but I know my mom won't let me not eat. "Okay thanks mom, I will be right down, going to put pajamas on. It's been a long day." I say and start walking up the stairs. I get to my room and shut the door. I open my phone and go to the name 'Jughead' I change it to 'Jug' and text the number. 

*Betty's phone*

B- Hey thanks for tonight, I appreciate it. Maybe tomorrow we could have dinner at pops? I mean as friends, of course. 

J- My pleasure, I am free tomorrow night, meet at 4?

B- Sounds like a plan

I turn my phone off and put on my pyjamas. I go downstairs and take my medicine swallowing it with no water, and I have dinner with my mom. The rest of the night was kind of boring. I watched a movie with my mom and went upstairs to bed. I was exhausted. 

All the sudden I feel a cough coming up in my throat so I run to the bathroom and hover my face over the toilet, I coughed up blood. Great. I go downstairs to get some medicine when I see my mom, crying on the couch. I go over to her and give her a big hug. "Mom? Why are you crying?" I ask her. "I-I just am not ready to l-lose you." She says breaking down in tears. "I know mom, I know. But the treatments aren't working and now we have to wait." I say trying to calm her down. It didn't work. "Wait?! For what! You to die? I have to wait for my own daughter to die?" She yells. "M-mom.. I didn't mean it like that." I tell her. "I know, I know. I'm sorry I'm just not ready to lose my only baby." Mom says. "I coughed up blood, that's why I came down here. To take medicine. Didn't the doctor say to go to him if I coughed up blood again?" I ask. "Yes, he did. We will go at 10 in the morning. Set your alarm. Now take some medicine and get some rest." My mom tells me. So that's exactly what I do.  

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I really enjoy this piece and I hope you do too! Finally getting into more of Betty's cancer!

Will she tell Jug..? Idk.. hehe

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