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It had been two weeks since I left , I'd lie if I said it wasn't hard managing to be a whole grown up at the age of 17 , I walked inside a gas station , and saw a news paper , "Hal cooper daughter missing" , one thing I forgot to mention about my father a little before me and my siblings were born he was considered a celebrity , he was in a movie that did extremely well a few decades ago , now the aesthetic of that whole movie is trending and when the movie gets attention the stars do as well , except my dads dead , so the only thing to cling onto on is his missing daughter , that's how he made such a large will , i put down the news paper and payed for my gas before I drove back to the motel , my car was now light grey so a bright pink car wasn't so recognizable, I was still trying to find a job or something , I only had around ten thousand dollars but it wouldn't cut it , I had a new identity by this time , my hair was a light brown , i walked into my hotel room to see my stuff scrambled around , before I could turn around I felt a sharp object on my neck , I tried kicking them back but when they fell back the thing just pressed into my skin , and basically slit my throat , I fell on the floor as the person ran off with a bag of money , while I was passed out I guess some woman walked past my door that was wide open , she walked in and called a ambulance , other wise I would've completely died , and I think death would've been a better feeling than the waking up in the hospital at four in the morning and seeing my mother asleep a few feet away from me , I quickly and quietly removed my iv, that flowed my medicine and took off my heart patches and turned off the monitor before it woke anyone , I quietly got out the bed and managed to put on my clothes with my 2 percent battery life in my body , I walked into the hallway acting as causal as I could , until I crossed one of the tables , "who are you" a employee asked me , "I'm visiting my mother in the er" I said "can I ask her name" I nodded , "oh yes , Samantha .... Jefferson" while they went behind the desk to check the log in names I ran away until the exit door was locked , then two security guards and a portable hospital bed came , I started screaming and tried banging on the glass , eventually though they strapped me to the bed and got me to the bed thing and hooked me back up to the bed while I hysterically cried for hours , and hours turned into days , days in the hospital so I didn't fucking die , though I'd much rather prefer it , after five days I finally managed to go home , the whole week I was in hysterics , if I did want to go out I'd have a curfew and I couldn't use my car anymore , i even had a tracker , my mom was banging on my door forcing me to go to school , she walked in my room "remember how hard it was to get everyone to believe you got kidnapped " I nodded oh how do you manage mother " I said sarcastically "don't give me attitude you're the one that went bonkers Betty" "I'm so sorry I wanted to better myself and every night you weren't there , all you ever did was throw money at me as if it was a bandage " "we all know I wasn't the best mother , but I'm here now" "only a matter of time until you find another wine glass and forget you're children exist again " she walked out of my room while I continued to get ready  , I wore a turtle neck , as I planned to for a few year until my cut healed , the last week I was talking to police on a daily basis , like they couldn't comprehend the fact I just ran away , there's been a investigation for the guy that did that to my neck , but it's obvious that he won't be caught , the whole town is convinced the fact that I got kidnapped , witch sucked because now I'm gonna be looked at like a victim , and that's all I'll be seen as for a while , I walked into school and everyone looked at me , I rushed to the principals office were mr weather bee informed me on my letters attention "mrs cooper , glad you made you're way back here in one peace , very tragic what happens so I hope you know that the school counselors provide emotional support groups , but anyways I'll be glad to inform you that you're letter got number one in the world , the only thing people in school talked about for a week straight , all the cliqs and the stereotypes are all basically debunked , river dale high is no longer a scary place for so many student because of the impact you're letter had on so many people, and for that I wanted to award you with river dale highs student of the year , student of the year got a picture on the wall of the busiest hallway and a trophy in the trophy case " "this feels rather , overwhelming , but thank you for choosing me in the first place I didn't think I would manage to be gifted such a power" he nodded "alright well class starts soon I have to go " he nodded before I walked out the class , the whole day was just filled with people asking me question , to witch I gave little to no response to I walked around the school still rather frustrated on the fact I didn't want to be in this town , it was like going to school on you're birthday , I was sitting at the bleachers during lunch reading a book until. Heard a noise from under , "did you hear that bettys back" "how could I not that's the only thing anyone's talking about today "she's in my art class , she has brown hair now and wears some dumb turtle neck , it's like  we get it you've almost died like 10 times but the whole school doesn't have to sympathize with you " I got up and walked away , I was in the bathroom were it was quite , i sat there for a few minutes until I got bored so I went to the cafeteria , I sat at Veronicas table , "hey" "oh hey b we were just talking about the dance on Friday " I nodded ,"are you going ?" "Oh , well maybe" "no you should totally come" "I guess I could get a dress " "that's the spirit" she said , the whole day the biggest headache was how I was gonna approach jughead , "do you know were jughead is Veronica" "you didn't know ?" "Didn't know what" i asked , "his sister passed away two or some weeks ago , it's her birthday so he's probably at the cemetery , i nodded , I walked back to the office and walked into mr weather bees office "here's the deal , I will write you're letter next year , witch is a guaranteed win , but you have to let me ditch  the last 2 periods without calling my mom , he nodded "you have a deal" I walked out the school and went to my car , that I was allowed to use for school only , I drove to river dale cemetery , and even bought flowers , hardly any people were there so I walked around tell I found someone at a grave , I walked behind him and placed the flowers on her grave , it was still around January so there was snow , I brushed a peace of snow off , "right person wrong time" he nodded "this was unexpected" "my epic car chase ended 7 hours away from here " I said "not bad , how did it end " "I got robbed and found passed out in a motel 6" "why were you hospitalized for like a week then" "I don't want to talk about that" "understandable" he said , "I'm really sorry about you're sister though , deepest condolences " "now we have something in common" "yeah , I guess so" "jokes aside I'm really glad you're back" "I knew deep down the adventure wasn't livable , maybe when I'm elder but for now I think I'm Betty , Betty cooper " he nodded , "are we still together or is that kinda weird I don't know " "I don't know you pick " I said , "you pick" "I'm down" " yeah me too" he said before we awkwardly held hands "this feels weird to do in front of you're sisters grave "it really does"