Best Friends? ~A Bughead Story~

♡︎ 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑇𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑦-𝑂𝑛𝑒 ♡︎

*10 years later*

Jughead POV

It's been eight years since we were in high school and my life couldn't have been better. Betty and I both went to Yale together and after college we moved back to Riverdale. One year after we graduated from college, I proposed to her. Here's how it went:

*flashback 4 years ago*
Betty POV

Jughead said he is taking me on a date tonight. He told me to dress casual so I just went in leggings and a t-shirt. Jug and I lived together so he just knocked on our bedroom door. I opened it and saw them standing there in sweats. "Hello, beautiful." He said as he held his hand out. "Hello, handsome." I said with a giggle. "Are you ready, baby?" He asked while he brought his hands to me waist. "Yea." I said softly with a huge smile. "Then let's go." He said as he dragged me down to the car. "Where are we going?" I asked as he started driving. "That my love, is a surprise." He said as he put his hand on my thigh. I set my hand on his and I rolled my eyes. "Here is our first stop." He said as we got out of the car. "First?!" I asked as I got out and went to the trunk because we went to the drive-in. "Yes, first. There are 4." He said as he held my hand and we hopped into the back. "I'm going to go get snacks." I said as I hopped off and walked over to the concession stand. I got snacks and walked back to the trunk. The sight I saw was perfect. "You're the best boyfriend ever." I said as I saw the picture and blanket set-up he had in the trunk. "I know." He said as he kissed me. "I love you." I said as we pulled away. "I love you too." He said as we laid down on all the blankets. I looked closer at the picture and I started to tear up. "Is this..." I asked as I looked at him. "Yea. Our first date." He said as he looked into my eyes. "I love you. So much." I said to him as we cuddled closer. "I love you. So much." He said as he kissed me. We watched the movie and then got back in the car. "Hold on to this." He said as he handed me the picture. "Ok..?" I said as I grabbed the picture and put it in my bag. "Here is our next spot." He said as we got out of the car. I got out and we were at his old trailer. "Why are we here?" I asked him whilst laughing. "That, you will find out." He said as he walked inside, me following behind. As we walked inside and I saw a bunch of ingredients on the counter and, once again, another picture. I looked at the picture and it was when we were 7 years old, making cookies as we almost burnt the house down. "Juggie..." I said, tearing up, once again. "We are going to make cookies again." He said as he wrapped his arms my waist. "Yay!" I said as I walked aver and started mixing everything. After we finished making them, he put them in a bag to keep them warm, handed me the picture and we started to walk out. As we got back in the car, I put the picture at my feet with the other one, and we drove off to our next location. "We have arrived at your 3rd destination." Jug said while trying to sound like a GPS, making me giggle. "M'lady." He said after he jumped over the car to open my door. "You...are a dork." I said while pausing to figure out the right word to use. "Why thank you." He said as he bowed a little and dragged me over to the swimming hole. There was another picture set up on the rocks next to it. "Awww. This was when my mom brought us, trying to get us together in 7th grade." I said while laughing. "Yup! Now, let's get it!" He screamed. He immediately pulled off his shirt and his pants and jumped in the water. "Come on, Betts!" He screamed again as I pulled off my shirt and leggings. I stuck my toe in the water and there was no way I was getting into that. "No it's cold." I told him. "Ok. Your choice." He said as he swam to the other end. After about a minute, Jug spoke up. "I'm gonna go under and see if I can find any rocks." He said, swimming more towards the middle because it was deeper. "Ok!" I said as he went under. It was about 30 seconds and I was getting scared. "Jug!" I screamed.... no response. "Jughead!!" I screamed and once again there was no response. I immediately jumped in and started going under. "Jughead!!" I screamed while going under the water trying to find him. I came up out of the water and I felt something grab my legs. "Jug?!" I screamed as a question, knowing it was him, but still not sure. "I told you to get in. I got you in though." He said softly, going to an area where he could touch, but I couldn't. "Jughead, you ass." I said while laughing and splashing him with water. "I love you." He said while laughing and pulling me closer to him. "I love you, but that doesn't change anything." I said while putting my arms around his neck, my legs around his waist, and 'sitting' on his lap. "Come on. Let's get out. We have one last place to go." He said as we got out because the sun was starting to go down. We got back to the car with another picture added to the stack. "Where's our last spot?" I asked him, knowing he wasn't going to tell me. "Betts, you know the answer." He said with a chuckle. "Yeah, yeah. 'It's a surprise'." I said in a mocking tone. "Mhm!" He said while smiling. The next thing I knew, we pulled up to our favorite beach. "Aww. Juggie." I said as we got out. He grabbed a bag out of the trunk, grabbed the pictures, put them in the bag, we and started walking down towards the beach. I saw a picnic blanket laid out with an empty plate and another picture. The picture was us. Our first time at the beach when we were together. Watching the sunset. He grabbed the cookies we made early and dumped them out on the plate. He handed me a cookie and took one for himself. "I have a question." I said out of nowhere. "Yes?" He asked, implying for me to go on. "Who set this up? Like all of it? You've been with me all day." I asked. "You'll find that out soon." He said. What? "You're annoying." I said with a smile. "Love you too, baby." He said while stuffing another cookie in his mouth. "I have one more surprise." He said as he finished eating the cookie. "Are you kidding me?" I said. "No." He said as he picked up the pictures frames, pulling each photo out of them. "I want you, without picking them up, to arrange them in the order they were taken." He said while getting up from the blanket. "Ok..?" I said, unsurely, while putting them in order. I put them in order by when we made cookies, when we went to the swimming hole, when we went on our first date, and when we were at the beach. "Now, flip the over." He said as he walked behind me. I flipped each of them over and saw words written on them. "Will you marry me?" I read aloud, but as a statement, not knowing what it said. "What?" I said. I turned around and saw Jug on one knee. I gasped and started to get tears in my eyes. "Elizabeth Cooper. You are THE love of my life. We have been best friends since we were 5 and if I can remember correctly, we met on this day exactly 12 years ago. You came into my life 12 years ago and I swear I have never been happier. I can't imagine my life with out you and I want you to be mine forever. Will you make it official and become Betty Jones? Will you marry me, Betty Cooper?" He said and by the end of his speech, I was full on sobbing and he had tears running down his face. "Yea. I'll marry you." I said softly, still in shock about what's happening. He immediately got up, slipped the ring on my finger, and kissed me. We kissed passionately until he picked me up and spun me around. My hands were on his shoulders until he put me down. "I love you so so so so so so so much." He said as we pulled away from another kiss. "I love you so so so so so so so so so so so so so much." I said back while wrapping my arms around his waist to pull into a hug. I heard a bunch of people behind me and when I turned around, everyone was there.

*present*

Jughead POV

We got married exactly 1 year later and another year later we had our baby girl, Juliet Alice Jones. A year and a half later we had our baby boy, Forsythe Pendleton Jones ♊︎♊︎, aka PJ Jones. Now, to where we are now. We couldn't be any happier and it's because I met the love of my life. Does it always work by dating your best friend?

A/N
I enjoyed writing this story and I'm sorry it took so long to update. I will be writing another story so give me some story ideas!!