Always and Forever

Chapter 22: Silent Night, Deadly Night

Last night, I texted FP and Mrs. Cooper to eat breakfast with them at Pops. I needed to comfort them, it was now or never. I'm now at Pops with FP waiting on Mrs. Cooper.

"Hi, Dani," Mrs. Cooper said as she walked over to our table and sat down. "FP."

"Alice," FP nodded. "Dani, why did you call us here?"

"First and foremost," I began. "You two need to be completely honest with me. No lying."

"About what?" FP asked.

"Just be honest," I said. "Okay?"

"Okay," They both said in unison.

"Is it true that I have the Eyes of a Jones and the Brains of a Smith?" I asked.

"You know the answer, ask the real question," FP stated.

"You're making this more complicated than it should be," I said.

"That's all you, sweetheart," Mrs. Cooper said.

"Am I a Jones or a Smith?" I asked. FP and Mrs. Cooper then looked at each other then back at me. 

"Both," FP and Mrs. Cooper said.

I sat there for a moment, glancing at them before lowering my gaze to the table. Mrs. Cooper and FP both grabbed one of my hands and sighed. "Dani, you're ours. We named you and everything. We gave you to Fred and Mary because Mary couldn't have any more kids and they wanted another one." Mrs. Cooper said.

"We also gave you to them, since we were both still married at the time we slept with each other," FP says. I started to tear up a bit. "Seeing how different you are from Archie and how similar you are to Betty and Jughead, we were shocked you never caught on."

I sat there, my mind is racing with all this new information.

FP and Alice are my parents, not Fred and Mary. Who else knows.

Jug.

Betty.

Who was I most upset with?

"Why didn't you tell me?" I asked. "Why did I have to find out myself?"

"Alice and I wanted to tell you so many times, but you looked so happy with the Andrews. Plus my shit was all over the place," FP stated.

"Honey, are you okay?" Mrs. Cooper asked.

"I don't know," I said. "This is just making my head spin a bit since I was right. We need to tell Betty, Jughead, and Archie."

"Is that what you want to do?" Mrs. Cooper asked. I nodded. "Okay, I will text them to meet at your house, come on let's get going."

"Can Toni come?" I asked, they both looked at me.

"Why?" FP asked.

"She's my mental support person," I explained.

"Sure," Mrs. Cooper said.

Later Mrs. Cooper, FP, Dad, Archie, Betty, Jughead, Archie, Toni, and I were all at my house. I was holding onto Toni. I told her what went down at Pops and she immediately came.

"Mom, why are we all here?" Betty asked.

"Fred she knows the truth," FP said. Dad looked at me.

"Dani," Dad warned. "You know?" I nodded as I held onto Toni tighter.

"Know what?" Jughead asked.

"Kids, we have been keeping a secret from you," FP said.

"Almost your entire life," Mrs. Cooper said.