A Bughead story

Chapter 8

Bettys POV

Yesterday was the day that we got back from the hospital. I'm starting to worry about my Mom, she said she had some errands to do but I didn't think it would take all night. "Jug?" I whispered even though I knew he was sleeping. His hands were gently wrapped around my body and his beanie was placed on my head. As soon as we came home yesterday we fell asleep. I really did think it was sweet and it made me feel special when he was taking care of me. Things have been going smoothly between us. I wanted to reach over to my phone which was on my side table but I know it probably wasn't the best idea. I needed to call my mom but I didn't want to wake Jughead up. He definitely deserves to have a good nights rest. He stayed up the whole time at the hospital and I know it is stressful. I wondered what or who Jughead saw in the hospital when he got up and left. I closed my eyes and reopened them to see Veronica standing in my doorway. I must have looked dead or like I saw a ghost because Veronica started right back at me. "Veronica? What the..." Jughead shuttered as he straight up. "Veronica? What's wrong?!" I ask while waving her over. She stays in place. Jughead leaned over to quickly kiss me before going downstairs. Veronica looks back at him and then she sat down on my bed. As soon as she sat down tears rolled down her face. "Vee... what happened?"

"Archie. We broke up for good." Veronica chocked. Tears ran down her face and onto her pearl necklace. I sighed and reached over to hug her. "We were talking about you and Jughead and I said I wanted that for us." Veronica told me. I had no clue about what she was talking about but I kept nodding my head. "Veronica, I'm so sorry about you and Archie-" I began to say. "Betty that was not Archie." Veronica said shaking her head and looking at me through her eyelashes.
"That- person was cold and shallow. I was afraid he would hurt me. He said he didn't need me, I looked at him when I was crying and he didn't care he was totally unaffected! I slapped him!" Veronica shrieked and cried more. I raised my eyebrow. She was describing Archie the same way that Jughead was, that day. "It's okay Veronica, he'll come around." I tried to comfort her. "Do you want ice cream?" I asked her. Veronica nodded. "Okay, let's get some ice cream. Okay?"
We went downstairs and I searched for my mom but she wasn't home yet. "Betty?" Veronica said. "Yeah?" I say, turning my head to look at her.  "Who are you looking for? I don't think Jugheads here" Veronica said while pulling ice cream out of the freezer. "Yeah- No I was just looking for my mom".  I said while sitting next to Veronica. We ended up eating three ice cream tubs and I told Veronica everything, me being in the hospital, Jugheads dad and what's been going on between us.

Jugheads POV

"Archie!" I yelled once more while banging on his front door. I was about to kick the door in when he opened up. "Jug?" Archie looked like hell. "Is this not a good time?" I asked the orange haired boy. "Uh. It's fine just give me a minute!" Archie said as he ran upstairs in his boxers. I wanted to hang out with Archie today because I figured Betty and Veronica were gonna spend the day together. I waited outside Archies front door that was wide open. A few minutes later he came down the stairs dressed in a baseball cap and his grey hoodie with jeans. "Ready?" I asked him cringing at his confused facial expression. "Yeah, sure. Where the hell are we going?" Archie grinned and said excitedly. He reached behind him and shut the door. "Well." I paused and took a second to think. I never even thought about what or where we would go. "What about the park?" I suggested. "Sure bro" Archie responded. We walked for about a minute and Archie said
"You know, we haven't really talked much lately" Archie sounded like he was asking it more as a question that led to a statement. I was pretty sure he was hunting at when I left. "Yeah" I looked at him. He looked back at me but he looked like he was disappointed or maybe even disgusted. I stopped waking. "I'm not proud of it." I said slowly while shaking my head. "Jug. I wasn't-" Archie started to say. As much as I wanted to listen yo him trying to redeem himself I couldn't. "It's fine Archie. I deserve it. I'm not even sure where things with Betty and I are right now, ever since... that, she hasn't called me her boyfriend. I didn't call her my girlfriend because I was waiting for her to say something." I explained to Archie what I had been thinking for a while. "Well shit man. I didn't mean to say what I said. That sucks for you but you should just talk to her." Archie said. His brain cells must have been over thinking because he looked sick. I couldn't help but laugh. Archie looked over at me but I quickly recovered. "Uhm- so should I ask her out?" Archie took a moment to think. "I could take her to see a movie. I could give her a gift!" I shouted to suggest. "Chill bro, just talk to her and tell her how you feel. I'm sure she'll understand, then you can go from there." Archie said as he almost tripped over a rock. "Archie. It's not like how it used to be. Something is different. Maybe I changed." I quietly and said in a deep, sad voice. "I'm sure it's not that bad." Archie tried to reassure me. My eyes started to get all stingy and hot. "It's not like that. You- you didn't see the way she looked at me." I said avoiding to look at Archie. "Bro, she's crazy for you-" Archie tried to tell me but I couldn't listen to him. "Your not listening to me Archie" I said in the nicest way. "She looked at me like I was a killer or a monster. Betty looked so confused, like I spoke in a forbidden language. In that very moment... even as I think about it right now, it felt like all hope was gone. All hope that Betty and I could ever be together again, the way we used to." I said not realizing I stopped walking. My vision was blurry due to the fact I was crying and getting all emotional in front of Archie. But I didn't care. Archie might not ever let me live this down but I'm not gonna pretend that it doesn't hurt or make me sad to think about the fact that Betty and I are growing apart. Slowly but surely. I know deep down, Betty and I are basically just sexual right now. I want to be with Betty, but I need a connection between us. "To get this straight, you brought me out here just so you could ask ME for relationship advice?" Archie chuckled. I guess he was trying to lighten the mood. I sniffled, wiping my eyes.  "Can we talk about something else?" I said I wasn't really asking it as a question.