A Bughead story

Chapter 19

Bettys POV

I have a hate- love type of relationship with my birthday. I used to celebrate with my dad and now it's really hard to be thankful and happy on my birthday because he's not here. I'm just glad Jughead understands because nobody else does. Last night actually turned out to be the best birthday celebration I've had. Jughead was so sweet and lovely. We even kissed and I enjoyed it. I know it's bad and everything but I did enjoy it when jughead was getting pissed and jealous over the waiter last night. It was hilarious. I wish I had a camera to record it.

I reach over to my nightstand and grab my phone checking to see if I got any messages from jughead I'm sad to see there's nothing there. But then I remember he doesn't have a phone anymore because he lost or broke it when he crashed the motorcycle. I decide it's time to get ready for school. I get out a pair of tight jeans and a cute pink collared shirt. When brushing my hair I decide that I'll leave my hair down today.I brush my teeth then do my makeup lightly at my vanity. Lipgloss, mascara and a small amount of highlighter. I think I look pretty decent for my birthday. I grab my phone and put it in my pocket whilst grabbing my backpack and anything I might need for school. I go downstairs and my mom prepared a really nice breakfast with pancakes, eggs, bacon and toast. Next to a fruit bowel there was orange juice in a pitcher and my mom had a huge smile on her face. "Happy 17th birthday Elizabeth, you look beautiful" she says and goes in for a hug and I hug her back quickly. "Thanks mom" I say in a chirpy voice. All of the sudden it hits me how much food there actually is on the table and how many plates are set out. "Mom what's with all the plates and food?" I ask pulling away from the hug. "Your guest should be here any minute" she says smiling. "Guests?" I repeat in excitement and shock. "You'll just have to wait and see!" She says enthusiastically. A minute or two passes and there's a knock on the door. My mom instructed me to open it and I do so. I'm welcomed by the cheerful faces of Veronica,Cheryl, Archie, jughead and Kevin. "Oh my- hi!" I shout happy to see them all. "Happy birthday!" They all yell at the same time with smiles on their faces. "Come in and take your seats! I gladly welcome them in with open arms. They all take turns hugging me and personality wishing me a happy birthday before they come in and take their seats. We have an hour until school starts. "Everyone help yourself a to a plate, I'll be upstairs giving you some time to catch up" my mom announced making her way upstairs assuming she already ate. I poured myself a cup of orange juice and made my plate that consisted of fruit, pancakes, eggs and a piece of toast. Everyone else got their plates and lapped away at their food. "This is pure deliciousness" Kevin says while eating his bacon. I smile. "It is really good" Veronica says wiping her mouth with a napkin. "Remind me to thank your mom!" Archie exclaims devouring his stacked plate of food. We all laugh. Jughead has less food than normal but I assume that's because he's full from last nights dinner. Although he looks drained. We all make small talk for awhile but jughead seems more socially distant from the rest of the group. Apparently I'm not the only one who noticed. "Jug is everything alright?" Archie asks plainly. Jughead looks up sharply takes a moment to process what Archie said then nods. I get out of my seat and walk over to jughead I tell him to get up and come with me. I excused us then I take jughead into the living room away from everyone else. When we get there I say "jug.. what happened you can talk to me" I say grabbing his tired face making him look down at me. "He's drinking again, last night-" I pull him into a hug and tell him it's okay. "Jughead I'm so sorry. Don't worry, I will take care of this" I tell him and he shakes his head. "I already tried" he tells me and I rub his back. "I'll make you a cup of coffee okay?" I tell him and he nods. We walk back and I prepare a coffee for jug while he continues eating. "Bro it's Bettys birthday so stop making it about you. I don't care how miserable you are pretend to be happy" I hear Archie tell jughead but I pretend not to. When his coffee is ready I bring it over to him and he thanks me. Archie was making faces and being rude to jug so I say "Archie it's fine I've already ate so calm down. It's not the end of the world." I tell him and Kevin and Veronica exchange looks. "Oh my god, is bughead back? I obviously ship!" Kevin blurts out and I look at jughead. We haven't decided if we wanted to go public so I look at jughead and he nods signaling that it's fine by him. "Yeah we are, but this stays between us until we talk about it" I say waving my fingers around the group. "Since when?" Veronica asks sounding offended that she didn't know already. "Officially last night but we've been hanging out for a while" I answer her question And she looks relieved. I look at the clock and I figured we should probably leave for school soon. We start cleaning up our plates. I was going to put them in the sink but Archie stopped me and he did it for me. After about 5 minutes passed we all huddled together and got ready to leave for school.