A Bughead story

Chapter 28

It's the morning after Halloween maybe it's the afternoon I have no idea. But whatever time it is I just hope betty isn't still intoxicated. I get up and start to clean up the mess from yesterday. All the makeup, wigs, costumes and shit like that. Since Betty is still sleeping I decided to go downstairs and see what there was to eat. Alice was at work most likely because it was around noon I'm guessing. I grabbed a bottle of aspirin and got a glass of water. I took them upstairs for Betty this was something my dad taught me for when he was hungover. Damn I hate this. Deja vu. I might have to talk to Betty about this. I'll have too. I go back upstairs and in Betty's room she's awake sitting up in her bed. "Juggy?" She says in a confused voice. "Here take this" I walk over to her and sit on the bed by her feet as she takes the pills.

"Your a lifesaver"  Betty says in relief.

"It's not happening again" I tell her and she cocks her head and looks confused at me. Before she says something I say "every time I looked at you last night I saw my dad. When I got the pills for you I saw my younger self getting them ready for my dad" I tell her and she almost scoffs. "I didn't ask you to it's not like you had to jughead" she says in a grumpy voice. "Sorry my fucking apologizes for your insensitiveness and you told the whole party you miscarried." I spit out and I can tell from the look in Betty's eyes she does believe me but she doesn't want to. "No there's no way" she says slowly. "Oh fucking way. Betty you were playing truth or dare Toni asked your biggest secret and you told them. You said you were pregnant and had a miscarriage" I say in a softer voice then what I had been using. I'd be pissed of if I were Betty. Not at me but at herself. I saw as emotions must have been washing over her. "I'm a fucking idiot I'm so sorry jughead" she says and I hate that she speaks of herself that way. I move closer to her when she sits completely up. "No your not Betty. You weren't thinking clearly and I should have stoped you from still drinking. But I didn't because I wanted you to have fun" I explain grabbing her hand. "Your not mad at me are you?" She asks looking carefully up at me. "No" I say and I can tell she doesn't believe me so I give her a hug. A long hug then a quick loving kiss. God the amount of power she had over me and she doesn't even know. I'd do anything for her, move anywhere, kill anyone, get beaten by the worlds best fighter just to hold her in my arms.

We laid like that together for a while. "Jughead, thank you for taking care of me last night and I'm sorry about last night just everything about it" she says in a soft voice. "Betty I'd take care of you anytime and stop worrying if they make a big deal about it then I'll deal with it. I talked to them last night" I tell her sincerely. Betty sits straight up. "Did you hear that?" She says looking at me.

"What?"

"Someone just knocked on the door" she says getting up and going downstairs.

"Betty! Wait what if it's someone you don't know" I shout running out in front of her. I unlock the door as Betty stands behind me and I open it slightly to check but the red hair sticks out from anywhere. I watched his eyes as they looked behind me and disgust on his face when he looked over at Betty. Then I remembered she was weren't my hoodie. I step outside. "Betty stay in the house" Archie tells her in a rude voice. "You don't get to tell her what to do it's her damn house" I say walking with Archie and when we walk out to the front lawn just because I'm following Archie.

"Fine." He says with his jaw clenched.
"Was it true?" Archie asks.
"Was what true?" I questioned him and his bad mood. "Did you fuck Betty and get her pregnant?" Archie asks damn he's mental. He's acting like she's his property. "What the hell did you just ask?" I say trying to get under his skin more. "Did you get the whore pregnant or not? Hmm?" He say's callously.
"The fuck did you just call her? It's not any of your damn business" I yell stepping closer to him. "I guess it must be true then! You must of fucking raped and drugged her so she'd be dumb enough to let your trailer trash fuck her!" He starts to yell and next thing I know my fist is connected to his jaw and my other fist knocks him up his lower stomach.  "Jughead!" Betty yells running over but I could barely hear her. Archie fights back and punches my stomach. I push his shoulders back then punched him in his nose. I get punched in the face then next thing I know I'm knocked on to the ground. Betty's screaming and yelling. She's calling someone I think. Archie got a good punch on my face again but I grabbed onto his shirt and struggled to flip us over. I grabbed his head and smashed it onto the ground then punched him up the chin. "Jughead! Stop! Please you'll kill him!" I barely heard her say. I repeatedly punched him in the face. I decided I was done but when I stood up then kicked his side. I tried to walk away but he grabbed my leg and I fell to the ground once more. Archie and I kept at it but then I started to hear sirens. I thought maybe it was in my head but even if it wasn't I didn't care. I punched Archie once more in the face while he was standing and it knocked him onto the grass. His blood was everywhere. He was howling in pain. He's just being dramatic. He was still awake and we fumbled until I was being restrained. An ambulance came. Archie is fine it's not like he needs an ambulance I think until I look down at him. He's not moving. A terrible feeling sinks down in my gut and for a minute I thought I killed him but he's coughing up blood and paramedics rush over to him. I stand there in handcuffs until I'm being brought away. I can't believe this. I've done something terrible I looked behind me and it was Mr.Keller "Betty what happened?" Keller started questioning her and my heart dropped to the very bottom of my soul when she said "Jughead attacked Archie" she said with her hand on her chest. Why was that the first and only thing she said? "For what reason? Or was it sudden?" I could barely hear.
"Archie came over and was mad at jughead and Archie was calling me a slut and a whore" I heard her voice break as I was being shoved into the police car. "Could you calm the fuck down it's not like I'm going to hurt you I'm in fucking handcuffs" I spit out at the other officer she's a black women who seems familiar. Are their two sheriffs? Her badge says sherif. Oh my god. "Don't you remember me?" She asks and my facial expression shifts. "Anderson! I'm so sorry" I say as my mood changes. "I knew it wouldn't be long until you were back in the slammer" she comments and I press my brows together. "What do you mean?" I ask her and she her reply makes me smile. "Love makes you do crazy things, only someone madly in love would do something so stupid to protect their lover" she raises her brow and I grow silent. What the hell have I done? She gets into the drivers seat and beeps her horn for Keller to get in. He says goodbye to Betty and hurries in the car. I look out the window and I see Betty with tears running down her face as we pull out.