A Bughead story

Chapter 30

Why do I always say the wrong thing? "Betty I didn't mean to say that I was trying to joke and it wasn't funny" I apologize to her. "Are you mad at me?" Betty asked me somberly. "I- I don't know I've been trying to ignore it" I said honestly. She moves away from me and sits at the other end of the tub I tried to hold her hip but she pushed it away. "Betty come on please don't be like that after we just made up." I say to her. "I'm not! I'm not being like anything jughead" she says being distant. "What's the matter? Please talk to me" I ask her and she looks at me " I feel like you don't trust me anymore jughead and I know it sounds stupid" she says like she's about to cry. "Betty please don't cry, I love you. And if I didn't trust you then what we just did would not have happened. Look at me it's him I don't trust." I tell her and she nods fighting her tears away. I can tell she feels better. We finish up our bath and splash and play around. By the time we get out most of the bath water is on the floor. We washed each others body's, we made out a few times, she actually left a hickey on my neck and we just had fun. We got out of the bath and cleaned up the mess in the bathroom. She put on one of her t shirts and shorts while I put on joggers and a hoodie she'd end up stealing eventually. I went downstairs to get the new bedsheets I left downstairs on accident and I saw Alice sitting in the living room.

"Jughead would you please sit down?" She asked me. "Uhm sure" I said because she caught me off guard. I sat on the couch. "I understand that you were gone for a while and it must have been hard for you. I know it was terrible for Betty. Hearing her cry herself to sleep, throw things and take her anger out on Veronica was terrible. I love what you did you Archie and how you were defending Betty. But you need to have limits and boundaries because if this happens with Archie again? You will be in jail for a long time. Mary and Fred had to fight Archie to get him not to press charges but he wanted to. Betty can not handle losing you again. I'm afraid I'll lose my daughter if she loses you so I'm asking you please stay and love her like normal teenagers or just leave altogether. And jughead I like you and I don't want to lose you but I'll pick my daughter over you any day. Thank you for sticking up for Betty and always being by her side. I hear you two argue, jellybean hears you argue but you two can't keep going on like this, not talking to each other, not eating together and you sleeping on the couch?" She asks asking for my opinion. "I assure you I won't be sleeping on the couch anymore. Betty and I made up. I told her basically the same thing as you told me 'all the way or nothing'. And no I'm never going to fight anyone anymore. It scares me to much and I can't imagine how it scared you,jb and Betty. I'm sorry for hurting Betty like that. I'm very protective over her and I'm guessing you already know based off of how rude and terrible I was when I was still living with fp kind of. And I realize now that I've never apologized to you for that, I'm so sorry ms. Cooper. I was-" I said with lots of facial expressions and she cut me off "just trying to protect Betty. I know. I'm not sure what she would do without you. Just keep what I've said in mind. I'm sure you and Betty are watching a movie or something. Don't mention this to Betty" she excuses me I get up with the skeet in my pocket and go upstairs back to Betty. Did Alice hear us earlier? Surely if she did she would have said something, right?
"Jug? My mom just texted me and says she wants us to come downstairs?" Betty sounded like it was weird her mom wanted to talk to us. It is. It's weird as hell. "What why" I ask her and she shrugged her shoulders and we went down the stairs. We sat down next to each other on the couch. "This might be weird but it needs to be talked about. I know you two have had sex before and Betty got pregnant. So here's how not to get pregnant, use a condom. She pulled a banana out from under the couch and took a condom wrapper and opened it. "Mom this isn't needed" Betty seems disgusted.
"Yes it is because I don't want to be a grandma yet" she continued to put the condom on the banana. "Or! You take birth control!" Alice slammed a bottle of pills on the table. "You can even do both!!! Or not have sex at all!" Alice was being sarcastically happy. Wait. I didn't use a condom today! Holy shit I forgot. I can't say anything now. I'll do it when we get back up to Betty's room. "We are teenagers we are supposed to have sex. And we did use one when I got pregnant it just broke or leaked." Betty tells Alice. "I guess that's true your supposed to have sex but not so the whole house and neighborhood can here you! When jb and I got back from shopping we could hear you outside fucking like rabbits! Good god Betty you don't have to moan so loud and be so extra there is no way that- I'm not going to finish that but do you get my point?!" Alice yells at us and we nod. "Go away now!" She yelled at us again and we scurried up the stairs and Betty still couldn't walk straight she was so sore or something but I grabbed her waist and carried her up the steps like that. We laughed and giggled. "Holy shit" I curse when we make it all the way up the steps and back into her room. We plop onto the bed and I sit up quickly. "Shit!" I curse out and Betty looks at me concerned. "Betty I forgot to put a condom on and I came inside of you I'm so sorry" I say and she yells at me. "You what?!"
"We can go to the pharmacy and try plan b pills or something" I suggest and she's dumbfounded. "How can you forgot something so important?" She continued. "It doesn't matter how. Now we just have to fix it." I say to her and she nods and agrees. "How?" She asks me worriedly. "We'll sneak out tonight and run down there and back or something. It's not the worst thing we could be doing." I remind her. "Okay we'll do that. And you need to buy some more freaking condoms!" She whisper shouted at me. "You could take birth control.  I liked how it felt better without the condom. Didn't you?" I say to her "yea it was better. So I'll start taking birth control?" She asks me like it's my body. "Whatever you want. It's your body not mine" I tell her with sincerity. "I'll take the birth control" she announced "and I'll buy condoms just in case the pills don't work out" I tell her and she hugs and I hug her back. "Your so sweet and thoughtful" she says in my ear and I rub her back. "Are you hungry?" I ask Betty and she replied "I'd be down to get something" her brows slightly press together and when she smiles her dimples appear. "We could get pops take out and eat in the car? We could tell Alice we went to the drive in if she asks?" I propose and Betty's face is full of life. She nods and we get up out of the bed. I grab her car keys and she gives me a mystery look. "I'm driving" I state and she just looks at me. We go downstairs and Alice is watching tv. It's probably like 9 or 10 pm. Not to Late. Our footsteps alarm her. She turns around and says "where the hell do you think your going?" She says and Betty speaks up before I do. "The drive in. It's Friday night" Betty tells Alice and her brow further Arch's. "Why should I let jughead go when he just came back from jail?" She questioned and Betty huffed. "Because he's not your kid, because we want to watch a movie. We will be back as soon as it's over or we could even leave earlier. It already started but we thought we'd just lay together and watch it. Please mom" She begged her. "No" she says and Betty starts to walk toward the door "you know we will do it anyway. It's just a movie and other people will be there! It's not like we will have sex at the drive in!" Betty yelled at her mom and walked out the door I followed behind her. "I'm sorry ms.cooper" before leaving. We ran to the car and Betty was like waddling. I did good. She's still struggling to walk. I start the car and speed off into the night. She called pops and I had one hand on her thigh. "Order for jones... onion rings, large fries, chocolate cake and two cokes will do." Jones. I'm not sure who's last name she meant it as but I hope she meant it as our last name. It gives me hope and butterflies about us. She hung the phone up and I looked at her. "What" she laughed and I was being sarcastically mean when I said "what the fuck was that order Betty!" I made fun of her. "It's just what came to mind okay?!" She joked. We were almost to the pharmacy and I pray that this pill works. I can't take care of a baby. Betty would be a great mother but we don't need a baby. My leg starts to bounce up and down that I'm not using to drive. "Jug? What's wrong?" She asked quickly after noticing. "I'm nervous that this pill won't work." I say to her and I know I sound stupid but I can't help it. "It will. And I'll buy some tests just to make sure. And if I am then maybe god wants it to happen" she says in a calm voice. I nod because she's right. I park and we get out of the car. Betty reached for my hand and I gladly held it. We walk into the drug store and we walk down the aisle with the condoms. I grabbed two boxes of 6 it might not be enough but it should last for a while. I squeezed betty hand when I saw a old man checking her out. I want to go knock his teeth out but that's silly. I'd be checking out Betty's ass to if we weren't together. I always check her out. "Where do you think the plan b pills are?" She asks me and I shrug my shoulders. "Let's just ask the pharmacist." I tell her and she looked at me oddly. "What's wrong?" I have to ask. "What if we know the pharmacist and they tell my mom?" She's so cute when she's worried. "I think Alice wouldn't have a problem with it, she'd be more concerned if you were pregnant" the words rolled of my tongue. "I guess" she seems unsure. "Calm down it will be fine. I'll do the talking" I say casually. We walk up to the counter and thankfully no one else is there so we don't have to wait in line. There is a woman standing at the front and asks us how she can help us. "Plan b please." I ask her respectfully. "Of course. I'll be right back."  She turns around a seconds later comes back with a box and a pill clearly showing off in it. "Here" I reach into my back pocket and pull out two twenty dollar bills. "Thank you" I tell her and we walk away after she hands me the box. I unwrap my hand from her hand and place it around her waist. "See how easy that was? It wasn't the end of the fucking world." I tell her and she squirms from my grip.