A Bughead story

Chapter 39

                               1 month later

Thanksgiving has passed. Betty, Fp and jughead have returned to Riverdale. Yet only one has returned to school. Betty. She's patched things up with Veronica. Jugheads at home finishing his recovery. He's learned to walk again.  Not that he's forgot but he didn't do it for a long time so it was difficult to do it again. Riverdale is cold. Christmas is coming up. Betty got her memory back.

"Betty I was so worried when I got the call saying what happened too you. I understand a lot has happened but I think you need to decide if you will have the baby. The sooner you and jughead decide the better." Alice tells Betty as she's taking her to school. "Mom, I don't know what to do. I don't want to abort the baby. Especially what happened last time when I had a miscarriage. It scares me that maybe it won't be so easy for me to have kids. I'll talk to jughead tonight." Betty says to her mom.

Betty's POV.

I tell everyone goodbye. Expect jellybean I'm giving her a ride to school. The car ride was silent. I think about everything that has happened. I remember Jugheads harsh words too me and how I felt in that moment. How he made me feel. I've tried to convince myself that maybe it was because he was becoming depressed? Or I am not enough? Maybe he thinks I would be a unfit mother. I try not to think of it but I can't help it. I am a month and a half pregnant and I don't even knew if I'll have the baby. I miss the days when it wasn't so difficult too wake up every morning. Having too fight for everything. Anything I believe or want. I pull into the drop off for jellybean and tell her goodbye. she doesn't say anything. Is she mad at me? Why is she being so secretive? I try my best not to break into tears now. I am finally alone. Nobody is here. Everyone is expecting me at school. I pull myself together and park in the high school lot. I gather my stuff and walk by everyone trying to ignore them but they all stare at me. They are just surprised? My right arm is in a cast but that's the only difference they see, right? "You look like you've been through hell." I hear someone in a crowd say too me, I silently respond you have no idea. I make it up the stairs and that's when I see Veronica. She nearly drops her coffee. "Betty! How I've missed you!" She is so cheerful and I hate it. How is it that I've turned too hate? "I missed you too." I say plainly.
"Are you okay?" She asked me sincerely. "Yeah I'm fine." No need to worry her. She hold my stuff for me as I unlock my locker. I thank her then get on my way. "Dude, did you hear that she's pregnant! That weird kid knocked her up then ditched her!" I hear a group of boys talk amongst themselves as I pass in the hall. "What weird kid?" A boy asked them. "The kid that killed his Mom." I hear Chuck Clayton tell them and they all exclaim. "That kid is so weird!" One says. I walk up too them. "You're wrong, he didn't kill his mom. He was framed. You don't know what the hell your talking about once again." I say because it bothered me so much how they were talking about jughead. "Why would you even try and defend him? It must be true then, he knocked you up and now your going to have a baby with no father, kind of sounds like your dad, right?! But didn't he- kill people? Maybe you killed jugheads mom for some kind of weird sex game!" He says and if my arm wasn't broken I'd punch him right about now. I'd move but it's like I'm frozen in palace with anger. "Did jughead do this too you? He must have done it when he found out you were pregnant." He points and refers to my cast. Chuck keeps adding and adding on until finally I am in tears and running away from them. They laugh at me and everyone stares at me as I run though the hall way. I am bawling my eyes out and somehow I end up in the counseling office. It happened in a blur. The only think I am thinking about is how I feel. The  counselor isn't there but the assistant try's to calm me. She is unsuccessful. "I can't. It- it's too much too quick and I can't. I need to go home. Please let me go home." I bawl my eyes out and drop my books. I scramble to the ground trying to pick them up but my hands aren't helping. The woman tells me I can take today and tomorrow off if needed but then I must return. I nod franticly and she picks my book up for me. She tells me she will just keep the book for now and let me go. She tells me to call my mom if I can't drive. I nods then rush out. I speed walk out of the school avoiding social contact. I make it to my car and once I get in and shut the door I break down. I knew it. Too much too fast. Why does Chuck have to be so cruel? I sit in the car crying hysterically and trying to pull myself together so I can drive but I can't. I take my phone out and call Jughead. He answered on the first ring. "Betty? Are you okay? Shouldn't you've in school?" He asks me sounding really worried. The sound of his voice calmed me a bit. "No" my voice breaks.  "Betty, what's the matter?" He asks me and I take a second before answering. It feels silly to tell him that kids where picking on me. "It's to soon. People are so mean." I say and start the car. I just want to be with him now. "Betty, who was being mean to you?" I hear the anger in his voice. "who wasn't? Everyone had something to say."