Today was the day. The worst day of my life, to be exact. It was the day my sister and best friend were having a joint funeral. I wore the darkest, blackest dress that I had in my closet. Today was going to be a day full of sorrows. But, at least I had my main man and best friend, Jughead Jones, by my side. I also was able to take Baby JJ home from the hospital today.
"How, do I look?" Jughead asked, spinning around so I could give him a quick look over. I walked up to him and straightened his tie, then kissed his cheek.
"Handsome as ever." I replied, tears were filling my eyes. "Juggie. What am I going to do? What are we going to do? Polly's dead and we've essentially just accepted the role of being his parents." I started bawling. Jughead quickly wrapped his caring arms around me and pulled me close to him.
"Bets, we'll be fine. We're always fine. Baby JJ? Yeah, it's scary becoming his parents, but we're going to handle him just fine. That's why you have a semester off between now and college next fall. You're doing everything that you can to be there for him. You're going to rock it." Jughead kissed the top of my head and I nodded in agreement, wiping away the tears from my face.
"Yeah. You're right, Juggie." I smiled through my tears. "Thanks for being amazing."
"I mean, I'm not half as amazing as you are, but ok." He laughed. "Now let's go pick up JJ."
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After we had picked up Baby JJ from the hospital, we started heading toward the funeral home. This whole being an aunt-parent thing was just really hitting me hard today. Jughead and I had a baby in the backseat of our car. Like, I felt like an actual adult now. It was all so weird. It was all so unexpected. But I guess that's life for ya, everything is unexpected. I mean, I'm marrying Jughead Jones. Who would have ever thought that I would be marrying him? And so suddenly too. I was snapped out of my thoughts when I heard Baby JJ crying in the backseat.
"Awwww, JJ." I tried to reach for his hand from the front seat. "Dang it. I should have just sat back there with him, that would've made more sense."
"Need me to pull over, Babe?" Jughead asked.
"Well, we're only five minutes away. It's ok." I replied. "Shhh. JJ it's ok. We're almost there, baby."
"If no one saw the baby in the back, they would've thought that you were talking to me." Jughead laughed.
"That's right, you're technically a JJ too," I giggled. Then of course, the child started screaming bloody murder.
"Ok. We're here." Jughead replied. I hurriedly jumped out of the front seat and rushed to go get JJ. I carefully took him out of the carseat and held him near my shoulder. "Burp rag." Jughead handed me a small piece of cloth to put over my shoulder.
"Thanks." I cautiously held JJ's head to my shoulder. "It's ok, baby. Shhh." I thought that if I slightly rocked him up and down that would help. It didn't. "Ok, umm bottle?" Jughead rummaged around in the diaper bag and then handed one to me. I turned JJ to be on his back, in the crook of my arm. "Here you go." I cooed, as I placed the bottle into his mouth. "There we go. Problem solved." I smiled down at JJ. How did I end up with the most perfect little nephew?
"Ready to go in?" Jughead asked, his hand placed on the small of my back. I nodded. We silently walked into the funeral home, only to see that most everybody had arrived before us. Sheriff Keller was standing up by the caskets, hat off, tears in his eyes. It was weird to see both caskets up there. Kevin's was closed because he looked like a zombie, but we decided to have Polly's open. It was the most bizarre sight to see my older sister dead. The complexion on her face was extremely pale, as most dead people's generally are. She was holding a bouquet of roses, her favorite. I started bawling. I wanted to crumple down on the floor into a ball and just stay there for the rest of the funeral. But I couldn't. I had JJ in my arms. Instead I turned around and buried my face into Jughead's chest, his arm around me, holding onto me securely.
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Bughead 💘 | Wattys2017
FanfictionA distraught Betty doesn't tell her parents that Jughead has secretly been staying in her bedroom since he had no place else to live. Betty is also on the lookout for where her sister Polly went, along with who might have murdered Jason Blossom. Thr...
