Polar Opposites (A Bughead Story)

Chapter 3

Jughead's POV: 10:16 AM 

I sit thinking. While I hold Betty in my arms. I had always dreamed of Betty coming back to me. Saying that she still loves me. The night after my dad was arrested for the murder of Jason Blossom, Archie finally asked if Betty would be his, and even though me and Betty had a couple of so called "moments" she and yes to him. And left abruptly not even telling Veronica where she and Archie were going. Veronica was left by Archie. And I was left by Betty. I saw and understood why though, she was perfection with a couple of cracks, and I was damaged. Entirely damaged. Not like Betty how she was only partly broken. With me loving her I would've broken her entirely... But here she is. In my arms. In my trailer. Accepting my love. I will never understand why. But out of all people she can choose to visit she's visits me. Not Ronnie, Not Alice, or Polly, or the twins. But Me Jughead Jones... my thoughts are interrupted when Betty looks up at me, raising up and turning to face me.

"Juggie... how. How is everyone, Ronnie, Polly, My mom and dad, the twins...you... how are they...?"

I quickly adjust facing her, I don't want to tell her, but it's worse if she finds out from someone else. 

"Well me and Ronnie, are... together. And your mom and Polly, they are fine. The twins are bea-"

I stop once I realize her expression. She seems hurt, I feel bad, but a part of me doesn't feel bad for being with Veronica now... but then again. A part of me does.

"Oh. You and Veronica. I see."

 She scoots back away from me, collecting her own space once again.

"So everything that happened earlier and last night... you were lying the entire time...?"

She stares at me, the sparkle she had in her eyes gone as she questions me. 

"Well Betty, what was I supposed to do, you and Archie left me and Veronica for each other, was I supposed to be alone and depressed until you just... came back for me?"

"I-I know. But I didn't mean to leave you guys like that. Archie he had just told me that you were cheating on me with Veronica the entire time and that's why he left Veronica..."

Betty then stands up and my eyes widen as she walks to the door, she wipes a tear and turns around, hand on the doorknob to my broken down trailer.

"Looks like Archie was right about that..."

She goes to leave but I stand up and grab her arm. 

"Betty, that isn't true.."

"Than what IS true Jug? That you kissed my best friend? While we were together?"

"Betty! It was one night... at my birthday when everyone was drunk we went up in Archie's room and... it was right after our fight Betty, I was mad. I wanted to leave, and then I found Veronica and we went upstairs and..."

I saw Betty's eyes overflow with tears as she sobbed.

"YOU SLEPT WITH MY BEST FRIEND!"

" AND YOU SLEPT WITH MINE BETTY!"

She stopped crying and glared at me walking closer. 

"Y-You think I wanted to sleep with him. I LOVED you Jug, but after he told me that, we kissed and he said he could treat me better. So we left. You think I voluntarily had sex with him? It was RAPE Jug  he would hit me and then RAPE ME Jughead. But what you did with Veronica it was a choice YOU made. Every time I would try and come back for you, I would be hit, kicked, punched. I wa s pregnant with HIS child Jug and he kicked me and shoved me down the stairs, killing MY child. And I would be hit for trying to leave to come back to you."

She shoves her finger into my chest poking me as I sit speechless, before she raises her sleeves and I gasp. Cuts. Red cuts, with dry blood around them.

"Everyone I cut. Every time I harmed myself, it was because I wanted to come back here me to you, to Veronica, to Polly, my mother! But what I can promise you is that, no matter what. Me cutting myself, and Archie beating me and raping me, none of that will ever hurt as much as it did for me to leave you and riverdale. But the pain that outshines that is what I'm feeling right now. That you just played me and then slept with my best friend."

I sat speechless as she opened the door to find Veronica walking up my steps.

"Betty??" 

Veronica says before Betty shoves past her and gets into her small car driving off. Veronica then looks at me and sighs as I invite her in. 

"What was she doing her Jug. Did you cheat on me with her.?"

"No Ronnie, of course not. She left Archie, and came back. Said she missed you. Showed me her scars from him beating her. Her leaving wasn't voluntary. She said that Arch told her what happened between me and you on my birthday. Which made Betty agree to leaving with him..."

"Shit... god damnit. You told her about us huh?"

"I told her before she had told me what Archie said, which confirmed what Archie had said and then she left..."

Veronica looks at me and sighs, 

"And now she probably hates us.. I feel so horrible... he didn't rape her. Did he?"

I shake my head sighing.

"It's worse that just rape. He got her pregnant and then kicked her stomach, killing the baby..."

Veronica broke down into tears, I go to try and hug or comfort her, and she pushes me off.

"We fucked up Jughead. We fucked up BAD... it's all our fault that Betty has been beat and raped and tortured all alone without a family or friends... we are the reason..."

Veronica sobbed. I sat and stared at her sighing and putting my hands over my face.

"We can't be together Veronica. We just can't."

"Well no fucking duh genius, that's obvious. We were a mistake, but you and Betty weren't. My poor Betty."

Veronica sobs. She was right about one thing. That we really did  fuck up...

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