Archie and Jughead

Where?

Someone finally pulled the bag from Jughead's head. For a few seconds, he couldn't see anything. As his eyes adjusted to the darkness, he could make out a door close behind one of his kidnappers. He heard a key turn in the door's lock and then footsteps leaving. Then it was silent. He still couldn't speak. The rag that had been forced into his mouthtasted awful. Jughead was sitting on the ground, with his back against a pillar, his arms tied around it so he could barely move more than a few inches. His head was hurting from the unsufficient air underneath the bag during the transport. 

The room he was locked in was not very big. There was no furniture, the walls must have been white someday in the past, now they could only be described as dirty. The floor was made of cold stone and at least as dirty as the walls. The only light in the room came from a small window above the door that led to another room. The only new and clean thing in this room were the door and the lock. Besides two pillars, one of them the one Jughead was tied to, there was nothing in the room. Jughead lost his hope of escaping from wherever he might have been taken.

Someone would have to find him. Would anyone even miss him? Archie! They were supposed to meet at Pop's! So at least someone would notice that he was missing. Maybe Archie and the other will find him. But from what he could tell the people who had kidnapped him seemed pretty professional and prepared. He did not think it could be easy to find him, if they had left any traces at all. All that he could do right now was wait. 

Why did he have to take the shortcut through that stupid small street? And why on earth did anyone want to kidnap him anyway? His parents didn't have much money, there was nothing valuable he was connected to.. What could anyone possibly want with him? There was only one theory he could come up with..

It was already getting dark when Archie reached Betty's  house. He had tried to call Jughead a thousand times. He just visited Jughead's trailer but no one had been there. Jughead was just gone. No one had seen him since he had left the school this morning. Archie didn't know what to do. He had decided to tell Betty that Jughead was missing. She didn't have to know what had happened between them to be able to help, he told himself.

As soon as Betty opened the door, Archie pushed her towards the stairs. The second he closed the door of her room behind them, he started telling her about what had happened today. He was so worried by now, he almost started crying when he finished his story with his visit to Jughead's trailer and how no one was there. Betty sat next to him on his bed, her arm around his shoulders to comfort him. "Where could he be?" Archie asked after a pause. "I don't know.. Maybe he went to visit his mom?" Betty suggested desperately. "He would be able to write back, or call me! I mean we were supposed to meet! He wouldn't just leave without telling anyone, without telling me!" Archie responded. He had been thinking about this so many times today. Jughead would've texted at least one person. But no one knew where he was. "Then we will go look for him!" Betty stood up, "We will call Kevin and Veronica and whoever will help and then we will go and find him." Archie had to smile at that. Betty always knew what to do.