The Room Mate

27-f r e e d o m

👑Jugheads Point Of View~

Betty looked furious, I was more scared of her than I was penny.

"Okay Jughead, they can stay, but they can't stay here forever and with out the club protecting them, loaning them money, providing work for them, they will come back to me!" Penny cackled slamming the door on the way out.

"You look real pretty Betty" I smiled at her, hoping the compliment would distract her from the fact that I've just invited two literal gang members to stay with us.

"Sweet pea, fangs you can have Jugheads bed, Cheryl Toni and Ronnie will have to share my bed Jughead you can sleep on the couch, I'm going on a walk to clear my head, the sun will be up soon" she huffed getting her keys and slamming the door.

I've fucked up. Again.

"Jughead I'm so sorry" Veronica wailed.

"Me and T will be gone in the morning, Jug I'm sure she just needs to process what's happened" Cheryl added.

"I'm not going to worry you, but Penny and god knows who else is out there and she has a target on her back" sweet pea interjected.

"Shit" I blurted out whilst running out of the door and down to the parking lot to see if she had took the car.

She was sat in the car, I could hear the distant buzz of her music on, she had the windows up and she was smoking. Stationary, in the early hours of the morning, I could tell she had been crying and I wanted to give her a hug.

I tried to open the door but it was locked and she didn't even turn her head to look at me. So I knocked on the window and she gave me a rather obscene hand gesture, tell me where to go.

"Betty" I pleaded and she shook her head no and turned the music up.

I slumped to sit at the side of the door and waited it out. An hour passed and she still had her music on. Another hour, 6:30 am and she was still smoking. It got to 7.30 and she was asleep. When it was 8am I fell asleep at the side of the car until I was woken up by something nudging my back, it was the car door, she had finally came out.

"Your going to have to teach me" she said and my sleepy brain was very confused. She swung her legs around so she was sitting sideways out of the door and I kneeled up resting my hands on either side of her thighs.

"I need you, to teach me, how to protect myself, I love you, and I never want to leave, but your bad news Forsythe, and I know you can do it, I saw how scared those boys were of you" she sobbed.

"Hey nothings going to happen" I sighed stroking her thigh and staring deeply into her eyes.

"Just, no more gang members, no more crazy Riverdale drama, no more penny and definitely more time to ourselves." She sobbed again, this time I kissed her tears away and she let out a weak laugh.

"Cheryl and Toni have probably left, so let's just go up to the apartment, and get in bed" I smiled lifting her up out of the car.

She wrapped her arms around me tight and breathed me in deeply.

"You smell nice" she giggled.

"I always have this girl pushed up against me, she must be rubbing off on me" he chuckled back.

"No you smell like home" she sighed falling asleep against my shoulder. Home. Two gang members, a rich girl, two lesbians and the most dysfunctional couple on the planet, but I wouldn't have it any other way. It was my sanctuary, I finally had my own group of friends, I finally had a family.

🦄Betty's Point Of View~

I woke up in my own bed, haven't slept here in a while. Jughead wasn't there so I was up like a shot my eyes scouring the room to look for him. I noticed how I was in just my shorts, I had no recollection of taking my top off, but then again I have recollection of sleep walking at 2am most nights and waking up on the couch.

I walked out of the room and over to the kitchen and bending over to look into the fridge. I grabbed a bottle of water and scratched my head yawing and slamming the fridge door. I stretched up to see if we had any snacks and when I turned around to walk back into my room I noticed all three boys staring open mouthed.

I went red and threw my arms around my chest standing awkwardly.

"I'm really sorry, I forgot" I stammered before Jughead walked over to me and kissed my head giving me his shirt and I smiled at him bashfully and joined him on the couch.

"I'm sweet pea" one of the boys stretched his hand out and I took it smiling nervously at it.

"I'm fogarty, but you can call me fangs, if you'd like" the other one cheered giving me a hug.

"Not to be that bitch, but how long are you staying?" I chuckled nervously eliciting laughter from the boys.

"We have an apartment in that town, where Penny has business with that chicks dad, there a gang there that will take us in, we're only staying the night" sweet pea informed me.

"Riverdale!?" I almost shouted.

"Yeah" fangs laughed.

"So you'll be joining the serpents?" I squealed.

"Yup" fangs replied.

"Didn't know you were into gang culture love" sweet pea sighed smiling at me a little to widely, 6 months ago I would of found it endearing, I probably would of gave him a shot. He's a hunk, but I can't ever imagine myself with someone other than Jughead.

"The serpents did a lot for our town, no one really thanked them though" I sighed ignoring sweetpea and squeezing Jugheads hand who was now seething with anger and jelousy.

"Juggy can we go back to bed, before work tomorrow" I pouted looking at my watch and groaning because it was only 10:30 am.

He smiled at me and leaned in to kiss my lips which I instantly melted into and I felt it throb in between my legs. I was supposed to be mad at him wasn't I?

"Boys, any chance you could make yourself scarce for like an hour or two" I murmured against Jugheads lips, I felt him smile against mine and his hand crept around my lower back, tracing circles and sending shivers up my spine.

"Why" fangs questioned.

"Get out you spoon" sweet pea said dragging him out of the apartment.

🤭THIRD PERSON POV~

Jughead walked over to the door and locked it behind the two boys, Veronica and the girls were safely in riverdale, the boys were out and it was peace at last. Betty quickly followed behind getting distracted by her phone on the the kitchen counter.

It was her sister Polly.

"Hey polls what's up" Betty sang into the phone as she answered, Jughead standing behind her, his arms wrapped around her waist placing little kisses on her neck and she was giggling like a school girl.

Betty's hand dropped her phone and she fell to the floor in a fit of strangled sobs and freely flowing tears staining her perfectly pale cheeks.

Her sobs heaved hurting her rib cage and Jughead sat down to cradle her in his arms, shushing her gently and repeatedly asking what's wrong.

"Baby tell me what happened" He soothed her hair down.

Nothing came out, nothing more than more strangled sobs.

"Jughead" she finally wailed.

"Yeah" he whispered softly.

"We have to go to Riverdale" she sobbed, a new wave of emotion coming over her making her blood run cold and she started to shiver.

"My mom and dad" she choked out again breathing heavily and crying into Jugheads neck. She held on to him for dear life. He picked her up like a cradled baby and sat her on the counter.

She took a deep breath.

"They're dead" she sobbed again, this time being enveloped into Jugheads arms, he hugged her like he was about to lose her and they swayed for hours, minutes, seconds who knows?

All they did know was that life was about to change. They had to say goodbye. To Betty's mom and dad. And maybe to New York.