Soldier Baby ~ Bughead

Chapter 11

Betty POV

I knocked on the door and after a few seconds Polly opened the door.

"Betty thank god mom was going into a spiralling rant and......oh hi I'm Polly Betty's sister." She said holding out her hand Jughead took her hand and shuck it "Jughead Jones." Polly stepped aside and we walked in and I see my dad sat on the couch watching Tv and my mom in the kitchen then Polly shouts "mom, dad Betty's here."

Then my dad and mom both look over and stood up and walked over to me and my mom walked in from the kitchen and walked over to us.

"Hello Betty how you doing?" My mom said hugging me when we pull away my mom and dad looked Jughead up and down I could tell Jughead was a little bit uncomfortable so I held his hand again and gave it a reassuring squeeze. "Mom, dad this is Jughead my boyfriend." He put his bag down and held out his other hand for my dad to shake my dad took his hand and shook it my mom just gave him an acknowledging head nod.

"So I understand your a soldier?" My dad said

"Yes sir." Jughead said and I squeezed his hand

"You know our son was in the army."

"Yes sir. Betty told me about him I'm sure he was a great man and I'm sorry for your loss." Before anyone could interrogate Jughead anymore I said "we're going to go unpack and get settled in my room." I said and Jughead picked up his bag and I pulled him upstairs to my room and shut the door. We both sat in the bed.

"You ok?"
"I'm amazing. I'm here with you and I'm spending Christmas with you. Are you ok?"
"Ye. Let's get unpacked."

I moved some stuff out of my draws so Jughead could put his stuff in them after we where done we had to go down and eat I held Jugheads hand and we walked down stairs and sat on the table with Polly, my dad and mom we sat down next to each other we got a plate of food placed in front of us. We ate in silence till I noticed I hadn't seen the twins.

"Hey Polly where are the twins?"

"At a hotel with Fin. They where pretty jet lagged so there staying there for a night." She said smiling

"So Jughead when do you get deployed again?"

"Four months sir."

"That's not far from now and what do you and Betty plan on doing?"

"About what mom?"

"About you two dating. When Jughead goes back to serve will you two brake up? Or Jughead are you going to put my daughter threw hell and make her wait for you with a false sense of hope that you'll come back in one piece?" She said angrily

"Mom." I said with my voice full of emotion

"I don't know. I want to stay with Betty but if she doesn't want to stay with me then I'm ok with that I don't want her to have to go threw any pain or anything she didn't want to. But if she dose stay with me then I promise I'll come back to her in one piece." He said placing his hand on my thigh gently and rubbing it gently under the table to try and calm me down and I placed my hand on his and squeezing it.

"That's What Chic promised us and now look where we are."

"Mom please don't bring chic into this." I said with tears starting to form in my eyes

"No Betty! Your in a fantasy land where you and Jughead end up happy and together for ever but the thing is the army is unpredictable which means any minute you could get army men at your door telling you he's never coming home."

"Mom please don't. Please don't." I said starting up and moving Jugheads hand off me. "You saying this like I doesn't know any of this stuff. Like everyday I don't think about when Jugheads back in the army that he may never come home? That I may never be able to hug him or kiss him or he'll even talk to him? I lost Chic to that stupid war and it was horrible but if I lost Jughead? Jughead I would die. So don't talk to me like I have no idea or I haven't thought about it because losing Jughead that's always in my nightmares and I want it to go away. I want it to go away because I can't take it anymore." I said with tears running down my face I ran upstairs and into Chics room and shut the door I looked around and saw his room was exactly the same as it's always been I smiled at the picture that where hung on the walls and the cork board above his desk there where pictures and pieces of paper with hand written notes on it and plane tickets and there was still the hook with his extra dog tags on his son Noah has his other set and he wares them every where. I walked over to his walk-in closet where his clothes where all hung and in the back corner was his uniform he was always so proud of his uniform I walked into the closet fully and shut the door behind me and snuck to the floor. I always felt safe around him and this is the closest I can be to him and his clothes smell like him so that's always soothing. I sat there on the floor listening to my mom, dad and Polly argue I felt bad for Jughead but I couldn't stay down there. I rested my head in the wall and closed my eyes and tried to listen to there muffled shouts then my phone buzzed saying I had a text. I took my phone out of my pocket and say Jughead had text.