The Serpent and the Nerd

Chapter 7

When Betty woke up the next morning she was aware of two things. One: that her whole body felt like she had been hit by a truck and 2: someone was downstairs in her kitchen. Mustering up as much energy as she could she made her way downstairs. When she got there what she saw warmed her heart; jughead, in nothing but sweatpants, making breakfast. "Juggie?" She croaked. He spun around and beamed at her. "Betts! You're awake! How are you feeling?" He asked as she took a seat at the table. "Awful" she moaned and put her head in her hands. "Here" Jug said handing her a glass of water and medicine, he stood behind her and rubbed her back while she took it. "Thank you... for everything. You didn't have to stay" she said with a small, grateful smile. "It was nothing, I like looking after You" he said and went back to the cooking. He served them eggs and toast which he ate quickly but Betty couldn't finish it. "Sorry" she said when she couldn't eat anymore. "It's okay" he said softly. "I never expected you to eat it all" he said as he stood to clear up the plates. "Oh Jug i can do that!" She said as she stood quickly but became dizzy and had to grip the table for support. "Woah hey. It's okay betts honestly" he said wrapping an arm around her waist to stable her. "Why don't you head up to bed and get some rest I'll clean up" he said and nudged her over to the stairs. She nodded and started to move up the stairs before stopping and looking back. "Juggie?" She said. "Yeah?" He said. "Will you still be here when I wake up?" She asked, With a small blush on her cheeks and jughead smiled. "Of course betts" he said and grabbed her hand placing a small kiss on it.

Betty had been asleep for  about half an hour and jughead was sat on the couch watching TV when his phone beeped:

Group chat:

Fangs: where are you dude?
Jug: Betty's- she's still sick
Toni: is she okay??
Jug: yeah, just resting she wanted me to stay so I'll maybe see you guys later?
Sweetpea: Okay dude!

He put his phone down and decided to go and check on Betty. Slowly, he opened her bedroom door and found her wrapped up in her duvet, softly snoring. He smiled at the sight of her in her ice cream cone pyjamas. He strokes the hair out of her face and she smiled in her sleeps. Looking around her bedroom he saw photos of her and Kevin and Archie, and a lot of books; also Betty was clutching a small stuffed cat that said 'caramel' on the tag. Jughead felt a pang of sadness for Betty: she shouldn't be all alone. Jughead was broken out of his thoughts by Betty stirring. "Mmm Hey Juggie" she mumbled. "Hey Betts, you feeling any better?" He asked and she nodded. "Thank you for staying" she smiled, opening her eyes. "Your welcome" he said gently.

The following day was Monday and jughead has reluctantly left Betty the night before to go home after she assured him he would be fine. What he didn't expect though when he, fangs, Toni and sweetpea walked past the blue and gold was for Betty to be sat in there. "Betts?" He asked confused as they walked in. "Hey guys" she said, her voice still croaky. "What are you doing here you're sick" he said and placed a hand on her head to feel her temperature. "I'm fine" she said and stood up, but stumbled. "Betty, you don't look good girl" Toni said the others agreeing. "You should go home" fangs said with a smile. "Betts come on I'll come with you" Jug said, taking her hand and placing her bag on his shoulder. "Okay" Betty said finally giving in and leaning into jugheads side where he placed a kiss to the top of her head before they left the blue and gold. The others watched as they went. "He's So whipped" Sweetpea laughed.