A Little Different ~ Bughead

Chapter 31

Betty POV

I spent the weekend at Jugheads and he called the place he worked at and told them he has to change his hours so he had time for school and football they where pretty understanding as the owner of the auto shop was his friends dad.

It was Tuesday and me and Jughead where laying on my bed with Jughead on his back and I curled into his side as we watched a movie. Well we where shop to be watching a movie but I was just looking up at Jughead.

"Betts you know you'd actually no what was going on in the movie if you where watching it." He said chuckling and then looking down at me.

"I'm trying to remember this moment because I'm not sure how many more times were going to do this before I go." I said quietly.

"As many times as you want." Jughead said pulling me into his side softly.

"Can I show you somewhere?" I blurted out.

"Now?"

"Yeah."

"Ok." Jughead replied softly and we got up and turned the film off. I held Jugheads hand as we walked out of the house threw the back door and the the end of the garden where there was a gate on the back fence. I opened the gate and kept a hold of Jugheads hand as I pulled him out of the garden and into the woods I closed the gate and kept a hold of Jugheads had as we walked threw the woods in silence for a long time till we reached the area next to Sweetwater River where the trees thinned out and there was a open space with an old dirt road that was overgrown with bushes.

"What is this place Betts?"

"This is where I think our house should go."

"Here?"

"Yeah what do you think?"

"Here's great. Who's going to design this house of ours?" He says smiling.

"Me. Once I've studied architecture for a year maybe and I get the hang of properly drawing plans and designs for a building I'll design it."

"I can't wait."

"Me neither." I said and I wrapped my arms around Jughead and nuzzled my face into his chest. After a few minutes I felt tears start to fall down my face.

"Betts?" Jughead said softly but I just buried my face further into his chest.

"Betty what's wrong?" Jughead said and he pulled away from me and placed on of his hands onto my cheek.

"Why you crying Betts?" He said wiping my tear away with his thumb.

"I don't want to go."

"I know you don't Betts. But you have to." He said with a soft smile.

"No I don't. I can go to college anywhere I can go to the community college that's here they have an architect program I can go to I'm sure NYU will understand."

"Nl Betts I'm not letting you give up on an opportunity to go to NYU... especially not for me."

"What do you mean especially not you?"

"Betts I'm a Jones ok. That means I'm going to be stuck here for ever no one on my dads side the Jones basically have gone to college hell most of them haven't even graduated high school and they end up stuck in the towns they grow up in with dead end jobs. So that's how I'll end up."

"That won't happen to you Juggie your better then them you can do anything you want and what about our dream? That's how we'll end up Jug." I said looking up at him

"Betty...Your dream the dream you call ours I want it too believe me I just.....I know I won't have it. But you...college is a way for you to get there."

"You don't want to have a future with me?" I said looking up at him with teary eyes.

"Of course I do. But I know you don't need me for your dream and I know if I'm there I'll ruin it some how. So I'm hoping in the 3 years we'll spend apart with no contact that you'll find someone else to share your dream with that's worthy of having that with you."

"Wait...So when I leave in a couple weeks for college you never want to talk to me again? What if I'm handing a bad day and I know the only thing that can help is you talking to me and hearing your voice? What if I just want to talk to you and know your ok because my days been to stressful?" I said as tears fell down my face and Jughead just looked at me with teary eyes of his own. "So I'm in a couple weeks that's it.... your just going to forget about me and everything we've done together and....us or relationships."

"I'd never forget you Betts or us and I'd never forget about anything we've done together. No when I'm 40 and laying in my old beaten up couch in my trailer surrounded by empty beer bottles with a dead end job and two estranged kids that I hardly I'd ever see. I'll think back to the beautiful blond and the beautiful dream she let me hear and I'll hope with everything I have that she's living it...because Betty it is a beautiful dream and you deserve it more then anyone."

"Your so much better that that Jug you can't end up like that and I don't want to stop talking to you. Please don't make me stop when I have to leave because if I have to I don't know if I can leave."

"Betty if we talk eventually the texts and the calls will become harder for you and me to do because we'll miss each other to much and then the calls and text will become lesser and lesser till we don't talk and I know that would kill you and me more then just not talking would."

"I love you Jug. Can...can we talk about this another time I don't...I don't want to think about this now."

"I love you to and we can talk about this when ever you want." He said pulling me to his chest. "It'll be ok Betts I promise you'll be okay. I'll make sure if it no matter what." He said as I cried into his shirt and he rubbed my back soothingly.