Dreamers

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B POV
A student comes up to me. "Hi miss Cooper." they say. "Hi, what do you need?" I ask. "I was wondering where Scarlett is." she says. "You're Emily correct?" I ask and she nods. "Shes at home. She didn't feel good today. I don't know when she'll be back." I say. She walks away and I head to the bar.

"Where is she?" I ask Fp. "Shes asleep upstairs in JBs apartment." he says, "she's been crying since she got here. What happened?" "I'm gonna go check on her." I say, but he blocks me. "Please dad. It's not a good time right now. Ask jughead because I don't want to talk about it." I say. I get up there and JB was sitting next to her. "Hey munchkin. Do you want something to eat?" I ask. "I'm not hungry." she whispers. "You need to eat something. I know you don't want to, but it's not healthy." I say. "You don't eat, so why should I?" she snaps. "Because I have been doing it for years and I don't want you to go down the same path as me." I say.

JB POV
I look up at Betty confused. She looks hurt, tired and stressed. "I'll let you two be." I say softly and she nods. I head to the bar. "Do any of you know what happened to Scarlett?" I ask. "No. Betty let her stay here today. Apparently something happened, but they won't tell us. She has been crying all day." Toni says. "It hurts my heart that she's so upset." I say. "I know. I want to help her, but we can't until they tell us." Fangs says.

FP POV
I knocked on the office door. "Come in." I hear. I step in and see jughead with his hands covering his face, sitting in his chair. Betty was sitting on the couch with Scarlett clinging to her in her lap. "Oh. Umm. Sorry to bother you." I say. "It's fine dad." Betty says. "What do you need Fp?" Jughead asks. "I can wait." I say and head back out the door, only to get stopped by Toni, fangs and JB. "Not a good time." I whisper.

J POV
They all barge into the office. I look over at Scarlett and she was finally sleeping. "Do you want me to carry her to jbs room?" I ask. "No. She's fine." Betty whispers. I nod and they all look back and forth at us. "What is it?" I sigh. "We were gonna ask what happened but we don't want to upset her." Toni says. "She doesn't want anyone to know. Betty barely got it out of her, and she's struggling with it." I say. "We want to help." JB pleads. "I don't want help." Scarlett croaks. "It's ok munchkin." Betty whispers. She rubs her arm, and she leans into Betty.

S POV
"They deserve to know." I say. "You don't have to tell them if you don't want to." Mom says. "I. I want to." I say. She holds me tightly and I pause. "Take your time. Don't rush through it." she says and I nod. "I was walking to moms house from a friends, and the football boys drove by. They parked the car and surrounded me. They started touching me, but there were too many of them for me to get away. They pulled me to the car and took me to a house. They took turns raping me and left." I say, shedding a few tears. "Was it the whole team?" Dad asks and I shake my head. "It was 5 of them." I say, staring at my hands. "They aren't gonna get away with this. I promise." Mom says holding me tightly. I just nod and lean into her.

B POV
We walked into the office. "Miss Cooper, Scarlett, and I don't believe we've met." the principle says. "Jughead Jones." he says and I could tell she was a little scared. Everyone knows of jughead but not what he looks like. "Anyways, I need to see all the football players." I say. I could feel Scarlett flinch when I mention them. "I can get them lined up in the gym in a few minutes." She says. "Thank you." I say and head to my classroom. The first period class was in there. "Read your books for today." I tell them. "All football boys to the gym. I repeat all football boys to the gym." The intercom blares. Scarlett sits on my desk and twiddles her thumbs. Jughead rubs her back and whispers to her. I could hear some of the students whispering. "If you're going to whisper, make it Where the whole class can hear." I say. "We want to know who that is, and why he's here." one of them says. He turns towards them. "Jughead Jones." he says and turns his back to them. They all gasp, making him chuckle. "Come on munchkin." I say softly. She nods and gets off my desk, holding jughead tightly.

J POV
We make it to the gym, and I see a line of football boys. Scarlett's grip on me tightens. "It's ok." I say. I see a couple of coaches. "Ms. Cooper. This better be very important." they yell. I glare at them. "It's very important." She scowls, making them take a step back. "Can you see which ones they are?" I ask Scarlett. She takes me to the middle and looks through them. She starts pointing, and they move forwards after a coach call their names. "Sit on the bench." Betty says. "Who else?" I ask softly.

B POV
She points the Will Andrews. Of course it was him. "Sit on the bench." I growl. "What is this about?" the coach yells. I turn and glare at him. "You should learn to watch your tone with me." I snarl. He looks taken aback. "Anymore Scarlett?" I ask. "No." she says quietly. "I want to know what this is about, and why there is a serpent in my gym." the coach says. "This is about your football boys, and you don't have one serpent, you have three." I growl. He looks shocked and takes a step back. "What did my football boys do?" he asks. "They raped me coach." Scarlett says quietly, "the ones over there." she points to the bench. "Office!" he roars, making them flinch. They slowly stand and head to the office.