Quiet Child ~ Bughead

Chapter Eighteen: The things I should have told her

Jugheads POV:

After a couple hours of anxiously waiting in the uncomfortable waiting room chair I finally heard the doctor yell, "any one here for Elizabeth Cooper?" I shot out of my seat and made my easy toward the doctor. "Is she okay?" I asked. "She'll be fine. She just got out of surgery and she seems to be doing well. You can see her if you want but she isn't awake right now." I nodded "room 394" the doctor added before walking off to help someone else.

I slowly walked to the room the doctor had told me to go to. I was glad that she wasn't awake to see me visiting her. She probably wouldn't be happy. I was so ashamed of everything I put her through. I got her stabbed. I hated myself. When I arrived at the door labeled 394 I looked  through the glass to see my angel sleeping peacefully. I opened the door and slowly moved towards her. She is so perfect. Who would have thought she would have to go through so much. I pulled up a chair and sat next to the hospital bed. I grabbed her hand and started to tell her the things I should have told her forever ago.

  "Betty, I don't even know what to say. Let me start off with I love you. I love you so much. I'm so sorry that I let all of this happen to you. When you got out of the sisters I should have been there for you. I should have supported you. Instead when you transferred schools and joined a gang, I kidnaped you and got you stabbed. I'm so sorry Betty. I'm so fucking sorry," After saying that I was in tears. I let them freely fall down my face.

    "I love you so fucking much," I whispered. I didn't want to leave her but I knew the doctor had called her family and that they would be here soon. I decided to go to the waiting room to see if anyone was here for her. As I entered there was no one that I recognized. Poor Betty. She was just stabbed and now she's all alone. I walked past her door to get to the exit, but before leaving I looked one last time through the glass and saw Betty crying. I could hear her muffled cry's. "Everyone leaves" I heard her say to herself. "Everyone leaves me." Those words broke my heart but I continued to walk to the exit. 

Bettys POV:

    I woke up in the hospital with bright lights shining in my eyes. The last thing I remember was one of the serpents stabbing me. I looked around to see no one had come to visit me in the hospital. For some reason that made me feel so lonely. Tears started to pool in my eyes. "Why am I not good enough for someone to stay?" Tears we're now flowing heavily. "Everyone Leaves" I whispered to myself. "Everyone leaves me."

   The hospital is really boring. The doctors occasionally came in to check on me but I basically just slept the whole time. That was until she walked in. "Elizabeth! What the hell happened?!" She yelled. She didn't look worried. She looked more angry. "Nice to see you too Alice," She scoffed and made sure it was clear she didn't want to be here? "Did you see Jughead? In the waiting room?" She looked at me and smiled. "No, but I did see him leaving when they said you were awake. This is why you should have stayed at the sisters Betty. No one cares about you. You would be. Better there." I wanted to yell but what she's saying was true.

    "I know," I said meekly. "That's right" my mom said leaving me in the hospital room alone.

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