The Plan(s) {Betty Cooper} {Bughead}

The Morning After

RIverdale Betty's POV

A few hours later, I awoke to find Jug snuggled up next to me and some loud noises in the hall. I slipped out of bed and went out to see what was going on. As I opened the door, I came face to face with an half asleep/ half drunk Archie who smiled the sweetest smile at me before almost falling over.

I grabbed him and said, "Arch, what are you doing out here?"

He smiled at me drunkenly and slurred, "You're pretty and I love you. You are my best friend though and I'm sad" He suddenly looked like he was about to cry.

"I love you too. We will always be best friends no matter what. Why are you sad?"

"'Cause I'm not good enough for you. No one is. Not me, DEFINATELY not Jug, not even Peter and he seems like a perfect guy. None of us." he then leaned in to whisper, "If you fall in love you will leave me." and started to cry.

I stepped out of the door way and shut the door as I walked him over to a chair in the corner.

"Is that what this whole plan thing was about?" I ask softly He nodded.

"Yes. Jug and I have always known that you were too good for us. We just got lucky meeting you before anyone else. We knew that as soon as you realized that, you would leave us." he said with a few tears rolling down his face.

"You two are ridiculous. Why didn't you tell me this? We could have talked about it years ago. I love you both. No matter who else is in my life, you and Jug and I will always be friends, we will always take care of each other, we will always love each other. If we add new people, that's just more love and friendship. I would never leave either one of you." I said gently.

He stopped crying and smiled. "Alright, let's find you a bed"

"Bring him in here" a familiar voice said and I looked up to see Jug standing in the doorway that I had just left. He walked over and helped Arch stand and half carried him in the room and put him on the bed.

We took his shoes off and I tried to tuck him in but he grabbed my hands. "Stop. Please lay down with me" he said and I saw Jug stiffen, Arch saw it too and looked at him.

"Both of you. Like when we were little and one of us was scared or sad?" Arch said. I nodded and crawled in the middle of the bed so Arch was on one side and Jug was on the other. We used to lay like this all the time when we were small enough to have sleepovers. I realized that that was the only time I felt safe besides sleeping with C.

"Why didn't you tell us about your dad?" Arch asked softly

"We would have protected you" he continued.

"I know that you both would have but I was afraid that you would get hurt and I didn't want either of you to be hurt because of me." I said.

Jug snuggled closer and said, "Please don't ever keep things from us again. We won't keep things from you anymore, either."

"I promise, Arch?" I said

"I promise too. But then I need to tell you that I made out with Midge last night."

I laughed and said, " I know, we could all see you. That's fine. You are my friend and as long as you are happy, I'm happy."

Arch cuddled me and asked, "Is it ok to all sleep like this? Not like, weird or anything, just friends?"

I nodded and Jug growled, "As long as you keep it as just friends." We all giggled and fell asleep.

Archie's POV