The Many Sides Of Betty Cooper {Bughead}

Shop Class

POV Jughead

I walked into auto shop class and couldn't believe my eyes. There in front of me was Betty in coveralls and a t shirt working on a car engine.

"You better figure out what you two are because if you don't, someone else will." Fangs whispered to me nodding towards Toni and Sweets who were both staring at her with lust in their eyes.

He was right, she had so many admirers and that's just the people who saw her as the girl next door. If people started to see and understand the real her, everyone would come calling. Maybe that was best. I don't know what I was thinking, she should never become a part of my world. It's too dangerous, too dark, too rough.

"Hey, Betts, did you get lost? What are you doing here?" Sweets called and she finally looked up and noticed us.

"Oh hi! I wondered when you were going to show up" she said laughing over her shoulder.

"You know that this is an advanced class, right?" I ask and she smirked.

"Oh she knows. She's been taking it for the last three years. My only advanced student. I'm Mr. O'Brian" the teacher said as he walked out of his office.

"I need to test the rest of you to see if you qualify." he said and he took the four of us over to another engine. He asked us to identify parts and problems and I went first.

"Fine, fine. You'll do" he said to get me to stop and had the other three go. As they did, I watched Betty work on the other car. It was like she was in another world. She had a soft smile on and was humming. She barely noticed anything around her except the car.

"Great! You will all work. Betty, Betty! This girl." Mr. O'Brian walked over to Betty and touched her shoulder. She jumped a little and turned around.

"Sorry, dear. Didn't mean to frighten you. Can you show them what we do in this class?" Mr. O'Brian asked. It was evident that they knew each other well and both cared for and respected one another.

Betty smiled and nodded, "Sure Mr. O same as last year?"

"If that's okay with you?" he asked and she chuckled and said, "You know that it is. Hopefully they will feel the same."

He looked at us and said, "I think that they will. I'll leave you to it. Papers to grade already." and he walked back to his office.

Betty looked at us and clapped her hands.

"Okay. So advanced auto is a bit of a different class. Since I was the only one in here Mr. O and I came up with a plan freshman year. I fix people's cars that can't afford to get them fixed. Sometimes its a teacher, or a single mom or just someone who needs help. Since we only work an hour a day, it's usually someone who needs a quick repair and I can't do as many as I like but now with the rest of you, maybe we will be able to do more." she said smiling.

"Who diagnoses the problems?" Toni asked.

"I usually do but occasionally I ask Mr. O for help" B replied.

"Who wants to take over here while I show the others the rest of the cars?" she asked and Fangs volunteered.

She quickly showed Fangs what she was working on and how to fix it. Then she led the rest of us to the next car. She looked at it and had Sweets turn it on for her. She dove right in to the running engine and had all of us take a look and then turned it off. Sweets, Toni and I couldn't figure out what was wrong but Betty knew right away and explained to Sweets what he needed to do to fix it. It was the same on the next one that she gave to Toni. Finally we approached the last car and she smiled. I recognized the car as a Southsiders.