Like it was meant to be |Completed|

chapter 27

jughead sat at the white wyrm. drinking. yeah that's right. he's a jones after all. when life gives you shit, the Jones men drink it away.

everyone could see the boy was drinking. but no one could see the hurt and depression he was under. only drinking made him forget.

he wasn't attending school. he wasn't hanging out with anyone. he had lost his aspirations, his hope. all because of betty and archie. his girlfriend and best friend. they were friends from the beginning, so how come they didn't think twice about hurting him?!

couldn't he ever feel loved?  for once be hopeful to ever be happy? now he feels like a hypocrite. it was he who told Veronica that one needs to be hopeful. and look where's he now?  drinking in a bar alone.

Veronica. for some reason, he couldn't get her hurt filled face looking at him when he told her to leave, out of his head.
why was she hurt? i did her a favour. i ruin everything around me. she will be better off without me in her life. 

1 drink. 2 drinks. 3 drinks. it turned to countless, until the bartender finally refused to fulfill his order. 

"you're way drunk jughead. no more for you" he said sternly

jughead glared at him and muttered out "fine" as he tumbled out of the bar.

somehow he manages to reach back to his trailer and rest.

this same procedure has been going on for the last few days. he would gobthe bar. get drunk. get thrown out of the bar.

sweet pea and fangs tried to control jughead, but it was a waste. he wasn't listening to anyone. he refused to listen to his friends. his friends yeah right. they would probably betray him also. leave him for someone better.

they were worried and informed toni. who informed Cheryl.
at this point Cheryl, who wasn't fond of the hobo,felt kind of guilty. she had a hand in causing this.

"do you think i did a mistake showing them batchie's infidelity?" she asked

"no. it would have come out anyway. for once Cheryl, you did good. you were looking out for Veronica" toni said smiling at her girlfriend

"hey! what do u mean once?" she said playfully

toni laughed but soon sombered enough.
"what will we do of jughead now? he isn't listening to anyone?"

Cheryl smirked "there is 1 person who could probably get some sense into him"

"who?" her ears perked up.

"TT! think. you juat have to find the person, and the moment they see jughead's sight, i can bet you, will run to jughead asap. you know who i. talking about"  Cheryl said giving her a hint.

"betty?" toni asked

her face hardened. "of course not. that boyfriend stealer doesn't get to be the one who saves him. think again"

toni suddenly smiled. "oh my god! thats genious Cheryl! are you sure it will work?"

"positive. although i dont know why she has lowered her standards for him though" she grinned
toni smacked her on her shoulder playfully "hey! he's our king!"

"yeah.. yeah.. i was joking....or was i ?" Cheryl teased

"thanks Cheryl ill go talk to her"

"if you tell her, she will refuse" Cheryl stopped toni.

"what why?"

"think about it. they both are strong headed personality, too much ego, they won't do something if u tell them. somehow get her to see jughead without telling her. it will work wonders"

toni nodded. "but what if she would go after him if we just told her?"

"oh come on toni!! let me see this through please!!" Cheryl pleaded with mischief in her eyes

"what are you upto Cheryl?" toni asked suspiciously

Cheryl just sweetly smiled at her girlfriend and held her hand. she had decided to ignore the question.

toni shook her head. you can't stop Cheryl, then join her in her plan. she thinks. that way she can keep an eye on her. seeing that she doesn't go over board.

toni somehow convinced sweet pea and fangs to get jughead to pops drunk. and that they should leave as soon as they drop him off. everything will happen on its own then.

everything was happening according to plan. Cheryl and toni were sitting in a booth at pops, intending to spy on the 2 people who were busy avoiding their feelings.

jughead drunk, stumbled in pops.

"hey popssssssss...did u miss me?" he slurred.

to say pops was shocked at the site would be an understatement. as soon as Veronica heard his voice, she turned around and was appalled at the sight.

jughead was drunk. and he was here. how did he get here?

"jughead" Veronica called his name in shock

he turned towards her and smiled so huge "Veronica..!!!! what are you..bkurrpp what are you doing here?"

she slowly came towards him "i work here jug. what are you doing here?"

he was coming towards her but tripped on his own leg and as he was about to fall, Veronica was quick to run and catch him.

"woah! sorry... I didn't see my leg there. stupid. stupid leg..." he cursed kicking his leg which didn't help as he tripped again , but this time with Veronica as she couldn't handle his weight anymore. if they didn't fall, she would have found this situation funny. jughead drunk, acting like a child.

they both fell down with Veronica on her back and jughead above her.

they just stared at each other, until they heard pops question them "are you two okay?" as he pulled jughead to his feet.

Veronica slowly got up and fixed her dress and looked at jughead

"pops, i think i should drop jughead home. i dont think sending him alone is a good idea"

pops nodded. "yeah take the day off. I don't like seeing my favourite customer in this state. take care of him Veronica"

she nodded "i will pops"

"come on jughead, lets go home" she said to jughead softly