The next generation

chapter 7

Ight so I'm aware that I made a character called owen, but i kinda forgot about him. So just, forget about him. I'll see if I can find a way to remove him from the story, I just don't know what to do with his character

Jugheads POV
The next few days feel like a blur, most of our nights were spent crying over the loss of the 15 year old girl everyone loved. Millie hasn't told us what happened, I walked downstairs to see her sitting on the couch with a water bottle In hand.
I walked up and sat beside her placing my hand on her shoulder.
"I think it's time you tell us what happened, I know it's hard but its eating archie alive knowing he doesnt know what happened to cloe, so I think me, you, and mom need to walk over there, we'll be right there with you"
She gains tears in her eyes before pushing them away and nodding.

I call Betty down and explain and she grabs millie's hand and we walk next door. We knock on the door and a look of relief washes over Archie's face when he sees us.
"Hey mills" archie says using his own nickname for her.
"Hi archie" she replies.

We go and sit on the couch and millie sits on a chair in between the 2 couches.
"So, I want to tell you guys what happend. So, I had seen some girl..wearing the same bandana that cloe owned, and I know it was hers because of a stain it had, I'm the one who stained it, but she looked firmiliar to me but I couldn't figure out who she was, and I wanted to know. So when everyone fell asleep I left the house, I went through all of riverdale and couldn't find a thing. And for whatever reason I decided to go into the woods. Where I stumbled across a cabin, I heard cloes voice" she begins to crack up as I watch archie and veronica get closer.

"Then I heard another voice, and then the door flung open, I didnt recognize the man that was there. But he threw me in and tied me to a chair in front of millie" she begins to cry harder, me placing my hand on her back as close as I could reach her.

"He told me who he was...he said his name was hiram, hiram lodge" she explains as she watched all of our faces drop.
"My father, killed my daughter?" Veronica cried.

"He told me he wanted to get back at you guys for everything you did to him, and he said some other stuff I don't remember, nothing important I belive, he told me he was going to kill her, I begged him to let us both go and we wouldnt say a word involving him, but he didnt listen, he shot her right in front of me"
With that veronica stood up and walked over to millie and brought her into a hug.
"Its your fault..." we heard archie mutter.
"What?" I question.

"I bet he only killed her because he was caught, by you, so if you never had left your house, she would still be alive." He told her with a blank stare.

"Archie.." we hear Betty mutter.

"Get out of my house, you murderer" he told her.
"Archie it isnt her fault and you know it" I snapped.
Veronica and Betty are by now holding millie as she sobs.
"If she wouldnt have went to them my little girl would still be alive!" He yelled back.
"Get out!" He yelled.

I grabbed Betty and millie's hand and we left, we walked back to our house and Amelia ran into the kitchen.
"I got her" Betty says.

Betty's POV
I walk into the kitchen finding millie crying on the counter. I walk up to her and hug her as she buries her head in my shoulder.
"Hes right, if I wouldnt have left she would still be alive" she cried.
"No no, you were just trying to find out who that woman was, you didnt knows" I tell her, now with my own tears welling up.

"Now archie hates me mom, he hates me"

"He doesnt hate you, hes just in shock, sooner or later he'll realize that it isnt your fault, we don't know if he would have killed her there with you there or not, so please don't blame yourself."
She nods and hops off the counter walking back upstairs.

I walk into our bedroom sitting on the bed next to jughead laying my head in his lap. "I cant believe he said that, that hurt her so much" he told me.
"You're right, it isnt her fault, but I understand why hes mad, you'd be upset too if it was her that we lost."

"I don't even want to think about it"
"Ok"