Heart Of Desire [DISCONTINUED]

Chapter Five: Dangerous Enticement

Betty's POV:

Betty hadn't seen Jughead in 4 days and if she was going to be honest, she missed him. She had woken up at his place, in the morning after the rain storm and was tucked into his bed, alone. She didn't know if they had shared the bed or not. All she knew was that she had fallen asleep watching the movie and he had left her a note that said he had a run that was taking him out of town but he was very sorry he couldn't be there when she woke up, although she could take her time. He had left some cash for her to call a cab or get a bus and that had been it. He hadn't text her good night since and he hadn't been by the coffee shop.

Betty had stayed in his room for an extra hour, just laying in his bed, breathing in his scent that lingered all over the sheets. She had felt like she was in his embrace and was reluctant to leave. As much as she had wanted too, she had refrained from snooping, although she gathered from all the books lying around that Jughead liked to read.

When she had finally gotten dressed in her dried clothes that he had left folded on the table, she had blushed over the fact that he had handled her under garments, making her face deep red, even though she was alone. In the end, she had stolen his t-shirt. Not the one he had given her to wear, as it had been cleaned and just smelled of dryer sheets. But, the one he had discarded over the chair, by the desk. The one he had worn all evening. It smelled like him and she felt a like a bit of a creep, but she decided that using it as a night shirt, with his scent all over it, would make for pleasant nights of sleep.

She wasn't sure where he had disappeared to and why he had gone silent. Despite their evening of making out and sharing things that were probably too personal to share at this point in time, she was still anxious about the whole thing to be the first to send a text in any context, so she decided to wait.

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"Kevin?" She spoke as she leaned against the counter during a lull in the service. "Hmm?" He answered as he scrolled through his phone. "Where do the Serpents go when they seem to disappear or go on a 'run' out of town?" Kevin looked at her and grinned. "Missing lover boy, are we?" He asked. Betty rolled her eyes and sighed. "Well, from when I was dating Joaquin, they usually make runs for good deals on anything useful for them really. They are limited to what they can buy in Riverdale so a lot of the time they venture out." He told her. "I see." She said.

She was silent for a while before she spoke again. "Are you and Ethel good friends?" She asked. Ethel wasn't working this particular day due to appointments and she had been wanting to ask Kevin some things. "Not really, we just work together. We don't hang out outside of work, if that's what you're asking. Why?" He replied. "Well, I have some questions and I'd appreciate it if you didn't repeat any of this to her." Betty explained as she chewed her lip. "Cross my heart." Kevin said with a smile.

"Does she want Jughead?" She asked. He looked at her in surprise and then tilted his head with a smirk. "You have a little conversation with the Serpent, did you?" He questioned. "We may have hung out on Friday." She informed him whilst looking down. "Friday? Like 4 days ago? And you're only telling me now? What the hell Cooper?" Kevin exclaimed. She shrugged and smiled. "Tell me!"

"There isn't anything to tell. I missed the bus because I fell in the stupid rain and he brought me to his place to dry off and he fixed my elbow." Kevin just stared at her as if she had grown two heads. "I'm sorry, but Jughead Jones took you to his place? What the fuck Betty, how could you keep that from me? What else happened?" He asked. "We watched a movie? And we may have kissed a few times."

"Holy shit." Kevin drawled. "You made out with the Serpent King?" He said in complete shock. "Yes?" She said quietly, her face turning red. "Did you sleep with him?" He implored. "No. I fell asleep during the movie and woke up in his bed the next morning but he was gone. I haven't seen or heard from him since. He had just left a note that he was going out of town." She explained. "I may fucking die." Kevin said, his dramatics making her glare at him. "Will you stop?" She sighed. "Sorry, I'm just trying to process how you managed to meet and make out with Jughead Jones in just a week. I'm a little flabbergasted. Plus that fact that anyone looking at you would never in a million years guess that you have a thing with Jughead Jones."