First Day of My Life

Epilogue- The last look

"Daddy," Caden whispered, shaking Jughead's shoulder softly. "Daddy, wake up."

Jughead sighed in his sleep and opened his eyes in confusion, only to be met with his five-year-old son in front of him. "Hey bud," he said tiredly. "What's the matter?"

"Is mommy home yet?"

Jughead chuckled and looked at his phone. It was 6 am. "She should be in about four hours. Go back to sleep, Cade."

"I'm not tired anymore. I wanna see mommy."

Jug sighed. "Why don't you try and sleep in here with me, okay? You'll see mommy as soon as she gets home."

"Okay." He climbed over the 37-year-old, to the middle of the bed, and then under the sheets, leaving Betty's spot empty. Jug turned to face him and moved an arm under his own head, the hand reaching the boy's hair.

"Let's try to sleep," he said quietly, knowing he himself at least needed more hours of it. Caden closed his eyes and enjoyed the feeling of his dad stroking his dark hair. "When you wake up mommy will be here."

"I miss her," he mumbled.

"Me too, bud," Jughead sighed.

Betty got home at 9 am. She left her small suitcase in the hallway, took her coat and boots off, and quietly looked around the apartment with a smile on her face. Everything was quiet, so she wondered the kids and Jughead were still asleep. She drank some water and ate a banana in the kitchen before going to the kids' room quietly.

"Mommy," Ellie said happily and hurried out of her toddler bed.

"Hey baby," Betty chuckled and picked her up immediately.

"I missed you," she said adorably with her baby accent.

"Aw, I missed you too, Ellie. Mommy loves you very very very much."

She giggled at that. "I love you."

"I love you too," I whispered and kissed her cheek, already having kissed her face for about five times. "Where's Cade?"

"I dunno."

Betty smiled and carried the two-year-old out of the room and into hers, very quietly. Eleanor giggled on her lap while Betty grinned at the two boys sleeping in her and Jughead's bed. The blonde woman looked at how Jughead's arm was around their son, and both of them slept mouths open as always. Even Ellie had started sleeping that way.

She placed their daughter on the bed and gave her a kiss on the forehead. Ellie smiled and climbed over her brother and remained in the seated position when she found that Jughead's stomach was the best for that.

Betty smirked, looking at how he tried to understand in his sleep how to get the heavyweight off of his stomach. By the time Jughead was about to open his eyes, Betty was only in her shirt and underwear and climbed under the sheets as well.

"Baby, you're heavy," Jughead said with a choked voice as he turned a little and managed to lie her down in between himself and Caden. Only when his eyes started to close again, he realized Betty's arm was now laid over all of them. He smiled when he looked into her green eyes and leaned over the kids to kiss her hello.

She hadn't been home for three days to check out a workplace she had been offered in California. Over the phone, she had already told him that she didn't like it, so they were staying in New York.

"Morning," Betty smiled when they pulled away and Jughead had to lie back down. Their hands intertwined over the duvet, hugging their kids together. "What is he doing here?"