Lost in Temptation

Chapter 22

Jughead POV:

I storm out after I heard and saw Betty's dad breakdown, blaming me for everything that's happened and honestly he isn't wrong. I get outside and look up to the sky and try my best to picture her beautiful smile but all I'm smacked with is her face filled with tears and heartbreak. While she worked her ass of, I was drinking and partying every night just to forget about my dad. While she was visiting my dad and paying for his things while he was in jail, I was sleeping the day away. While she tried to call me, while she never gave up on me, when she continued to love me, I was hooking up with other girls. I break down and fall to the ground as I burst into tears. 

"JUG!" I hear my dad say as he runs over to me, pulling me into his arms "It's going to be alright, Jug, she's a fighter." He says to me but I can feel the uneasiness and the uncertainty in his voice. I want to believe that I'll be able to see Betty again, I don't want her leaving thinking that I never loved her when in fact she's who I love most and without her, I may as well be dead too. 

Betty needed me to protect her and to keep her safe but instead I broke her heart and now she's fighting for her life and I can't do anything about it. 

I watch as Archie and his parents walk inside, followed by Veronica, Cheryl, Toni and Kevin. 

And lastly it's her mother who surprisingly she looks just as heartbroken as Hal. I try my best to calm down and decide to go back inside but before I do Sweet Pea and Fangs call out to me from behind me. "Hey we just heard. how is she?" Fangs asks worriedly, he and Sweet Pea were the only one who tried to convince me to go home to Betty but I wouldn't listen wishing now that I did. "It isn't looking too good" I tell them while I sniffle and try my best not to cry again. 

"I fucked up man" I say to them "She may dying thinking that I don't love her" 

They pull me in for a hug which is odd for us but in this moment I don't care. 

Hal POV:

"Hal?" I hear Dr. Masters calling out again, I look up and quickly stand up walking over to him.

"Is everything okay?" I ask him worriedly. 

"Hal, we can't operate on her" He says to me leaving me confused. 

"And why the hell not?" I snap angrily. 

"We ran some tests to make sure everything is okay and we found out that she's pregnant" He says to me "I don't even know how the fetus was able to survive but it must have inherited it's mother's strength" He says to me

"How far along is she? Do you know?" I ask 

"I can't say forsure but from the ultrasound she's around 2 months along" He says to me, I look over at Jughead who is walking in with two young boys around his age and his dad. I see him fighting back the tears and for a moment I feel bad and want to tell him about the baby but then I think back to what my little girl must have felt and it all goes away.

"If we don't operate, what will happen?" I ask 

"It really doesn't make a difference Hal, she was cut and the cut has been infected so really we have to put in some antibiotics and hope for the best" He says to me.