Lost in Temptation

Chapter 23

Jughead POV:

"Betty?" I choke out with a small smile. I can feel  my heart warming as I see her looking up at her dad, her smile now gone and all you see is pain in her eyes. 

"Hey daddy" She says groggily and weakly. I try to get closer to her but I see her tense up and quickly speaks again "Can you please ask him to leave. I don't want him here" She tells her dad lowly. She avoids looking at me and it breaks my heart. 

"Baby, please" I plead to her with a few tears as I try walking over again but I get stopped by her crying voice "Please dad, please make him leave. I don't want to see him" She pleads. Her father looks at me and nods his head towards the door, telling me with his eyes to leave. I try to hold it together but in this moment I can't, I break down and kneel beside her bed. 

"Baby please, please don't make me leave! Betty I love you. Please baby please look at me, PLEASE" I plead once again with salty tears rolling down my cheeks, my heart breaking into literal pieces when she still denies to look at me. 

"I said Go!" GO! GO! GO!" She yells out with her eyes closed. I stand up and look at her crying, backing up slowly, I don't want to leave her. I don't want to lose her but from what I see and feel, I already did. "I love you Betty" I whisper and walk out unwillingly but I have to respect what she wants, I've already done more than enough.

I walk out the room and head towards the waiting room and sit down, I rub my eyes and continue to cry. "Where is the strong man inside now Jones?" I whisper to myself with a humorless smile "I'm so fucking stupid" I said again to myself. I lost the only girl I've ever loved and possibly the only girl I will ever love and it's all my fault. I look towards her room and see Betty's dad walk out then within the minute he came back with Dr.Masters and walked inside Betty's room. 

What I would give just to know how she's doing right now. 

Betty POV:

I woke up from the endless nightmare that I was in to come back into the horrible reality that I live in, not even in my dreams do I get to live in peace. I wanted so desperately to give up but something made me hold on, something told me to keep fighting and I did. 

I can feel all of the physical pain but inside I feel numb. All I ever wanted was to be happy, to be loved but I realize that love isn't worth it, at least not Jughead's.  

I stare blankly up at the ceiling and try to think but everything reminds me of him. My thoughts get interrupted when my dad comes back in with Dr. Masters following closely behind him with a wide smile on his face as they walk in, well at least someone's chipper today, I think to myself. 

"Well hello there, Ms. Cooper" He says to me as he stands at the end of the bed, my dad standing on the side of me. "You had us scared for a minute" He tells me 

"Sorry" I reply, feeling my voice still groggy "Do you mind me asking, what happened?" 

"Well" He starts and lets out a breath "You were hurt pretty badly Betty, you received a nasty cut on your side and it was pretty deep. You lost a lot of blood and it did become infected, so with the blood loss mixed with all the burn marks on your back, and the exhaustion you were in it caused you to fall into a deep sleep. You were out in fox forest for at least 24 hours during a rain storm. Betty, it's a miracle that you're even alive and breathing right now" He says to me