Lost in Temptation

Chapter 25

Betty POV:

"JUGHEAD!" I yell out as I struggle to push him off me. 

"Sorry" He mumbles as he pulls away. He looks down but his smile is still formed on his lips "I was just kind of hoping that finding out that we're having a baby, we'd-"

"We'd what?" I ask him, interrupting him mid-sentence " We'd get back together?" 

He doesn't answer me, instead he stays silent and look down but after a couple of second he nods yes. I scoff at his answer and shake my head "Unbelievable" I mutter to myself. 

"WHAT BETTY!?" He yells out to me, pain clearly heard in his voice "Why is it so hard for you to believe that I actually do love you, that I want to be with you" He says to  me. 

"Because I don't believe you Jughead! I just don't, not after everything you've put me through" I start "I love you, yes but just because we're having a baby together doesn't change anything. It doesn't erase anything." I tell him with a cracked voice. 

"The same way that you're standing there now, pleading for me to talk to you, to look at you. I did it too. I did it for so long but now I'm just tired, I'm tired of always having to fight for us when you never pulled your weight. I stood in front of you that day and I begged you to stop but you kept going. I was always there for you and you never were. I was dying and you didn't care" I say to him as I finally let myself cry. 

"Betty, please don't be so cruel" He says through his tears. 

"I'm cruel?" I ask him in disbelief "So honesty is considered being cruel now" I say to him through a chuckle. A chuckle mixed with pain and despair. "Look I don't want to fight with you, not anymore. I've had enough, I got the point that one day and quite honestly I don't want to waste anymore time on you or with you. You can be around me throughout the pregnancy, my father has even decided to move here so it would be easier for you to be around. Whenever I have a check up you can go but other than that I want nothing to do with you nor will I ever ask you for anything" 

"And when the baby comes?" He asks me 

"We'll figure it out then but it's safe to say that it'll spend more time with me when it's a newborn but once it gets older we can switch off days"  I tell him. At first I realize that I was being petty and cruel and that really isn't me, it wouldn't only affect Jughead but my baby as well and my baby hasn't done anything wrong and he or she deserves to know who their dad is. 

"Okay" He simply says "Can I stay here then up until they let you out? I mean they will be doing check ups on the baby as well and I kind of don't want to miss anything" He says to me and for some reason my heart warms up "Of course" I simply reply and he gives me a small smile, he thanks me once again and goes to walk out. 

"Jughead, wait!" I yell out. 

"yeah?" He quickly responds, walking back inside. I grab one of the ultrasound pictures and hand it over to him. 

"Here" I say and he grabs it, he looks down on it and he just stares at it. 

"Tha-thank yo-you Babe I mean Betty" He stutters out and smiles once again and walks back out. My heart hurts, it hurts to know that it's best to let him go. I can't put myself out there, not with him at least, he's hurt me way too much and honestly I don't really think he ever truly loved me not that way I love him. 

"Everything is going to be okay, Nugget" I whisper placing my hand over my belly. 

Toni POV:

I shut my locker and check my phone once again to see if anything changed with Betty but I noticed that I haven't received anything so I decided to call Polly and check for myself.

Phone call:

"Toni? Hey!" She quickly answers

"P! Hey I was checking in to see how Betty is doing today" I say to her with a small  smile, biting my lip. 

She stays silent for a bit almost as if she was hesitating to tell me and that worried me. "Please Polly, tell me. Whatever it is, just tell me" 

"She's awake Toni, she woke up earlier this morning" She responds

 WHAT!?" I yell out in excitement. I end the call without even saying good-bye and go look for Kevin

I run down the hall anxiously and look all around me. "Jesus, this guy is everywhere and all of a sudden when I need to tell him something he's no where to be found" I whisper to myself as I continue to look for him. I walk as I stare to the side, not noticing Veronica walking out of the classroom in front of me causing me to bump into her. 

"Uh, oww!?" She says to meas she rubs herself 

"Sorry" I mumble to her as I try to walk away but she follows closely behind me, making me aggravated. "What is it that you want Lodge?" 

"What or who are you looking for you?" She asks me 

"Kevin" I reply. 

"Ahh I see, he's in the Blue and Gold." She replies and I head that way but she runs and gets in front of me "Have you heard anything new about Betty?" She asks me

"And why should I tell you?" I ask her with sass and I hear her scoff, I quickly turn to look at her and she's rolling her eyes at me. "Listen Toni I know I'm a bitch but I'm genuinely concerned for her well-being or did you forget that I was the only one who cared for her when that scum was constantly cheating on her, I was the only one who cared enough to tell her and hold her whenever she was crying and I even stood up for her when her mother did those horrible acts to her" She says to me and I begin to feel guilt within me. "Where were you?" She then asks and without another word she walks away "Don't worry, she called me herself already I was just hoping you'd tell me yourself" And with that she was gone. 

I punch the wall in anger and ignore the pain that I feel rushing through my veins. I hate that everything that Veronica said was true but she did have one thing wrong, I didn't tell her about Jughead, not because I didn't care but because I cared too much and I thought I was protecting her but now I know I made a mistake. A mistake that almost took the life of my best friend who so happens to be the love of my life. 

A/N: I know this chapter sucks but it will get better.