Lost in Temptation

Chapter 27

Betty POV:

*Flashback*

"MOM! PLEASE STOP!" I yell out to her as I feel the heat melt the skin off my back. Gripping onto the edge of the counter. 

"This will teach to never be late again you little slut" She casually says almost as if she's enjoying this. I hear the front door close and quickly see Hiram and Veronica run over towards us in terror. 

"ALICE! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!?" Mr. Lodge yells out to her. pushing her away from me as Veronica pulls me into her arms, I wince as she touches my back and she looks at me with sympathy. 

"Mija, take her upstairs" I hear Mr. Lodge say to his daughter as he pulls my mother, the woman who is meant to love me more than anything, away from me, keeping her from hurting me. 

Me and Veronica get upstairs and she slowly walks me into my room and walks me over to my bed, she tells me to lay on my stomach while she goes into the bathroom and get some supplies so she could clean my wounds. 

End of Flashback. 

I wipe my tears and gently shake my head to snap myself out of my memories, memories that only hurt me. 

"What are you thinking about?" Charles asks me once again as he walks in, taking the spot he was sitting on before he went to the restroom. 

"Nothing" I simply say as I wipe a tear off my cheek, tears that constantly manage to escape even though I try my hardest not to let them out. 

"You know you could talk to me right?" He says as he looks over at me. I sigh and nod my head yes but really I don't feel like talking, I feel like forgetting so that's exactly what I say to him "Can you erase my memory?" I joke though I don't laugh or smile. 

He sighs and looks down, running his hand through his hair as he takes his hat off "Look, I know you've been through some fucked up shit lately but those memories are what got you here today, they're what made you strong." He tells me and I laugh humorlessly as I hear the words coming out of his mouth. 

"Strong? Charles, look at me! I'm broken and exactly why do I have to remember this? My mother broke me, my boyfriend broke, my friends broke me but worst of all I broke myself" I say to him. 

"You have to give yourself more credit Betty, you survived. You're here alive and though it doesn't seem like it right now, you are strong. You're strong because regardless of all the shit you've gone through, you still find it in your heart to forgive the people who caused all the pain you're feeling right now." He says to me. 

"I haven't forgiven them yet" I say to him. 

"Yet but you will because I know you Betty." He then says making me angrier. 

"Well I don't want to be that girl anymore, I don't want to forgive. I want to hate and quite honestly I don't really want to talk about this right now" I simply say to him eager to put this little talk at an end. He looks at me and sighs once again, he doesn't say anything and I take that as a good thing. 

We stay silent until we hear a knock on the door, causing the both of us to look over and see Toni standing there gripping onto the strap of her bag tightly "Hey" She simply says with a nervous smile. I don't say anything and simply look back over to the side. 

"Hey, you must be Toni?" Charles asks 

"Yeah, Hi" She says warily 

I'm Charles, Betty's cousin. I'll leave you two to talk, take advantage to buy something to eat" He says as he chuckles then walks away. I hear Toni's footsteps approaching then feel the bed dip, knowing she's sat down where Charles was once sitting. 

"Hey, B" She says to me but I stay quiet. Like I said I don't feel like talking and much less to her. 

"Betty can you please talk to me?" She asks with a cracked voice, I snap my head over at her and scowl at her. "Like you did with me?" I ask her, making her look down in regret. 

"I didn't tell you the shit he was doing because I thought I was protecting you" She says with a low voice. 

I scoff at her words and chuckle once again humorlessly "You mean you didn't want to lose your fucking Serpent jacket" I say to her venomously "I needed you Toni, I needed you!" I say to her with a cracked voice, her eyes beginning to water. 

"Betty, I get you're angry but please don't take it out on me, he was the one who fucked up not me-" She says but I cut her off. 

"You were suppose to be my friend! you were suppose to have my back! Not his! BY keeping quiet, you betrayed me too. You even let him fuck a bitch in your trailer at a party that you hosted and didn't bother to tell me" I say to her angrily. "You always talked your shit about Veronica, yet she was the only one who was around for me, only one who cared enough to tell me the truth. She had my back unlike you who choose the serpent prince over her best friend. Get out" I finish, not bothering to look at her

"Bet-" She says again, trying to make me look at her 

"I said GET OUT!" I yell to her, she grabs her bag and runs out. Noticing the tears. I lay my head on the pillow and begin to cry myself. I feel myself get lost in panic and anxiety and begin to cry uncontrollably. I rip off the Iv and all the machines making nurses and Doctors run into my room as I begin to destroy the room, making it mirror the way my heart feels right now. 

"Betty, stop" I hear Doctor Masters yell to me as the nurses try their best to get me under control. 

"I Hate myself, I hate my life" I begin to yell as I continue to destroy the room "Why couldn't you just let me die!" I say through tears. My dad and Charles burst in and try to calm me down but I drop down and bring my face into my hands as I continue to cry. I feel arms wrap themselves around my tiny frame. "It'll be okay  baby "I hear my dad say as he cries along with me, I feel myself begin to tremble as I melt into my father's arms. My heart feeling completely shattered. I'm sorry peanut, I whisper to my little baby, feeling like I'm already failing as a mother.