Lost in Temptation

Chapter 29

Jughead POV:

I stood there as she looked at me with pain and disgust. She didn't look at me with the same sparkle and love she once did and honestly I don't blame her, I let her down and I don't know if I can even fix it, not after the words she just told me but it wasn't going to keep me from trying. 

"Tell me, tell what I can do to fix this. To fix us Betty please I don't want to lose you" I say to her, my heart literally beating out of my chest. I can't lose her, I just can't. 

"You already did" She simply says. I close my eyes and let go of more tears that I was holding in, though honestly I haven't been able to stop since the morning we found you baby girl. I run over to her bed and get on my knees again and try my best to look at her "You told me once, that no matter how bad I fucked up that you'd always try and fight for us so I'm begging you please. I know I don't deserve you but please baby please stay by my side. Please don't make my nightmare a reality" I say to her as I place my hands on her face. 

"DON'T TOUCH ME!" She yells at me instantly, I quickly pull my hands away and get up as I continue to feel my tears flowing down my cheeks. "Don't you ever touch me! I hate you! I hate you because I still love you but I don't want to love you anymore! It hurts too much to love you."She says to me with a cracked voice "Me and you we're done and there's nothing you can possibly do to make it any better. We're having a baby together and that's all that'll unite us now so get out!" She says but I just stand there and look at her, taking in her beauty. She looks over at me and tells me to get out again and this time I do, leaving my heart behind with her. 

Narrator POV:

Betty slowly recovers as the days pass by and though physically her wounds are healing, the wounds in her heart aren't. Her father, her sister and her cousin all tried to get Betty to talk but it was pointless, even Veronica and Archie who Betty still wants around have tried but it's like the talk she had with Jughead a couple days prior set her back a few steps. Betty stayed silent and wouldn't say anything. She'd smile here and there but everyone knew it wasn't genuine. Jughead still stayed at the hospital both day and night, he knows Betty doesn't want see him so he decided to give her some space even though it killed him to be so close yet so far away from her. 

"How's Betty?" Archie asks Jughead as they begin to eat. Jughead takes a bite off his burger and exhales, he shrugs and contains his tears as he swallows his food feeling the ache in his chest intensify "Distant and cold. Same she's been since waking up" Jughead says to Archie, taking another bite of his burger. 

Archie grabs a fry and eats as he digests the words that just came out of Jughead's mouth, thinking about what to say and if there is even any right words to say in a situation like this so he says the only words he can think of "I'm sorry man" Archie says sincerely. 

"It's cool, I guess" Jughead replies looking down. 

"I know that I deserve everything that I have coming to me but what I don't understand is why Betty never told me about the physical abuse Alice would inflict on her" Jughead wonders out loud. Archie looks down since he knows the answer but he doesn't know whether he should say anything or not, Jughead notices the red headed boy's movements and knows that he knows something. 

"You know something" Jughead says sternly, as he sits up. 

"What? Me? No I don't" Archie responds nervously making Jughead narrow his eyes "Tell me now" Jughead demands.