Drunken Mistake

The Truth

Betty POV:

"Thanks for sticking up for me" I say to him. Gripping the strap of my backpack and biting my lip as I wait for him to say something but he doesn't, instead he nods and walks into the classroom without saying another word. I sigh as I walk into the classroom soon after noticing everyone inside already looking at me. 

I bite my lip and notice people following me with their eyes making me nervous, I finally get to where Cheryl is sitting and sit besides her quickly taking out my notebook. 

"So, how far along are you?" She asks me cocking an eyebrow up. 

I sigh placing a strand of my hair behind my ear and look up at her "I'm 8 weeks" I say to her. I feel nervous since she stays silent for a bit, people not only know about me being pregnant now but who the father is as well, me and Jughead didn't really think things through when confronting Toni the way we did. 

"Congrats, dear cousin. I expected this sooner or later given the number of times you and Serpent king over there banged" Cheryl then says to me making me snap my head over to her in shock wondering how the hell she even knows. 

"What? Don't look so surprised, you know I always find out everything" She says to me with a smirk on her face as she tunes into the lesson leaving me still in shock. I look over at Jughead who is running his hands through his hair making me feel bad, no matter how awful Toni turned out to be he still had genuine feelings for her and that literally breaks my heart knowing that he has these intense feelings towards her and not me.  

I sigh and begin paying attention. 

Jughead POV:

I sit through first period and try my best not to think about the situation right now but it's hard not too, I just broke up with my girlfriend while the woman I'm having a baby with cozy's up with another guy. I really don't listen or pay any attention to anything that happened throughout the day. All I know is that once the final bell rang, I hurried out of there and drove off to the Whyte Wyrm. 

"Hey man" I hear Sweet Pea say as he runs up to me . I furrow my eyebrows and wonder how the fuck he got here so quickly "Didn't go to school today, thought you'd notice when I wasn't there in lunch" He says to me as we take seat near the bar. 

"Didn't really pay attention to anything that happened today" I say to him, ordering a beer. 

"Found out something today" Sweet Pea says to me.

"Yeah? And what is it that you found out today?" I ask him, while Tallboy hands me the beer I ordered and taking a sip out of it. 

"That you were suppose to get Toni pregnant, not Betty" He tells me, making me sigh and look down at my beer. "Yup, cats out of the bag" I say to him with a chuckle. 

"Dude, when the fuck are you going to admit that you like this chick" He says to me watching as I take another drink of my beer then ordering one of his own. 

"I don't even know what I feel towards Betty, all I know is that everything is easier when she's around me. I love when she's near me and I love the fact that we're having a baby together yet I couldn't let go of Toni until now" I say to him. 

"Have you ever considered that maybe Toni was always the safer choice?" Sweet Pea then asks me, only this time his question caught my attention. I turn to my side and look directly at him as he raises an eyebrow at me as if he were waiting for me to answer his question. 

"What do you mean by that?" I then ask him. 

"Dude how stupid can you be? You and Toni have known each other a while because of the Serpents. She liked you but I vividly recall you not liking her back yet somehow you guys ended up together. Admit it, you only got with Toni because you knew that if she ever decided to end things, you wouldn't be so heartbroken whereas with Betty, you'd be devastated" He says, drinking out of his beer. I furrow my eyebrows as I begin thinking about what he said, I don't say anything back and continue drinking my beer. 

"Why have sex with Betty and not Toni?" He asks me. 

"That's kind of personal isn't it?" I retort. 

"Answer the question Jughead" He simply says to me. 

"She's beautiful, everything she does is perfect to me. Like there isn't one thing that she does that I don't like well other than her cozying up with Mantle" I reply to him, shrugging my shoulders as if it were no big deal. I see Sweet Pea open up his mouth to say something when suddenly Toni comes up to us, anger literally flowing out of her body as she reaches me. 

"You were suppose to get me pregnant! Not her! Why did you do this to me!? Why Her!?" She yells out without stopping. I stand up rapidly while everyone in the bar begins to look over at us, I run my hand down my face as she continues to yell out to me "I was suppose to be queen! Not her!" She grits out "Tell me why!?" She grits out. 

"Because I fucking love her! That's why!" I yell back to her making her step back in shock and Sweet Pea look at me with a wide grin on his face. 

Betty POV:

"So why the sudden change of heart?" Reggie asks me with a disappointed look on his face. "Is it because your baby daddy finally dumped Toni?" He asks me

I sigh as I look up at him "No, though that did play part in my change of decision." I say to him "I love Jughead way too much and though I know i'll always be his second choice I can't stop feeling the way I do which is why I don't want to do the same to you Reggie. You deserve better than that, Someone who will love you and put you first" I say to him. 

"But I want this" He replies to me giving me a sad smile. 

"Yeah but I don't, at least not right now. I don't want to rush things with you only to hurt you in the end, it wouldn't be fair to neither of us but especially to you" I say to him, grabbing his hands into mine. 

"You really are something Coop" He replies to me, kissing my forehead and walking off without another word. I sigh as I run my hands through my little growing belly "I love you bean,  so much" I whisper.