The new girl

Chapter 38

Betty's POV

The carnival was beautiful. Everybody was happy here, you could see it in the way their eyes lit up. I was a little shocked when Jughead stopped the car in front of the fair, I mean this totally was not his scenery, the only time I would of imagined him standing next to a helter skelter is if him and a few of the boys were pestering some of the northsiders. But here we are, standing in queue to get hotdogs, next to a neon sign telling us where the rides are.

"I still can't believe I missed your birthday," I squeezed his hand making him look down from the menu, "and you missed mine." I pouted and jughead quietly chuckled before wrapping his arms around me. "And we missed Christmas together. We missed like everything together." He added and I sighed against his shirt. "We were together for like what? Nine or ten months, and never had a holiday together but Easter and Valentines, we didn't even celebrate them." I said pulling my face away and looking up at him. "Well maybe if you don't run away from me this year we can celebrate the holidays together." He smiled then kissed my forehead. "We still need to talk about that, but we'll do it tomorrow, I don't want to ruin the date, it's perfect." I said as we reconnected hands and walked up to the hotdog shack's counter. He nodded in response to me before ordering for the both of us.

A couple minutes passed and the lady behind the counter handed us our hotdogs, Jughead handed over the money, we walked away and took a seat at a wooden bench we had seen previously. We sat in silence whilst we ate the food. Jughead was done with his whilst I had only just finished my first half, he shuffled up closer wrapping his arm over my shoulder. "What ride do you want to go on next?" He asked caressing my shoulder. I swallowed the food in my mouth before looking around at the lighting up rides and signs, that's when I saw one we had to go on. "We need to go on the tunnel of love, and before you say no it's a must do when on a date at a fair." I smiled and watched as he scrunched his nose up and then relaxed his face, "Fine, but only this once." He said. I held the rest of my hot dog to my side gesturing him to take it but instead he lent his head forward and took a huge bite, finishing it.

We got up from the wooden bench and made our way through the slightly crowded area towards the small building which was the bathrooms. "I'll be out in a minute." I smiled, skipping of into the ladies room. I went into the cleanest stall and done my business before flushing the toilets and opening the door. I washed my hands and grabbed the breath spray from my purse. I sprayed it in my mouth and applied a fresh coat of lipgloss before grabbing some gum from my purse. I made my way out of the ladies toilets and smiled at jughead as he looked up from his phone that he had clutched in his hand. "Ready?" He said as he slid his phone back in his pocket before reaching out to take my hand. "Mhm, lets go." I smiled taking his hand and leading us through the crowd to the tunnel of love.

Once we had reached the front of the queue, the lady moved her arms to the side gesturing us to climb into the white coloured bloat. I sat down in it first with the help of Jughead who held my hands as I shrieked when it wobbled causing him to laugh. Jughead sat next to me and I pulled out my phone holding it behind us so that it could get the flashing letters in the side that read the tunnel of love. "Juggie smile at the camera." I said causing him to turn around and pull our face close together with smiles plastered on our faces. I took a few pictures and continued to when he kissed my cheek. After I placed my phone back in my pocket, the lady at the entrance pushed a button, which cause the boat to jolt a bit before smoothly floating on the water moving forward. It entered the tunnel, which was practically pitch black except for the faint pink strip of light in the middle of the ceiling above. The boat ride was slow and there was faint relaxing music playing as we past areas that made up still scenes from romantic movies using either wooden dolls or statues. "This is creepy." Jughead whispered as I rested my head on his shoulder. "Yeh, it is a little isn't it but the lighting, music and hearts are romantic." I giggled. "Does this ride take photos?"He asked rubbing the bottom part of my back slowly. "Maybe at the end. We have to kiss just in case it does." I said looking up at him and. "You don't have to tell me to do that, I'd kiss you anytime of any day." Jughead smirked. "After this can we go on the Ferris wheel, and then go home?" I asked clinging onto the side of his arm, "If you want baby, I don't mind." He replied before kissing me.

After the love tunnel, we made our way to the Ferris wheel and waited around for around thirty minutes before finally getting to the front of the line. The man in charge lifted up the metal bar in front of the seats so we could access them. As we sat down it swung ever so slightly making me lean back. He placed the bar back down and I placed my left hand on the cold bar that sent shivers down my spine, with my free hand I hooked it around Jugheads arm and then held a tight grip onto the pole as the seat shook as the wheel began to slowly move backwards. "You okay?" Jughead asked as I rested my head on his shoulder. "I'm fine." I replied with a smile, "Are you scared?" He smirked and I rolled my eyes. "No." I shrugged. Bad choice. He began to shake his body back and forth making the metal long seat to move faster. "Jughead don't do that." I shrieked wrapping my arms around him and gripping onto him. "I thought you weren't scared?" He chuckled and even though I never felt more terrified I quietly laughed. "If I'm falling, your coming down with me." I added and he stopped shaking the seat.
The Ferris wheel stopped once we reached the top, meaning that people were switching at the bottom.

I rested my head back on his shoulder and stared at the beautiful sight. The sky was sea blue fading into a peachy pink colour as the sun set along the horizon. Outside of the carnival and car park, the big green trees seemed so small from such a height and they slowly faded black from the shadow made by the other trees. The carnival music was faint due to the height they were at. I was warm from my jacket and Jughead's arms that wrapped around me.

"This is great. Thank you." I whispered leaning my head more into the crook of his neck. "Don't thank me, I love taking you out." He replied. I lifted my head back up and faced him, staring into his blue and faintly green eyes. "I don't mean just this. You let me stay with you, you forgave me, you took me to the river, you've done a lot and I'm really grateful. It's been like heaven, and I couldn't thank you enough. After we get back from Canada and find me a place, I'll cook you the best meal you'll ever have." I said twirling his black raven hair from the back of his head. "Why don't you just stay with me, come and permanently live with me, we can get your stuff, we'll buy you a wardrobe," Jughead suggested, "Betts, we've been through a lot, and we'd spend most of our time at each other's places anyway, so we should just live together, unless you don't want to that's fine." He added flashing a smile. "It would be a lot more nicer to wake up next to you everyday." I replied, kissing his lips.

A/N: I have no idea what it looks like inside a tunnel of love so don't attack me. I also just watched 4x17, and Kevin owned that episode, and choni, everything else was just no, I feel bad for Jug and V, my babies. I also took so long since I was rereading to make sure there was nothing that was not understanding and I had to rewrite some of it since I had jughead saying "this is nice" and it reminded me too much of the promo for 4x18 which was promoted by a barchie scene.