Just the three of us ~Bughead

Chapter Nine

Within half an hour Ronnie arrived after leaving the kids with Pea. I was still sitting on the floor crying. Ronnie immediately walked over to me asked what was wrong. "J... J...u...g" was all I was able to get out. I handed her the book and she read the blurb and then turned to the first page and her jaw dropped she started crying too. We just sat there crying hugging each other for a while.

I just wanted to know why did he fake his death and how does he know about Jayden and Jonas. After about an hour of crying Ronnie invited me to get food at the Southside equivalent of pop's called ma's ran by Ronnie's mum.  Ronnie message Pea and within half an hour he arrived with his and Ronnie's kids in the car. I hoped in the back of the car in the only available seat and we started heading to ma's. On the way there I messaged FP and told him to bring the boys and meet us at ma's.

We arrived at ma's and sat in one booth as us adults while the kids all sat in the booth next to us. It was dead silent in our booth with  o one talking  until  FP said "Betty are you ok? You look like you have been crying." I took a deep breath and sighed "Jughead is alive somewhere and knows what's happened in the six year he 'died'" I said really quickly. FP and Pea looked at each other in shock giving each other glares to speak. "Anything you want to tell me?" I asked.

"Do you want the short story or the long story?" Pea asked. "Of course I want the long story dumb*ss." I snapped. "Well" FP started "Six years ago the ghoulies threatened us Serpents and said they would kill you if Jughead didn't fake his death. So jughead faked his death and the phone call you got saying he had died was from a serpent in the Toledo Serpents not from an official place like the hospital or the police." I sat there shocked and having tears rolling down my face but I nodded my head for FP to continue.

"Sweet Pea here was in charge of getting pictures and details of your life to send to jughead so that's why he went on secret serpent missions." So that's why he kept taling pictures I thought to myself. "Jughead decided he would fake his death until the ghoulies had gone and/or died so it was safe. As you know the ghoulies are no longer a problem so it is safe. While faking his death Jughead wrote a book about the situation without giving too much away as he wrote it as fictional characters in a fictional town but it was based of Riverdale especially the Southside. Now it is safe he published his book under a pen name so no one would know it would be him unless they really thought about it. I dropped the books of at your bookshops front door late one night and I guess you read it and that's why we're here today." FP said

Wow. I was shocked and tears will quickly running down my face. Wow.