The Dark World

A New Lead

Jughead knocked on my door at night as I laid on my bed still playing with my dangling necklace. The door was shut but not locked. "Come in" I said. The door slowly opened as Jughead came in holding papers.

"How you holding up?" He asked taking off his beanie and putting it on my side table. I sat up and shrugged. He sat down on the end of my bed. He eyed the untouched tea in my corner. "When did your mom bring you that?" He said. "Noonish, right after you left." "When did you last eat?" He continued as I gave him a look. "I don't know?" "Betty." He said looking at me concerned. "Your ribs are going to start to show if you don't eat." "I will okay? I'm just not hungrey." He backed off and put his hands up.

"What are those Jug?" I said pointing to the papers. "Your going to love this Betty, we may have found out something about how Polly was treated." He handed me a peice of paper with a bunch of notes hand written. He pointed to a section. "They have a tapes Betty, of punishments." I looked at him with wide eyes. "Punishments? What kind of punishments?" "I don't know but I had a plan, maybe with the serpents-I" "I'm coming with you." I said. "No betty, your going to get hurt or worse." He looked at me with a worried look. "It's my family my problem, I want to know." I persisted. He sighed and put his hand on his face and rubbed his eyes. "Fine, but the serpents are coming and that's a must, just in case we need backup." "Which we won't need," I put a hand on his arm as he looked at me. "Because we will be in and out."

The Next Day me and Jughead talked to the serpents. I felt very akward alone. "So this is the plan, Sweet Pea, Fangs you two will guard the doors, and the rest of you will stay around for backup just in case something happens." He turned to look at me. I raised my eyebrows. He wanted me to add on. "Which we won't need because we are going at night, they should be asleep by then." I said gulping nervously. I much rather be in my room right now.