No one ever said that it would be this hard

Chapter 40

♾ Betty ♾

"Jug?" I asked. He hummed, turning around to face me "I've been thinking and I want you to go on drug runs again, just for a bit. Just for now to get a little push of money" he stopped playing with my hair and sat up.

"I can't. This is why we broken up. This is what caused all of these bad things last year. I won't risk what we have right now again. You said it was too dangerous"

"It is, but we need the money and I can't work right now. Besides, it would just be for... a month, if even. Get the necessary money and once those two here are out, I can work again too and then I'm sure that we are able to manage things again"

"You promise that's okay for you? Because I won't do it if you have only the slightest bit of doubt, I will not do it, okay?" He said and I nodded. To reassure him even more, I leaned over to kiss him.

"It's okay, I promise. We need the money and it's really only for the next time being. Just until labor"

"Uh, okay, yeah, I'll see what I can do"

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I woke up in Jughead's arms. Smiling, I lifted my head up to kiss his cheek. He grumbled something under his breath and then turned around, so that he wasn't facing me anymore. I chuckled and wrapped my arms around him again.

"Jug, wake up. Come on, I'm bored" I said and he groaned again. Though then he turned back around to face me, rubbing his hand over his face.

"Betts, please. I just came home at 6, I barely slept. Can you just... give me at least one more hour?" I pouted, though nodded and kissed him on the cheek before getting up. I grabbed some clothes and then left the room. After changing in the bathroom, I headed downstairs to make some breakfast.

Sitting down on the couch, I turned on the TV before starting to eat my oat milk. Not even a minute later, Jughead walked downstairs and settled down on the couch next to me. He hesitated, though then wrapped his arms around me again.

"You okay?" He hummed "I thought that you wanted to stay upstairs because you were tired and wanted to sleep some more?"

"Couldn't sleep. Wanted to see if I can help you in some way before having to leave for work"

"I don't have anything to do today. I was just going to watch some TV or read" he nodded.

"Sounds good. Is it okay if I ask Veronica to accompany you while I'm gone? I don't want you to be alone at the moment"

"Not that I would be completely okay when alone, but yeah, sure, text Veronica" he nodded and got up to get his phone. He and Veronica texted for a while, though he then put his phone on the table before cuddling up to me.

"Is it okay if I fall asleep here?"

"Of course" he nodded and pretty soon fell asleep. I watched some TV, read a bit from a book and then took a nap too. Around one, I became hungry, so I carefully pushed Jughead off of me and laid his head down on the pillow. I know that he preferred to do that stuff but he needed sleep, now more then before. He didn't sleep much over night anyways but he at least got some rest then. Now he was out somewhere, driving to wherever, so he needed more sleep. I didn't know a lot of details about what he was doing and I didn't want to either but I knew just enough. So I gave him every minute of sleep that he could get. Though it was useless anyways. Usually he was in reach of me within ten minutes again.