Real

5

TW for self-harm if this may trigger you please don't read.

She hadn't come back yet after 3 days.

Jughead knew he had royally screwed up.

Familiar panic of abandonment filled his gut. The heat and full feeling of the guilt almost made him want to be sick.

She had left just the same as Betty had.

But unlike Betty, she was yet to return.

He just missed her so much.

The past night without her in the apartment was the loneliest night of his life. A

Archie hadn't stopped texting him.

Frankly, it was getting on his nerves.

All he wanted all he craved and all he needed was her.

So here he was on the sidewalk in front of the Home Depot he got a job at wishing her to come to him. He looked up from studying his hands and there she was.

But it wasn't her.

No most definitely wasn't her.

He rubbed his eyes.

There she was still before him.

Standing there in all her beauty.

"I hate you Jughead and as does everyone else" she evilly spat at him.

The same words Betty had uttered to him.

He could no longer see her.

Just hear her.

"You're an idiot for treating the way you did."

"No one loves you, No one" she spat viciously at him.

He was loving the cruel words she spitting at him.

They sounded so beautiful coming from those wonderful lips.

"Look I'm so sorry" Jughead tried to apologize to her.

All he needed was her forgiveness.

"No you don't" she spat.

"You don't love me if you loved you wouldn't sleep" she hissed in his ear.

He could feel her warm breath on his ear but he could not see her.

"I'm sorry it won't happen again just please come back" Jughead begged hot tears blurring his vision making the street lamp lights look odd.

"No you need to learn a lesson you won't be seeing me for a while."

With every word, she spoke he felt his heart cracking.

"If you truly love me then in the time I'm gone you won't sleep or speak to anyone," she said her voice somehow becoming warmer.

The thought of her coming back warmed his heart.

"I'll do anything for you to forgive me, "Jughead said speaking his thought aloud.

Then her face was right in front of him "Thank you Jughead time will tell though" then she was gone.

He wasn't sure if he blinked and she was gone or she disappeared.

Jughead pulled himself up from the sidewalk determined to fulfil her wishes.

He had to do as she asked he had to.

He loved her.

He needed her presence with him to keep him sane.

The first thing he did when he got home was text, Archie.