Backstory- Jughead and Betty have been married for 4 years now. Since jughead started drinking after their 2 year old passed due to heart failure which was 6 months ago, Betty gets sicken tiered and snaps revealing the truth.
⚠️TRIGGER WARNING, this story will have usage of alcohol and a death of a loved one as well as mentions of divorce, if any of these topics make you uncomfortable or hits close to home please do NOT read this chapter⚠️
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Betty walks down the stairs to be hit with the smell of alcohol. She turns to look and sees her husband sitting in the couch drinking his pain away with pictures of how they use to be. They use to sit on the couch together and have movie nights and dance around in princess costumes with their daughter but all of that was taken away by a flash of an eye when their 2 year old daughter Julie unexpectedly passed away in a cardiac arrest.
"I'm going out" betty says dressed in a short black tight dress, "uh uh" jughead says not even looking at her. Betty walks out and drives to the bar to met up with her friend since her husband became an alcoholic. As soon as the door closes jughead gets up and walks over to the fridge to grab another beer, he was stopped when he saw a picture of him and his daughter laughing at the beach. Tears filled in his eyes as he reaches out and touches the photo of his daughters face as he began to let out sobs. "I'm sorry..I'm so sorry princess..I know I promise you I would change..I'm trying..I'm trying so hard..daddy loves you so much" jughead sobs loudly and grabs the photo and leans it against the fridge and holds it close to his heart and sobs, "I miss you so much.." he sobs. His sobs soon became screams from anger ..at god..at himself.. he went silent and look back at the photo, "daddy's going to get the help he needs and everything will be okay.." he says and sobs and smiles as he remembers his daughters smile.
Jughead picked up and called the rehabilitation hospital. After awhile he had passed out in front of the fridge, the picture held close to his heart.
After a few hours betty walked in to the house and walked to the kitchen to see her husband sitting at the table holding a envelope. "What?" She asked him as he looks at her up and down "where the hell did you go dressed like that? You look good though" he says as betty rolls her eyes. "You're drunk" she says as he lets out a sigh "I guess it true, my wife is seeing someone else and doesn't even want her husband to compliment her" he says as betty turns and looks at him "what the hella re you talking about!? I'm not seeing anyone but you" she says as he chuckles "going to the bar, coming home late and your dressed like that! You don't even dress like that for me..and then..I pull out these while packing my shit" he says throwing the papers onto the counter top as Betty's eyes widen "you were supposed to find that" she says as he stands up, "when the fuck were you gonna tell me you were filling for a divorce!? Why didn't you talk to me!? Just because your a women and you know your worth my opinion on our marriage doesn't fucking matter!? We said our vows! We promised through sickness and health we'd stick together! And now our marriage doesn't matter because our daughter passed away!?" Jughead shouts "NO it's because you're a fucking alcoholic! You drink every damn day like you don't have a life anymore. Your gone jughead! You've been gone the moment juliet passed!" Betty shouts back "I agree with you, I'm an alcoholic and I'm a fucking mess but of course I'm fucking gone! I died when OUR daughter died! I am buried 6 feet under with her! And I'm drowning in pain having hang overs every morning just to feel something because right now..I'm numb I don't feel anything and right now this hung over is the only thing I can feel so yea..I drink. At least I don't go to a fucking bar every night dressed like a single person who isn't married. At least I don't take off my wedding band unlike you. I have more things to worry about then our fucking divorce, I'm not signing this shit" jughead says and begans to walk away "I hate you! I fucking hate you!" Betty shouts as jughead turns around "if you hate me so much what are you doing living in my house!?" Jughead shouts.
