Riverdale OneShots

The Bully (Part 1)

(TW self harm)

Jughead Jones made Betty Coopers life living hell. She had been tortured by him and his friends Toni, Archie, Veronica, Sweet Pea and Fangs for years. Her only escape were her cousin Cheryl Blossom and best friend Kevn Keller. Her mother, father, and sister Polly died in a car crash the previous year. They were incredibly close and it broke Betty completely. She was still recovering. But if that was shown to anyone at school the bullying got even worse.

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Betty was walking down the hall to her locker and heard the obnoxiously loud tormentors heading her way. She sped up and hid behind her locker grabbing a book. Closing the locker, she turned around and faced the group now behind her.

"Not today." she mumbled under breath, trying to find a opening through their arms.

"Oh yes today." Jughead smirked at the girl now stuck with no way out. "We just wanted to tell you something." Toni laughed. "You really are a nobody, Cooper. Just thought you should know." Jughead began to walk away before he was caught suprise by her voice.

"You know what? I really am a nobody. And I don't deserve to live. Unlike some people who really should be alive, but due to asshole drunks who can't just take a fucking cab, they aren't." She began yelling in the middle of the hall, gaining confidence from the look of shock on his face. "And I really wish that I was dead at this point. And I really dont need your bullshit today Forsythe! So fuck you!" she stormed away from the hall into the newspaper where she worked alone.

"What did she mean by she wishes she was dead?" Jughead asked the group worriedly. "It was probably something just to get us to stop messing with her. We won't though. You aren't worried about her, are you, Jug?" Toni responded, laughing at the concerned look on her friends face. "N-no of course not." Jughead regained his composure and sauntered back down the hall.

Two periods later, Jughead and Betty shared a math class. Betty resumed her normal seat in the front row, Jughead in the back. He stared at her the entire period until the teacher announced a group project.

"Ok. So the partners will be, Muggs and Midge, Blossom and Keller, Cooper and Jones, Andrews and Topaz..." The two enemies stopped listening at that point, now surprised that they had to work together. Betty groaned and gathered her stuff as the bell was about to ring. She ran up to her bully and spoke to him before running home.

"Mr.Smith never let's us change partners, so we're stuck. Just come over to my house at 6. Hopefully we can get this over with soon." He stared after her running through the halls, wondering what she went through to blow up at him like that earlier.

As soon as Betty got home she dropped her bag in her room and cleaned up the living room. It was covered in stray papers from studying and pictures of her family she would look at when she missed them. After cleaning she ate a quick meal before the doorbell rang.

"Let's get this over with." was all Jughead was greeted with before being ushered into the living room. He looked down at the clean coffee table and set his bag down next to it, sitting down on the couch with Betty. He grabbed a photo that Betty forgot to put away and stared at it for a moment. It was a photo of Hal and Alice holding the hand of a 10 year old Betty and 13 year old Polly. It was taken at Polly's 13th birthday. The small family looked happy in the photo.

"Who's this?" he asked, passing the photo back over to the grown up girl in the photo. "My family. It was taken 6 years ago." Betty replied, getting up to put it away in the shoebox full of other ones. "Where are they?" he asked when she sat back down. "Dead. Car crash. Last year." was all Betty said before taking a book off the coffee table and began reading. She had trained herself to not break down in front of people who didn't really care.