After break-up, Jughead and Betty managed to be friends for entire year, having calls and texts, sharing things about their lifes in university. Jughead tried really hard to keep it that way until he couldn't. One drunken call and their lifes changed in many ways. They started the hating competition - how rude and mean you can be to each others, how can you hurt other one even more?
They don't see each other often, only few times in past several years, but they keep leaving messages here and there, hurtful ones. They hear things from their friends and family, but no, they don't wanna see each other. Jughead knows Betty likes to go out with Veronica and she works hard, she has a cat. Betty knows Jughead has a girlfriend, again, and he writes still.
Now they have to meet after years, and they have one new thing in common besides the hate and their history, a job at the same office.
⚠️ mature language and scenes
Also kind of a warning - slow burn.
Betty and Jughead are both 21 years old, they got engaged almost 2 years ago and have a 3 year old boy, Jayden. Jughead is a writer and also works at a construction site part time. Betty took over the Riverdale Register when her mom retired, it's a way to be home with Jayden when she can't find anyone to watch him.
Money has always been tight for them ever since they moved into their own little house yet they always figured everything out... that was until Betty found out she was pregnant again 6 months ago, they both started getting more and more stressed getting ready for their baby girl to come, they would see less of each other and when Jughead would come home he would go straight back out to the bar, leaving Betty alone and pregnant with their 3 year old son.