Most would have thought that Riverdale would be back to being the quiet small American town after Hal Cooper was arrested but that was not what happened. The Cooper family were still trying to come to terms with the fact that the person that they called husband for 24 years and the person they called dad for 17 years turned out to be a mass murder.
Polly Cooper was the only one of the Cooper woman who was thinking of forgiving Hal because of some ludicrous nonsense that the farm cult put in her head. Alice Cooper was still in shock even though she and Hal had not been on good terms recently as Hal was having an affair with his late cousin's wife Penelope blossom mother of Cheryl Blossom who has just been emancipated and was living in thistle house with her nana and her girlfriend Toni.
Elizabeth 'Betty' Cooper was probably taking it the worse out of the Cooper woman, as she lay in bed at night afraid to sleep because nightmares her mind would wonder to weather her father ever killed chic the man who pretended and murder her brother she remembers that night as if it were yesterday calling the black hood arranging to take him to the cemetery and hand him over to the black hood to be killed.
she remembers sneaking her and chic out forcing him to walk holding a gun up to his head telling him to run she never found out weather he was actually killed as no body ever turned up and in Riverdale you learn to think no body no death the only other person to know that chic wasn't her real brother is her boyfriend Jughead Jones who helped tie him in the basement but was rushed away by his father Betty never told him what happened that night she also told people that chic moved away for work and left them to think he was her brother as it thats easier to say than turns out he was physco he killed a man in my living room and I'm an accessory to murder and he killed my real brother and then I delivered him to get murdered and then try and convince them that she is mentally stable.
She spent most of her nights sleepless and crying she was great full that she still had some cover up from when chic beat her up which no one knew about, she put cover up under her eyes but it wasn't enough you could still see the purple through the make up so she wiped it off and decided to just go without she looked in the mirror she was pale and had bags under her eyes but she didn't care she walked to school alone even though she knew Archie Veronica and Jughead were behind her trying to catch up to her but she didn't care she found herself not caring about much lately most of the time Alice was at the farm with Polly.
Archie was walking out of his front door and saw Jughead and Veronica stood on the sidewalk waiting for him.
'hey guys, what's up' Archie asked
'nothing much Archiekins'
'is betty walking with us'
'I'm not sure, she hasn't been taking the whole black hood situation very well'
'well let's go see if she's walking with us' Veronica said
they walked up to the coopers front door and knocked there was no answer so they opened the door and walked into the front room which was still trashed from when Hal attacked Alice and betty
'what the hell happened' jug said
'my dad before they arrested him' Betty said from the kitchen
'sorry betty we didn't see you there' Veronica said
'it's fine, but you need to leave now'
'what why'
'mother will be back soon and I need to clean up' which was complete lie she just didn't feel up to company
'where is she?'
'at the farm'
'oh ok bye then' Archie said
'see you later Betts' jug said
they walked out then Veronica walked towards Archies house
'Ronnie where are you going school is that way'
'Betty is my best friend I can tell when she's lying, I'm telling you she is about to walk out of that house and start walking to school'
and as if on cue Betty walked out of her house and started to walk to school
'but why would she lie that is the question'
'Betty' jughead shouted
Betty turned around and saw them walking towards her she turned and started to run hoping they wouldn't catch up but they did
'Betty, why did you lie?'
'i didn't lie I thought my mother was coming home but she called and she's gonna stay at the farm for a while'
'oh ok well we better hurry up because we are gonna be late'