Sedillo6

Megan Sedillo

Rachael Krygsman

English 211

September 25, 2018

Fanfiction Writing

Introduction

Three months had gone by since Jugheads run in with the rival gang the ghoulies and with the start of another school year coming around his life is just going to get that much more complicated. While Jughead has recovered physically from his wounds he still is struggling mentally, at first the gang (his 3 best friends) was around him almost 24/7 making sure that he was okay but after the first month they slowly started to fade away drifting back into their own personal lives.

Archie had gone off to spend most of the summer with his mom out in Chicago while Veronica and her mom took some time away to recover since Veronicas fathers recent "business goals" had been uncovered and caused a strain on their family, and Betty poor Betty had to stay in Riverdale all summer not only to be with Jughead but to also face the wrath of the towns recent discovery that her father ended up being the black hood. Betty was there for Jughead and Jughead was there for Betty, but the emotional healing of Jugheads Trauma was far from over. He hid the fact that he constantly was awakened in the night from flashbacks and terrifying nightmares of that night with the ghoulies all he could remember was the pain from every punch, the impact of every kick and everything he was going to lose by giving himself up, he remembers nothing after blacking out only what he saw in the mirror in the hospital and from what Fp told him about when he found him. Fp had said to him that in the moment he found Jughead he had never been more scared in his life as Jughead was laying lifeless in the dirt and looked almost unrecognizable as Fp had knelt over his sons' body and prepared for the worst. Thankfully it hadn't been to late and Jughead was okay, well as okay as you can be after being beaten within an inch of your life, but while he did a fairly good job about hiding how he has recovered the gang doesn't know how affected he still is emotionally.

Jughead only hid his feelings for the fact that he didn't want to burden anybody else with his issues as everyone in Riverdale always seems to be going through some type of crazy shit of their own and with his newest position within the southside serpents as leader he did not want to portray himself as week. Jughead thought it was his job now to be the strong one for everybody else to lean on and look up to even if that meant hiding his emotions and pushing his feeling to the side, however with the beginning of the new school year and more drama unfolding in the town of Riverdale Jugheads life is about to take an unexpected turn forcing him into a downward spiral that is going to force him to deal with everything he has built up inside and it's going to be one long unexpected road to recovery.

It had been weeks since the entire gang was together with Archie and Veronica gone Jughead and betty had grown closer than ever before the past year had been more than most could handle but with the start of school they were all hoping to get back to living their high school drama filled lives together, instead of worrying about hunting down vigilantes and dealing with rival gangs.

It was around 7:45 a.m. when Betty walked into the newspaper room at Riverdale high and set her eyes on the Jughead who was already hard at work working on this week's edition of the school newspaper. "you can slow down you know? It's the first day of school there's no sense in worrying about what to write this early we have all week." Betty said as she leaned down and kissed Jughead on the cheek. She waited for a sarcastic comment to come out of his mouth but instead he muttered "I know your right" he looked at her, flashed a smile, got up and said, "let's go wait for Archie and Veronica in the lounge." Betty was all to eager to see her best friends again and was delightfully surprised to see Jughead felt the same way.

As Jughead and Betty walked down the hallways of Riverdale high the atmosphere was different, last year the integration of the students from Southside high into Riverdale high caused complete chaos. Neither of the schools were happy with the decision but they had no other choice. But this semester it was different the Southside students and Riverdale students became more alike then not, there were no fights arguments or vandalism just peers among one another. A short silent walk later betty and jughead had arrived at the lounge and took their respective seats on the old red velvet couch sitting in the middle of the room. By this time, it was 8 o'clock and you could hear the familiar sound of Veronicas heels clicking against the floor of the hallway, the sound got louder and louder until Veronica appeared in the doorway with Archie not far behind. The two had been laughing, probably about something stupid that Archie had said. Veronica then turned and saw Betty and immediately began walking in her direction. "Betty!" Veronica squealed as she opened her arms for a hug. Betty then got up and had the same reaction "Veronica I missed you!" the two then embraced in a quick hug. They began to catch up and as soon as the topic of fashion came up Archie and Jughead had decided to tune them out. Instead of a hug the two settled for a manly handshake and a head nod to one another.

Archie started off the conversation by asking jughead how he was doing, to which Jughead replied as just fine. But the truth was that jughead was not fine he was far from it, the night before he had barely slept, the bags that fell from under his eyes had supported this, Jughead was having traumatic flashbacks, he hadn't felt unsafe and he hadn't had a problem physically, but mentally he had never felt more fucked up. It was something that he didn't know how to fix and something he was to proud to admit to so for now his answer of "just fine" was going to suffice to anybody else who had asked.

The brown leather, dilapidated watch around jugheads wrist marked 3:42p.m. it was the end of the school day and jughead decided to go for a bite alone at pops diner when the sound of distant sirens began getting louder and louder until jughead eventually saw flashing red and blue lights on several patrol cars in the distance. It wasn't a common site to see in Riverdale but jughead figured the town had reached its quota of crazy shit happening for at least the rest of the year and didn't seem to be interested in finding out what the cause of these sirens could be. A short while later jughead was sitting in booth at pops diner with his half-eaten burger and fries when Kevin walks in frantically. after scanning the room Kevin locked eyes on jughead and sat across from him. Kevin was friends with all of them betty, veronica, Archie and even jughead but the two had never really spent any alone time together so the atmosphere was awkward at first but changed when jughead saw the look on Kevin's face.

"look Kev I was kind of hoping to be" jughead began to say but was quickly cut off by Kevin

"did you hear?" Kevin asked

"hear what?" jughead replied

"the sirens going through town" Kevin said

"yeah Kev I saw them what about it?" jughead said, he was beginning to get annoyed by Kevin's dramatic questions that were giving him no answers.

"my dad just called me and told me that he got an anonymous tip that there was a body laying on the edge of the lake" Kevin said while looking around frantically

"what do you mean they found a body" jug head said

"come on jug you're not 5 a body there's a dead body laying outside of the lake and my dad said she can't be any older than 16 or 17, blond hair but unrecognizable, do you know what that means jughead, that means that someone is out there killing people our age"

"you don't know that it could have just been an accident, your being overdramatic Kev" jughead knew deep down inside that the likely hood of this being an accident was wishful thinking, but he didn't have the mental compacity to deal with a murder who had an axe to grind with kids of Riverdale.

"IT WASN'T an accident" Kevin snapped "my dad said she was bruised and beaten, tied with rope and blood was everywhere."

Jugheads mind began to race he hadn't seen betty since the morning, he got this ill feeling inside of him his heart began to pound harder and harder. He reached for his phone praying that betty would pick up, he called but there was no answer, he tried again and again, still no answer. In this moment he began to panic.

"Kev have you seen betty?"

"no not since 3rd period" Kevin answered

This made jughead feel nauseous he jumped out of the booth and said "I have to go find betty"

"that's not all jug." Kevin stated

"what do you mean that's not all?" jughead stopped and asked