It's the little things
Bughead: "sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your hearts."
When Betty was twenty-two she found out she was pregnant. She fell in love with her baby the minute she found out. She couldn't wait to love it and take care of it and dress it and be a mom. Betty called Jughead while she was still in the bathroom holding the fresh test. Jughead was just getting out of class when he got the call from Betty.
"I'm pregnant Jug," Betty said as soon as he picked up the phone.
Jughead felt all the exhaustion lift of his shoulders and be replaced by joy. "I love you. I'm so happy, baby."
Jughead skipped class to go to their first doctor's appointment. Betty was sitting on the chair bouncing her leg when the doctor walked in. He did her sonogram and on the screen popped up a small baby the size of a lime was in there with it's little heartbeat filling the room.
Betty posted the sonogram picture on Instagram and was overflowed with happy comments. She was so excited. She spent the rest of the night drinking tea and rubbing the small bump in her slim form. She felt so content and happy that she felt full. Her whole body was tingling.
When they found out the gender Betty was so happy her heart was beating faster than normal. She was standing in the shower that night with her hands on her baby bump. Even though the baby was only the size of a banana it felt like her whole world. Her whole world was controlled by this little banana.
By her sixth month mark, Betty was feeling crazy swollen and puffy but she still loved her tiny baby more than anything else in the world (don't tell Juggy). She had to start working her wedding planning company from home because it was too uncomfortable to go to work for long periods of time.
Veronica, Cheryl and Polly teamed up to throw her a baby shower. It was sparkly and gender neutral since Betty hadn't told anyone the baby's gender. All her friends some from the past and some newly made were there and they certainly showered her.
At seven months Betty started getting bad back aches and her legs started to swell up. Her doctor put her on bedrest and Betty's days became mind numbing blurs of TV, movies and food. No matter how bored or how much pain she was in she was still crazy in love with her baby. There was nothing that could change that. When Jughead was free he would come and sit with Betty and give her massages wherever she wanted.
He took her on one last date in the beginning of her eight month. They got dressed up fancy and drove to the classy restaurant in Greendale. Betty felt the nicest she had in two months. She was wearing a form fitting pink dress that showed of all her curves and the baby bump. They ate dinner and happily chatted or just took each other's presence in. they ordered desert and while they were waiting Jughead excuse himself to use the restroom. Desert came before Jughead was back, when Betty looked at the brownies she noticed the 'Will you marry me?' written in caramel drizzle. When she looked up Jughead was on one knee with a box held out. Betty stood up and one hand flew to her mouth, the other wrapping around the bottom of her bump.
"Yes, yes, yes, a million times yes," Betty said holing out her left hand. Jughead slipped the rose gold band that held a round diamond onto his now fiance's hand.
That night they slept cuddled together, well as much as they could with their baby in the way. At two in the morning Betty woke up feeling like she was going to puke. She ran to the bathroom. As she sat on the tiled floor the nausea passed and was replaced with intense pain in her back. She shouted for Jughead who came stumbling into the bathroom.
When the contractions were finally eight minutes apart Jughead drove Betty to the hospital. They couldn't give her an epidural until noon which meant hours of wailing and pain. After they gave her the pain meds she waited another four hours until her baby was born. She held her little girl on her chest. She was still surprised at how something so small could make her so happy. She looked up but the doctors looked concerned.
"Miss Cooper, please push again," one instructed.
Jughead came over and picked up his baby. Betty did as she was instructed and soon enough she had given birth to a second baby. They wrapped the second girl up and laid her on Betty's chest.
"Is that it?" Betty asked, panting and trying to catch her breath.
The doctors nodded and gave them a minute to choose names before the babies were taken for testing.
Five minutes later the doctors took Arabella and Juliet away. Arabella Alice and Juliet Charlotte Jones.
Later, once all the testing was done and the day's guests had gone Jughead and Betty were laying next to each other on the tiny bed, each holding one of their tiny daughters and feeling so incredibly happy all because of their tiny bundles.