Jughead calls Betty and asks her to meet him because he wants to talk about the things that have happened. This is right after the end of episode 10 in season 3.

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I get no more than five seconds alone before I pull my phone out and call Betty. She answers on the second ring, sounding erratic and confused.

"Bets?" I ask. I need to hear her voice. I need her sanity in these last moments of utter misperception.

"What is it, Jug? I'm, uh, a little busy here," she says. She sounds quiet, almost as if she is far away from something. Maybe even far away from me.

"What are you doing? Where are you?" I ask her.

"I'm visiting someone. I'm…what do you need, Jughead?" she asks. She almost sounds as if she is annoyed. I can't have her being annoyed at me when I need her help. There is too much going on for me to be alone in this.

"Where are you? Why do you sound quiet?" I ask.

I put the pieces together like the simplest of first grade puzzles. She is being quiet, not as if she does not want someone to hear her. It is almost as if the phone is breaking up. I can hear her but it sounds far away, like it is in a tunnel.

She doesn't want to tell me where she is. She isn't answering me. She is trying to avoid all of my questions and she doesn't want to be on the phone.

"Tell me you aren't where you are," I say.

"Jug," she argues.

"Betty Cooper get the hell home right now," I beg.

"Jug. I promise I'm safe."

I don't care what she says about that. I don't believe that she is safe. If she is really visiting that devil of a man, I do not believe that she could ever be safe with him. Why would she be talking to him again?

"Betty, please. I need you to come back to the trailer," I say.

"Why? What's wrong?"

I can't hold back this frustration and anger. I want to tell her the entire truth of what I am thinking but I won't break like that over the phone. I just want her to come home so we can work this out together.

"What's wrong is that the Serpents are having a party and we just got a bomb dropped on us bigger than Hiroshima. So I need you to get over here and be a Serpent Queen for the night." I realize how terrible I sound. I run my hand down my face and sit at the edge of my couch. I can still hear the sound of the music and the shouting outside of my door. They are all having the time of their lives. I am still trying to figure out what the hell I am going to do with them. "Please," I add.

"Juggie," she says, almost as if whispering. "What's wrong?"

"My dad is the new Sheriff," I say.

There is silence.

"What? How?" she asks.

"Ask him. I have no idea. But I think they are all covering for something again. they know each other too well. He is working with someone on this. He didn't get it on his own. But he won't talk about it yet. He said he wants us to enjoy the party," I explain.

"Alright. I'll be there soon," she says.

"Wait," I say.

She doesn't say anything. I wonder if she hung up.

"Betty?"

"Yeah?"

"Are you with your dad?" I ask.

"Yes."

I hang up.

I don't have to wait long before Betty arrives to the trailer. By the time she does, my shoes are off and my hat is sitting on the couch beside me. I have leaned myself back far enough that my head is resting on the back when I hear her.

"Jug?" she asks. "What's up with the party?"

I turn my head to her. My eyes are throbbing, though there is no light in the trailer at the moment. I don't move. She walks over to me and sits down at the edge of the couch, putting her hand to my warm head. I have been thinking too god damn much lately.

"Oh, Fangs and Sweet Pea killed Tall-Boy. So I threw a party to make sure that they would act cool and that no one suspected anything," I say.

"What?" she asks.

I just nod.

"What else happened?"

"My dad's the sheriff."

She nods, as if waiting.

"Hyrum was shot. I hope he dies but with our luck, he'll survive. I have no idea how my dad got this position. Archie is going insane. You are talking to your dad for some god forsaken reason and I am here…trying to clean up a dead body," I say and then give myself a short but terrible laugh. "Like father like son, I guess."

"Oh and Penelope Blossom is pretending to be my mom so she can get sex visits at the prison. My real mom, however, gave all of my funds to the farm and now they are residing in what used to be the Sisters of Quiet Mercy."

"Play on," I mumble to myself, letting my head fall back against the couch once more.

"What do we do?" she asks.

"Right now?" I ask myself. I sit up and look out the window. The party has continued to play on. "Later, I am going to consider letting Toni and Cheryl back into the Serpents on a conditional basis. Then I am going to get to the bottom of this thing with my dad. I am going to pray that the man in black dies. I am going to try to get Archie to focus back on what is going on in Riverdale."

She leans forward, close to me so that her arm drapes over my back and plays with my hair under my hat. I let her, smiling a little bit more every moment that she does it. it is so calming, I almost fall asleep.

"What about right now?" she asks.

"Right now?" I ask again. she nods.

"Right now, we're going to have a party of our own," I say.

I grab her leg and pull her close to me. She rests her thigh on the other side of me so I can hold my hands against her back. We kiss for a long moment before we stare into each other's eyes.

"Archie told me that he and V broke up," she says.

"What?"

"Yeah. They're done."

"God, Bets. Everything is so weird right now. I don't know what to do about all of that on the outside," I say. "But I know that right now, I don't want to think about any of it. We promised that when dark times come, we wouldn't push each other away."

"We won't," she promises. I trust her. I trust that.

"I love you," I say.

"I love you too."

I put my hands on her back as I pull her shirt off, sealing our passion with a deep and long lasting kiss.