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The silence fell upon them and Jughead looked at Betty waiting for her response. Whatever she told them he would support she knew that. Veronica glared at the pair raising her eyebrow ... waiting. Whilst Archie sat there finishing his full breakfast almost content with how this was unfolding like he knew something.
"No of course i'm not Archie. Why would you say that?" She giggled to herself and relaxed into her chair reaching for Jughead's hand. Archie leaned forward and pointed to Jughead.
"Because F.P told my dad that Jug was buying me a pregnancy test for some girl I knocked up. Why would you say that?" His face smug, he knew he caught them off guard now. He was waiting to ask Jughead about the whole story which led to his dad sitting him down for a sex education chat, not what he wanted.
Red faces Betty looked at Jug. They were caught out by a stupid lie that they figured would be safe. But then trusting F.P was always a mistake. Taking a deep breath her chest tight, she released.
"FINE! I'm pregnant okay? Are you happy now Archie? Happy that you've just announced to the whole cafe i'm pregnant? Instead of being a gentleman and waiting for me to tell you?!" By now Betty was making herself aggravated. How could her so called best friend just attack her like that? Jughead went to hug her but she grabbed her bag, threw down change for her drink and left the cafe.
"Betty wait lets talk about it?" Veronica stood up but Archie placed his hand in front of her sitting her back.
"Let her be V, she needs to breathe. Jug I didn't mean for that to upset her? I thought she would be cool about it?" He looked around checking no one heard him and Veronica nudged his arm in a way that suggested he was out of line.
"Look. Keep this between us okay. You need to make this up to her pronto!" Jugehead grabbed his coat and went after Betty who was sat in the parking lot sobbing into her jacket sleeves.
"Here you go. It's alright Bet he didn't mean it and even if he did no one else heard I checked." Jughead passed her some napkins from the cafe.
"I know he meant no harm but it just seemed so unfair. They deserved to know in a better way...Not like that." She wiped away her tears in the napkin and stood up.
"I know but now that they know think how easy this is for us now." He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her in for a tight hug she embraced it. She let out a sigh of relief and pulled her head away before kissing him gently.
"Thank you Juggy. Just for being here, for me, this baby. Everything. You had the option to bail and say it was too much and you didn't. You're more of a father already that what you had."
"Thank you, we are not our parents I've always stood by that. And I will continue to prove not only me but everyone in this judgemental town. That not all of the Jones family are alcoholic failures, and not all of the young parents are deemd to have their lives ruined." He smiled and pulled her close gently around her stomach.
"And I will give my life to make sure that our child has a father their proud of, and that the love of my life has a man she is lucky to call hers." They turned around towards the bus stop exited for the appointment waiting for them that could confirm more about their bundle of joy.
So now that their friends know how will everyone else take the news?!