Author's Notes: Alright everybody, the first and second chapter of The King and Queen is officially out now! On a note related to this story, Betty and Jughead are going to start thinking about baby names in this chapter. They know that they're having a boy now, which is super exciting. I debated them having a girl, but… I don't know. Boy just felt right for this story. I don't know why, but when I imagined Bughead having a baby, I didn't imagine them having a daughter. Don't ask questions, just read, lol.

BETTY'S POV

I don't know why… but I have the strangest feeling that Jughead's keeping something from me.

It could be something that has to do with the Serpents and he's going all, "If you're a part of this you'll get hurt,", but I'm not sure.

We were doing our homework. I was laying down on the bed with my belly facing up. My laptop was on my thighs, as close as they could be. Honestly, my hands were barely able to touch the keys. Jughead was sitting on the bay window, writing an essay for his history class, but he was focusing a lot on his phone.

I caught him texting someone and I quickly said, "Jughead, get back to work," sternly.

Surprised, he quickly tucked his phone under his legs (that were crossed), and went back to typing furiously at his essay.

I narrowed my eyes, but went back to my own work. I decided to just ignore it, because I was getting a bit annoyed and stressed, and I didn't want to be stressed, only wanting the best for my baby.

Two hours later…

Jug and I agreed that every two hours we would get a twenty minute break, otherwise we would both die from brain exhaustion. So far, we've had two brain breaks, and right now is our third. And… Jughead is texting this mystery person again.

He was so invested in his texting that he didn't even notice me angrily staring at him, with my arms crossed over my chest.

"You know, Jughead, if you're going to text your mistress, can you at least wait until I'm not in the room?" I asked snarkily. My hormones were raging,and I'd heard of pregnant women suspecting their significant others of cheating while they're pregnant, but this was a legitimate theory.

He gave me a look and asked, "Betty, do you seriously think I'd cheat on you?"

Shrugging nonchalantly I said, "I honestly don't know. But you've been on your phone all day, and whenever I address you, you hide your phone like you're trying to hide it from me. Are you not telling me something?"

Jughead smiled and said, "Betty, I promise. I'm not cheating on you. Fangs and Sweet Pea found something out about Penny Peabody. I was hiding it from you because I know you're going to try and investigate, like you did while I was asleep, and I don't want you doing that. I need your main priority to be keeping our baby safe, not finding out who put me in danger,"

"Seriously, Jughead?" I stressed. "Why wouldn't you tell me that? If you told me not to investigate, I wouldn't. I don't like it when you hide things from me,"

He had a guilty look on his face as he said, "I'm sorry, Betts. I really wasn't trying to keep things from you, I just want you to be safe and the least stressed as you can possibly be,"

"Well thank you, but no more secrets," I said. "Promise?"

"Promise."

The next day…

FP and Gladys had decided that Jughead and I needed some alone time. According to them, parenthood means absolutely zero alone time. Together, and alone in general. So, they decided that they were going to take Jellybean up to Greendale for the weekend, telling us to relish in the alone time that we had together while we could.

Right now, Jughead and I are making dinner together. We both decided that once the baby's born, we want to move out into our own apartment, meaning that we wouldn't have Jughead's mother to cook us food. We both wanted to get better at cooking while we could.

"Can't believe they actually left us alone for a weekend" Jughead smirked in my direction as he chopped the onions for the soup we were making.

I gave him an all-knowing look and said, "Oh, come on. I'm already pregnant, what are they trying to prevent? It's not like I'm going to get pregnant, while I'm also pregnant,"

"True, true," he replied.

We finished making dinner in almost silence, only talking to each other when we needed ingredients from each other.

It was really nice, cooking with Jughead. Truthfully, I snacked throughout the entire time. Pregnancy made me incredibly hungry. Honestly, I blamed Jughead's stomach which he passed down to our unborn son, which is unfortunate for me, being the one who has to feed our child with my own body for the next four months.

Once we were done, we each got our bowls of soup and sat down at the dinner table that we'd neglected to set. Since it was just the two of us, we thought we'd keep it simple, when normally, the table would be formally set so we could all have our respective spots exactly the same.

Jughead and I sat across from each other while we ate.

"You know, we really should start talking about baby names," I said, patting my stomach. "We're gonna need to have a name for this little nugget before we can take it home from the hospital,"

He just smirked at me, shoving another spoonful of food in his mouth. Once he was done, he said, "I mean, that does make sense. Do you have any names in mind?"

"Well, I haven't exactly looked," I said truthfully. "But maybe we could come up with a few names now."

He debated this in his head before saying, "Sure, why not?"

"What about Forsythe IIII?" I asked teasingly, knowing full well that he wouldn't want to do that.

"No," he said firmly.

I groaned and asked, "Why not? It's your grandpa's name, and your dad's name…. Your dad named you Forsythe for a reason, Forsythe!"

"That name is also the reason I go by Jughead," he said, a smile playing on his lips. "Let's not make it so our baby has to go by a dumb nickname,"

I touched his arm lovingly and said, "Your name isn't dumb! I like it,"

He gave me a look and said, "No you don't. You're just saying that because you feel bad,"

"Not true!" I insisted. "Fine, not Forsythe. You got any other name ideas?"

"Just like you, I haven't looked." he said simply, chewing on a carrot from the soup. "Maybe after dinner we should look up some names,"

We quickly finished our dinner and sat down on the couch, Jughead's laptop on his lap as we both looked at baby names online.

But the night didn't exactly end with us finishing up looking up baby names, and then we fell asleep. Something happened in between that that involved us being naked in our bedroom, something that if my mother found out about it, Farm or not, pregnant or not, she would have a literal heart attack.

The next morning…

I woke up to the smell of bacon being made in the kitchen. I jumped up, and waddled down the stairs to find Jughead cooking bacon… except he wasn't alone.

Toni, Sweet Pea, and Fangs were in the kitchen of our home, all three talking gravely to Jughead, none of them had seen me yet.

I stayed at the edge of the stairwell, a place where they couldn't see me, but I could hear them. They were talking about… me?

"Jug, you gotta make sure you can always see and hear her," Toni said. "She's in danger.

"What?!" the sound of my boyfriend turning around startled me, as he dropped what I think was a fork. "You came here just to tell me that my pregnant girlfriend is in danger?"

Fangs let out a long sigh and said, "Not at this very moment, no. But… Penny thinks that the only way she can get to you is if she gets to Betty. In her mind, the only things that you care about are Betty and your unborn son. She's willing to kill both,"

"She tracked me and Fangs down just to tell us that." Sweet Pea said gravely. "Just to warn you, she's most likely watching your house right now."

"Shit," Jughead muttered. "Toni, I need your help with something,"

Not wanting to hear anything else, I quickly scurried up the stairs and back to our bedroom. I grabbed a book and began reading it to act like I hadn't heard anything about me and my baby being in grave danger.

Not two minutes after I laid down on my bed and steadied my beating heart did Toni enter the bedroom, and sit down at my desk and start to talk to me.

"So… Jughead told me that you guys are having a boy?" Toni jump-started the conversation.

(Author: Sorry, just gonna intervene real quick to congratulate the actress who plays Toni on the show, Vanessa Morgan, on her pregnancy and that she's having a baby boy! So happy for her!)

I smiled at her, temporarily forgetting about what I'd just heard. I rubbed my belly comfortingly and said, "Yeah. We're so excited to be able to hold him,"

Toni smiled at Betty's stomach and said, "Me and Cheryl plan on adopting babies once we get old enough. We both agreed we want to have kids, but neither of us want to get artificially inseminated, so we decided we're just going to adopt,"

"Thinking pretty far into the future, huh?" I chuckled, continuing to rub my swollen stomach.

"Cheryl was the one who actually started the conversation," Toni chuckled. "She's already obsessed with the twins. Seeing you pregnant made her have severe baby fever,"

"Really?" I asked. "Who would've thought the Cheryl Bombshell wanted kids?"

"I did. We've both always wanted kids," Toni said simply.

"Oh…"

Toni's phone then rang, and she quickly said, "Uh… sorry Betty, but I gotta go. Uh… Polly's out with a friend, and Cheryl needs help with the twins," she said, jumping up and rushing down the stairs.

I rolled my eyes. That whole story about the twins with Cheryl, who needed help, was obviously a lie. Honestly, the most capable person to watch the twins was probably the one and only Cheryl Blossom. She could control those two like she had them hypnotized, which kind of got me thinking but… whatever, I can't worry about that right now.

I decided that if they were scheming, I didn't want to be a part of it. If they wanted to exclude me, and wanted me to be the perfect pregnant housewife, why not? Maybe it'll help keep my baby out of the crosshairs.

I knew Toni hadn't left (further proving that her Cheryl story was a lie) because I didn't hear any of the doors opening and closing. Besides, I heard them talking, even if they thought they were whispering.

And, Jughead at one point yelled (very loudly, might I add), "DAMMIT!" and I heard him slam his fist down on the kitchen counter.

Eventually, I decided I couldn't put up with being stuck in my room much longer. It was either I was feeling cabin fever, or I was getting starving (I'd woken up hungry). Deciding that I couldn't stave myself much longer, I got out of bed, and went downstairs.

"-so should we take her to the bunker?" Sweet Pea's voice asked Jughead.

"Hey guys," I said, interrupting their scheming. I gave Toni a fake look of confusion and asked, "I thought Cheryl needed help with the twins?"

Realizing I'd caught her, Toni quickly said, "Oh uh… Polly came back early, so she told me I could stay a little longer. Sorry I didn't come back up, Jughead wanted to catch up a bit,"

"Yeah, sorry Betts," Jug said quickly. "We all thought you were still asleep,"

I walked to the fridge to get some leftover soup from the night before. "So… what were you guys talking about? I've missed normal teenage conversation, fill me in!"

"Uh…" they all started, none of them actually wanting to tell me what they'd been talking about.

"Sweet Pea, who were you wondering if you should put in the bunker?" I asked. "And who's bunker? Does it have something to do with the fact that Penny Peabody wants to kill me to get to Jughead?"

I looked back at them with a smile on my face, refraining from laughing at the stunned looks on their faces. "I know you guys think you're whispering, but in all honesty, you all should take a class,"

I spooned some of the leftover soup into a bowl and put it in the microwave for thirty seconds, somewhat enjoying their stunned silence.

"Goddammit," Jughead muttered. He came up behind me, snaking his hands around until they finally landed on my belly. He knew I was annoyed, and figured that this would calm me down. Unfortunately, he was definitely right. "I'm sorry we didn't tell you,"

I broke away from him, the agitation I was feeling now present on my face. "Seriously, guys. I'm not dumb, either! I know you want me to stay out of everything and take care of myself, but I can't be doing that forever!"

All four of them had very guilty looks on their faces.

"I know you've been… bored here, and I'm sorry," Jughead's voice calmed me down somewhat, but not enough to let it go. "We just wanted to keep you safe,"

"He's telling the truth," Fangs intervened. "Honestly Betty, you and the baby are all he talks about. He's always telling us about how he would never forgive himself if something ever happened to you,"

Now this… this melted my very pregnant and hormonal heart. "Awww, Juggy…"

Giving into my hormones telling me to forgive him, I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled his face down to meet mine for a kiss.

We kissed passionately for a few moments, until we pulled our faces apart, a goofy smile on both of our lips.

"Okay, I'm thinking we should leave before you two start to bang in front of our faces," Toni said, a grossed-out expression on her face.

Sweet Pea and Fangs agreed with Toni, making them leave quickly, saying awkward and somewhat embarrassed goodbyes to me and Jughead.

The second the front door was closed, I giggled, and Jughead picked me up, carrying me to the couch, which was a lot harder now that I have extra weight to lug around.

Within minutes, our clothes were off, and we were having a very intimate moment together. Oh yes, we were definitely going to live up this alone time while we still could.

But then we both started to miss Gladys' somewhat gourmet cooking, and just ordered pizza for the second and last dinner we would be sharing together. While we did want to get better at cooking, we decided it would be best to just relax for the last night we had alone.

And boy, did we relax.

Author's Notes: Hey everyone! I had a lot of fun writing this chapter! By the way, I would just like to clarify that yes, Jughead is keeping something from Betty. He learned in the last chapter that his mother bought the drug trade in Riverdale, and he's trying to investigate a way to stop it. Sweet Pea, Fangs, and Toni are his right-hand people, the people he trusts the most. Toni is still a Serpent, and just like Fangs and Sweet Pea, she's trying to keep Betty and the baby safe. Honestly, it wouldn't be Riverdale if someone wasn't in grave danger, and while I know it might be a bit immoral, I chose Betty to be that person. Because she's pregnant with Jughead's baby; heavily pregnant, if you will, that sort of makes her a target for the people targeting Jughead. Will Penny Peabody get to Betty? Will the Serpents manage to get Betty to a safe place where Penny can't reach her? Find out in the next chapter of The Bump in the Road!