Sorry I have been so busy and my laptop broke and it took forever to get fixed but I'm back.
A clarification for Ana (guest), honestly her name was a rookie mistake, but her name is officially Charlotte, aka Charlie, and Betty was pregnant for 9 months, and Charlie is 9 almost 10, so I hope that clarifies it for you.
After Charlie's basketball game...
"Hey honey, you did so good, and your gonna stay at Isabella's house over the weekend"
"Thanks, mom"
The weekend...
Betty just got a text..
Hey it's Jughead, we need to talk.
Do we really need to.
Yes, we do, what's your address.
Ughh. She needed to get over this at one point, might as well do it right now.
Ok, fine. 347 Bayou Lane.
See you in 20.
Omg. She was going to talk to him. She just realized what she has been doing, she looked at her palms, and winced. There were half crescent scars on her palm, a habit she had quit when she had Charlie. She took a deep breath and thought. I need to distract myself for 20 minutes, just 20 minutes. She made some tea. Earl Grey, to calm her down. She paced by the kitchen counter waiting to hear the doorbell or the teapot's whistle. The doorbell came first.
Ding Dong.
She took a deep breathe and opened the door. She never really got a good look at him. She noticed he got more muscular, and some new tattoos. Though, he was still sporting his famous beanie, suspenders, and his serpent jacket. She saw him staring to. She was kind of thinner, no help from her pregnancy, and definitely some other features have gotten bigger, like her ass, and her breasts. Then the teapot whistled.
"Uhh, are you gonna get that"
Umm, yeah sorry, come in."
"It's okay"
She grabbed the teapot off the stove and grabbed a mug, poured the tea, and blew on it to cool it down. They stared a teacher,blue meeting blue.
You look really good Betts."
"Thank you"
"So, what did you want to talk about, Jughead"
She said it just like her mother. Betty immediately regretted saying it like that. But, she liked how it made Jughead wince.
"Well, in our uhh previous meetings you mentioned, that you have a daughter. And I just have one question, is it my kid?"
"Tell me Jug why do you have the right to know"
He looked her in the eyes and so many memories came flooding back, oh how bad she wanted to just feel his touch again, his comfort, the way she felt when he held her and she felt like no one could hurt her. But the one person she thought, wouldnt hurt her did. She looked away, couldn't bear the pain. Tears welling in her eyes.
"I don't but, all I need are answers, please. Betty, please just give me that, I don't deserve it, never said I did, don't think but, I need it."
And we need you, she thought. She started crying, and walked over and sat on her couch. Where she had fallen asleep so many times after restless nights, with Charlie. She breastfed her on this couch. Charlie has wanted to get a new one, but Betty couldn't get a new one, not after the memories. She noticed, Jug sat down next to her. He got closer, and put his arms around her, she melted at his touch, reliving memories. She decided to just get into it.
"The day you left, I had missed my period for a week, so I got a pregnancy test, and it was positive. Then, I heard about your father. So, I rushed to go find you. Her voice cracked, and she started sobbing. But, you were gone, and I was alone. She wiped her tears. Luckily, my parents were supportive, they didn't want what happened to Polly, happen to me. They hated you, though. I would barely eat for months, barley went to school. It was the worst experience of my life. But, then she was born, Charlotte Juliet Jones, my baby girl"
"You kept my name"
"I wanted ou- my daughter to have something from you"
Betty noticed that he was crying.
"I'm so sorry, Betts, that I put you through that. I left because it was for the best"
She got up so fast.
"That was for the best. Leaving me and my daughter, without even saying goodbye, I know you didn't know about her but, you didn't stick around long enough to find out. You thought that was for the best. Do you know what you did to me? The panic attacks I had, over my daughter thinking that her father left her, because she wasn't good enough for you. She sobbed. I almost lost my baby because of you. I wasn't eating and I was losing weight from crying so much, because how was I supposed to be good enough for her, how was I going to raise a kid by myself, let alone in high school. How could you do this to me, to us. I don't care that you hurt me, but you hurt my daughter."
Jughead was crying so hard, how could he do this, he thought leaving would be the best, it turned how to ruin his life. Betty layed back into Jughead arms, melting into him. He layed down, Betty's head, crying on his chest, he was crying into the top of her head, she still smelled like...vanilla.
