I couldn't sleep. Today had been just too weird; explaining to my friends that my dad had married some girl without even telling me. I didn't tell them the whole story; just what was necessary. I pulled on a t-shirt and went downstairs to get a drink of water. The light was on in the kitchen; I guess I'm not the only one that couldn't sleep. Anna was there wearing one of my dad's t-shirts and a pair of shorts. It was the first time I saw her without her arms and legs covered; her skin was scarred, healed cuts and burns covered her body.
"Impreasive aren't they?" She spoke without even turning around. She was cooking something.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to stare, I was just hungry I didn't know that you were down here." I felt stupid. She pulled two bowls down from the cupboard and filled them with with goopy substance.
"It tastes better than it looks, my grandma used to make it for me when I was young." She pulled out a bar stool and sat next to me.
" He really did save your life." I said right before I took a bite of what turned out to be cinnamon applesauce and it did actually taste really good.
"I would have died that night had he not made that deal. I spent weeks in the hospital, and when I got out I found out my ex husband went missing."
"Was he ever found?"
"No, after a few months he was pronounced dead." I immediately grew suspicious. We finished eating and went back to bed. Thoughts were spinning in my head trying to sort out the possibility that she, or my dad, had killed her ex husband for revenge, or insurance money. I drifted off to sleep; a few hours later I heard an alarm coming from Anna's room. I pulled on a pair of jeans, a new t-shirt, and my hat. I walked down the stairs and poured myself a bowl of cheerio's.
"I thought you would sleep in." Anna said as she walked in the kitchen.
"I guess I'm a morning person," I said with a mouth full of cereal, "where are you going this morning?"
"I'm going to visit your dad. He's hidden that video and I want to know where it is."
"You think he's just going to give it to you?"
"No, if he's sitting in jail he's protecting someone."
"But Blossom is dead. He can't hurt anyone."
"But if he had some kind of information he could."
"So I guess you should convince him."
"Come with me Jughead." I wrote Archie a note just in case he woke up before noon and followed her out to the car. She drove to the station and we followed an officer to his cell.
" Back so soon?" FP was amused.
"You know what I want." They looked at each other with fire in their eyes. In this moment it was hard to tell if they wanted to kill each other or fuck each other, both probably.
"You know I can't give it to you."
"You'd rather rot in jail than be with your family?"
"I'm doing this for my family." My dad yelled at her slamming his fist into the wall.
"Don't play the martyr FP. It's not a good look for you."
"Fine, come here." He grabbed her through the bars and kissed her, I turned away not wanting to see. A cop came running through the hall.
"No touching!" The cop yelled.
"Sorry, I just can't keep my hands off her." Dad said coyly. "They're just leaving. It's good to see you Jughead." He said before we turned around and walked out.
"What the hell was that?" I asked. Anna put up a hard not speaking until we got to the car. She then spit something out into her hand. "Is that a flash drive?" My voice filled with disbelief.
"We got what we came for." Anna's face filled with joy.
