Betty woke up the next morning to the smell of waffles and bacon. She sat up on the couch and set aside the blanket that was draped over her. She walked over to the kitchen and hugged Jughead from the back.
“Good morning beautiful” Jughead said
“You haven’t even looked at me yet” Betty said with a slight laugh
“Your always beautiful” Jughead said turning around to face her.
She immediately leaned up to kiss him. “Sorry about my morning breath” Betty said when she pulled away.
“I don’t mind” Jughead said smiling
“I’m just going to go take a quick shower. Hopefully I don’t flood your apartment also” Betty said
Jughead felt bad because he didn’t want Betty to feel like the flood was her fault, but soon looked up and saw her face smiling.
She grabbed some clean clothes from the pile of stuff from her apartment and headed to the bathroom. When she stepped in the shower she let out a long sigh as the hot water hit her body. ‘How amazing is Jughead. He is so caring. How do I deserve him? I can’t believe we exchanged I love yous.’ Betty had known she loved Jughead for a little bit but hadn’t admitted it to him or herself really until last night. And how good it felt, especially since he reciprocated her feelings.
Betty stepped out of the shower, got dressed, brushed her teeth and loosely french braided her hair. When she walked back into the kitchen she saw that Jughead had set out an amazing spread on the table for the two of them. Eggs, bacon, waffles, strawberries, orange juice, and two lit candles in the middle of the table. Jughead went over to her side of the table and pulled out her chair and gestured for her to sit down, then went to the seat opposite her and sat down.
“Jug, this looks amazing! Thank you so much” Betty said gazing at the table
“Anything for my favorite person” Jughead said winking
As they ate, Betty was almost positive Jughead had eaten about 8 waffles.
“How on earth does that all fit inside of you?” Betty said shaking her head
“I don’t know I just love food, it’s my passion in life, didn’t you know?” Jughead said giving Betty a teasing smile.
“Who do you love more, me or food?” Betty asked instantly regretting it as she didn’t want to push the word on him more.
Jughead proceeded to go around the table and pick Betty up by the waist and carried her to the couch. He came down on top of her and started kissing her passionately and with such intensity that Betty had turned to mush beneath him as he moved to her neck.
“Jug” Betty breathed, “You left your plate full of eggs and bacon over there”
Jughead immediately pulled back and looked at her with a great big smile on his face, “Does that answer your question Betty Cooper?”
She just smiled.
Later that day Betty got a call from Veronica. She picked up in the living room while Jughead was changing his sheets in his room.
“Hello” Betty said
“Hey Betty, How are you?” Veronica asked
Betty sighed
“Betty what is it?”
She told her all about her apartment and how Jughead let her stay with him.
“Wait so you're just staying in his house?”
“Yeah he insisted and has been taking really good care of me, you won’t believe how sweet he is.”
“Oh, that’s good. Are you ok though, like after the flooding?”
“Yeah, well I had a little bit of a panic yesterday, but it’s been fine today. I just don’t know how long it will take them to fix it”
“Well I’m sure as long as you’re with Jughead, your in good hands”
“I can literally hear you winking at me V”
“You got me”
“Thanks for calling to check in, your really sweet”
“Of course, I’ll call you soon B”
“Bye”
“Bye”
Just then Jughead walked out of his room.
“Hey, I cleared a drawer in my dresser, so you can put some clothes in it instead of having them in a crinkled pile on the floor.” Jughead said
Betty walked up to him smiling and placed a gentle kiss on his lips. “You’re the best… You know you didn’t have to offer your house to me, I could have stayed somewhere else…”
“Betty” Jughead said sounding a little offended.
“What?”
“I wouldn’t have offered my house to you if I didn’t want you to stay here… I love you, and I wouldn’t have you stay anywhere else… in fact i’m excited for you to stay here, we spend most our days together anyways, and now we can spend even more time together. I don’t want you to feel like an inconvenience to me, because you’re definitely not.”
“I love you too” Betty said hugging him, she leaned back to look at him, “Thank you”
“Anything for my beloved”
They folded and put Betty’s clothes in the drawer and then went to cuddle on the couch and watch some TV.
“What do you want for dinner?” Jughead asked
“Whatever you want Jug”
“Pizza it is!” Jughead said getting up to get the phone to order in. He ordered their usual and went back to Betty on the couch.
“Where were we?” Jughead asked
Betty jumped up and on to his lap as soon as he sat down and put her arms around his neck and cuddled in to him.
Jughead smiled and exhaled letting all negativity leave his body as he snuggled Betty closer, inhaling her scent.
They sat like that for a while before the pizza arrived. Jughead got up and put their pizza on a couple of plates and brought 2 mugs of tea over to the couch and handed them to Betty.
“Thank you. Oh my God! Jughead, you grabbed my Star Wars mug?” Betty exclaimed.
Jughead smiled and winked at her before sitting down and tucking in to his pizza. Before he could swallow, Betty took his face in her hands and kissed him.
“I love you” Betty said
Jughead swallowed and pulled her in for another kiss, but this time they didn’t stop.
After a while Betty heard Jughead’s stomach growl.
“Hey, maybe we should stop kissing, and eat our pizza.” Betty let out in a breath.
“Ok but I don’t know how long I’ll last” Jughead said winking
“You sure like winking at me Mr. Jones” Betty said
“Yeah… I think I get it from my dad. He had a way of making you want to smile… that is accept for when he was getting into trouble with the Serpents”
Betty instinctively grabbed his hand on the couch next to her.
“Sorry, I didn’t mean to lower the tone” Jughead said with a slight laugh as he stared at the floor.
“No, I like hearing about your life, tell me more if you want to” Betty said cuddling closer to him.
“Well… my dad was the Serpent’s leader essentially, for most of my childhood, he actually just recently left the gang. It pretty much consumed his life, to the point where it drove my mom away and she took my sister, and I still don’t see them that often. My dad really is a good guy, he just has a rough past and got into some bad stuff. I even joined the gang for a while…”
“Yeah, I remember Archie telling me about you when that happened…” Betty said
“It wasn’t all bad though. There were some nice guys I met, they were just into the wrong stuff. I was in a dark place at that time of my life, I let the Serpents consume my identity to the point that I was very protective and touchy about it. That got me in some trouble which led to my dad having a long talk with me about it. After that I let that identity insecurity go a little, and a little over a year later, I left the Serpents, and then about six months after that, I came here to go to college.”
“Wow, I’m sorry Jughead, I wish I could have been there for you then” Betty said sadly
“No no, Betty don’t be sorry. It’s ok I promise, that’s all in the past… and look at me now, I get to sit in my own apartment, eating pizza, and snuggling with the most beautiful woman in the world.” Jughead said turning to face Betty.
A smile crept across Betty’s face and they both leaned in for another kiss.
“I’ll be right back, I have to use the bathroom.” Betty said
In the hallway by the bathroom and his bedroom, Betty stopped to look at Jughead’s bookshelf.
While Betty used the bathroom, Jughead began to clear up their dishes and took them to the kitchen, when Betty came out from the hallway in her pajamas and was holding something.
“Hey, whatcha got there?” Jughead asked
“Beloved by Toni Morrison, will you read it to me?” Betty asked batting her eyelashes playfully at him.
Jughead started towards her, and picked her up by the waist and carried her to his bedroom. He placed her on his bed and changed into some pajama pants before crawling in next to her and opening the book.
He read a couple of chapters to her with her snuggled up in his side before he noticed her yawning.
“I think it’s time for bed” Jughead said as he set the book on his side table.
“Ok… do you want me to go to the couch?” Betty asked timidly.
“What? No of course not… unless you wanted to” Jughead said
“I don’t” Betty said sliding further under the covers and wrapping her arms around his waist. Jughead did the same, and they fell asleep easily in the comfort they had found in each other.
