《Broken (Jughead x reader)》Part 19
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I got some sleep that night, but I mostly just watched Jughead. I swear it wasn't in a creepy way, he just looked peaceful, something that was hard to obtain with what was happening in our town. We got up early so that neither Archie nor my dad would find Jug in the house too early in the morning. He snuck out the window like usual and said he would meet me at school.
Once Arch and I were at school, he spotted Jughead and dragged me towards him. He immediately told us both that Betty had found out about him and his music teacher last night.
"She's not gonna write about me in the paper, is she? Like she did with Chuck?" He asked Jughead. I rolled my eyes at how stupid my brother could be sometimes.
Jughead scoffed, "Dude, seriously?" We turned the corner and Jughead continued to put up flyers that I had only now noticed. He put one up on the wall as he explained to Archie that Betty would never do something like that. I tilted my head and got a better look at the poster which said "Last Drive-in". The Drive-in was closing? How come nobody had told me? What about Jughead? Where the hell was he gonna live if he refused to live with us?
"Y/N/N? Y/N/N are you okay?" I snapped out of my thoughts. Instead of being greeted with the poster on the wall, I saw Jughead's face. "Y/N/N?"
"Hi, what? What's going on?"
"You zoned out and you started breathing kinda heavily. What's wrong?"
"...the drive-in, Jug. Why didn't you tell me?" I whispered. Jughead looked back and realized that the poster was what I had been looking at. He looked over at Archie, who looked confused as to why I was upset over this.
"I'll take her to class Arch, you can go."
"You sure?"
"Yeah. We'll see you later."
"Ok. Bye, Y/N/N." He said, walking away with a confused look on his face.
"Jug." I said, "Why didn't you tell me?"
Jughead sighed, "Because I knew if I did, you would try to make me come stay with you."
"Damn right I would, you can't just live on the fucking street, Jughead."
"Y/N/N, it's still the same as before, I'm not gonna just drop in on your family's life, okay?"
"We don't care! If it means that you can have a roof over your head, we do not care about having another person in the house. Please, Jug. I won't be able to sleep thinking that you are not in a proper bed."
"You don't sleep anyway."
"I do when you're next to me." I was almost close to tears, arguing with him like this. It's not like we were really fighting, but any sort of argument always made me upset pretty fast. There was a moment of silence, before Jughead sighed.
"Okay, I'll come over the night after the drive-in closes, but after that I am going to find somewhere to stay."
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"What about tonight?"
"And I'll come over tonight." He smiled. I wrapped my arms around him and hugged him tight, feeling at least a little better about his situation.
"Jug?" I whispered.
"Yeah?"
"Promise me that you won't lie to me about where you're staying."
"I won't."
After that, he dropped me in class. The school day went by fast and the next thing I knew, Betty and Veronica were pulling me out the front doors of Riverdale High.
"I told Archie I would take you home." Betty informed me.
"Annnd from the rush we're in, I'm going to assume that that is not where we are going."
"Not yet. Do you know where he's gonna be tonight?"
"He told me he had an essay due on Thursday... maybe he's doing that." I attempted to cover for him.
"C'mon Y/N/N, I asked you because you won't lie. I know you know where he's going even when he doesn't tell you, so where is he?"
"...Grundy's."
Veronica rolled her eyes, "Of course."
"What? Where are we going?"
"We are going to break into her car."
"What!?"
"I showed Archie some stuff about how Geraldine Grundy didn't exist until last year. He's still not convinced that there's anything to be worried about, so we're going for more physical proof." Betty said.
"And you think you're gonna find that in her car?"
"I have no idea, but we're gonna find out."
There was no way that Grundy had left the school yet, so we went to Pop's, got something to eat and only left when it was starting to get dark. Now, I really hate being outside in the dark, but I figured I'd be fine as long as I stayed close to my friends. As quietly as we could, we walked up to Grundy's car and Betty commenced her break in.
"How do you even know how to do that?" Veronica asked, looking concerned about her friend. Betty let out a happy little laugh.
"My dad and I fix cars together. Thank god she drives an old..." Betty trailed off as the door opened. Ronnie walked over to the other side and I followed her. Betty unlocked the door and I sat on Veronica's lap once she was in the passenger seat.
"Okay," Said Ronnie, "before going any further, if I'm committing a felony I need to at least ask the question, are you doing this because you still have feelings for Archie or?"
"No, Veronica! We're doing this because Grundy has Archie under some kind of sexual spell and he won't listen to reason. We're looking for anything that proves Grundy isn't as clean as she says she is."
So we started searching. We opened up every little compartment and looked in between the front seats until Betty looked behind us and pulled a small grey box out of the back seat.
"Bobby pin." She said holding out her hand.
"Okay, Ms. MacGyver." Ronnie pulled a pin out of her hair and handed it over. Betty bent it and attempted to open the box. It popped open and Betty gave us a satisfied smirk.
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"I learned that from the Nancy Drew detective bo-"
"Okay, go!" Ronnie said in a rushed tone while repeatedly checking outside to make sure nobody had left the house. I laughed a little remembering all the times Betty had pulled out the Nancy Drew books when we were kids. We would spend an afternoon in her bedroom just reading them and then pretending to solve mysteries.
Betty began rummaging through the box, picking out an I.D. card with the name "Jennifer Gibson" next to Ms. Grudy's face.
"Oh my god. Oh. My god." Betty mumbled.
"Jennifer Gibson? Who the hell is Jennifer Gibson?" Veronica asked, taking the card from B. Getting a closer look at it, 'Ms.Grundy' had previously lived in Minneapolis.
"That's not the only thing." Betty said, staring into the box. She pulled out a gun. I grabbed Ronnie's arm as if that was going to protect me. Not that I needed protecting when Betty was the one holding the gun.
"Betty, I think we should go." I said.
"Yeah, okay." She said, softly. She put the gun in her pocket and opened the driver's door to get out. Veronica and I exited the other side.
"Betty! What the hell are you doing?" I asked. I wanted to yell, but I was afraid that somebody would hear me in the late night silence that fell around the neighbourhood.
"What?" She asked as if she hadn't done anything.
"The gun!" I whisper-yelled. "Why would you take it? What if she notices?"
"She won't, it was a locked box in the back of her car, how often would she even check it?"
"Say that sentence again! I'm pretty sure you would notice if the gun you keep in a locked box in your car went missing! Just put it back!"
"Y/N/N, it'll be fine. If something goes wrong, the blame is on me not you."
"I know, but I don't want you mixed in with this either. I'm already at fault here! I've been keeping this from everyone for months and now Archie might actually be in a lot more trouble than we thought he was. If something happens to him, I'm gonna blame myself anyway, god, we should tell someone. Oh my god, what if something happens-"
"Y/N/N! What's your point?" She asked, trying to stop me from rambling for too long.
I took a deep breath. "...I don't know."
"Then let's go, okay?"
"Yeah, okay."
We walked down the street, past the park and down a couple more streets until we were back at my house. I unlocked the door and we sat down in the kitchen with some drinks, thinking over what we had just found.
We were only there for a half hour when the door opened again and Archie stepped in.
"Oh god." He said, rolling his eyes as soon as he saw B and V standing in our kitchen this late at night.
"Please, don't tell me you're still on this crazy witch hunt."
"It's not a witch hunt and it's not crazy." Betty said.
"Yes, it is. Y/N/N, tell her she is crazy for cyber stalking Grundy."
"She's not crazy" I said. Betty smiled, satisfied with my answer, but I still continued. "...and it's not just cyberstalking anymore."
"What?!" Archie exclaimed.
"Y/N/N, that's not helping."
"He asked me a question, I just gave him an answer."
"What is she talking about?" Archie asked.
Betty looked over at Veronica. "We were just in Grundy's car."
"What? You were in her car?" Archie looked around at the three of us.
"Yeah, and thank god we were. We found a gun." Veronica said.
"And an I.D. with the name 'Jennifer Gibson'. This is proof Ms.Grundy is not who she says she is."
"Then who is she?"
"Obviously some sketch queen named Jennifer Gibson."
"Archie, what if she had something to do with Jason's murder? She taught him, she made you lie about him, we know she was at the river, she has a gun!"
"So does Dilton Doiley, but you never thought he killed Jason!'
"Open your eyes, Archie." Said Veronica. "Jason was her student last year. Everything about her is a huge, bald faced question mark."
"Okay, whatever her name is, she's not a killer."
"You didn't ask her, did you?" Betty said. "About her name. Why there's no record of her before last year?"
Archie shook his head.
"Why not?"
He just shook his head again and left the room. We listened to his footsteps go up the stairs and into his bedroom. I only stood still for about five seconds before following him. I walked through his open door as he threw his bulldogs varsity jacket on a chair in the corner of his room.
"What?" He asked in an annoyed tone.
"I don't know."
He sat down on the bed with his head in his hands.
"I don't know what to do, Archie." I said, making him look up at me. "As much as you won't admit it, or at least not to other people, you are in a bad situation. I want to help you, the way you've helped me so many times these last few years, but I don't know what to do."
"It's not your problem to fix, Y/N/N."
"It is if my brother is in danger. This is what we call a dangerous situation, Archie, and I don't know if you're gonna be okay when it's all over, therefore, I am aloud to interfere and be upset about it."
"Okay." He sighed. "If I ask her about the name, will you leave this all alone."
"Yes. If she somehow has a valid reason, I will try my best to stop worrying about you." Now we both knew that I would never stop worrying about him, the same way he would never stop worrying about me, but it was good enough for now.
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