#i ignore canon
Hold Back The River - Chapter 7
Betty decided not to tell anyone about her upcoming coffee with Jughead - not that there was a lot of time in which she could have told anyone even if she wanted to. She kept quiet as Midge wiggled her eyebrows at her at the bar. She didn’t text Kevin. She passed on her weekly phone call with her mom, promising to ring another night instead.
She’d been starting to feel like her life was under a bit of a microscope – more than usual at least. She didn’t want to spend the night musing over what might be about to happen, what he might say – any explanations, or not, that she might hear. She knew that, despite his best intentions and his unwavering support, Kevin would want to go into every detail about her interaction with Jughead and what he thought it meant. Right now, she couldn’t do that.
She was took exhausted to analyse anything anymore. She’d spent years of her life wondering and now she had a small chance to find out something– so she was keeping it to herself. There was also the weird sense of loyalty she felt to Jughead, despite everything. He’d been the one to approach her this time, which he’d clearly not found easy, so she didn’t want to broadcast it out to anyone.
Well, at least not until she had the facts.
