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Chapter 26:

Once we made it back home to the trailer park, we saw the trailer door open. Jughead and I looked at each other before rushing to the front door. Fangs, Toni, Sweet Pea and FP were all sat on the couch.

"Hey guys." I spoke casually.

"Hey was stalking the Coopers?" Toni smirked.

"Successful, why? She didn't call, did she?" Jughead spoke.

"No, why?" Sweet Pea spoke.

"Someone was home as we were about to leave, so we had to leave out of Betty's window."

"Oh, no one's called." Fangs spoke. I nodded.

Jughead guided me to the kitchen table where I sat down across from him. He pulled out the journal and started to analyze it. He started to go back and read previous entries but stopped. He reached in his bag and grabbed a file.

"I found this in Alice's room. It was still in it's envelope." He spoke as he opened up the file and laid it in front of me. It was a death certificate. It was from the examiner's office.

I picked up the certificate and read the information on it.

Name: Elizabeth "Betty" Cooper

Height: 5'6 168 cm. Weight: 55 kg 121 lbs.

Cause of death: Suicide by Drowning in Bathtub.

Blood Type: A Positive

I put the certificate back on the table and looked at Jughead. The radio static taking over the trailer. Breaking news soon came through.

"Afternoon Riverdale, this is your breaking news. Riverdale resident and student at Riverdale High, Elizabeth 'Betty' Cooper has died, her cause of death hasn't been known but is being ruled as a murder."

I looked at Jughead who looked as shocked as me. We were the only ones who knew the truth.

"What are we gonna do Jughead?"

"Sell those papers to the news, that's all we can do right now, Peanut."

Jughead stood up and grabbed his bag from the back of his chair and I grabbed the file from the table. We walked out of the kitchen and out of the trailer.

I pulled Jughead so he stopped walking and I put the file inside his bag.

"Here." Jughead said, tossing me an extra helmet. I buckled it on and held tight around his waist while straddling the bike.

"Hang on Juliet." He smirked as he started up his bike and drove on the other side of the train tracks and to the news station.

Jughead stopped his bike and took his helmet off, as I did the same.

"Here it is." Jughead sighed.

"You ready, Jughead?" I asked, looking at him.

"As ready as I'll ever be." He said back.

He was walking towards the door and I reached for his hand to hold, gently brushing my thumb against his knuckles. He looked down, as I tore my gaze off of our intertwined hands and met his eyes. I smiled slightly and walked with him to the door and walked inside. People were running everywhere with clipboards. We walked to the receptionist desk.

"Kids, we're busy right now." She kindly said.

"Oh we know, We have a story for you." Jughead said. He handed me the file from the bag and held it in front of me.

"We have the inside details of Betty Cooper's death." I said handing the file to the lady.

"How much?"