i don’t know how many times y’all need to hear this, but class and wealth does not determine whether someone is a safe choice or not? no one has ever tried to force betty and jughead apart, only alice, and that was because he is fp’s son and not because of class.

(cont.) betty and archie feel safe with each other, as friends. betty feels secure going down the path of being jughead’s girlfriend, because everyone expects them to stay together, kevin even saying that ‘betty dating archie is proof that jughead is dead’.

(cont.) the risky choice would be for betty to act on her feelings for archie and risk collapsing the core four and hurting jughead and veronica. that is what she would be risking by choosing archie.