Veronica's POV:

Disclaimer: I do not own Veronica Mars ornthe characters.

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain – unknown

It had been almost a year to the day that someone had taken Lily from this earth and I was no closer to catching the bastard as I was the day all of this started. The only thing I had really learnt over the past year was that nobody ever told the truth at least not the whole truth.

I'm not sure if this is what it's like every town, in every corner of the world but it sure as hell applied to Neptune California. The place without a middle class. I remember the day where one single event that lead to the collapse of my world, it was the arrest of Abel Koontz. He was the man who supposedly killed Lily Kane the billionaire's daughter.

As soon as the news played the footage of Koontz's arrest I knew something was off, the police discovered a pair of Lily's shoes and a backpack but here's the catch the shoes had been in Lily's room after the murder.

It took me awhile before I figured out that he was set up. That's as far as it went, well that's what I thought at least.

I was wrong. I decided I wanted to have a chay with Abel, I entered the prison and took a seat across from the man accused of killing my best friend. But what he said shook me to the core. I was a Kane. My first thought was Lily was my sister and then it turned into my sister is dead. Once my brain had worked through that it started on I made out with my brother. I'm pretty sure that particular memory caused my brain to short circuit.

I don't know how I did it but I found myself sitting in the sand at the dog beach at dusk, I'm not sure how I got there but there I was sitting with the sand between my toes and my mind running in circles.

I don't think I could even see anything it was all just a blur infront of my eyes. It wasn't until much later that a tap on the shoulder shattered the trance I was in, when I looked up it was the last person I would expect. Felix. The PCH'er Felix.

"Hey. You alright?" I just stared at him a little confused as to why he was talking to me and in a kind manner I mean I did tazer him.

"Come on. I'll take you home." He said as he reachef his hand down to me. I grabbed it before I really knew what I was doing. He hauled me off the sand but I stumbled and fell into his chest, my fingertips dug in a little.

He pulled one hand away from his chest and used it to gently tug me towards his bike, once we were standing beside the motorcycle he handed me the helment, we didn't speak amother word. We just silently climbed up onto that machine and took off through the streets.

It wasn't until he went to head into the highet class area that I pointed him in the other direction, we no longer had the money or the status to live on the other side of the tracks. When I instructed him to stop at the Inn aka mine and my dads new home. I could tell he was shocked, the rich little white girl who lost everything thats not true though.

I was never rich I was merely accepted by association it was my relationship with the Kane kids that got me passed the golden ropes. It was also the destruction of that relationship that got me cast our of the inner circle, not that I so much mind now at the time however it was devisating and life changing but not so mich anymore I'm almost thankful for their treatment.

I slip off the bike from where I was sitting behind Felix and handed him the helment "Thank you" I all but whispered before hesitating for a fraction of a second debating wether or notto kiss his cheek I decided that he deserved it.

Inleant in and pressed my lips to his cheek and brushed my finger tips along his jaw, what I didn't expect was the shiver thar went down my spine. I pulled away and headed inside my mind still racing a million miles an hour.