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Death Doesn't Scare Me
Veronica Mars sat in English class staring at the teacher. It was one of the final weeks of school and she was slowly losing momentum as she struggled to obtain the Kane scholarship. She was only slightly behind first place and was studying like mad for all her classes. It was exausting. Staying asleep in class was becoming a stuggle in itself. "Alright everybody, I have a surprise," her teacher said perkily. "Everybody will be reading their short essay on what you fear most to the class." A collective groan filled the classroom. "Mr. Echolls, you're up first." Veronica looked over a Logan, a look of disgust on her face, still hurt over the incident with Kendall. Logan had a very rare look of surprise on his face.
"Oh goody, do I get a prize?" Logan inquired, recovering quickly.
"Very funny," was the response, "now get up here."
"But seriously, no prize?" Logan asked, as he slowly made his way to the front of the room, clutching a piece of paper in his hand. "No candy, or cookies, maybe a nice fruit basket?" The class laughed, while the teacher looked less than amused, as did Veronica. Logan stared at the class and nerviously coughed before beginning to read.
"Death. Death was the thing that scared me the most. Then Lilly died and my mom jumped, and suddenly death wasn't as scary as used to be. It was just there, a part of my life that it seemed I would never escape. I almost jumped once, off the bridge that my mom jumped from, that's how much death didn't scare me. It would have been poetic, at least that's what I thought at the time," he paused and looked around the class. Veronica was looking at him, a mixed look of shock and horror on her face. He began to read again, staring intently the paper in front of him.
"Death still doesn't frighten me now, not even a little. Some people think that my dad should frighten me, but he doesn't. He killed Lilly, virtually killed my mom, but I just can't bring myself to fear him. It's pride I guess, that keeps me from fearing him. There's really only one thing in the world that I'm afraid of at this point. Telling someone that I love them."
Logan heard a couple laughs scattered around the class and brought his eyes up from the paper once again. Veronica was still sitting there, staring intently at him. His breathing was getting heavier, he hadn't anticipated reading this in front of the class, and he would have definitely written something else if he had known that he would be doing so. "As pathetic as it sounds, that's the only thing that scares the hell out of me. People say "What's the worst that could happen?" Well obviously they've never been in love before, because the worst that can happen is that they don't love you back. Loving someone and having them not share your feelings is the most horrible feeling that you can ever experience. On the other hand, if they do share your feelings, then you'll never feel anything more amazing then what you'll feel at that moment." Logan could feel Veronica's eyes boring into him. His eyes flickered up, confirming his belief.
"So you have to ask yourself. Does the possibility of someone telling you that they love you too, outweigh the possibility of rejection? I really don't know. But there just comes a point when you can't be scared of it anymore. You just have to take a leap of faith, so to speak." Logan looked up once again and locked eyes with Veronica, not letting her look away. "You have to look the person in the eye and say it 'I love you' and pray that they love you back."