The sun was shining; water was spraying out of the hoses as girls were jumping up and down in bikinis' washing cars. It was the annual pep squad car wash.
"It's about time you got here Ronica," Lilly screamed as she went running over to Veronica who just stepped out of her mom's car. "I've been here for like an hour and a half already, I was waiting for you to show up."
"Sorry, I didn't have a ride. My car is in the shop, daddy dearest was off at some crime scene and my mom was shopping. I called your house but you had already left." Veronica explained.
"Well you could have called Duncan, you know."
"Yea, I tried that too, but he was at soccer practice and Logan's in TJ so I had no one."
"Whatever, you're here now, let's get started," Lilly said as she rolled her eyes and bounced off to clean the car. Veronica just shook her head and walked to the car. Soon enough Lilly and Veronica were washing the same car.
"God Lilly, I see the Prozac's working," Veronica said teasingly.
"High on life, Veronica Mars." She replied happily. She then turned, "I've got a secret, a good one."
Veronica looked at her questionably. Just as Veronica was going to ask about the secret, Ms. Stafford, the Pep Squad Leader said, "Girls, less talk, more scrub."
"Later," Lilly replied as she and Veronica scrubbed the car.
Time sure does fly when you're having fun because before she knew it Lilly's three mandatory hours where done. And she was able to leave.
Lilly waved goodbye to Veronica and she was gone. Veronica just sighed as she was all alone to clean cars for the pep squad car wash.
Lilly was on her way home, when she decided to turn in the other direction and go to someone's house. Within 5 minutes she was parked in the driveway of the Echolls' Mansion. She walked up and rang the doorbell and she heard footsteps of someone coming to answer the door.
"Good day Mr. Echolls', is Logan here to play?" she teased looking into the eyes of Aaron Echolls.
"No Lilly, you know that he is in Mexico right now."
"Right, damn, that's just too bad, it looks like I have to go home now."
"Now, now Lilly, you know this can be your home anytime," Aaron remarked.
"Fine then, are you going invite me in or do I have to invite myself?" Lilly said pushing past Aaron. "I'll be in the pool house," she said as she stormed to the patio, making sure she turned around and winked at Aaron right before she left.
As Lilly waited for Aaron to come she made her way to the bed and made herself comfy.
"Come here lover, time to earn your keep," she said as she looks up to the ceiling fan. She spots something different about this ceiling fan. She then sits up to get a better look at it. She then gets off the bed and makes her way to the wall finding the video equipment.
"Oh, you dirty dog," she whispers as she takes the tapes in the machine and the one left lying on top. She then exits and makes her way to her car. A few seconds later Aaron enters through the curtains.
"Lilly," he sings but then he notices she is gone and the bookcase is open exposing the cameras. He went to check if the tapes were there; however, they are gone.
"Hey dad," Veronica said as she jumped into the front seat of his car.
"Hey, how was washing cars?"
"Oh, so much fun," she said rolling her eyes.
"That's my girl. So how about we go out to an early dinner?" he asked as he stopped at a stop light.
"Sounds good, I'm just gonna call Lilly for a second," she said picking up her cell phone and hit the number 1 on speed dial.
"Hello?" Lilly asked into the receiver.
"Hey Lilly, so what's the big secret?" Veronica asked anxiously waiting the response.
"Well I finally got something to per-fect-ly," she said announced every syllable, "piss off my mother."
"Should I even ask?"
"Well, I would tell you over the phone, but it's so much better in person. Oh, and buy the way Logan and I broke up," she said looking at the letter and shot glass that were in the passenger's seat. She found them once she was leaving the Echolls'.
"Wait, when did this happen?" Veronica asked.
"Well we've been off this week, but I found a letter in my car from him. Long story short, it's over. So when are you coming over, I mean I don't think I can hold this in any longer!" she exclaimed.
"Fine I'll be over as soon as I can."
"Great see you soon."
"Yup," Veronica replied as she ended the phone call.
"What's the matter honey," Keith replied.
"Lilly kind of needs to tell me something in person," Veronica said tilting her head and smiling at her father.
"Fine, we can reschedule our father-daughter dinner."
"Thanks dad," she replied reaching over to give him a hug. She then picked up her cell phone and called speed dial 4.
"Today's inspirational message is courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. Mark Twain."
"Hey, Logan, it's Veronica. Call me back."
'Alright, so Veronica will be at my house in a few minutes. This is going to shock her so much.' She told her self as she turned the radio on higher. She wasn't paying attention to the street because she just ran through a red light.
'Oh well, I'll deal with that later.' She told herself as she continued driving to her house. Once she arrived at her house she went to her bedroom. She put the tapes in her vent grabbed a magazine and a bottle of sun block and headed to her pool area.
As Keith was turning into the Kane driveway Aaron was getting out of his car.
"What's he doing here?" Veronica asked.
"I don't know but I have to go ask him a question anyway." Just then Veronica's cell phone started ringing.
"I'll meet you inside," Keith said to Veronica as she just nodded.
Keith headed to the backyard following the way Aaron entered. Then he saw Aaron and Lilly arguing. Aaron picked something up as Keith went up behind him.
"So what happen between you and Lilly?" Veronica asked.
"Nothing, it's over," Logan said as there was a scream from the Kane's backyard.
"Logan, I'll have to call you back," Veronica said hanging up the phone and going to her dad's car. She took the walkie talkie and called the sheriff's station and requested backup for a disturbance and the Kane household.
As soon as she was going to get out of the car, something smashed into her and she went black.
"Veronica, Veronica, wake up, Veronica…."