Author's Note:

So I know that this is a short chapter but I just wanted to give a sort of background to my story before I jump right into all the drama that is sure to ensue. I will try my best to post at least once a week. I really want to know what you think and be completely honest!!! Tell me what you love and what needs some work. Unfortunately, I do not own Veronica Mars, but if I did, I would have written me into the story to marry Logan and run away together!! Enjoy!

Lily did not die because she has not slept with Aaron.. yet.. maybe. None of the Fab Four ever dated each other. Keith has always been a P. I., but he has done a lot of work for the rich and famous, thus making them not wealthy, but pretty close. Veronica works for him. Lianne has some of the same problems but it will be evident shortly. This is AU but I am saying there could be spoilers for all three seasons just in case.

Chapter One

Love was something that Veronica saw fall apart day after day. The pictures she took every week of cheating spouses and backstabbing best friends was not something a girl of her age should of witnessed. It made her jaded and broken inside.

Growing up, Veronica thought she had the perfect family, the perfect friends, and she would grow up to have the perfect happily ever after. But was that still possible?

When Veronica first heard the rumors going around Neptune about her mother, she refused to believe them. "It is just the old rumor mill working in full effect this week" she would repeat in her head over and over. She went around her house acting as if nothing at all was wrong.

Keith didn't buy it. He knew just how small Neptune really is, which means that Veronica was bound to have already heard the rumors. He was constantly blown away with just how strong his daughter really was.

Things started to really go down hill and Veronica was having a difficult time figuring out how to deal with it when her mom started spending nights wasted in the local bars. The first few nights that the bartender called for someone to come get Lianne, Keith had been at work. Veronica laughed it off and told herself that her mother was having a midlife crisis and was trying to relive her teen years out at the bars with her friends.

Veronica tried to hide her situation from Lily, Logan, and Duncan but they had all heard the rumors and Logan had been with her a couple times when Veronica had to pick up her mom. The four of them didn't talk about it but she saw the way that they treated her as if she was a piece of glass.

The only one to treat her relatively normal was Logan only because he knew exactly how she was feeling. Even though his mother's alcoholic tendencies were well covered up in Hollywood, it didn't change the fact that she was still an alcoholic.

Veronica's friendship with Logan had grown stronger since her mom had started drinking because Logan was the one person she would call to go with her to the bars each night. Her mom was too heavy for Veronica to carry all by herself and she refused to tell her father. She thought that if she could hide her mother's problem from her dad, then her mom would change and get better for her family.

Logan and Veronica trusted each other and it was evident in the way she would phone him every night for help and he would show up at her door most nights of the week for her to clean his wounds that his father had induced with his belt of choice.

One night Logan asked Veronica why she didn't phone Troy, her actual boyfriend to come over and help her. Silence met that question because Veronica really didn't know why. She told herself it was because Logan was one of her best friends and that she trusted him not to judge her. But shouldn't she feel the same way about Troy?

Veronica didn't know what to tell him so she asked him why he didn't go to Caitlin's house each night to have her clean his wounds. Again silence met the question, as Logan did not know what to say either. Veronica could have called Duncan, and Logan could have called Lily, but for some unknown reason they would call each other to come to their rescue.