The Beginning
The petite blonde gratefully steps into the foyer of the building. It must be over one hundred degrees outside. Honestly, who plans a high school reunion in California in the summer? Of course she may be feeling the heat more with her pregnancy hormones. Her husband teases her that she keeps the house as cool as the refrigerator. At seven months pregnant, she really doesn't want to be at her husband's five year high school reunion but he is excited to go. He loves San Francisco but he wants to show her the sights of his home town, Neptune. Unable to deny him this weekend, she dutifully bought a couple of dresses and got ready to meet his high school friends. Tonight she is wearing a short black halter dress that has an empire waist that attempts to hide her baby bump; well, at least doesn't showcase it. She is wearing the diamond earrings and necklace that Logan bought her for their wedding last year.
As is the case with most things, she found Logan when she wasn't looking for a relationship. She was a junior at UCLA, busy taking classes, working her job at the library and running her PI business. When he came to the help desk, she could see he hadn't been in the library enough to know where to find anything and yet he was looking for a reference book for one of the junior level courses. Immediately pegging him as guy not serious about his education, she had confidently sent him off in the right direction and then promptly put him out of her mind. It wasn't that he wasn't good looking or polite, it was she wasn't interested in him as anything other than he was someone she needed to direct and then get back to her work on the computer. Her boss had left her most of the inputting of overdue books so she needed to get that caught up during the late evening quiet time. She was focused back on her task so it took the young man a couple of attempts to get her attention. Looking up from her computer screen, she noticed his frustration and had, a little reluctantly, gone with him up the stairs to help him find the missing book. It was part of the job that she didn't like because most often, the book was right where it was supposed to be; the student looking just didn't look hard enough. In this case though, someone had taken the book, used it and then misfiled it back instead of giving it to an employee at the desk to file. His relief when she found the book was easy to see. Looking at his serious face as he flipped open the book to the chapter he wanted, she impulsively decided to help him further and asked him if he was doing the assignment for Advanced Business Marketing. He had met her gaze and she had been taken aback at how really beautiful his brown eyes were. They had little hazel flecks in them and they seemed to be so deep. The ice broken a little, he had admitted he was in the course and that normally he used the library service so the assigned readings were sent to his home at the beginning of each semester. Veronica nodded her understanding; that explained why he didn't know his way around the library. Smiling a little, she said, "Oh are you in Professor Black's class?"
Agreeing that he was, the tall. dark haired young man asked suspiciously, "How did you know that?"
Noticing, but not understanding his concern that she guessed his class, Veronica merely told him, "Professor Black is known for using this book even though it is tough to find and the library only has a few copies." Pausing she adds thinking aloud, "You know, Professor Dixon teaches that class as well. The library has a few copies of the book he wrote. It might supplement your paper."
A little more relaxed now he sees she just guessed what class he was in, Logan thinks about the idea that he could have looked at the reference list for the other professors who teach the course. It is a simple idea; one that might garner him some good references. He agrees, "That might help."
Veronica walks down the row of books and bends down to get the book out for him. Handing it to him, she nods at his thanks and then heads back to the desk to get her work done. Logan watched her leave and had been kind of impressed that she didn't try and keep talking to him. Most girls knew who he was and immediately tried to prolong their conversations by asking him a lot of questions or flirting with him. This girl did not try to get to know him and didn't offer anything about herself, she was all business.
When he checked out the two books, he thanked her for her help adding that both books would be a help writing his paper. She had looked up from typing on the computer and vaguely smiled at him as she took his books to check them out for him. After she scanned the books, she handed him back his library card along with the books and said pleasantly, "Good luck on your assignment" before she went back to typing on the computer. He looks at her as he takes the books and his card from her noting that she had to have seen his name on his library card and it didn't seem to register with her. Pleased at the success of his trip to the library, Logan heads out to his car. His professor had annoyed him by not including this book as a reference in the course syllabus so it was not included in the package the University sent him at the start of the semester. To Logan's thinking, if he expected the students to use a book for the final paper, he should have included it in the reference list. Logan had tried to buy the book on line but it was not in print and it wasn't readily available even used, so Logan found himself making a visit to the library to try and get the book. Thankfully his trip to the library was fruitful. The chick at the desk was clearly smart and she was really hot. If all the girls who work at the library are that hot, he might be missing out by bypassing it all this time. He tosses the books onto the passenger seat as he gets in the car. He needs to work a few hours tonight on his assignment before he goes to bed. He wants to stay ahead. Blessed with an excellent memory, Logan has a high GPA. He doesn't really have anyone who cares about his grades but surprisingly, he has come to want them for himself.
A few weeks later, Logan and a few of his buddies were hitting an all night restaurant just off campus on a Saturday night. Many were a little high and the mood was upbeat after leaving the concert. Logan helps his date to sit and then he sits beside her in the middle of the group of tables that has been pushed together. The waitress takes their drink order and the large, happy group peruses the menu. Logan's date thinks she will get a waffle while Logan is in the mood for a hamburger. The waitress arrives with their drinks and starts taking orders. At the other end of the table, a few of the guys start making rude comments to a group of girls passing the table on their way out. Attracted by the noise, Logan looks up and sees that the group of four girls includes the blonde from the library who looks super hot in her black and silver dress with high silver shoes! Her long hair is curly and hangs to the middle of her back. Logan immediately sees that the negative comments are directed at her. The girls throw the guys looks of distain except the blonde. As she passes her hand reaches out and she knocks over Chip Diller's full glass of ice cold beer into his lap. Unfortunately Chip was sitting close to the table so when he jumped up, he banged the table hard enough that a few other drinks fell over including the beer Dick ordered which fell onto his and his date's laps. The girls who were splashed, stand up with loud shrieks and the people sitting at the end table madly move to get out of the way of the drinks that are spilling off the table. During the commotion that followed, Veronica just calmly followed her girlfriends out of the restaurant. Logan looks at the disaster in her wake in shock.
In the aftermath of people heading to the bathroom to dry off, the waitress bringing more napkins and a busboy coming to help clean up the mess, Logan turns to the guy sitting next to him and asks, "Who were those girls?"
Jerry, with distain, tells Logan, "The blonde on the end is that PI bitch who almost got our frat shut down."
Leaning back, Logan absently listens to his date talk with one of the other girls about how it was a shame that this ruined the great night they were having. He thinks about how the hot blonde from the library is Veronica Mars. Most everyone on campus has heard of her. Her father is an FBI agent and she is taking her criminology degree. She has her PI license and she takes cases around the campus. That was how she made enemies of Dick's frat. She was looking into the rapes on campus. Suspecting that the rapist was one of the Pi Sig guys, she snuck into the Frat House and took pictures of the board outlying the points each member had obtained for bagging girls. She hoped that the rapist would have listed the girls he slept with and she could correlate the dates and the rapes. She didn't find the connection she was looking for but she did find her name on the board twice and each time the guy who said he had sex with her got over two hundred points. Unimpressed, she had gone to the Dean with her evidence and the frat had been put on probation.
She upset the frat even more by finding the two guys who lied about having sex with her. She threatened one with a taser until he admitted he lied and then she actually tased him. When she found the second guy, he had put up his hands, backed away and immediately denied he had been with her. Without much prompting from her, he admitted that he had lied about having sex with her so that he could get points in the frat game. Then he had begged her to please not tase him. She had pulled out her hidden video camera and said, "Oh I have better plans for you." Sure enough she made a video with a song about men who lie to look good to their buddies and posted it on you tube. Of course it wasn't enough for Veronica to just shame the guys who lied about banging her, she included pictures of the frat house and most of the senior board members including Dick in the popular video that went viral. The frat became a laughing stock on campus with the guy who admitted lying on the video choosing to leave college. Logan had grimaced watching it, not because it was poorly done as it was very well made but because it had over 2 million hits when he viewed it. Dick and the frat boys were being laughed at from all over the country and possibly the world.
To Logan, the amazing thing is Veronica's investigation was instrumental in helping the police catch the campus rapist. He knows there isn't an investigative gene but it does appear that Veronica Mars is taking the right degree for her. It turned out that the rapist wasn't one of the frat brothers but one of the dorm leaders. Apparently when she figured out it was him, he tried to overpower her not knowing that she is well versed in self defense and she gave as good as she got. Now, to a lot of guys on campus, she is like a tiny princess warrior with her tough attitude and her ability to kick ass. The talk on the campus was how she didn't just sit back and let the rapist hurt other women, she actively helped the police capture him and in turn, she got back at the frat on behalf of women on campus who were used without their knowledge in the annual frat game.
Logan, not part of the frat, was not upset that she got payback on the two guys who lied about having sex with her or that she got the frat put on suspension. To him, the frat guys shouldn't think they can include women in their initiation game without payback. Dick thought Veronica was a total bitch. It never occurred to Dick that because of the game, most of the students in the campus had no trouble believing the rapist was in his frat. To Dick, the game was just plain fun and people who didn't approve should just lighten up.
Logan sits back and watches how the night is ruined for Chip and Dick and he has to admit, he is actually kind of impressed at how with one quick move, she got the guys back tenfold for calling her names. Logan is not sure why he is so interested in Veronica Mars but he looks for her when he is on campus. He looked it up and the Criminology classes are on the other side of the campus to his. He doesn't see her in the main cafeteria and she doesn't appear to go to any of the frat parties or hang out in any of the popular college bars or restaurants. Curious, he has asked some of his classmates about her. Aside from the gossip of her part in catching the campus rapist and getting back at the Pi Sigs, there were stories of couples breaking up all over campus because one of them hired her to check out their partner. Interestingly, students told him stories of her helping athletes with lost playbooks, finding missing siblings, helping professors catch cheating students and she is the one who caught the group who was copying campus meal cards. He even heard a crazy story about her finding a missing monkey from one of the biology labs. Most impressive to Logan was a girl in his Entrepreneur class told him that Veronica got pictures of her ex boyfriend stalking her and gave them to the police. She didn't have any money to pay but Veronica helped her when the police couldn't seem to make him leave her alone. Veronica was the most hated girl or she was a life safer; it depended who you were talking to.
It would really bother Dick to know that Logan finally got to talk to Veronica because of his insistence that Logan attend a rave. He had not been in the mood as his father had done an interview on a very popular afternoon television talk show hosted by five women. Logan didn't watch but apparently his father was contrite at how his addiction to sex had hurt his wife and his son. He was getting counseling and he really wanted to turn his life around. Apparently asking Logan's forgiveness was one of the steps in his therapy. He looked deeply hurt as he told the world that Logan had a silent number and he didn't have it. He sadly shared that Logan had him on the do not enter list with security at his home. Looking like he might cry, he told the women that he even called some of Logan's friends and none of them would give him Logan's telephone number. Looking sadly down at his feet, he told the women that he just wanted the chance to apologize. Now Logan is in the bulls eye of the press and his refusal to talk to his father is the subject of many commentaries by newscasters all over the country. In addition, his classmates, fellow students and acquaintances felt the need to weigh in on the issue under the guise of worrying about him.
Dick, knowing how his best friend hated being in the public eye, decided that Logan needed to get out and bust loose. He insisted that there was going to be so many people there that no one would notice him. Plus there would be lots of hot chicks and he could get lost in one and forget about his father. After arriving at the rave and getting his first drink, Logan sat with a few of the frat guys. The music was good and Logan began to relax. It was really too loud to talk so most of the people there would not be able to talk to him. Looking around the dance floor, he saw Veronica Mars. Man she looked hot in her tight black skirt and red off the shoulder top. She was with the girls he saw her with in the restaurant and few guys from the college baseball team.
As he watched, he noticed that she was subtly watching a tall, black man who was clearly partying with his friends. She appeared to be dancing and having fun but she was turning to keep the man in her view. When she went to her table to sit down, she sat keeping the man in her sight. Logan only noticed because he is well versed in spotting reporters and people who are stalking him because they want to meet the son of the infamous Aaron and Lynn Echolls. She was really very good at surveillance. If you just looked at her, she appeared to be into dancing and drinking. As Logan watched, she was drinking a dark drink that he is guessing is plain soda. She is laughing and flirting but Logan can see she is working. She does not appear to be at the rave with any one guy. She just appears to be free and having fun.
The group he is with doesn't notice his preoccupation with the blonde PI and Dick is pleased that Logan seems to be relaxing and drinking. There are a lot of hot girls at their table and most of them would go home with Logan if he asked. Logan has been dancing and he is giving the girls at his table enough attention that they are hopeful they will get to go out with him.
Near midnight, the guy Veronica is watching gets a lot more friendly with one girl. Logan watching can see that Veronica wants to get closer to get a better picture but the guy she is dancing with is quite drunk and is not getting the message that she wants to move across the dance floor.
Impulsively, Logan gets up and goes over to help her. He is not sure why he wants to. He doesn't know her and most of his buddies dislike her but there is something about her that interests him and he hasn't been truly interested in a girl for a very long time. When he gets near, he steps close and pitches his voice to be heard over the loud music, "There you are Veronica. You promised me a dance."
She stiffens a little as he leans down and pretends to hug her, whispering in her ear, "I'll help you get the money shot." He pulls back just enough to meet her gaze and adds, "He is fooling around like he is single. Maybe he should be single."
Her quick mind processes his offer and weighs it against her need to get a picture of Derek Henderson fooling around on his pregnant girlfriend. Her parents do not like how he treats their daughter and now are worried about him hurting her when she is pregnant. Tonight Derek is supposed to be attending a mandatory team dinner and meeting. Instead he is at a rave and will probably text his girlfriend making some excuse why he won't be able to see her until tomorrow. For some reason Logan Echolls has spotted that she is following Derek and is willing to help her. She needs to talk to him and find out what he knows and she needs to get that picture. Dancing with him will get her both so decision made, she smiles up at him and for all appearances, greets him happily, "You made it!" She turns to her partner and says seemingly regretfully, "Jeremy, I promised this dance to Logan. I think Wanda is looking for you." Jeremy looks over at his girlfriend and drunkenly heads over to her. Veronica turns and faces Logan after he leaves and asks in a demanding tone, "How did you know I was working a case and why are you helping me?"
Pointing to himself Logan says, "Son of two movie stars, familiar with surveillance." He adds, "Although you are very good." She looks at him weighing his answer. Logan puts out his hand for hers and answers, "Shall we dance?" As she hesitates, Logan asks, "Where is your camera anyways?"
A small smile goes over her face and she admits, "In my necklace."
He looks down at the silver pendant and says, "So that is why you were always turning to face him." He reaches down to take her hand and gently pulls her over to a less crowded area that happens to be closer to her target. Once they are in an open area, Logan turns to face Veronica and they start to dance. The music is loud so while they are dancing, they can't really talk without raising their voices.
Logan enjoys dancing with Veronica. She can really move to the loud, pounding music. While he watches her dance, he carefully makes sure that Veronica has ample opportunity to take clear, close pictures of the man she has been following. He sees her smile of satisfaction after she touches her necklace and he smiles. She looks at Logan and sees his smile and looks at him with more interest. She doesn't know how he knows who she is. She does however know that he is friends with Dick Casablancas and some of the other Pi Sig idiots who still call her names every time they see her. A little suspicious of his interest in her, she tilts her head a little as she studies him.
He sees her suspicious look and fortuitously the music ends and a slow song starts. Without hesitation, Logan steps in and pulls Veronica into his arms. He moves to the music and is relieved when she follows his lead. Slowly he moves her so they are close to the guy Veronica is taking pictures of. He and the girl are heavily making out on the dance floor. Logan can see that soon they will find some place to go that is a little more private. In the meantime, he likes how Veronica fits into his arms. She is so tiny that the top of her head is barely up to his chin. She smells musky like her perfume has worn off from all her dancing and it is just a warm smell of her. Her skin is so soft where he rubs her lower back as they move together.
Near the end of the dance, Derek Henderson wraps his arm around the beauty he is dancing with and they walk off the floor together. Veronica feels Logan gently pulling her to the edge of the dance floor. She stand on her tip toes and peeks over Logan's shoulder to see where the couple is going. Obligingly, Logan turns a little so the tiny PI can see easier. After Derek leaves the hall, Logan takes her hand and pulls her towards the hallway to follow him. Unsure about following him out of the lighted dance floor, Veronica hesitates. Logan leans in and reassures, "You are safe with me. I don't do the public make outs. I have been in the press enough. Looking at him closely she sees he is being open with her. Nodding her agreement, she follows him as he leads them to the exit hallway. They tentatively go down the darker hallway after the couple. When they get to the end of the hall, it turns and goes to the left. Peeking around the corner, they see Derek and the girl having sex.
Quickly assessing that this Derek will see them if they go around the corner, Logan pulls her back and turns her back into the wall. He reaches up, undoes her necklace and palms it. He puts his hand up above her and slides it to the edge of the wall that turns around the corner. He lets his fingers open and takes a few shots of the dark corner. With his other arm, he pulls Veronica firmly into his arms, leans down and kisses her. Never let it be said that he can't multitask.
After Veronica's eyes adjust to the darker foyer, she wanders up to the line at the registration table figuring she will get her and Logan their name tags and register them for the dinner and dance tomorrow night while he is parking their car. When she gets to the front of the line the blonde sitting behind the table looks at her and says abruptly, "I don't know you." Before Veronica can explain that she wasn't a student there, the woman whose name is Madison on her name tag waves her over towards the brunette with thicker glasses who is sitting farther down the table and says dismissively, "You can get your name tag down there."
A little taken aback at the rudeness of the girl who is supposed to be greeting guests, Veronica walks over and gets in line at the other end of the table. A few minutes later the door opens and Logan walks in. As his eyes adjust to the dark, Madison shrieks and jumps up. She runs over to greet him and almost throws herself into his arms. Logan quickly extricates himself from the girl and says, "Madison, good to see you."
She flirts, "You look even more handsome than you did in high school."
Logan gives her a bland smile and thanks her. He looks around and sees his wife standing in the other line. Madison, meanwhile takes his arm and tells him as she walks him towards her table, "I can get you your name tag right here."
Waving over at the other table, Logan tells her, "I think Ronnie is already getting my name tag."
Confused, Madison asks, "Ronnie?"
Smirking, Logan calls out, "Ronnie, there someone I want you to meet."
Veronica leaves her spot in line and walks over to formally meet Madison. As she walks over, Veronica notices that Madison is looking at her with annoyance. Logan puts his arm around his wife , turns her towards Madison does the introductions, "Maddy, I want you to meet my wife Veronica. Ronnie, this is Madison Sinclair. We went to school together since I moved to Neptune when I was twelve."
"Your wife," she almost screeches, "I hadn't heard you were married."
Looking at her, Logan merely shares, "A year and a half now." Veronica notes Madison's shock and wonders why she would be upset about Logan getting married. She also notices that everyone in the foyer is paying attention to their conversation.
Nodding at the blonde, Veronica says politely, but clearly lying, "Nice to meet you."
The line in front of the brunette at the desk has opened so Veronica quickly takes her husband's hand. She says, "Oh good. Let's get our name tags while the line is short." She pulls Logan over to the desk where the brunette is sitting waiting.
Logan looks at Veronica wondering why they can't get their tags from Madison but he obediently follows her as he points out, "Madison can probably hook us up."
Veronica waves at the bitchy blonde and says loudly enough for her to hear, "Neptune Mean Girl over there, sent me to this line."
Smiling at her obvious dig at Madison, Logan says, "OK then."
A little embarrassed at how Logan's wife talked about her and how Logan is amused at what his wife called her, Madison flounces over and sits down. Ignoring Madison and her upset, Veronica steps up to the table, looks at the name tag on the girl sitting there and says pleasantly, "Hi Mandy. Can you check us in please?"
Mandy smiles a little and tells them as she pulls out her copy of the guest list, "Sure. Welcome to the reunion." She pulls the blank name tags to her and writes Logan Echolls on one. She looks at Veronica and asks, "What name would like me to put on your tag?"
Logan takes his tag and answers, "Veronica Echolls."
He and Veronica dutifully listen to Mandy's spiel about the cash bar and appetizers. She gives them the information on the dinner and dance the next night and then asks pleasantly, "When are you due?"
Smiling happily, Logan blandly tells her, "We are due in September. What have you been up to since high school Mandy?"
She looks thrilled to have Logan Echolls talking to her and excitedly tells them that she is now a nurse and works at Neptune General. She is dating another nurse and he will be there tomorrow.
Logan takes Veronica's hand and says, "Well we will let you do your work and head on in."
Walking slowly to keep his pace to her short legged, pregnant, high heeled pace, Logan puts out his arm and lets her take it as they walk across the gym towards the table. Leaning in he says, "You weren't wrong about Madison. She was one of the mean girls in high school."
Frowning at him she says, "Please tell me you didn't date her."
"Well," he admits, "I never dated her but we did hook up once in Aspen. I was really drunk and didn't remember it afterwards though."
Shaking her head in mild disgust, the tiny blonde comments, "Young guys are so hormonal! You will sleep with anyone!"
Logan laughs at her comment and teases, "Most guys are like that." When she looks up at him a little annoyed, he adds, "Well except the reformed bad boys who are lucky enough to find the woman of their dreams." Touched, she puts her hand over her expanded abdomen as their son kicks her. He puts his hand over hers and shares, "I don't even think about anyone else but you. This is my dream."
She sighs as she looks up at the excitement in his wonderful brown eyes. He has been able to make her feel so beautiful and desired. He is crazy excited about becoming a father. She doesn't know if she could even imagine a more wonderful man. "You know, I am surprised that you were ready to settle down so young. You dated one girl for more than three years. Didn't you kind of miss out on sowing your wild oats?"
Leaning in to kiss her temple, he points out, "Well as a Hollywood brat, I started young plus Lilly and I probably had as many off periods as we had on periods so I had plenty of free time to explore my options."
Tilting her head at him, she points out more genuinely annoyed, "Isn't it bad form to talk about other women to your wife?"
Meeting her gaze openly, he tells her, "That's the great thing about us. You know my stupid periods and I know your stupid periods. We like each other anyways."
More relaxed, she agrees, "That we do, although I am not sure I want to spend the weekend hearing about your stupid period."
Sighing he admits, "Well you will probably hear more than I really want you to. High school was not a good time for me and I didn't cope in a effective way."
She squeezes his arm in understanding. He has told her about his relationship with his father, his mother committing suicide and the 'jack ass' period in his life. Her face is open and loving as she tells him, "Well you are impressing me now."
His face softens as he looks at her. She is the best thing to ever happen to him and sometimes he still looks at her amazed that she loves him. He leans down and gently kisses her and then guides her over to an empty table. Pulling out a chair for her to sit, he offers, "Can I get you a lemon water?"
Nodding she says, "That sounds good." Looking around the gymnasium, Veronica sees it is really like most gyms around the country. Basketball court, bleachers that roll up, locker rooms for girls and guys at each end and of course, the Go Pirates sign painted on the wall. As she absently watches her husband walk over to the makeshift bar, she sees that a lot of people stop him to talk. From their talks she knows that he was popular in the school because of his parents. When he asked her out, she naturally checked him out. It was like reading a trashy novel or watching a soap opera; famous actor parents, father who is a philanderer with a video collection of the women he had sex with in the pool house of his home, mother who drank and then subsequently killed herself, self absorbed sister, long time billionaire girlfriend who fooled around on him repeatedly and also slept with his father. When the videos from the pool house were leaked, it was a huge scandal as most of Logan's classmates that slept with his father were underage at the time it occurred. Lilly Kane, now a famous actress, had no trouble facing the press. She did many interviews where she compared the father-son Echolls team sexually having slept with both of them. Veronica had been increasingly horrified reading the articles. She honestly wondered how Logan held himself together through the storm of that time without falling into drugs or depression. Then after she got to know him and found out about the physical and emotional abuse, she was even more impressed that he was not only coping but able to be so caring and loving.
Logan has many happy memories of being part of the Fab 4, as they were called by their classmates. The group included the children of billionaire software mogul Jake Kane, Lilly and Duncan Kane. The final member of the group is Lilly's best friend and Duncan's girlfriend Meg Manning. Meg and Duncan went to a college on the east coast so Logan only sees them during holidays. Meg and Duncan are busy planning their wedding in six months. Logan, of course, will be one of six groomsmen standing up for Duncan. It is going to be the wedding of the year with everyone who is anyone being invited. Veronica only met Duncan Kane and Meg Manning at her wedding. Although Logan talked to them frequently, she hadn't had the chance to meet them. Veronica had gone home to see her father during the holidays the first year they dated so it wasn't until their wedding that Veronica was going to be able to meet who Logan considered to be two of his best friends. Logan was a little shocked to discover that Veronica wasn't anxious to meet them and didn't really have any desire to hang out with them. Veronica felt like Duncan Kane and Meg Manning knew about his abuse and did nothing; she can't excuse that. Logan explained that they did support him, hiding him from his father when he was in town and helping to deflect his father's upset when they were there. To Veronica, that was not enough as Logan could have been killed by his father. Logan chose Dick Casablancas as his best man for their small, private wedding. Logan claims that he never talked to Dick about his abuse and he wasn't privy to seeing his injuries. He didn't become really close to Dick until after high school. Despite their rocky start, Veronica and Dick have learned to tolerate each other.
Looking around at the crowd of people milling around the gym, she thinks about the rave where she and Logan first kissed. The kiss had been amazing. She hadn't been expecting it but once his lips touched hers, she had felt her heart skip in her chest and her breath had caught. It must have made her lightheaded because she had forgotten where she was and that she was working. She slid her hands up his chest enjoying how toned he was and then wrapped them around his shoulders while at the same time, opened her lips to his and participated fully in the kiss. When their lips parted, she leaned up to kiss him again. All she knew was that she really wanted to be closer to him. A loud noise from the dance had broken their lips apart. Veronica opened her eyes and looked up at him. His hazel eyes had darkened in color and he had a shocked look on his face. She wasn't sure what she looked like but she felt really confused. She shouldn't have been surprised; of course Logan can kiss. She has heard stories of all the girls he dated past and present so she shouldn't be surprised that he is a smooth operator. Not that she knew what that was anyways. She only dated a few guys even semi seriously; always so wound up in her education and career. No what surprised Veronica is her reaction to Logan's kiss. She has never been that affected by just a kiss.
She was aware enough to walk with Logan as he moved them from the dark hallway so they wouldn't be discovered by Derek when he come back. Back on the dance floor, Logan had cleared his throat as he looks down at the beautiful petite blonde, he holds out the necklace saying unnecessarily, "Here is your camera." Taking it she doesn't meet his gaze, instead looking at her necklace as she thanks him. Logan is really unsure what to say to Veronica. He definitely wants to see her again, go out on a date but he is really unsure how to even ask her. After an uncomfortable pause, Logan said, "Veronica, can we go out? I want to see you again." When she looks at him in question, he adds, "A date, a movie, dinner, whatever you want."
She liked being kissed by him but the problem was he is a known playboy who can and does have any girl he wants. She does not want to be another in a long line of conquests for Logan Echolls. The other issue is he is close friends of Dick Casablancas and the Pi Sig frat who she has an adversarial relationship with at best. She can't help it, she looks at him suspiciously. She upset the frat and now a guy who is an honorary member of the frat and best friends with one of the ranking frat brothers, is asking her out. He waits for her answer and she finally tells him, "Haven't you heard? I am public enemy number one with the Pi Sigs."
Quick to see that she is not adverse to seeing him but is a little concerned that he is part of some payback scheme, he reaches up and gently moves a few strands of her loose hair away from her face. Gently he tucks them behind her ear and tells her, "I am friends with Dick but I am not part of the frat. The truth is, I am interested in getting to know you." Bending a little to meet her gaze he adds winningly, "We can pick somewhere public." When he sees her hesitate, he tells her openly, "Veronica Mars, I think the point of dating is to get to know the other person. No one is the person that they let the public see." Looking at him, she sees only sincerity and hope. The man is an amazing kisser and he has those soulful deep eyes that make you want to make him happy. But this Veronica knows how to avoid unnecessary conflict. She doesn't want to buy trouble and Logan Echolls is trouble with a capital T. Besides, she is not the type of girl that can attract a guy like him and it would be best if they just don't even start anything.