Wide-eyed, Lilly snapped, "I thought we dealt with this!"

What in the world is she talking about now? "With what?" Veronica arched an eyebrow at her best friend's sudden frustration.

"This!" She snatched up the DVD cover.

"What's wrong with it?"

"When Harry Met Sally?" Her eyes narrowed, accusingly.

"Yeah," Veronica shrugged. "So?"

Disbelief entered Lilly's voice when she uttered, "Break-up movie, much?"

Oh. Realisation dawned onto Veronica. Of course, Lilly thought I fell of the wagon again. Chick-flicks and being recently single were a recipe for depression. Even though they were supposed to make you feel better.

"Lilly, I just wanted to watch it. I swear no ulterior motives. No hidden depression over a break-up that I've come to terms with."

"You even sound like Sally," she pointed out, exasperated.

"And just like Sally I pine for no man."

Still uncertain, Lilly started, "Veronica-"

Immediately, Veronica interrupted, "Seriously, Lilly, I've accepted that Duncan and I have broken up. I'm not depressed. I'm still hurt at how he did it but other than that I'm okay. I want to watch this movie because it's funny, it's witty, and it in no way reminds me of your brother."

Colour Lilly a dark shade of confused. The movie is all about relationships, how could it not remind her of the broken one with Donut? "But it's full of break ups and happy couples."

"Okay, maybe in that way, but I was talking about the relationship between Harry and Sally. It actually shows me how much Duncan and I was meant to come to an end."

Thoughtfully, Lilly accepted Veronica's reasoning. "Okay, we'll watch it but if depressed Veronica comes out, I'll take you to a strip club, you got me?"

"Strip club?" Amusement lit the blue eyed girl.

"I already took you to karaoke," she shrugged.

A chuckle escaped Veronica's lips. "Let's watch the movie."

A few minutes passed into the movie, Harry and Sally were in the car.

Sally: Amanda mentioned you had a dark side.

Harry: That's what drew her to me.

"Harry reminds me of Logan," Lilly commented as the movie played. A smile that could only indicate mischief graced the face of Lilly Kane. "Angst –driven," She added as a characteristic of the male-lead in the movie; Harry Burns and their own resident bad-boy; Logan Echolls.

"Logan is pretty intense," Veronica agreed; the mischief glinting in Lilly's eyes were not caught on the Sheriff's daughter. "But he's a softie. Even if he insists on denying it."

Lilly grinned.

Harry: You're probably one of those cheerful people who dots "i ' s" with little hearts.

Sally (defensively): I have just as much of a dark side as the next person-

"And you my dear Veronica are just like Sally!"

Veronica shrugged, "I guess I am."

Surprised at the petite blonde's reaction, Lilly frowned. She'd expected a fight, considering they'd established Logan as Harry. "You're the other half of his character, perky, bright-eyed and bubby but snarky and sarcastic."

"You're like the opposite to Logan, really. He is tough on the outside but soft on the inside; a marshmallow. You are soft on the outside but really are one tough cookie on the inside Veronica Mars."

Unsure of how to approach Lilly's comparisons, Veronica went with the ever-so easy option of humour, a grin spread across her lips as she teased, "Logan is going to be so pissed when he finds out you called him a marshmallow."

Lilly shrugged, unconcerned. "So I guess that means you and Logan are destined to end up together." Lilly casually chewed on the popcorn and watched the couple on-screen argue.

This causes the surprised and flush reaction Lilly was hoping for.

"Lilly!" A look of scandalism passed Veronica's features. "Logan and I are just friends."

"Didn't you hear? Girls and boys can't be friends without sex getting in the way," Lilly misquoted the very movie that they were watching.

"So you and Logan can't be friends."

"We already got the sex thing out of our system."

"But Logan and I have been friends since we were twelve and nothing has ever happened between us."

"Doesn't mean he didn't think it." As an afterthought, she added, "or even you."

"I didn't!" Wide eyed, she denied. "I was with Duncan and he was with you."

"He's a guy," Lilly shrugged. "I don't care. FYI I'd rather him be with you than any other girl, especially Madison."

"Logan would never date Madison." Veronica's distaste was evident. Then, she felt bad about the way it sounded. "I mean even if she's supposed to be our friend." Her defence was lost when she realised there was no use denying that she meant anything less than how it sounded.

"Ronica, we're not friends with her," Lilly firmly stated. Veronica knew that there was somewhat a rivalry with Madison wanting to be Queen but Lilly wearing the crown. But publicly they were friendly, somewhat.

"But we eat lunch-"

"Yeah well, friends don't try to de-thrown you."

To Lilly, friendship was a valued concept only a few people got that honour, you had to prove yourself to be called Lilly Kane's friend. Veronica held a different point of view; she believed that anyone could be a good friend if you gave them a chance. And if you could keep the title of a good friend, then you were a precious person.

"As if she could ever be Queen," Lilly snorted. "Not even next year."

Curious, Veronica pointed out, "You're leaving next year."

"Yeah, so?"

"Someone else will take over."

Wasn't that the way it worked? Veronica didn't know. Who was Queen before Lilly? She never really gave it thought. When Veronica entered high school, Lilly was already bossing everyone around.

"It's not gonna be her."

Veronica shrugged, she didn't particularly care about the monarchy of the school, she treated everyone equally, well she tried to. Lilly, on the other hand knew who the next Queen is after all she's been groomed from day one, she was the princess and when the Queen stepped down the princess took her place.

Harry: He wants her to leave. That's why he puts her on the plane.

Sally: I don't think she wants to stay.

Harry: Of course she wants to stay. Wouldn't you rather be with Humphrey Bogart than the other guy?

Sally: I don't want to spend the rest of my life in Casablanca married to a man who runs a bar. That probably sounds very snobbish to you, but I don't.

Harry: You'd rather be in a passionless marriage –

Sally: - and be the First Lady of Czechoslovakia –

Harry: - than live with the man... you've had the greatest sex of your life with, just because he owns a bar and that is all he does.

Sally: Yes, and so would any woman in her right mind. Women are very practical. Even Ingrid Bergman, which is why she gets on the plane at the end of the movie.

"I love that they argue about Casablanca," Veronica smiled, fondly before she popped a piece of chocolate in her mouth.

"Yeah, so you've said every time we watched this movie."

"It's a heartfelt movie. It's real, not just another 'happily ever after."

"You didn't seem to think so before. You actually hated that they were torn apart. You hated that he put her on that plane."

"It's a girl's prerogative to change her mind," Veronica shrugged. "Harry was wrong; he didn't put her on the plane because he wants her gone. He put her on the plane because he loved her. And Sally was wrong; she did want to stay with him."

Veronica was about to go on about the classic movie.

Thankfully, Lilly started to speak, "Yeah, well you know she denies having said that the next time they meet. And you know when you have sex, you're totally gonna agree with the other thing Harry said and I personally think that Logan is the right guy to get best sex from."

"Lilly!" Veronica's face was tinted with pink.

With an innocent smile, she looked at Veronica. "What?"

"Stop talking about Logan like he's not your ex and suggesting that I date him."

"But I'm totally cool with you dating him."

"He's Logan!"

"And what's wrong with Logan?"

"He's you ex!"

"Didn't we have this conversation?"

"Yeah but you just can't-"

"What a second, here's the part." Lilly pointed out.

Harry: You realize, of course, that we can never be friends.

Sally: What do you mean?

Harry: What I'm saying- And this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form—is that men and women can't be friends. The sex part always get's in the way.

Sally: That's not true. I have a number of men friends and there's no sex involved.

Harry: No, you don't.

Sally: Yes, I do.

Harry: No, you don't.

Sally: Yes, I do.

Harry: You only think you do.

Sally: You're saying I'm having sex with these men without my knowledge?

Harry: No, I'm saying they all want to have sex with you.

Sally: They do not.

Harry: They do too.

Sally: They do not.

Harry: Do too.

Sally: How do you know?

Harry: Because no man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her.

Sally: So you're saying a man can be friends with a woman he finds unattractive.

Harry: No, you pretty much want to have sex with them too.

Sally: What if they don't want to have sex with you?

Harry: Doesn't matter. The sex thing is already out there, so the friendship this is already doomed, and that's the end of story.

"I don't see why you had to block my mouth," Veronica glared at her best friend. "I've seen this movie before."

"Yes, but I was making a point. And you needed to listen. It usually takes saying it a couple times for realization to set it."

"Yeah, but there is nothing to have a realization about, you're taking things way out of proportion."

"One day, Veronica Mars, you will remember this day and for a moment I'll be an element of the supernatural with my super cool psychic abilities. And in that moment my voice will echo 'I-told-you-so'."

Veronica stifled a laugh, a serious look took over her face. "The natural balance of the world must be maintained Lillian Kane and not even a moment should alter that."

"I've always been too fabulous for the world to handle me. It's only natural for me to disrupt it's natural balance."

"You're incorrigible."

"You know you love me," Lilly said a bit too sweetly for Veronica's liking.

"Unfortunately."

"What was that?"

"Chocolate?" Veronica offered innocently.

"Why thank you Veronica Mars that is awfully chivalrous of you."

Veronica giggled at her friend's 'guy' voice.

Sally: You're getting married.

Harry: What's so funny about that?

Sally: It's just so optimistic of you.

Harry: You'd be amazed at what falling madly in love could do to you.

Sally: That's wonderful, Harry. It's nice to see you embracing life in this manner.

Harry: Besides, you just get to a certain point when you get tired of the whole thing.

Sally: What whole thing?

Harry: The whole life-of-a-single-guy. You meet someone, you have the safe lunch, you decide you like each other enough to move on to dinner, you go dancing, you do the white man's overbite, you go back to her place, you have sex, and the minute you're finished, you know what goes through your mind? How long do I have to lie here and hold her before I can get up and go home? Is thirty seconds enough?

"You know, unlike Harry, well the Harry that first met Sally. Logan does want to have all that 'falling madly in love' and getting married and he wants to have someone that can give him the whole night thing not just thirty seconds."

Veronica frowned. "He deserves it. So do you. Don't you want that?"

"Yeah, but not now, you know? Like someday, far away. But Logan he wants that now. Not the marriage part but the rest."

"I don't see what's wrong with that."

"That's because you want the same thing."

"Yeah, I guess, doesn't everyone?"

"Maybe, but you know like one day."

Thoughtfully, she nodded."Yeah, one day."

"You see why I know why Logan and I are done, right? We want different things. I don't want to hurt him Veronica but I don't want to hurt myself either."

"I get it Lil, I just don't want either of you to get hurt. I want us all to be happy again."

"I want that too. I think you and Logan would be good for each other." This time Lilly didn't sound teasing her, she sounded serious.

With a sigh, Veronica emphatically stated, "Logan and I are just friends."

Lilly smirked as her favourite speech comes up.

Harry: Yes, that's right. They can't be friends... unless both of them are involved with other people. Then they can. This is an amendment to the earlier rule. If the two people are in relationships, the pressure of possible involvement is lifted. That doesn't work either. Because what happens then is the person you're involved with can't understand why you need to be friends with the person you're just friends with, like it means something is missing from the relationship and wanted to go outside to get it. Then when you say, 'No, no, no, no, it's not true, nothing is missing from the relationship,' the person you're involved with then accuses you of being secretly attracted to the person you're just friends with, which you probably are - I mean, come on, who the hell are we kidding, let's face it - which brings us back to the earlier rule before the amendment, which is men and women can't be friends. So where does it leave us?

Lilly laughed and Veronica wrinkled her nose.

Veronica can't really come up with a valid argument, Lilly will have a remark for every point that she could bring up.

"Lilly, he's Duncan's best friend." It was the only point that she could use to hopefully make Lilly back off.

"So what? We can totally hook him up with one of our 'friends'."

With a frown, Veronica told her, "Just because I've accepted our break up doesn't mean I'm ready to date again or see him date again. I know that girls are going to be all over him but still..."

"Veronica, you can't-"

"I won't cry or anything but it still hurts. I don't want Duncan back but it still hurts. I don't know the reason and that hurts more."

"But it will get better. I promise. You'll be dating again in no time. And the only way to date is to date up. Logan Echolls is definitely up."

"Really, so who's higher than Logan? Who are you going to date Lilly Kane?"

"Puh-lease Veronica, Logan's the upgrade here. I'm off to bigger and better fish in college."

"Arg the evil 'C' word that's stealing you from me," Veronica pouted.

"Come on Veronica Mars! College experience is nothing without my BFF. I'm totally taking you to parties and the whole nine yards, except you won't be like a student there or whatever but it'll be awesome!"

Veronica laughed, "So what am I going to do when I go to college when I already have the college experience?"

"Uh, an experience as awesome as that lived twice will only result in more awesomeness!"

A chuckle escaped her lips, she didn't make another comment and concentrated on the movie rather than because then the laughter would turn into tears. Veronica was going to Stanford and Lilly was not. Neither was Logan. Not even Duncan, she's a little bit grateful for that one but she hoped that when college came around they'd be friends again. Two-years from now, that's not a long shot, right? Thing's change in a minute, anything could happen in Neptune.

Just then Veronica's phone rang.

"Hello?" She answered without looking at the caller ID.

"Hey Ronnie."Instantly, Veronica recognised the voice. There's only two people who call her 'Ronnie' Dick and Logan, this is definitely not the former.

"Hey, Logan, how are you?" Manners. Good girl, Veronica.

Lilly's interest peeked up at the name.

"I'm bored, like seriously bored," He whined good-naturedly.

Veronica giggled at his voice, he sounded so frustrated.

"It's night Logan, why don't you try sleeping?" She suggested with playfulness entering her voice.

"Insomnia," He commented casually.

"Exaggerate, much?"

"No, seriously. I tried sleeping but nothing."

"No one's throwing a party this weekend?"

"If there was one, you'd know."

"Did your X-box break?"

"It's no fun playing alone anymore."

Lilly grinned deviously as the next scene came up.

"And your BFF couldn't spare you a night?"

Veronica was surprised that she was the one to bring up the other Kane, and it was even more surprising that she wasn't as bothered as much she thought she would be.

"He's sleeping. Like dead as a duck."

"Well, what made you think I was awake?"

"You're always available for me," He answered with his cute boyish voice, Veronica smiled.

"So I'm you're entertainment system?"

"24/7, right?" He said it so cutely Veronica couldn't help the little giggle that passed her lips.

Unbeknown to Veronica the scene now playing was the scene where Sally began to illustrate to Harry, in the middle of the busy restaurant, how easily women could convincingly fake an orgasm.

On screen slowly Sally laughs into what builds to be a wild organism.

Sally: Oh, oh, oh.

Harry: Are you alright?

Sally: Oh God

Lilly grinned evilly as she turned up the volume.

Sally: Oh God, Oh yes, oh God-

Logan was absolutely shocked at the sounds he heard, he almost positive it was his mind playing tricks on him. Veronica was just as shocked; she just stood there with the phone pressed to her ear.

"Ron-nie, a-are y-you watching p-p-porn?" Logan stuttered through his shock. He couldn't believe he just asked her that.

Horrified, she hurriedly shouted, "Lilly! Stop it!"

"That was Lilly? That didn't sound like Lilly." He took in a deep breath, completely caught off guard by the topic.

"Oh God!" Lilly mimicked Sally and tried her best to hold in in her laughter.

"Oh my god, that is Lilly," Logan mumbled with incredulity into the phone, semi-paralysed with the phone in his hand. He was going to end the call because of the awkwardness but his body wasn't listening to his brain.

"Lilly, that's not funny!" Veronica yelled and turned the TV off.

Finally, Lilly collapsed with laughter spilling out of her lips.

"Veronica?" Logan muttered into the phone.

"Oh Logan, you think if she was doing me, she'll even answer your call?" Lilly laughed.

"Lilly!" Veronica was absolutely mortified.

"Maybe in your dreams," Lilly's laughter rang through the phone.

"What were you guys doing?" He asked, trying to gain his voice back.

"We were-"

"I was teaching Veronica the arts of sex. It's-"

"Lilly!"

"She's almost perfected the scream!" Lilly laughed again; she honestly can't remember when she's laughed this much before.

Logan swallowed hard. He couldn't keep the images out.

"Stop it!" She looked at Lilly with wide eyes.

"You know you love it," Lilly winked with a smirk.

"We were watching 'When Harry Met Sally'," Veronica finally got out.

"Oh," Logan let out. "I didn't know you were having a sleep over, I would have crashed it." He tried to get some normalcy into the conversation. Usually he'd encourage the sex talk but this was Ronnie.

"Woulda, coulda, shoulda," Lilly sang while she listened in by pressing her ear on the other side of the phone.

"Did you spike Lilly's drink with happy pills?" Logan asked with amusement colouring his voice.

"Logan!" Veronica scolded him then she realised that he was joking, "You know that was meant to be a secret," She whispered conspiracally.

"I'm pumped on the truth. No one can deny I'm right now!"

"Right about what?" Logan asked.

Before Lilly can answer Veronica asked, "So, what's keeping you up?"

"I don't know."

"Veronica Mars!" Lilly answered Veronica's question but it just seemed like a shout to Logan.

"Seriously, what is up with her?"

"I have no idea." Veronica looked at her energetic friend with helplessness.

"High on life!"

"Do you have me on loud speaker?"

"Yeah, she wouldn't stop pressing her ear on the phone."

"Why Logan Echolls do you want to talk to Ronica in private?" Lilly teased.

"I called her for a reason," Logan retorted.

"And what may that be?" Lilly teasingly questioned.

"A sensible conversation," He remarked.

"That would make him fall asleep, because you know, he needs to sleep," Veronica said when she noticed Lilly's grin.

Logan didn't want her to think that he thought she was boring, which he didn't. "No, I didn't-"

Before they could hear his reply Veronica blocked the speaker and whispered to Lilly. "Stop it Lilly, seriously. I can hardly it when you tease me privately but I'd feel really uncomfortable if Logan found out."

Lilly sighed, it was fun teasing her best friend but she knew that if she opened her mouth about it again Veronica would get seriously angry and that would mean the silent treatment for Lilly.

"Veronica?" Logan questioned.

"Yeah, the network line was a bit weird for a second."

"So Logan, don't you think Veronica's like Sally?" Lilly quizzed with a sobered voice.

"Logan, Lilly called you a marshmallow!"

"What? Why would you call me that? You guys were talking about?"

"Oh yeah, there's a 'We Worship Logan Echolls' Club, meet every-week," Lilly said.

Logan smirked and started to reply but Veronica spoke first, "Oh yeah, Madison Sinclair is the president of that one."

Lilly grinned and high five'd Veronica, mouthing 'good one'.

"Ya had to ruin it for me, didn't you?" Logan pouted.

The trio talked through the night until eventually Logan fell asleep and Lilly dozed off.

Veronica noticed the DVD player on; she turned on the TV to catch the ending of the movie that was still playing.

Harry: The first time we met we hated each other.

Sally: You didn't hate me. I hated you. The second time we met he didn't even remember me.

Harry: I did too, I remembered you. The third time we met, we became friends.

Sally: We were friends for a long time.

Harry: And then we weren't.

Sally: And then we fell in love.

Veronica smiled at the screen and went to shut it off.

Harry: Two months-

The screen faded to black and Veronica put Lilly into a comfortable position on the bed, pulled the blanket over her and tucked her in. She climbed in next to her, pulled over the covers and closed her eyes, drifting off to sleep her last thought was 'Logan and I are friends.'