A/N: Thanks sooooooo much for all the comments. I'm going to thank all of you in a second but first let me say something. I didn't think people would like the story, so I'm extremely happy that so many people are enjoying it. Ok, that's it so I'll thank you all now.

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Vartan-LoVer: Thanks for all the song jokes. And I hope your soccer game went well.

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joannwithane: Logan MIGHT save her…don't want to give it away so ladeeda, not saying anymore. Thanks for the review.

TSJorSydPip, jacedes: Definitely a LoVe story. I know it seems out of character, but it's fanfiction so, I'm allowed to do that.

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Ok, Wow! A lot of reviews. Thanks again to everyone. Now a quick comment before this is like the longest authors note ever, basically, since this is fanfiction, I'm making the story so that Piz knows NOTHING about Veronica's life before. All he knows is about her being a PI and about Lily. Ok, so there's no confusion about that.

Disclaimer: I don't own Veronica Mars.

On to the story…

Where We Are Now

Dear Journal,

What just happened.

I'm scared to write it down because I don't want it to be true. Piz is too nice to do that. I must have dreamed it, or imagined it.

No I couldn't have imagined it. If I imagined it my face wouldn't be burning, like I spent a week in the Caribbean.

Piz slapped me.

Okay, I said it.

Piz slapped me.

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"I said stop!" yelled Piz. And that's when Veronica felt the sharp sting of a hand slapping across her cheek.

There was a long silence in the car. It seemed to stretch forever and back again. Veronica slowly reached her hand to her face to cup her cheek. Her face was stinging and burning, like a thousand sharp needles were poking her cheek.

"Oh my God," she whispered, "oh my God."

"Oh my God," Piz said silently to himself.

"What…what was…?" Veronica tried to form the words, but she failed miserably.

"I don't know," said Piz, apparently still talking to himself.

The car was silent again. But this time it was a dense silence. Piz and Veronica could both feel the weight of the situation in the air around them. Both of them sat in the car. Silent. Unmoving.

"I'm sorry," said Piz, "I don't know what came over me. I just…I don't know…I was just mad, I thought you still loved Logan. I know you don't but for a second I thought you did. I'm sorry. I've never done that before. I've never hit a girl. I care about you so much. I…" Piz rambled on but Veronica wasn't listening.

All Veronica could think was that Logan would never hurt her. Logan had dealt with his father's abuse all his life. He knew what it was like. He would NEVER inflict that upon anyone else. He hit people, sure, but he would never, ever, hit a girl…especially her.

Those were the only thought going through Veronica's head when she waited for Piz to finish his speech. And they were the only thoughts there when she opened the door and left the car.

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It's not too bad really. I could probably say I walked into a door or something. Or a tree. No one has to know. It's not like you can see finger marks or anything. But I know what happened.

And I know what I have to do.

I have to break up with him. I can't be with a guy that hurts me. Even if it was only once. Plus, everything I thought about last night. All my thoughts about Logan. I realized that I can't stop loving him. I want him back. I can't go on like this. It's making me miserable not being with him. Even that song he put on the radio – even if it was Nick Lachey – was sweet.

Okay, if I'm going to break up with Piz, I better start getting ready.

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Veronica walked over to the bathroom and glanced quickly in the mirror. She looked away quickly.

"I guess it's worse than I thought." She said.

She pulled out a bag of make up from under the sink, and quickly rummaged through it until she found what she was looking for. It was a tin of concealer. Slowly she opened it and began to apply it to the bruise.

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I can't believe I have to break up with someone again.

That's what Logan was thinking as he climbed into his Range Rover, before driving out to Parker's dorm room.

They hadn't been dating long. But Logan knew that Parker already had strong feelings for him. He just didn't feel that way about her. She just wasn't…Veronica. He admitted to himself that last night was fun, but it was fun because he got to laugh at Veronica, hear Veronica and be around Veronica again. Everything in his life was about Veronica. He realized that now. His life had always been about Veronica. Since he was twelve at least.

Ever since the first time he laid eyes on Veronica, he knew that he loved her. He loved that she was so confident in herself, but it was a different kind of confidence from Lily's. She was confident without being an attention grabber.

And even when he was with Lily he knew, that he would never truly be happy with her, because she was not the one for him. It was always Veronica.

And even when he made her life hell for a year. He didn't truly hate her. He could never hate her.

When they finally got together, it was like a dream come true for him. It was like everything he had done to get her attention over the past years had finally come together.

And then when she broke his heart…twice…it was all he could do not to throw himself over that bridge, to be with his mother. And then when she took him back, all he wanted to do was go to New York with her. But he gave her space, she needed space.

And then finally the inevitable happened. They broke up. Again.

And then they got back together.

And broke up.

Logan had been tossed around by her so many times that he decided that he had better move on with his life. So he turned to Parker. But no one could ever measure up to Veronica. Not Lily, not Caitlin, not Hannah, and not Parker. He had to break up with her.

He arrived at the dorm rooms, and he made his way to hers.

He stopped outside before slowly knocking on the door.

She answered quickly, like she was getting ready to leave.

"Logan," she said, happily of course, "I was just on my way out to see you."

"Hey Parker," he said, "I have something I need to talk to you about."

He looked at the floor solemnly.

"Come in."

He slowly made his way into the room and sat on her bed. She sat across from him in the chair that she had dragged across the room from the desk.

"You see," he started, "the thing is that…" he had broken up with so many girls that this came naturally for him, "I don't think that we really work well together, you and me. I don't want to hurt you, but I don't think that we should keep seeing each other."

"Because you still love Veronica." Parker said. It wasn't a question. She knew.

"How'd you…"

"It's obvious in the way you look at her. When you say her name. When you laugh at her jokes. Whenever you talk about her. Whenever you're around her." Parker said. She really wasn't as dumb as she looked.

"So you're not mad?" he asked

"Nope," she answered, "I kind of knew it was coming. I actually was on my way to break up with you. You know, beat you to it."

He laughed at that.

"I hope we can still be friends."

"We can."

Was she always so sure of herself, he thought.

"Now, as friends," she said, "we have to devise a plan, to get Veronica to break up with Piz and take you back."

Logan smiled. He could use Parker on his side.

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Not too bad. She thought as she looked at her reflection in the mirror. You could barely see where she had been hit. Now it just looked like six layers of make up. But you couldn't tell anything had happened.

Now to break up with Piz she thought. What should she do.

She thought she could go with the "I still love Logan" excuse. But she didn't want to make him mad. Again.

And she couldn't do the "Uh…you hit me so therefore I can't date you" break up.

How about the "We don't really work well together" break up. Yep that will do, she thought. It wasn't the truth of course, but it would do.

Time to face the music she thought.

Veronica walked out of the bathroom and into the kitchen. She grabbed a bottle of water for the drive to campus and walked to the door.

She grabbed her keys off the hook, and opened the door.

On the other side, stood a young man. With a bouquet of red roses in his hand.

A/N: Who is it? Got to keep reading. Ok, so again REVIEW!!!!! Thanks again to Jenna for the original read through.