Disclaimer: I do not own Veronica Mars or any of the characters.

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Actually Veronica thinks the surprise ended up being her surprising them. They weren't expecting her so soon it seemed. Looks like a few last minute things were happening when she walked through the front door and into the foyer. Guess I was right when I said it was big enough for a party. It looked like there were maybe 20 or so high school students there. Veronica didn't see any sign of Lilly, Dick or Duncan. Good. She probably would have ended up strangling someone if she saw them.

"Veronica! I wasn't expecting you so soon!" Jake exclaimed. He halfheartedly waved his arm around. "Surprise!" He looked so sad that his party was ruined.

Guiltily Veronica gave an attempt at a smile. She was still pretty pissed at his kids for deserting her the way they did. Even if it did end with her getting a job.

"Where's the rest of the crew?" Jake asked as he looked behind Veronica.

She bit my tongue as she thought of a reply. I could be a bitch and rat them out, or I could stay out of this one.

"They should be here any minute." Jake accepted that answer and walked up to Veronica and loosely wrapped his arm around her shoulders. He led her over to where all the kids were.

"Veronica these are all friends of Lilly and Duncan's. They are going to be your classmates. Why don't you mingle and get to know everyone. Celeste and I are going out to a party, and will be back late. Have fun kids!" He squeezed her shoulder, whispered happy belated birthday in her ear and left.

Great. Just great. What kind of wannabe father just leaves there supposed daughter in a room full of strangers and expects them to become instant friends?

Most of the crowd ignored her while the other half kept shooting her dirty looks. Veronica smiled a smile that came off more as a grimace as she made her way to the drinks.

As soon as she got to the table, the few people that were there just gave her dirty looks. Veronica poured herself some punch thinking to herself how could this night get any worse? The girl standing across from Veronica gave her a friendly smile. "You must be Veronica. Hi, I'm Meg, Duncan's girlfriend." She extended her hand out to Veronica like she wanted her to shake it.

Wow. Duncan's girlfriend was really…perky. But at least she was being sincere. It was more than how everyone else was acting. Veronica smiled back at Meg and shook her hand.

"It's nice to meet you. You're the first friendly person I've met so far," Veronica told her.

She nodded her head in understanding. "A lot of people here don't like new people. Especially people who don't run in there circle. I think there just jealous. But don't worry; they'll get to know you soon. Have you seen Duncan?"

Veronica's half smile turned into a scowl. "Not since they left me at the beach a few hours ago."

Meg finally frowned. "That doesn't sound like him." Then she perked up again. "Let me introduce you to everyone." She grabs Veronica's hand and leads her around the room making introductions.

The whole time Veronica was watching Logan as he followed them around the room. She could tell he really missed everyone. Part of her was sad for him, but the other half couldn't see what he possibly saw in everyone. They all seemed like stuck up rich snobs who would rather ruin someone's life then actually smile at anyone. She knew they were only being decent to her because of Meg. It was really hard to be mean to her as well. She was just so nice. And friendly.

A few hours later, and the party was really getting out of control. Lilly, Dick and Duncan finally arrived with a keg and booze, and the partying got underway. The music was deafening, and there seemed to be people everywhere. It was hard to walk around. Veronica went to her room and tried to drown everyone out by turning out her light and putting her headphones on. Jake had even gotten veronica her own iPod.

Veronica must have finally drifted off to sleep. That is until she felt something heavy fall on her. She snapped my eyes open just in time to see someone crawl up her body and try to jam there tongue into her mouth. She put her hands on their chest and tried to push as hard as she could. It was no use. They were too heavy, and at the right angle.

She tried to roll over, but the person grabbed her arms and pinned them over her head. She could hear male giggling next to her, and she tried to turn her head to see who else was there. She could see the outline of two other bodies and her heart started pounding harder.

The guy with his tongue down her throat started kissing her neck, and she tried to scream. The person closest to her put his hand over her mouth to quiet her and the other guy came up on the other side of her.

Freaking out, Veronica tried to fight back with all of her might. She managed to knee the guy on top of her in the stomach, and he doubled over. She threw him off of her and scrambled out of bed. She fell on the ground and tried to crawl through the other's legs. They were probably wasted, but they were still fast. One guy managed to grab her hair as another grabbed her ankle.

From the light coming in through the sliding doors, Veronica could see Logan staring in shock as the scene in front of him unfolded. Slowly his face turned to rage, and he tried grabbing the guy closest to him. His arms went right through the guy. Logan seemed surprised, and the other guy didn't feel a thing. They just continued leering at Veronica. The guy that was on top of her, picked her up by her waist and threw her onto the bed. He pinned her arms to her sides.

"You bitch! You're going to pay for that!" He slapped Veronica in the face and her cheek ignited in fire.

Please let this be a nightmare, and I'll wake up in my bed at my house in Rhode Island and this never happened. Veronica silently begged. She closed her eyes and prayed as hard as she could.

She felt and heard her shirt being ripped open, and her eyes flew open in shock. She looked out pass the guys and found Logan. He was standing so close to Veronica that she could see the look in his eyes, and it brought tears to her own. She could feel the fury coming off of him in waves. As well as shock, and fear.

Without realizing it, she was looking to Logan for comfort. Even knowing he couldn't do anything. But seeing the look on his face hurt more than she thought it would and she had to look away.

The guys continued to leer at Veronica as they continued to tear at her clothes. Weakly she tried fighting back, but terror was taking over, and honestly, she weighed a 100 pounds. The three guys combined would probably out-weigh her by almost 400 pounds.

Veronica didn't know how, but logic was starting to come back to her. While the guy on top of her was making out with her neck some more, she slowly moved her hand into her back pocket. Thankful that her phone was on and that there were numbers programmed into it and that it wasn't a flip phone. She hit the button she hoped would go to her contacts, and hit the up button once. Then she hit what she hoped was the send button. She pulled the phone out, and made sure the phone speaker was able to pick up sounds.

Faintly, Veronica could hear something coming from the phone, so she attempted one more time to get the guy off of her. She screamed, begged and clawed the guy on top of her and screamed that they get out of her room.

As all three of them tried restraining Veronica, her bedroom door flew open and the light came on.

"What the hell?" Veronica's head whipped towards the door, and she almost cried out in joy. Of all people, Lilly was the one to come to her rescue. The guys let go of Veronica, and flew out of her sliding doors. Cautiously Veronica sat up and wrapped what remained of her shirt around her as she stared at the ground.

Veronica could hear movement, but she refused to look. Her eyes were starting to well up, and she didn't want to give in to her tears. She felt someone sit next to her and wrap their arms around her shoulders. She leaned her head against Lilly's shoulder and the sobs took over.

Lilly rubbed Veronica's back. "Veronica I'm so sorry! I had no idea they would ever do something like that!" Lilly kept apologizing.

Finally Veronica stopped crying and lifted her head up. She wiped the tears off of her face and went to the pile of clothes she left out on her floor and grabbed the first shirt she found and put it on.

"Why don't you grab some pajamas and you can spend the night in my room," Lilly offered.

Veronica thought about this for a minute. She could sleep in her room and be scared all night thinking about what happened, or she could take Lilly up on her offer and try and forget about this night.

Veronica grabbed some pajamas and followed Lilly to her room. He didn't hear any noises coming from anywhere and assumed the party died out.

When they got to Lilly's room, which by the way Logan followed, Veronica sat down on Lilly's bed and sniffled. "What about your party?"

Lilly snorted. "My party? That party was yours. Guess Daddy Dearest was trying to make up for something. Anyway I told Donut to get rid of everyone. If you want, the bathrooms over there. Just make yourself comfortable."

Veronica went into the bathroom and stared at her reflection. Her eyes were blood shot and swollen. She had some hickeys on her neck, and her hair was a mess. She was also really pale. Veronica could see Logan's reflection from behind her, and every time she saw the look on his face, her heart broke a little more. The emotions coming off of him kept getting to her. She couldn't look him in the eye. He put a hand on her shoulder and squeezed. Veronica closed her eyes and just concentrated on breathing deeply. When that didn't work, she flung her arms around his neck and squeezed as hard as she could, knowing she couldn't hurt him.

"Thanks for trying to save me," Veronica whispered into his ear as the tears started to slow down. Logan's arms around her waist tightened. Veronica pulled back a bit and could see the rage on his face. "I couldn't save you! Seeing what they were doing to you and knowing there wasn't a damn thing I couldn't do to save you! I've never felt so helpless before in my life. I can't believe my so called friendswould do something like that!" Logan was furious, and Veronica felt grateful.

She stepped back and then held up her clothes so he could see she wanted to change. He got the hint and disappeared.

After she changed, Veronica came back out into Lilly's room to see she was in her pajamas and already under the covers. The lights were out, but she had a lava lamp on. Veronica felt grateful as she realized she didn't want it to be completely dark. She walked over to her side of the bed and crawled in.

They laid there for about 10 minutes, but it seemed like a lifetime. Finally Veronica couldn't take the silence anymore. "Lilly?" she whispered.

Lilly rolled over to face her. "Yeah?"

"I didn't wake you did I?" Though it didn't sound like she did.

"No. I've been awake. What's up?" Lilly was still being nice to Veronica.

Veronica decided to start from the beginning. "I didn't ask to come here. Honestly I didn't even know about you guys until I was sent to live here. As far as I was concerned, my father was just a sperm donor. I never knew him, and my mother made sure to never talk about him. The only thing I knew was his name, and that's because it was on my birth certificate. And I don't want to start any troubles either. I just want to get on with my life the best that I can. Then when college comes, I can finally be on my own." Wow, Veronica couldn't believe she just spilled her guts to Lilly.

Lilly sighed. "I didn't mean to be a bitch either. It was just a lot to take in. Like you, I never knew I had a sister. When you came, I felt like you were taking the spotlight away from me, and I couldn't have that. I see the way my father looks at you. And it hurts. I don't think I've ever seen him look at me that way. And I'm sorry for leaving you at the beach. I was just jealous." Lilly laughs. "Me, Lilly Kane, jealous! That's a new concept."

This actually felt nice. They were starting to bond. Veronica looked over and watched Logan watching them with a curious look on his face.

"What's wrong with Duncan?" Veronica wanted to know if it was just because of Logan, or if he was really like that.

"Oh, him? He's just upset because his best friend was killed," Veronica could hear the sadness in her voice as well.

"I'm sorry. Were you guys close?" Veronica was curious as to how close she was to him.

"Yeah, he was like a brother to us. There wasn't a day that went by that we didn't hang out together. We were the Musketeers. And we ruled the school. Everyone wanted to be us, and everyone wanted to hang with us. But when he died…" Lilly trailed off. "It's just really hard. I still miss him so much."

Veronica could hear the tears in Lilly's voice. "Sounds tough. None of my friends died, but there gone as well. Not only did I lose my mother, but I lost all of my friends as well as my amazing boyfriend. Then I moved across the country to a father I don't know, who was trying too hard. To a family I never knew I had, and were making my life less fun. But now that I think about it from your point of view, I would have probably reacted the same way." Veronica couldn't believe she just admitted that to Lilly.

"Yeah, well now that I hear from your point of view, I can't believe what a bitch I've been. You're alright Veronica. And don't worry, tomorrow's going to be a whole new day. We start school, and were going to be the best sisters we've ever had!"

This all seems so surreal. Just an hour ago Lilly hated me, and now she wants to be best friends? Well I guess it was a step I was willing to take. After all, I'm stuck here for another two years. Might as well make the best of it.

"Can't wait. Night Lilly. And thanks."

"Night, Veronica. I'm really glad it was me you turned too."

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(Author's Note: Just Grammar again.)