Four

"My Way or the Highway"

I will forgive but I won't forget
I hope you know
You've lost my respect

--from "Blood (Empty Promises)" by Papa Roach

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Finding Weevil wasn't as easy as I would have expected it to be. Still, it wasn't exactly like Weevil was trying to hide. It may have taken me longer than normal to find him, but you try being at your best when it's 6 in the morning and you've had a grand total of about 3 hours of sleep. When I did find him, he didn't make it easy on me.

"What were you thinking, Weevil? Logan is in the hospital right now. You dumped him on the side of the road. What if he hadn't been found in time?" The idea of keeping my voice down was completely lost on me in my anger.

"Yeah, well, at least I just dropped him on the side of the road and not off a bridge. That's what the fool deserved. Lilly didn't get off so easy," Weevil retorted with all the righteous anger he could muster.

"Maybe that's what he would have deserved if he had killed Lilly, but he didn't," I said as quietly as I could manage under the circumstances.

"Really? It seems to me that just a few short hours ago you were talking him up as the definite killer," Weevil replied, still unable to give up the idea that he had exacted vengeance.

"I was wrong. Logan didn't kill Lilly. I know he didn't. His dad did," I told him quietly.

"His dad? That doesn't make any sense. What, he didn't like her dating his son or something?" he replied.

I tried to explain. "Lilly was screwing Mr. Echolls, and she found out that he had this porn-tastic setup and was recording their meetings. I found several tapes that make that much clear. She took the tapes, and he got mad and killed her."

I joined Weevil on the step he was sitting on. We sat quietly for a few moments while he absorbed the new information.

"Logan had nothing to do with Lilly's death, even though he'll probably blame himself. The truth is his dad is a psycho."

"Yeah, well, sucks to be him. I'm sorry that I thrashed him for the wrong reason, but I ain't sorry that I thrashed him. He had it coming," Weevil said with some warmth.

"You are unbelievable."