Hey everyone! Another update and it hasn't been a week! I don't know what it is, but I'm just thankful that I've been able to write. I just want to say a quick thanks to everyone who keeps reading, I hope you guys have enjoyed this story as much as I have. And a BIG thanks to everyone who reviews…you guys are truly amazing and this story would be no where without you! So thanks.
Disclaimer: I don't own Veronica Mars or it's characters.
Changing into the clothes Logan gave her Veronica sits back down on the bed and rubs her head. She remembers freaking out and running from Logan's car. She also remembers falling into the pool with Logan and considering the bump she has, she must've hit her head pretty hard on the bottom of the pool. After hitting the water her memory gets a little fuzzy. Closing her eyes she can remember Logan yelling her name and him carrying her inside, but that's as far as her memory goes. No recollection of her undressing herself, which means that it must've been Logan that had done that. Feeling her face heat up, Veronica runs a hand through her surprisingly dry hair.
Opening her eyes and searching for the clock Veronica is surprised to see it's 4 in the afternoon, she had slept the whole school day away. Sighing she looks around Logan's room, noticing not much has changed in the year she had be ostracized. Standing, she winces as the pounding in her head gets a little louder with the change in position. Opening the door, she walks down the hall and turns left to enter the kitchen. Even though it had been a year since stepping foot in this house, she felt like it had just been yesterday Lily and her would race each other down this hallway. Stopping in the doorway, Veronica watches Logan standing in front of the open refrigerator with his cell phone up to his ear.
"Hey Duncan, it's Logan. We should really talk man. Well just call me, stop by… whatever." Sighing, Logan looks at his phone before closing it and looking closely in the fridge. He wanted to make something to eat for Veronica, figuring she must be hungry. The only problem is his cooking skills were next to nil, so unless Veronica was ok with Pop Tarts, they would need to order some take-out.
"I don't think Duncan really wants to talk to either of us right now." Veronica says, crossing her arms over her chest and walking further into the kitchen. "Considering what he saw, I can't say I blame him."
"But nothing happened." Logan says sighing and shutting the fridge.
"Logan, come on." Veronica says with her famous head tilt. "If you were Duncan and you walked into your room and saw me lying in bed with nothing but my underwear on…what would be your first thought?"
"I know what it must've looked like. And if it had been anyone else in my bed I would understand, but it was you…" Stopping mid sentence Logan looks into Veronica's face and silently swears.
Surprisingly hurt by Logan's words Veronica turns, facing away from Logan. "As repulsive as you think I am…Duncan doesn't, or at least didn't, see me as that way."
Stepping up behind Veronica, Logan rests a hand on her elbow. "You know I didn't mean it like that. I just wasn't thinking. "
Turning and giving him a heated look Veronica sighs. "You never seem to think."
"Ouch." Logan says raising and holding his hands over his chest, pretending she had shot him in the heart. "That hurt."
"Well can you blame me?" Veronica says throwing her arms in the air. "You invite Weevil to a poker game, expecting to hose him, but end up getting hosed yourself! Then the money gets stolen right from underneath your nose and sit back while your 'friends' all point fingers at your back! And you seem to delay me every step of the way, even though I'm trying to save your sorry ass. Although I don't know why since you find me so repulsive, and you've been treating me like dirt for the past year!" Stopping to take a deep breath Veronica opens her mouth to continue her rant, but her words get swallowed by Logan's mouth covering hers. Pushing on his chest, Veronica's struggle stops and her arms slowly snake around Logan's neck, pulling him closer.
Feeling Veronica's fingers playing with the hair at the nape of his neck, he smiles, pulling away Logan takes a couple deep, labored breaths and collects his thoughts. "You're right…I find you so repulsive." Logan says with his infamous smirk before leaning back down for another kiss.
Tilting her head back, away from Logan's, Veronica just stares at him for a moment before dropping her arms and stepping back from him, and straight into a corner. "What is this?" Veronica asks, so quietly she isn't even sure if Logan heard her, sighing and resting a hand on her pounding forehead. Turning back to look at Logan, she tries to ignore the way he looks at her and remember the hurt and anger he has put her through. "You can't just kiss me every time things aren't going your way Logan."
"That is just…" Logan says, pacing away and then back to look at Veronica. "That's not why I kissed you Veronica."
"You could've fooled me." Veronica says shaking her head. "The first kiss we had was this morning when I was yelling at you, you said it yourself, that was the best way to shut me up…"
"I believe I said it was a good way to shut anyone up, not just you." Logan says interrupting Veronica, but staying where he was. He knew her well enough to know that she was in no mood for him to try and kiss her again.
"You still admit to kissing me to shut me up." And when Logan looks like he's about to interrupt her again she glares at him and he shuts his mouth. "Then at the studio you kissed me in front of Connor and everyone, all because he was flirting with me. Almost like you were staking a claim on me or something, as if I were yours and that would stop Connor!" After saying this Veronica pauses a moment, waiting to see if Logan is going to deny what she has said. Instead he just looks down, almost as good as saying she was right. "And finally now…just like at the school this morning. It was just a diversion to get me to shut up. And the worst thing is I almost let it work, again!" There is a long silence in the Echoll's kitchen, both Veronica and Logan staring at each other. Finally Veronica sighs and shakes her head. "I need to get home."
"Veronica, wait." Logan says stepping in front of her.
Stopping and sighing again, she looks up at Logan's face. "What Logan? What is it?" She asks when he doesn't say anything else.
"I…umm" Logan says looking down at Veronica in his clothes. "You're clothes." He says before turning away quickly from her. Leaving Veronica staring after him, wondering what it was Logan had actually wanted to say.
It took Logan a couple of minutes to come back to the kitchen with Veronica's clothes. Taking them from Logan, Veronica walks back to his bedroom and changes quickly back into her clothes, leaving the borrowed ones folded neatly on his bed. Entering the kitchen again she looks for the phone, she needed to call Wallace to come pick her up and take her to her car, that was still parked at the school. Glancing quickly at Logan she notices him just leaning against the counter, staring at her. Turning to pick up the phone she can feels his eyes on her back. Wishing he would just ignore her instead of standing there, his presence at the forefront of her mind.
"Don't bother calling Wallace." Logan says before she even has a chance to dial. "I'll drive you to your car."
"I can't ask you to do that." Veronica says turning to look at Logan. After everything that had happened today Veronica didn't know what to think about Logan and spending any more time with him might just be the end of the wall she had spent the past year building up around herself.
"It makes no sense for you to call Wallace to drive all the way here to pick you up and than back to the school for your car, when I'm here and could just drive you to your car." Staring at Veronica, Logan recognizes the look in her eyes. It was the same look she had when she ran from his car and hit her head in the pool. It was also the only glimpse of the old Veronica he had seen in awhile.
Staring at Logan, Veronica gives in with a small nod of her head. Knowing he was right and for her to protest would just seem foolish. "Let's go than." She says crossing her arms over her chest and walking past Logan and out the front door. Beating Logan to the Xterra, Veronica waits in the passenger seat, and staring out the passenger window.
The whole car ride to the school was in silence with Logan glancing at Veronica every once in awhile. She was withdrawing into herself and he didn't know what to do to stop it. He wasn't even certain what caused it, but if he had to guess it would have to be them kissing. That had really seemed to bother her. But he didn't know if it was because he used to be with Lily, and it felt like betrayal to her. Or the fact it was him, Logan Echolls, the worlds biggest jackass. Or could it be Duncan? It really seemed to bother her for him to think anything had happened between the two of them. Pulling into the school lot, Logan puts the car into park next to Veronica's Le Baron and turns to look at her. "So I'll talk to you later?" He asks, his gaze never wavering from her face, even though she hadn't looked at him since they had left his house.
"Sure." Is all Veronica says before taking off her seatbelt and slipping out of his car. Without even a backwards glance she pulls out her keys, hops into her car, and pulls out of the parking lot. Leaving Logan to stare after her and wonder when things had changed between them.
I hope you guys all enjoy this newest update, it was very interesting to write since neither of the characters did what I had planned for them. I some times wonder who is writing this story; me or Veronica and Logan. Anyways I just want to say thanks again to all the reviewers, you guys are the best!
