Chapter 9

Logan woke up the next morning with Veronica by his side, she had her arm around his waist while she was sleeping with her head in his neck. He moved slowly so as not to wake her up, he grabbed his shirt which was on the floor and put it on before waking up Veronica, they had only one hour and a half to get to school and she needed to go home to change and shower.

"Veronica wake up, it's already eight." He said softly as he kissed her bare shoulder, she moved a little and tried to push him away, but he would not leave her alone. "I'm not going anywhere until you're awake and dressed, so get your cute little ass out of this bed."

"Sleep."

"You can sleep after school, I'll let you take a nap, but come on wake up."

"You're the one who kept me up last night so shut up."

"I know but last night you weren't complaining, come on sugarpuss wake up, I'm going to take a shower and when I get out of the bathroom you'd better be awake and dressed." He said kissing her on the lips, he went to his walk in closet and grabbed the clothes he was going to wear today, coming back into the room he saw Veronica finally awake.

"Morning." She told him seeing her boyfriend, she yawned and closed again her eyes She felt the mattress move under Logan's weight and then felt his finger play with her hair. She opened her eyes again and saw him look at her; she smiled and leaned to kiss him. "I'm going to leave soon."

"I know, but I don't want you to leave."

"Yeah, but I need to go home, take a shower, change and finally get ready for school, I'll see you there." she said finally moving and grabbing her shirt which was on the floor next to the bed. Logan watched her get dressed, turned on even if she was doing nothing out of ordinary, she was just beautiful, after having put on her jacket she turned to look at her boyfriend. "I'll see you at school."

"But you're going to have to ignore me." he told her sadly, Veronica walked towards him and hugged him before kissing the top of his head.

"We've already talked about it, I'm not ready to tell everybody about us yet."

"I know, but that doesn't mean I like it."

"A few more weeks before we can do it, it's been only three and a half weeks."

"But that doesn't mean I like hiding it, I love you and I don't want to hide my feelings."

"Please Logan don't do this, we've already had this conversation."

"Okay, okay." He said getting up, and walking her to the door, making sure to avoid the maid who would probably want to make her breakfast. He opened her car's door and kissed her before she drove way.

"Where were you?" Keith asked from the couch where he was sitting as soon as his daughter had set a foot in their apartment. She quickly turned her head to look at him as she was trying to come up with a good lie. "I've already called Wallace who told me he didn't know where you were, so you'd better not lie to me. So where were you."

"Dad..."

"The truth Veronica, I'm asking for the truth."

"I was with someone."

"No really?" he asked clearly unhappy with her answer."I know you were with someone but I want to know who this someone is."

"I'm sorr..."

"You'd better not finish your sentence young lady, I've always let you do things your way but I'm drawing a line here, now answer my question! Who was this person?"

"I'm sorry dad but I can't."

"You can't or you won't?" he asked her when she did not answer he shook his head and told to go get ready for school and she was grounded unless she told him the truth.

Keith decided to have a cup of coffee hoping it would help to keep him calm, but of course coffee only made him more nervous and angry. He had never been one to keep tabs on his daughter, on the contrary, but maybe he had gone too far and it was too late to set boundaries. He had raised her well, he had no doubts about it, but to see her lie to him hurt, she was never one to lie or even hide things from him, if it was what growing up looked like then he definitely did not want his daughter to grow up.