Chapter Ten
They pulled into the Hearst parking lot and Veronica looked around trying to see if it looked familiar to her. The only reason it even slightly rang a bell to her was because she had seen the campus on the internet when her father was trying to refresh her memory. She knew where the classes she was taking were located, where the cafeteria was located, and the dorm rooms. She had a mission and that mission was to see Mac today.
"What time are you done with your classes," she asked breaking the silence as she exited the car and shut the door. She leaned against the car and just looked at the massive campus in front of her. She imagined the overwhelming feeling she must have had her first day here. One young adult versus this over sized campus.
"I'm done at 3 but I have a study group until about 5. We are going to be in the library, you remember where that is? Or do you want to come to class with me," he said as soon as he got out of the car grateful that she was the one to break during this round of the silent treatment. He already knew her answer, she was going to be stubborn and refuse to go anywhere with him and tell him that she'd meet him at the car at five. She was so predictable when she was in these types of moods.
"Actually, I want to go see Mac in the girls dorm," she said looking in the general direction of where the dorms were, "But I'll meet you in the library around 4:30. If something changes you can call me or I'll call you…. And I promise to stay out of trouble… I pinkie promise," she said as she stuck her hand over the hood of the car to do the pinkie promise thing.
Wallace stuck his hand over the hood and interlocked his pinkie with hers. "You know you can be such a ball buster Veronica," he said and then he walked behind the car ready to go to class. "I have a break from noon to one thirty if you want to meet in the cafeteria or something."
"I'll speak to Mac to see what she wants to do but I know she doesn't have class until later on, I called her this morning. She's expecting me so I better go," she gave her step brother a hug and then walked off in the direction of the girls dorms. She didn't understand why Mac lived in the dorms, the school wasn't that far away from Neptune. If it were up to Veronica to guess why someone who lived so close to the school lived on campus she would guess that it was a problem between Mac and her parents. Parents were always driving their children away right? She knew that she didn't know Keith all that well but from what she had gathered he could be rather protective which probably didn't sit very well with an overly independent Veronica.
She finally found Mac's dorm and she tapped on the door lightly. The door opened and Veronica saw a blond with long hair standing in the doorway. It wasn't the Mac she remembered seeing at the hospital.
"Oh its you," the blonde said as she turned away leaving the door open.
"Yeah it is me," she said as she followed through the door and saw Mac on her bed using a laptop ,"thanks for being such a great hostess," Veronica added as she sat on the edge of Mac's bed. "What's up," she said wondering if she was being overly comfortable with Mac. She didn't really know what her boundaries were.
"Hey Veronica," Mac said looking up as she closed the laptop and put it on the floor beside the bed. "Glad to see you decided to leave the house," she said with a genuine smile on her face. From what she was told Veronica and Mac were pretty good friends and Veronica did like spending time with her while she was in the hospital. Mac had a quirkiness that most people didn't have.
"Yeah I am too," Veronica added cheerfully, "Although getting past Daddy Mars was kind of hard. I think there might be a tracking device somewhere on me," she half joked.
"Ohhh life as a Mars, oh so exciting," the other blond in the room added coldly, "Imagine that, having a spy as a daddy. Life must be so difficult for you."
"And your problem with me would be what exactly," Veronica said whipping her head around to look at the bitchy blonde. It would be overstating the obvious to say that Veronica had no idea what in the hell was going on.
"Oh please! What is my problem? I don't know, maybe the fact that you stole my boyfriend from me…is that reason enough? Like, really Veronica. Do you have to take everything that is mine."
"Enough Parker," Mac shouted before Veronica could say anything. "First of all, I've explained this to you many times, Veronica doesn't remember anything," she said as if she was talking to a preschooler, "Second of all, Veronica didn't steal Logan from you if she did she would have been dating him when she got into her car accident. Now if you'd like I can draw you a diagram to explain," Mac sounded beyond annoyed and it made Veronica laugh. She never really pictured Mac to be that type of girl.
"Whatever Mac. How do you know she isn't pretending and just waiting for everyone to fight over her again."
"Um hello, I'm in the room thank you very much," Veronica shot up from the bed and spun to face the two girls who were verbally sparring on another. "Parker is it," she looked at the blonde and wondered if she was Logan's type. She pushed the thought out of her head quickly, why did she care if she was Logan's type or not? It's not like Veronica was with Logan right? "Well Parker, I'm not exactly faking this amnesia stuff because I'm sure if I knew who you were and you talked to me the way that you just did you'd have your ass stunned by a taser gun. As far as stealing Logan from you, like Mac said, I'm not with him so what exactly makes you think that I stole him?" Veronica placed her hands on her hips and waited for Parkers reply. She felt her blood start to boil. Nothing was worse than being accused of something you couldn't really agree with nor deny.
"C'mon Veronica, don't pretend you can't even remember that," Parker exclaimed stepping closer to Veronica. The two girls were now inches apart in their stand off. "You were broken up. I asked you if it was okay if we dated because you were my friend. You said it was okay and then suddenly you aren't available to do anything together as friends. I'd see the looks you'd give Logan when you saw him. It was all 'woe is me, my heart is breaking I can't be with you'. I didn't see you try to stop him from fighting Piz or Gory," she finally spat out.
Veronica wasn't one to back down. It was something that was just ingrained in her. Instead of backing away from Parker she took another step closer. The two girls were standing toe to toe. Veronica was so close she could actually see a zit forming on Parkers forehead. "Oh so I can be friends with a bitch, good to know," Veronica said while rolling her eyes. "Would you like me to draw you a picture," she asked using Mac's line. "Better yet, just follow me okay? This is reality," Veronica used one of her hands to point at the space between the two girls. She then walked to the door and walked out of the room and stood in the hall way, "this is you," she said pointing to the empty hall way. She walked back into the room, "Do you get what I'm getting at reality and you aren't even on the same realm right now but when you do find reality, let me know and then maybe you'll warrant a conversation with me." She walked over to the bed and plopped herself down.
Parker was frustrated and grabbed her back pack and left the room and that's when Mac burst out into laughter. "I know you don't remember anything, but Veronica, its like you are the same ole you." Mac came up and gave Veronica a hug over her shoulders. "Now give me that laptop you want me to break into," she said with a smile knowing exactly why Veronica was there. She knew Wallace had given Veronica her bag with the password locked laptop.
"Thanks Mac, I owe you," Veronica reached over and opened the bag containing the laptop. "I think this bad boy might contain some clues to my life."
"Spoken like a true detective and don't thank me I haven't hacked it….yet," she said with a smile as she took the laptop from Veronica and booted it up. "This shouldn't take long, I'm the one who set up your security on it."