Logan has radar
Logan looks up from his novel to see his cell phone buzzing across the glass of the balcony table.
He wonders briefly if it's Veronica.
He knows she's back in town, he knew before Mac had messaged him, he's acquired Ronnie Radar after all these years, there's just something different in the air when he shares it with her.
He picks up the phone and is disappointed but not surprised at Dick's name flashing across the screen.
"Hey." He answers.
"We're going for coffee." Dick tells him. It isn't an offer or a question and Logan rolls his eyes because he knows Dick is already on his way over to pick him up.
"Where and why?"
"The bean on fourth and why do I need a reason to hang out with my best bud?"
He knows something is up but let's Dick pick him up and take him to the coffee shop anyway. There's been something off about Dick the past couple days that he hasn't been able to pin down. He's been tense and irritable like he's not getting any but it's Dick and if he wanted he could pick up some girl at a bar with relative ease.
As much as Logan doesn't understand it Dick has an easy charisma to him that strangers just love.
Logan is talking to Dick about the waves that morning when Dick almost pushes him into the coffee shop.
"I was thinking I'd go tomorrow morning if your up for it?" Dick offers as he moves to the counter but Logan is frozen.
Veronica.
Sitting at a window table with Mac. Her hair is longer after the summer and she's so focused on Mac and her story that she doesn't notice him.
Everything in his body hurts at the sight of her.
Mac looks up from her coffee and looks straight at him. She looks surprised but smiles and waves him over.
Taking a breath he walks over to the table, he can do this, it is perfectly normal to sit with Mac, he's been hanging out with her all summer playing video games and watching movies and actively not talking about Veronica.
"Hey." He smiles at her and looks over at Veronica who looks a little torn, as if she's trying to decided if she should just run from the building or not, "can I?" He starts to pull out a chair and Mac at least seems happy to see him.
"What are you doing way over here?" She asks.
"I don't know, Dick high jacked me."
"Dick?" Mac asks and something crosses her face as she turns to see him flirting with the girl behind the counter.
"I think he's trying to get laid." He tells them and Mac nods stiffly. He turns to Veronica, "so how was the internship?" He asks and Veronica seems happy to have a topic and starts to talk about how she was staying with another girl in Virginia that would have the loudest phone sex with her girlfriend when Dick sat down at the table.
"Oh hey Ronnie." He slides a black coffee in front of Logan and Logan can't help but notice that Dick is sitting close to Mac.
Unnecessarily close.
Mac is looking at Ronnie as she continues her story after brief insults are thrown at Dick as a greeting, but her eyes seem unfocused and her face is flushed.
There's a lull in Veronica's retelling of how she was trapped in a stake out van with her room-mate for hours listening to a mob boss having sex with his mistress when he notices that one of Dick's hands is under the table.
And just like that the entire summer makes perfect sense.
The easy disappearance of Max from Mac's life, the random phone calls Mac would get while they were hanging out that made her face flush before she'd excuse herself.
The beer bottles in her recycling. Way too many to just be him.
"Holy crap." The words are out of his mouth before he can stop them and everyone is looking at him and Mac's eyes are wide and pleading and both Dick's hands are suddenly above board.
"What?" Veronica asks and the irritation and change in Dick coincides with Veronica's return and he has no doubt that Mac and Dick have a thing...had a thing?
"Sorry I could have sworn I saw my econ professor come out of that marital aid store with a box marked swing."
Veronica's head turns to the window where an older man is indeed walking out of a shady looking store with a large box.
Logan however is looking pointedly at Mac and Dick.
Veronica turns back her face kind of pale, "that is not something I want to think about." She looks between Dick and Logan, "what's up?"
"Nothing, it was great seeing you Veronica but Dick and I need to get going."
There's a flash of disappointment across Veronica's face that catches his breath but he pushes away from table leaving his coffee almost untouched.
"Come on Dick."
Dick gets up from his seat, bows to them both, "Ladies." Logan can see Dick's eyes dart down the front of Mac before he follows him out of the coffee shop.
They sit in the truck for a moment before Logan looks at Dick who is biting the inside of his mouth and trying not to look back at the coffee shop.
"Veronica is going to find out."
"Find out what?"
"That you and Mac are dating."
Dick looks at him and starts the truck, "we are not dating."
"Well what are you doing?"
"We just have sex, that's it, we barely even talk outside of come over and your on my hair."
"So did you take me there because Veronica was there or because you wanted to see if Mac was suffering?"
Dick puts a hand to his heart as they drive down the street, "it's all for you man."