A/N: For the sake of this story, Lily got held back in grade 8 so she is still a year older, but in the same grade as Veronica, Logan, and Duncan. I didn't want to make her and Duncan twins because they are so incredibly different but I needed her to be in classes with Veronica.
Chapter Eleven:
"So what is your favorite color?"
"Red. Logan what is this? Twenty questions? Favorite food, favorite book, favorite kind of tree. If we don't get out of the car soon, we are going to be late for our first class." Veronica said with a huff.
"What, your boyfriend can't learn more about you?"
"I love it but why do you insist we do this now while sitting in the school parking lot? People keep looking at us funny."
"Screw them. I am hanging out with my favorite girl. I-" Logan said as he was interrupted by Lily's sharp knock on the car window. "Finally", Logan muttered under his breath.
"What?" Veronica asked Logan.
"Nothing babe, you sit and I will get the door for you."
"Okay..." Veronica replied with puzzlement.
"Took you long enough. She was getting completely suspicious." Logan said to Lily and Duncan after shutting his door while walking around to Veronicas.
"Sorry but Lily couldn't decide whether to go with the light blue or dark blue shirt." Duncan said in frustration.
"But she is wearing red."
"Exactly." Duncan replied in exasperation.
"Whatever, remember what we talked about last night, all eyes." Logan told Duncan and Lily before opening Veronica's door.
"Geez, were you taking the scenic route? Hey guys. Cute shirt Lil." Veronica said as she climbed out of Logan's car.
"Thanks gorgeous. Come on Lovers, we are going to be late." Lily said as she linked arms with Veronica. Logan grabbed her other free hand and Duncan followed behind them. Without her even knowing, Veronica had her own little security blockade.
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The morning classes went off smoothly and Duncan and Logan are waiting outside of Lily and Veronica's last class before lunch. The four of them went out to the quad to eat in the sun. They spent the whole time laughing and enjoying each others company in the way they used to. The conversations revolved around the latest gossip, surfing, movies, and music. No one mentioned drugs, assault, or rape. Things felt normal.
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When lunch was over and it was time to head to class, Veronica packed up her stuff and started to head inside to her locker to retrieve her books.
"Wait Veronica where are you going?" Logan called after her, after Duncan had quickly pointed out Veronica's retreating figure to him.
Veronica turned around to call back to him, "Honey, I know you forgot a lot over summer, but there is this thing called class that we kind of have to go to."
"Gee really?" Logan questioned sarcastically as he ran to catch up with Veronica. "I meant where are you going by yourself? I will walk with you."
"Logan your class is on the other side of campus. You are going to be late."
"Now what kind of boyfriend would I be if I let you walk by yourself. I don't care if I am late." Logan persisted.
"Logan I am pretty sure that if I am old enough to cross the road by myself, I can walk down the hall by myself. Thank you anyways. I will see you next class." With that she turned and walked away without giving Logan a chance to argue.
"Fine we will do this the hard way." He muttered to himself as he followed her down the hallway, waiting around the corner while she was at her locker, and only going to his own class once he watched her take a seat in her class.
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"So the square root is-?" the teacher began to ask but was interrupted by a knock at the class room door. When he opened the door, Wallace was standing there with a slip of paper in his hands.
"Sorry to interrupt, but Veronica needs to be excused from class." Wallace said as he handed the paper over to the teacher.
"Ms. Mars, you are needed by the administration." Her teacher said.
As soon as the door was shut. Veronica turned to question Wallace as to why she was being called to the office.
"Hey don't shoot the messenger," Wallace said with a laugh. "You aren't being called to the office though. One of the secretaries said that your Dad called and he wanted to talk to you quickly in the parking lot. I just deliver the message. Have a good day Supafly." He said as he headed back to the office and she headed out to the parking lot.
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After the bell rang, Logan headed over to history where he was to meet Veronica. He sat down in his seat and opened up his books. He was busy trying to finish the homework he was too distracted to finish last night. The bell rang and the door closing brought his eyes up and he turned to talk to Veronica.
"How was-" He stopped as he realized that she was not sitting next to him. "I will give her two more minutes." He thought to himself. "Who am I kidding, she is never late." And with that he stood up and grabbed his things together and took off running out the door, ignoring the calls of his teacher.
As he rounded the corner he ran into Wallace coming out of the office on his way to class, causing both of their things to fall to the floor.
"Hey man, where's the fire?" Wallace laughed as he picked himself up off the floor.
"I have to find Veronica." Logan said in a rush to pick up his books off the floor and continue on into the office.
"Oh her Dad called into one of the secretaries last period and she went to meet him." Wallace told a very pale-faced Logan.
At the news, Logan melted down to the floor as the tension and worry melted out of his body.
"Is everything okay man?" Wallace asked tentatively.
"I guess it is now."Logan responded with a sigh from his spot on the floor.
"What is going on?"
"Troy escaped and I thought he had gotten to Veronica. I guess I just overreacted. Guess I have watched to many episodes of CSI that my sister appeared in and my imagination got the better of me. Shit, I really thought something was wrong. Veronica could have told me she was leaving, then again she doesn't even know we have been watching over her. But Keith should have known better." Logan continued on as if he was having a conversation with himself. Wallace just stared on in wonder at Logan.
"I should give him a piece of my mind." Logan said as he picked himself and his stuff up off the floor. "Thanks for your help man." Logan called off as he took off down the hall again.
"Yeah.. okay." Wallace said to the empty hall.
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Once Logan was outside, he took out his phone to call Keith. He answered on the second ring.
"Hello?"
"Keith, it is Logan."
"Logan, what's going on?"
"Well geez I wanted you to tell me. You phone me last night to make sure that I keep an eye on Veronica all day today, and I have Duncan and Lily doing it too. But I can't really do that when you take her out of school, now can I? Did you do it because they caught him or what? You could have at least phoned me. I was completely freaking out. I thought-" Logan was carrying on in anger until Keith cut him off.
"Logan, what are you talking about?"
"Today, you should have called me to tell me that you were taking Veronica out of class so that I would not freak out about her being gone."
"I have no idea what you are talking about. I never called Veronica out of her class today. What is going on Logan? Where is Veronica?"
"Oh my God." Logan said in a faint voice.
"Logan, tell me right now what is going on? I am on my way to the school right now. Explain to me what happened as best as you can."
"Oh no."
"Logan! You need to focus. Tell me what happened." Keith persisted, knowing that Logan was shutting down in fear. Keith knew that the young boy thought his world was falling apart and in actuality it was.
"Well I guess someone called into the office pretending to be you. They told the secretary that you were out in the parking lot waiting for Veronica. I guess she went out there and she hasn't been seen since. Oh God Keith, he got her. He is going to hurt her. What do I do? I can't lose her, if she is gone, I won't have anything left to live for." Logan's voice began to crack as tears formed in his eyes and began to roll down his cheeks.
"Logan, listen to me. We don't know what has happened yet. Wait for me in the parking lot, I will be there in two minutes and we will figure things out. I am going to call the Sheriff and have him meet me there as well. I need to you to stay strong okay? Veronica needs us to both be strong so we can focus on how and where to find her. Do you understand me?"
"Yes sir."
"Good. I will be there soon. We will find her Logan, I can promise you that."
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"Rape? Really Veronica? You and I both know how much you really wanted to be with me! I waited long enough to hook up with you. I respected what you wanted, but the night of the party, I just sped along what was bound to happen. I could tell how much you wanted me. You can try to deny it, but I know you wanted to sleep with me that night."
Veronica sat bound at her wrists and ankles with a gag in her mouth and tears streaming down her face. She shook her head wildly to tell him how wrong he was but all he did was ignore her. She tried screaming but it did her no good. After she had thrown up in the back of his car, his twisted logic was that if he covered up her mouth, she wouldn't be able to throw up again. Thankfully though, for Veronica, she hadn't been sick again.
Even though Veronica had been blindfolded during the ride, she still had oriented herself with the fact that they had headed East. She had no idea how long they had been driving for but she was praying that her cell phone, which was in her messenger bag, had made it into his car and had enough battery to last. Veronica knew that if his own parents had no idea where he was before, tracking her cellphone was her fathers only chance.
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'He was looking for her right?' Veronica's thoughts ran rampant through her mind. 'He must know by now that I am gone. Oh God, poor Logan! He must be going out of his mind worried about me. Right? He would be smart enough to check with my dad that Wallace's story is not true right? What if they don't figure it out until I don't show up for dinner? What will he do to me in that amount of time? Is Troy going to kill me?'
