""I'm gonna drive you home" Logan declared as he stood beside Meg's car as school let out and Veronica felt her heart pause for several beats. What was it about being around this particular guy that got her into such a flutter?

She might not be the same Veronica… but he wanted her to be around…

"I'm not going home" Veronica told him, her eyes were so wide they wanted to water.

"Well then I'll drive you wherever, we need to talk" he said persistently and she regarded him carefully. His honey brown eyes were locked on her and she knew from his expression that he wouldn't relent; he'd probably carry her to his car if she refused.

He needed to know exactly what these feelings are…

Veronica cast a look at Meg who was watching the little exchange and nodded.

"You sure?" she asked.

"Yeah… I'm sure Logan can keep his hands to himself" Veronica replied before adjusting her backpack over her shoulder and walking towards the yellow SUV.

I wouldn't bet on it though…

"I'm sorry…" he said earnestly when they got his car and the admission took her by surprise. "About earlier"

"So that's not a regular thing you do when you argue with someone?" she asked but nothing in her body or her brain was working this second as he stood so close to her.

"As a rule… no" he admitted.

Not until I couldn't stop thinking about those lips… he thought distractedly.

What was he doing? Getting alone into his car with her? He really was going crazy…

"Somehow that is not comforting" she told him calmly but her pulse was racing.

Logan stepped closer to her and Veronica could feel the heat of his body, her skin prickled in anticipation as he reached forwards and opened the car door behind her.

"Do you know where I am going to take you?" he asked huskily.

Anywhere?

"Ummm Mars Investigations?" she answered quietly a his hand grazed her hip and her breathing quickened.

"You have to stop looking at me like that" he whispered as his fingers traced the small exposed bit of skin between her t shirt and jeans.

Misplaced priorities… she was wanting his warm hands on her body but she had a murder to solve….

He was sizing her up, his brown eyes lingered their gaze over her face, her body like he was truly appreciating everything in front of him for the first time. Her body reacted and it felt like muscle memory, like an imprint and her over excited hormones just wouldn't calm down.

"Then stop staring…" she retorted as their breaths intermingled.

Logan wanted to cup her face and kiss her again but he couldn't they needed to talk this through.

"Get in the car" he told her simply and stepped back.

"Okay" Veronica replied as she reached behind her and closed the passenger side door and walked to the rear door climbed into the back seat. "You coming?" she asked finally.

The two of them alone… in the back seat of his car?

"Only when the situation calls for it." He answered as he ran his hand through his hair. "Do you even know what are you doing?" Do you even understand what you are asking?

"My dads office is only 10 minutes from here, and I am not having you yell at me while you are driving… you want to talk… get in and we can talk" she reasoned.

Plus there's less prying eyes back here…

"I wasn't going to yell" he argued and she raised her eyebrows. "So what we can't talk in the front?"

"You want to sit in the front?" she asked. Grateful to have his piercing eyes off her face for a moment, Veronica watched as he thought about how to answer her question.

"No" he sighed. What was he thinking?

Veronica slid over and he climbed into the back seat with her. He watched as she bit her lip nervously, hugging her arms across her chest while she looked at him.

It had been almost a year since Lilly's murder… and he had dated… but he'd never truly wanted something since then… until now..

Logan was about to give into the impulse as he reached over cupping her face… he was about to kiss her when she floored him with her next question.

"Do you think Abel Koontz killed Lilly?" she asked quickly.

Hadn't this been the only good part about her lack of memory… that this argument between them was over?

"This again?" he sighed as he slumped back down into the seat.

History repeating itself…

"So that is why we stopped speaking before.." she commented quietly.

"That's part of it" he said as he glared out the window. Suddenly the back of the car was too small a space to be trapped with her.

"Then explain it to me…" she pleaded.

"Explain it?" he asked incredulously as he looked back into her expressive blue eyes.

"Your version… tell me" she asked. "I need to know why…"

Why did I lose you the first time?

"You never told me… I asked you to help me convince your dad that Jake Kane was innocent… and you told me to go to Hell" Logan told her.

"You said I abandoned my friends" Veronica sighed.

"Yeah… I did" Logan agreed.

"We must have been pretty close…" she said quietly.

"We used to be" he told her.

"I'm sorry Logan… for not being here for you… after everything" Veronica told him sincerely as she interlaced her fingers with his.

"Meg told me that the last thing you remember before you passed out… was that you missed me" he asked carefully as he looked her in the eyes finally.

"That and a feeling" she nodded.

"You got a name for it yet?" he asked.

"Heartbroken?" she suggested and she watched as a tear fell from his brown eyes.

"Mine too" he whispered as he pulled her over to his side of the car to straddle him as their lips collided.