Logan stared at his phone again, a little disappointed. Veronica's shift in the library this evening at Hearst Campus was going to be running later than intended due to a biochemistry final tomorrow, so she was being inundated with laboratory geeks wanting help with their text books. She would be fingering through index reference cards for the evening and he wouldn't be getting to finger her at all he thought sullenly. No Booty call tonight. Halo it is. To be honest, it was kind of a relief… he was still sick with nerves at the thought of how he was going to propose.

"Dude… girls are bitches. It's like one rule for them and another rule for us…" Dick Casablanca's complained as he stormed into the Neptune Grand Penthouse that they shared.

"Trouble in Paradise?" Logan asked as he picked up the other Xbox controller and tossed it to his roommate.

"Paradise? More like Purgatory… she saw me having lunch with that Nadia chick today in the food court… which was totally platonic by the way, I was only getting her digits for Chip Wheeler because he's into red heads but guy has seriously no chill without some Brewskies" Dick explained as he picked up the controller and sat down on the couch.

"Mac saw you with another girl and now you are in the Dog House?" Logan asked. This little fling between Mac and Dick had been going on for about a month now in secret and he honestly couldn't remember the last time a girl had ever gotten so far under Dick's skin… well perhaps except for his brief flirtation with Jackie the lesbian hospitality staff.

"She completely blew me off…" he complained. "We were supposed to be going for some play time down in that new hotel by the Neptune Plaza, Serenity Inn? I'd got the room key and everything… then she stood me up" he grumbled. "I waited there for like an hour"

"Sorry man" Logan sympathised as he selected his armour.

"That's not the worst of it… I saw her just now, she's on a date with that Max guy who hooks folks up with Finals Papers?" he complained. "It's like she can go and talk all Nerd over Coffee and Chocolate Cakes but I can't even do a favour for a buddy"

"Isn't that Cobra Starship concert this weekend?" Logan asked as he hinted at the CD player, Dick had been playing the Mix that Piz had burned for him on a loop almost everywhere he went. He had even went out and bought himself an ipod shuffle so it would stop driving his roommate insane.

"Supposedly.. I talked to that facialist from the spa downstairs whose boyfriend is like the Roadey for the basest of a guy who shares a flat with the lead singers sister to get VIP passes and everything…" Dick sighed. "But I don't know.. I think I'll just give them to Piz to like put on the show this week for like help the musically obsessed or something" he sulked.

Logan looked at his best friend again, this was developing far faster than he had thought possible. Dick had started petitioning the hotel management to start providing better vegetarian options on the hotel room service menu when he had learned that Mac was vegetarian. He had stopped chasing parties and sitting in on a Friday night encase she called and wanted to take advantage of him. He had missed several classes this week because she had used Parkers current absence of visiting her brother and his new wife after she became an aunty for the first time to throw him naked around her bedroom at her leisure. He was falling hard for the cyberpunk hacktivist and it was starting to take its toll.

Logan had been sworn to secrecy, even though Veronica was now becoming suspicious about Dick's activities when he began to disappear at odd hours.

"Do you think he's like joined some secret frat brother cult?" she had asked Logan just yesterday.

"Have you tried speaking to her about this?" Logan asked quietly as Dick came back to the couch with a beer and handed one to him.

"What am I a chick?" he scoffed as he took a swig from the bottle and picked up his controller again. The two of them played for several minutes and then Dick paused the game. "Last time I tried to have a conversation with her, she shoved her panties in my mouth and told me to shut up" he sighed.

Logan absorbed that information with mild shock… Mac was always adorkable and generally very quiet. She was always so sweet and shy when she was around everyone else.

"Then.. don't you think its time you put your foot down a little?" Logan suggested.

"Feet down, legs in the air.. its all the same to her" he lamented. "As long as she get Dick Junior, she doesn't wanna hear what I have to say unless its Go Time"

"Then… perhaps you should stop for a while?" Logan advised as he looked at his friend seriously. "Date other people.. get back on your board" He knew from the morning after their first night together that Mac had been less than thrilled about their little hook up. She hid Dick away like a dirty little secret.

"Absence would make her booty calls fonder?" he repeated as he nodded.

"I'm pretty sure that's not how the saying goes…" Logan corrected.

"No… this is perfect…. If she won't play fair… then she isn't getting any" Dick declared a determined look growing over his face. "The Dickilicious store is closed for business"

"Please… don't ever call yourself that again… and good for you man.. you deserve to be treated better than….." Logan began before he was interrupted by Dick's phone alert.

Hey… my room 15 minutes. Cindy

"Dude… I have to go" Dick said as he downed his beer and put down his controller.

"What happened to closed for Business?" Logan reminded him.

"Dude… its rude to keep a lady waiting" he argued as he headed out the door.

Logan shook his head and exited the game… perhaps it was time he had a serious conversation with Dick in the morning about his little tryst?