A Trip to the Dentist
Today is not her day.
"Okay why does your boyfriend and his co-harts want me dead this week?" Logan asked sitting down next to her in class.
"We found something out that is a little upsetting. Do you have any idea how hard it is to convince them not to kill you?"
"What did I do this time, Ronnie." he asks getting frustrated.
"Shelly's party a year ago, were you the one that gave me GHB?"
"What!?"
"Tad gave some to Carmen that night, which is how the son of a bitch got her to do that damn video, and he claims that he got it from you."
"Shit...Ronnie, why did you ask me if I gave some to you?"
"I don't remember that night at all, okay if it weren't for Eli and the PCH, who knows what might have happened." she said softly.
Since she was looking down, she didn't see him pale.
"Why did you even have it in the first place."
"I didn't want to think. I wanted to have some fun, rave like fun not sex with unconscious girls fun. Ronnie, I convinced people to use you like a salt lick. I was so pissed off at you and..."
"I get it. What else do you remember of that night."
"Not much, Duncan pulled all of us off you and brought you inside. Celeste has been harping on him again and I wanted him to relax so I gave him the last dose that I had."
"How did you get it?"
"I went with Luke to Tijuana to get it. He is the only other person I know of who had it Ronnie I'm sorry."
"I know Logan."
"Meg, can I talk to you for a minute?"
"Hey, Veronica."
"How are you doing?" she asks as the walk the hallway.
She knows that someone is following her, either Felix or Thumper.
Once it became known to the rest of the boys about the GHB, she had gotten watch dogs.
"Doing okay, just want Duncan to come home."
"My dad thinks he found him, so hopefully should be home soon."
"Veronica..thank you." she whispers.
"Do you remember Shelly's party last year?"
"Yeah, Cole and I didn't stay long though."
"Do you remember seeing me that night?"
"Yeah... You were at the pool surrounded by Logan and his buddies. I was going to have Cole break it up and see if you wanted us to take you home when Duncan, I think, took you away from them."
"Thanks." she says as Meg walks away.
She turns to head to her class and Eli is right there behind her.
"Doing okay, mama?" he asks pulling her into his arms as he leans against a locker. Ignoring everyone that is around them.
"Talked to Logan, he didn't give me anything that I didn't know about, he gave his to Duncan but found out he is the one that instigated the salt lick thing. He let me know that there was one other person he was sure of that had some though."
"Okay, anything else on who gave it to you?"
"Logan said that he went with Luke to get it. So I need to talk to Luke. He'll tell me everything. He owes me."
"How does he owe you?..Oh wait that steroid thing right?"
"Yeah, see you later."
"Parking lot, my bike will be waiting for you." he tells her getting a quick kiss before she dashes off.
"Weevil, why aren't we handling this our way?" Hector asks as he, Felix and Thumper come up to him with a couple of the boys.
"One, cuz she wants to handle it herself. Two, most of these 09ers owe her so they'll be honest. Three, I don't feel like denying her any revenge she pulls on them when they don't." he says with a smirk.
"Hector, do you really want Blondie to make your life a living hell for pissing her off." Felix asks.
"Pounding the shit out of 09ers or having V on your ass for ruining her chances of finding out who drugged her? Tough choice." Thumper says.
"One word Taser man." one of the PCHers says to Hector.
"Another word Backup." another guy says.
"Fuck, I just want to..." Hector startes.
'You think I don't." Eli all but yells at him. "That is my mother fucking heart. You think I don't want to punish those rich bastards." he says grabbing Hector by the jacket.
"Elias Navarro... Don't you and your friends need to get to class." Clemmons says as he comes up to them.
Needing to confirm that Logan was telling her the truth, she decided to talk to Luke.
"Luke, how you doing?" she asked sitting across from him.
"What did I do now?"
"Why so defensive?"
"Veronica, I know you...What's going on?"
"Last year, did you and Logan go to Tijuana and pick up some GHB?"
"Yeah, but its all gone now."
"Dang it and I wanted to spike your juice box. What did you do with your doses?"
"I gave Logan his doses and gave my last two to Dick." he told her.
"Dick?"
"Yeah, Madison was in a mood and Dick wanted to mellow her out so that he could get lucky but I don't think he gave it to her."
"Why do you think that?"
"I saw her later and...you're not going to like it."
"Luke..."
"Fine, I found her writing shit all over your car and raging something fierce. I thought GHB was suppose to calm you down."
So Madison Sinclair wrote Slut on my car. What the hell did I ever do to her?
"No matter who many times you ask the answer isn't going to change." she says walking up behind Madison in the bathroom.
"Well we know who the trashiest will be."
"Last year, you wrote Slut and trashed my car. Why?"
"Hmmm, do I need a reason not to like you. You didn't belong hanging out with us."
"Madison, we can do this the easy way where you tell me what I want to know and you leave here walking or the hard way where I promise to make your life a living hell. You know I can do it."
"Fine. Being the slut that you are, you made out with Dick in front of me and when you were done you went right into Casey's lap." she said flipping her hair over her shoulder and walking out.
I made out with Dick. I suddenly have the urge to drink a gallon of bleach.
She and Eli are almost at her apartment when she hears her dad and Alicia arguing.
They are arguing about her and her having Wallace put a bug in Weidman's office.
The two of them burst in and she tries to explain only to be told by her dad to stop.
Even Eli tries to talk.
She keeps trying only to have her dad explode at her to leave the room.
The two of them walk past them.
"He bugged her first." Eli mutters following her to her room.
The two of them are sitting on her bed when her dad comes in.
"Dad..."
"It's okay, honey. Veronica did you have some kind of deal with Celeste that I need to know about."
"I only told her that I would look into Duncan's whereabouts if she dropped the charges on Eli."
"I can see that, she's trying to get out of paying. Don't worry the Kane's will pay."
"Damn straight." Eli mutters.
"You know I was thinking that maybe this summer you find a different job instead of working for me."
"But dad.."
"V...let him finish." Eli whispers in her ear.
"Just think about it. You can still work for me but maybe less stack out and more office work."
"I'll think about it dad. Just so you know working for you helped me. I never would have made it this far without you." she says getting off the bed to hug him.
"Hey Casey, can I talk to you for a minute?"
"What's up Veronica?"
"How are you doing, with your gram and everything."
"Doing better, thanks."
"I have a weird question for you." she asks as the two of them walk towards the school.
"My favorite kind."
"At Shelly's party last year, did we...did I...?"
"We did not I prefer the girl that I'm with to be sober. You were stumping along, I think trying to find a place to sit when Dick grabbed you and forced you to dance with him. Since he wasn't sober the two of you fell onto the sofa when Dick kissed you. You crawled into my lap trying to get away."
"Still have urge to drink bleach. Did you see me again after that."
"Only twice more, one when Sean and Dick were feeding you shots while trying to get you to make out with Shelly and when Weevil tried to carry you out of the party unnoticed."
"You saw Weevil carry me out. I thought no one saw that."
"I think I was the only one, funny thing is, I figured you were safer with him and the PCHers than with us. How fucked is that?" he mumbled walking away.
Confronting Sean is always fun.
He admits to feeding her shots and to trying to get some girl-on-girl action.
He even tells her about how he, Dick and Beaver followed her to the bedroom and watched her lay down.
He tells her that Dick was trying to convince Beaver to join her and having sex with her when Eli scared them off.
She got a good crowd watching her. She has Dick's brand new surfboard in front of her car tire.
her boys are on their bikes watching and waiting.
Mac and Wallace are nearby as well. Both have their phones out and are recording.
Dick comes out and of course calls her a few things.
Reeving her engine gets him to shut up.
With Eli watching, he tries to claim that he found the two of them in the bedroom.
Getting closer to the board she gets him to admit that he tried to convince his brother to sleep with her but that Eli showed up and threatened them to leaving.
Pissed still she drives over his board.
Running to the office her dad tells her that he has a job in Las Vegas.
She runs over to Wallace's house hoping to apologize to him and his mom.
Knowing that she needs to tell him, she shows him her case file on Lilly.
Having someone else in the know makes her feel a little bit more at ease.
As she leaves she bumps into Alicia and apologizes again.
She accepts it and just hopes that things between her and her dad are better, since he was annoyed with her when he left for Vegas.
At school she decides to talk to Beaver. To make sure that dick and Sean had been telling the truth.
She finds out that shockingly they just followed her to the room and that Dick had been trying to get him to have sex with her.
"I was thankful when Weevil showed up."
"Oh, really why?"
"Because unlike my brother, I still remember that you have always been nice to me. You are the only one of his friends that still call me by my given name."
"Cassidy, do you know who might have given me GHB."
"No but you said that you just suddenly were handed a drink that night, right?"
"Yeah, if I'm right I bet Madison gave you a trip to the dentist."
"Ummm, explain."
"If Dick had doses of GHB and gave a drugged drink to Madison I wouldn't have put it past her to spit in the drink and hand it off to you."
An accident...not on purpose...why doesn't that make her feel any better.
"Thanks for not listening to Dick and trying to sleep with me."
"does this mean you aren't going to make my life hell."
"Not right now."
"Hey, Ronnie, your friend with the blue in her hair is she single?"
"Quiet while you're ahead, kid." Eli says coming up behind her to wrap his arms around her waist.
"Ummm bye." he says running off.
"Doing better?"
"Yeah it wasn't on purpose."
"What?"
"Madison Sinclair gave me her drugged drink. A trip to the dentist, she calls it I guess. She spits in the drink and passes it to me not knowing that it had GHB in it."
"You going to get even."
"I'll let you know." She says leaning back to kiss him.
"What was talking to the kid about?" he asks as he walks with her.
"Just making sure that Sean and Dick weren't lying to me. Cassidy is thankful to you."
"Oh really why?"
"Because you scared them away in the middle of his brother trying to get him to have sex with me while I was passed out on the bed."
"His brother is Dick right?"
"Yeah. I'm not sure if wrecking his board is enough but for now it works." she kisses him goodbye. Smirking as she walks to class.
She playing with Ophelia and Backup in the backyard when Eli gets to the house.
"Hey you." she says wrapping her arms around him.
"How are my favorite girls?" he asks brushing a light kiss on her lips.
Ophelia lets go of Backup and tries to join them in their hug.
She and Eli run to her house when looking through her bag she can't find her charger for her laptop.
She is surprised to see that the light is on when she gets home.
"Honey, I'm home." she calls as they go inside.
"So am I honey." her mom says sitting in the chair next to her dad.
"Mom." she whispers.