Ten minutes later they had Katie in something a little more colourful.

"Pick one. Other than Logan, Dick and Duncan they all owe me favours." Veronica told Katie as they peered around the top of the stairs.

"I'm not sure this is a good idea." Katie hesitated.

"Trust me."

"Him." Katie pointed.

"Casey. Good choice." Meg nodded. "Smart, cute and well read."

"Excuse me." Veronica walked down the stairs and over to where Casey was stood.

"Hey Veronica." He greeted her.

"Remember that favour you owe me?"

"I thought I had repaid that."

"Not even close. I need you to flirt with someone."

"At a funeral?" Casey questioned.

"We're stepping out to help with the course of true love."

"Okay." Casey conceded slightly intrigued.

"Okay, target acquired." Veronica said from where she Mac and Meg were hidden behind a bush with binoculars. Katie and Casey were on the swings talking. "And Romeo has definitely noticed. Casey say something to make her laugh." She advised through the two way ear wig radios. "Okay we definitely have his attention." The watched for a few minutes as Trey began to look more and more annoyed at how happy Katie was talking to Casey. "Now he's annoyed enough, Casey kiss her cheek and walk away. Katie stay where you are."

It took all of thirty seconds for Trey to walk over to where Katie was still sat on the swing.

"Hey Katie, you weren't in school today."

"I had to go to a funeral."

"Who is your friend?"

"Casey." Katie replied.

"He's not from here."

"No he's from California. He came to see me." Katie explained.

"Isn't he a little old for you?" Trey inquired.

"He's seventeen, I'll be sixteen in two months." She reminded him.

"Good girl." Veronica whispered in her ear.

"He's still too old for you."

"Why? He's sweet and funny? Besides it's not like I have a lot of options is it? He's actually interested in what I have to say rather than the latest football score."

"You have other options." Trey was definitely annoyed at the thought of Katie with someone else.

"Like whom?"

"Ditch him and I'll take you on a date." Trey offered.

"Keep calm." Veronica advised. "Tell him you need specifics."

"Casey is cute and rich, I'm going to need more than a vague promise."

"Ditch the guy and we'll go bowling and get something to eat tomorrow night."

"Clarify it's not a group activity."

"Just us?" Katie asked.

"Sure." Trey agreed.

"Pretend to think about it."

"Pick me up at 6.30." Katie hopped off the swing. "I should go and let Casey down gently."

"You are going to be hard work aren't you?" Trey guessed.

"All the best people are." She smiled. "I'll see you tomorrow night."

Katie managed to control her excitement until they got out of the park and then she started jumping around hugging Veronica.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you."

"You're welcome."

"Do you always take two way radios to funerals?" Casey inquired.

"Logan was having a bad day on Wednesday so I was keeping him entertained in study hall. I forgot to take them out my bag."

"You have to help me pick out something to wear." Katie begged.

"That's more Meg's area of expertise." Veronica told her.

"Tight jeans." Casey suggested. "And teach her to that sexy hip swagger thing."

"Would you rather we didn't tell Logan you suggested that for his 15 year old for all intense purposes cousin?" Mac inquired.

"Veronica knows what I'm talking about. Lilly taught her it used to drive us guys crazy and get her what she wanted."

"Veronica just has to smile at Logan to get what she wants." Meg pointed out.

"That is why I don't ask for anything. I'm not in it for the money."

"You have Logan wrapped around your little finger and you know it." Casey stated.

"I think I'm changing my mind about letting you into my apocalypse cult. We're already up to two signs."

"You want to ditch the guy with cult experience?" Mac questioned.

"You were in a cult?" Katie asked Casey.

"Unfortunately. Veronica rescued me and it seems I'm eternally in her debt."

"Only when I want something and asking you to flirt with someone is nothing you wouldn't do anyway. We should get back."

"Mission accomplished?" Logan guessed when Veronica returned to his side.

"They are going bowling tomorrow night." Veronica confirmed. "Don't worry I gave her my spare pepper spray."

"Do you take pepper spray everywhere?" Duncan asked.

"I have an overprotective boyfriend and father so yes I take pepper spray everywhere and my taser."

A few hours later they were on a plane back to Neptune. Veronica sat next to Logan the others were scattered around.

"You never told me what you wanted for your birthday." He broke the silence.

"What?"

"You told me what you didn't want for your birthday not what you did want."

"World peace." Veronica replied.

"I'll get right on that." He smiled. "Anything else?"

"Madison expelled."

"Now that I can probably manage." He got up and turned to kneel on his seat. "Dick do you have anything on Madison that would get her expelled?"

"Sure. How badly do you want her to go down in flames?"

"Who doesn't have something on Madison?" Enbom asked.

"I don't think I should be privy to this conversation." Keith who was half dozing in a seat in the corner muttered.

"It would kill her parents." Mac looked at Veronica pleadingly.

"I was only joking." Veronica told Logan.

"It's okay call off the attack dogs." He turned to retake his seat.

Mac noticed that Enbom as just finishing up using his laptop.

"Do you get internet connection up here?" Mac inquired.

"Yes."

"Can I borrow it for a minute?" She requested.

"Just don't hack into anything. I don't want the FBI waiting for us when we land."

"Thanks." She hit a few keys and pulled up the blog. "This is what Sophie was talking about."

Dick read through it and looked at Mac for an explanation.

"You were my friend's quasi boyfriends annoying friend. A few months before we had barely ever spoken. The fact that you decided to start flirting with me and were on a quest to find a line that I approved of was just odd. I was waiting for the other shoe to drop. How was I supposed to know how things would turn out?"

"I read it and it's not that bad." Logan tried to help out. And she doesn't mention your name. Although how you thought some of those lines would have any chance on working is beyond me."

"Let's see." Enbom requested, Mac passed him back his laptop.

"Sophie wasn't impressed with your efforts." Veronica informed him. "Until after I told it wasn't a line."

"So do you think I have a shot?"

"She's not setting up any more of my relatives today." Logan interjected.

Mac waited for Dick to say something.

"You should have told me."

"And there are a lot of things you should have probably told me too. But if we're both going to get mad for things we did before we got together we're going to spend our whole time not speaking." Mac pointed.

"Fine." Dick conceded.

Enbom burst out laughing.

"I have to try that one."

"Please don't." Mac requested. "Just introduce yourself and have an actual conversation. You'll figure out whether she likes you or not pretty quickly."

"And don't have grabby hands. There is nothing worse than a guy who touches without permission." Veronica added.

"And look them in the face rather than trying to look down their shirt." Meg contributed.

"See cutting school is educational." Logan joked.

"I could have driven back a nice relaxing fourteen hours." Keith muttered.

"You can go and sit in the cockpit with Joe if you want?" Enbom suggested. "Just be warned he's a giant football fan."

"As long as he's not a Packers fan we'll be fine." Keith got up from his seat and headed for the cockpit.

Veronica, Mac and Meg shared a few more pearls of wisdom much to Dick and Logan's bemusement.

"This is what they should teach in school." Someone suggested.

"It's not our fault 09er girls are such high maintenance." Veronica stated.

Logan couldn't help but laugh.

"What? I'm not high maintenance."

"No you're just hard work." He teased.

"Apparently the best people are." Casey pointed out.

"Someone has to keep you on your toes, you don't have the longest attention span."

"I do when it matters." He pointed out causing Veronica to blush.

"How about we save this conversation for when we're not surrounded by our friends and my father isn't six feet away?" She suggested.

"Thank god." Wallace sighed causing the others to laugh.