A.N Thank you guys for all the reviews and support! Life is just super hectic. I'm stressed out with my uni and work. I wish I could skip to a chapter in my life where everything is already settled. (sigh). On the bright side, it's 2019 and VM revival is around the corner! (raise my hands in party mode).

Also, I'm super sorry about this super late update. Hope all you marshmallows are well and having a great 2019!

Dear Veronica,

My arms miss the feel of you in it ️

She lightly bites her bottom lip at the memory of her waking up in a Logan made cocoon and his warmth oozing her back to sleep.

Cure my misery and come with me to the beach after school?

- L

She glances at her boyfriend from across the room, Mrs Dent is still explaining journalistic concepts and interviewing strategies but everything feels like background noise when she's looking at him.

He's staring back, curved lips and anticipated eyes. She gives him a soft smile before nodding her head in acceptance to his request.

It's then that he breaks out into this wide and toothy grin, she blows out a silent laugh, her cheeks feel a tad heated and it's no mystery to her that his simple note and toothy smile are the reasons for it.

It's unbelievable how hard it is to have him so close and not being able to touch him when her body remembers the way his fingertips felt against her skin.

Lunch comes with giggling girls and computerized quizzes begging the question of are you a saint or a sinner?

"So what'd you score?" Veronica asks after Wallace explains the concept to her. The whole school has been emailed this quiz, everyone is taking it but she doesn't need a quiz to tell her how virginal she is.

"Seventy," he sighs.

"Wow," she chirps, completely bypassing his dejected tone in an attempt to cheer him up. "You are 30% danger-lovin', girl-touchin' rock star."

He offers her a weak smile, shaking his head. "More like one point away from being cool."

She chuckles, the conversation slipping into weekend plans. Logan comes through ten minutes later, settling beside her, sweet cheek kisses and a fussy Wallace that's soon appeased with pizza and garlic bread. Veronica can't help but wonder what Logan's score would be. She knows he's more experienced than her. It's a fact, an undeniable one at that. She wonders if she could handle seeing a number assigned to them, to see a calculated difference on how much she lacks in comparison to Logan - to Lilly.

"You okay?" He asks softly, raising a piece of cheesy garlic bread to her mouth.

She nods, physically trying to shake away her thoughts as she accepts a bite of the offered bread. The guys talk about Halo and Veronica plucks out a slice of pizza for herself, chiming in her opinion and bantering about absolutely nothing, trying to ignore the questions her mind has unfairly made up.

Veronica feels like she's shifted into a scene from Mean Girls - notably, a scene compared to wild jungle animals from Africa; it's a chaotic mess. Admittedly, an amusing chaotic mess - that is until Veronica spots Carmen, one of her girls from the soccer team crying her eyes out as her boyfriend Tad angrily shouts with pages clenched in his hand. Carmen shakes her head, denying the accusations while trying to scrub out the large red painted 48 on her locker door.

"Have you ever slept with someone who spoke a language you didn't know? Have you ever had a fling while on vacation? Do you lie to protect your reputation? It all makes sense, every question here. You turned me into a joke. Thanks," Tad storms away with an angry huff, leaving Carmen alone, abandoned.

Veronica isn't particularly close to the girls on her team. They play. They celebrate. They go home. However, she knows enough about Carmen to know that she's a good person that doesn't deserve what just happened to her and so she walks up to her, she wants to show support and comfort - she's not sure how but she wants to.

"I-I didn't even do anything," Carmen sobs out, hands tired of scrubbing the imprinted number as they fall to her side.

"I know," Veronica assures her, offering a small supportive smile. She's not good at this - this was always Meg's job; the comforter.

"You believe me?" the girl looks to Veronica in surprise, her tears damp on her cheeks.

"Of course I do, Carmen. I'm your captain, I know my people. If you want, I can find who posted that test for you. We'll clear your name and make somebody pay," Veronica promises because that's what she's good at; solving things, righting wrongs.

"Really?" Carmen lets out, relief and hope and gratitude lighting up. All Veronica can do for now is nod and give her striker an assuring smile. "Thank you, Veronica," she tries for a smile, sniffling as she tries to gain her strength back. "Everyone thinks I'm the biggest slut in school."

Veronica's eyes draw passed Carmen and settle into her own locker that has a large red painted number fourteen. She swallows, reigning in her shock and anger. "Well, second biggest," she tries to joke, brows nudging in the direction of her own locker.

"Wow, Sugarpuss, you're full of surprises aren't you?" Logan's voice quips as he falls beside her locker. "Let me," he says, voice quieter as he takes the sponge from her hand.

She lets him, leaning against the locker next to hers, her lips press into a tight smile as she remarks, "Well, honeybuns, this is a product of Lilly's jealousy."

"What?" He lets out, crinkled brows and disbelieving look in his eye. He shakes his head and she wonders if this is him trying to convince himself of his own thoughts. "There's no way."

His refusal fuels the anger that's been stirring in her since morning, her brows pull into a deep frown and she asks, "Are you being serious right now?"

His eyes meet hers, he's taken aback by the anger he sees in her blue eyes but he keeps her gaze and hopes she'll see the sincerity in him. "We talked, Veronica," he softly assures her.

Her jaw clenches and she shackles down the accusing when did you talk to her? Where did you talk to her? Why did you talk to her?

"And she's fine with us. I swear," he says, assuring and she knows he's trying to comfort her but it's not comforting at all. "She knows how much you mean to me," he whispers, sincere and full of love.

She falters in her anger. She doesn't know how he takes her to a boiling point and brings her down to a melting point in less than 30 seconds. She offers him a tiny smile as a reward and he pecks her nose.

She's not upset at Logan but she knows she's right about Lilly. She knows Logan wants to preserve his friendship with Lilly but she wonders if Logan knows that Lilly doesn't know what friendship is.

"Do you remember what happened that time you kissed Yolanda?" She quizzes and Logan freezes in his movement. "She moved schools because of Lilly," Veronica recalls, trying to show Logan just how far Lilly can go. Stealing passwords, faking a test score, igniting rumours and bullying was child's play in comparison to the things Lilly Kane was capable of.

"You don't know that Lilly did this," he says and again it shoots annoyance straight up her spine.

Her eyes pierce into him, he's not looking at her as he works on removing the number tainting her locker. Her eyes close for a second, she tries to not get into a fight with him but she can't help feel disappointed that he's still awarding Lilly loyalty points. "I never thought you'd be the naive one in this relationship," she shakes her head as she turns on her heel and walks away from him.