A/N: darkgirl3, amgonyea & Guest - Glad you all liked the chapter! Guest - Veronica's trying not to be the way she's always been. It's difficult for her, but she will give Logan a chance to explain eventually. flyersgrl - I'm happy you're enjoying the story! Hopefully it'll keep you intrigued until the end, whenever that may be... smegol26 - Veronica goes to talk to Logan in this chapter.

Chapter 5

Veronica hadn't slept well during the night. She'd tossed and turned. The image of Logan in bed having sex with Madison had run on a loop throughout the night.

She finally decided to get up and take a shower. It seemed that sleep just wasn't in the cards for her right now.

When she went out to the kitchen to get something to eat she found a note from her dad. A bail jumper he'd been looking for was seen in Texas near the border, so he'd flown out that morning. He wasn't sure how long he'd be gone, but he promised to call and check in on her.

Veronica was kind of thankful her dad had to go out of town. That meant she'd have the apartment to herself and time to think. She planned on telling him about the baby when he got back.

She finished eating her bowl of cereal and went back to her room. She sat on her bed and reached for her cell phone. Once it was on she saw that there were three voicemails from Logan.

"I'm not sure what's going on with you, but I know something is up," he said. "Please call me."

"Veronica, I know you said you'd call me tomorrow," he said, "but I really don't want to wait. I hate that you're not ok and it's killing me to not know why."

"I've determined you've turned off your phone," Logan said. "Are we really going there again Veronica? I thought we were over you ignoring me. We're having a baby. We should be able to talk about whatever is bothering you. You can't keep holding me at arms length. In case you forgot, that's the reason we broke up and I don't want it to happen again. I love you. Please call me back whenever your get this."

Veronica could tell that Logan was worried, but she didn't feel the least bit sorry. She needed time to think and she hadn't wanted to get into an argument with him via text messages the previous night.

She decided to get up and get dressed. She really didn't want to go talk to Logan, but she knew she couldn't put it off. He was right. Their last breakup had been because she had avoided him.

When she got to the suite she let herself in with the key Logan had given her for her birthday. She figured he'd still be asleep and found that she was right when she entered his bedroom. She decided to go back out to the living room and wait for him there. She needed time to compose herself after seeing him anyway.

She heard him stirring about twenty minutes later. He came out in his pajama pants a minute later.

He was surprised to see Veronica sitting on the sofa when he entered the room. "I've gotta say, I'm surprised you're here," Logan said moving toward the fridge to get something. He pulled out a bottle of water and moved to sit on the sofa with her.

"I couldn't sleep," she told him.

"I kind of figured," he said glancing over at the clock. "Most people aren't up at six in the morning when they don't have school."

"Did you and Madison have sex when you were in Aspen?" she asked, wanting to get straight to the point.

Logan looked over at her, horrified and drops his head. Veronica could tell from his reaction that it was true.

"Oh God, I'm gonna be sick," she said rushing up from the sofa and heading into his bedroom.

Logan was still sitting on the sofa when she came out.

"I asked you point-blank," she said moving to sit back down.

"And I told you the truth!" Logan yelled jumping up from the sofa.

"You just failed to mention it was Madison," Veronica said, her voice laced with anger.

"It wasn't information that you had a right to know. I knew you wouldn't be able to deal with the Madison thing," he said as he started pacing.

"Which thing are you talking about?" she asked getting more and more upset. "The 'she roofied me' thing or the thing when I stumbled to my car in the morning, wondering where my virginity was, and she'd written 'slut' on my windshield? Was that what you thought I couldn't deal with? I am so genuinely sick right now," she told him.

"We were broken up at the time," Logan pointed out.

"You know how I feel about her! There's no way that, at some point while it was happening, that you weren't thinking about how much I'd hate you being with her," Veronica snapped at him as she started to cry.

"It wasn't like that," Logan insisted.

"No? Do you want another variation?" she asked. "'Cause I've got a million sickening scenarios running on a loop right now."

"I wasn't trying to hurt you," Logan said.

"Oh. Really? Imagine if you tried," she bit back standing up from the sofa and heading towards the door. She couldn't handle this any more. She needed to get away from him.

"What do you want me to do? What can I do?" Logan asked, not wanting her to leave like this.

"Make it not true? Get it out of my head and never let me think about it again? 'Cause...unless you can do that, this is something I'm sure I can get past," she told him reaching for the doorknob.

"You can't keep doing this," Logan said as she turned the handle to open the door.

"Doing what?" she asked turning to face him.

"Leaving," Logan clarified. "You can't just walk away from me every time I do something that you don't like. We're having a baby and we're going to be in each other's lives. I'm not going to let you keep me from being a father to our child."

Veronica started crying again and then doubled over in pain. She clutched her stomach before crumbling to the ground.

"Veronica!" Logan exclaimed moving to kneel next to her. "What's wrong?" he asked.

"I don't know," she told him through her tears. "It feels like I'm cramping."

"I'm gonna go get dressed and then take you to the hospital," he told her.

He rushed into his room and got dressed as quickly as possible. The thought that something was wrong with the baby was terrifying him.

An hour later they were just getting back to the hotel. Veronica had started bleeding at the hospital but an ultrasound proved that she wasn't having a miscarriage like they'd thought.

"I'm gonna head home," Veronica said as they got out of Logan's car.

"Is your dad home? I really don't think you should be alone," he said.

"He's out of town actually," Veronica told him. "I'm not sure when he'll be back right now."

"Then you're definitely not going home," Logan told her.

"I'll be fine," Veronica told him. "But since you're so worried I'll call Mac and ask her to come over. I wanted to talk to her about everything anyway."

"You're going to tell her about the baby?" Logan asked.

"She already knows. She met me at Dog Beach yesterday after my little run-in with Madison," she explained.

He winced at her mention of Madison. He hated that she was the one to tell Veronica they'd had sex. He hardly remembered that night. He'd been so drunk that if he hadn't woken up in bed with Madison sleeping next to him he never would've known they had sex.

"It's good that you have someone you can talk to," Logan said not wanting to comment on Madison. He knew if Veronica had kept it bottled up the results at the hospital would've been different. "Call me if you need anything," Logan said. He moved in to kiss her forehead and then turned to head into the hotel.