I do not own Veronica mars or any of the characters besides Rachel she is my pride and joy! I hope you enjoy the story, it is a prequel to my first story 'The Greatest Love' I hope you like them both. Long Live the King Rob Thomas!
The next day Duncan walked through the hallways toward his locker. He was greeted by mass applause coming from Veronica, Wallace, Logan and Luke. All their faces we red and tired, they had been laughing Duncan thought. Duncan knew what it was for and made the conclusion that Veronica had told them about his shameful experience the day before. He just shook his head in embarrassment and took a small bow toward the group.
"Way to go man!" praised Logan with his usual smirk.
"Yeah dude, way to wow the 'Ladies'" Luke added with air quotations around the word ladies.
"Ha-ha very funny, ok now that we have had our little laugh over my moment of incompetence can we please go to class." A defeated Duncan announced.
They all looked at each other and finally agreed, slowly departing to their separate ways then Duncan called out. "No one is to know about her or anything that happened yesterday." They all stood in shock Duncan was not the type to hide a relationship, he was 'Mr. PDA' so they knew that this was serious to Duncan.
He got to his Civics class early determined to finish his presentation so he could spend more time with Rachel after school. She was going to come up this time and she said she had a surprise. He was skeptical at first but remembered it was their two month anniversary the other day and it was probably a belated present. He already had his ready but he was waiting for them to be alone before he gave it to her.
He could hear some shouts in the hall and could hear Dicks mocking voice through the door. He probably had some poor freshman cornered and continued to torture them. With help from his brainless goon squad. "Looks like we got ourselves some fresh meat, the dogs sure are out today, Owwwww Owwww." Dick commented imitating a dog cry.
He came into class a huge smile of satisfaction plastered on his face, he had taken down another weakling and he was happy. He came over and sat next to the now determined Duncan sitting at the computer tapping away at his presentation. A couple minutes later the class filled and the tardy bell rang he saw veronica and flashed her quick smile. The class was filled with 09ers Dick, Madison, Beaver, Luke, Sean, and anyone else in relation. There was no Logan but he expected that he had signed up for some easier classes and was only in Duncan's Journalism class. The teacher walked in finally, she looked oddly familiar. Oh My God he thought when he realized it was Rachel. She was wearing a nice pair of slacks and a button down shirt and had her hair twisted up in a tight bun. She looked over and shined a subtle smile; she walked over and leaned in to whisper something to him.
"Don't say a word, I have a plan" she said pulling away.
"No Mr. Kane I am sorry but you have to join the rest of the class no outside homework now take your seat." She walked to the back of the class and played with something on the back table before making her way back to the front.
Veronica gave Duncan a confused look, all he could do was shrug and draw his attention back to the redhead in the front.
"Good morning class, my name is Miss Jenson and I will be your sub today, Mr. Carlson is out temporarily and I will be filling in." she said looking over the class. "I know you have your separate assignments but Mr. Jenson wanted me to perform a demonstration of Male Ego and how it has affected our history. So I am going to call on a few of you to come to the front, can I have you, you, you, and you." She said pointing at Sean, dick, beav and Luke. They were all nervous and Duncan got really confused.
"Ok I would like you guys to repeat after me, and take into consideration if you don't I will have to send you to the office, I do believe that insulting a teacher is against school rules." She said with a smile. Duncan soon realized what all this was about and had a huge grin; he knew what dick had done and was getting ready to see what she had in plan for revenge.
"I, state your name" she started standing on the side while the boys side by side stood in the front of the class. They did a she commanded and said their names to the class. "Am an egotistical, snot nosed brat, I do only what I am told due to my lack of brain." She said waiting for their mimic. They repeated and Dick looked as though he was going to explode when the class burst out in laughter. "I mock others as a defense mechanism so people wont realize how insecure I am about my small…" she said looking for the right word while slowly looking down at the guys. "Head" she stated looking pleased with herself much like dick had minutes earlier. The boys mimicked each moving their hands to their middles embarrassed. "I am a sheep, I follow the crowd, Baaa" she said doing her best sheep noise. They finished with their heads down in defeat. "Good boys!" she said clapping her hands together. They took their assigned seats and slouched down trying to get away from all the stares and laughs. Just then their teacher Mr. Carlson walked in.
He looked at Rachel in the front and smiled, "Thank you so much for getting the class warmed up" she smiled.
"It was no problem" the class looked confused.
"Class I guess you have met our new student Rachel Rembok." He said looking over his now completely shocked class.
Dick looked like he was going to pop a blood vessel much like the rest of the guys. Duncan was shocked mostly by the student comment. Oh my god she moved he thought mouth dropped open. Much like Veronicas expression.
Before any of the guys could tell the teacher what she had done she added "and thank you so much for letting me TAPE your class." Huge emphases on tape, as she gave a cold stare toward Dick. He sat back in his seat gritting his teeth.
"Yes, Rachel asked if she could tape the class for an outside psychology assignment." He said looking proudly at her.
She took her seat next to veronica in the empty desk and shined a smile; veronica had to admit that she was now looking at the master. She never in a million of years would have thought of doing that at a drop of the hat. Veronica whispered "How did you do that"
"Well when I was trying to find the office to get signed up Dick and his gang started calling me names like a dog or something anyways I got to the office and overheard Mr. Carlson saying he had to run off some copies and he was going to me late. I told him I was in his class and that I would be happy to watch them until he got there then I explained my outside project and got his permission. The kid at the desk just giggled when I told him my plan. O wait boys don't giggle right?" she said.
"No the chuckle, trust me they remind me on a daily basis on that one" she said a slight giddiness in her voice. She liked a girl who could think on her toes.
"Well I was just watching "Catch me if you can" last night on TV. Leo is so hot! Anyways so I pulled my hair up and threw on my best teacher impression. She said turning her face into a scowl. "And the rest is history."
Duncan overheard the girls conversation and chuckled at how bright his girl was, she was perfect, we almost. The bell rang and they started out of class, Duncan walked between the girls out to the quad, he looked at Rachel and tried to take her hand she slowly moved it away then excused them from veronica, "We will catch up to you" she said as veronica walked to her usual seat.
"Duncan, I am so sorry I didn't tell you I was coming, I just thought you would try to talk me out of it if I did, I really want to be here, with you and because I cant look at Poway the same" she said a tinge of sadness in her eyes.
"Its alright I am ecstatic you're here" he said sincerely while he tried to grab her hand again.
"Duncan I want to get to know some people first before we tell anyone about 'Us' I don't want to be known as Duncan's girlfriend but at Rachel. Ok." She said waiting for his response.
"Ok but whenever your ready I will be here" he said looking her in the eyes. He walked to the 09er table and sat down next to dick and Madison.
She walked out a minute later and spotted veronica she set her stuff down on the table, and turned around to see a familiar person.
Logan was sitting his back to her talking to some guys telling a very exciting story filled with overly dramatic hand gestures. She walked up behind him and said in her best valley girl accent "Like OMG your Logan Echolls can I like totally have your autograph" she surprised herself did that really come out of me.
He didn't even turn around just quipped over his shoulder "Logan Echolls is not here at the moment if you would like to leave a message I will make sure to call you back as soon as I can" imitating a computer answering machine.
She then pulled at the tips of her hair and acted like a little girl, "Mr. Echolls can Logan come out and play, I swear we won't put orange juice in Sylvester Stallone shoes again." She said.
He smiled at the memory and realized who it was behind him he turned around and gave her a huge hug. "He Dee" he joked. She giggled at the name and smiled.
"Hey dumb" she replied.
Veronica walked over with the kid that Rachel had met from the office and was yet again confused. Logan moved over and gave Veronica a hug and peck on the cheek. "Oh my god you two" Rachel squealed pointing at the couple. "My little DumDum is in love awe" she joked.
"DumDum?" Wallace repeated.
"Yeah, Rachel's dad was a producer, for a couple of my dad's movies, so we spent a couple summers together playing on set. Some of the cast and crew adopted the nick names Tweedle Dee and Tweedle dum we then shortened them to dee and dum."
"I'm Dee or Dee Dee" she said raising a hand.
"And I got stuck with Dum" he said hanging his head.
Everyone laughed and made their way back to Veronica and Wallace's table.
Duncan came over and sat down next to Rachel and Wallace then asked "So how do you know Rachel?" to Logan.
"We used to hang out on set, I told you about her, the one who was all love struck for me; I just cant help it I am too beautiful" he said playing a faint.
"O yeah right, dream on lover boy, this guy was so shy when I first met him It took him three days before he even said hi, and if I remember right you were always the one with this little lost face saying, has anyone seen Rachel" she said in a pathetic voice.
"No way!" said Duncan. "He was shy" he said in complete awe.
"Yep, then one day I kiss him and then I could not get him away from me he was like a lost puppy or something" she said with a wide grin.
"Ha Ha very funny, lets get back to lunch" Logan said looking back at his deli sandwich.
Duncan could feel Rachel's hand on his leg slowly rubbing her fingers up and down. The sensation ran through his body and he slowly ran his hand under the table to grab it afraid what she might do to him. She gave him a wink and a had a twinkle in her eye.
"Uh Rachel have you seen the whole school yet?"
"No"
"How about I give you a tour before your next class" he said jumping up and grabbing his stuff leading her back to the school.
"What was that all about?" Logan inquired.
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