I am sorry I put so much in this chapter I just really want to end this story soon so I can start focusing on my other stories more. Please read them and review I hate writing and thinking that I am just wasting my time.
I do not own Veronica Mars or any of the original characters, but all the new ones are mine so back off. Jk. Rob Thomas is King!
I walk through the halls and look around, I am no longer the center of all the high school gossip. All the rumors that were about me, Aaron's arrest, and my break up with Veronica were replaced with those about the bus crash.
The school was humming with the media circus outside and when it comes to the media I am the ringmaster. Rolling up in my bright yellow SUV I was a glutton for punishment, while stormed by reporters. Not only did the leeches ask me questions of the persished students but they also asked about me. THIS IS NUTS! finally getting through and made my way up to my locker. However it was right next to Veronica's but she and Wallace had their backs to me. Their attention set on something down the hall.
I look past them and checked out what they were focused on. Tiffany was being surrounded by guys all drooling over her. Veronica looked at the sight and sighed "Looks like we found the new princess of Neptune High, now with Madison living in LA with her cousins." She said. "God she is such a…."
"You are so jealous of Logan's new squeeze." Wallace joked, her hand reaching up and smacked the back of his head.
I couldn't help but smile, if I knew that this would piss her off I would have hooked up with a girl at school other then one no one knew about.
"I am so not jealous" she said glaring at Tiffany.
"Right" Wallace joked. "But one thing you said was right she is the new princess"
She had her back to the doors when someone scooped her up in his arms and threw her over his shoulder. She giggled and squirmed but he kept his hold on her. Until she was ripped from his arms by some bigger and more forceful hands. He put her down so she was facing Dick who was now confused.
"What the hell man!" he snapped.
"I have told you before you touch my girlfriend I kick your ass" he glared and gritted his teeth.
She snapped around "Hey who stopped all the fun" she said looking up at Duncan. His face dropped and he backed away a little.
"Sorry I thought you were someone else" he said looking at her, from behind she looked just like Veronica.
"Its okay I love myself a knight in shining armor, just next time you might want to save me from someone I actually need help from" she joked looking down the hall. "Your girlfriend looks pissed" he turned around to look at Veronica who was fuming.
I took my chance and walked up behind them leaning my head in between their heads. "All she needs are some Pom Poms and a homecoming crown and she will be queen yet" I snarked walking past them. And sweeping Tiffany up into my arms then carrying her out of the doors and into the quad.
"Logan put me down" she squealed smacking my butt. I relent and finally place her down on her feet.
"What is with Neptune guys and acting like cavemen?" she joked.
"Cant help it, it is the Neanderthal is all of us" I joke back.
"You got that right" she says rolling her eyes and making her way back to the door that let inside. I grab her hand and pull her back flush against me then bend my head in to touch her lips with mine. She lifts her hand in front of her mouth to block the kiss.
"Logan, I am not Veronica" she states. I can feel all the air being sucked out of me like a punch in the gut. "I don't know what it is about that tiny blonde girl that has all you guys screwed up but I am not going to be her replacement." She said pulling herself out of my grasp and walking into the hall.
"When did you become all chaste" I snapped, not at her but at the way I felt inside. She continues her way inside letting the comment slide off her back.
My breath finally finds its way back into my lungs. She was right I was with Kendall to forget Veronica and distract myself and now i want to be back with her so bad that I go after someone who looks like her.
I walk back into the school and catch the end of Veronica's and Duncan's fight. They both looked depressed, he took her hand and said something. A small smile came across her face as she pulled him into a hug. O god I cant watch this I walk into my class and sit down beside Tiffany.
All I can think about is Veronica and what Tiffany said, was I really trying to replace her? I was so wrapped up in my thoughts I didn't even realize Tiffany had left. I look up and grab the second pass running out into the hallway and watching her decend into the bathroom. Then I see Duncan go in after her, I get up to the door and creak it open enough to hear.
"Thanks for talking to be last night I mean I didn't mean to interrupt your coffee break with all that crap. And I am sorry about the mistake" he said.
What last night, when did she talk to him?
"No problem, I get stuck with listening to whining usually it is after a nice romp in the bedroom but I guess the coffee buzz had the same effect." She joked. "What is it about the girls bathroom that boys feel so free in?"
"It has become the unofficial conference room for Neptune High." He joked then it got silent.
"What are you doing here?" she asked.
"I wanted to apologize" he said confused.
"Duncan" she urged calmly.
"She doesn't love me" he confessed.
"I know" she replied sadly.
"When did this happen? when did she change? And why wasn't I aware of it?" all rational questions asked more to himself.
"I don't know what you had or have, but I do know the look she would give you and the look she would give Logan…. She still loves him" she said silently.
"I know I realized that when she got so mad, it wasn't me she was mad at, she could care less about the mistake. But it was about Logan and you when she saw you two together she was pissed" he said. "So I told her that I understand she is not the girl I thought she was and I understand that she needs to be with the guy she really cares about… you know what she said?"
Tiffany shook her head.
"She said nothing, just smiled and gave me a hug, and that was it, and for the first time in my life….after all the shit…. I finally felt closure" he said focusing on the ground. "I don't know why I am telling you this" he said.
"Sometimes we need an outsider to share our deepest secrets with, so we wont feel vulnerable to the ones we know" she said as if from experience. "That reminds me I need to see my shrink" she joked.
He smiled and gave a little chuckle, they walked toward the door and he gave her a hug. "We should do coffee again" he said.
"A little coffee, a little sex, sounds like a plan" she joked.
"Why do you talk about it like that?" He asked.
"Like what?" she asked confused.
"Sex, you make it out to something meaningless and flimsy" he said.
"I guess I have never had it with someone who meant something to me" she said a little embarrassed. "Anyways, I am young and so damn hot why not enjoy myself." She said with a flip of her hair. Duncan had to laugh, she was right and there was something about her that he couldn't get past, she was putting on some sort of act and he could tell. He nodded and said goodbye while leaving the door.
"DK you do know that says girls right?" I said letting the old nickname slip.
He smiled a real genuine smile, "Hey man I was having a conference" he said laughing a little.
"Well as long as it was with a chick I would hate to think that you were trading teams now" I snark.
"Well you wont have to worry about that, hey man I don't want to keep being this way" he said.
"Me neither" I said looking back and realizing how much I have missed my best friend.
"See you later" he managed before walking away, It was going to take time but I can feel that we might be friends again.
Tiffany comes out of the bathroom and I can tell she is shocked to see me. "How much did you hear"
"Enough" I say.
"Good now go get that girl before she figures out what a creep you really are" she jokes taking my arm and pulling me back to class.
Lunch was upon us as we all sat down at the table, every five minutes Tiffany was approached by another guy all coming up to say 'hi'.
"Wow Tiffany you are really popular with the guys" Luke says.
"Yeah I must lay the pipe right" she joked. Then she went into thought "Where did I learn that from?" she asked herself before looking up "Weevil" she said jumping up from the table and walking across the quad over to weevil.
Who the hell is this chick? She has been her what like a week and she has already broken up the golden couple and gotten the attention of every male on campus. And now she is talking to the PCH bikers.
I look over toward Veronica's direction she is sitting at her table watching Weevil and Tiffany talk. I glance over too and see them looking at me before going back into discussion. Duncan sits down at the 09er table and Dick looks confused.
"Why aren't you with Veronica" he asked trying not to make it sound like and insult.
"We broke up" he mumbles glancing toward me, all I want to do is jump up and down in happy joy but I know that it wouldn't look right. Plus Duncan seems to be softening up to me and I don't want to mess this up, I have been given the green light and I am not about to hesitate.
I walk over to Veronica and look at the papers in front of her, they are Tiffan's school records. She gasps when she sees me and starts pulling the papers into her bag, I reach out and place my hand on her to stop her. "I am a little curious too" I smile, no snark, no insult, just a smile.
She looks confused but then melts into a look of content, she then looks down at the files and back up at me. "I don't think her name is Tiffany, I think she is an FBI agent." She says.
"What like Ben?" I ask.
"Yeah I mean look at the facts, she has been in touch with like everyone in school, she has a shady story about her past, and the school records are a joke, no social and no transcripts, It is like she just appeared out of thin air." She said.
"Why would she be here?" I ask trying to see what else she knew.
"I don't know to investigate the bus crash… wait no she was here already for that. Then to investigate the vandalism and fights" she says trying to rationalize her theory. "I am going to follow her" she said.
"I am going with you" i say it and leave her no room to argue.
She doesn't and just nods in agreement. She grabs her things and stops; she looks at me and gives me that look. The 'I have to tell you something look' "Logan, Duncan and I…" I grab her hand and squeeze it gently.
"I know" I manage and she stops her explanation. She then looks at me and I can tell that later we are going to have to talk about this. But all I can seem to get out now is "No more turf wars" it is so simple but it is exactly what she needs to hear before squeezing my hand back and walking us inside the building. I can feel everyone's eyes on us, awe this is normal.