"Hi Mrs. Manning is Meg home?" she asked sweetly.
"Why yes sweetheart she is in her room, she is not feeling too well though." Meg's mother said a little worried.
"I will go check on her" Veronica added walking up the stairs, knocking softly on Meg's door. It was covered in butterfly stickers, and a sign with her name on it.
"Come in" she heard a faint voice call from inside, she walked through the door to see meg laying on her bed. Her makeup had long since been rubbed off by the mix of tears and Kleenex. She was in her pajamas, and was propped up on the back of her headboard.
Veronica took a seat next to her on the bed, hoping to try and comfort her. There was a mix of emotions running through Veronica; these were the lives of some of her closest friends. Although she has knew Meg longer then Cat they had become really close.
"Well I guess you're here to try and get me to forgive the conniving little bitch" she snapped.
"No, I am here to comfort my friend who is in need" she said with a small smile. "Then I will try to get you to forgive the bitch" she joked.
"You forgot conniving" she said plainly.
"I was waiting for you to say it" she joked again, life could always be fixed with a joke, or at least that is how it should work.
"How could they do this to me?" Meg asked as she started crying again. She leaned in and Veronica took her into her arms. She got up on the bed more and Meg pulled her head into Veronicas lap, as a reflex Veronica began petting back the hair on her head in a soothing fashion.
"I don't think they meant to do it to you" she said trying to convince her friend and herself.
"Are you condoning what they did?" her friend asked astonished.
"No, of course not…..I am just saying I don't think they were plotting against you" she said.
"It still hurts the same." She said in a small voice.
"I know, but Meg can you think of any reason that Duncan would do this?" Veronica asked trying to lead Meg into her own realization.
"Because he is a horny boy, and she is a slut" she said getting out all her anger.
"Okay we both know that is not true" she said trying to get Meg to think.
"Well I don't know….I guess Duncan and I have been kind of stale and fighting a lot lately, but that doesn't mean he has to jump into the arms of my friend." She said.
"Well one way or anther it happened, and you are going to have to get out of your PJ's and face the world." Veronica said.
"I don't think I can" she admitted.
"Yes you can, you will get up, dress in you sexiest outfit, sashay into that school, and have half the male population asking you out" she teased.
"I don't know" she said hesitantly.
"Hey, we will have Lilly come down and she will set you all up, hair, makeup, clothes, before long you will be all like 'Duncan who'" she said with a smile.
Meg got up from her seat and looked at her friend as if trying to absorb some of her courage and strength.
"Okay Mars, we will do it your way but if I don't get any guys I am going straight back to bed, in my PJ's and a gallon of Mocha Carmel Chocolate ice cream" she teased and for the first time all day smiled.
The next few weeks were strange, with awkward silences at the lunch table and partial hesitations from the school on how to approach the new relationships. But soon things started working themselves out, Dick met some new girl named Pam, she was tender and sweet, with just the right splash of naughtiness.
While Meg started dating Casey she had never realized how different he was from the rest of the 09ers. He was mostly always the designated driver at parties, and he had a great relationship with his grandmother. If anyone was going to try and get Meg to love again, no one could have thought of a better match for her.
Duncan and Cat broke the news to Matt; he took it kind of hard that he wasn't going to be seeing Dick too much anymore. But was surprised when a couple days later Dick was at the door with Pam and they all went to the beach.
Veronica and Logan were getting even closer then before, the light of seeing so many broken hearts made them realize how precious they relationship, their love really was.
Veronica was chopping up Veggies in the kitchen while Logan was making some Marinara sauce for the spaghetti. They decided to have their friends over for dinner but instead of the usual pizza and stale chips they decided to have something a little nicer.
"Taste this" Logan said putting the wooden spoon up to Veronica's lips.
"It needs more salt" she said going back to her Veggie platter.
"You're cutting those too small" Logan said looking over at Veronica's poor chopping ability.
"I am not" she snapped cutting another carrot.
"See look that is too small" he laughed.
"Okay are you really going to piss off the person holding the knife?" She teased.
"You wouldn't do anything" he smirked.
"O why is that?" she asked.
"Because you would miss me too much" he joked lacing his hands around her waist and kissing the back of her neck.
"Awe you guys are like an old married couple." Cooed Meg as she walked into the kitchen to check up on the two chefs.
"So how are you and Casey?" Veronica asked taking a carrot nub and plopping it into her mouth.
"Good, I thought things would be weird, like it would turn out to be some rebound relationship but I don't know, I am really comfortable with him" she admitted stealing a carrot from the silver platter.
"Hey Veronica?" she asked.
"Huh"
"Why are these carrot stick so small?" she asked with a giggle.
They heard Logan let out a huge laugh behind them.