Knew it's over so you look the other way

Suddenly before you

Your second time around

---Three Times in love, Tommy James

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"You know, when you said that you'd make this worth my while I thought that you meant something a little different than buying me dinner." Weevil yelled over his motorcycle engine as he pulled into the parking lot of a fast food restaurant.

"It's not dinner, it's a snack." Veronica told him as he parked his bike and shut off the engine, "I need a milk shake."

Inside Logan and his mother sat in a booth picking at their food.

"Are you ever going to tell me what's wrong?" Lynn asked as she pushed her salad across the plate.

"What?" Logan asked looking up from his pile of French fries.

"You haven't touched you're food."

"I don't really like fast food all that much."

"You used to love it when you were a little boy."

"That's because it was the only good thing to come from black eyes and cigarette burns."

"Hey look there's Veronica." Lynn changed the subject, seeing how this conversation was not going well, "When did you two break up?"

"What makes you think we broke up?"

"She's here with some other guy."

Logan turned around in his seat to see Veronica laughing and playfully hitting Weevil's arm.

"Yeah. We did break up." he told her as he slowly turned around in his seat.

"How long ago?"

"Which time?"

"You broke up more than once?"

"I broke up with her the night of dad's arraignment. And then she broke up with me today at lunch."

"Why?"

"Can we not do this right now? Please?" Logan said on the brink of a break down.

"Later then. Finish your food and we'll take off."

As Logan started eating his food Veronica and Weevil took a seat at an empty table.

"So, you gonna tell me why Surfer Boy's mom is staring at us like we're Terrorists?" Weevil asked as he unwrapped his hamburger

"What?" Veronica asked as she took a sip of her shake.

"Lynn Echoll's is looking at up like we've got warrants out for our arrest."

"Is Logan with her?"

"Yeah."

"Let's take our food outside." Veronica said standing up.

"You said it was to cold outside for you."

"Well it suddenly got to cold in here."

"Are you okay?" Weevil asked standing up, placing his hand on Veronica's shoulder.

"Fine." She said brushing it off, "Let's go."

As Veronica walked away she wondered to herself why it felt so hard to talk to Weevil now. She'd been talking to him since Lilly's party but it still felt weird and she couldn't figure out why. He was the person she called to help her when she found the camera's at Logan's and in so many other situations. Why was it so hard now?

Later Logan sat on his bed playing his x-box when Lynn knocked on his door.

"Can I come in?" She asked

"I could say no but who's to say that that's enough to stop you."

"Thanks." She told him as she let herself in, "So you gonna tell me what happened between you and Veronica?"

"I don't want to." Logan told her as he threw his controller to the side

"That's too bad 'cause you're going to." Lynne said as she took a seat next to him, "Now, I saw the two of you the night your dad was arrested. More importantly I saw you the night your dad was arrested. I have never seen you care about someone so much. And now I'm supposed to believe that that never happened?"

"I never said it never happened." Logan whispered, "And I do still care about her."

"Then what went wrong? What happened to make the two of you break up not once but twice?"

"I pushed her away."

"Why?"

"Mom I can't do this."

Logan stood up and began pacing the room, running his hands through his hair.

"Why did you push her away?" Lynn asked standing up

"Don't make me do this mom."

"Logan. Whatever your reason is, I'm not going to judge you. You can tell me."

Logan stopped pacing and looked at his mother.

"You really want to know?"

"Yes."

"I didn't want her to end up like Lilly. I didn't want her to get hurt by dad."

Over at Veronica's house Weevil and Veronica sat on Veronica's porch sharing an orange slurpie.

"Thanks for tonight." Veronica sighed looking up at the stars, "I had a really good time."

"So did I" Weevil said as he passed the drink to Veronica, "You know I think this was the longest we've ever hung out since we started hanging out."

"Did I live up to your expectations."

"Not a bit. But that's a good thing. Lilly used to talk about you when we were together and the girl she talked about and the one sitting next to me, they're two different people."

And in that instant everything clicked for Veronica. She wasn't the same Veronica that had been joined at the hip with Lilly, the girl that had dated Duncan. But she wasn't the Veronica who was dead set on catching Lilly's killer either. She was someone completly different.

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Short I know, but the next chapter will make up for it. Mac and Lilly meet for the first time, and Veronica comes face to face with an exboyfriend.