A/N Hey everyone! I know its been a while. I had to work on some worthless project for science. But now its all done. I think within the next few chapters, I'm going to try and wrap up the story. I don't know, I guess I have to wait until the ideas float into my head. These chapters not going to have any particular POVs, just an overall POV. Anyways, hope ya enjoy this chapter!
Lynn and Logan and Veronica sat in the Echolls living room for the longest time. Hoping for a call that Aaron was alive. Finally, around 6:00pm, the phone rang. Lynn rushed to answer it.
"Hello? … Yes, this is Lynn Echolls… Yes… What?" Lynn slapped her hand over her mouth and tears began to flow. Logan rushed over to console his mother, Veronica close behind. The phone clicked off and Lynn began sobbing uncontrollably.
"He's dead…he's dead…Aaron's dead!" she sobbed. Lynn rocked on the floor, knees to her chest and Veronica couldn't help but remember her reaction when the doctors told her that her parents had died in the crash.
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A few days later, Veronica, Logan and Lynn were at Neptune Cemetery, surrounded by neighbors, friends and Aaron's adoring fans that ranged from preteens to middle-aged housewives. The Kanes, including Duncan and Lilly were even in attendance, though they stood in the back, avoiding Logan and Veronica.
Lynn was clad in a simple black dress – very unlike Lynn and a widely brimmed black hat with a white sash around the center (you know, where your head goes). Logan wore one of the suits he had worn to numerous Oscar parties and Veronica wore the same dress that she wore to her own parents' funeral.
As Aaron's casket descended into the ground, Aaron's fans were sobbing loudly and dramatically, putting on a show for the TV cameras in attendance. Lynn and Logan sat stone-faced, not showing a drop of emotion. Veronica's brow was creased with sympathy for Lynn and she squeezed Logan's hand lightly. He looked at her and gave her a small smile as if saying 'It's alright, we'll survive.'
When the gravediggers began piling dirt on the casket, Lynn, Logan and Veronica rose and walked through the parted crowd to the limo. They headed back to the Echolls mansion, where Lynn shut herself into her room for the next few days.
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A week later, Veronica and Logan left the mansion and left through the gates. They had to drive through a flood of reporters and some of Aaron's fans. They drove to Veronica's Sunset Cliffs Apartment complex. There, they packed up Veronica's things and things of her parents that meant a great deal to her and put them into Logan's yellow X-Terra. A few days after Aaron's funeral, Logan came up with the decision. He decided to have Veronica move into one of the guest bedrooms so they could raise their child together. He proposed this idea to Lynn, who was half-drunk on chardonnay in her bedroom. All she gave him was a simple nod and shooed him away. When he told Veronica, her face lit up.
When Aaron died, Veronica realized that you have to take chances in life because if you don't, things could change dramatically within a few minutes. So here they were, packing boxes and loading them into Logan's car. Veronica had told the landlord to do whatever he wanted with the other furniture in the apartment that she had bought when she moved to Neptune. Along with Back-Up and her things, Veronica and Logan were soon on their way back to the Echolls mansion.
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8 months later…
Veronica laid in her bedroom, listening to her iPod on her expanded stomach. She had her eyes closed, humming along to the words and stroked Back-Up's fur, who laid protectively next to Veronica on the bed. Her iPod was on so loudly that she didn't fell the presence of a third party when her bed-springs squeaked and didn't until she felt a hand on her stomach. She opened her eyes to be face to face with Logan.
"Logan! You scared me." She said pulling out her ear-buds.
"I'm sorry." Logan apologized, kissing the top of her head. "You looked so peaceful. I thought I could just lay on the bed and stay with you and Desiree."
Veronica smiled and gritted her teeth. "Anna…" she argued.
Ever since they found out that the baby was a girl, they fought over what they were going to name her. Logan wanted Desiree but Veronica was fighting for the name Anna.
"Desiree…"
"Anna…"
"Desiree…"
"Anna…"
"Desiree…"
"Ann…AH!" Veronica yelped.
Logan sat up in alarm. "Veronica? What's wrong?"
"I think my water broke!" she gasped between words.
A/N Wow!Nice cliffy. Don't ya think?Hope ya liked it. Now go press the little purple button that says GO. You will give me a fuzzy feeling if ya do so. I like fuzzy feelings.
