Tell me that it's over

And I'll be the first to go.

I don't want to be the last to know.

---- Over, Lindsay Lohan

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After a late night staying up, talking with her dad about Logan, Wednesday morning had arrived. It was the first day of school. The first day since the break up that Veronica would have to deal with being around Logan and having no way to avoid him.

"Veronica!" Wallace yelled as Veronica walked across the Neptune High parking lot.

"Wallace, hey." Veronica said turning around

"I've been calling your name for the last ten minutes."

"Sorry."

"So how'd it go yesterday?"

"It could have been worse. We didn't really say much."

As they walked across the courtyard Lilly ran up and wrapped her arms around Veronica and Wallace's shoulders.

"Seniors Rule!" Lilly exclaimed

"Hey! You didn't call me back last night." Veronica said solemnly

"Don't be getting all girly on me. I mean don't you have a boyfriend to listen to you talk about stuff?"

"Not anymore."

Veronica broke free of Lilly's grasped and began walking in front of her friends.

"She and Logan broke up." Wallace whispered

"Oh no." Lilly said running her hand through her hair, "Veronica I'm sorry."

"No big deal." Veronica said stopping and turning around

"It is a big deal. How'd it happen?"

Veronica took a deep breath and looked at her old friend with tears filling her eyes, "Lilly, I really can't deal with this right now. Alright?"

"Sure. Sure."

Outside of having to tell Lilly about the breakup Veronica's morning went well. No one had spoken a word to her about Logan and she hadn't seen him at all. Until Journalism class, that is. This was the one class that, when they were at the height of their relationship, Veronica and Logan had insisted on taking together. But that was back when they were happy and thought that they had all the time in the world to be together.

As she walked up to the door of the journalism room she was hit with plethora of love sick teenagers who seemed to be attached at the lips.

"Excuse me." Veronica said pushing her way through the crowd.

"Veronica?" A friendly voice asked and Veronica turned around to see Meg who was clutching Duncan's hand.

"Meg, Duncan hi."

"Hey Veronica." Duncan said looking down at the floor.

"How was your summer?" Meg asked

"It was…" Veronica paused and searched for the right word and finally decided on "summer."

"I know what you mean. " Meg said with a laugh and then turned to Duncan, "I should be heading to class."

"Yeah."

Duncan leaned down and gently kissed Meg on the lips while Veronica looked away uneasily.

"I'll see you at lunch?" he asked.

"You bet. Bye Veronica!"

"Bye Meg!"

Meg turned around and began to walk down the hall while Duncan turned to Veronica.

"So where's your boyfriend this morning?" he asked

"I don't know."

"I'm surprised. When school let out the two of you were attached at the hip."

"Well things change."

And just like that Veronica turned and walked into the journalism room and ran strait into Logan.

"Speak of the devil." Duncan said from behind her

"Hi Veronica." Logan said hesitantly.

"Hello Logan." Veronica said looking down at the floor

"Excuse me." Ms. Dent said as she walked into the room and past Logan, Duncan and Veronica, "Could everyone please take a seat, class is about to begin."

"I'll see you around?" Logan asked

"Yeah."

Veronica began to walk further into the room when Duncan grabbed her arm.

"Did you two break up?" He asked

"Why is any of this your business?" Veronica whispered, "I thought you weren't talking to us."

"I'm surprised that's all. I thought the two of you would last forever."

"What you didn't get the memo? Forever doesn't last that long."

"Well this is going to be fun." Veronica whispered in her usual sarcastic manner.

Veronica took a seat at the front of the room and looked across the room at Logan who, although surrounded by swooning girls, gave her a small smile.

That afternoon at lunch Veronica sat staring at the brown bag lunch she brought from home when Lilly, Mac and Cassidy came over and sat down.

"That's a pretty depressing lunch you've got there." Mac said

"I think it supposed to match her mood." Lilly told her.

Cassidy opened his mouth to begin to speak when Veronica cut him off.

"Yes she knows."

"Everything?" Cassidy asked raising an eyebrow

"Everything she needs to know."

"Which pretty much means nothing." Lilly whispered to him.

"Okay, wait, hold it!" Mac exclaimed making the time-out signal with her hands, "Can someone explain to me what's going on?"

Cassidy and Lilly both looked at Veronica with their heads tilted and eyebrows raised until she threw down the plastic fork she was using to stab her apple and looked at Mac.

"Logan and I broke up." Veronica said in a hushed tone, "There. Now everyone knows."

"What how did this happen?"

"We don't know." Cassidy told her while Lilly told her,

"She won't tell us."

"I don't want to get into this right now guys."

"You're going to have to get into it eventually." Lilly told her, "I mean if you never tell us we're just going to go walking around school being mad at Logan when we don't know the whole story."

"Don't be mad at Logan."

"Then tell us what happened. How it happened, where it went down. We want details. We're your friends you owe us that."

Veronica took a deep breath and after a very pregnant pause she asked them, "You really want to hear this?"

"Yes." The three answered

"And do you promise that once I tell you the story I won't have to talk about it again."

"We promise." Mac assured her.

"Just get on with it!" Lilly exclaimed.

"Here goes." Veronica began, "It started about a month and a half ago."

"Mac you're here late." Veronica said opening her front door, "It's nearly midnight."

"I know, and I'm sorry but I really need to talk to you. It's important."

"Okay, come on in."

Mac walked into the apartment and Veronica shut the door behind her.

"I did something really stupid."

"What's going on?"

"You know how Cassidy and I went out tonight?"

"Yeah you went to go see Dick's band right?"

"Right." Mac said looking down at her feet, "Well I drove him home and something happened."

"Something? What kind of something?"

"A big something." Mac said blushing.

"How big?"

Mac stayed silent and continued to look at her feet.

"Mac. How big?" Veronica repeated.

"I kissed him."

"Oh my god! This is huge!" Veronica exclaimed and then quickly lowered her voice and pulled Mac over to the couch, "You have to tell me everything."

"So you don't think I did something really stupid?" Mac asked, taking a seat.

"No. I've known Cassidy for a while and believe me when I say that he's a good ki--guy."

"What if he doesn't like me?"

"How could he not. I mean you're Mac."

Suddenly Veronica's cell phone began ringing from her room.

"You can get that if you want." Mac told her

"It's just a text message." Veronica said recognizing the ring

"But its Logan isn't it?"

"Yeah." Veronica said sheepishly

"Go read it."

"I'll be right back." Veronica said jumping off the couch with a hop in her step

"And you guys know the rest of the story." Veronica said as she tore the crust off of her turkey sandwich.

"So he just broke up with you in a text?" Mac asked.

"Yep."

"What did it say?" Lilly inquired

"Veronica," She began reciting the text message by heart, "I'm not sure when I'll be back in town. Or if even."

"That was it?"

"That was it."

"Did you even try calling him to find out what was up?" Cassidy asked

"Yes. But after a week of calling him with no answer I decided it was a lost cause." Veronica sighed, "Now can we please drop this?"

"Yeah." Lilly said looking around at the rest of the group, "It's dropped."

That afternoon, after the last bell rang, Veronica was walking across the parking lot to her car when Troy walked up next top her.

"So I heard about you and Logan breaking up."

"How'd you find out?"

"I have gym with Carrie Bishop. I'm sorry."

"I don't care." Veronica told him as she started to walk faster

"You know if you need a shoulder to cry on…"

"It's not going to be yours."

"One of these days I'm going to get past your hard outer shell Veronica!"

"Don't count on it." Veronica mumbled under her breath as she walked up to her car and began to unlock it.