Friday turned out to be a beautiful day, just as we'd hoped. The whole thing was so elaborate, so well planned, that even bad weather would have thrown the whole plan off.
Thank God for small miracles. Dick had returned to school the day before, and while he never did anything overt, when I walked into school that Friday morning, Slut was spray painted across my locker. Logan absolutely freaked when he saw it.
I'll be the first to admit I don't think Dick's the brightest crayon in the box, but I never took him for down right suicidal. Spray-painting Logan's girlfriend's locker? That was an act of absolute stupidity, which is probably why Logan stepped the revenge plan up a notch.
The weather was absolutely beautiful, the waves were high, a perfect day for the Surf competition currently taking place at Dog Beach. Dick was number forty-three on today's roster, so we had awhile to wait.
Everyone was here, the entire school having been let out early because of the competition. Well okay not everyone was here, I didn't see Weevil in the crowd, but anyone who was important to Dick was here, which was the point. Everyone would see him fall.
Logan and Lilly sat on towels beside me, Lilly in a bikini and Logan in board shorts. We were all slathered in sunscreen, as were most of the people here today. The sun was beating harshly down on us, even without moving we were all sweating profusely. Logan moved closer to me, offering me his bottle of water as we watched the competitors.
"You ready for this? He's up soon." Logan's voice was quiet, barely a whisper next to my ear, lips brushing the shell, sending shivers down my spine.
"I'm ready." I spoke quietly. I turned towards him and pressed our lips together. Kissing Logan would never get old.
"Showtime." He smiled softly, brushing my hair back from my face, before slowly getting to his feet. He made his way towards the judges, not hurrying, taking his own sweet time, couldn't have anyone getting suspicious.
I knew what he was telling them, that Dick had been suspended from school for drug use. He was a chronic drug user, GHB, and he'd test positive for pretty much any drug they cared to test him for. The judges were conferring, and I could see when they decided to pull Dick's entry.
Of course we planned it right down to the last second. Dick was already in the water and they couldn't call him out of the water. He'd surf his wave, do his best, and still be disqualified, pending a drug test of course.
That was only the beginning. I watched eagerly as Dick tried to get his feet under him on the board. The wax apparently wasn't working so well, as his foot went out from underneath him, sliding awkwardly off the side of the board. Dick fell forward, smashing his nose on the board, before tumbling into the water.
Poor Dick looks like his pretty face wouldn't be the same. The big thing I learned in chemistry class this week? A hair shampoo for punk rockers with the three-foot Mohawks, eraser, the chemical properties dissolved wax, but only when wet. Slather the stuff on a surf board, let it dry and it wouldn't feel any different than the regular board, right up until the point it got wet and ate the wax away.
Dick had just been the recipient of a rather nasty practical joke. They hauled him out of the water; his nose was bleeding rather profusely, split across the bridge from where he'd landed. He'd also managed to break his board somehow, which was more than I'd hoped for.
I stood up and started clapping, that performance was a perfect ten in my opinion. I waited, the timing had to be perfect, before I slowly lifted my hair off the back of my neck. It was the signal.
I watched Seth come rushing forward towards Dick, flapping his hands, and wiping tears from his cheeks. The one thing I could say for sure about Seth, he was one hell of an actor. I watched as he threw himself at Dick, wrapping his arms around him before his loud voice reached me.
"Oh my god Sweetheart! Are you okay? Look at your beautiful face! Oh honey!" Seth babbled on pressing kisses over Dick's stunned face. Dick's hands came up, presumably to push Seth away.
The shocking part came next, shocking even me; I stood in stunned disbelief as Seth kissed Dick straight on the mouth. Lips pressed to lips, and Dick? Dick wasn't moving away. Dick's hands were tightening on Seth's shoulders. Dick was pulling Seth closer. My mouth fell open. Dick was pulling Seth closer, where was the freak out? Where was the… and there it was.
Dick quickly shoved Seth away, staring at him for a moment, before wiping his mouth slowly, his eyes lit up with a slow burn. It was an absolutely beautiful start to my Friday.
Dick ignored Seth where he had fallen as Seth babbled on about their secret, how he knew that he wasn't supposed to tell anyone, but he was just so concerned. If I didn't know better I would have said that Dick and Seth were carrying on a secret affair.
Dick moved towards the first aid table, set up for accidents such as this. I nodded to Amanda who was working the booth; she nodded quickly back, before going quickly to work on Dick's nose.
I could hear him cursing from here. She'd apparently used iodine for infection and super glue to keep the wound closed until he could see his family doctor. She gave him two pills and told him they were for the pain.
Good old trusting Dick. He took them dry, swallowing them down, before lying down on the cot provided. In less than an hour Dick would be out cold and the real fun could begin.
Drugging Dick? Best idea we've ever had. Well, the best idea Logan's ever had. Poetic justice if you ask me. I remember feeling guilty over these tactics, promising myself if we pulled this off I'd never drink again, I'd never do anything wrong, I'd be a good girl from now on and avoid parties. Then I remembered I was sort of dating Logan and those promises flew right out the window.
The board had been my idea; the drugging was Logan's and what came next? Was all Lilly.
We managed to get Dick into the back of Seth's van without too much trouble. No one even mentioned us carrying the still unconscious Dick across the sand, everyone turning a blind eye. We dumped him in the back, Logan climbing in behind him; I hurried around to the front to climb into the passenger seat beside Seth.
"You know where the Casablancas place is?" Seth nodded and we were on our way. Lilly was meeting us there, she'd left when Dick had fallen to meet up with Beaver and set up the last part of our day of revenge.
Beaver was waiting for us at the gate, quickly jumping in the back with Logan for the drive up to the house. We once again struggled to carry Dick into the house. Mr. Casablancas was out of town on his honeymoon, having just married Mrs. C number six. Kendall was a former Laker girl and was making life in the Casablancas home very, very difficult.
"Dick should really lay off the junk food, his tubby ass is going to weigh three hundred pounds by the time he's thirty." Logan wheezed as he struggled under Dick's weight. Beaver came around the other side, hauling Dick up by the back of his shorts, taking some of the weight off of Logan's arms.
"You should try doing this alone when you're half tanked yourself." Beaver laughed, as they struggled to get him up the stairs.
They finally managed to get him up the stairs and into his bed, pulling off his board shorts, only to find he wasn't wearing any underwear. That made things a whole lot simpler. Seth not being shy stripped off his clothes and climbed into bed with Dick.
"Just make sure you don't shoot my face, I could be famous some day and I don't want this coming back to haunt me." He smiled before burying his face in the crook of Dick's neck, their bodies twined together.
"Something's not… quite right." I stared at them for a few minutes, before I carefully arranged Dick's legs so that one of them was between Seth's, grabbing one of his arms, I flopped it over top of Seth's back, resting Dick's hand on the curve of Seth's ass. Perfect. "Perfect!" I quickly began snapping photo's from different angles.
"Done!" I said after a few minutes. Seth quickly got up from the bed, putting his clothes on quickly. "Hurry up guys, I want to head home and shower, maybe for a couple of days, just being near that jerk makes me feel dirty." He paused for a moment before smirking, "and not in the fun 'I'm such a bad boy' kind of way." Laughing he made his way out of the bedroom leaving Logan and I alone with Dick.
"You sure about this? We can stop it now." Logan looked at me and the sincerity in his eyes made my stomach hurt. He was so earnest in wanting to protect my sensibilities.
"You really think you could stop Lilly once she gets an idea in her head?" I laughed out right. Logan must think he's got super powers to be able to stop Lilly when she has her mind set on something.
"You two can leave the room for a few minutes. It's my turn." Lilly stood leaning against the doorway, a bottle of wine in one hand, and a bottle of lube in the other. I got a sudden flash of what she had planned.
"No Lilly. You can't do THAT." I moved towards her, but she turned her cold hard stare on me.
"Think about it Veronica Mars. If Dick had managed to get you alone, even for five minutes, drugged and unconscious, what would he have done? I was drugged that night too, it's my right, he's got to pay, and he's got to learn not to do that kind of shit. This way he'll know what it feels like." Her evil smile made an appearance and I felt Logan shudder next to me. Lilly was very, very scary.
"We'll meet you downstairs." I nodded at her and grabbed Logan's hand, practically dragging him from the room.
"We're not really going to let her do that to Dick are we?" He sounded confused, a little lost, but the disgust came across clear in his voice.
"She's right Logan. If he doesn't learn his lesson now, he's never going too. I couldn't live with myself if that happened to someone else. I just couldn't." He pulled me closer, hugging me tight as I buried my face in his shirt, breathing in his scent.
"What did you want to do when this is all over?" Logan's voice was muffled against my hair, I could feel the vibrations of his voice against my scalp and it made me shiver.
"Alone time. I just want to be somewhere no one else is." He stiffened slightly and I quickly amended my statement. "No one else but you." He relaxed against me, smiling into my hair.
"Sounds good. We'll ditch the rest of the gang and go do the you and me thing. One of these days you're going to give me an answer on wearing my pin." He was mock serious, but I could hear the underlying doubt in his voice. He still wasn't sure I wasn't trying to be just like Lilly.
Lilly slowly stepped from the room, a self-satisfied smile on her face. She held the bottle of wine in her hands, but the lube was missing, left behind as evidence. "Done and Doner. Let's get out of here." She sashayed away from us, and I couldn't help but shake my head. Lilly, Lilly wasn't afraid of anything.
Revenge had its purposes, I felt better for the whole thing, and I managed not to feel guilty at all for leaving Dick alone with Lilly. He really did deserve it.
Logan and I got our alone time. Needless to say, once again, I got more than I bargained for.