Chapter Three:

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Veronica took a deep breath and walked into Neptune High. She was dressed up in one of Neptune High's cheerleading uniforms. Last night the girls had decided that they needed to attract Logan to her. The smartest choice was to make her a cheerleader. Meg wasn't willing to give up her overachiever title. And a slut would take a lot of involuntary work on Veronica's part. So Jackie offered her a spot on the squad.

When Veronica walked into the school eyes turned to her. Veronica headed towards her locker when Jackie came up to her.

"Come on Veronica. Show confidence. No one will take you as a cheerleader if you don't," Jackie explained. Veronica gave her a small smile and headed to class.

"Who is that?" Logan Echolls asked from behind Jackie.

"Excuse me?" Jackie sneered.

"Oh come on Jackie. We're cool right?" Logan smiled charmingly.

"Whatever," Jackie sighed.

"Cool…so?" asked Logan.

"That's Veronica Mars," Jackie said. She turned her head and saw Logan's growing smirk. "Puh-lease Logan. She's out of your league." Jackie walked away and smiled. Logan Echolls never turned down a challenge.

As Veronica walked out of her first period class Logan ran up to her.

"Hey," he said to her. "I'm Logan."

"That's nice," Veronica said nonchalantly and kept walking. Logan was shocked a girl has never ignored him like that before.

"So are you new here?" Logan questioned. After a couple moments Veronica hadn't answered. "I mean you're new on cheerleading right?" Veronica looked over at him and gave an easy nod. "That's cool. So you're a cheerleader and I'm a basketball player so as a rule I think I have to take you out on a date." Veronica turned around to look at him.

"I don't think so," Veronica smiled at him and walked away confidently.

"Oh my god that's so good," laughed Meg as Veronica recapped Logan's attempt of asking her out on a date.

"I can't believe it. Someone finally turned down Logan Echolls. This is like a momentous occasion," Lilly giggled.

"I just can't wait for tomorrow," Jackie smiled.

"I just hope it works guys," Veronica told them with uncertainty in her voice.

"Trust me Veronica it will work. You just have to play it cool. Act like you don't like him," Lilly instructed.

"I don't like him," Veronica reminded them.

"Don't be available, play hard to get," Meg said ignoring her comment.

"But not to hard. Be mysterious but open," Jackie tutored Veronica.

"So I play it cool. I act available but not available. Be mysterious but not mysterious?" Veronica asked confused.

"Yah. In a nutshell. Pretty much," the girls agreed.

"Okay great. I think I'm going to throw up now," Veronica whined.

"Come on Veronica you can do this. We will be with you every step of the way. You can do this Veronica," Meg encouraged. Veronica gave them a smiled that didn't quite reach her eyes.

"So Veronica big game tomorrow you ready to cheer?" Lilly asked mockingly.

"Oh god. I so can't handle this," moaned Veronica and fell back on the bed.

"Sure you can just…pep up!" Jackie said. The girls continued giggling and plotting revenge for a while before Lilly, Meg and Jackie left Veronica's house.

"Wow Veronica. I'm glad to see you're making friends. Maybe we'll stick around Neptune for a while," Leanne smiled.

"Yah maybe," Veronica smiled and ran up to her room to prepare for the next days festivities.

The next day Veronica and Jackie were cheering from the sidelines. Lilly was sitting in the bleachers observing Logan and Veronica's interaction; well Meg was recording it all. She had decided that if Logan were to go down it would make a great movie.

"Has Logan talked to you today?" Jackie whispered to Veronica.

"No," Veronica sighed. "I don't think he's interested. I was probably too mean."

"I don't think so V. He's coming over," Jackie squealed quietly.

"What? He's in the middle of a game," Veronica turned around and saw Logan dribbling the ball in front of her.

"Hey," he breathed.

"Hi," Veronica laughed. "Don't you have a game to play?"

"Yah but you see I can't play. My heart is so broken I just can't play the game," Logan sighed dramatically and passed the ball to another team member.

"Oh really you seem to be doing all right so far," Veronica nodded towards the scoreboard.

"Yah well the heart works in funny ways," he smiled sheepishly. The ball had come back to Logan and once again he was dribbling it in front of her. "So what do you say will you go out with me?" asked Logan. Veronica looked at the scoreboard and saw there were only twenty seconds left in the game. The crowd, coach, cheerleaders and other team members were yelling frantically for Logan to shout the ball.

"I'll tell you what. Yu score this basket and I'll go out with you," Veronica said in a hush tone to him. Logan smirked and turned around. He shot the ball with three seconds to spare.

"So I guess it's a date," Logan winked and walked away. She turned around and saw Lilly and Meg giving her the thumbs up and Jackie smiling at her. Veronica sighed inwardly. She had a date with Logan Echolls this will be interesting.

A/N: Okay so there's chapter three. I hope you liked it. It's really hard to steer away from the movie. Because it's based on the movie and the movie rocked so when I'm writing I want to include as much as the movie as possible. Also this story will be LoVe. And I couldn't think of a last name for Duncan so I just wrote Krane because I was watching Passions. But it wont be used again so yah. Please review!