(Meghan Trainor - Like I'm gonna lose you)
Dick Casablanca's stood sleepily in the doorway of his Penthouse Apartment Suite, the pounding seemed to echo his impending hangover.
"What time is it?" he asked puzzled, running a hand through his dishevelled hair.
"3am.. I couldn't sleep" she told him as the small brunette stormed past him like a deranged ninja into the apartment.
Yawning he glanced at his watch, palming the door shut behind them.
"So you came over for a booty call?" Dick asked, shooting her an angry look that said her waking at this hour better be worth it.
"No!" she denied but gulped a little as she realized he was standing in front of her in only his boxers. "Look I lo-like you… I do… and leaving like that wasn't cool… and I'm sorry!"
"Look Cindy…" he began in relief. Logan had been asleep by the time he'd come back from stopping by the party with the Pi Sigs, a quick text informed him that Mac had indeed found the ring, and they would strategize in the morning how to explain the situation to Mac.
Part of her wanted to flee, her stomach in knots. Oh god why did the way he say her name give her tingles down her back like that?
"Just please don't get creepy.." Mac pleaded as she paced around the living room as tears blurred her vision. "I wanted our weekend together I did… then I saw that ring and I just panicked… you are… actually really sweet… and I… am not marrying you."
"It's Veronica's" he blurted out.
Her grey eyes rounded.
"You want to propose to Veronica?" she asked incredulously.
"Not me!" he denied. "Logan!" pointing at the bedroom door.
"What?" she asked as she almost fell over and sat down on the foot stool behind her. "But all that stuff about a Special surprise and you kept saying that even when you were naked…."
""Logan wanted me to hide the ring… I only wanted to give you concert tickets… which we missed by the way" Dick said pointing at the envelope on the bookshelf beside the television.
"You bought me concert tickets?" she asked in a surprised quiet voice.
"Yeah.. for that Indie stuff you like" he said casually as she got up and picked up the small brown envelope.
"Cobra Starship? VIP passes?" she asked incredulously and her heart flipped over a little. She had been obsessed with these guys for months.. she had been looking into when they were going to be playing but last she heard they were doing some music festival in…. Weller, California. She sighed and hung her head in shame. This would have been an amazing surprise and she had just ruined it when she had ran away from him this morning.
Wallace had been right.. what kind of person just disappears without any kind of explanation?
"It's no big deal…" he said as he shrugged and looked coolly at the fireplace display.
"And you don't want to marry me?" she asked as she slid the passes back into the envelope.
"No… I've already been divorced once this year" he replied.
Divorced?
"Whatever... I got the message. We couldn't even get through the weekend so..." he shrugged, looking boyish turning towards the door.
If you don't take a chance, all you have are missed opportunities... some moments were fleeting, delicate like things that dissolved in the rain.
Someday we all had make the choice to stop playing victim to our pasts.
Time to live her Best Life... running away from him had been an ego crusher... she had to put him first this time...
Shoving the fears about womb gremlins aside she bit her bottom lip staring at the infuriatingly hot specimen of a man in front of her.
They would never win a Peabody out of this love story but there was something real beneath his dude bro fascade, a truth that answered questions she had been trying to find her entire life. An air breathing life back into lungs too wounded to risk a breath.
"Okay…" she said grabbing his hand. "Come with me."
"Cin?" he questioned as he shot a quick look to Logan's closed bedroom door, a muscle beating in his neck.
"I…" Mac said as she pulled her t-shirt off throwing it to the floor of his room. "am going to make it up to you…"
"Itching powder in your underwear?" He demanded giving her a blazing look as she slid her dark jeans over her hips.
I will not be your scratching post anymore... His resolve to send her away faltered when she reached for the waistband of his sleep shorts.
Her body was flushed and she stepped forward, his pulse going wild as blood rushed south.
"I'm going to make it up to you…" she purred and any protests he may have had disappeared fast when her fingers eased them down his leg while she got to her knees.
Dick tried not to groan too loudly when Mac shyly gripped him in her hand and licked along his shaft, never once breaking eye-contact.
HOLY HOTNESS.
3 months of hooking up and she'd never done this before, never seduced him, or taken him into her mouth and he'd never pushed the issue to ask.
Grief and guilt over Cassidy followed him around like a toothache and he didn't want to play roulette and risk ruining what was happening between them, because he needed it. He should tell her to stop, to talk this out, to resist.. but something about her worked counter to his evolution as a man...
Primitive grew in the hot wetness of her mouth causing him to delve his hips forward and his fingers buried in her lustrous dark waves.
"Fuck..." he growled as her tongue and hands worked his ridged flesh. Her lips and tongue kissed every part of him and he gave up the illusion that he had any control over his body.
He yielded to her, becoming a quivering wanton wreck until his hands were buried in his own hair as he fought for control.
By the time her bare backside had graced the expensive sheets on his bed, she had been forgiven a thousand times over.
"Dude… it's early.. we must kill early, or move it until it's much later." Logan complained as he ventured into the living area, surprised to find Mac sitting on the couch wearing Dick's dressing gown.
"Cindy and I are now a thing…" his roommate grinned tossing a grape in to the air and caught it in his mouth.
Mac waved at Logan nervously.
"You're going to propose?" she asked as Logan turned to retrieve a bottle of water from the minifridge.
"That had been the plan…" he answered looking at his shoes. "Now.. I dunno…"
"This is all my fault.." she lamented.
"You couldn't have known… and I sort of upset her last night I think.." Logan told her.
Logan waited until Dick excused himself from the table to go and have a shower before he turned to look at Mac who was still finishing her breakfast.
"So you and Dick huh?" Logan smiled, raising an eyebrow.
"Oh God… I know… I don't even know how this happened" she replied, her cheeks were starting to burn with embarrassment. Dick and Mac couldn't be more opposite.
"I think there's still footage of that somewhere in one of those cases…" he joked referring to the security footage of the first time that she had ended up in the penthouse suite that night with Dick.
"I just wasn't… looking for this.. you know?" she said quietly.
"Yeah, I know what you mean…. The good ones.. they kinda take you by surprise" Logan said understandingly. He certainly never envisioned before his Senior year after the murder of his girlfriend Lilly Kane that he would be falling head over heels for his then enemy Veronica Mars.
"Yeah" she smiled in agreement.
"Are you okay?" he asked softly.
"A little worried… I have no idea what I am going to do if…" she said placing a hand on her stomach.
"If you are carrying his baby?" Logan said raising an eyebrow.
Was this really the best way for them to start off this buddying relationship?
"Not so loud!" she scolded him as she put down her yoghurt.
"How long do you think you keep something like that from him before he… starts to notice?" Logan said, hinting at her belly.
"You'd tell Dick?" she said, her big clear blue eyes said pleading.
"It's not my secret to tell" he assured her.
"Thanks Logan" she replied.
"Dick's a good guy… and he really likes you…" Logan assured her. "And Veronica and I will be here for whatever…" he promised.
"Dude… have you got toothpaste? I think I left mine back in Weller" Dick called from the bathroom.
"Yeah… I'll have a look" Logan replied getting up to go and get some when he noticed the headline flashing across the bottom of the screen.
NEPTUNE SHERIFF LAMB KILLED SLAIN
