Logan moped about the kitchen making himself a sandwich, he kept checking his phone for texts from Veronica, nothing so far other than the one she had sent him this morning saying she was heading to class, but that was to be expected, she didn't get a break until 4th period. He felt restless, he wondered what she was doing right now, his heart ached, he missed her. He was still trying to think of something goofy to make her smile to let her know she was on his mind… but all he could really come up with was lewd suggestions of what he really wanted to do to her later.

"I love you.. you idiot!"

Why did she think she could say things like that to him… give herself to him the way she did last night… and then think it was perfectly ok to leave him like this and go to school the next morning?

Logan wanted to look up the prices for private islands, and get one just for the two of them… why did there have to be all those other people in this world?

He stared at the hallway to his bedroom, the spot where she had unbuttoned her pink blouse, stripped down naked and he had seen her fully for the first time, his gaze shifted to the couch, where she had come screaming his name like a prayer while he had tasted her, his mouth on her pussy. The echoes of their intense connection had forever marked that couch with the memories, he doubted he would ever be able to look at it again without feeling so aroused.

"You are everywhere all of the time and its driving me crazy…"

He knew the feeling, he felt like he was strung out, craving another fix. She had taken control this morning, rode him until he was panting and aching for her long after he had come inside her. He rattled around in the cupboards again, but there was nothing in there to satiate his need.

Tensions with the PCHers had been at fever pitch this week, and several of his friends were still pissed at him for his fight with Duncan Kane yesterday, so as much as he really wanted to put together a little lunch and go pick Veronica up and whisk her away down to the beach with him.. she had advised against it. At least at this early stage, until she could talk to her father, Keith Mars about whatever.. this.. was.

He was just really hoping she didn't pull the rug out from under him this time, she was a daddy's girl, and Keith Mars detested him. He was the reason that Veronica had refused to see him after the night she dumped him, he was the reason he hadn't been able to call over to her house to plead for a second chance. He really hoped this time could be different, she had a habit of bolting when things got too much sometimes. She had dodged him and avoided his calls in the past and he didn't want to acknowledge it, but he was carrying around a little knot of worry that she would use this time away from him to decide she was better off without him and all the drama.

There was no one else for him, he only wanted her. After last night? She had ruined him… no one else would ever come close. He just wished the anxiety didn't get to him so much. Perhaps he should be attributing this fear of abandonment to his mother, Lynn Echolls, after her suicide, this part of him was stronger than ever. It had been bad after Lilly's murder, but now it made him scared to offer up this part of himself at all.. because he knew how deeply he fell in love with someone. Hook line and sinker… no returns, do not pass go, do not collect $200. He just became completely smitten.

He had known how much he cared for her that night they were sitting in his car and he told her he loved her for the first time and moments later, the glass had shattered from a shot gun blast… and two days later, he was sitting on her couch and she had been breaking up with him. Of course he had lost it… he had just bared his soul, told her he was in love with her… then she had almost been killed in his arms. Was he cursed? First Lilly… and then someone had tried to kill him and Veronica. He had needed her more than ever; to have her close to him so he could do everything in his power to keep her safe… then she had dumped him. The only sliver of light in his entire world had shut him out into the darkness. Of course, he had overreacted.. but when you feel like you are about to die… don't you go down fighting?

His phone chirped pulling him out of the storm clouds rolling around in his head.

"I'm thinking about you x"

A grin broke out all over his face and he smiled at his phone… the feeling in his chest was so deliriously light and happy it felt like listening to a Jason Mraz song. He was hers. If he couldn't get her out onto the beach with him… maybe he could talk her into finally taking that trip out with him on his father's boat? A real date.. candle light and champagne. He hadn't been able to really take her out on a real date before. Not really. Before his father Aaron Echolls arrest, she had suspected him of being Lilly's murderer because of the shot glass he had left in her car. Then it had been a media circus after Felix's death, 6 weeks of court appearances and house arrest. The one night they had actually managed something close had been the Friday night after Summer School.. the Neptune Plaza for some arcade games and pizza, and wandering around the end of summer carnival. He had told her he loved her that night… and well, shot gun pellets hurling through the window followed by a few hours of Sheriff Lamb and police reports tended to ruin the mood. He hadn't had another opportunity to try romance because she had broken up with him.

It was a side of him he rarely got to show someone, he was usually a casual player when it came to girls in the 18 months since Lilly's death because the fear of losing someone like that again had been pain he wasn't sure he would survive risking. Then Veronica had kissed him for the first time and it was like he had been jolted back to life… he wanted candy hearts, fluffy teddy bears and to celebrate all the little milestones and build their own little private world of stories and keep sakes. He wanted Their Own Song. He was secretly a starry-eyed, impractical romantic dork at heart. She made him feel possessed by a green-eyed monster that anyone else had ever lavished her with affection. She had been with Duncan, had a real I Wuv You Beary Much kind of love with her that Logan craved to have with her too, he had had such a terrible start in life, physical and emotional abuse from his father, the loss of his mother, the only example of a relationship in his life had been when his grandfather, the only decent member of his family used to sit Logan down and talk to him of all the women he had courted before meeting his grandmother.

Logan could have sex with just about any girl, being the wealthy son of a movie star tended to garner a lot of interest… hell he could even charm women like Kendall Casablancas.. but he knew none of that stuff was real. It wasn't a relationship, Logan was an old soul, he wanted a connection, a love for the ages. He wanted the all trappings, he wanted something REAL. He was just about to write back when the doorbell sounded, curious he went to the front door, opening it he saw Kendall Casablanca's standing there, a devilish smile on her face, her dark curly hair snaked down her shoulders.

"There's my boy" she purred and pushed her way past him, she was wearing a very revealing wrap dress and began to undress as she entered. "I've decided you can make it up to me… I am sure your little scrape from yesterday is better by now" she declared, standing there waiting for him in the living room in her black silk underwear.

"Listen Kendall.." he began his eyes glancing over her olive skin and voluptuous curves, a body he had grown quite familiar with. "Now isn't a good time…" he told her.

"What? You are trying to blow me off? Again?!" she complained, her brown eyes flashing with irritation.

"Look.. it's different now… I don't think we should keep doing this anymore" Logan informed her as he held the door open and sort of gestured that she should leave.

"Well that's exactly why this works, I don't care if you think, we just DO.." she snapped.

"Not anymore, it was fun… but I'm not interested anymore" he said firmly.

"You seemed plenty interested last night" she told him, unhooking her bra and throwing it on the floor.

"Yeah.. well things have changed.." he dismissed again, he did his best not to look at her now. The differences between her and Veronica were blatantly obvious now, Kendall had large generous breasts, whereas Veronicas were perfect little offerings. Kendall had dominating man eating curves, whereas Veronica had petite hips, she was shy and eager. Kendall was aggressive and knew how to use her body as a weapon. He couldn't believe he had ever allowed himself to get involved with someone like this.. if Veronica knew she would be disgusted with him, he was disgusted with himself.

"This isn't over, until I say it is over Logan" she spat at him as she walked up to him and snaked her arm around his neck, pressing herself against him. "I came here to use you, you can go back to playing grab ass with cheerleaders after I've had my needs satisfied… or would you rather I told my husband about all our little afternoons together?" she threatened. Logan's gritted his teeth and set his jaw firm, he pulled her arm from around his shoulders and pushed her back from him.

"You might want to try that threat with someone who doesn't know all the conditions of your Pre-Nup" he retorted as he went over and picked up her discarded dress and threw it at her. "Now get the hell out of my house" he said as he turned to go into his pool area and slammed the door to his patio.

Kendall was seething as she stormed off back to her car, pulling out her flip phone she growled and smacked the steering wheel. The boy had gotten smart… how the hell else was she going to get access to the house now? Cormac Fitzpatrick her boyfriend currently locked up in Chino with Logan's father Aaron Echolls wasn't going to be too happy when he heard about this. The plan had been simple, seduce Logan and keep an eye on the Lilly Kane defence, Richard Casablanca's had been the perfect patsy and it had only taken her half of the summer before the ring had been on her finger and she had access to the Realtor in charge of the Kane estate where Lilly Kane had been murdered.

Now how was she going to help Cormac to get paid by Echolls for planting false evidence?

"Hello?" Liam Fitzpatrick said as he lifted the phone, she could barely hear him over the sound of the busy bar at the River Styxx.

"It's me" she sighed. "We are going to have to figure something else out… it's time to play the witness card for the Felix case"