A/N: I am so sorry that I haven't posted recently. My computer broke for a while, so I couldn't get to the story, and before that I was rehearsing manically for a concert, and of course theres the fact that I've just been generally busy lately. Thank you anyway for all of your feedback after my last chapter. This one is no where near as good, I don't think. It's quite long and just a bit fluffy really, but the LoVe-rs ought to like it. So enjoy, and remember that I only own the plot, and none of the films or brands mentioned.
After Lilly's bombshell at lunchtime, nothing seemed scandalous enough to stop people gossiping about her and Weevil. Three days later, with whispers still travelling round as soon as she and Weevil even neared eachother in the hallway, the drama queen was beginning to get sick of all the attention.
"What I don't get is why they can't live their own lives. Talk about them." She moaned to her friends. The four of them were at her house, under the pretence of studying.
"What a turnaround; Lilly Kane wanting people to stop paying attention to her!" Logan laughed.
"I think you need to realise that your life is probably more interesting than all of theirs put together, Lill." Veronica reasoned, from her position on the floor. "It's more fun for them to talk about you than to compare weekends spent working and doing homework."
"The girl speaks the truth. Speaking as a recent member of the Boring Life Brigade, I can say that your life will always be cooler than mine, even though I'm part of it now." Wallace informed her.
"I guess we can't start a school-wide campaign to improve the lives of all the gossips and boring people, can we?" Lilly sighed, rolling onto her back on the bed. "Weevil is coming over later, so you guys have to be on your best behaviour."
"What does that even mean?" Logan asked her.
"It means no pool-boy comments, Echolls." Veronica informed him, cuttingly.
"It means no talking about what's wrong with your car this time, or who Weevil needs you to get out of jail or wants to beat up for you, Mars." Wallace countered.
"I think you guys have pretty much covered it. Oh! And no talking about the fact that technically I was seeing Logan when I started fooling around with him – no need to make this more awkward than it's gonna be anyway." Lilly told them.
"If you know it's gonna be awkward then why did you feel compelled to invite him to movie night?" Logan asked his ex.
"Because you guys are my best friends, and he's my boyfriend, and I want you guys to get along." Logan was about to speak when she glared at him and cut him off. "All of you."
When Weevil rang the doorbell of the Kane's mansion a few hours later, Lilly's bedroom had been fully set up for a killer movie night. Logan had succeeded in moving and plugging in Jake Kane's LCD flatscreen and Veronica had knocked up brownies and snickerdoodles as well as buying a whole load of crisps and chocolate. Wallace had picked out at least seven films, ranging from Saw to The Notebook, and Lilly had been mixing drinks for a while.
"Uh, I brought vodka." Weevil offered, weakly, when he walked into his girlfriend's immense bedroom.
"Oh! Perfect, I used our whole bottle on the martinis." Lilly told him, giving him a long, deep kiss, that made the three observers all yell and cover their eyes.
"Ground rule: Lilly and Weevil have to go somewhere private to suck face!" Veronica shouted, hiding behind Logan. "That is something I really didn't want to see."
"You're gonna have to get used to it, Mars, I'm not going anywhere." Weevil told her, settling on the bed with Lillly.
"Fine, well then I better get more free favours for having to witness you two swop spit."
"More? I didn't know it was possible for me to do anything else for you! You already get your car repairs free, and anytime I think you're in trouble me and my boys come find you." The biker laughed.
"Ah, but in return for all those things I get you out of jail without a trial, and do the same for the more privileged of your 'boys'." She countered, as her friends looked on, amazed at the unknown friendship between the two of them.
"Okay, okay, you both help eachother out a lot. Hows about we watch some movies now?" Logan said, pulling Veronica down to sit next to him on a beanbag.
"Star Wars?" Wallace asked, inserting the DVD and settling in Lilly's big armchair.
The opening credits started rolling, and both Logan and Veronica started speaking the words scrolling across the screen. "A long time ago, in a galaxy far away.."
"Right, I'm banning you two from mouthing or speaking along with any part of any of the movies. Right now." Lilly proclaimed, glaring at her two best friends. "I swear between them they can repeat whole movies."
The pair both nod proudly, as the screen shows the planet Tatooween. "We once did the whole of Singing In The Rain. Songs and everything." Veronica told Weevil and Wallace.
"Didn't have you pegged for a musicals guy, Echolls." Weevil chuckled.
Logan made to retort with a witty insult, but Veronica laid a warning hand on his arm, reminding him of Lilly's words earlier. He settled instead for singing a few mocking bars of the title song, and was rewarded for his efforts by a warm smile from the girl beside him. Wallace didn't miss this non-verbal exchange between the two, and smiled to himself at the thought of Logan and Veronica realising their feelings for eachother.
Halfway through A New Hope, Logan decided that the beanbag he and Veronica were sharing just wasn't big enough for the two of them to sit comfortably side by side, and pulled her onto his lap.
At the beginning of Saw, Veronica shrank back into Logan – repelled by one of the particularly gory scenes – and clutched at his hand. She didn't let it go once the horror film was over.
During The Notebook, Logan slipped his other arm around her waist and began rubbing circles on her stomach.
By the final credits of Snakes On A Plane, both of them were asleep, having fallen back into a lying position together.
"Look at the unconcious couple." Lilly whispered, giggling.
"Look at the oblivious couple, more like." Wallace laughed. "They have no idea that they like eachother, let alone that the other likes them. It's pretty funny to watch actually."
"Ah Wallace, is that what you spend your time doing? Watching Veronica and Logan's awkward little dance? You really need a girlfriend." Weevil told him. "Or a boyfriend. After all, who am I to judge?"
"Dude! I am incredibly straight, I just happen to be going through a bit of a dry spell." Wallace squeaked, defensively.
"A dry spell that's lasted as long as I've known you." Veronica mumbled, sitting up and yawning. "How long was I out for?"
"Only like half of Snakes on a Plane." Lilly told her. "Did you ever stop to think that maybe his dry spell is directly related to you?"
"Women! Please! We are not discussing my love life! Stay out of my business!" The basketball player yelled, causing Logan to jump up with a start.
"Whats going on? What did I miss?" He asked, eyes darting around the room.
"Nothing, nothing. Just our friends getting way too nosy." Wallace told him, as he flopped down on the beanbag that Veronica and Logan had just vacated. "You guys really need to invest more interest into your own lives."
"Fine, fine, we're nosy, you're boring. We get it." Veronica whined. "Can we please do something?"
"Truth or Dare?" Logan suggested, sitting on the floor and pulling Veronica into his lap. When everyone nodded in agreement, he turned to Wallace. "Truth or dare, man?"
"Dare." Wallace announced, unwilling to subject himself to a grilling from the girls about why he didn't have a girlfriend.
"You've gotta ask out the first girl you see at school tomorrow." Logan told him. "Even if it's some ugly weirdo."
"Come on, Logan, what if it's a teacher?" Wallace whined.
"Even better." He laughed, evilly, before saying "Your turn."
"Okay…V. Truth or that crazy little thing called a dare?" He asked his best friend.
"Dare. Obviously." Wallace and Weevil looked clueless at her declaration. "I stopped taking truths when Logan and Lilly started using them as a way to find out how I feel about Duncan. It got boring."
"Okay then. I dare you to french kiss someone in this room." He said, sure that she would turn to Logan, as both the nearest person, and the guy she was attracted to.
Instead she smirked and stood up. "Remember the last time one of us was asked something like that?" She asked, walking towards Lilly. Her BFF realised straight away what she was planning on doing, and cracked up laughing. It took Logan several moments to work it out, but when he did he just stared open mouthed as his ex and the girl he thought he might like got closer together. Wallace and Weevil had no idea what was going on – both were unsure why Veronica was getting further away from Logan.
Suddenly, Veronica pressed her lips against Lilly's and slipped her tongue in her mouth. Logan was laughing his head off, as the other two boys just looked on, astounded.
"Dude, that was way better than the first time." He choked out, as the girls separated.
"Yeah, Veronica, you really know how to kiss now! Who have you been frenching instead of the Donut?" Lilly laughed. "Last time it was all me, but this was a real kiss!"
"Oh, many things have changed since then, Lil." Veronica giggled, sitting back down on Logan's lap. "And no way do you get to know who I was kissing."
"You're a fun ruiner, you know that Veronica Mars." Logan grumbled. He too had been curious about where Veronica had learnt to kiss. Several years of Spin the Bottle had taught him that she was rather timid, but she had practically forced her tongue down Lilly's throat earlier.
"Oh, shut up, you seemed to like the little show Lilly and I gave you. Truth or Dare?" She asked,turning to face him.
"I think I'll start a new trend; I'll take truth." He told her. She started thinking of a suitable question to ask him when Lilly blurted out a question of her own.
"Are you crushing on anyone in this room and if so who?" She squeaked.
"I don't know what you're trying to pull Lilly-" He started, but was cut off by the same blonde girl.
"I'm not trying to pull anything, Mr Sceptical. You picked truth so I was just asking you a question." She said, sighing long-sufferingly.
"Fine," He paused and blushed. "I am, and she's sitting on my lap."
Wallace, Weevil and Lilly all looked triumphant, while Veronica and Logan both turned scarlet and looked anywhere but eachother. Veronica, however, didn't get up, choosing to stay where she was regardless of the awkward situation.
"Truth or Dare, Weevil." Logan asked, breaking the silence.
"Dare." The biker said, smirking at the idea that he might take a wimpy truth.
"I dare you to wear a dress to school tomorrow." The richer boy replies, without a pause. "I know Lilly has some charmingly revealing ones."
The girls both cracked up, and Wallace was grinning uncontrollably too, as Weevil launched himself off the bed and attacked Logan, making sure that Veronica was safely out of the way first. He punched Logan square on the jaw, and would probably have hurt him more if Wallace hadn't reacted and pulled them apart.
"Dude, that is not cool. We ain't your PCHers; talk through the problems." Wallace lectured him, as Logan clutched his jaw. "A dare is a dare, so you're wearing a dress tomorrow. Sorry."
"Are you okay, Echolls?" Veronica asked, concernedly. She had been pushed aside onto the floor when Weevil had attacked, and was sprawled in front of the bed. He shook his head, eyes closed in agony and she stood and grabbed his hand. "Lets get you cleaned up."
She lead him to the Kane's kitchen, where she knew the bandages were kept. She rummaged around in the drawer, as he started dabbing at his bleeding jaw with a paper towel. She put a bag of frozen peas on his face, and ripped open a plaster for his cut lip. Their eyes met briefly, before they both looked away shyly.
"Did, did you mean it when you said earlier? About having a crush on me?" She asked, quietly. Logan was surprised; this timid girl was more like the old Veronica of his freshmen and sophmore years, nothing at all like the badass, confident Veronica of the past year.
"I meant it. I really like you, Veronica Mars. The new, real you." He told her, lifting her onto the counter, so that they were face to face.
She seemed to realise that she wasn't acting quite like herself, and he could practically see her gain more confidence. She slowly took hold of the front of his shirt, and pulled him in towards her. Their lips met in a soft, firm kiss. Logan was about to take things one step further by slipping his tongue into her slightly open mouth when a sudden noise caused them to break apart.
Rolling towards them was a can of Diet Coke, and in the direction of the coke was one incredibly angry Duncan Kane.
"What the hell do you think you're doing with Veronica, man?" He asked, enraged.
Veronica and Logan looked at eachother, before they both whispered "Shit."