Chapter Six:
Disclaimer: I do not own Veronica Mars.
Thanks for the reviews LoVe23, jacedes, Beccakell13, xosummerxo, Skye, pegm81484, LoVe09er and LoVer159.
Veronica stared at the ceiling of her dorm room contemplating the events that had been going on in Neptune. The whole school had been acting odd for almost a week. All of her friends had been quiet and Logan had lost his snarky way. She asked Meg about it considering she knew everything about the school but she blew Veronica off. She had been putting up with the behaviour for a week and she was getting sick of it. Veronica's thoughts were interrupted by a knock at the door. She got up and answered it.
"Hey you," Logan said and bent down to kiss her.
"Hey," Veronica smiled and let him in. He fell down on her bed and Veronica flopped next to him. After a few minutes Veronica propped up on one elbow and turned to face him. "Can I ask you a question?"
"Sure babe," Logan agreed.
"What's with everyone lately? Why have you all been acting so different?" Veronica asked.
"What are we talking about? No one's been acting weird," Logan told her trying to brush it off.
"Logan tell me please. No one has acted normally all week. You never joke and Meg hardly talks. Please Logan just tell me," Veronica asked desperately.
"Veronica," Logan growled. "Just leave it alone."
"No Logan I think I have a right to know why my boyfriend has been so hot and cold. What is going on?" Veronica demanded.
"Dammit Veronica," Logan barked. "It isn't any of your concern. You don't need to know!"
"Fine!" Veronica yelled before pulling open her dorm door and leaving.
-
"Hey how are you?" Meg asked her boyfriend and sat down next to him.
"I'm…fine," he responded, "you?"
"I've been better," Meg shrugged. Their conversation was cut short when Veronica barged into the lounge. "What's wrong?" Meg asked once she was in hearing distance.
"Logan," Veronica growled and Meg's boyfriend snorted.
"Veronica give him a break, he's going through a tough time right now," Meg explained hoping to soothe her but it caused the opposite affect.
"I know! But what is wrong? Why won't anyone tell me," Veronica said trying to keep her voice down low.
"Veronica…" Meg drawled in a motherly tone. Veronica rolled her eyes and walked away.
"She seems nice."
"Duncan," Meg scolded.
"What? She does. It's not her fault Logan's a jerk," Duncan said seriously.
"Duncan when are you going to realize that what happened to Lilly isn't Logan's fault?"
-
"Heya Mac," Dick greeted her.
"Hey Dick," Mac said.
"What's up?" he asked.
"Nothing. Hey how's Logan been doing? Veronica said he hasn't been himself."
"Yah well I guess everyone gets upset around the anniversary of their ex-girlfriends death," Dick shrugged.
-
Veronica sighed and walked towards her dorm room. She figured Logan would have left by now. But with the luck Veronica had been having lately she shouldn't have been surprised to find Logan lying on her bed.
"Hey," Logan shot up when she walked in. "Can we talk?"
"No," Veronica told him coldly. He didn't want to talk when she did why should she care now? "Please leave," she requested holding the door open.
"Veronica please don't be mad at me," Logan begged rising from the bed and walking over to her.
"Logan what do you want me to say? That I'm not mad? Fine I'm not mad now leave," Veronica demanded.
"No Veronica. You don't need to be mad at me I am going through a lot right now and I need you to be here for me."
"I know that Logan! But you need to let me all the way in. How do you expect me to help you when you wont tell me what's wrong?"
"Veronica it's too hard. I just…can't," Logan sighed.
"Then maybe we can't be together," Veronica said.
-
"Meg you don't understand it was his fault," Duncan insisted.
"Duncan! Logan didn't kill her. There isn't any stopping the inevitable and blaming someone doesn't bring her back. We all loved Lilly and what you're doing isn't helping anyone," Meg reasoned.
"Meg if he didn't cheat on her and if he was with her do you really think she would be dead? No she wouldn't. If he was a good boyfriend and stuck by her and she wouldn't have been alone," Duncan fumed.
"That's ridiculous. It's like me saying Lilly wouldn't have died if you had hung out with her that day," Meg said.
"So now you're blaming me?" he fumed.
"No! Of course not. I'm saying that it wasn't anyone's fault other then the person he committed the crime," Meg reasoned.
"Yah right Meg, whatever," Duncan mumbled before getting and up and leaving.
-
"So what are you breaking up with me?" Logan asked.
"No, I mean I don't want to but if you don't trust me then what's the point in being together?"
"I do trust you, its just…Lilly," Logan said running a hand through his hair.
"Lilly? Who's Lilly?" Veronica questioned excited that they were actually getting somewhere.
"Lilly was my first girlfriend she was killed a year ago. They found her dead in the middle of the football field. No one ever figured out what happened. It was all just such a mess," Logan sat down on her bed. "Duncan her brother, Meg's boyfriend was my best friend before it all happened. He blames me for her death. A few days before she died I was at this party I had way too much to drink and I ended up kissing this girl. God I can't even remember her name. Lilly found out and dumped me. Which was ridiculous considering all the times she had cheated on me. But Lilly was never wrong. Duncan thinks that if I hadn't cheated on Lilly I would have been able to protect her. Maybe he's right. If I hadn't had been so stupid, if I hadn't been such a jerk I would have been with her instead of screwing around with my friends. Now she's gone and it's all my fault," Logan slumped in defeat. He had finally let go of something that had been eating him away for the last year.
"Logan I'm so, so sorry. I don't know what to say," Veronica spoke and went over to hug him. He embraced her and held on for dear life.
-
"We need to do something," Dick announced to Mac.
"Okay, like?" she asked.
"I don't know but something Logan has been depressed all week and we should be celebrating Lilly. You know she would be so pissed if she knew how everyone was remembering her," Dick explained.
"Yah I know," Mac smiled thinking of her former friend. She had met Lilly through Meg their second year at Neptune. Lilly had seemed like a snobby slut but once Mac met her she was shocked. Lilly had a bubbly outgoing personality she got along with everyone she met. She had flaws like her extremely large interest in men but she didn't deserve what happened to her. Mac missed her friend.
A/N: Okay so I finally brought Lilly into the story and introduced Meg's boyfriend. I was really stuck between Duncan and Weevil because out of Wallace Duncan and Weevil people wanted them both. But the couples might change (except LoVe). Also I don't really like Duncan so I may turn him into a giant jerk. Anyways please, please review I haven't been getting as many as the beginning so if there's anything people are interested in let me know and review!