"Hello, this is Veronica Mars, I'd like to place a collect call to a Mr. Wallace Fennel," Veronica waited as the woman on the end of the line connected her call and almost dropped the handset back into the base as the ringing began.
"Hello, Fennel residence," Wallace said in his business voice, "this is Wallace."
"Wallace," Veronica choked out, overly happy that he was finally accepting her phone calls, "I need to talk to you, can you meet me?"
"I'll have to check my calendar," he sniped into the phone, "sorry looks like I'm booked up till next Thursday, try back then." He was acting a jerk yet he hadn't hung up. Veronica knew that if she didn't say something quick he'd slam down the receiver; it looked like she'd have to tell him the truth.
"Wallace, I'm pregnant," she blurted it out so fast she wasn't even sure if she'd said it aloud or not, "I'm pregnant and I'd really like to see you so, do you wanna come over?" she knew he couldn't see the head tilt over the phone but her voice said it all.
After a few minutes of silence Wallace finally spoke up, "yeah Veronica, I'll meet you at that coffee place you worked at over summer ok. I'll see you in ten." His voice had changed and was now a comforting kind of shocked melody.
But Veronica didn't care; she had what she wanted, Wallace was speaking to her and she finally had another person other than Logan to talk to. The only thing she couldn't decide was wether to tell Wallace about Logan, or Duncan. Plan truth was looking complicated.
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Veronica sat tapping her fingers on the side of her coffee mug as she waited for Wallace to arrive. Just as he walked through the door and gave an anxious wave, Veronica's phone started vibrating in her pocket.
"Veronica," she heard Logan say quietly into the phone, "the doctor called the suite a few minutes ago, you have an appointment at three on Tuesday with the doctor we spoke to at the hospitals clinic, is that ok?"
"Uh, yeah Logan, that's fine thanks," she flicked worried glances towards Wallace and then resumed her conversation, "look I need to go, thanks so much maybe we could talk later? Ok, bye."
"Who was on the phone?" Wallace asked as Veronica hastily shoved her phone back into her pocket, "the future daddy-to-be?"
"Funny you mention that," Veronica replied as Wallace sat down with his drink, "daddy dearest is most likely seven countries away from here by now…I think."
She bit her lip and smiled a little, it had crossed her mind that Logan could be the father of her child but it must have been Duncan's. She hadn't been dating Logan for a while. No doubt, Duncan was the father…possibly.
A/N: sorry its been so long to post and that this chapter is so crappy and a cliff-hanger (kind of) to boot, but I have been battling with homework and algebraic functions and essays so please don't stop reading because the school system is mean, hope you liked, next chapter should be out by the end of the first week of march cause I've already started it reviews make me happy so please submit some!
Thanks, Ange.
