Disclaimer: I don't own Veronica Mars. Rob does. He's the man.

A/N: Okay I don't know how I did it but I wrote over 3000 words and for the ones who don't know me that is pretty much the most I wrote for one part ever. Besides, I know that there are many dialoges from the original post and the time-line is a little different but I said it was AU earlier and I can do with my fic whatever I want. I'm also sorry if not everything from the episode is mentioned, but that would have been too much like a rewrite. And just to let you know, this episode isn't even done yet so I think this is going to become a really long fic..Hm, we'll see..

A/N2: I'm not a native speaker so I'm truly sorry for any mistakes. I don't have a beta so feel free to correct me. Feedback is much appreciated...

Oh yeah, I don't know if I'll be able to write much more soon but comments will surely help. But now, onto the next part...

All day long, Logan had tried call her but Veronica had dodged each and every single one of them. She hadn't been capable of facing him yet.

Going into the school she knew that it would be inevitable. Better start with it now. She was about to wait for him at his locker when she heard the voice of vice principal Clemmons behind her.

"Veronica. My office. Now."

As it turned out, somebody had stolen the school mascot Polly and Clemmons wanted Veronica to find it. Of course, she had accepted but only after she had convinced him to give her a personal letter of recommendation, a different locker and two excused absences. The day seemed to start pretty well. Hopefully it stayed like that even if she had to have a talk with Logan.

Walking out of the office Veronica bumped into someone. Looking up to see who she had run into, a smile was forming in her face.

"Hey!"

"What's up V?", Wallace asked.

"Oh you know, the usual stuff", Veronica started but stopped when she saw that Wallace wasn't paying attention. People were passing by and patting him on the back or the shoulder saying things like 'Go Wallace' or 'Wallace my man'. Finally he turned his attention back to her.

"They like you! They really like you!", she stated in a fan girl voice.

He just gave her a look and started walking and Veronica followed him. A boy walked towards them and announced that somebody had stolen the school mascot.

Why is everybody so anxious. It's just some parrot. Maybe I should start investigating right now. I had planned on going to their school tomorrow pretending to be a new student but I better find out sooner than later.

Veronica was about to tell Wallace that she had to leave when the two of them walked right into Meg and Duncan. Her eyes wandered down to their intertwined hands and Duncan immediately let go of Megs hand.

Looking at Wallace he said:"Eighteen points, eight assists."

"On the streets, we call those dimes."

Veronica couldn't suppress the smile.

"Streets! You live on the corner of Pleasant Valley and Marigold."

They both share a look but are interrupted by Meg.

"Hey, did you cut your hair?"

"No, I'm growing it out." Veronicas smile immediately fell.

"Wel- anyway, it looks great."

"Thanks."

"We gonna beat Pan, man?", Duncan asked trying to lighten the mood.
"Bet on it."

Finally he and Meg moved on.

"Can I just do something?"

Without waiting for an answer Veronica patted him on the shoulder which made him laugh hard.

"Why does everyone keep doing that to you? Seriously, it's like you're made of velour or something", she said in a serious voice.

But again they were interrupted. A fellow team member of Wallace asked him to come and after some more slight banter he and Wallace left her.

I had wanted to leave anyway.

Walking into the parking lot, Veronica was stopped by the sight of a big yellow car.

"Skipping school already?", the boy asked as he got out of his car.

"You're not that much better yourself Logan. You. Are. Late."

"But that's a good thing though, otherwise I hadn't been delighted by the sight of Veronica Mars sneaking out of school", he said with his famous smirk on his face.

"Well, it was nice meeting you here but I have to go now. Bye." I don't have time for this now. I'm already in a hurry if I want to make it to Pan High by lunch.

"Hey. Wait! You're not offended by this are you?" Since when did Logan care if he said something wrong to me?

If Veronica didn't know better, she had thought that she could hear concern in his voice. But that had to be her imagination.

"Is this about your mom?"

Shit. She had already forgotten that Logan had been there too when she had found her drunken mother in a bar. She still owed him an explanation. All this Polly-stuff had distracted her.

"No, Logan. It isn't. I'm fine. Listen, I don't know why I should tell you this but somebody has stolen Polly and Clemmons wants me to find our beloved school mascot. He suspects Pan High and this is were I'm heading right now."

"You just want to walk right into the school and ask for it?"

" Yeah and then I wanted to buy myself a bike and ride over to Disney Land and have a really great day. No, duh! I wanted to go home first, change into some other clothes and then pretend to be the new student there."

"And you don't think that anybody is going to ask about that?", he asked incredulously.

"You don't believe how credulously people sometimes can be."

"Well if that's the case. I'm coming with you. This is going to be fun!"

"No you don't. You are going into this school right now and I am leaving."

"Come on, Ronnie! I don't have actor parents for nothing. Pretending to be someone else is in my blood. Maybe you'll need help. Don't look at me like that. Even Veronica Mars does need help from time to time. I'll even let you drive."

"We couldn't have pulled up there in your car anyway."

"Is that a yes?" Logan was behaving like a little school girl. He was nearly jumping up and down.

Maybe he has a point. How bad could it get?

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Obviously really bad. They had gone to her apartment together and while Veronica had changed, Logan had waited for her. He had insisted on staying in his clothes, although Veronica had said to him that people could recognize him if he wouldn't change. At least he agreed to wear a fake pair of eyeglasses.

During the drive to the school, Veronica had instructed him on how to behave. They would pretend to be step-brother and -sister, their parent having married again after their first divorce. But the person Logan was, he had changed this little fact in her plan.

They had been standing in the middle of the cafeteria, pretending to be looking for a place to sit, while hoping that somebody at the popular table would notice them (Veronica specially put on some girly clothes at the sight of which Logan had laughed at when he first saw her exiting her room), when some cute guy at that table had mentioned for them to come and sit with them. Veronica had thought it would be a good idea if she would flirt with him (the fact that he was good looking and seemed like a nice person was also the reason for her behavior). But obviously not so good. She had introduced herself as Betty and was about to tell them about Logan when he interrupted her.

"Jason. Her boyfriend." To strengthen this fact, he had put an arm around Veronica and snuggled her closer to him. It really had been a bad idea to let him get into this too.

She now had to pretend that Logan Echolls was her boyfriend. This was really bad.

The cute guy was taken aback for some seconds but finally got a hold of himself again and extended his hand for Jason .

"It's nice meeting you. I'm Richie. And this is Curtis and that's Zeke."

The boys Richie pointed to waved at the two of them. All of the boys at the table except for Zeke were wearing jock jackets.

"So you guys all play basketball?", Veronica asked in a voice she hoped was as naive as she wanted it to be.

"Curtis and I do," Richie answered.

"I'm team manager. Which is like being on the team,"this Zeke guy said, but was interrupted by Richie. "Which is like being near the team."

"I love basketball", Veronica said in an excited voice. "Isn't that right honey?", she asked Logan looking him directly in the eyes.

"Uh yeah," he said vaguely like searching for an idea. Veronica was already about to say something again when she saw a sparkle in his eyes and a smirk forming in his face again.

"She's kind of a freak when it comes to sports. Betty totally get into it.

Richie seemed to be very interested in this topic. "Are we talking face paint? "

"Face painting, hair streaking the colour of the school," Logan answered, the smirk still too big on his face. Uh, this can't be good.

"At our old school, she was Horny!"

Richie, who had been drinking at Logans last comment nearly choked on his drink. Veronica however had to keep her appearance although she wanted to slap Logan in the face the instant he said that.

"What are you talking about honey?", she asked him in a what appeared to be sweet voice but was filled with rage.

"Come on sugarpuss. It's not that bad. Everybody has a dark spot in their past." Then he turned to face Richie again and said:" We were the Rhinos. She was the mascot."

Logan was definitely enjoying this too much. Veronica had to have a word with him soon.

"Alright. I admit it, but if you'll excuse us now boys", she said while standing up and taking Logans hand, "We still haven't been at our lockers and I want to put my books away."

She tried to leave but Logan held her back. He pulled at her hand and Veronica lost her balance. She fell right into his lap.

"Let's stay for some more time. I'm still hungry. We can go to the lockers after lunch."

"Fine,"Veronica gave in. She tried to get out of his lap again but he didn't let her. How come that she was relenting so easy whenever Logan made her do something she didn't want to? She was so going to kill him when all this was over. But then Logan started to nuzzle his head into her hair and put his head on her shoulder while listening to Richie talking. That wouldn't have been so bad if he hadn't suddenly started to put feather light kisses on her collarbone. All thoughts of killing suddenly were out of her mind and all she could do was enjoy the feelings he indicated. She had to suppress the urge to moan but managed to turn her head to face him.

"What do you think you are doing?", she breathed out.

"Cuddling with my girlfriend. What do you think?", he whispered into her ear while nibbling at it. Veronica tried to respond but was stopped by Logans lips crushing down on her. His lips were soft and kind and everything Veronica hand't expected them to be. She couldn't resist him anymore and eventually parted her lips to let him gain access.

The two of them were so wrapped up into each other that they didn't notice the commotion first, that was starting to come up in the middle of the cafeteria. Everybody was clapping at some nerd looking guy when a delivery guy walked into the cafeteria and put a big gift box in the middle of it.

The two of them finally got up two to see what all the tumult was about. Veronica desperately tried not to look at Logan while she made her way to the middle of the cafeteria where the reason for all of this seemed to be.

She didn't know what the hell had gotten into her. While Logan had been kissing her. She hadn't been able to form one proper thought otherwise she had stopped him right after he had started. At least she thought that she would have done it. But now all the thoughts she should have been having in that moment were flooding her mind.

What the hell was that all about? Was this all just an act? Was it a joke for Logan trying to get at me? Or was this something else? It surely felt like more than just a joke. I can't believe what just happened. Oh my god, I kissed Logan fucking Echolls!

But before Veronica could think anymore on that subject she reached the middle of the group, Logan being right behind her. She could nearly feel his breath on her neck but she wasn't sure if it wasn't just the memory of it from seconds ago. But she could feel his presence right behind her.

She could see Richie lifting off the lid and the sides falling away to reveal a large quantity of what appeared to be wrapped meat, the wrapping being stamped "100 GOAT MEAT". On top was a tray of meat patties and a goat's bell.

"They butchered Billy", somebody besides her said. As she looked at the person she saw that it was Richie who had taken the initiative to talk. "Neptune is so going to pay for this. But at least we have their damn parrot, right Wilson?"

He pointed at the nerd looking guy the students had been clapping at before. The guy turned to a deep red.

"Yeah, sure", he stammered. It seems I need to talk to this guy if I want to get Polly back.

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The rest of the school day went in kind of a blur.

Logan totally enjoyed acting like Veronicas boyfriend. They didn't talked about what they had done at the cafeteria like they both had silently agreed to not touch this subject. But it hadn't stopped Logan from holding her hand most of the times. He actually tried to touch her as often as he could and in any possible way.Veronicas didn't know what she should make out of this, but she couldn't ask him or say anything until the two of them were alone and Logan made sure that they weren't.

She also wasn't been able to get a hold of this Wilson because he was surrounded by students all the time. She finally saw him alone when school was out and everybody was heading for their cars. She had been walking to her car with Logan, holding hands, of course because they had to hold up their appearances after all. She gave Logan a quick peck on the cheek, also because of their appearance Veronica told herself and excused herself for a minute. Logan went on going to her car while she got over to Wilson.

"Wilson!"

"Hello?"

"I hear you're the guy to see about seeing a parrot."

"Man. Word really gets around, doesn't it? You're the new girl, right? "

"Word does get around."

"You wa-you want to see the parrot, huh?"

"I do. I just think that's so cool that anyone would do that. I mean that takes a real man, you know?"

"Yeah."

Wilson pulled out his cell and showed her a picture of a parrot on it.

"How'd you get your hands on it?"

"I just walked into the school, like I was a student there and nobody even asked me anything."

"That's so brave. Can't believe that worked. Wilson?

"Yeah?"

"I hope this doesn't seem forward but… I was wondering what you were doing later today? I heard some guys talking about this Rest Stop 15 place", she had actually just heard Richie talking about it to some guy at Lunch and it had appeared to be the place where all the in-crowd of the school went, "And me and my boyfriend wanted to check it out today. It would be like totally awesome if you could be something like our tour guide?"

Although Wilson had been taken aback a little by the mention of her boyfriend but put that thought away fast and was stunned silent at his luck that Veronica wanted to meet him later. He could only rapidly nod his head. She totally had him wrapped around her finger.

"Meet me up there?"

Veronica handed Wilson his phone back and he put it back in pocket.

"Four o'clock. Don't be late," she said and turned around just to see Logan eying her suspiciously. Ignoring it she got into her car.

She was already starting the engine when Logan finally got in too.

They drove for maybe a minute and Veronica was already wondering when Logan would say something when she heard his voice.

"What did you say to him?", he asked with a voice that held some emotion Veronica couldn't quite put somewhere.

"I said that we meet him at this Rest Stop 15 place."

"And what if I may ask are you planning were going to do there?"

"We," she said gesturing between the two of them, "are doing nothing. I get that you enjoyed playing this little act out there but if I may remind you the part of you being my boyfriend wasn't in my plan. So I have every right to reject your unnecessarry help."

"So you want to tell me that you didn't enjoy it at all?", Logan asked with his smirk again that was getting under her skin so easily.

I can't really tell you what I think of that now, can I? I don't even know what I should think about that. Even if I did enjoy it to some point.

"It was my job. Nothing more. Now, if you don't mind I'm going to let you out at home 'cause I have to talk to Weevil."

At the mention of his name Logans smirk quickly fell and his expression turned into an angrier one.

"What the fuck has he got to do with this?"

"He is going to help me with the case if I can convince him. But he won't help me if he knew that you were involved. I need him to scare the kid so that he tells me where Polly is," Veronica stated while pulling up on Logans driveway.

Before she even stopped properly Logan had already opened the car door and went out.

He looked at her hesitantly, looking like he wanted to say something but didn't know what. So without saying a word he slammed her door and stormed off towards the pool house. He didn't even look back once.

If somebody should be angry then I'm definitely the one. I was being forced to be Logans girlfriend after all. What the hell is wrong with this guy? Oh yeah. And about that kiss. We'll just skip over the two minutes in heaven we had. You wanna pretend it never happened? No argument here. My lips, for all intents and purposes, are sealed .

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