Chapter 6—Crash here Tonight
"What are you doing here?" Logan asked as he opened the door for a soaking Veronica. He had been in the pool house since they had left a few hours earlier. "Come in your shaking. Do you want something to drink?" Veronica shook her head as she sat on the bed. Logan went over to an air vent and started to unscrew it.
"You got that from Lilly." She said with a slight smile on her lips.
"No, Lilly got it from me." Logan said as he took the key from the vent. "It's almost endearing that we have a lock on the liquor cabinet." When he looked back at Veronica she looked as if she had just had an epiphany. "What's going on in that head of yours?"
"I know where she put the tapes if she had them."
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"Veronica Mars aren't you a sight for soar eyes." Lilly said as Veronica sat on her over-sized waterbed.
"You were only gone for a week Lilly."
"A week of boring boy-free family time." Veronica rolled her eyes as her best friend stood on a chair reaching for her vent. "Oh, and lets not forget having to watch Donut miss you." Veronica laughed as Lilly pulled out a few papers.
"What secrets have you got to show me today?" Veronica made her voice sound mysterious as she spoke.
"Notes from my admirers." Lilly said as Veronica rolled her eyes. "Telling me how great I am." She shoved the letters to Veronica.
"That spy pen of your's really has been busy hasn't it?" Veronica looked over the notes. "Eli Navarro is writing you love notes?" She laughs at the thought of the local bike gang's leader chumming around with an heiress to millions. "Does this mean he will be joining us at lunch from now on?"
"Ummm, I doubt Logan would approve of my secret lover joining us at lunch. How was my boyfriend while I was gone anyway??"
"Oh you know, annoying, he never left my side." Veronica said with a smile. "You know I swear Duncan pays him to follow me around."
"I doubt it the boys in love with you." Veronica fell off the bed as the words left Lilly's mouth. Lilly just giggled.
"Did you hit your head?"
"Have you never seen how he looks at you?" Lilly says as she helps veronica back on the bed. "Or how he looks away when you and Duncan kiss."
"Did you forget that he's dating you, and hates PDA? He turns away in disgust."
"Now who's the one that hit their head? Logan doesn't love me, I'm just convenient. He doesn't trust me enough to tell me about his dad. Yes I know his dad hurts him, I'm not stupid, but he tells you not me, he trusts you not me."
"You are crazy Lil."
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"Did you love back before everything?" She asked him with wide eyes. Logan choked on his roman coke as he looked at her.
"What?"
"I was just thinking about Lilly. She always used to tell me you loved me, and that she was just a place holder."
"She told you that?" Logan said in an attempt to avoid the question. Veronica nodded. "You say one thing when drunk and the whole world knows…go Lilly."
"I'm hardly the whole world, and did you?"
"Yes." His voice was low and his cheeks turned red.
'"How come you never told me?"
"Would it have changed things? You were in love with Duncan and I was with Lilly."
"No" She said looking down.
"Have you gone to the doctors?" He wanted to make sure she was okay, this had been a rough week for her, and even if it was only Duncan, she needed to get a check up. She shook her head. "You should really make an appointment. I'll go with you if you want."
"Okay" She still wasn't looking at him. "Can I stay here tonight? I feel bad not telling my dad, but I can't exactly find the words to tell him that by blood I'm a Kane, or that I slept with my half brother." Another tear slid her cheek, and logan went to her side comforting her with a hug.
"We'll get through this; I'm not leaving this time." He said as he gave her a kiss on the forehead.
"Logan?" Her voice was uncertain. "On the beach, what was that?" Logan looked down at his hands trying to figure out what exactly he should say.
"Do you want reality or a lie that's easy to live with?"
"The truth." She stated finally looking up at him, and using her hand to force him to face her. "Do you love me?"
"More than you know."
"Than why did you make me choose sides?" That was the million dollar question. Why had she been forced to choose and if Logan loved her so much why had he been the one to lead it.
"I felt I needed to stick by Lilly and with everything in my body I believed that Koontz had done it. I needed to believe that so that I wouldn't blame you, or myself, or Lilly. Blaming Koontz made it easy to stop blaming everyone around me, and you wanted to take that away." Logan was in tears as he spoke. "If you hadn't told her about Yolanda I would have been here, instead of in TJ blowing off steam. If she hadn't been a bitch about it, and held me to some higher standard than she held herself, if you hadn't."
"Logan…"
"No, don't I'm the one that needs to apologize. I should have believed you, we all should have apparently. I have one question though, why would the Kane's have tried to cover it up?"
"I don't know, maybe they didn't? Maybe your father paid him to take the fall?"
"How did he get her belongings then?" Logan looked at veronica as he spoke. "She didn't have anything over here; she got it all when we broke up."
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"Logan quit tickling me." Veronica said as she slid lower in her sleeping bag in an attempt to hide.
"Or what?" He unzipped her bag while continuing to tickle her.
"I'll tell Lilly you were picking on me, and never camp with you again." Logan raise his hands in mock defeat.
"Want to go back to the fire?"
"Not really?"
"Well I'm not tired."
"So let's play a game…" she said in a teasing voice.
"I'm listening…" Logan lay in the sleeping bag next to her holding himself up on his arm. He was towering over her and couldn't help but smile at how adorable she was with her hair put up in a messy bun.
"Truth" She unzips her bag for them to lay on.
"I think your forgetting the dare part" Veronica rolls her eyes at him as he throws his pillow at him. "Okay, okay truth it is. You fist."
"Hmm…What did you think of Lilly when you first met her?"
"That she was a stuck up princess. What did you think of me?"
"That you looked cute, and it would be nice to have a guy friend other than Duncan." She yawned and Logan took that as his cue to call it a night. Pulling his sleeping bag out from under him he places half over Veronica and pulls her into him.