Chapter 9 - No Goodbyes

I know it's supposed to be a bad sign if you leave before the other person wakes up without even a whispered goodbye, but I did it anyways. I fell asleep around 5:30 in the morning, but I was restless so when I woke up around 7:30 or so and grabbed my stuff and went home. I told my dad when I got there that Meg's family had left around 7:00 for a vacation and that I just waited a little bit to come home. I got into the shower, and went into my room. I pulled back the covers and plopped into my way to comfortable bed. The pillow that I laid my head on smelled like him. I turned it over, and pulled the covers up over my shoulder and got comfortable. Soon enough I fell into a deep sleep and my own snoring woke me up. It was about 12:30 in the afternoon, and I had a headache...a bad one. I got out of bed making it worse, and headed to the kitchenette to get some Tylenol. I grabbed a bottle of water and took 3 of those suckers. I heard my phone going off in the bathroom where I must have left it. Three missed calls from Dick. Two new text messages, and no voice mails this time. Whew, that meant I didn't have to feel obligated to call him back, and I could just say my phone was dead and I never received anything. I didn't want to pull the whole avoiding, Duncan did this to you type of thing, but I didn't want to get closer to Dick when I knew it wasn't going to ever be like me and Duncan. Meg was on vacation and I felt like I couldn't call Dick, so here I was at my house, bored as I could be. I guess it was nice that the apartments had a pool, and it was blistering hot outside, so I decided to go for a swim.

"Are you going to leave this time?" I heard him say.

I looked up to find Dick standing above me. I was at a loss for words. He was obviously hurt that he had woken up alone, or that I didn't really elaborate my mood last night.

"What? No I'm not going to leave." I ended up saying, I'm so stupid.

"That's good to know, since I just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong to you. Would you just tell me? Or is that off limits? I mean.. I just don't get you." He said, sternly.

I looked at him like I wanted to slap him. "I'm sorry DICK... did you want me to flop over right here and have sex with you? That would be going against my morals and adding the public displays of affection of America at the same time... now I think I am going to leave." I yelled at him, getting up.

"Oh, okay. Since I came all the way over here just so I could see if maybe, just maybe I might be able to get into your pants. If you honestly think that's what I'm here about, or what I'm asking you about, then maybe I just need to stop talking to you." He said to me, it stung.

I looked at him misty eyed. "Well, it seems to be getting in the way, so what do you want me to think?"

He looked back at me, and walked a little closer. "I just want to know what's the matter, I don't care about that Veronica. You gotta stop and realize that I feelings in this too, not just you. I know you think that I'm screwing you over, and probably for Madison. I know you think that I'm with other girls, but you're the only girl I wanna be around." He said, kissing my forehead. "Okay?" He said.

I looked at him and smiled. "Okay." But that wasn't an efficient okay.

He couldn't figure it out, and it was right in front of him. I wasn't going to mention it to him, or make him ask me. I wanted him to ask me on his own terms, but I wanted to be his girlfriend. I didn't care if it was a formal 'will you be my girlfriend?' or if it was a time where he happened to call me his girlfriend, it just needed happen before I felt more comfortable with the situation. Dick needed to understand that. But... school was approaching. What was I supposed to do there? This whole situation was so complicated that it made me what to scream.

"Veronica... I just don't know what you want from me." He said to me, trying to make eye contact. "Would you just look at me?" He asked.

He was acting like he and I had been dating for a long period of time and I had just caught him cheating on him, I guess it was a good virtue that he had though, to treat me with respect, and try and figure out how things could get better.

"Dick you didn't do anything wrong, I don't want you to apologize for something that you didn't do. You're amazing, and I love that about you. You didn't do anything wrong, I'm just confused." I said to him, not knowing if it was the right thing to say or not.

He looked at me and half-smiled. "Then what is it? Can't we figure it out together?" He asked me.

"What do you mean together?" I asked.

"You're my girl Veronica, what do you mean by asking me that?" He said.

The words 'you're my girl' hit me like a bucket of cold water. I couldn't believe that he just said it. "Wait, what... what do you mean I'm you're girl." I asked him, I needed to know.

"I... well.. I um.. I guess that... I never really formally asked you, but I always assumed that you were my girlfriend. I mean... I should of asked you, but I just thought.. Well that it was just... known. I mean... I call you my girlfriend to Beav and my family, and you're my girl..." He said, making me smile, and blush.

"Well that's good, cause that's all I wanted." I said to him, kissing him on the lips.

"So we're dating officially then right?" He asked.

"That's your call." I said.

"We're dating." He said smiling.

Next Chapter(s):

Does Meg find out about Veronica's boyfriend?
Will Keith like Dick?
What about school?
MADISON?