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Summary: High school experiment or a joke was used to piss off both Veronica and Logan. But who knew what will happened next?
Short message to my reviewers can be read on the in the end of the chapter.
VI. Chapter
"Have you lost your mind, Mars?" Madison squealed. Her eyes and mouth was so opened that Veronica barely controlled her laugh.
"Sinclair, if you keep your mouth more open, a fly will enter and manage to fix your teeth and get out before you even realize." Mac's face got so white that any half decent ghost would get jealousy.
"Please, tell me that you joke!" Dick started to hit the floor with his right leg from anxiety while Wallace pull a bag of candies and started to eating it like he was a desperate man that didn't taste such a sweet taste in years. Logan, however, smirked crossing his arms on his chest in the same time and avoiding the glances that were thrown in his way by his minion especially Madison.
"I need to hear this."
"Their mutual animosity is the best thing we have. They will pretend two very different sisters that need to buy a gift for their father. Madison will act completely bitchy and rude…" Teen detective grinned at little rich girl who was on a verge of fury. "…well it will be completely normal for her. She will order a boy around the shop and in that moment Wallace and Dick will help you. They will ask him stupid questions and smart questions; it will depend on a person that asks. In the same time Mac will copy the list to USB. After she does that, she will signal you and all of you will eventually leave but not before you buy a gift."
"A gift?"
"That is for a faze two for our dear prankster."
Madison moved slightly away from Weevil and commented.
"I just have to torment the clerk and make sure that he pays attention on me all the time." Veronica nodded. "Please, that is so easy, like anybody would pay attention on her especially with me in the room."
"What is your back up plan?"
"Did cotton vest started to talk?" Weevil put a hand on his mouth. "That is it; I'm not calling him to prom."
"Oh, you break my little heart, vato."
"Enough!!" Wallace looked at Logan and Weevil like they were spoilt children. "We all get that you don't like each other. Realize already, you idiots, that we are here together for one purpose and one purpose only and that is to ruin a prankster."
Wallace nodded barely to Veronica who masterfully took over a conversation. She like any of her friends didn't desire to be with '09ers too long.
"I will send you a mail with every detail of the plan. Now you can go."
"I feel very welcomed."
Logan got up still continued to smile naughty and looked at her like he was seeing her for the first time.
"Let's go and Veronica, do send up those information's. It would be a wise thing."
Logan, Dick and Madison left from the coffee shop the fastest they could only to leave Duncan to pay the check who returned to their table.
"I need to talk to you, Veronica, for a second." Meg who remained quit thru entire conversation looked at Duncan angry turning her head more than dramatically from him to show her own discontent. Veronica got up calming down with a smile Wallace who was more then tired of '09ers and very close to kicking somebody's ass or at least letting Weevil to do that.
They moved away few meters from the table, standing right in the middle of the coffee shop. They were standing in a spot in which '09ers clearly saw them and not-09'ers couldn't overheard them.
"I'm sorry."
"For what, Duncan? For dumping me and not telling me a reason or acting like I don't exist for the past year and a half only to remember when somebody pranks both me and your BFF." She was cruel and honest. Duncan just smiled sadly like he remembered something.
"You really changed."
"Geez, thank you for informing me, I really didn't know."
"I meant…"
Veronica frowned knowing her ex-boyfriend very well.
"I know very well what you meant. You betrayed me and you didn't react when I was bullied so hard that I cried. I lost everything and you couldn't even act as a friend but now when I have true friends and when I'm a person who will do everything to protect herself and her friends no matter the price. "
Duncan's eyes almost fall from his eyeballs from the shock. He didn't know this Veronica and somehow Veronica knew that deep down he was asking himself, did he even wanted to know her. "But now you think you have a right to tell me what to do and judge. Get a grip, Duncan."
Veronica turned around and started to walk away from him only to say loud enough for him to hear.
"Once you were the most important person in my life but than time is long time over. I would apologize but it's not my fault." Just as she told those words, the piercing sound of the car's horn caused them to jump little bit. "Hurry up; we wouldn't want that your friends wait you because of me."
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That was one difficult day. From a prank to conversation with Duncan and to everything that happened didn't help the feeling she had that Logan was up to something and she didn't now what. His glances torment her thoughts and somehow it felt like they were friends before but they weren't. Thing were changed and even if she did missed everything that happened, Veronica was smart enough to know that life goes on and the second they find out who prank them…their war will continue until the day high school ends and everything becomes nothing more than a blurry nightmare.
She was sitting on the couch covered with thin blanket and ice cream on a table. The movie on the TV bored her but she still didn't change a channel, her thoughts simple tormented her little bit too much for her taste.
Loud knocking on her door irritated her little bit more, but since Backup didn't react she opened the door without a problem knowing very well it was a person that was trusted by her dog.
Veronica could feel content of her stomach rising as she saw Logan carrying food for them and with a smug face on his face she wanted to slap away from his face.
"How cute. You waited for me…" He pushed his way in the apartment. "…plus ice cream. I'm going cry. You love me, you really love me."
"What do you want?"
"Where is your father? I thought papa Mars never leaves his little girl alone."
Logan sat on the couch observing entire apartment putting the cartoons with the Chinese food on the table next to ice-cream.
"He will be home quickly." She said rather fast expecting from Logan to leave but without food, her stomach started to go crazy for food. "You should leave, he doesn't like you too much this days."
"You are lying, Veronica Mars. Something I never thought I might see." He got himself very comfortable on the couch. Logan put his legs on the table, grabbed his part of Chinese food and started to eat still looking at grinning at Veronica who was getting more and more annoying by a second. "So what did you said to Duncan? Do you plan to be together again? Is that way you hurt him with words?"
Veronica stood proudly pointing her long finger towards the door as she started to yell: "Get the hell out of my house."
"You call this a house? Aren't you very optimistic?"
"I don't have time for your idiotism. Why won't you leave?"
Logan pushed practically in his mouth piece of chicken only to chew it barely. He swallowed it with problem but he still continued to watch Veronica's every move which irate her more than she could say with a words.
"And I thought that we are friends."
Logan didn't know but with those words he crossed the line.
"Friends?" She started to laugh like a lunatic. "Who do you kidding? This is partnership that will last until we catch the prankster." Her eyes looked so small when she was staring angry at him. "Sometimes I even wonder were we ever friends, Echolls. Because last time I check, friends do not betray each other and you did that to me."
Logan got up from the couch throwing a Chinese food on the table. He made few small steps until he was in front Veronica.
"You are the one that betrayed us first, you betrayed Lily."
"How? Did I betray her by selling stories about her to the press or by talking badly about her?" She raised her head high standing so proudly that it was beautiful. "Or because I stood by my father even if I didn't know why he was so bloody stubborn."
Logan was so close that she could feel his breath on her face. His eyes were looking at her so openly so filled with shock and interest that Veronica could feel how he was eating her every word. She could deal with anger and comments but somehow she couldn't stand his silence.
"What did I do that was so terrible?" She turned from him. "Just leave. We have tolerant each other for a while and very soon high school will finished and everything will be a memory."
Veronica opened the door and somehow managed to walk around the Logan until she was behind him and then he reacted. He walked a step or two only to turn around and grabbed her hand and pulling her closer to himself. He let go off her hand only to put his hand on her face and caress it gently.
"Whatever happened and whatever did happened, we always are going to know each other better than most people ever will." Veronica didn't breath. "Whatever happened, we are going to be important to each other and because of that we are friends, in some twisted way."
He removed his hand, sighing deeply only to leave with a word, without a sound. She just closed the door and sat on the floor breathing very fast feeling only the pain and tears on her cheeks. In few minutes things changed and she didn't know what will happened next.
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I would like to apologize to those who thought I publish new chapter. Accidentely I pressed the wrong thingy when I replaced the chapter five with its little bit better version. This is very important chapter for few reasons. This is the last chapter in 2008. which means that next chapter will come in 2009.
Therefore, I would like to take a opportunity and congratulate you all the St. Nicholas Day, Bodhi Day, Hanukkah, Virgin of Guadalupe, Santa Lucia day, Las Posadas, Al Hijra, Merry Christmas and Kwanzaa and also Happy New Year! And may all wishes come true.
In that chapter will be the undercover operation and few more things. I hope that you will understand why ending of this chapter is little bit emotionally strong, it hast to be so that things change in LoVe relationship. Grammatical mistakes will be correct very soon.
Message to reviewers:
firebirdgirl: Thank you for your review. Well, we will see Mac and Madison acting as they are sisters while they hate each other in next chapter. Dick as a backup …I have a hunch that you will enjoy in their scenes.
RougeAvril: Thank you for your comments. Logan will apologize… very soon.
Kathy0518: I hope that I satisfied you need for little bit LoVe. More can be expected in next chapter and Duncan will be a factor but his role will surprise most people. Thank you for review.
Frost Merry Darkness Lover: Thanks, I hope that you will like the new chapter.
Jenn6891: It will be hilarious to see them acting as sisters but you can expect unusual allies.
Bella: Thanks for review. I hope that you will like the chapter. Its little bit darker but it was needed.
Nichole : I hope that you will like the new chapter, their joined work will be quite funny for people around them and for Tommy as well
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