Higher Learning

Veronica had found her comfort zone. Leaning again Logan's chest on a warm California day just seemed perfect to her. For a brief while she had completely forgotten about all the problems that plagued her and she was finally a normal teenaged girl. A teenaged girl and her boyfriend…or was he? She didn't know if he wanted a girlfriend or even if she wanted a boyfriend. She had just told Piz how she wanted some space to figure out her life and now she was making out with Logan not caring if she figured anything out. Veronica Mars was a walking contradiction but right now she loved it.

She gently rubbed the arm that Logan had lazily dangled across her stomach, "Do you have any more classes today," she asked trying to make some sort of conversation with him. Ever since they first kissed they only had silence to fill the voids between kisses.

"At this point I don't even remember," he said with a grin on his face, "And I don't care to either. Nothing beats being here with you right now," he said as he nuzzled the space between her shoulder and neck.

"Don't skip class on account of me. I'll be around you know," she said as she squirmed a bit. She had just learned something new about herself. She was extremely ticklish near her ears and around her neck. "I don't think I'll be disappearing anytime soon," she said as she moved her face closer to his. Their lips were dangerously close to one another again. As she moved in for a kiss she froze. Something caught her eye.

"Is that Piz?" Before she could finish her sentence Logan had already whipped his head in the direction that Veronica was looking in. The sun was bright and it was hard to see but he could vaguely see someone who resembled him staring at the two of them.

"I can't tell but that's really creepy if he's watching us." Logan felt goosebumps form on Veronica's skin and he tried to rub her arms to get rid of them. He had always felt that Piz was jealous of him. When Piz first arrived at Hearst and made friends with Wallace anyone with half a brain cell could tell that Piz was crushing on Veronica. He hated the fact that Logan was with Veronica and he rejoiced when she announced her breakup with Logan.

When Piz and Veronica started to date he would do anything within his power to be sure that Veronica and Logan never crossed paths. He was jealous even when he had the girl and that had freaked Logan out. Sure, maybe he gave Piz a reason to be jealous, like beating the living daylight out of Piz when he thought he had video taped himself and Veronica in his dorm room. Logan had tried to explain to a very angry Veronica that although they weren't together anymore that he'd never stop defending her honour. Then about a week later Logan pummelled into Gory when he found out that he was the one behind the video tape. Piz, her boyfriend at the time, had just stood by doing nothing.

When Veronica was in the hospital Piz was there every single day pretending that he was the only person in the world who mattered to Veronica. Logan wasn't delusional enough, or stupid enough, to believe that he was the only important person in her life. He understood that before he ever entered the picture romantically that Duncan Kane was her knight in shining armour. He also knew that after Duncan and Veronica broke up that he had made a lasting impression on her. It wasn't always the greatest lasting impression but it was pretty damn lasting. Nothing says I love you quiet like vandalizing someone's car. Logan may not be the typical kind of knight in shining armour or your everyday Prince Charming but he was special to Veronica and nothing that Piz said or did could ever convince him otherwise. He and Veronica might have had a horrible break up but horrible breakups don't happen to people who weren't truly in love.

"Isn't he doing his show or something," Logan said breaking the awkward silence which disturbed their previously comfortable silence.

"Yeah but that can be pre-recorded, remember that's how Mercer was able to get away with the rapes for so long," she said not even realizing that she had just pulled something from her Pandora's Box of memories.

"Now that's something I'll never forget," Logan said remembering how he made sure he got himself arrested solely to share a cell with that scum bag and beat the crap out of him to teach him a lesson. Rape was never a good thing but attempting to rape Veronica Mars, girlfriend or Logan Echolls was a critical mistake in anyone's life. He didn't mind adding another arrest to his record if it was for such a noble cause.

"If he's gonna watch us we might as well give him something to watch," Logan said trying to divert Veronica's attention away from Piz or the Piz look alike.

"No Logan, we can't," she said moving a little bit further away from him. "If that is Piz I must be a grade A bitch. I just told him that I needed to figure out my life and not have some guy crowding me and now here I am like half an hour later being, well not crowded, but doing something he wishes he could be doing to me with some other guy. It's not right."

"Are you regretting this," he asked her with hurt being obviously displayed on his perfect face. Veronica wished that she could just wrap her arms around him and plant a slew of kisses all over him but she felt very uncomfortable at that exact moment.

"Regretting? Never. Bad timing, maybe," she said and then gave him a smile to make the entire situation a bit lighter. "Maybe we shouldn't be doing this here where he can see us. I don't know how we were before my accident but I certainly don't like him very much post coma. I just feel like I'm rubbing salt in an open wound of his and that's not right."

She bit her lower lip and resisted the urge to lean into a kiss with him right then and there. The way he was looking at her was enough to get her going again but she knew that right now was not the time nor the place. "How about you call me later on tonight and maybe we can meet up at the beach or something," she said knowing that she couldn't very well invite Logan over for a make out session with Keith Mars at home.

"You can always come over to my place if you want some privacy," he said. "When I was living at the hotel you had a key and you'd come over whenever you wanted just for some quiet time to study or to be there when I got back from class. It was always a pleasure to find you there," he said getting the mental image of him walking into his hotel room to find Veronica wrapped in a plush hotel bath robe and slippers sitting on the bed watching reruns of Beverly Hills 90210.

Veronica shook her head no. It was too soon to be going to his house. She was going to take this thing with him one day at a time. Baby steps. So much for baby steps we already made out before I could ask him what his favourite color is.

She glanced at her watch and saw that it was almost time to meet up with Wallace. Oh how time flew when you were kissing the person who you thought was the love of your life, past and present. "I have to go meet Wallace," she said getting to her feet and grabbing her bag. "Call me later okay," she said giving him a quick and gentle peck on the lips and quickly turning to see if Piz was still there. The guy watching them had disappeared.

"I promise I will," he said, "and since you are ditching me I might as well get to class." He picked up his stuff and started to walk in the opposite direction then Veronica was heading. She had walked about 100 yards when her phone rang. She smiled to herself as she reached into her pocket figuring it was Logan to schedule their kind of date.

She withdrew the phone and looked at the caller id. It was Duncan. She wondered if she would ever be able to spend just one day without running into the three of them. Just once.

"Hi Duncan," she said as she put the phone to her ear and continued walking to the library for her meeting with her brother.

*************A/N***************

Hey folks. Thanks for adding me to your favourite stories list! Honestly, I'm very flattered and it means so much to me! As you can tell I'm very much in the mood to start writing again.

A few of you have commented on the lack of Duncan therefore the next chapter will have a bit of Duncan in it and of course there will be scenes with Weevil and Dick.

I'm also really happy that everyone else hated Piz as much as I did. He annoyed me so much on the show and he got in the way of true LoVe which is something I can't tolerate.

Keep reading because the real story arch is about to start in a few chapters 

XOXO

Jenny