Chapter 16

Veronica started her walk home and she was actually enjoying the warm California weather, she was just wishing that she didn't wear black. A girl in this type of situation would be walking home thinking about everything that happened at lunch but not Veronica. She was walking home and thinking about Logan and when she'd be seeing him. He made he smile. He didn't go around talking about how much he knew Veronica and ended up being wrong at ever corner, he was the guy who let Veronica discover everything on her own but just ended up knowing everything.

As she was walking home she heard her cell phone ring. She glanced at the phone in her hand and saw Duncan's name. She did not want to talk to him at that moment but she really had nothing better to do. "Hello," she said as she flipped the phone open and pressed it against her ear.

"Veronica, I just wanted to say sorry for everything."

"Don't worry about it," she said her voice cold as ice. She couldn't believe the way that Duncan had spoken to Weevil.

"No, I am worried about it because I don't think we got off to the right foot."

"Isn't it too late for first impressions," she asked quizzically looking at the telephone as if she could see Duncan through it.

"You have no idea how much I love you Veronica,"

Veronica paused not really knowing how to react to that. She knew that at that exact moment she didn't love Duncan. She might have loved him in the past but that was before she lost her memory and started to learn everything all over again. She also knew she didn't love Logan yet, but she felt drawn to him.

"You loved me Duncan," she said into the telephone.

Duncan was beginning to get frustrated at this entire situation. He loved Veronica and she was telling him that he didn't. That was like telling a fat kid he didn't love cake.

"Yes I do Veronica. The entire time that I was in Australia I would only think of you. I never stopped loving you," he said with a strain in his voice.

Veronica stopped walking and held the phone away from her for a second. She wanted to yell into the phone and maybe reach through the air waves and give Duncan a big slap in the face.

"No Duncan, you loved the person I was but seeing as how you left during senior year of high school and just decided to reappear now I'm gonna guess that over time that love you had for me just faded and became a type of adoration or a nice thought from the past. You can't love someone you haven't seen in over two years….and even if you could, I'm not that girl anymore." Her voice started off hard but she ended off softly. Maybe that was everyone's problem with her. They still thought she was the girl she was before the accident and she just didn't know who that girl was.

"You are making it sound as if I had a choice in staying or going," he said flustered.

Veronica had reviewed case on her laptop and she knew exactly what he was talking about. Duncan left to protect his baby from Megan's psycho parents who had little Grace locked up like a leper.

"You did have a choice Duncan. You could have used some of that Kane fortune and hired the best lawyer out there and fought tooth and nail for your baby girl but instead you took the easy way out and decided to run away. You took Lily far away and then from far you decided to try to do everything legally. If you ask me, if you loved me enough you would have stayed here and fought for Lily. You wouldn't have abandoned me," she said surprised by how hurt she was feeling at that exact moment. A single tear trickled down her cheek and she quickly wiped it. What was happening to her?

"So that's what this is all about? You hate me because I left," Duncan said sounding more and more angry with every passing statement.

"I don't hate you," Veronica said taking her turn getting angry. "Did you call me in order to start a fight," she asked.

"If you don't hate me why did you bring it up," he shot back to her.

"I didn't bring it up, you did when you said you still loved the girl you left two years ago. Duncan, can we please just end this phone call before someone says something really mean," she said practically pleading and not wanting to hang up on him.

"Say something mean like, oh I don't know, you loved me a lot before Logan came into the picture?" Duncan said testing the water. He was treading on dangerously thin ice.

Veronica started to pump the hand that wasn't holding the phone. She could feel the tension starting to build inside of her and she knew that wasn't a good thing.

"Okay Duncan, lets start with a little lesson in history and seriously, feel free to correct me if I got anything wrong or missed any important points okay," she paused for dramatic effect. "We met in freshman year of high school and I became best friends with your sister. Due to all the hanging around at your house I got to know you much better and we started dating. Not only did we date but we were completely and madly in love. Freshman year was amazing. Sophomore year you walked into school one day and all of a sudden declared our relationship was completely over. Oh wait, you failed to declare it you just kind of did it without a reason. No reason whatsoever. It was just done and over with. The rest of the year was hell. Junior year was slightly better considering the two of us actually exchanged a few words here and there but I still had no answers….have I missed anything yet?"

"C'mon Veronica you are blowing things way out of proportion."

"I'll take that as a no I haven't missed anything.

"Veronica you know why I broke up with you. I thought you were my sister for god's sake," he exclaimed.

"You could have told me Duncan, its not like we had slept together and committed some kind of crime. We were innocent in everything. We weren't responsible for our parents indiscretions."

"How do you exactly tell your girlfriend that she may be your sister," Duncan asked curiously. "But that's okay right Veronica. Our break up just paved the way for you and Logan to hook up and fall deeply and madly in love." He said the words as if they had filled his mouth with disgust.

"Oh give up already," she said now feeling more annoyed then she was as Senor Tacos.

"Give it up, my best friend stole my girlfriend," he shouted?

"Best friend? Stole your girlfriend? You haven't treated Logan like a best friend in ages," she said not even knowing how she knew that, "and as far as stealing people why don't you and Parker hook up and you two can talk about how everyone steals everyone else," she said and hung up the phone.

She realized that she had practically walked all the way home during her conversation with Duncan. "Men!" she said exasperated but then it dawned on her. In the past 24 hours she had two revelations about things that she had no clue about. Either she was talking out of her ass or her memory was coming back; which reminded her she had to speak with Dr. Stevens.