A/N: So, here is the resolution to that. I was writing this and I got to the end and I realized something which sort of altered my ending a bit. Anyway, I think this is good because I completely like it better. I also think that the next chapter will be the one that contains the flashbacks from the "missing scene" lol because I think I've figured out how I want to handle that. It will either be the next chapter (8) or the following one (9) depending on the set-up but I won't tell you whats going to happen. Okay, enough of my rambling and teasing. Enjoy!

Chapter 7: I Rapture You!

Sitting in her car, snapping pictures of a man kissing a woman that was not his wife, Veronica thought about earlier that evening. Before leaving the house to meet up with his mistress, this man had kissed his wife good bye and said "I love you." Who did that? Who told his wife that he loved her right before he went to have sex with someone else?

They all did it: told their significant others "I love you" before having sex with someone else. The words really didn't mean anything anymore. Then it hit her. Satisfied she had gotten the "money shot" she put her camera in the seat next to her and started the car.

Instead of going home, Veronica drove straight to the Neptune Grand and soon found herself knocking on the door of the penthouse suite. It was late, she probably shouldn't be there; he was probably asleep.

"Veronica?" he said, sleepily, when he opened the door and saw her standing there, "Did something happen? Are you okay?" It was after midnight, why was she at his door?

She stepped around him and entered the suite, pacing for a moment before saying anything. "Does it bother you?" she finally asked, "you know, that I've never said it?"

He sat on the couch and grabbed her hand for her to join him. "Well," he began and thought about his words. He could be blunt and honest or he could sugarcoat it and hope she understood how he felt. "Yes," blunt honesty it is.

She nodded, never realizing until that day that it was even a problem, "I was thinking about what you said tonight and…"

"We don't have to talk about it tonight…" he interrupted, knowing she had to work in the morning and didn't want to keep her up too late. He did want to talk about it, but he didn't want her to be tired in the morning either.

Veronica turned to face him, "No, I need to say this. For four years, I've been working for my dad watching couples lie and cheat on each other. This guy tonight literally told his wife 'I love you' before walking out the door to meet his mistress. Who does that?" Her mother did that. How many times had her mother told her father she loved him before going to have sex with Jake Kane? She paused for a moment, looking at her hands.

"I guess what I'm trying to say," She continued, "is if that's what people do when they love each other, then I don't want to be in love."

He thought for a moment and then pulled out his iPhone and did a search. Veronica looked confused for a moment until he showed her the screen, "synonyms for 'love,'" he clarified what she was looking at. "You don't want to be in 'love' and I seek validation. Solution: choose another word that means the same thing," he said simply. It was actually quite brilliant.

Veronica was still a little confused, but looked at the list of words anyway. "Personally, I like rapture," he said with a laugh.

She shared his laugh, "But Logan, we're not even dating, this is kind of a non-issue, isn't it?"

Logan shook his head, "Nope. We will pick out a word now and officially settle the issue. This way, when we date and want to communicate the emotion of strong adoration, the word will already be in play."

His statement caused her to raise her eyebrows at him, "When?"

"You agreed to give me another shot, which I fully plan on taking, just not yet. I'm not going to waste it on a 'summer romance,'" Logan used air-quotes around the words. It would be best to break the cycle and start their relationship in any season but summer.

She nodded, "Okay, rapture it is, but I have to warn you, people are going to think we're crazy when we start walking around saying 'See you later, I rapture you.'" Veronica couldn't help but laugh at the absurdity of the statement.

Her matching use of "when" wasn't lost on Logan, "I am perfectly okay with that. We don't need all of those other people, anyway." He thought back to the first time he announced her as his girlfriend. Ugh. People. Why did they have to exist?

Veronica stood, "I should probably go. I didn't tell my dad I was coming here and I don't want him to worry. I mean, I was just on surveillance, I don't want him to think something happened to me." Her father understood that she was 19 and not a baby anymore and didn't enforce a strict curfew. However, he did prefer that she call if she was going to be out later than expected, since they still shared an apartment and he worried about her as fathers do. "This was good, though. Will I see you tomorrow?" she asked, walking towards the door, preparing herself for another awkward departure.

Logan again walked her to the door, "Oh, and Veronica?"

"Yeah," she asked, reaching the door.

He smiled and opened it for her, "Soon."

Veronica nodded and smiled, knowing exactly what he meant. And that night? That night would go down as just another "inside joke" between them that no one else would ever understand.

A/N: So cheesy lol. Anyway, I know it wasn't another huge blow-up fight. I tried to. I originally had Logan slip up and compare her to Lilly, in the sense that he always loved Lilly more than Lilly loved him and when Veronica doesn't say I love you back, it kind of feels that way, which would then create an even bigger fight because that just isn't cool but I kind of didn't like that so much because it just didn't flow right and as much as I love the character of Lilly Kane, this is a LoVe story and it didn't really work. Plus, I couldn't see Logan saying anything bad about Lilly like that. So, hopefully you liked the choices I did make for this. I have a couple of things planned for upcoming chapters which is awesome. Also, I actually did look up synonyms for love for this chapter and then looked up the definition of rapture, because I didn't believe it at first either. Also, I had to look up the release date of the iPhone because I didn't want to give Logan a smart phone in 2008 and not have it exist yet. So, I'm glad that it did exist and in its iPhone 3 state at that, newly released in July 2008, fun fact for everyone. Okay. Done rambling. Review if you feel so compelled.