CHAPTER 8: The Senior Citizens
Disclaimer: I don't own VM if I did then Logan and Veronica wouldn't have broken up at all along with Lilly and Cassidy would still be alive.
*Thoughts are in italics*
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-Cassidy's Point of View-
Thankfully the baby didn't cry as much last night, even the times that it did Mac only had to get up once to wake up Dick and seems that I did make it the entire night lying in my bed with Mac. Maybe I am not as messed up as I think I am. I am suddenly pulled out of my thoughts when Mac stretches next to me and snuggles into me more. This is actually kind of nice.
"Okay I babysat the whole night it's your turn…" Dick said as he came barging into my room. Mac was really out to the world because she didn't even flinch when the door slammed into the wall. "Your fully clothed." He says as he looks at Mac and I. "You really are nothing like me."
"No Dick I'm not. Now if you don't mind we will be down in a minute. Don't torture Mac by making your face the first thing she sees in the morning." I tell him as he takes Rose and backs out of my room.
"Alright. But hurry up. We have to be to the Kane's in an hour." He says as he shuts the door and I can hear him start down the stairs.
"Hey Mackie." I whisper into her ear. "Mac attack it's time to wake up." She starts to stir around a little bit
"Hey you." She says as she looks up at me "What time is it."
"About 8 or so." I tell her as a place a soft kiss on her lips. "We got to get up. We have to be to V's in an hour."
"Okay. But can we just lay here for another couple of minutes. It's kind of nice." She tells me and I realize that I could be like this forever.
"Sorry no can do Mac attack." I say as I get out of my bed "you can use my shower, I will go over and use Dicks I tell her as I gather my cloths, walk into my bathroom and grab a few things
"Oh fine. If we must." She says as she uncovers and Starts to get up. "But before you go don't I at least get a small kiss?"
I lean over like I was going to do it then pull away quickly "Nope hit the showers McKenzie." I say as I walk out the door laughing a little bit out loud.
"You are so mean Casablancas." She yells after me as she fully stands up as she walks into my bathroom and closes the door.
Okay so far so good. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to make a relationship with Mac work. But so far everything is going pretty well. Okay so I am not measuring up to Dick's standards. But those are pretty ridicules standards, he was more experienced than most guys our age. Even with the year difference. So I don't think I want to live up to those standards. As I get out of the shower I forget that I had left my hair gel in my bathroom. I quickly throw on my cloths and listen at my door. Sounds like the water is still running and I have a new bottle sitting on my desk in my room so I don't even have to go into the bathroom itself. I listen for a couple of seconds more and then go in the minute I get through the door and make it to my desk I hear the water turn off. Great I can't make it over to the door now. I glance over and notice that Mac's clean clothes are all sitting on my bed. Please at least have a towel. Don't just walk in here nude. I quickly decided that I am going to at least let her know I am in here and hand her cloths to her. As I make it to my bed and I am about to grab her cloths the door opens from the bathroom and I turn to see Mac Well at least she is wrapped in towel.
"Cassidy!" she said obviously surprised to see me.
"I am so sorry Mac I forgot my hair gel so I came to get my one off my desk I guess I wasn't quick enough." I explain as I quickly go to grab my hair gel off my desk and leave
"Cassidy it's okay you just got me off guard." She said as she gave me a small kiss on the check. "Besides it's your room"
"Well I will leave you to get ready. I will meet you down stairs. Bye." I say before she has a chance to stop me.
-Lilly's Point of View-
" So remind me again why we volunteer to organize this thing?" I asked Veronica as she took care of Billy.
"Because it is our duty to the entire senior class?" she tells me as she puts the baby back into his car seat. "Besides we are doing it for Meg. She can't take care of the organizing with Faith."
"Fine! Good point." I tell her as I hear the doorbell ring. Soon we see the entire Casablancas crew walk into the living room.
"Where's Logan?" Dick asked as he sit down the car seat that held his and Mac's project baby Rose.
"He is having a slow start this morning. He should be in soon." Veronica said with a small smirk.
"What did you wear him out last night Ronnie?" Dick says " Seriously haven't you learned a lesson from Junior over there" he says as he points to Billy.
"Butt out Dick." I hear Logan walk into the room before Veronica had a chance to hurt Dick for the comment he just made.
"Okay now we are just waiting for Wallace to get here." I tell them as we hear the door again.
"So I had to get out of the house and someone has to take her for a minute." Meg says she walks in and hands Faith to the first person that would take her.
"Come her princess." Logan says as he grabs a hold of Faith's car seat and sits down on the couch to begin taking her out of the seat.
"What's going no Meg?" Veronica asks as Meg throws herself into the big chair.
"Would you notice if your brother went missing?" She asked me and Veronica "Because I am about ready to kill him."
"What did he do?" Dick asked as he took a seat next to Logan and started to play with Faith.
"Nothing." When she answered that everyone kind of gave her a funny look. "That's the point. Faith needs fed and he's too busy, Faith wakes up sick in the night and he needs to sleep, Faith needs a diaper change and he's running out the door. He does Nothing!"
"Well do you want to get your mind off of it for a bit and help us figure out the last minute details for the auction on Wednesday night?" I asked her
"Yes." She answers "how many guys have signed up?" She asked as she began to look at the signup sheet.
"Well we only have 11 guys signed up. Twelve if you can do without Donut for the night." I tell her.
"Go for it. Who else do we have." Meg asked as she takes the list and starts to read it out loud. "Logan, Dick, Cassidy, Wallace, Butters…" she stops for a minute and gave us a look
"We know were not sure how that's going to work either." Veronica tells her as she continues to read "Cole, Luke, Sean, Casey, Caz, and Logan talked to his buddy Connor Larkin into it." She finished.
"Well if pretty boy goes for as much as I think he will we can go to China and back with the money he pulls in alone." Logan says as he rocks Faith in his arms.
"Okay so obviously us guys are going to be pulling in a lot of money but what else do you have planned?" Dick asked us.
"Well our dad has donated a couple of laptops fully loaded with the latest software and a few Ipads." I tell them. "Those things will be given by drawing at the end of the night from raffle sales."
"I talked to the Cheerleaders and they are donating a quilt." Meg said. "Right Cassie?"
"Yes. Matter of fact I have to head over to Shelly's house. We are finishing it today." Cassie says as Wallace walks into the room. "Hi Wallace. I have to go I will see you later." She says as she gives him a quick kiss and walks out the door.
"Okay then." Wallace said as he walked into the living room and sat down. "I don't know how I can keep up with that girl."
-Dick's Point of View-
Finally it's Tuesday. No more babies, no more having to see Mac everyday nearly all day. Maybe then I can get her out of my head. Now I just have to make it until after lunch.
"Hey Dick. You ready to get rid of me yet?" Mac asked as she walked into our third period class. What was I going to tell her. 'Yeah Mac. I think I am starting to fall for you and I am going to miss you like crazy' screw that Not going there I mean Cassidy is cool but I think if I started hitting on his girl he wouldn't be too happy.
"I don't know Mac I have gotten to you being at the house all the time. I know Cassidy is going to miss you. I know he has grown used to having to share his bed. That's for sure." I tell her trying to get her away from me.
"Whatever Dick." She said with a small smile. "You know you are going to miss me." She said as she walked back to sit next to Veronica.
LUNCH
"So are you ready to get rid of the kid?" I asked Logan as we sat at the table eating lunch.
"Kind of. But I have grown used to having it around. It's going to be weird when it's gone." I give him a funny look "Okay I am not saying I want one right away but I think that being a parent kind of suits me"
"Hear that Ronnie?" I say as I see her and Mac walking up. "Logan is ready to have a baby." I tell her with a small smile.
"Sorry dear… I am not." Veronica tells Logan as she gives him a small kiss. "Maybe in a few years."
" I know I will be happy when I can go back to being my normal Lilly self." Lilly says as she sits down. "I mean I am totally not ready for parenthood."
"Cassidy what do you think?" I ask my little brother. "I mean you were with me and Mac through this whole project you ready to have a rug rat of your own?"
"No Dick I think I will pass. I just pray that we don't have that assignment next year." He says as he takes the car seat from Mac so she can sit down
"Well we only have another 10 minutes before class starts." Mac says. "So before we end this Dick I just want to say thank you for being such a great Father to my baby." She says to me half joking. I have to play cool for no one will figure out what's going on. I am pulled out of my daze when the baby starts to cry. " I will take her" for what I am thinking is the last time.
"Thanks Dick." Mac tells me as she hands me the electronic bottle to stop the crying.
Five minutes later Mac is packing the car seat and everything else while I care Rose as we walk into class.
"Well I am happy to see all of the babies are in one piece." Ms. Houser says as she collects everyone's papers and Babies from the project. As she quickly checks the sensory boxes she announces. "4 passes and 1 Fail." Everyone starts looking around wondering who had the fail baby. "Madison and Corny you fail with an outstanding 37 neglects and 29 abuses." She says as she gives the pair a sour look. "The best score goes to the pair that had the hardest baby to manage." She says. "Ms. McKenzie and Mr. Casablancas 0 neglects and 0 abuses." You have received a perfect score on this portion of the assignment. Congratulations." She keeps babbling on but I tune her out and start thinking about how great of a team Mac and I make. Who would have ever guessed it.
-Cassidy's Point of View-
Alright so at first I was slightly worried about this auction idea that the girls had come up with. I mean what girls would be stupid enough to buy a date with guys? Well to answer my question I guess quite a few. Granted a couple of us went pretty high, but that was only because our girlfriends were trying to win the bid. Mac for instance I was bought for 12 hundred. Okay granted I technically bought myself seeing as Mac borrowed the extra 700 hundred from me. But that's alright. I wouldn't want to be stuck with any of the other mindless twits in our school.
"What the hell do you think you're doing Lilly?" I hear Weevil come up behind us.
"What?" I hear her reply. "I bought Dick to save him from all of the other girls." I hear reply.
"Technically you didn't really save him because no one would bid on him." I interject.
"Not helping Beaver!" She turns to yell at me. "Weevil you didn't want to participate in the auction so therefore I had to buy someone. I mean I am the organizer of the event."
"Whatever Lilly." Weevil says as he starts to walk off. In true Lilly fashion she was chasing after him.
"What's that supposed to mean?" She yells at him."
"That means we are done. I am tired of all of the crap you pull." He yells as he gets on his motorcycle and drives off.
"So does that change the plans for tonight?" I hear my brother come up behind us
"Yes it does." Lilly replies. The next thing I knew Lilly had catapulted toward my brother and started kissing him. I wish I had a camera on me or even my phone, because the look on my brother's face was priceless.
"So," I say turning to talk to my sister. "Where is everyone else?"
"I think that they went into the offices to lock up the all the money we earned." She tells me as she wraps her arm around my waist as we start to walk toward the building. "So you mad that you had to pay for yourself?"
"Honestly no." If Mac hadn't won the bidding I would have been stuck with Angie all night and I really wouldn't have been happy." I tell her as we walk into the office
"How much did we make?" Cassie asked Veronica as she went over to Wallace "Will it be enough?"
"Oh yeah it will be enough, but we lost out in the vote." Mac tells us "Everyone other than our friends voted to go to Catalina for the trip."
"Where did you guys want to go?" I asked my girlfriend as I sit down next to her
"We wanted to go to Magic Mountain." Veronica tells me "But now I am not so sure." As I give her a look of confusion Logan explains "The only reason Ronnie and Mac wanted to go to Magic Mount ion was so they could try to push Madison out of the rides when they were as high in the air as possible."
"Well then I think that it's a good thing that you didn't win the vote." I tell them, and then I turned my focus toward Mac "because I wouldn't want to have to figure out how to break you out of jail when you were arrested, and I think I would miss you too much." I finish as I kiss Mac on the check.
"Okay but seriously how much did we earn?" Cassie says "I just want to know if this is a good strategy for next year when Cassidy and I are the seniors and trying to raise money."
"About 20,000." Logan says as he turns to look at us. "But I say forget the senior trip, let's go on our own."
"Where you thinking about Logan?" Wallace asked
"Well Cassidy do you guys still have access to your dad's yacht?" He asked me.
"Um… Yeah?" I tell him not sure where he's going with this "What are you thinking about Echolls?"
"I say we all take out the yacht and go on or own sea adventure." He replies.
"Doesn't that defeat the purpose?" Cassie asked as she looked back and forth between all of the seniors in the room.
"Not really, the reason that we didn't want to go on the Senior Trip is because we didn't want to be stuck with Madison and Angie and several other people all day." Veronica says.
"So going on our own trip with our friends would be completely different." Mac says. I can see she was really starting to get on board with this idea.
"I think Dick would like that idea as well." Cassie says
"Where is Dick?" Logan asked us. "I haven't seen him for a while."
"Well last we saw him he was in a Major lip lock with your sister." I say as I look at Veronica.
"What?" She looked at me confused. "Why Lilly would be kissing your brother?"
"Because Weevil broke up with her when he found out she bought Dick at the auction." Cassie tells her.
"Oh great." I hear Veronica say as Logan's phone ring.
"Hello." He says as he answers his phone. "Good Evening Mr. Lavoie." We all have that look of why Aaron's Lawyer is calling Logan. "Well thank you for letting me know. Bye."
"What's going on?" Veronica asked with a look of concern. "What did he want?"
"Well he was calling to let me know that my father has been granted a retrial." Logan said with nearly no emotion in his face.
"What?" we all here Lilly say as she walks in the door with Dick.
_AN: There is Chapter 8. Thank you everyone that has been reading and those that have added this to their story alert. I am happy to know that people are reading. The idea for the Boy Toy Auction comes from One Tree Hill.