Lulu felt safer than she had since waking up in the hospital for the next four days, until Scott Baldwin arrived at the Penthouse demanding that she go see Logan. He had opened his eyes and was asking for her. She agreed to go, but not without Spinelli, to Scott's annoyance.

"What's he doing here?" Logan asked, glaring at Spinelli.

"Lulu was in a car accident on March sixth and has amnesia. Your father doesn't believe it, but it's true, and you can ask any of the doctors or nurses here. She asked me to come with her to see you."

"Have you been telling her lies about me?" Logan asked in a threatening tone.

"No, I've told her nothing but the truth."

"What did he tell you?" Logan asked Lulu.

She told him everything Spinelli had told her.

"You can't deny that any of it is true," Spinelli said in response to Logan's glare and protests. "Everyone else has told her the same things."

"Everyone else wants us apart, Lulu, including this freak."

"Don't ever call Spinelli a freak again!" Lulu said furiously.

"OK, OK, I'm sorry, but you don't know what he did to us."

"What did I do to you?"

"You kept trashing me to her so she wouldn't go out with me! You wouldn't support our relationship even after she decided to forgive me for sleeping with Maxie! You told her lies about me so she would go to my apartment and snoop around and find things she had no business finding. It's your fault she hit me over the head with that wrench! What kind of friend doesn't respect you enough to support your decisions? What kind of friend puts you in a situation where you feel threatened enough to put your boyfriend in a coma?"

"One who knows his friend is making a mistake," Lulu said. "Maybe he's wrong and maybe he's right, but he's entitled to his own thoughts and feelings. He was doing what he believed was best for me and I respect that."

Spinelli relaxed. Part of him had been worried that she would agree with The Simian One.

Then something Logan had said struck Lulu.

"Wait a minute," she said, turning to Spinelli. "Logan slept with Maxie?"

"You didn't tell her that?" Logan asked, surprised.

"The doctors don't want her to know too much; they want her memory to come back on its own. We only tell her what she needs to know, and if she asks questions we only tell her the basics. She knows no one wanted you and her together. She knows you hurt her, but not the specifics. She knows she hit you and why and she knows she took you back after you hurt her twice, the first time being when you forced that kiss on her. She didn't know about Maxie until you just told her; in fact, they've developed a cautious friendship since Lulu's memory loss."

"So what does this mean for us?" Logan asked. "If you don't remember anything-"

"I have to find out who I am now. I don't know if I'll ever get my memory back. I have to prepare for that possibility. I need to get to know myself and everyone around me before I get involved in a serious relationship."

"OK, but what about when you are ready?"

"I just don't know right now, Logan. Please respect that. I can't make any promises to anyone. Once I decide who I am, then I'll decide what I want."

If Lulu chooses me again," Logan said to Spinelli as if he was sure Spinelli would never win against Logan, "you're not gonna try to interfere."

Neither of them liked the threat in Logan's tone.

"This isn't about me choosing anyone, Logan. I told you I don't want a serious relationship now; all this has to do with is friendship."

"I want more, Lulu; I want us to be-"

"That's not gonna happen right now! I need you to realize that I'm not fit to be anyone's girlfriend right now!"

"What about him?"

"We're friends, that's all," Spinelli said.

"Yeah, right, and you're not doing everything you can to make her fall in love with you?"

"I respect that she doesn't remember any of us and I don't wanna put anymore pressure on her. She's already got everyone trying to force her to remember them; I'm not gonna do that to her. The last thing she needs right now is more stress."

"Do you know about him, Lulu?"

"I know everything I need to know. If you mean the competition between him and two other guys, I know about that. If you mean about his eccentricity, every genius on the planet is eccentric in one way or another; there's nothing wrong with assigning nicknames. At least he's not cutting off his ears or something."

Spinelli laughed.

"He's crazy in love with you," Logan said.

"He's my friend."

"He's desperate!"

"He's not the one who forced a kiss on me! He's not the one who decided to frame an innocent man to keep him away from me! He's not the one who was perfectly willing to let someone go to jail for something they didn't even do just so you could have me all to yourself! Diego Alcazar would have gone on killing if you'd managed to successfully frame Johnny! There would have been more text message killings and it would have been your fault! None of that is OK, Logan, and I'm not sure I would ever wanna be with someone who could let innocent people die or go to prison just to get his own way! You're the desperate one, not Spinelli. With or without my memory, I'm not sure you're the guy for me."

"You told her about that?" Logan asked Spinelli through clenched teeth.

"If he hadn't told me someone else would have. Look, there's only one issue here right now, Logan. Are you willing to be friends with me and accept that I don't want a boyfriend? If you are, that's great, but you need to treat my other friends with respect and you need to respect my boundaries."

Spinelli hated the calculating look in Logan's eyes as he stared at Lulu.

Logan decided to play along. At least if they were friends, Logan still had a foot in the door. There was no way she would ever choose a guy like Spinelli over a guy like him.

"OK, I'll be your friend, and for your sake I'll even be nice to him."

"I'm gonna hold you to that," Lulu said firmly. "Spinelli's been my biggest supporter since this happened to me and I won't have you bad mouthing him."

"He's gotta respect me, too, though."

"Agreed," Spinelli said.

Lulu smiled. "She and Maxie were becoming friends. She was cautiously optimistic that she could get Spinelli and Logan to put aside their differences, too.

Lulu was quiet since waking up in the hospital without her memory. She preferred mostly to listen and soak up information she felt she should already know. She watched Maxie and Spinelli build their friendship with fascination. She knew it had been their connection to Georgie that had connected them. Lulu had no connections in Port Charles at the moment, except her forming connections with Maxie and Spinelli, the only two people who didn't badger her about her memory. She hoped Logan would be the third person she could trust and that their friendship would facilitate a friendship between him and her two other friends.

Jason came back two days after Logan woke up and Lulu found another friend in him, another person who respected who she was now and didn't try to make her live in a past she didn't remember. She noticed the tension between Lucky and Jason, but she knew why that was. She had gotten both sides of that story and wished Lucky would grow up, since he had contributed to the breakup of his marriage. If he hadn't slept with Maxie, Elizabeth wouldn't have slept with Jason. Apparently Jason's girlfriend at the time, who was now Lucky's girlfriend, had cheated on Jason that night, too. Sam and Lucky had originally become a couple in order to get back at Jason and Elizabeth. Jason had been staying away from Elizabeth and Sam and Lucky were still holding grudges, so Lulu thought Jason was the one who was acting more maturely. She couldn't say one way or another about Elizabeth because she hadn't seen her since she'd left the hospital.

Lulu spent some time alone with Logan while he was in the hospital, but mostly she came with Spinelli and Maxie in order to facilitate their potential friendship. They all felt that Logan's heart wasn't in it; they all saw his lack of effort. Maxie and Spinelli had also decided privately that it would be a bad idea to leave them alone together too often. They didn't want Logan taking advantage of Lulu's condition.

But Lulu also saw that when he was alone with her he was very open. She tried to get him to open up with Spinelli and Maxie, but was unsuccessful.

"He's not trying with you, is he?" she asked Spinelli one day when they got back from a Yoga class. Spinelli had gotten her interested. "He tries with me, but he seems to refuse to try with you and Maxie."

"I think you're right. He doesn't care about either of us; he just wants to get you to pay attention to him again like you did before."

"And my stepmother was worried about you taking advantage of me? Logan seems more like the type to do that than you."

"You're seeing his flaws and the dangers he poses without your memory," he observed.

"Apparently I need either a brain or a memory, but I can't have both," she said dryly.

"No, you did learn from your mistakes when you had your memory. You just chose to-"

"Ignore the newly acquired knowledge and make the same mistakes over and over again?"

"Follow your heart."

"Yeah, well, maybe I should have followed my head. Maybe if I'd done that I wouldn't have lost my memory in the first place."

"The Blonde One is much too quick to criticize herself."

"From what everyone has told me, I was a brat. Why would you even wanna be friends with me then?"

"You and I have been through a lot together. I love you."

She thought about everything he'd told her and wondered what he hadn't because the doctors hadn't wanted him to. She thought about his patience and kindness and wondered again why she would reject someone who made her feel so safe, protected and loved. She leaned over and kissed his cheek.

He smiled, surprised, and then suddenly began to feel nervous. He didn't want to take advantage of her, not when she didn't remember him. A spark of his old romantic feelings wanted to come to the surface, but he forced it away. She didn't want him that way; at least she hadn't wanted him that way when she'd had her memory. She'd been furious with him then. She had alternately ignored and berated him when she wasn't being friendly or using his romantic feelings to get him to do what she wanted. She had emotionally blackmailed him into not telling Jason she was sending text messages to the Septic Son. She had been furious with him for venting to Jason about Logan's behavior the day Logan had punched him and kissed Lulu. What if she got her memory back after they formed a romantic relationship and didn't remember forming that relationship. He would be shunned again by the woman he loved. He couldn't take that chance. He had to stay Lulu's friend; he didn't want to lose her, but he didn't want to be hurt again either. He would have to be very careful.