"Trouble"
Once upon a time a few mistakes ago
I was in your sights, you got me alone
You found me, you found me, you found me
I guess you didn't care, and I guess I liked that
And when I fell hard you took a step back
Without me, without me, without me
And he's long gone when he's next to me
And I realize the blame is on me
'Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in
So shame on me now
Flew me to places I'd never been
'Til you put me down, oh
I knew you were trouble when you walked in
So shame on me now
Flew me to places I'd never been
Now I'm lying on the cold hard ground
Oh, oh, trouble, trouble, trouble
Oh, oh, trouble, trouble, trouble
No apologies, he'll never see you cry
Pretend he doesn't know that he's the reason why
You're drowning, you're drowning, you're drowning
Now I heard you moved on from whispers on the street
A new notch in your belt is all I'll ever be
And now I see, now I see, now I see
He was long gone when he met me
And I realize the joke is on me, yeah!
I knew you were trouble when you walked in
So shame on me now
Flew me to places I'd never been
'Til you put me down, oh
I knew you were trouble when you walked in
So shame on me now
Flew me to places I'd never been
Now I'm lying on the cold hard ground
Oh, oh, trouble, trouble, trouble
Oh, oh, trouble, trouble, trouble
And the saddest fear comes creeping in
That you never loved me or her, or anyone, or anything, yeah
I knew you were trouble when you walked in
So shame on me now
Flew me to places I'd never been
'Til you put me down, oh
I knew you were trouble when you walked in
So shame on me now
Flew me to places I'd never been
Now I'm lying on the cold hard ground
Oh, oh, trouble, trouble, trouble
Oh, oh, trouble, trouble, trouble
I knew you were trouble when you walked in
Trouble, trouble, trouble
I knew you were trouble when you walked in
Trouble, trouble, trouble
She knew, she always knew. And she couldn't lie, she had been warned, by more than one person. But she did know going into the relationship that he was trouble, she knew his reputation, and his past. But it didn't stop her. She liked the idea of being the girl he wanted to change for. And she truly thought that he would change, she had seen small changes, things that she thought were much bigger. He was going to class, making an effort, doing things he hadn't done before.
Wallace had been the first one to approach her. She had just waved Logan off, biding him a good afternoon from their non-lunch date. She was giddy, and felt dizzy with the way he made her feel.
"Hey Wallace." She beamed up at him, refusing to take in the serious look on his face. She could still feel the butterflies in her stomach, and the tingle on her hand where his had been before he went to class. "What's up?"
Wallace took the seat, the one Logan had just been in, shaking his head. "What are you doing?" he sighed, with a shake that made even his hair bounce.
"Eating lunch." Parker looked down at the food in front of her, and then back up at him confused.
"That's not what I mean." Wallace told her. "Look, I'm only doing this out of respect for you, and because V is my best friend."
"We were just having lunch, is that not allowed?" Parker asked.
"Is she your friend?" Wallace asked back.
"Of course she is. I really value her friendship, she's amazing."
"Good, then stop." Wallace told. "I know you're new to this whole situation, but you're walking into a web, and the ending is going to be messy but only for you."
"Wallace, Logan and I just friends. We had a lot of fun on Valentine's Day, plus him and Veronica are over." Parker told him.
"Consider yourself warned." Wallace sighed before pushing away from the table and leaving her there.
He was the first person to warn him, but surly not the last.
Wallace's word did stick with her, and things with Logan started to turn into more, something serious. But she knew it couldn't be anything until she talked to Veronica who seemed to be dodging her every chance she got, but Logan, being the great guy that he was took initiative and talked to her himself. To her that seemed like he really wanted to be with her. They were good together, he was happier, and she could feel herself falling for him fast. Logan was a charmer, and he knew all the right things to say, and do to make her putty in his hands. She wore her rose colored glasses with him.
But when Mac came home early from Bronson's one night to find them in the middle of a hot make out session her second warning followed.
"I'll see you tomorrow." He half smiled, tipping a pretend hat at Mac before exiting the room.
"Uh." Mac pointed at the closed door before turning to look at her roommate confused. "What was that?"
"Logan and I are seeing each other, it all started when he helped us out on Valentine's Day. We just sort of clicked." She smiled. She had been holding in the information for days, unsure of how to bring it up with Mac.
"I see." Mac nodded her head slowly. "Did you fall and hit your head?"
"What?" Parker asked.
"Sorry, it's just, seriously. Logan?" Mac asked, pointing to the picture on her desk, the one with Logan's arms around Veronica, with Wallace and Mac both on either side of the small blond. It was a picture that Keith had taken the first day of their college classes.
"Veronica said she was fine with it, and Logan is just so great." Park gushed.
"Just be careful, I don't think you realize fully the extent of their history, or relationship pattern." Mac warned before gathering her shower things and leaving the room.
Parker didn't let her friends warnings stop her. She fell hard, and fast for him. Allowing him to consume her whole, and take up every part of her.
But her third warning came the night of her birthday party. Logan had just given her the best 19th birthday party at the grand, and she was cuddled into his side, watching the sun start to raise over Neptune.
"You're the best boyfriend, of all time." Parker smiled looking up at him. His expression was hard, and she could tell that he was lost deep in thought somewhere, but she blamed it on the fact that they had been up all night. "Logan?" she poked his side.
"What?" he asked, shaking his head looking down at her.
"You're the best." Parker laughed and rolled her eyes.
"Yeah," he yawned, moving away from her so he could stand. "Bathroom," he said over his shoulder before disappearing into his room.
Park got up and started to pick the stray cups and leftovers from the party when the main door opened and Dick stumbled in.
"Whoa you're still here." Dick said taking in the tall blond.
"Yeah." Parker nodded. She didn't see a lot of Dick. "Why?"
"Well you are definitely too tall to be Ronnie, and bubbly." Dick nodded. "Definitely more bangable, so you've got that going for you, but Logan got over the bangable thing back in high school."
Parker could feel her whole face go red, with both embarrassment and anger. She knew what he was referring too. She had seen the way he looked at her that night, the way his mood seemed to change after she left, how he had paid more attention to who she was talking to than to anything else.
"Oh, hey man you're back." Logan said coming back out of his room.
"Yeah man, those crazy hot chicks locked me in the ice room, the maid just let me out. What a shame to, cause it could have been a crazy night."
"You wanna catch some waves?" Logan asked.
"Always. The sun will be up by the time we get to Dogg."
"Perfect, just want I need." Logan nodded at his friend. "I'll call you later." He kissed Parker's cheek before disappearing back into his room.
Everything from there just added up, leaving her with no choice after what he did to Piz. Logan had never really been hers, and everyone else seemed to know it but her.
When she went to the Grand, she had no attentions of breaking up with him, none of crying, just on calling him on his shit. She couldn't sit back and let him treat her like that, she was stronger than that.
"Just so you know, the best way to show you're still in love with your ex girlfriend is to beat up her new boyfriend." Straight to the point. The gloves were off. She wasn't going to be sweet bubbly Parker.
"Parker you're-"
"You're an idiot."
"What?"
"Parker you're an idiot." Yup. She had been warned, everyone had tried to tell her and she refused to listen, to see the signs.
"That's not what I was going to say."
"I know. You were going for something nice. The truth is that I am an idiot."
"You're not. There's just a lot to this you don't understand."
"Like why I kept thinking that I meant something to you? When it's always been Veronica." She nailed it, his whole faced changed. "Wow you just have seen that expression. It totally sold you out."
"Are you going to listen to me at all?"
"No! I look at you and I know you love her."
"Piz videotaped them having sex! Without her knowing it."
"Oh god well that's horrible, you must have been devastated. I mean Veronica had sex with someone else."
"She's your friend too. Aren't you angry for her, do you realize what this will do to her?"
"Do you realize that we just broke up? Yeah I didn't think so." Run Parker, leave before you cry in front of him, he's not worth your tears.
One would have thought that the break up would have been enough, to hurt her. She was sure she was falling in love with him, and he was still in love with Veronica. But he had to load nails into his canon and point it in her direction.
The pictures that followed her home in the tabloids did nothing to help her broken heart, and ease her mind that Logan had really just been in love with Veronica, because she was never the girl he was pictured with. Had he ever loved Veronica, had he ever actually cared about her? Was he that good of an actor that he had everyone fooled? None the less, it didn't make it hurt any less.