"According to Tad's his mom said it's like a complete blank slate" Pam said as she sipped on her smoothie. "It's like someone just wiped the hard drive in her head… and poof!" she said dramatically as she made a little explosion hand gesture.

"Do they know if she will ever get her memory back?" Meg asked as her boyfriend Cole looped his arms around her waist and joined them.

"They don't know… they don't really know what caused it" Pam explained.

"Well if someone had cut my hair like that… I'd like to forget that too" Madison said snidely.

"So… they don't know if it was the fall or the seizure?" Cole probed.

"Like anyone cares… finally it's bye-bye bitch" Caitlin complained.

"You don't think it's even a little sad?" Kimmy asked in shock. "I mean… I know she wasn't the most popular but that's like just being erased or something…"

"Well good riddance" Caitlin sighed and picked up her fork to begin eating her salad.

Logan couldn't listen anymore so he got out of his seat and headed back towards his locker but she didn't follow. It had been four days since Veronica had collapsed in the parking lot and so far the only thing he had been able to piece together was that she had amnesia. Retrograde amnesia. She couldn't remember anything from before she had passed out.

He wasn't sure why the thought that she couldn't remember anything felt like she had just died or something. Was this going to last?

She was the only one… The only other person who knew Lilly like he did… and now she couldn't remember?

Logan passed by the administration office and saw that kid Wallace filing away some attendance slips before he approached him cautiously.

"Hey.. it's Wallace right?" he asked.

"I got nothing to say to you man" Wallace told him coldly.

"I.. I know you've been to see her… I was just…" Logan spluttered.

"Just wondering when she would be around for you to smash her headlights in again?" Wallace growled protectively.

Okay… I deserved that… Logan thought.

"No… I was just wondering if it was true…" he asked as Wallace glared at him.

"That she can't remember who she is? Or Was?" Wallace snarled defensively.

"Yeah…" he confirmed quietly.

"You'd love that wouldn't you? Finally get her out of your hair for good" Wallace accused him coldly.

Logan supposed he could understand how someone new to the situation could think that about him, hell it's what Caitlin had been blathering about at lunch, but the truth was… Logan was desperate for her to recover.

"Look there's a lot to this you don't understand…" Logan tried to explain.

"I understand that she lost her best friend and then you decided to make her life a living hell ever since… I am not telling you anymore… but I will say this… when she gets back… if you mess with her… you and I will be having a conversation" Wallace warned him before picking up the file in his hand and walking into the back office.

Duncan had been off school for the last few days, his father had called him away to go on some family trip to visit his aunt, Logan figured the sight of a petite blond girl who he loved with a horrible gushing head wound had triggered something for him, so he wasn't surprised by the news. The Kane's treated Duncan like he was 6 years old sometimes; Celeste probably wanted him at home where he could rest. Logan just wished he'd answer the phone.

"Dude… waves later look doable, you in?" Dick asked as he approached his locker.

"I don't know if I am feeling up for it today" Logan admitted.

"All the more reason you should come… get your head outta your ass" Dick reasoned.

How could Logan expect Dick to understand that all this stuff with Veronica was making him feel like he had just lost Lilly all over again?

"Probably, but my dad's still pissed about that missing credit card… there's been more charges this week, so I should probably just head home" Logan told him.

"Didn't that Weevil guy confess?" Beaver asked.

"Yeah.. but then there were more charges, so they are looking at it again" Logan sighed.

I wonder how long until my Dad thinks it was me…

Logan wandered into the Newspaper class and looked at the empty seat where Veronica had been only days before.

"I did it so I could be closer to you…."

Now it wouldn't matter where she would sit because everyone would be a stranger. The thought that everything about his fiery verbal sparring partner being gone... made him inexplicably sad.

She had betrayed him… she'd turned her back on him… what did it matter to him if he never saw her blue eyes glaring at him the same way again? If that beautiful mind never held the same maddening, frustrating, remarkable girl he'd grown to admire as much as he loathed?

Shouldn't he feel relieved that finally Keith Mars knows how it feels to lose his daughter?

That last thought made Logan feel sick. He recalled how wide-eyed and frightened Veronica had been when she finally looked around the school car park.

"Whose Veronica?" she had asked shyly.

"You are sweetheart…" Keith had told her.

"But… who are you?" she had asked then looked around in confusion.

She didn't remember anything…

How could he hate a girl who didn't know what she had done wrong?

"You okay?" Ms Dent asked as she walked into the classroom to find him staring at the empty chair.

"Yes, sorry.. I was just thinking" Logan smiled weakly before he turned and logged in to his computer.

"She's being released later today, I think she will be back in school by the middle of next week. The doctors are keen to help her get back into familiar surroundings as soon as possible to try and assist in her recovery" Ms Dent explained gently.

Familiar surroundings… in Neptune High?

"Ms James is eager to talk to anyone who might need additional help processing anything as a result? It is rather scary… we can only be thankful that it hadn't happened while she was driving. It's a strange day when a flat tire could actually have almost saved your life" Ms Dent offered and Logan gave her shy glance. Most of the faculty knew what was going on with the bullying in Neptune High, but there wasn't much they could do without proof.

Logan didn't say anything, he just nodded a little as he got out of his chair and walked down the corridor to the counsellors office.

"Mr Echolls… is everything alright?" Ms James asked as she saw him sitting in the chair outside her office.

"Can I talk to you for a minute?" Logan sniffed as he wiped away the first tear.