The small Homecoming Pins were placed in the administration office and most of the student body were buying them for their intended dates, a select few had some special properties in the form of small bugs that would transmit wirelessly to a receiver stashed in the schools trophy case for the next few days. An unsuspecting Daisy had helped Veronica to set them up and she had used some Youtube tutorials to create some of her own low tech versions to hide in the pins.
"I am denying all knowledge of this" Wallace declared.
"All knowledge of what?" Veronica asked innocently as she smiled and handed him the list of students who needed the bugs.
She had found a fake ID of a driver's license with Lilly Kane's name on it but her photograph tucked into a book in her bedroom the night before and it gave her an idea, she could use it to try and get a copy of that unpaid parking ticket. Best to wait until she could figure out who in the Sheriff's department knew her real identity… the weekend perhaps?
Keith Mars had seemed genuinely excited that his daughter was going to be spending the afternoon dress shopping with some friends 'like a regular teenage girl' although, Veronica would much rather have been trying to figure out ways to get more information on Eli "Weevil" Navarro.
The note Logan had left in her locker yesterday had been a start, but she wasn't ready to speak to him yet. He was right… they needed to talk about whatever this thing was between them. She might feel certain things around him, but she didn't really know him very well and one thing was for sure. She wasn't going to allow anyone to treat her like that.
"Hey" Logan said as he finally caught up to her outside their Newspaper class later that morning.
"Hi" Veronica said reluctantly, not quite looking at him as she crossed her arms across her chest when he blocked her path.
"I'm sorry" he apologized earnestly his brown eyes searching her face. "That video caught me off guard…" he explained quietly.
"You could have said something… instead you just…" she rasped in disbelief as she turned to walk into class but he grabbed her arm and she glared at him.
"I know.." he sighed and held out the small tape and a disk.
"What's…?" she asked as took the disk and her blue eyes finally met his.
"A digital copy of the video… I hope you don't mind that I used a few of the clips for Lilly's Tribute video" he answered quietly. It was unexpected and the gesture caught her off-guard.
"Thank you" she replied as she slipped it into her bag along with the cassette tape.
"I really am sorry…" he repeated. I behaved like a total jackass…
"It's okay, I understand…" she nodded.
She couldn't really but he'd had no right to take it out on her.
"The Memorial is tomorrow and it's just dragging up a lot of stuff" he admitted and the exhausted slump in his shoulders softened her anger. Veronica didn't say anything she just stepped forwards and wrapped her arms around his waist and pulled him closer to her and just held him for a moment.
"You okay?" Veronica asked finally.
"Are we?" he asked carefully.
"We better be because I have a very eager May McConnell wanting to go shopping for Homecoming dresses" she jested, trying to break the tension.
"If you still want to go…" he replied his brown eyes staring into hers.
I know I screwed up but please say yes….
"Yeah… we can talk about it later" she agreed as she stepped away from him and walked into class.
Logan sighed in relief as he watched the petite blond turn and head to her desk in the Navigator journalism office.
"Hey Man" Duncan said as he sat down in the seat next to Logan's.
"Hey…" Logan replied. "I finished the video"
"Cool, thanks" Duncan sighed in relief as he took the small disk from him.
"Celeste will love it" Logan told him. "Can I ask you something?"
"Sure, what is it?" he said as he turned to face him.
"Not here… after school?" Logan replied.
"Yeah… come by my place after final bell?" Duncan offered.
"Okay.." he agreed.
How exactly do you tell your best friend that you want to date his ex?