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Chapter 14

Five weeks later

Veronica was sitting on the beach watching Logan surf, he had tried to convince her to go surfing with him but she had refused, she was too tired to surf, she preferred to watch him, it was better that way.

"What you are doing is considered as stalking." Someone said from behind, Veronica turned around and saw Madison with her 09ers friends. She smiled and ignored them, if there was something she had not missed while she was away it was Madison and all her friends. She was still watching Logan when Madison moved in front of her to block her view. "Didn't you hear what I said?"

"I did, but I don't care. Listen I know you want to have Logan but you can't have him, I understand you, he is hot…"

"Look who's talking about Logan, Neptune's biggest slut, I understand why he agreed to date you, even Dick would have gone out with you."

"Personally, I would have never gone out with him, you are the one who dated Dick."

"Shut up you bitch!" she said, she about to slap Veronica when a hand caught her arm.

"If you ever do that, you will Neptune High's next outcast."

"Logan?" Madison said surprised.

"Yeah, don't ever talk to Veronica like that again, she is my girlfriend and that's something you will never be."

"You and Veronica?"

"Yeah." He replied, taking Veronica in his arms. "Are you ready to go?"

"Yeah, your mother is expecting us at seven, I have to go home and change."

"Okay, Madison, you'd better stay away from me and Veronica or I'll make you pay if you ever hurt any of us. Come on Veronica."

Logan and Veronica were sitting around his pool after dinner talking about Duncan and how they were going to tell him they were back together.

"What should we do?" Veronica asked Logan, as he was taking her hand to lead her to the pool house. He pushed her on the bed and lied next to her.

"I don't really know, he doesn't trust me to make you happy, in fact he was about to throw a party when I told him you didn't want to see me again."

"I'm sure you're exaggerating."

"No I'm not, your brother won't like it, in fact he didn't approve of us. You should let me handle this, I will tell him, just in case he wants to hit me."

"Duncan isn't going to hit you, stop being paranoid, he's just an overprotective brother, you have to understand him, he already lost a sister he doesn't want to lose another one. I'm sure you would have reacted like he did if you were him, he just wants to protect me."

"Unlike Duncan, I don't really love Trina." He said with a smile, Veronica hit him on the chest to try to make him stop laughing, but that did not work because she was also laughing. Logan took her in his arms and kissed her, but Veronica pushed him away.

"We don't have time for that, we have to go to Duncan's."

"Why?"

"Because the sooner we do that, the sooner we can be together without having to hide, I'm tired of keeping our relation secret."

"Secrets are hot." Logan said with a smile. Veronica smiled back and put her head on his shoulder.

"Logan, as much as I know what you want to do, we can't, we have to tell Duncan."

"What about Jake?"

"Jake? What do you mean?"

"He knows you're his daughter and if he sees you, he might want to talk to you."

"Yeah, but he might be away, after all he was always away before Lilly died.

"But what if he isn't?"

"Logan why do you always have to bring up the things I don't want to talk about?"

"That's something I have in me, but you have to consider it. He might be home, are you ready to face him?"

"I don't know, we will see, now get up." She said getting up, he took Logan's hand to force him to move.

Veronica kissed Logan before getting out of his car, she had made him promise to stay in the car while she went inside talk to Duncan, she did not want him to do it, she was afraid things would go wrong and they would end up fighting again.

Five minutes ago

"I give you twenty minutes to do it, if after twenty one minutes if you aren't out, I will come and get you."

"Logan…."

"No, I've seen how he reacts when things don't go his way." He said serious, Veronica saw how afraid he was for her, so she decided not to contradict him.

"Okay." She kissed Logan and left his car, waving at him before ringing the bell.

The maid opened the door and let her in, then led her to his room. When she walked into Duncan's bedroom, she found him playing on his computer, but he quickly turned it off seeing her.

"Veronica!" he said with a smile. He moved towards her to hug her and made her sit on his bed. "What are you doing here?"

"Here as in your room or as in Neptune?"

"Both, I thought you were staying in San Diego this summer."

"That's what I was planning to do but something made me change my mind."

"Logan." He whispered. When he saw her nod, he got up and started to walk in front of her, he seemed angry and looked like a zombie, always repeating how he knew it and how Logan was talking to her that day. She suddenly felt scarred by what she was witnessing, she had never seen him react like that.

"Duncan, this isn't what you think…"

"This isn't what I think? This is exactly what I think, you and Logan are back together! Why can't you see he is using you and he will hurt you again? You are too nice, Logan doesn't deserve you!"

"Duncan, please calm down so I can explain…"

"You wanna explain to me why you and Logan are back together? What is there is to explain?"

"Please, just sit so we can talk…"

"I don't want to talk!" he yelled angry, Veronica walked backward towards the door, suddenly she did not feel like talking to him, he was not his normal self, he was someone she did not know, he was a stranger who scared her. She had reached the door and opened it, but before she could walk out, he had jumped on her. She screamed for help when he started t o choke her, he still had his hands around her throat when someone walked in and took Duncan away, to try to make him stop choking her. Once she was free, she quickly ran out of the room towards the door and then to the front door, she found Logan in the hall who took her in his arms as soon as he saw her. He tried to comfort her and make her stop crying, but it seemed useless because the more he tried, the more she cried. She was still sobbing when Jake joined them.

"Veronica…" he started to say before she cut him off.

"How is he?"

"I gave him a sedative, he is sleeping right now."

"What happened, why did he try … why did he choke me?"

"He choke you?" Logan asked angry.

"Logan please, I don't want to talk about it, could we…"

"As soon as I get you home I want you to tell me everything."

"Yeah." She said softly as he took her in his arms. "Could you take me to your house, I don't really want to explain what happened to my father."

"Sure, we should go now, I will put you in bed and call your father to tell him you're spending the night at my house."

"Okay, let's go." She said, as he helped her to get on her feet, he put an arm around her shoulders and walked with her to the door, but on their way they heard Jake's voice.

"Veronica could we please talk?"

"I'm sure you understand that I don't really want to talk after what happened, I just want to leave so I can get into a bed and sleep."

"I'm sure you're tired but we have to talk and not only about what happened."

"Yeah, but I'm sure it can wait. I'm tired, physically and emotionally, and I don't really want to talk about that topic."

"I don't share your opinion on that."

"I'm sure you don't, don't worry I will send the papers saying that I don't want any money from you signed on Monday."

"This isn't what worries me or scares me."

"Jake, I don't want to talk about it, end of the story. Logan could we please go home?"

"Of course." He replied, loving the words go home come out of her mouth, as if they were things she said every day.