A/N: I took some quotes from the show, so don't sue me please, I'm a poor French student, LOL.

Chapter 32

The next morning

"Duncan give me my necklace back!" Veronica yelled after him as he was walking backwards, holding her necklace between two fingers. His smile grew wider when he saw her grab her pillow and throw it at it.

"That's all you can do, throw a pillow? I thought you were more creative than that, I'm really disapointed by you, Ms Mars."

"Duncan Kane, if you don't want to die within the next two minutes, you'd better give me my necklace back!" she said threaning him.

"What are you going to do, ask Logan to kick my ass?"

"If I have to, yes, but only after I've done it, please Duncan give me my necklace back."

"What's going on here? We can hear from the kitchen where you should be eating your breakfast, and Duncan give her back her necklace."

"Yes dad."

"See you can be nice, no one is going to kick your ass now. Thanks dad, you should be proud to have such a son!" she said with a smirk. "So you said something about breakfast, I'm starving and I have to leave early."

"Hello." Veronica said when she saw Celeste walk into the kitchen, kiss her son and look at her.

"Hello Veronica." even though Celeste was starting to tolerate her presence in her house, she was not going to hug her every time Veronica has to come over because Keith is out of town. Their relation was good but not that good, especially now that she is now calling Jake dad. She had not meant to call dad, it just slipped without her noticing it, she tried to take it back but Jake had told her it was okay and how proud he would be to be called dad.

"So Duncan, I heard from Clemmons that the elections for the presidency of the student coucil is this week, why don't you run for president, it would be a good thing for your college application."

"Dad..."

"No, he's right." Veronica said with a smile. "Imagine all the advantages I could get, but seriously, dad is right, it would be a good thing for you. Do you really want to see a girl like Wanda Varner be the president of the student council? You could do a better job than her with your eyes closed!"

"You're saying that because she wants to take away all the pirate points thanks to which you get Chinese and Italian for lunch almost every day."

"Maybe, but you could change that by making sure more people are eligible to earn Pirate Points. Let me be your campaign director, we could do great things together."

"I don't know..."

"Duncan, Veronica and your father are right, it would be a good thing for you, and not only for college applications or your future, why don't you give it a try and see how it goes?" Celeste said, speaking for the first time. She looked at her son and smiled before leaving the kitchen.

"We should go, see you later dad!" she said kissing his cheek.

"The two candidates for the student council presidency are Duncan Kane and Wanda Vaner, the vote will be on Thursday morning, results will be known in the afternoon." Clemmons said. The people in the journalism class all turned to look at Duncan who did not really look happy while Veronica and Logan were smiling.

"Why did you do that?"

"Because this is a job for you, and as your half sister I expect more privileges than the rest of the school, now it's time to plan our campaign. Logan got Lynn's help for a video, we'll show it later, imagine how people will react to it, they will surely vote for you, I mean everybody loves her. Guys love her because she's hot and girls love her because she's glamorous and she's beautiful and Logan's mother."

"You really want to win, don't you?"

"Of course I do, who's going to vote for a narc? I heard some people talk about it on my way to school from the parking lot. I actually looked around me, there are many things about her being a narc on lockers, especially hers."

"Really, are you sure about that?" Duncan asked her, Logan answered for her.

"DK you're really blind! Because how could you not see all these posters?"

"I didn't really care about them."

The bell rang, and everybody walked out of the room, everybody had their eyes on her and Duncan, she looked at him, asking what's wrong with her eyes. She did not have to wait too long before she got her answer, Madison sat next to her during lunch, and asked her if she wanted to go shopping with her and the girls. Veronica saw from the corner of her eye, Logan and Duncan trying to hold their laugh, but it was pretty hard.

"Are we friends?" she asked her coldly.

"Of course, we've been friends for years and you're one of us now."

"One of you?"

"Yes, you're Jake Kane's daughter." She said with a wide grin, as if it explained everything. Veronica shared a look with Duncan and Logan who were looking at her, not knowing what to do nor what reaction she would have.

"Why does it matter who is my father? Last time I checked I couldn't stand you and just because Jake happens to be my father doesn't change anything to my feelings towards you."

"But.."

"No buts, now could you please let me finish my lunch, I've got better things to do than talk to you, I'm feeling dumper by the minute with you around." She said with a smile, and this time Logan and Duncan burst out laughing, it was too hard not to laugh at that. They watched Madison leave angry, knowing she could not say anything to defend herself. "I guess we now know why people were looking at us like that this morning. Do you know a good hole where I can hide, because right now I really want to disappear."

"Come on Ronnie, the three of us know that it won't last, just wait a few days, the time for people to find a new scandal or something, if you want I can start rumors about Aaron, and man people will talk about it for weeks."

"Logan, I don't need you to start rumors just to protect me, we knew it would happen eventually. After all I'm not feeling that shocked, but I should warn dad about it."

"Which one?" Duncan asked, before they started to laugh, it was a stupid question, just like their conversation.

Sorry for the little delay, but I might update less often, I'm back to uni and I'm already having tons of translations to do and new things to learn :'( . And let's not forget I just posted a new Veronica Mars fic so, I'll probably update every 10-15 days, sorry :(