Sorry for the long delay, and unfortunatly my next updates will be less and less often. I'm a senior year student in college and I'm moving to Ireland in January so I need to concentrate on school more if I want to graduate in June . But don't worry, I've almost finished writing this story, there are only 2 or 4 chapters left to write before I'm done with this fic :)

Chapter 33

"Hey Ronnie, isn't it your father?" Logan asked pointing his finger at Jake who had his back against a black Mercedes convertible.

"Yes, I wonder what he's doing here, he told us this morning he had a late meeting and he didn't know if he would be at home for dinner."

"Maybe he got out of his meeting sooner."

"Probably." Duncan said with a smile, as if he knew something the couple did not know. When they reached Jake, he threw a set of keys towards Veronica, she caught it and looked at it, puzzled.

"What is it?"

"The keys of your car."

"I'm sorry but these aren't the keys to my car, I would have recognized them if they were."

"I mean the keys of your new car…"

"I don't have a new car."

"You do now."

"Why do I have a new car?"

"Because I bought you one."

"Why..."

"Are we playing to some game where you ask 15 questions and I answer to all of them and then I ask you 15 questions to which you'll answer?"

"No, it's just that I don't need a new car."

"You do, since I'm not letting you drive your car anymore, take this nice car and don't you dare to say no. Just consider it as a belated birthday gift. I've missed your seventeen past birthdays, so I have to make up for..."

"No, you don't, I don't expect you to give me gifts for all the missing birthdays..."

"Don't forget Christmas!"

"Dad, I'm being serious here."

"So I am, listen Veronica take the car and end of the story."

"Do you realize how much this car costs?"

"Not really but it's not like I can't afford it. I've always made gifts to Duncan and Lilly and I'm doing just the same thing with you. It's not something new, you can trust me, ask Duncan, take the car and enjoy it."

"If I take it, you've got to promise me that next time you want to offer me something, it will cost less than 1,000 dollars."

"We'll see…"

"Dad."

"I'll try." He said, Veronica looked at Duncan and Logan who nodded; knowing she would never get what she wants from Jake.

"Okay, but if you don't next time I will take it back to the shop."

"We'll see, now about we take this car on the road to see what she's got?"

"Okay, Duncan, Logan jump in!"

"Ronnie, did you just ordered us to jump in?"

"Logan, could you please get your nice and cute little ass in the car along with Duncan?"

"Did…"

"Logan!" she said, starting to lose her patience, Logan smiled and jumped in the car, Duncan followed him, still smiling, man that guy was so whipped. "Duncan, if you don't stop smiling I'm going to be forced to hit you."

"Veronica don't you think you should, I don't know, slow down?"

"This is funnier this way."

"You know what would more fun? Making it out of this car alive!"

"Dad, come on enjoy it while it lasts and we're young, who knows when we'll die."

"Hopefully not within the next hour." He said as he heard the boys laugh in the back. He also started to laugh, but Veronica did not seem to share their point of view. "I'm feeling younger than my age, I really need to stop hanging out with you if I don't want to die early."

"Oh look at him, he's trying to crack a joke, that's so cute! Jake, next time I will teach you how to make a really good joke."

"Logan, if you want me to carry on liking you stop."

"Okay."

"Logan stop, I promised dad to come home before ten and it's almost midnight."

"Why don't you call him to tell him you're staying here."

"Because he doesn't need to know I've lost my virginity a long time ago to you."

"It's not like he doesn't know about what us sleeping together, remember that time when he came to my house and saw you wearing nothing but my shirt and your panties."

"Thank you for reminding me of that traumatic day."

"Oh, it wasn't that bad." He said, trying to make her come back on the bed, but Veronica struggled, she was not going to let him convince her to stay with him.

"It was and I want to spend some time with my dad before I have to go back home when dad gets back next week."

"You've got a week to spend time with Jake, and who knows if Keith will be back next week, now that he knows you're safe."

"Believe me, he will, especially since he knows you're living in a hotel room with your mother who's here only half of the time because she's shooting a movie in LA. What kind of father would let his seventeen years old daughter unsupervised more than a week, knowing she has a boyfriend like you."

"Obviously, not Keith."

"You've got that right! I'll see you tomorrow at school."

"Okay please drive safe." He said walking her to the door., she turned around and locked her arms around his neck.

"I will." She kissed him before leaving, even though it was the last thing she wanted to do.

Veronica was driving with her windows open, enjoying the feeling of the wind on her face, it was a new sensation, it was as if she was free, free to do whatever she wanted to do. She turned up the volume of her CD player and enjoyed the music, yes driving a convertible while listening to the last Fall Out Boy album is definitely something Lilly would have done, she would be proud of her. She heard a police siren coming from behind, she pulled in a parking lot and waited for the sheriff deputy.

"Mars! Wow, what a nice car, did Keith suddenly won to the lottery, because there's no way you can afford such a car otherwise."

"You're right I stole it, I'm planning on taking it to Weevil cousin's garage to sell and get some money to pay for college!" she said sarcastically.

"Your driving license and papers of the car."

"I've got only my driving license, I…"

"Step out of the car, put your hands in evidence…"

"What? You've got to be kidding me, you aren't going to arrest me because I don't have the car's papers?"

"Didn't you say, you stole the car?"

"I was being ironic."

"Until I have the papers I won't know." He said with a smile as he handcuffed her.

"Dad is going to be pissed off by this, I know someone who's going to lose his job and another one who's going to get his job back." She replied, wincing when he clasped the handcuffs.

"I'm really scared, don't you see me shake?"

"You'll, not now but soon."