And up to the next one.
After my shift, Logan came back to the library. I strongly suspect he has been waiting in his car for me. We were walking around campus, silently.
"Soooooooooooooooooo…" I tried awkwardly clapping into my hands.
"Do you know what it is?" He finally asks.
"I should have known it two weeks ago. But I had to work…" To be honest, I couldn't pay for the visit and didn't want to ask the money to my dad.
"Oh…" Oh, that's all? "When will you know then?" When? As soon as I have enough money to get an appointment.
"As soon as I can get an appointment." I stopped at the first bench that I saw and sat on it, Logan joined me on the bench and I just stared at my hands… can this get any more awkward?
"Do you think I could come with you?" Really?
"Maybe, but first, how much do you want to get involved in this?" I'm not letting him go any further without knowing this.
"I broke up with Parker." Not sure if she didn't broke up with him.
"So?" What does he even means with that? Why did he think that information was useful to give?
"I thought, maybe you know…" What? That we could get back together?
"Logan, we've tried it, several times… It never worked out. I'm not getting back with you just because of it."
"Yes, maybe, but you can't deny that there is still that thing between us…"This thing is what brought us here!
"And see where it leads us…" I say pointing at my belly with both hands… "But that a side, you didn't really answered my question…"
"I want to be a father for this baby." A father?
"Meaning, getting up late at night, change its diapers, take care of it, raise it…" I numbered up.
"Veronica, can you stop calling the baby it?" Did I do that?
"Did I do that?" I asked him, which is a stupid question.
"Yes… And that's exactly what I want to do. I want to be there for you and the baby." that's surprising.
"Oh, I didn't notice…" I had no idea I was calling it it. And there I do it again! "You really sure about it? You won't be able to back out you know."
"I wouldn't want to back out." He exactly seems to mean it. I'll give it a try, I guess. "When would you have told me?" He asks after some silent seconds.
"To be honest? Never." Why lie?
"Ooooh, why?" He didn't even seem mad about it!
"Because you're with Parker, my friend, and that it all happened just because of on stupid moment on a plane."
"You know damn right that you just had to say one word for me to dumb her and get back with you." Maybe that's why! I do not want to see Parker hart broken, again.
"Parker is my friend… She's been through enough this year." And another awkward moment…
"Soo, will you call me, when you get an appointment?" I guess I'll have too. Alicia is going to be happy that I told Logan.
"Sure." If he wants to come with me.
"Thank you…" He said, I let my eyes wander around and I saw a black car near the library. Looking at the plate, I saw that it was just the one I was looking for.
"I have to go. Something to do…" I tell him and get up.
"Veronica?" He said and his voice changed. I looked at him and noticed he was about to start laughing about something…
"What?" I ask him, because I can seem to find out why he suddenly feels the urge to laugh.
"Your pant…" My what? I looked down, and found my pant at my ankles. I quickly putted it back up. Trying not to feel too ashamed about it. Not easy, believe me.
"Don't you dare laugh!" I tell him. "Not everyone is rich enough to buy pregnancy clothes!" Who would have known they were so expensive!
"What?!" Well, he wasn't laughing at all anymore… "What do you have to do right now? I'll take you shop…" No way!
"Of course, because money can help you with everything!" I say starting to get angry at him.
"Veronica, it's my baby inside your belly. So if you need clothes that actually fits, you'll have them!" No way, I'd pay for them myself, "don't you even dare say anything! My baby, my money. I have too much money anyway. No need to argue, let's go!" He said with his big voice, like if that was going to work on me.
"I have something to do, like now…" I tell him, trying to keep calm.
"what do you have to do that's so important it can't wait?" He asks me. Deciding to play the honesty car all the way, I show him Fred's car…
"I have to break into that car…"
No CD in the car either. That guy really knows how to hide things… Logan took my out for shopping, without letting me say no. He bought me more bags than I could hold by myself… before he brought me back home.
"Where do I put these?" He asks when I open the door of the apartment.
"My bedroom…" I had offered to pay for them, knowing I wouldn't be able to do so, many time, but he didn't want to hear it. While he was dropping it all off in my bedroom, it took some ice cream out of the fridge, with a spoon.
"Well, that's one good thing for you, you do not have to be afraid to gain weight…" really? He couldn't find anything better to tell me? "I never said that…"
"Take a spoon and join me…"
"I'm not saying no to that!"
After some awkward chatting, Logan left, saying he had to talk to Parker one more time. I was wondering about what, since he had told me they were already broken up, but it was none of my business. Like if I ever cared about that! But it wasn't the most important thing on my list…
First, I had to take care of Gary's CD. It's time for me to meet Fred. So after I putted those unwanted clothes away, I took my car keys. I think those clothes are Logan's way to ask for forgiveness. So, I took my keys, and went back to the campus. By the time, Gary had sent me his boyfriends planning. All I had to do, was to go wait outside his class. And so I did, and not much later, he walked out talking to one of his friends. Fred was actually hot, I know love has no eyes, but I couldn't find why he would have dated Gary. He was way taller than him, cute, intelligent. But that's not the point here…
"Fred? Fred Dawson?" I say and soon afterwards I see him searching around him for the person who says his name.
"Yes?" He finally replies when he found me.
"Can I talk to you for a minute?"
"Sure…" But since he was with his friends, private would be better…
"Alone…" If he doesn't get that, maybe he's not as smart as I thought.
"Everything you want to say to me, you can say to my friends…" That's the stupidest thing he has ever said…
"Fine, I heard you were into amateur porn?" The look on his face changed instantly. His friends were suddenly all smiling and wooing.
"What are you talking about?" Playing the innocence card? Not his best choice, I invented that card….
"Common Fred, you know what I'm talking about… Gary, you, rolling underneath your bed sheets…" Apparently, his friends didn't know he was gay…
"Can I have a moment, guys…" And he comes to his senses! His friends left looking at him like if they're still trying to find out if what I say is true. "What do you want?"
"I want the CD that you made with Gary." The faster I handle things, the better. Besides, I have a paper to finish and I haven't paid much attention to it.
"I don't have it…" Sure, because I'm going to believe that.
"Where is it?"
"I don't know okay. One day, I went back to my dorm, and it was gone…" Great, that's why I couldn't find it. He doesn't have it anymore.
"You better not be lying to me Fred, …" Those who know my name, who met me, knows that I'm not the one you can play with. "
"I do not have it okay! No leave me alone." He said before turning his back on me. He went back to his friends, just in time for me to see who his friends really where…
"You? What are you doing here? How did you got in my room?" Julian said when he came back into his room. I was sitting down on his desk chair, holding the CD in my hands. The same way I got into Fred's one. It's crazy what people will do if you thing you got knocked up by some guy that doesn't even take care of you…
"That doesn't matter, a better question would be, why did you stole this sex tape?" I said and stood up.
"What do you want from me? I guess you're not Derek's girlfriend after all…" You think?
"I just want to tell you a little story…" See if I had every piece of the puzzle. Julian was looking around his room, and when he finally laid eyes on me again, I figured I should get started. "Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Julian. He wasn't like the other boys of his age. When all of them were looking for a princess, this little boy, was looking for a frog that he could turn into a prince. And one day, he found one. But this little frog already had found his prince… So Julian, that little boy who was now all grown up, decided he would steal something very valuable, to make sure the frog and the other boy broke up… Please feel free to interrupt me if I'm wrong…" But by the look on his face, it obvious I'm not…
"How did you find out?" That's an easy one.
"Your ring… You lost it in Fred's room…" I say taking it out of my pocket and throwing it at him.
"So, what are you going to do about it?" Me? Nothing, my job's done…
"I just wanted the tape, I don't care about the rest. Oh, and by the way. Gary was about to dump him anyway… So stealing wasn't even necessary." I say before leaving his room.
"Thank you Veronica. Thanks a lot!" Gary said as he handed me over the money. Job well done.
"It was an easy one. But if it was, me I would burn the CD down… To make sure nobody could ever see it." And so he did, he threw it on the ground, and stepped on it till it was completely useless.
"Now I can go see Fred…" He said with a smile on his face.
"Veronica?" Someone said once Gary walked away. I quickly putted the money in my pocket and turned around.
"Piz… How are you?" I should have known, he changed shifts at the university radio. Maybe not the best place to meet Gary after all.
"Shouldn't I be the one asking you that?" he said looking way beneath my breast.
"I'm fine, like always. You know me, all strong and everything." I joke.
"You never answered my question, … the other day…" What question? About the father? Not important, for him anyway.
"That's none of your business…" I'll keep this to myself.
"I just wanted to be nice. You know, if he isn't in the picture, I'm still here for you, I could take care of you, both…" Is he really offering me what I think he is?
"It's sweet Piz, but he got in the picture recently…" Since he only learned it yesterday… it couldn't be more recently. "So, Piz, I was meaning to ask you something…"
"What?" He said putting back a piece of hair from in his eyes.
"Have you heard anything new about… our sex tape." The whole Gary-Fred affaire reminded me of it.
"Ooooh, nothing actually." Not the best conversation subject. "But I did have a weird conversation with someone, while you were in New York." I'm wondering if that's before or after I broke up with him.
"Tell me about it." I said and took a seat around one of the tables, following be Piz.
"Logan was gone somewhere only god knows. And Parker felt alone… You know things weren't going great between the two of them back then…" And we all know why. Logan wasn't really happy about the sex tape.
"So?" What does that has to do with the sex tape?
"I don't know. Somehow, she started to talk about it, and asked me if we knew anything new…" Really? Well, that's interesting. Why would she ask something like that? Especially if I'm not even in Neptune? And why ask that to Piz, when she always has been more of my friend?
"And what are you two talking about?" Wallace said when he walked in the cafeteria. "And since when are you two talking to each other again?" he said as he took the chair next to mine.
"You do not want to know…" I said. But apparently, Wallace didn't walk in alone. Because Logan joined us along with Dick and some food.
"Good afternoon you 'all." Dick said as he joined us. "And how the mother of my best friends baby doing?" That's not the best way to tell Piz about it…
"You, him,… ? How? When? Never mind, I do not want to know…." Piz said and left the table.
"Really Dick?" Wallace said for me. I was about to say something that wasn't that sweet.
So, one case if closed, but the whole Piz-Veronica affaire isn't. I hope you'll all like this chapter, and notice I updated sooner than yesterday…
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