Sooo, Chapter 12 people… I hope you didn't got tired of me yet!
Since Logan hasn't any more courses today, I followed him back at his apartment. Trina wasn't in it, I wondered for a few seconds where she could be.
"Sooo, when are Alicia and your dad moving in together?" Logan asks me putting his key on a table next to the door.
"Next week…" I told him as I stroke Backup behind his ears before I went to the kitchen to get myself a class of water.
"Have you seen the house yet?" Nope, he just got back and let that bomb explode.
" I pretty much run off when he told me he was moving out." I should say we, but I haven't had the time to put that in my mind yet. I do that a lot, run away when something becomes too overwhelming.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Talk? I'm not really much of a talker.
"Maybe you could just hold me in your arms?" I say turning around to face him. He walked towards me and he did. Wrapped in his arms, I put my head on his chest and listen to his heartbeat.
"Feel better?" He whispers, stroking my back. Just a little bit better.
"I'd feel much better when they'll take that stupid thing of my arm…" I say mostly to change subject.
"Just wait for a couple more weeks, and then they'll take it off." I know that.
"Yeah, well try to take pictures with this thing!" My arm is heavier now…
"Pictures?"
"I have to work remember…" We do not all have the chance to be born in a rich family. Well, I think I have been luckier than Logan with mine, at least I still have one of my parents, and he isn't a murdered nor has suicidal thoughts.
"You wouldn't have …" If what?
"Feel free to finish your sentence…" I say, still in his arms. I couldn't find it in myself to let go of him.
"Maybe you should move in here, you wouldn't have to work…" I'm not like one of those women that take benefit of their companion.
"Sure, like if I could be like that." Besides, even if I didn't do anything, I don't think I could just do nothing… And I did try to stop my detective jobs, and even more people came to ask me for help.
"Maybe you could just think about moving in then?" I know he would bring that up… Thanks Dick. "Just think about it veronica, your father is going to move out, and it would be easier for both of is if I'm next to you during your pregnancy… That way I could try to help you, and once the baby is here, we wouldn't have to raise her up in different places…"
"Oh, and what is it you could possibly do for me to make this easier?" I ask him, finally letting go of him.
"Well, I can rub your belly when you want to fall asleep and the baby starts kicking…" Yeah, that's a good point. "And I could go get you some ice cream in the middle of the night if you felt like having some…"
"Pizza, I'm more into pizza right now…" I tell him, like if it actually matter.
"So? What do you think? You could move in here? Of if you don't like it here, we could found another place… You can stay in the guestroom if you want, or take my room if you want and don't want to be in the same room as I am." He really has thought it all troughs.
"What if we get into a fight?"
"Well, we just have to make up in bed then…" He jokes. "It wouldn't be our first fight… We will get through it. But our best foot first."
"How long have you been thinking about this?" I'm pretty sure he didn't find that up in just one hour.
"Pretty much one week…" So since I told him…
"You wouldn't have said that if I wasn't pregnant…" I could help but say.
"Maybe not that soon. But I'm pretty sure that we'd have end up together anyway. Maybe not this month, or this year, but we would have ended up together." He said. He has always been better with words than I was.
"I think I'll just have to go take my stuff and bring it here…" I say, lifting up my shoulders for a few seconds. Logan looked at me and smiled before he kissed me, pretty soon we moved from the kitchen to his bedroom.
"Dad?" I ask as I entered the apartment.
"Bedroom!" He yells. Backup almost run towards my dad, happy to see him back. I walked towards his bedroom and found him between boxes. He obviously had started to pack already.
"Veronica! I'm happy to see you!" Alicia said. I didn't know she was there.
"Congratulations for the wedding!" I told her as she took me in her arms.
"You're dad told me you were a bit upset about it…"
"Not really upset, just surprised. But I knew it was coming. I just wasn't thinking it would be so soon." I said.
"Why don't you go show her the house?" My father asked to his new wife.
"Sure. I think you'll like your room there. Darrell and Wallace are going to share a room, since Wallace is on campus and you could stay with us. You have a few on the garden from your bedroom and …"
"Actually, that's what I wanted to talk… I'm not moving in with you." My turn to let a bomb explode.
"And my I know where you're going to stay?" My dad asks as he leaves his boxes to face me.
"Logan asked me to move in with him… And I said yes." Judging by the look on his face, he wasn't expecting that.
"Is that some kind of payback?" He asks me. Sure, because I'm the kind of girl that moves in with a guy just to get revenge at her dad.
"Not at all. It's just, you two are starting your life together know and I thought it would be a good idea to you know, spread my wings and fly…"
"You know I'm all for that, but you do not have to move in with Logan…" He continued.
"Veronica… I know it's none of my business, but is that what you want? What you really want?" Alicia asks me. Well, I guess it's kind of her business now…
"I think it's what I want. And it's a good thing. How many times have you both told me that I should tell him about the baby… Well I did, and we started to date again and well, it's the right thing to do." I don't have to justify myself.
"You should think about it some more…" My dad continued. I looked at Alicia, and I could tell she understood.
"Keith, let her spread her wings. It's not like if she wants to life on the other side of the planet or anything. She's not going to be far away…" She said putting on hand on his shoulder.
"When are you moving in with him?" He finally asks me.
"As soon as I can. He'll help me pack tomorrow… So, w ant some help with all of these boxes?"
"No way, you are going to rest… Wallace said you weren't supposed to be up for more than like 2 or 3 hours. So go rest!" Alicia said, already acting like if she thought as me as a full member or her family.
"You heard the woman Veronica… You have to take care of my grand-daughter!" My dad added.
"Well, she kind of is her grand-daughter too know…" I say, because well, Alicia was awesome.
"Yes Keith!" Alicia said proud about what I just said and I went to bed.
Darrell was the one to show both Wallace and I around the house. He had visited it with his mom earlier in the day and he was really excited about it. His mom had authorized him to skip school for one day so he could help the move in the house. I can't tell if he was more excited about moving into a new home are the fact that now, he had a dog. Because it's not like if I could take Backup with me… Not because of Logan, he was okay with it, but because of my dad. He didn't want to let the dog go. He could barely accept to let me go. The room that I would have had was the nicest one of the house. It was also the biggest one. They probably had thought that I could have put a baby bed in it… Or they just wanted me to feel good in this new home.
"And where am I supposed to sleep when I' m not on campus?" Wallace asked after a while.
"In my bedroom, or maybe you'll sleep in Veronica's… since she's not living with us anymore… Why aren't you living with us?" Darrell asks.
"Because I' m going to life with my boyfriend…" I simply tell him. Feels weird. I've always been only child, and now I have like two brothers, and a new mom… Not that she would ever replace my mom, but she was going to be ten time better than mine that for sure… But I don't know much mom's that are worse than mine.
"You know, the guy that put a bun in her oven…" Wallace said smiling at me.
"Do you have an oven?" Darrell asked me not understanding.
"Thanks Wallace, a lot!" I say. "So, I have to go to class now. I let you tell him what it means!" I say to Wallace. He shouldn't have said that!
When I walked out of class, I was kind of pissed… Why? Because Parker was waiting for me outside the building.
"Can we talk?" She said when I passed by her.
"What do you want to talk about? About how you tried to ruin my life because of jealousy?" I said. "See, there something I can't understand. After everything I did for you, I almost got raped because I wanted to help you turn that page of your life, and still, you found it in you to do that…" I say. "Normally, you would have to watch your back now… But, I'm trying to be a better person…" I can't say to my little girl she can't do something and then do it myself.
"I lied…" She said when I walked away. I instantly stopped.
"What did you say?"
"I lied okay… It wasn't me." Why would she tell me that it was indeed her if it wasn't?!
"And why would you have done something like that?"
"I was angry! You seem to have everything you want, including the guy I was currently dating… And you were so sweet with me and everything… I just wanted to, I don't know. I wasn't even thinking!"
"Oh, because that's such a great idea! I got in a car accident because of you!" I wouldn't have left the apartment if she hadn't made my furious… "So, you didn't throw a stone in my window?"
"What? I would never throw something at your window… I don't even know where you live" She said… "And I'm really sorry about everything…"
"If it wasn't you, who was it?"
"I don't know…"
"And that story about that guy that had heard something about the tape, was it true?"
"Yes, it is." She say happy to be able to do something for me. "Do you think you'll ever be able to forgive me?"
"I don't know Parker. Honestly, I don't know…" I know we should be even… I slept with her boyfriend and she just lied to me. But such a lie… you can't just forget.
"I understand… I hope we'll be able to be friends again at some point."
"I have to go back to the apartment, Logan is waiting for me to pack." I said feeling like taking some distance.
So it wasn't Parker after all… I know, I'm playing with you guys… But I couldn't let Parker take the blame for that! I've got some plans for her and she can't be the bad guy in those…