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Dad wanted to have us for diner, his entire new and old family. Alicia had called me early in the morning, to see if I could make it tonight. That was something I could expect from her. But what I didn't expect was for both her and dad to ask me to bring Logan. I have no idea when they started to see him as family… My dad invited him for diner once, when we were dating, before I got pregnant and moved in with him. It was horrible, for me. I just hung the phone up when Logan walked out of the bathroom.
"So, Alicia called…" I told him to introduce the subject.
"You're new stepmom?" Stepmom? That's just weird. Its one thing that my dad and Wallace's mom were dating, but now they're married and living under the same roof.
"Wallace's mother…" I tell him. When I hear stepmom I immediately think about Cinderella and her stepmom… Alicia is nothing like that, but still.
"And, are you planning on telling me why you felt like telling me that?" I'm coming to that point.
"She wants her family to come over for dinner."
"That's nice, when are you supposed to go there?" He isn't going to make it easier.
"About that… They kind of let me understand that um… you're… a part of the family…" I'm pretty sure it's Alicia's idea. My dad doesn't carry Logan in his heart.
"Oh. Really? You're dad and Alicia wants me to come over for dinner? After I knocked you up?" Knocked me up… That's something every pregnant woman wants to hear from her boyfriend… How romantic is that.
"You know what. Forget about it." I say trying not to be angry or touched in any way about it. I say, taking y cellphone and my bag. "I'm going out, trying to forget who knocked me up." I say as I open the door and slam it.
What to do when you're trying to forget about something, someone, an event? For me, it would be dive into work. But to do so, you need to have a case. And expect from mine, I don't have any. So I drove to the beach. The weather could have been better, but nothing that a good sweater can't help out with.
I took my bag and stepped out of my car to find myself a little piece of peace near the water. It wasn't hard to find, since there was almost no one on the beach. I lay down in the sand and took out my cellphone to put on some music. Knocked me up… He said it like if it was such a bad thing. Knocked me up… I didn't ask him to be a part of this, he wanted it. If he really felt like it, he wouldn't say knocked up, would he? He would say something like, I don't know, anything else but that! Like, like, like, they really want to invite the father of your unplanned baby? Much better. My phone went off, Logan was calling.
"What do you want Echolls?" I say trying to sounds like if I joked.
"Where are you?"
"On earth… you know, that big blue planet where we all live on…" How sarcastic.
"Where are you? If you tell me I could come over and we could talk…" Talk about what? How he knocked me up?
"Why? You can't guess?"
"So, I said something stupid… Maybe you could tell me what so I could apologize…" Tell you what? Really? Make your neurons works Echolls!
"Maybe if you keep repeating that conversation in your head, you'll find what you did…" I really felt like hanging up. But I can't do that, we said we'd try to do our best.
"I'm sorry Veronica…" You don't even know why!
"Sorry for what?"
"For whatever I did to make you mad."
"So you still don't know what you did?" I asked him.
"Something to make you angry…" That's something we all know.
"You said knocked up Logan… Knocked up! I ask you to come over to dinner with my new rebuild family, they think of you as family, and all you find to say is that you're not sure they want to eat with the guy who knocked me up…" Not even your girlfriend, or anything. No, just the girl who knocked me up.
"Oh, right. I said that…" You sure did. "I didn't really mean it that way…" Didn't really meant it … He doesn't seem really sure about that.
"bye Logan." I say hanging up.
Since it was getting too cold to stay at the beach, I drove back to Neptune. Not to Logan's apartment, but to the university. I had a shift to do at the library.
"Mars, Mars, Mars… What is my blond girl doing here?" Dick said when he walked in… Great, like if I needed him to make my day worse.
"What do you want Dick? Unlike you, I'm working in here and I doubt you're looking for a book. And if you're looking for Mac, she's not here." I should try to better my mood.
"Woow, someone has a hormonal problem today…" Sure, that's going to make it feel better.
"What do you want?" I try. Try to be direct to him, maybe he'll understand it.
"My friend is looking for you… apparently he said something stupid." You think?
"So? What does that has to do with you?" Please, just leave. "I have to work, so be quick." Sure, like if there were so many people in here… Expect for that one redheaded girl in the corner, it's empty in here.
"You know Logan right? He is like that, he says stupid things..."Did he actually come to try to make up for what Logan did? "I know what he said okay…"
"Really… And that should make me feel better?"
"I know what you think… Or Mac knows and told me…" So Mac knows about it too…Great
"You do know this is a library, where I work, to gain money…" I try once more.
"You're thinking that he doesn't take this seriously… But he is, do you know how many times he talks to me about that monster!" That monster? "That Baby…" Better.
"Talking about it is one thing…"
"I'm sure he's doing his best to actually make it easier for you…" Actually, he is.
"He does what he can."
"So, why should one little misplaced sentence make you think he's not doing his best? Did you know he asked me about every single girl name I know to find one for his daughter…" Really? I'm not sure Dick is the best person to ask that.
"Really? Or you just trying to make him seem better by making stuff up or are you actually trying to help?"
"What? Yeah, like if I could lie to Veronica Mars… Last time I did, you found out about it in less than a day… Lying to you, not the best thing… Beside, you're my best friend's family now, so I'll try to put my best foot forwards this time." How weird, he actually seems to mean it this time.
"So you're telling me I should forgive him?" I should, because it's not that big of a deal. Logan is doing everything he can to prove to me that we can do this, together. I'm pretty sure those damn hormones are messing with my head again.
"Fine, if you see him, tell him dinner is at seven, tonight…"
"Heard it bro?" Dick said… No way… I turned around to see Logan was standing behind. Of course he was. "Bye blondie…"
"Bye Dick…" I whisper taking a pile of books and pretending to have some work to do.
"So, dinner at seven?" Logan asks.
"Dinner at seven…" I say, and leaving to go put away some of them.
"So, do I still have problems?" He asks me following me in the library.
"I don't think so… I think I get angry a bit too fast…"
"Hormones?" How should I know? There playing with me like if I was a marionette… "Never mind."
"I'll drive back home to your apartment to change and then we can go together… I should ask Wallace if he's coming with us…"
"I'm taking care of your new brother… Just get at our home." Our home? Sure, if that's what he says… Not sure I'm going to say that anytime soon.
"I think he's class is about to end in ten minutes… But, isn't that supposed to be your class too?"
"Yes, but I've got a good excuse… My girlfriend was mad at me and I had to find a way to make up for it."
"Well, now that you're forgiven, you'll let me work?"
"What if I helped you a bit?"
"It's really sweet, but I'm about to close anyway, there's no one in here today."
"Really? So no one would miss you if I did this?" He said, taking me in his arms and kissing me.
"You guys finding this at weird as I do?" Wallace asks us as we're parking in front of the new family home.
"Common Bro, it's family time…" I say joking around.
"Logan, I thought you would teach her some manners." My best friend replies.
"I did everything I could…" Logan continued.
"Okay, well I'm going inside, I'm hungry…" I say hoping that the evening would be more fun than it is right now. The guys walked out of the car and Logan took my hand in his.
"Let's get inside, at least this time, there isn't only the 3 of us in your kitchen…"
"No, this time it's Wallace, you, Alicia, Darrell and my dad in there new kitchen…"
"And you forgot someone… You forget mini you." Mini me… Sure.
"She's not sitting around the table, but inside of my belly, that doesn't count as moral support."
We were all sitting around the table, this one would have never been able to enter our old apartment. Logan was sitting next to me, Wallace in front of me next to Darrell.
"This was delicious Miss Fennell, or Miss Mars…" Logan says at the end of the dinner.
"Call me Alicia." She said.
"That's weird… Logan calling my mom by her name…" Darrell said. He was a big fan of him, he wanted to learn how to surf like him.
"Okay, well if you could excuse me for a moment…" I say, how weird is it… I stood up and walked towards the bathroom. After a few seconds, I finally found it. I was feeling weird for a big part of the dinner… And now it was getting worse… I threw some water on my face, hoping that would help. Things were only getting worse when suddenly I felt pain. I breathed in and took a seat on the ground. "Something is definitely not right…" It confirmed itself when I started to bleed, it's a good thing I was wearing a skirt. I took my cellphone out of my pocket and wrote a text message. I heard some noise, probably some chair moving.
"Veronica?" Logan said knocking on the bathroom door.
"Come in." I say trying to stay calm and not to freak out. He opened the door and found me on the ground… Some more pain, and I did my best not to let a scream out.
"Veronica!" He said, freaking out for the both of us, as he let himself fall next to me in the ground.
"Something is not right…" I tell him almost whispering. "I need to go to the hospital."
"Omg, Veronica, you're bleeding." He said. Great, now there was my blood on the ground. "Don't move. I'm taking you to the car." He said, putting on arm under my knees and under my neck.
"Everything fine over there?" My dad yelled from the kitchen.
"Wallace, go get my car and park it in front of the house." Logan yells back. I putted bot my arms around my waist hoping it would help against the pain.
"Something wrong? Veronica?" My dad said as Logan was carrying me out of the bathroom. Wallace passed in front of us, with Logan's keys in his hand. When he saw us, he ran outside.
"She needs to go to the hospital Mister Mars…" Logan said taking me out of the house.
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