The Huntzberger Residence

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica walks up on the front porch and takes a deep breath. She's had a few days to process running into Lilly and she is ready to talk to her best friend. She hopes Lilly is home.

Hand shaking slightly, she rings the doorbell.

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[other-logan.livejournal.com]

Logan answers the door

"Hi, can I help you?"

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica is surprised to see a boy answer the door.

"Hi," she says hesitantly. "I'm Veronica. Is Lilly home?"

[other-logan.livejournal.com]

"Veronica, nice to meet you. I'm Logan. I believe Lilly came back about ten minutes ago. She should be upstairs in her room, you can go on up, or I can go get her if you prefer."

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica visibly reacts to his name. What are the odds that Lilly would end up living with someone named Logan?

"Um... which room is hers? I'll go up."

[other-logan.livejournal.com]

Logan starts to look a little worried, but he steps aside so Veronica can come in.

"Uh, third floor, first door on the left. Are you okay? If you need anything, just let me know."

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica walks toward the stairs.

"Thanks, Logan," she chokes out the name. "I'm fine. Lilly and I went to school together before coming here."

[other-logan.livejournal.com]

Logan dowsn't know what to say, so he silently watches her go up the stairs.

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

[OOC: you still around? allie is going to come home... she is very embarrassed about almost passing out at the poker game & thinks you're very sweet for taking such good care of her...]

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica stands in front of the door to Lilly's room and hesitates before knocking.

What am I doing here? she wonders.

[iwasawesome.livejournal.com]

"Keep your pants on! I'll be right there." Lilly shouts, running a hand through her hair and jumping up off her bed.

"Logan, I told you, whatever you want to do for dinner is..."

She opens the door and sees Veronica standing in front of her, and makes a quick move to hug her before holding back. She still can't contain her excitement that Veronica has come to see her.

"Veronica! Hi!"

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

"Hi," she squeaks out, still stunned that Lilly is standing in front of her.

"I, um... I wanted to apologize for kind of freaking out the other day," she says.

[iwasawesome.livejournal.com]

"No, don't apologize. I can't even imagine...

Do you want to come in?" Lilly backs up slightly and opens the door wider, with a nervous look across her face. She's worried that Veronica will spook at any time.

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica gulps and hesitates. She knows she needs to do this though.

"Yeah, sure," she says, a ghost of a smile on her face as she remembers many times hanging out with Lilly at the Kane Estate.

[iwasawesome.livejournal.com]

Lilly walks back over to her bed, sitting up near the headboard to allow Veronica space if she wants to sit down. What she really wants to do is hug her, cry, and jump up and down a lot, but she gets the feeling Veronica isn't ready for that yet.

"I am sorry I didn't give you a better explanation the other day, I was almost as freaked out as you were."

She pauses, and tries to smile.

"So, you probably have questions. Fire away, Madame Detective."

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica looks around the room, hoping to spot a desk chair, but, typical Lilly has hers covered with clothing. With a sigh, she sits near the foot of the bed, close to the edge.

"Yeah, I gathered that by your asking me if I was dead comment."

Veronica has a million questions she wants to ask but she doesn't even know where to begin.

"How did you end up here?" she finally settles on.

[iwasawesome.livejournal.com]

"You caught him. I had peace. You didn't need me anymore, and there was no reason for me to stick around. I could have stayed and watched you guys until you came to join me, but I had to let you move on. You couldn't be stuck with your dead best friend dictating your life forever."

Lilly swallows hard. She wants to keep this light, but her attempts at a laid-back tone come and go.

"One benefit of being dead is that I can easily score myself money from Daddy's company anytime I want. So I left Neptune and found this place. There aren't many schools that accept dead kids, or places where you can interact with people a lot in general. So I enrolled, and here I am."

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[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica looks uncomfortable.

"Lilly, do you still have feelings for Logan?"

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[iwasawesome.livejournal.com]

"Sure... he was my first love. I'll always have feelings for him in some way. But I had a lot of time to re-analyze the situation. As much as we cared about each other, we were just as bad for each other as we were any good."

Lilly plows full-steam ahead, slipping right back into her comfort zone with Veronica.

"Do you still have feelings for him?"

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[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica nods.

"I... I can't explain it... and I know he'll never forgive me for what I did... but... "

She shakes her head, unsure how exactly to explain her feelings.

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[iwasawesome.livejournal.com]

"What you did? Veronica, get real. If he couldn't cut you some slack for being a little bit paranoid after everything that happened to you, he doesn't deserve you.

If there is one thing that can be said - most men are so beneath us."

Lilly lets out a dramatic sigh and flops back on the bed with a smile, looking to save Veronica from trying to explain what she can't.

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[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica gives Lilly an ironic smile.

"Yeah, I guess it doesn't matter anyway. He hooked up with another girl at a party the first weekend here."

She desperately wants to change the subject and she grasps for the first absurd thing that pops into her head.

"What was the deal with you and Weevil?"

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[iwasawesome.livejournal.com]

"Weevil, Jesus, is he here too?"

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[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica laughs.

"No, he's not here. But, to say I was surprised to find out you had something going with him would be an epic understatement. I thought we were BFF, Lilly. Why would you keep that from me?"

Veronica's tone is teasing, but there's a slight undercurrent of serious in her words, basically because she found out a lot about Lilly that surprised her.

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[iwasawesome.livejournal.com]

"That was a huge part of the allure though - the Leader of the Pack, Romeo and Juliet thing." Lilly is purposefully being over-dramatic again. "The boy from the wrong side of the tracks squires the princess on the hill, what would the neighbors think!"

She pauses, and becomes more serious.

"You're right though. I should have told you, about everything. I'm sorry.

I didn't start out liking him, so it didn't seem like a big deal. I thought he'd be a great fuck, and he was, and then somewhere along the line I...

I don't know how I feel about him. Felt about him."

Re: cont'd

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

[OOC: Weevil showing up would be oh so amusing!]