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Personal Narrative: Logan's Locker

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Months ago, the first day they'd hit the campus courtyard as a couple, fingers linked between classes and kisses stolen at Logan's locker, the student population had a myriad of reactions. Some took it as a joke, some people thought it made complete sense for their fighting to turn sexual, and some classmates just gave themselves over to wild speculation and unsubstantiated rumor; no guess too outlandish for how Logan Echolls and Veronica Mars ended up a romantic item. But that first reveal did have a level of shock value- the masses hadn't suspected it, there'd been no overt warning signs it was coming- and it had an air of mystery to it.

Duncan Kane showing up to school with a broken nose? Not as much of a mystery, especially …show more content…

At the final bell, Veronica sought a moment of quiet solace at her locker; and she was afforded just one moment, before Madison and Rachel gossiped past her to Madison's locker, only a few lockers down.

"I heard, all three of them have been messing around for months. I get Veronica and Duncan fighting over Logan, but Duncan and Logan fighting over Veronica? I mean, come on." Madison didn't bother whispering or even concealing her snicker just because Veronica was well within earshot. "Plus, think of the Lilly Kane ick factor, no wonder she was sleeping with that psycho Aaron Echolls if her boyfriend and her best friend and her brother were all wrapped up in some gross love triangle, and who knows how long ago it started?"

Exactly one second from letting it go, from letting Madison just say her piece and move on, Veronica realized she just couldn't let it go. She just didn't have the letting-it-go gene. Letting it go wasn't going to be an …show more content…

"Of course, except for the small detail of you naturally having no freaking idea what you're talking about." Smile shining false in an instant, Veronica only thought of how much stranger the truth was over Madison's fiction. As long as the crowd was tracking who she was sleeping with, they weren't tracking who she was related to; Veronica shook her head at the miniscule amount of comfort that thought really offered her. "So maybe next time you compulsively feel the need to say things that aren't true, you could start at the mirror and try telling yourself you're a good person, with a great personality, and a boyfriend who doesn't cheat on you every other weekend. Or, you could start using your mouth to say true things, but then what would the hot locker gossip sound

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