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it's getting harder and harder to breathe

Mar 12, 2006 00:32

I was invited, but you never would have guessed it. Dick was off somewhere trying to score with a freshman and the Beav was probably already throwing up an hour into this whole thing (none of us ever expected him to hold his liquor well). Yeah, I was invited to this whole bash - the one Dick called the total blowout before things totally sucked ass ( Read more... )

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xmeg_manningx March 12 2006, 01:22:04 UTC

I was going to thank Logan for the unexpected rescue from the drunken lout drooling all over me like an over-excited puppy, but I didn't really get the chance to find my voice before all hell broke loose.

I really am starting to think that 09ner guys, when drunk, share a single braincell between the lot of them. There's no other explaination for why they think half the garbage they pull is acceptable in the moment. Other than maybe they think their social and financial status is some sort of free pass to do whatever they want. Well, most of them anyway. Not everyone was that much of a lost cause. Some of them were good guys for the most part.

And Logan certianly surprised me by proving that a moment ago. There was no reason for him to at all. It wasn't like we were even remotely friends. The only thing that tied us together were pasts with Duncan and Veronica.

He goes to leave the party after the fight's over, and in the blink of an eye the lout's all over me again. "Will you get off?!" I snap, pushing out of his hold ( ... )

logan_echolls March 12 2006, 01:54:51 UTC

I'm wiping out blood still from under my nose when Meg comes to my side, putting a soft hand on my arm unexpectedly. I don't even know why I'm here anymore and yet she's bothering to come over and see if I'm okay ( ... )

xmeg_manningx March 12 2006, 03:41:19 UTC

"Okay." I nod slightly when he insists he's fine. Who was I to argue if he was going to say he was? It wasn't like we were anything other than people who had a few classes together, really ( ... )

logan_echolls March 12 2006, 04:14:33 UTC

I could think of a few reasons why she came here to this junker of a party. It just seemed to coincide with the reasons I'd even bother. Number one reason? Image. Keeping up appearances, which isn't exactly something I've done well. Other reasons might include some sort of attempt either of are proving that we're really over our former significant others and - slash - or plain boredom. All seemed possible ( ... )

xmeg_manningx March 12 2006, 05:23:40 UTC

I couldn't help but smile as he passes me his jacket when he notices I'm cold. "Thanks. I probably should've remembered a sweater." I said, pulling it on quickly. Yeah, sleeveless dresses tend not to do much to keep you warm when the sun goes down and the heat vanishes entirely. "You're lucky you've got sleeves." I added with a slight smirk ( ... )

logan_echolls March 12 2006, 06:08:02 UTC

She smiles when I pass her the jacket to put over top of her no-sleeved dress and it's a small smile that I haven't seen from much of anyone lately. At least one girl in Neptune can keep up a form of good cheer. It's even almost refreshing if our conversation didn't sound like it had the long awkward pauses of a first date. But, it's one of those things where you don't indulge in what you've heard about the other rather than just find out for yourself.

"Well, if you'd remembered a sweater it would counteract this whole giving you my coat thing," I commented with small smile curving up on my lips. I could almost feel this genuinely which was a difference of anything else the past few... hell we could go with years if I hadn't had that small fling (whatever.) with Veronica ( ... )

xmeg_manningx March 12 2006, 07:24:08 UTC

"And then you would have missed out on your little moment of chivalry. Very true." I smiled back at the small smile spreading on Logan's face. "So it's a good thing I forgot my sweater then, is it?" I asked, playing with my cross lightly between my fingers ( ... )

logan_echolls March 12 2006, 07:49:13 UTC

"Yeah, it's good," I agreed after a small moment of pause. I'm not sure if she's really noticed, but there wasn't anyone else who had witnessed that fight and came out to even see virtually if I was okay like she had. There's also not a large amount of girls lining up to call me or think of me in any way chivalrous. Meg might possibly be the first ( ... )

xmeg_manningx March 12 2006, 08:17:37 UTC

"Nice to know." I smiled softly. Apparently even the guys everyone else had completely wrote off could have little moments of consideration for others. Which was also nice to know. I could practically see his confusion as to why I was even out here with him right now, but the way I figure it, if I ever had the entire school turn on me in some lasting way I'd want someone to take a chance on being nice to me. Pretty simple concept, this whole treat others how you want to be treated thing ( ... )

logan_echolls March 12 2006, 08:35:49 UTC

"Well, hey, who am I to judge," I replied, lifting my hands in a small surrender as she countered my questioning of her uplifting positive attitude. So, maybe she indulged in it even in the least, but I didn't know that. Overall, Meg Manning seemed to be bubbly what ever the world chose to bring her down with this week. "All I'm saying is that it can't hurt to indulge within yourself sometimes." Yeah, I was precisely the one who shouldn't be giving advice. I knew that ( ... )

xmeg_manningx March 12 2006, 09:38:05 UTC

"To each their own, right?" I smiled at his small surrender. "Just because it works for me doesn't necessarily mean it works for everybody." There was a difference in dealing with the pain privately, and then trying to move past it than not dealing with it entirely. Which is probably what he thinks I do. But I really didn't have to justify my behaviour to him ( ... )

logan_echolls March 12 2006, 10:07:39 UTC

Yeah, she possibly has to be the most understanding person in Neptune too. For a moment, she almost reminds me of Veronica before everything with Lilly went down - before Lilly died, before Duncan dumped her, even before last year. The whole optimism trying-to-help-everyone-else sort of clues me in. I think maybe that could possibly be why Duncan started dating her. Hey, this year is all about us trying to capture the normal that we had but lost.

We were never normal. Not ever.

I wasn't trying to attempt to recapture something that was never there. I lingered over the loss of the two closest people in my life because after Veronica and Duncan there wasn't anyone left. There wasn't anyone I wanted to be close to ever again. Not if it all turned out like that - playing out the outside and watching them in. It hurt more than I could have ever expected ( ... )

xmeg_manningx March 12 2006, 10:44:54 UTC

I knew I really didn't know Logan very well at all. I knew what Duncan told me the times he'd talk about his past, but that was about it. Still... there's something in his eyes before he says he'll keep in mind crossing off the revenge from his to-do list. It's practically screaming that he's thinking about Veronica getting back with Duncan. He's probably wondering why I'm not more pissed off at Duncan, too, even though he has no idea how far things went with the two of us. The things I did in some stupid attempt to keep him with me when it had been clear even before that - Duncan Kane was, and possibly always would be completely in love with Veronica Mars ( ... )

logan_echolls March 12 2006, 18:43:27 UTC

There was something about seeing your best friend (or the guy who was recently your best friend) and your, also recent, ex-girlfriend share kisses. Of course, I'm sure this is exactly how Duncan might have felt in any way a few months ago when my dad threw that surprise party. Yeah, surprise. I was with Veronica at that time and Duncan was the first one who chose to walk out on me. He was the only one I thought never would. I don't know what was worse: seeing them together or the fact that both were now a current existent non-existent in my life ( ... )

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