Veronica shook her head, a dopey grin on her face at the sight of Lilly. The fact that she was in her cheer uniform just hit her and she shook her head. "Oh man, your clothes! I still have all the clothes from the last time you were here. You had a lot of cute stuff. I kept it in storage, hoping you'd come back. I can bring that by a little later," she said, nodding as she sat down. She squeezed Sam's hand and let out a breath.
"Lils, as wonderful as it is to see you, there's a lot of stuff I want to talk to you about. The internet is a great thing, and I can imagine you'll be curious and google yourself, and there's just a lot of stuff I'd rather you heard from me than from Mr. Google." She gave her a kind look and shrugged.
"Maybe we should start with exactly what Logan told you. I know he told you about your death. And who did it. It...was a lot to deal with, I know. And I told you that you were here before. And now you know about Sam," she said, looking over at her boyfriend and smiling lovingly at him. "But that's all just the tip of the iceberg. Lilly, after you died, everything went to hell in a handbasket for me. It was awful. Dad...he thought your dad had something to do with your death, and he was ousted as sheriff. Then all our friends ditched me, like I was the plague. I had no one. I tried to keep my chin up, went to Shelly Pomeroy's end of the year party and end up roofied and raped-by Cassidy Cassablancas, actually, if you can believe that. I didn't know it at the time though. See, Cassidy-Beaver, Dick's brother I mean-he'd been molested by Mayor Woody, as weird as that sounds. Kind of drove him over the edge. He ended up blowing a school bus off the road and killed a whole bunch of our classmates. Meg was on that bus-you remember Meg from cheer? She...she and Duncan dated for a while, before Duncan and I got back together...and anyway she was in a coma and survived the crash but she had a baby. A baby girl-Duncan's little girl. Her parents are crazy religious nuts so she begged Duncan to protect her from them and so I helped Duncan run away with her. He's off with her in Australia, I think. He named her Lilly after you. He loves you so much. And Logan...Logan and I dated. For a while. I love him, Lilly, but we-it wasn't always the healthiest relationship. He was accused of killing someone, a member of Weevil's gang, actually, though he was framed. We got together the summer before college, we both went to Hearst, but we just...couldn't do it. And...and I actually came here from my graduation and didn't know that later that night I'd be confronted by Cassidy on the roof of the Neptune Grand, and he tried to kill me, but Logan saved me and Cassidy jumped off the roof. And he blew up a plane the mayor was on. And I came here, and I met Sam, and Sam has been my rock in all this. I was kind of broken, you see, and he somehow loved me and I love him. He's a hunter, and ...I think that's it for now."
She realized she just had vomited a lot of information but she didn't know where to pause.