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( Author's Note )

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I'm back again? Yeah, seems all my other stories are at a stand still... I haven't gone deep enough into this one yet. I'm about to start of this chapter, and I don't know yet... does my mind want fluff, or turmoil in this chapter. Big ups or big downs? I don't know... at this moment I am the same as you are now... reading this... because I don't know what is about to follow... and just like you. I'm just along for the ride, the muse is taking us. What? You thought I actually had a plan for this story? Pfft, no. I just write things down little by little, and let the plot come to me. Much more fun, when you don't know where the story is going.

So have I given Veronica enough stress? Now that she's stuck at home. Away from Trixie, and has Timmy... can she finally have a break? No. Not yet. It's not time for her to have her happily ever after.

Guess what? I still do not own Fairly Odd Parents, or any of the characters... what a shocker right? Nick told me... I just don't have enough money to buy them... so I guess I still don't own them. Shoot. Anyways, on with the show... errr fiction. Story? Leaflet? Fable? Meh you decide what it is, either way, enjoy.

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( Veronica's PoV )

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It had been about three days since she was released from the hospital, at least she thought it had been about three days. The pain medication was still strong enough to put her to sleep, and she had been dozing off here and there. It was harder to gauge the time when Timmy wasn't there. He and Tootie had returned to school the day after she came home from the hospital and would come over after school.

She thought it was funny. It hadn't been very long ago that she didn't want anyone over to see her and wanted to be left alone. Now however, she actually couldn't wait for them to show up. Mainly because she was bored. Timmy had left an entire list of things she wasn't allowed to do. An entire list! She wasn't even allowed to wash clothes, because they'd be to heavy when they were wet. If he wasn't trying to be helpful, she might have thought about choking him.

Tootie had been more laid back with things. Oh she didn't let her do anything she wasn't supposed to, but she didn't get all... she didn't even know what Timmy was being, naggy or protective. It filled her with happiness and irritation. Plus she liked having Tootie around. Tootie was a someone, female someone, that she could trust to be alone with Timmy. Not that she got jealous... okay fine she got jealous. Who wouldn't when you had to watch the person you loved, stick his tongue down a demons throat? But since Tootie liked girls... She was safe.

Having nothing else to do, she got up grabbing the folder Tootie had left her with the lessons she was supposed to do. Timmy was more laid back... when it came to school-work. Tootie on the other hand... wasn't quite as laid back as Timmy was, when it came to class work anyways. She looked through the folder until she found something that she wouldn't be completely bored with, English. She'd wait to do the math when Tootie was there, since Tootie loved math, and could help her. Science, she'd wait for Timmy... She was shocked to find out that Timmy actually did very well in science. Not as well as his bald friend, she'd really need to remember their names someday. But until then 'Bald Kid' would have to work.

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"Gah!" Veronica sighed as she once again looked out the window of her room. Timmy and Tootie were usually here by now. What is taking them, Veronica wondered to herself as she falls back into her bed for the fourth time. Maybe Tootie confronted Trixie, and Timmy got involved... maybe they got detention. No no, she thought, surely Tootie would be Timmy's buffer... she pulled out her cell phone and sent a text to Timmy.

'Hey. Where are you guys?" She watched the text send, then continued staring at her phone.

While waiting for a reply she started to wonder if Timmy might be bored with her already... or maybe it had been some kind of joke, and how they was going to get her back was by just never coming back over. After getting friends... real friends, that might just hurt her more than anything to have them just ripped away. But they were so kind... she thought to herself. Yeah, but isn't that how you get close enough to hurt someone, her mind asked her. Besides, with the scar you're going to have... you really think he'll want you?

Of course he will, she thought to herself... hoping to convince herself. Timmy loved her... okay... so he said he thought he might be falling in love with her. But he kissed her... and it was... awesome. How could she feel that if there was nothing there? Right? Right!?

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( Tootie's PoV )

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Ugh, she thought. She didn't mind going to Veronica's after school each day. She was actually starting to like Veronica. It was odd at first, to see her as... normal. Sometimes she still just remembered the valley-girl accent, and the snobbish attitude. She knew that wasn't fair to Veronica... she knew that Veronica has pretty much had the worst couple of weeks of her life, if not longer. And alright, so she was taking Timmy away from her. Alright, she thought, so Timmy wasn't actually her's to begin with... not the point... well no, it was the point. Timmy was still her friend... and had been her friend a lot longer than Timmy had known the real Veronica.

That's not fair, she thought to herself, Timmy actually likes her. That was what was supposed to be important to her right? Timmy's happiness? But what about her happiness? What about what she wanted? Even if it was only to have Timmy to do friendly things with. Hang out at the mall... go see a movie. Something where they could be themselves. When they were with Veronica, the focus was usually her. Okay yes, she knew Veronica had it rough, but she was a person too!

"Tootie!" Tootie jumped when Timmy called her, she noticed the car was no longer moving and Timmy was already out of the car.

"Huh... sorry. I was... lost in thought." she took her seat belt off and got out of the car, and looked towards the door to Veronica's house, she stuffed her feeling inside the little box before she went inside.

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Thank God, she thought as her and Timmy got back into the car... of course Timmy would be returning to sleep on Veronica's couch again, where he'd slept for the past three nights. But at least she got him, for the car ride home. She'd even lied and told him she needed stuff from the grocery store, just to have a bit more time with him.

"So... what's been going on?" Timmy asked after they wandered around the store, she just looked at him for a moment. "I mean... look... Lately I know it's all been about Veronica. I want you to know you're still my best friend, Toots. Nothing's going to change that."

"It's okay." she lied. But she couldn't tell him what was wrong. What was she going to say anyways? 'Surprise I'm not a lesbian!' She she'd bet that would go over well with, 'And I still have huge feelings for you!' Yeah that would go over well. "I understand, she'd been through a lot. I know I'm still your best friend."

"You better know. We've been through a lot." He smiled and continued helping her look for things, on an imaginary list.

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Timmy helped her bring the shopping into the house. Her parents were out of town visiting relative, and Vicki was working the night shift, according to the note that was left on the counter. Great, she thought. Ironic that she finally got the house alone to herself, got Timmy there with her... alone. And she's supposed to be a lesbian... that and Timmy is fixated on a girl with blonde roots showing.

"You gonna be alright alone?" Timmy asked... and she saw her chance to be alone with him, and decided to take it.

"Uhh... Maybe you could hang out here a bit before going back to Veronica's?" She pleaded with him, not faking it. She really wanted him to stay. Though after asking him, she couldn't help but wonder if it was a good idea anymore... Veronica was a friend... so was Timmy. How could she be trying to... to... do this... No it wasn't right. I have to be the worst friend ever... "Actually... I think I might head to bed early. Rain check on hanging out?"

"Any time Toots, any time." He smiled and she walked him to the door. She leaned against it after she closed the door. What the heck was wrong with her? How could she have almost... She wasn't even going to think what she had been planning... it was something the old Tootie would have done... the obsessive Tootie. She couldn't do that to him. But she'd have to tell him she wasn't gay... and soon, or she'd burst.

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( Veronica's PoV )

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Veronica sighed as she laid back on the couch. She'd have to move when Timmy got back, but that was alright. Mainly because she'd need him to help her up. The muscles in her chest burned when she tried sitting up on her own and she was afraid that she might break a stitch if she tried.

Thinking about her chest just made her think about who had done it. Mostly how unfair it was. Just because that rich snobby brat's daddy had money, she could get away with anything... even attempted murder. Okay so Trixie had been just trying to scare her. And she didn't think that the gun had bullets in it. Still she should have seen more than probation... and community service. She'd only just found out about the community service... still it didn't seem like much, when her life could have been taken.

She had started to wonder when Timmy would be back. Normally he'd be back by now, or at least she thought so. Time still didn't seem to flow normally for her. She was starting to worry that she might be stuck on the couch until tomorrow afternoon... that is, if Timmy decided to go to his house for the night. He might have told her and she didn't hear him, or she might have just zoned out. The medication was good for that.

"You awake?" The voice startled her, until she realized it was Timmy. She hadn't even heard the door. Maybe she had been too deep in thought to hear him come in.

"Y-Yeah, I might need..." he had crossed the living room and already had her hands in his pulling her into a sitting position as she finished, "...help."

"Sorry I'm a bit late. Tootie asked me to drive her by the grocery store." he sat next to her on the couch.

What was she supposed to do? Couple on TV usually cuddled on the couch, or at least the female would lean on the male. Since the kiss, the didn't really do couple things... maybe because it was too new to them both. She had been waiting for a sign from him to tell her they were a couple. Maybe he was waiting for the same thing. Maybe he kissed her because she was injured. Maybe she should just lean on him... if he said anything, at least then she'd know where she stood.

She wasn't entirely sure why she still thought this could all be some kind of joke. Maybe because these things didn't happen to her... the TV perfect romances weren't real. The boy that was dating the most popular girl in school, does not break up with her, then start dating the social outcast. It just don' work out like that. It wasn't real! Right? But she didn't want it to be right she wanted it to be real.

"How are you feeling?" She'd chickened out on leaning against him, but she nodded in answer to his question. She felt his arm move wound her shoulder and pull her closer to him. She was leaning on him now... her body stiffened up a little... because her mind kept saying, 'this isn't supposed to be happening.' Then his grasp on her shoulder got lighter. "I didn't hurt you did I?"

"NO!... I mean... No. You just... I dunno, shocked me." Make a stupid remark about his romantic gesture... Check... she mentally checked a box next to something on her 'not-to-do-list'. "Sorry."

"There's not need to be sorry... After what happened with... her. And every things before. I should have known that maybe... I should have given some kind of warning." He had started to withdraw his arm... she couldn't have that... She leaned against him laying her head on his shoulder, despite how red she knew her face was getting.