A/N : Hello readers, I bet your all quite surprised to see me delving into a Zoey 101 story since I'm knee deep in Victorious and Cabbie drama in Hearts a Fire and plotting Hearts Always . Rest assured , I still have plenty of juicy stuff ahead for Victorious but I recently added a new TV package to my cable and was introduced to Zoey 101 between my Victorious mode and got hooked .
My good friend SouthernB3elle was thrilled to find me intrigued ( this was her first fandom) and has been a godsend on helping me with this from brainstorming with me to answering my weird, often random thoughts . If you haven't read her work in Victorious, Icarly, sonny with a chance , and Zoey 101 I encourage you to rush right over and do so. She is wonderful .
Massive hugs and many thank you's and here we go, welcome to Charityverse's Zoey 101 universe and hope you enjoy.
Disclaimer : Nope , I don't own Zoey 101 , just playing around at Pacific Coast Academy .
Logan Reese had kissed Quinn Pensky and liked it .
It was insane , unbelievable , and he wanted to turn around and do it again .
There was no logic, nothing to make sense of, but the fact was the kiss had proved that there was something between him and Quinn.
He could still taste the cherry lip-gloss on his lips from her as he tried to make sense , tried to understand what had literally just happened here .
He was a jock, the rich boy, the best looking guy at Pacific Coast Academy .
Quinn was a genius, a scientist , and the prettiest geek that he had ever seen ( damn ! There he went again thinking about her looks ) and they had spent the better part of two years fighting and hating each others guts .
Now hating her was the farthest thing from his mind , not that he had actually really hated her in the first place . She challenged him.
Mark Del Figgalo , that boring loser, had broken up with Quinn and Logan just happened to be riding by on his Jet X when he had discovered her sitting alone on a bench , crying .
It had seemed the most natural thing to comfort her .
Quinn didn't look like herself -oh, sure she looked really hot with her long brown hair straightened , she wore a little skirt and burgundy tank top, and more make up than he had ever seen on her but it wasn't until he'd placed her glasses back on her face that he had found Quinn again .
The kiss had been unexpected , touching her had been electric , and now as he made his way across the campus to his dorm, all Logan could think about was turning back around, finding her, and kissing Quinn senseless .
Clearly he was losing his mind ! How weird was that ? How else could he explain the way he was feeling ..and this new need that seemed to come out of nowhere but reverberated throughout his entire system and it had only been one kiss .
He didn't know what was happening to him !
Logan prayed that his roommates , Michael Barrett and James Garrett , were out because he couldn't deal with them in the current state that he was in right now . The last thing he needed was their dumb questions because his mood was sure to tip them off that something was going on with him .
Even now if he closed his eyes all he could focus on was the sadness and the emotion he saw in Quinn's eyes when she leaned in for his kiss .
Del Figgalo was an ass for hurting her yet one part of him was relieved .
Quinn was free now .
Free to be with me .
Logan let out what might have been a low growl and a groan combined at the thought and making him crazier than he already was at the moment .
Quinn Pensky was so not his type .
He liked the girls he dated to be hot and easy- a movie , some making out, nothing serious.
Movie, make out, and move on .
Except if he were to admit the truth to himself lately his dating routine and the girls were getting stale and boring and maybe he was starting to feel like he needed more , something different .
He wasn't wired for relationships so why the hell was he thinking about them ?
Logan stopped pacing the floor , his mind wondering back to last year, and the chemistry incident . He didn't think about it often because it was the one thing he was kind of insecure about and it bugged him to be good at chemistry but there it was . He had gotten roped into tutoring Zoey Brooks and he hadn't wanted to ruin his reputation around campus so it appeared as if he and Zoey had a thing . Okay, he might have helped start the rumor but her anger and the crap that had came from it hadn't been pretty .
He had actually transferred into another chemistry class just so he wouldn't have to deal with it again but he wound up in class with Quinn.
It came to his mind easily and with a clarity he hadn't expected since he had blocked the whole thing from his mind but it was as clear as if it had happened yesterday.
" Logan, why don't you take a seat next to Quinn "
" Uh man .." he had grumbled as he slipped into the seat beside the scientist .
Quinn crinkled her nose and fixed him with a pointed look behind her glasses .
" I'm not thrilled about this either , Logan ," snapped Quinn, not unkindly ," but maybe if you hadn't spread malicious rumors about you and Zoey, you wouldn't have felt the need to switch classes like a coward that you are ."
" I was doing Brooks a favor, she needs to lighten up " shot back Logan, tamping down his anger as he noticed the flash of annoyance in her brown eyes .
A slow almost punch in the gut caught him off guard as he was suddenly caught by how amazing and pretty Quinn's eyes were .
Had her eyes always been this pretty before ?
Logan had never really paid much attention to a girls eyes before when other body parts were more fun but wow, her eyes were something else .
" Logan, if you think that you are just going to sit here like a lump and have me do all the work, you have another thing coming " said Quinn, pushing her long, wavy brown hair off of her shoulders ," you might be a barbaric miscreant but Zoey swears you do know chemistry ."
His gaze is drawn to her hair and the soft waves beckon him with the urge to run his hands through it and realizing where his mind was leading him, Logan tried to shake the evilness of his thoughts , horrified to be thinking about the nerd in the first place .
He must be tired to be looking and thinking about Quinn like that .
Suddenly , Quinn thwacked his forehead , irritated at his lack of interest and weird staring .
" Logan, what is wrong with you ? Are you paying attention to me ?"
Logan shook his head and tried not to look at her . " Nothing, Pensky, " dismissed Logan, deciding to pretend he hadn't been thinking about her ," lets just finish this and never speak about it again ."
Quinn stared at him, baffled ." Never speak of what ?"
" Of working together " answered Logan , putting her out of his mind and ignoring her perfume ," I don't want people to know we're actually working together ."
Quinn made a disgusted face. " Like I do .."
Gah, her eyes were so brown and pretty !
Logan felt like he was spinning out of control as he paced in the empty dorm room , grateful the guys were out yet desperately in need of ..something . He needed to talk to someone who was knowledgeable - normally he was the one with all of the experience with women - but he was out of his element with all his feelings .
Michael was a good guy but the dude would broadcast it all over campus if he were to admit he was having actual feelings for one Quinn Pensky.
James was a decent guy and they were friends now but he was dating Zoey Brooks , who happened to be one of Quinn's best friends and one of her roommates so that was out .
Suddenly the realization was as clear as day , he needed to call Chase Matthews .
Chase had the whole boy next door thing going for him plus a head full of bushy dark hair but he was one of his friends and he was serious so he wouldn't steer him wrong .
The guy had been in love with Zoey since pretty much forever and though he had bombed terribly when he had finally admitted the truth to her , Logan knew his friend wouldn't judge him about Quinn and might be able to tell him what to do about it .
It really did suck that Chase was stuck over at Covington Boarding School in England ( long story , kinda romantic but his gesture to win over Zoey had failed badly which was why he was over there and Zoey was back at PCA dating James ) but you had to respect the dude had balls for trying to get his girl back.
None of that mattered though because Logan was desperate .
He dialed up his friend , waited impatiently for the webcam and the live chat to come on, as he paced , furiously , across the carpet in the room, glancing at his phone and hoping that maybe she would make things easy for him and call the shots .
Quinn was bossy .
No missed calls from Quinn or anyone else .
" Must your friends want to talk to you at this Godforsaken hour in the morning "
" Go to bed, Colin " shouted Chase , used to his annoying roommate as he rubbed his eyes, ambled over to the computer and clicked on the chat ," Michael , what's up ? Is something the matter with Zoey ?"
" I'm not Michael, you moron ! Zoey is fine and this isn't about her , man. Look I'd say that I'm sorry that I woke you but I'm not because I need your help, Chase ! "
Chase rubbed his eyes, awake now and stared in surprise to find a frantic Logan looking back at him. His friends perfect features were almost screwed up in conflicting emotions scattered across them and he seemed almost cagey and restless.
In all of the years that they had lived together at PCA, Chase didn't ever recall his friend this out of sorts . Except for the time when Logan's Dad had taken away his credit card but even then it didn't seem like it was the same so something was up.
" Am I dreaming ? Maybe I'm having a nightmare because there is no way that Logan Reese is asking for my help …"
Logan threw himself down in the chair in front of the computer with a heavy sigh .
" Stop being an idiot ! I'm being serious , Chase . I need your help "
Chase yawned , settled back in his chair , and grew serious . " Fine , its cool. What's the matter , Logan ? Did your dad take away your allowance ?"
" I kissed Quinn "
There it was out , he had told Chase , and this had better not be a mistake .
Chase gaped at him, incredulously . He had been expecting a number of troubles that his rich friend could get into but this wasn't one of them.
" Quinn as in our Quinn ? Weird , brilliant friend of ours ? That same Quinn ?"
" Yes ! Do you know of any other Quinn I would want to kiss ? " Logan couldn't sit still , he rose , and started pacing in front of his friend ," and just so I'm clear, I kissed her ! I wanted to kiss Quinn and I kind of think I've wanted to kiss her for a while ! "
" Wow , but you and Quinn have always mixed like oil and water ," replied Chase , thinking carefully about the situation ," they say opposites attract "
" If I wanted damn platitutudes , I could have watched Dr. Phil , Chase " Logan tugged at his perfect dark curls and stopped pacing ," you should have seen Quinn. She looked so amazingly hot but she didn't look like herself, you know , and she was crying …."
" Why didn't she look like herself ? Why was she crying ? This information might be helpful if you expect for me to help you, Logan ."
" Del Figgalo dumped her for Brooke Margolian ," explained Logan ," so Quinn dressed all hot to get him back but the ass just hurt her instead . Anyhow I ran into her when she was sitting on this bench crying and sad ….I stopped to comfort her ."
" You comforted Quinn ?" asked Chase because serious or not , it was hard to imagine the playboy taking the time to comfort the sensitive Quinn .
" I'm not a total jerk, you know ," defended Logan ," so , yeah, I was trying to comfort her cause Quinn doesn't deserve any of that crap . I don't know what happened …I put her glasses back on her and it was like there she was so I had to kiss her ."
Chase grinned . Now this beat the doldrums around stuffy old England anyday .
" Did Quinn kiss you back ?" asked Chase , feeling that it was important in the scheme of things . His mind drifted to the hundreds of times (he wished he had been as brave as Logan was) and kissed Zoey instead of being afraid and just dreaming of the right time .
Who knows how things might have turned out if he had only taking a chance ?
But he couldn't dwell on that …Zoey had a new boyfriend now and he , Chase Matthews , was stuck in Covington till the semester ended .
" Yea, she kissed me back ," answered Logan, a slow grin curving around his mouth ," so, what do I do ? This is Quinn and not some blonde bimbo …I think I have feelings for her . I mean, my heart is beating super fast and I cant stop thinking about her ! This isn't normal for me ! What do I do ?"
It was cool to see Logan freak out about a girl and the tone of his friends voice told him that he wasn't thinking of Quinn as another notch for his post but as something a whole lot more .
Was it possible that Logan Reese could be falling for a real girl ?
Chase was a man in love and thought he had first hand experience with the signs and he hoped his friend was because maybe it would do Logan some good .
" Chase , dude , your killing me here ! What should I do ? "
" You need to talk to Quinn about the kiss ," decided Chase , matter of fact," there's an off chance she was really hurt and your kiss made her feel better . I mean, I hate to say it but you know as much as I do that she really loved Del Figgalo and ..rebound ."
" Quinn isn't the type of girl to make me a rebound dude ! I..I don't think she loved him that much ….he didn't even treat her good ! " Logan got fired up just thinking about how badly that loser had treated Quinn ," you…..you don't think the kiss meant anything ?"
Chase watched his friend deflate and felt awful for bringing it up but knew Logan didn't like things sugar coated . His friend needed the truth .
" I don't know, man, I wasn't there ," continued Chase ," you were . I agree that Quinn is a good girl ..I'm just telling you to consider the possibility . I could be wrong too . You know my approach of avoid and not tell Zoey that I love her worked out well for me ….just don't do nothing like I did ." He paused , thoughtful ," Sounds to me like you really do like Quinn so you'd be stupid not to tell her …."
Logan placed his hands on his hips and let out a long sigh , digesting the advice .
" Tell Quinn that I want to date her ?" The words were out of his mouth before he realized that it was true but it was so wrong on so many levels though .
" You want to date Quinn ?" Chase couldn't resist teasing him because the whole thing was just so unbelievable but he hoped it was true . Sometimes the right girl for you was right in front of you and you just had to jump in with both feet and take a chance .
A slow smile played across Logan's face . " I think so "
" Well, good luck with Quinn ," encouraged Chase , " and I expect the play by play . No leaving me hanging wondering if Quinn laughed at you or zapped you with her laser watch ….I want updates, man ."
" Cool but you have to promise me that you wont breathe a word of this to anyone, Chase ," swore Logan , seriously ," don't tell Michael . I'm trusting you with this , dude ."
" Your secret is safe with me ," replied Chase , swallowing the lump in his throat ," so, Logan, I haven't talked to Zoey in a few weeks . How is she ? "
Logan was sympathetic to his friends plight ." Zoey is fine , " admitted Logan , wishing he had better news for his friend ," she's still with James . I'm sorry, man, I wish I had better news for you but I don't …you want me to try to break them up for you ?"
" Thanks for the offer but why don't you focus on Quinn ," said a quiet Chase , who had clung to the hope that Zoey and the new boyfriend wouldn't work out ," if Zoey is happy then I need to accept the fact and move on . Like she has …now get off of here so I can get some sleep and you need to go find Quinn and tell her the truth "
" Thanks, Chase " Logan signed out , gathered his jumbled thoughts , and tried to come up with a game plan to talk to Quinn in private . There was no way he was admitting having feelings to her when Lola and Zoey were in a room with her .
They needed to talk, privately .
Just then his cell went off and a grin slid across his handsome features .
We need to talk about earlier . In private . Meet me behind the patio of the lounge .
Do not be late . Quinn
" I'm no rebound guy " muttered Logan to himself as he typed out a response .
There were hundreds of reasons why the idea of him and Quinn Pensky were all wrong for each other but the more he replayed their kiss and their talk in his head , the more Logan realized the kiss had been everything right .
She might drive him crazy with her smart mouth and brains but maybe there had been a reason for that all along and this was his wake up call to find out if there was more between them than trading insults with each other .
Chase was right and Logan Reese was a man of action .
If the first kiss had made him this crazy, he wanted a second kiss with Quinn and that was exactly what he was going to do when he saw her .
Quinn Pensky wouldn't know what hit her .