I'm not sure what I expected with this story - truthfully, I expected to dislike it. No, really, I did. I mean, when the author's notes at the beginning is basically repeatedly saying sorry about how poor this story is . . . well . . . you don't expect to actually like the story. Not really sure how I got myself to read this one. I liked Veronica Mars, saw the film as well, and read the first of the books that got put out, but I always felt vaguely detached from it all - mostly because I thought it was interesting, while at the same time thinking that I wasn't catching enough of the stuff going on to truly understand what was going on.
But still, liked the television series and since I seem to have been sucked down into the rabbit hole of fanfiction, I'll read one that involves Veronica, eh?
Enough of that. Well, no, to continue for one specific reason - one of the reasons why I thought I might not want to read this and might actually dislike this here story, beyond the author's own note, is the simple premise part - the frenemies part.
So, right - the story is set up as Veronica telling what's been going on lately with her life in some kind of journal like way (so it's a mix of telling and showing). Telling about how Madison Sinclair caught her illegally searching the principals office. Madison hates Veronica and immediately taunts Veronica about how she's going to call the cops and stuff. Veronica, being Veronica, knows some stuff that'll keep Madison from doing so.
Somewhere along the way, Madison's lips ended up on Veronica's. No, not then, later, at school (wait, we are already in school, bah) - in the bathroom. See, Veronica had blurted something out to Madison when Madison caught her (beyond the stuff that'd keep Madison from calling the cops), that completely changed Madison's presumptions. So, Madison wanted to confront Veronica in the bathroom - to force . . . something on her. It's hard to tell, exactly, since things are from Veronica's point of view, and she certainly thinks, for the longest time, that Madison is just a stuck up bitch - the numero uno mean girl. Right, so, somewhere during this confrontation, here in the bathroom, is when Madison thrust her lips against Veronica's. Kind of a pity kiss type thing (there are reasons, I won't go into them). Something Veronica certainly didn't want, and something that wasn't supposed to necessarily lead to Madison wishing to have more kissing time.
Whatever she had wished for, and whatever Veronica felt, the kissing went long, about a minute or more long. Eventually Veronica pried Madison off of her and pushed her away. Whereupon Madison realized what she'd done and . . . well, let's not spill every detail, eh?
Point being: Madison is one of the super rich young women who life in this rich town in California; Veronica is one of the poor young women in a rich town. Madison is, to a certain extent due to natural personality issues, a massive bitch and mean girl - to many, but especially to Veronica. So - this isn't some kind of Romeo & Juliet situation. No, not talking about warring families. It'd be more like some alt universe where Darth Vader wasn't Luke's father, and somewhere after Darth cut off Luke's hand, he realized he wanted to kiss Luke. Something along those lines (and yes, Madison is evil; not slaughtering many children evil, more mean girls evil). I went with Darth and Luke instead of, say, Joker and Batman, because of the hand cutting off thing - since Madison did do something to Veronica that turned out quit horrible (accidentally or otherwise).
Right, so, Madison and Veronica hated each other, until they kissed, and realized they still hated each other, but liked kissing each other. Story unfolded from there. And I liked it a lot more than I expected to like it.
re: lesbian/bisexual. Both young women have a history of dating men (well, teenage boys of roughly their own age). Neither has any kind of history of dating women. Neither has particularly liked, always, the things they did with men, but do enjoy the things they do with each other. Story never got to the point of putting labels on people (well, Veronica did have a thought, while gazing upon 'another' lesbian couple, about Veronica and Madison doubling the number of lesbian couples at the school).
Oh right, since it's fanfiction, and therefore based on real people (or real images . . . unless it was fanfiction of ficiton but . . right, sorry), I have been inserting pictures of the characters as the characters (um, weirdly worded).
- Madison Sinclair
Veronica Mars
Rating: 4.67
September 23 2017
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