<P> The shock and loss of income destroyed the Mars family . Veronica's mother started drinking heavily and abandoned the family several months later . </P> <P> Veronica sealed her fate as an outsider when she refused to denounce her father . Duncan stopped speaking to Veronica, and the rest of the 09ers followed suit . Veronica found herself banished from the exclusive 09er social scene and friends . </P> <P> Two months after Lilly's death, Veronica crashed an 09er party, thrown by Shelley Pomroy, to prove to her ex-friends that she did not care what they said about her . At the party, Veronica's drink is spiked with GHB and she awakens the next morning in a guest bedroom without any recollection of the night before and without any underwear . To her horror, she realizes she was raped . When she reports the crime to Sheriff Lamb, he calls her a liar and throws her out of his office . </P> <P> These events change Veronica . She became cynical, filled with contempt and disgust towards her classmates and Neptune's wealthy elite . A pariah like her father, she funneled her time and energy into helping him in his own detective agency . But when a chance encounter with new transfer student Wallace Fennel led to her gaining a new friend, she began to use her investigation talents to help her fellow students and to go head to head with the 09'ers . </P>

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