A/N: here is my new story. Hope you like it!
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A Stranger By The Sea
Chapte One: Loss
Rory look as the man of her dream stand before her, his usual smile, now a straight line on his face. His usual glimmering eyes that use to shine just for her, was now glazed over with disappointment. She wished that there was some way she could get him to calm down and accept that she just wasn't quite ready to settle down in her dream life with Logan just yet.
She felt that her future was not yet set in stone, and for the first time in her life, she felt like she was finally able to breath. No constricting rules to govern her every move any more. Just pure bliss, and it felt very refreshing. She had never had the pleasure of just being able to stop and smell the roses.
She watched as Logan shook his head in disappointment; put his hands in his beautifully tailored blue suit, which made his eyes seem even more impossibly blue that it already was. She had to admit, saying no to his beautiful face, and watching it drop like she had never seen it do before, felt like a boulder had just been rolled right over the top of her.
Two words escaped his lips, "goodbye Rory" and with that he walked out of her life forever. Like the last three years had meant nothing to him. She looked on till he no longer was the vision that she felt so drawn to like a magnet since the moment she had met him. His empty presence like a cold shaft of wind, bellowing an unheard sound like a hymn.
"Goodbye Logan" she whispered softly and headed for where she had seen her family hovering over last, and put the most magnificent smile on her face.
She was going to be fine. Right?
++++ AFTER GRADUATION ++++
Her mother was the first to see her, and waved proudly to her daughter. She waved back, feeling absolutely nothing. A cold brush of wind threw her forward, not seeming to notice, her mother rushed forward, catching her, and snapping her out of her daze.
"Rory what's the matter with you? Are you feeling sick?" her mother panic, looking her over to see if there was a change in her.
"The wind almost blew me over" she explained to her mother, but her mother just nodded, sensing that there was something terribly wrong with her daughter, and it was not the sick kind of terrible either. She knew she didn't need to press her daughter in such subjects; it would fly out of her mouth when it was the right time.
"Come on honey, everyone is waiting for us" she guided her daughter towards the rest of the family.
"Rory, I am so proud of you honey" her father gushed at her, hugging her tight.
"It went so fast, I didn't even have time to blink my eyes" her grandmother commented, kissing her granddaughter on the cheek proudly.
"My, my. My only granddaughter graduating from Yale" her grandfather said with such pride in his voice.
She nodded her head with all the comments that they had thrown at her, but she still felt like emptiness in the pit of her stomach.
++++ THE NEXT DAY LATER ++++
"So how does it feeling being an alumni of one of the most prestigious colleges in America?" Lane asked her best friend.
"Logan broke up with me" she blurted out to her.
"I was not expecting you to say that one" Lane said in shock, bringing Rory in for a cuddle.
"Neither did I…" she said without any emotion in her voice.
"Does Lorelai know?" she pulled back to look at her best friend in the eye.
Rory shook her head sadly, not wanting to admit the truth to her mother.
"Well don't you think she should know this before you leave?" Lane reasoned with her.
Rory shook her head again, not wanting to hear or feel the wrath of her mother.
"Okay so this is a nodding and shaking question time?"
Rory nodded again, not wanting to say a word.
"So did Logan tell you this after you graduated?" Lane asked again.
She shook her head this time, breaking the trance she was in.
"God Lane! Am I just meant to move on with my life like the last three years didn't exist?" she fumed at the top of her lungs, standing up and jumping up and down with all the frustrations she had been feeling for the past few days.
Lane just watched her have her wave of tantrum and ranting. Knowing she needed to let off all the emotions and steam that she had been holding inside her for the past couple of days.
"A whole lot of crazy. Sorry Lane" she apologized sadly, looking over at her friend.
"It's okay Ror' you had to let it all out" Lane soothed her friend sadly, hating that she was hurting.
++++ THAT NIGHT ++++
"Hey kiddo. I am sooo hungry I can eat a whole lota melons. Lemons, watermelons, melon dews, melons, melons, melons…" her mother said to her daughter, closing the door behind her. "Ror' you home? Making me feel rather stupid, not replying you know" she said in an even tone, trying not to laugh at her own silliness.
"Ror' honey, fruit of my loins, your darling, beautiful and very hungry mother is home! Heeelllooo" she called out again.
Three messages; she pressed the answering machine button. A piece of paper lay neatly next to it.
"How about we get take out from every place we know? What do you say?" she called out to the empty house, while she unfolded the single piece of white paper.
'Mom gone for a drive. Be back in a couple of days' the note read in neat written letters by her daughter in question.
She heard her mother begin to talk, and she pressed the erase button, she knew her mother would ring her back till she received what she needed from her. Next was a message from her dad, speaking about the previous message from her mother. Delete. She shook her head at her parents. The third was yet another message from her, speaking about her first message and her father's message. Delete.
She grabbed her mobile phone from her bag to check her messages, none from her daughter, very odd indeed.