Chapter 1

The Dawning

The triumphant smile on Rory's face had yet to diminish as she departed from her grandfather and entered her dorm room. She continued basking in the glow of her payback as she dropped to her bed preparing to study for her psychology midterm. Just as she started reading about Pavlov's famous dog, her mind began to wander back to the events of the day. She could not help but smile thinking about the shocked look on Logan's face as her grandfather told him about their upcoming wedding.

After Marty's blunt revelation, Rory had thought of little else aside from Logan and how to pay him back after his rude interruption during her class accompanied by his two fellow cronies. In the past Rory has had to deal with the unusual and irritating tactics of the opposite gender, but none has irritated her as much as Logan. She was convinced that Logan assumed he could get anything he wanted because of his good looks and "charming" personality. That is why Rory was so proud of her inability to fall for his antics. She was able to coexist with Logan and remain unaltered by his boyish good-looks, his witty personality, his charm, his friends…

The smile that settled on Rory's face slowly diminished as she thought about Logan. After months of tolerating his escapades Rory feared that she may not be as strong as she thought.

"Oh my GOD," she thought out loud. "I like him. I really truly like him."

Who was she trying to fool? Logan was her match. He was the perfect balance of the good boy Dean and the bad boy Jess. He was fun, smart, daring, sweet and thrilling all encased in a handsome package. Sure he irritated her to no end, but after each encounter with him she was left breathless and intrigued.

The simple fact that she realized her feelings for him angered Rory. She did not want to be one of his many female followers. She was not the kind of girl who flirted and flounced around the male species in attempt to get their attention. In fact, Rory spent most of her time completely ignorant of how guys felt towards her. That is what attracted most of them to her. She is unlike any other girl in that respect. She is beautiful in the simple traditional form of beauty, she is intelligent, she is witty and she can hold her own in most situations.

In the past Rory became awkward around the guys she fell for. She developed a fight or flight pattern and spent most of her time running from the possibility of any type of romantic relationship. Dean and Jess both turned her into a bumbling fool in their presence. She turned into the type of girl she hated. The type of girl who calls their crushes and hangs up, or spend hours watching them from afar, too scared to do anything about it.

After Dean's second go around, Rory was determined to stay away from the opposite gender and focus on school and the paper. She even had herself convinced that men were no good and would only distract her from school. Thus, during the whole Logan debacle, she did not even consider the possibility that she may have feelings for him. She just assumed that she would continue on with her boy hiatus and focus on school. In fact, it was not until Marty pointed out that Logan had a school-boy like crush on her that Rory even considered Logan as anything more than an irritant. Now that it dawned on her that she was in fact crushing on Logan, she feared what her next step would be.

Rory picked up her cell phone preparing to call Logan. She wanted to talk to him about her prank and make sure he was not left in a shock induced coma after her grandfather's stunning performance. After punching in the first few numbers, Rory thought better of calling him and put her phone down. Determined to keep him off her mind, Rory returned to the intriguing world of Pavlov. After reading the same sentence five times, again Rory picked up her cell phone and this time completed her call.

"Santa's workshop…this is head elf Gribbles, what can I do for you?" said the comforting voice.

"Mom!" Rory nearly shouted, "I need your help, I think I may have feelings for a certain guy, and I don't know what to do."

"Oh wow Rory, I did not think we would have to have the 'Birds and the Bees' chat, especially after Dean, but I guess it is time. When a girl and boy love each other, certain feelings start to overwhelm them…"

"Oh shut up mom." Rory interrupted her. "I seriously don't know what to do about this. I have never played at this caliber before."

"Well first things first…who is the lucky guy? No wait don't tell me, let me guess…I am going to say George Clooney. And really, you have good taste. He does claim to be in a permanent state of bachelorhood, but I bet with the right girl he would settle down…so you are taking on good 'ol George hu?"

"Seriously Mom, can't you take anything seriously? I am going crazy here!"

"Okay fine. You have my full, undivided attention. I am sure, however, that George is going to be heartbroken once he hears you like another man."

"It is Logan mom. I like Logan…okay? Enough about George. I mean really, did you see him in Batman? He does not compare to Michael Keaton! Like I would ever have a thing for George Clooney, I mean really, what is he? 60?"

"Hang on there my beautiful offspring. Are you telling me outright that you have a crush on Logan? You are going to admit it fully. You are not going to deny that you have feelings and run and hide in your room? You are not going to call him and hang up, too scared to tell him how you feel? You are going to embrace your feelings for this guy and see how it goes? You are going to fly in the face of fear and go out with this Logan character and see how it plays out?"

"WELLLL….I never said any of that. I finally just admitted to myself that I like him, and that is why I called. You know that I am not any good when it comes to boys. I never know how to act or what to say. You make it look so easy. You manage to wow them with your feminine whiles and you leave them in a bumbling heap. I on the other hand, turn into the bumbling heap when around the guys I like, and thus need a plan on how I can wow Logan without looking like a complete idiot."

"Oh my dear naïve child. Don't you realize that it is just this behavior that wows these guys? That is what they like about you. Look at Jess and Dean, they liked your innocence and your brains. They did not care if you could flirt and bat your eyelashes."

"Okay, that makes sense and everything mom, but this is not Jess or Dean. Logan is different, I want to impress him. I want to get his attention and I want him to know that I am not like anybody else he has ever dated."

"Okay Jr., I think that desperate times call for desperate measures."

With that Lorelei and Rory began hatching their plan to win over one Logan Huntzberger.

So this is my first Fanfiction story, but I thought that I could maybe write something kinda interesting. I thought that all of the stories about how Logan liked Rory first were getting repetitive or something, so I thought I would mix it up a bit. Please R&R