Author's Note: Hey guys! This is my first fanfic, but I've been working on it forever! I've only written this chapter so far but I really want to continue. I have ideas, but I want to see the response before I continue. Not gonna waste my time by writing if my writing sucks! Haha. I'm kind of a grammar freak, so if you see mistakes, don't be afraid to tell me! Gilmore Girls is my favorite show in the world. I cried for days when it ended. Haha, yeah I'm kind of pathetic. Anyway, let me know what you think of my story!

Disclaimer: I own nothing except my idea! That credit belongs to the one and only Amy Sherman-Palladino. I bow down to you!

Synopsis: Rory got in to Chilton because of one "unusual vacancy." This vacancy was due to Logan Huntzberger's strange and fast departure to a Belgian boarding school. Rumors spread widely about his alleged expulsion. Rory heard all of Logan's infamous stories and always wondered who he was...

The Truth Behind the Vacancy

Chapter 1

Almost sixteen-year old Rory Gilmore walked into the kitchen of Stars Hollow's famous Independence Inn. Her mother, Lorelai Gilmore and her mother's friend Sookie St. James, were talking. As Rory walked in Lorelai quickly clammed up and shoved a bag behind her back.

Rory had just had an awful day at school. Stars Hollow High School was mundane, and boring for the truly intellectual girl. Rory had been reading since she was 3, and had read Huckleberry Finn, the current English novel, when she was 9.

Rory loved school, however the daily routine was getting old, and Rory was just plainly bored. The people were the same people she saw every day, and had been seeing every day since she first started kindergarten. Besides her best friend Lane Kim, Rory didn't have many other friends. She wasn't in any clubs or involved in other extracurricular activities. Rory and Lorelai were freakishly close, mainly due to the sixteen-year age difference between them. Lorelai had run from her high-society life and parents in Hartford, Connecticut as a seventeen-year old and brought Rory, without a father, to live in Stars Hollow.

Although Rory loved the town, she wasn't being challenged, which made her feel uninterested and jaded. She had applied to a private prep school, Chilton, in Hartford, but Rory wasn't optimistic. Even if she did get in, the money was tight, and Chilton was extraordinarily expensive. Chilton, however, Rory knew was the key to her future. With Chilton's help, she could achieve her full potential and get into Harvard University. Rory's dream for as long as she could remember was to go to Harvard and become a foreign correspondent. The next Christianne Amanpour, to be exact.

Rory dropped her bags and pouted.

"Behold. The thing that reads a lot." Lorelai exclaimed.

"Chocolate?" Rory asked.

"In the cup over there," Sookie responded. Sookie was the chef at the Inn that Lorelai ran.

Rory got her chocolate and as she bit in she realized that Lorelai and Sookie were unusually giddy.

"You're happy."

"Yeah," Lorelai smiled.

"Did you do something slutty?" Rory asked warily.

"I'm not that happy…" Lorelai laughed. She pulled out a blue pleated skirt from the bag hidden behind her back.

"I'm going to be in a Britney Spears video?"

"You're going to Chilton!" Sookie blurted out. "Sorry." She smiled apologetically at Lorelai who glared at Sookie for divulging her secret.

"Mom?" Rory asked hopefully.

"You did it babe. You got in." Lorelai smiled proudly at the brink of tears.

Wow. Rory thought. I'm going to Chilton!

The next day Rory walked in to school with Lane. They were talking about the upcoming winter hayride and how Lane's ultra-conservative Korean parents were forcing her to go with a future doctor and his whole family.

"I can't believe today is my last day at Stars Hollow High" Rory commented as they walked up the stairs.

"I know, I'm totally going to miss you. I told my mom today."

"Is she thrilled?"

"The party's on Friday." Lane laughed.

After class Rory was trying to make it out the door with the entire contents of her locker in her arms. It was too much for her fragile arms to handle and she dropped the box and spilled everything.

"Great." She muttered while stooping down to pick everything up. Rory looked up and saw a boy just standing there. "God."

"Rosemary's Baby" the boy stated. "Well that was a great movie."

"Yeah…" Rory responded. She and the mystery boy locked eyes, and she was breathless. He was beautiful. He was around 6'2'' with gorgeous deep brown locks. They starting talking as he helped her gather her things. She learned that his name was Dean, he was from Chicago, and he was looking for a job. She recommended him to Miss Patty, the town know-it-all who would know who was looking for a job. There was a little awkwardness, but that was to be expected, as Rory had never really had guy friends. They walked around all around the town, talking and talking. Rory was happier than she had been in a long time. Finally she realized the time and ran home to drop her things off before meeting her mom at Luke's Diner, their regular restaurant for all meals and snacks. Luke, the owner, had a thing for her mother, and he always gave them special treatment.

"So. You were late getting home today." Lorelai started to make dinner conversation.

"Yeah. I uh went to the library." Rory didn't know why she was lying. Normally she told her mom everything.

"Hm. Oh by the way, dinner with the grandparents tomorrow."

"Why? It's September. What holiday is in September?"

"No holiday, it's just a dinner thing."

"What if I had plans? You didn't even ask me!" Rory got defensive.

"If you had plans I would have known."

"How?"

"You would have told me!"

"I don't tell you everything you know." Rory grumbled. Yeah like how I met the perfect guy today that I probably won't ever see again.

"Hey, I had dibs on being the bitch tonight."

"Just tonight?"

They bickered for a little while because Rory brought up the possibility that she wasn't going to go to Chilton. Lorelai told her that was ridiculous and finally Rory got up and stormed out. "Let's go home." She griped.

"Yeah, let's go home and try that apology again!" Lorelai shouted after her.

On the way home, the inseparable pair continued to argue. As they walked by Miss Patty's, Miss Patty herself stuck her head out the door and told Rory, "Hey Rory I think I've found a job for your man friend!"

"What man friend?" Lorelai exclaimed. Rory kept walking. "Oh you're going to have to walk faster than that! You're going to have to turn into fricken Flojo to get away from me!"

Back at the house Rory ran into her room and slammed the door.

"Does he have a motorcycle? 'Cause if you're gonna throw your life away he better have a motorcycle!" Lorelai called after her.

Finally Lorelai got sick of the fighting, and walked into Rory's room. She told her that under no circumstances would Rory not attend Chilton. She was going to be there, Monday morning. End of story.

Lorelai slammed Rory's door on the way out. They both turned on their respective radios and sulked to the same music. Eventually they both gave up and went to sleep, brooding in their dreams.

The fight continued for three days. This was one of the worst fights Lorelai and Rory had ever had. Neither would give up.

The next night, Rory and Lorelai stood on the elder Gilmore's doorstep. Lorelai started babbling about how they needed to act like they were not fighting, because she didn't want to explain what was going on to Emily. Rory muttered, "Fine" and they rang the doorbell.

The dinner seemed to be going well, until Lorelai started bickering with her parents at the table. Finally Lorelai stood up in anger and said, "I'm going to get a Coke…or a knife."

Rory tried not to listen, but as Emily went into the kitchen to "comfort Lorelai" as best as she could, Lorelai's screams wafted through the swinging door. Rory couldn't believe it. The reason they were there was because Lorelai had gone to her parents, whom she had had major problems with since she got pregnant at 16 and fled their house at 17 taking their baby granddaughter with her, to ask for money. No matter where Lorelai had been in her life, she had never asked for anything from her parents. Rory realized how important her going to Chilton was to her mother.

Throughout the rest of dinner, Rory sat, realizing that there was no way she could throw her future away for some guy. He could not be worth getting rejected from Harvard because she threw away this opportunity.

As she and her mother stood outside the Gilmore's door after the disastrous dinner, Rory decided to share her current epiphany.

"Maybe it'll be better next Friday."

"Wait, next Friday? Does this mean…?" Lorelai asked.

"Can't let a perfectly good plaid skirt go to waste." Rory said cautiously.

Lorelai hugged her daughter. She had known Rory would come around eventually. Now she just hoped that they both had enough stamina to make it through three more years of Friday Night Dinners.

Rory couldn't believe it. She was going to Chilton. In three days. Could she handle it? Would the workload be too much? She really had no idea.

Lorelai thought about the abrupt vacancy at Chilton. Before the call last week, the Headmaster had been very firm in saying that they were absolutely full. What could have possibly happened in one week to make a space open for Rory? Guess she'd find out soon enough…

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