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It looked innocent enough. After all it was just a book. Some people picked it up and enjoyed the story within its pages. Others never even gave it a glance. It was even talked about amongst friends who liked the story it told. The Author was not well known and the book was the only one ever written by that person. They had meant to write it to let out some of the emotions they had been keeping locked up. Their therapist had thought it was a good idea. It was never suppose to be published. No one was ever supposed to read it. But when you leave stuff lying around sometimes other people pick them up. That is what happened with the book. The Author had a friend who worked for a small successful publishing house. The Author had left their laptop on and open to the book. The friend had come over to have lunch with the Author, and the Author had left him alone in the room where the computer was on while they finished getting ready. The friend had been looking at a picture sitting next to the computer and when he glanced at the screen a few words caught his eye. He was never the type of person to pry into his friend's lives without asking but sometimes when you are reading a really good story it is hard to stop. That is what he told the Author when they caught him reading it. The Author was furious! That was personal. The friend had no right to look at it. They never went to lunch. The friend was asked to leave. The friend had read enough to be interested though. He tried for months to apologize but the Author didn't want to hear it. Finally after almost a year of not speaking to the friend, the Author asked him to come over. The Author's therapist told them that they should maybe listen to what the friend thought about the book. Sharing your emotions was a good thing. So the Author forgave the friend and let him finish reading the book. The friend said that it was good and if the Author wanted too he could get it published once it was finished. At first the Author said no. It would hurt some people's feelings if they read it. The friend accepted this answer and asked to read it when more was added. The Author said okay. Over the next two years the Author kept writing and the friend liked it more each time he read it. Finally the Author decided that they were done writing about that part of their life. It was time to move on and be happy again. Once again when the friend finished the book he told the Author that it should be published. This time the Author thought about what he said and a week after it was done the Author agreed. After all the Author could change all the names and since the friend's publishing house was so small the book might not be widely distributed. And maybe the people it affected the most would never read it. So the Author changed all the names, picked a pen name and let the friend publish it.

When it first came out the book did alright. It wasn't a best seller or anything. The literary world hardly noticed it at all. Until one day when a young woman from New York picked it up in a store off the beaten path. She loved it. And she just happened to be from a major publishing house. She wanted to know who the Author was. So she called the small publishing house to ask about them. She was connected to the friend. He told her that it was the Author's first book and that they didn't plan to write another. When she asked him if she could help the book sell better he was reluctant at first. After talking to the Author a deal was made. The two publishing houses would work together to help get the book out there to more people, just as long as the Author didn't have to do anything more then what they already did. So the young woman worked hard and managed to put a copy in several major bookstores in America. The book sold well. It wasn't number one on the New York Times bestseller list but it was at the bottom of the list for a few months. The book was doing well and the Author kept waiting for a visit or phone call, something to show that the people it was about had read it. But it never happened. Nobody ever yelled at the Author for what they wrote in the book. Years went by and the Author moved on with their life. Most of the time the Author forgot completely about the book and about the life that caused the book to be written. Little did the Author know that twenty years after writing the book their life would be changed.

Hartford, Connecticut

June 2016

Thirty-two year old and eight months pregnant Rory Huntzberger was bored. There was nothing for her to do at home. She had already spent the morning cleaning it up and planning what to feed her family for dinner. Ryan's nursery had been done for weeks and she had just finished an article. Logan told her that she should use the last weeks of her pregnancy to relax and do whatever she wanted. Rory usually used her occasional day off to do just that, but she had already done most of her day off activities since going on maternity leave two weeks ago. So after finishing her morning chores and dropping Richie and Julie off at school she decided to go shopping. The young mother spent most of the morning wondering from store to store occasionally picking a little something up for Logan or one of the kids. It was almost lunch time when she came across a small bookstore. It was nothing spectacular just a small and cozy. It reminded Rory a lot of the one back in Stars Hollow. The place was empty when she walked in, which she secretly loved, and she started to browse. She looked at almost every book in the place. It took her almost two hours and she had a stack that would get a laugh out of her husband. The elderly shopkeeper looked surprised at how many books she had and told her so.

"Wow you she did find a lot!" Rory smiled at the older woman.

"Yes well my husband tells me that I have a serious addiction."

"We can set some of those aside for you if you like?"

"Oh no it's alright I will just need to make several trips to my car."

"You know we have a small shelf in the back that hardly anyone looks at of some older books if you wanted to take a look." Margret, the shopkeeper, told her while starting to ring her up. Rory looked reluctant at first but then decided that she was already buying so much what could looking at a few more hurt. As she looked through them she discovered that at one point or another she had read most of them. She was about to go back up to the counter when it caught her eye. It looked almost brand new and like something somebody from Hollywood would make into a romantic comedy. Very rarely did Rory ever pick up a book like this but as she looked at the cover something about it told her that it wouldn't be your typical romantic comedy. Rory knew that she would be buying this book before she ever turned it over to read the back. There was something about it that intrigued her and the reporter in her had to figure out what that was. When she went back up to where Margret was and handed the last book at her the older woman smiled down at the book she had.

"I love this book. I don't know what it is but something in the way the Author writes has you hooked before you even begin reading. When I read it I felt like there was something more to the story and that someday someone would come buy it and it would change their life. I know that's silly but it is a feeling I have always had. I hope you enjoy it." After paying for her books Rory went and picked up Julie from preschool. The mother and daughter had lunch at a small café not too far from home when they ran into Katie Morgan and her four year old twins.

"Hey Rory, Julie." The red-headed mother greeted.

"Hey Katie, Cayden, Amy, would you guys like to join us?" Rory asked her friend.

"We would love to. Thank you Rory." After the group was settled and had ordered their food Katie turned to her friend.

"So how are you feeling Rory?"

"I'm ready for him to be here already. I am kind of ready to be done being pregnant."

"Yeah that's how I was the last couple months with the twins. It made me a little irritable too and Finn and I got into some small fights. During one of them I told him that after this I was done having kids, that five was enough. This confused him and caused him to ask if I was having triplets and just forgot to tell him, then I told him that sometimes being married to him made me feel like I had an extra kid." Rory could see the look that Finn must have got on his face and laughed.

"Yeah well Logan and I had decided that we were done. I mean we have one of each and neither of us was desperate to have another so we weren't going to have another. Logan didn't want to get snipped though so I said I would stay on birth control and of course that means I end up pregnant." Katie gave her friend a questioning look.

"Right after we were married Logan and I decided to wait to have children, so I stayed on my birth control and we still used condoms of course. Not too long after that I got pregnant with Richie. He was a surprise but a good surprise. We planned on Julie as you know and right after her fourth birthday made the decision not to have another kid. When we found out I was pregnant and that it was a boy Logan made a joke that every time we decide not to have a kid I get pregnant with a boy. I told Logan that that it showed a little Huntzberger rebellion in the boys."

"I promise that I will do my best to make sure my godson doesn't rebel too badly but I can't promise that Finn won't." Rory laughed. The two young mothers spent a few hours catching up, while their children played together. By the time Rory and Julie got home it was time to start dinner. So she got her daughter settled with a coloring book and did just that. Soon after dinner was done Logan and Richie came home and the family of four ate while talking about their days. It wasn't until the kids were in bed that Rory got a chance to start reading her new book. She settled in, kissed her husband goodnight and started to read, not realizing that it would change her life and the life of the people around her.

If you were to ask anyone who was around when everything started they would tell you that it began in 1980. They would be wrong. It really began when I was eight or nine was and my brother Michael was six or seven. We had been having a picnic at the park and Michael and I were playing with some kids we met there. My father stopped by to surprise us and became furious at our nanny for letting us play with 'kids like that' as my father put it. Mother was with us and stopped father from firing nanny right on the spot. But for the entire next week mother woke Michael and I and looked after us all day. That day in the park had changed my perspective on my entire world. Until that day, my life had been one of privilege. My siblings and I went to the best schools that money could buy, and could have anything or go anywhere we wanted. But when I thought about how angry father was at nanny I realized that we were expected to be a certain way. That because of our money we were expected to socialize with certain people. Even at the age of eight I didn't think that was right. I didn't like the things my family did to save face with their so called friends. I didn't like what people got away with in this world. The things people overlooked like it was nothing and then made a big deal out of something that was nothing. So what year did it really start? It started for real in 1967, my eighth year in this world was the year I started to hate my life.

Alright so I'm back with another story. I hope that it didn't confuse anybody to much in the beginning. I had a hard time writing the first part because I can't reveal any of the first characters names yet. The stuff in italics at the end is the book Rory is reading. I am going to try and go back and forth between the books time and present day. I don't know if I will do very well. For those of you who read my last story it might be awhile yet before I get to a sequel on that but I WILL be doing one. I have said this before; I tend to write a little less when I am off of school. I am trying to work on that though. Also I am trying to write another story for a different tv show at the same time. I will finish this story because I like it. If you have read Saving Logan then the pairing are the same but this is not in the same universe as that story. Lastly please let me know what you think. I live to hear what you guys have to say about my writing. If there is something you think I can do better or something I'm not doing that you think I should please let me know. I want to get better. Hope you enjoy this.

Brianna

P.S. After this chapter I will do my best to make chapters longer. This one was kind of a prologue.