Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to Gilmore Girls. Sadly, the only thing I own is my original characters and plot.

A/N: Hey guys! Umm, story. I know I know, I need to update my others especially Arranged Marriage. Alas, in posting this story I have reawoken the muse within my self and I should have updates on all of my other stories soon. I promise. So, this chapter is a little prologue basically. I have fallen in love lately with stories where Rory and Logan grew up together as best friends so I decided to take a stab at it myself. I haven't really tried to write angst before so here it is. Although the first chapter is angst free it'll come shortly after. Hope you enjoy!

Rory had a great life. She honestly did, but she's always felt like something was missing. She has a great family, the best friends a girl could ask for, and she was finally a senior in high school.

She had gotten up extra early this morning, it was the first day of school and Rory was having a hard time sleeping anyways. Damn that Finn calling her at 5 a.m. to let her know what today was like she didn't know. She is Rory Gilmore-Hayden, ruler of all bookworms.

Rory knew the real reason why Finn called this morning. He needed a ride. See, that's the thing with Finn. Leave it to him to be drunk at 5 a.m. the day before school starts. He called Rory because he knew she'd show up the next morning and drag his hung over ass out of bed. She is the most reasonable one of the group. She's got the eyes that will make any boy or man do anything that she asks. This makes her a girl with great power in the Chilton halls. Being the best friend of the three most eligible bachelors in Hartford comes with a power in itself.

Girls generally either love her or hate her. Honestly, she was okay with that. Especially the latter, she hated when girls tried to be her friend just to get to the boys. Call her overprotective, but she just hated girls whose only aspiration was to be a Hartford trophy wife. Her boys deserved better than that.

Rory put the finishing touches on her appearance and grabbed her backpack. She had pulled her loose curls in a pony tail so she could leave the top down in her red mustang convertible. Rory really did have the best of both worlds. She had the perks of her high society life, but she had the personality of the small town girl whom everyone loved. She loved a good book and a great party at the same time. She felt really well balanced. She seemed like the perfect person, at least to outsiders and she liked it that way. Only those close to her knew the real Rory and she felt a lot safer that way. She finally had made her way to Finn's house to start her day as the senior Chilton queen.

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Rory pulled up to the Morgan estate. 'Deathly quiet as usual,' she mused. She made the walk up to Finn's door and let herself in. Rory didn't bother to knock, she knew Finn hated the wait staff. He almost always told them to go home when his parents weren't home which was almost always. Rory opened up the door to Finn's room and peeked inside, messy as usual.

"Finn get your exotic ass out of bed! You know I hate being late for the first day of school."

"Mmph. Go away love."

"Finnegan Morgan! I mean business mister. Do NOT make me get Gellar over here!"

"Now Rory, why would you tease a man like that? It's not nice."

"Man? I don't see a man in here. Last I knew, a grown man could get himself out of bed on time with out the help of his best friend."

"Love, trust me. I am a grown man," he wiggled his eyebrows to make his point.

"Ten minutes or I get Gellar!" Rory threw his Chilton uniform on the bed and headed downstairs for another cup of coffee while she waited. She had a feeling she was going to need it.

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Twenty minutes and a phone call to Paris later, Rory was finally standing in front of her locker. She smiled to herself remembering Finn practically catapult himself out of bed this morning. It was always interesting when Paris and him are together. She dropped a book as someone's hands covered her eyes.

"Good morning beautiful."

"Huntz, I smell coffee. Gimme!"

"Now Ace, not even a hello Logan? How are you? I mean I haven't seen you in weeks! Even you have a hard time staying away from me that long."

Rory turned around and threw her arms around Logan. "I'm going to ignore that comment until later."

"I honestly did miss you Rory. Fiji was lonely without you."

"Just because you didn't have me there to get you out of trouble. At least Finn wasn't with you this year so I know you behaved at least the slightest bit." Rory beamed up at him. Out of all her friends Logan knew her the best. After all, they've known each other since they were three. If she was completely honest with herself she knew she had missed him the last two weeks. Sure they talked on the phone almost everyday but it wasn't the same.

"Awe, Ace. You know me too well." Logan smiled down at his best friend and tightened his grip around her.

"Look here Colin. Our lovely mate has returned from beyond! Are we speaking to him?" Finn had been a little bitter when Logan announced to the gang that he was going on vacation alone this year.

"I don't know Finn, I'm just a tight ass remember?"

Logan flinched at the memory. His friends hadn't been very happy with Logan and that upset him. "Look guys, I thought we already talked about this..."

Colin and Finn just smiled at each other before tackling him in the hallway. "It's good to have you back mate!"

Logan looked around at his best friends and smiled. 'It's great to be back,' he thought.

Rory smiled at the three stooges. Yes, this year was going to be great. Nothing could change that. If she had only known then what was in store for the rest of the year, she might've thought differently.