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Patience is a virtue. Good things happen to those who wait. If only Valencia could live by those virtues, to her patience was a vice and amazing things happened if you went out and got it yourself. She wasn't raised like this, as a matter of fact her mother was quiet the opposite. Her mother liked to go at her own pace and did things in the correct order at the correct time. Valencia admired this about her mother but couldn't understand how she did it.
V was always angered when she thought about her mother's patience, if she wasn't like that then my father would know who I am, she thought angrily. In all of her 17 years she has only seen a picture of her father and that's all. She didn't know his name or how he and her mother met; all she knew was that she got all of her looks from him except for her mother's piercing blue eyes. When ever she tried to ask her mother about him she would just wave V off and tell her that it isn't important.
"But it is to me mom can't you see?" she yelled at her just a mere 10 minutes ago. It was a week until her 18th birthday and she thought that she had the right to know at least his name but yet again her mother could not see her point. So V ran off to Central Par, it was a 20 minute walk (10 since she ran) so she could cool down and think clearly. Little did she know that this trip to the park would change her life…
Chapter One: A Walk in the Park
I was walking towards my favorite part of this park, its one of the rock mountains near a baseball field and ever since I was little I called it MY Mountain and it still is to this day. This is where I come if I ever need to get away from life or in this case my mother. How could she not understand that I want to know my dad? What could he have possibly done for her to break off all contact with him even when she was pregnant? I mean Nana Lorelei still talks to Papa Chris even after their divorce, so what could he have done?
Thud. Crap I walked into something again. But when I looked up it isn't an inanimate object it's a 40 something year old man.
"I'm sorry about that, I didn't see you." I smile apologetically at him.
"No harm no foul love, I wasn't either so we are both to blame." He had a faded Australian accent, Nana would love him.
"Sorry, I was just thinking and I just got into a fight with my mom and I'm caffeine deprived and I haven't read a good book in well forever…" he cut me off.
"Slow down now, no need to ramble," he chuckled, like he was remembering someone, "caffeine deprived eh? Let's go fix that and you can vent. You look like you need it."
"Umm thanks but my Uncle Logan told me never to accept coffee from strangers." I laughed; Uncle Logan was always super protective of me, he was a sort of father in that way.
"Logan? One of my best mates is Logan. What's his last name?" he looked entertained like he was hosting a game show.
Instead of telling him I just stuck my finger up (one minute) and got my phone out. If he knew Uncle Logan then I'd hear it from the horse's mouth.
"Uncky Logan!" I squeal into the phone after he finally picked up.
"V? Do you know what time it is here?" he sounded sleepy and confused.
"Don't care," I quipped, "I have a guy in front of me offering coffee and he says he knows you."
"What? How the hell? What did I tell you?" he sounded awake now, angry but awake.
"Here hold on." And I handed the phone to the Australian. "Talk to him." I told him.
"Well I hope this is the Logan I know because if it isn't well then this would be bloody awkward." The Australian rambled.
"Finn?"
"The one and only Uncky Logan," he had a huge grin on so I guess it is the same Logan, "You never told me Honor has a what I'm guessing an 18 year old daughter."
"She doesn't Finn." He barley got the words out. "Valencia is Ace's daughter." Finn went ghost white and looked at me, something in his eyes clicked.
"Logan, who is her father?" with that I snatched the phone from him, I wouldn't give him the chance to find out who my father was since I still didn't know.
"Logan can I have coffee with him since you seem to know him? Seriously I haven't had coffee in two hours." Logan laughed and gave his consent.
"So your Finn." I said as soon as Logan and I hung up. He simply nodded, still not saying a word. "It's finally nice to meet the famous Finnegan Morgan." I say with flourish. Seriously he needed to laugh a little. But again he just nodded, "How about that promised coffee?" again a nod and we started walking in an awkward silence. As we walked I looked at him from the corner of my eye.
Then I saw it, it was his profile that jogged my memory. Though he wasn't laughing in a still frame like the picture he still looked the same. The same as the only picture that I had of my father. I suddenly felt myself loose all color, is it really?
No it couldn't be. I stopped suddenly, Finn stopped after a few steps, and he simply looked at me in confusion. "Valencia? Are you all right?" he sounded hesitant, like he wasn't sure if he was either.
"Its you." I whispered.
"Me?" I pulled out the picture that I kept in my wallet and handed it to him.
The picture was of him and my mother drinking coffee at the Pub. Well mom was drinking coffee; Finn looked like he was drinking a beer. He had one arm around her and both were laughing. They looked very happy and very in love which was always why V was confused as to why they split.
Finn finally spoke after five minutes of staring at the picture. "Where did you get this?" he barley got the words out.
"Come on." I started to pull him towards the apartment; mom had to explain herself now. She would have no choice.
As we entered the door way mom called out to me from the kitchen, "Valencia Lorelei Gilmore! You better have a damn good…" she stopped as soon as she saw Finn and I.
"Finn." was all she said.
Chapter Two
The room was in a standstill. No one was saying anything, how ever there was a lot of staring going on. By mother's reaction I got my answer right away but I wanted her to be the one to tell me, like Nana always said, "You know what they say when people assume."
"Ok awkward silence over! I want answers please." I practically shouted. Mom just stared at me, Finn was staring at her and I had the look of 'Dammit woman tell me!'
"V can I talk to Finn first?" mom asked pleadingly. At first I was going to say no but the look on her face, it was so desperate so broken. So I nodded my head and headed towards my room waiting for the summance.
Finn and I just stared at each other. Both at a loss for words, then he spoke.
"She's mine isn't she?" he sounded so lost, so confused.
"Finn you have to understand…" I tried to explain but I couldn't, he stopped me.
"Why didn't you tell me!? Didn't I have the right to know I have a daughter?!" he shouted.
"Yes you did! And I took that away from you!" I shout right back at him, except I started to cry. I had to grab onto the counter just to keep myself standing.
"Rory, Hun you have to tell mommy so I don't have to have Luke call the nice men in the white coats." Lorelei rambled. She was worried for her daughter. Ever since Rory's sudden need to be home all she has done is sit in her room and cry.
"Mommy," she started but cried again. Lorelei rushed to her daughter and held onto her.
"Shhh, its ok, I'm here. Want me to call Finn?" who better to cheer up her daughter then the man she has been very in love with and dating for the last year.
"NO! You can't call him." This woke her up.
"Then clue me in hun! Cause I am loosing my mind!"
"I'm pregnant."
I remembered that night clearly, Lorelei wanted to know what Finn had said. I told her that I wasn't going to tell him, he left the night I found out, the night I was going to tell him.
"Rory, why didn't you tell me?" He was calmer now.
"You left that night Finn, without knowing without caring. You left me." I was bitter, who could blame me? "You left me and you didn't come back." A fresh batch of tears came and this time I fell to the floor. Finn ran to my side and took me into his arms.
"O god, Ror, what have I done?" he whispered into my ear. It wasn't his fault entirely; I mean I did keep his daughter away from him.