I apologize in advance for any spelling mistakes and grammar issues, I wrote this at two in the morning, and when rereading it I found a few, but I'm sure that I am still missing some.[:

So this chapter is going to be a bit more about Rory and her friends and family, less dialogue, well I think, maybe I'll throw something in there.[: If you haven't noticed yet Rory is friends with some very famous and wealthy people. (And yes I know I changed some last names, I apologize if you completely hate it, but it will add to the story, you'll see.) I'm not sure how I'm going to tie that in, but I have a feeling it will take more part in the sequel, than in this one. I kind of want to make this about all the relationships developing than anything, but don't worry as you already read there is going to be some drama.

-GG-

Chapter Two.

Rory woke up looking around, realizing she was in her bed at her mothers'; she had no memory of how she got there, or of what happened last night after Dean left. All she had right now was the largest headache she had ever had in her life. Rory looked over to the bedside table and noticed the bottle of IB Profen; bless her mother, she thought, and a bottle of water to take the pills with.

After taking two pills she changed into some jeans and a red long sleeve shirt that had an eagle on it showing that it was from American Eagle; then she walked out to the kitchen, the headache still in place, to see Luke stirring something that looked like eggs, and her mother sipping her coffee.

"How bad is the headache?" Her mother asked.

Rory didn't answer, she walked over to the cabinet to find one of the Luke cups they had stolen from years back, but hadn't used because Luke now lives here and they didn't want to get in trouble; too bad for them. She filled the bowl like mug with coffee, and took a large sip, then answered. "Feeling like hell." She sat down at the kitchen table across from her mother.

"Hey isn't that one of my cups!" Luke yelled. Rory just put her head in her arms, yelling would not help her headache.

"Shh, Luke, my baby is in pain." Lorelai answered, just so Luke wouldn't get angry; not that he would really care, it was just play fighting with Luke. Lorelai loved to make him crazy, and he loved her for that reason.

"I wondered who would steal my mugs; I always thought it was you." He said shaking the spatula at her. She just laughed. "It's ready," he said, turning off the stove top, and grabbed three plates, placing them in front of Rory, Lorelai, and one of the empty spaces next to Lorelai, and then filling them with scrambled eggs and cheese, and bacon.

The girls started eating before Luke even sat down, by the time Luke had gotten a chance to start eating Rory was finished. She put her plate in the sink, then finished her last sip of coffee, placing that in the sink too.

"Where you off to today, girly?" Lorelai asked also just finishing up, but waiting for Luke before putting everything in the sink, not that she would wash them, just wait until Luke got sick of it so that he would do the dishes.

"Um, I'm not sure. I have no classes today so I was just going to hang out around here, then finish my last article for the year, and go study. Why?" Rory said standing in her bedroom doorway that was right next to the kitchen.

"Because I don't have to go to the inn until three to help with a charity thing, and I was wondering if you would like to go shopping."

"Yeah that sounds great." Rory said, she wanted to spend more time with her mother before Luke and her got married. Not that Lorelai would ignore her when she was married, just that Rory wouldn't want to bother them all that much.

"Okay kid, well I'm going to go change, and I'll meet you back her in twenty minutes." Lorelai stood up, ignoring her plate, Luke just sat there reading the paper.

In her room, Rory grabbed the bag that she had brought last night to find her cell phone, her old flip phone had a flashing red light, indicating a voice mail. When she flipped it opened it had five new text messages, eight missed calls and three voicemails. Stupid Dean, she thought.

She read the text messages first starting with the oldest.

From: Dean

To: Rory

I'm really sorry. Please pick up.

From: Dean

To: Rory

Rory don't ignore me. You know you love me.

From: Dean

To: Rory

God damn it Rory, pick up!

From: Dean

To: Rory

Stop being a bitch and just pick up the fucking phone, I'm your boyfriend and you can't just ignore me after everything that has happened.

From: Logan

To: Ace

Hey, I just wanted to see how you're doing. The headache okay? And do you want to help me study for my philosophy? I know we both need help with that.

She quickly text Logan back, but ignored Dean, she needed one day without him.

From: Rory

To: Logan

Head is killing me. How 'bout yours? And yeah, that sounds good I was going to ask you later anyways. I'll call you later when I'm back in New Haven.

She just hit exit on her missed calls, knowing who they were from. And she didn't dare call her voice mail.

Her phone beeped showing a text from Logan.

From: Logan

To: Ace

Are you in Stars Hollow for the day, spending time with you crazy mother?

From: Rory

To: Logan

Yeah, she proposed going to the mall, and of course, as a girl, I said yes.

From: Logan

To: Ace

Ah, then my little present in your purse will do you good.

From: Rory

To: Logan

What are you talking about?

Right after hitting send she jumped up and looked through her small clutch. At the bottom lie a small black credit card, the name imprinted on the card said Logan Huntzberger. He did not.

From: Logan

To: Ace

Use it wisely.

Instead of texting she dialed his number, she had it memorized.

"You did not." Was what she said when she heard the phone click, knowing he had picked up.

"I felt kinda bad after…well yeah, and I figured you'd go shopping sometime in the near future so I put it in there while you were watching Finn."

"Thanks, just warning, I might not even use it. I'd feel too bad."

"Ace, I want there to be at least two-hundred dollars missing or else I'll call your mother and tell her you have my credit card."

"Okay…" Rory said, knowing if he told her mother he would be missing closer to two-thousand dollars than two-hundred.

"Have fun, Ace." Logan told her. She shut her phone right as her mother knocked.

"I've been waiting in the living room for you." She said.

"Oh, sorry. I was talking to Logan."

"Yeah, I heard. What's this about you having his CREDIT CARD?" Lorelai shouted the ending. "You were going to keep that from me, weren't you." Rory just stood up and took the stuff from the clutch and threw it in her tote except the credit card she put that in her back pocket.

"Let's go." Rory pushed her mother out of her bedroom and shut her door.

Lorelai started to argue about whose car they would take, but settled with taking Rory's since she, well Logan was paying; and it had more space.

While driving Rory felt random spasms of pain in her left upper arm, right where Dean grabbed it. The bruise was still dark purple, and she knew that it would stay that way for a while.

At the mall her mother dragged her over to the food court. "Okay since Luke refused to make, and allow you to eat hangover food this morning I think that we should go buy some tacos, coffee, and Mac-and-cheese." Ah yes, the glamorous Gilmore hangover food. Those three things are what Lorelai and Rory always eat after having a hangover of any kind.

She remembered when she had one of these hung-over days with Steph, Paris, and Lane. It was a girls' night they had, and she picked Lane up, and Steph met them at Paris and her dorm room. The next morning the three boys came in yelling and waking them up. Logan even went as far as to grab some pots and pans and bang them together. In the end they killed them. Steph didn't talk to Colin for days, Rory made Logan sit through shopping with Steph and her. And Finn was trampled on, and the girls spread rumors around that he had a small penis. That wore off quickly after Finn decided he would just flash everyone one night at the pub.

Steph was a girl that Rory met at the Life and Death Brigade event. She was actually the girl Rory saw in the bathroom wearing a ball gown and a plastic gorilla mask. Her name is Stephanie Vanderbilt, and they became best friends after those few days. And yes, her last name is Vanderbilt as in the famous family that was worth billions. The same family that had several homes just on the East coast; they had the second largest amount of houses in Europe, first being the Gilmores'.

Paris Geller was Rory's roommate for the three years they had been at Yale, and they knew each other from Chilton, the private school Rory got into her sophomore year. In the beginning they despised each other, competing in class to see who knew the answer the fastest, and in their average. In the end Rory won, being valedictorian of her class, she pretty much kicked ass, even though she came in late, middle of her sophomore year. Once in college they became best friends, they fought still, but had completely different majors so they weren't competing anymore.

Then there is Lane Kim; Rory and Lane have known each other since first grade. They met after Lane was pushed down on the playground, and Rory helped her up. They were always in the same classes until Rory went to Chilton. After that she tried to see Lane as much as she could after school. Lane was in a band called Hep-Alien, she was dating the guitarist and lead vocalist, Zach Van Gerbig. She shared a one bedroom house with Zach and bass guitarist Brian Fuller.

Thinking about the past made Rory upset that she was no longer around for Lane that much. Rory knew that Lane had other friends, but they were the guys from the band, so she couldn't complain about guys to the guys. Rory and Lane have a once a week phone date, they spent over an hour talking about things, but it's not the same as when Rory used to be able to sneak over to Lane's and climb up the elm tree right next to Lane's window. But the future brought a lot of good, there was the friendship with Paris, and Stephanie, and all of the guys: Finn, Colin, and of course Logan.

Rory met Logan when she was buying a cup of coffee with her friend Marty. Logan had told him that he recognized him, then realized that Marty bartended for one of Logan's family parties. The way Logan talked to Marty was like how a man would talk to his slave. It was as if Logan was better because Marty worked for him for a couple hours. And that fact pissed Rory off; she judged Logan just from those few moments, so her next encounter she wasn't as cordial as their first meeting. It was while Rory was walking around putting up flyers for her professor Asher Fleming, a man that Paris was involved with, but had passes away. Paris had guilted her into doing this while she set up for the wake that Paris also forced Rory into allowing be held at their dorm. Logan and his friends thought that her dorm was home to one of the girls Finn that he was 'in love with'. Logan then tried introducing himself, forgetting that he met her the day before, to Rory after she told then that it was her dorm, and no one by the description that Finn gave, which was red hair and shorter than him, lived there. Logan tried to be civil to her, but Rory was still angered by the way he had talked to Marty so she was a bitch to him. They argued about whether it was morally right or not. Rory, obviously, voiced that it was not, but Logan argued that since he was paying him to serve, Marty was his servant. They ended up dropping after a few minutes because Finn yelled for Logan, saying he found her; and admitted that it was a very fun argument. There third meeting was when she figured out that he was in the LDB, and she tried to get it out of him, later that day he instant messaged her, leading to her going to the LDB event.

Since Logan was good friends with Finn and Colin, they also became close to Rory, even Seth and Robert were her friends, Seth was a Guggenheim, and Robert was just Robert, he was wealthy, but not like any of the others. They were old wealth, he was new wealth. No one, but their parents really cared about when they got the money so they were all extremely close. Even Paris, and her boyfriend Doyle McMaster joined them sometimes at the pub when they had nothing better to do. All in all, Rory had made a lot of great new friends just from doing one article, and that same article was reprinted in many different magazines around Connecticut, Stars Hollow and Hartford being two of them.

"Whatcha thinking about, sweets?" Lorelai asked, pulling her out of my reflections.

"About how I met Logan, and how he introduced me to many of my new friends." Rory answered smiling up at her. "But you will always be my best and oldest friend."

"You so like Logan!" she squealed like she was sixteen again.

"What the hell are you talking about? I'm with Dean." As soon as that came out her arm was in pain. It was as if he was still holding onto her arm. She made sure that her face had no pain in it. Her mother would ask too many questions She wondered why it had caused her pain. She didn't touch it, or bump it on anything. All she did was say his name and it reacted, almost like it was telling her that he was dangerous, but she never thought of that. Her thought was that she had bumped someone without noticing.

"Oh come on. You think Logan is cute. You think about him when walking around the mall. You spent last night with him instead of Dean, who I thought was bringing you home. You talked to him this morning and I'm pretty sure you haven't talked to Dean yet today." Rory was about to say something, but Lorelai continued. "And he likes you to. I mean he gave you a credit card and told you to use it. When are you going to realize it?" Lorelai asked.

Lorelai was happy that Rory was moving on, moving up. Dean was a good guy, but the key word is was. He treats Rory well enough in front of her, but she had no clue how he was away from anyone. Ever since the divorce with Lindsey he seemed so hostile, like Rory had ruined his life, when it was his idea to kiss Rory, so sleep with her, then continue to. Lorelai knew that Rory had to take some off the blame, but he was acting like it was all Rory's fault when it most definitely was not. Rory did take part of the blame, Rory knew that it was wrong and tried to stop the affair, but that led to Dean trying harder, and Lindsey finding the letter Rory wrote to him.

Rory changed the subject asking "Can you believe you and Luke are getting married in a weeks? I'm just happy it's almost over. Planning that wedding was hell, hell I tell you. You just fooled around while I picked everything out for you."

Lorelai was giddy when it came to the wedding. She had let Rory do everything, knowing Rory would make it much better than what she would have. The only thing that Lorelai had actually requested was that instead of her having bouquet she would carry a Heinz ketch-up bottle down the aisle. To that Rory almost started crying from laughter and wholeheartedly agreed. The idea came from Emily who had brought it up at one of their Friday night dinners and it stuck with Lorelai.

"I'm so excited. And not the least bit nervous. Thanks for planning it. I know that you probably had spent many sleepless nights trying to study for college and I took away most of your sophomore year, and I apologize." They were now at the Taco Bell in the food court, ordering three soft tacos and a burrito. They sat down and started eating their food.

"It's just sophomore year. It's not like there's anything special about it. Planning your wedding made it all the more fun, and very exciting. Being scared to fall asleep because I wasn't sure if I would wake up after those twenty minutes naps. Oh, and all of those three am phone calls from you, thinking that the dress for the bridesmaids weren't good enough, those were the best." Rory said sarcastically, but she did have a lot of fun with planning her mother's wedding, and she saw her mother a lot more than her freshman year.

"Oh, you know you had fun! Plus you saw me more than just when you needed laundry done, and on Friday nights."

"Yeah, it was a lot of fun, but seeing you was the only let down." Rory joked, her mother hit her, it just happened to be right on the same spot Dean had grabbed. Rory winced.

"I'm sorry, sweets. I didn't know I had hit you that hard, man I guess I don't know my own strength." Lorelai said rubbing the spot she hit, not knowing it just made it worse.

"It's not your fault I bumped it last night, so now there's a bruise." She explained.

"Oh, let me see the bruise."

"It's just a bruise mom, they all look the same."

"Come on just let mommy look at the bruise." Lorelai had a feeling that Rory was hiding something. She rolled up Rory's sleeve, and saw the large dark purple bruise that was in the shape of a hand. "Who the hell did this to you, was it Logan, Colin, Finn; who!" Lorelai was severally pissed. She wanted to bite someone's head off.

"Before you do anything mom. it was just an accident, he didn't mean to." Rory said trying to calm down her mother, but knew that it wouldn't make a difference.

"Who the fuck dared to lay a hand on my daughter, Rory, who hurt you?"

"It was…Dean, but he didn't mean to. We were arguing, and," but she was cut off.

"If you two were arguing it was most definitely not an accident, so do not pretend it was. Rory he left marks on you, it's not that easy to cause bruises unless you use an immense amount of force. Dean did, on purpose, Rory. He is no longer good for you. Back when you were in high school, yeah he was, but he changed a lot. So have you. Because he cheated on Lindsey with you, sorry for bringing it up, he could cheat on you too. And now he's hurting you physically."

The entire time Rory just sat there, she began to sob into her mother's shoulder. She knew everything her mother was saying, she thought about it herself, but she did still love –pain in her arm flared- Dean, even though he hurt her. She knew that he could cheat at any moment, she knew that what he did to her arm was not an accident, she knew that he was cheating on her, with Lindsey, they were seeing each other again, but still she just still cared about him too much.

Lorelai had pulled her into her arms. She watched as Rory sobbed on her shoulder, she was wearing her brand new light blue silk shirt that she bought online, but she didn't care that Rory would ruin it. She just thought about how much she was going to kill Dean when Rory went down to New Haven.

"Come on, let's go shop, spending most of Logan's money will do you some good." Lorelai stood up and picked up the trash, while Rory walked next to her. They went to Nordstrom first.

Lorelai found some things, a new dress to wear to Friday night dinners, two skirts, one plane black one for work at her Dragonfly Inn, and another black one, but it had layers, and Polk-a-dots, and some ruffles. Rory found some things at Forever 21 two new pairs of jeans, a pair of jean shorts with holes in them, and several tee shirts and tank tops. After Forever 21 they went to Macy's, American Eagle, H&M, Hollister, Abercrombie & Fitch, Aeries and Victoria Secret. In the end they had spent way more than two hundred dollars. It would probably come closer to five hundred, but Logan wouldn't even notice.

At home Rory grabbed her back pack, and the dress alone with the tiara and jewelry. She kissed her mother and Luke goodbye then headed down to her study session with Logan.