A/N: Alrighty, so it's been a few months since I've updated, and I would give you an excuse but you probably don't want to hear it. But if you do, then go to my blog and there's a nice long explanation there. So without further ado here is the next chapter.

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Going Through The Motions

Two more months. That's all that she had left and she would've made it a full year at a high school. But just like all the other times she just had to get expelled along with her best friend for getting caught for doing something, which as she thinks about it now, could be classified as completely stupid.

Flashback

"I've got an idea" Tristan said as he approached Rory's locker.

"Why am I all of a sudden worried?" Rory said not even glancing up from the books she was putting away into her locker

"Oh come on it'll be fun and trust me we won't get caught." Tristan put on his 'you just kicked my puppy' look and lifted her head so that her eyes were looking right into his.

"Fine, lets here this idea." She said closing her locker and linking her arm with Tristan's. She always gave in too easily to him.

End Flashback

But as always they got caught and now she was in need of a new school, because when you take the Headmasters car and rebuild it in the gym that is never used, is grounds for expulsion, or so the Headmaster told them. But Rory thought that it was because the Headmaster knew of their previous expulsions and misbehaviour and wanted them gone.

Now she had to go home and explain to her grandparents why yet another school decided to send her on her way.

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As she had expected her grandparents were waiting for her to get home. They were sitting at the dinner table not speaking, only to call her to sit down, and even then that was just her grandmother. Rory walked into the room and took her regular seat on the side of the table with her grandparents at either end.

After a few moments of silence Emily finally spoke again "Lorelai Leigh," uh-oh full name. "What were you thinking?" her voice rising ever so slightly, but enough to let Rory know that she was going to be in a lot of trouble.

"It was just supposed to fun. A joke," before Rory could get any further in her explanation she was cut off, but it wasn't from her grandmother, it was instead from her, until then, silent grandfather. When she heard her grandfathers' voice she knew she was in a lot more trouble then ever before. Usually her grandfather would stay quiet and allow her grandmother to take care of an appropriate punishment, as well as looking for a new school.

"What were you thinking? Have you not shamed this family enough over the years?" Richard started. "The headmaster was a friend of ours that took you into the school despite the fact that you have been expelled from 9 schools in the last 5 years!" Richard paused to take a breath, his face red. But before he could continue Emily piped back in, obviously not liking the fact that she was interrupted from her regular routine.

"You are acting just like your mother!" at this Rory tensed. In all the punishment 'talks' she had gotten over the years, her mother was never brought up. "She had no respect for us. We gave her everything and what did she do? She got pregnant then took off after the baby was born, never to be heard from again."

"Stop! Just stop!" Rory stood from the table, tears in her eyes. "I'm sorry I disappointed you, but trust me, I am nothing like my mother." and with that she left the room.

"Rory, you come back here right this second! We are not done discussing this young lady!" Emily called after her, but Rory just kept walking, ignoring her grandmothers' calls until she reached her room, and locked the door.

She went over to her shelves that contained her CD's and pulled out her Anti-Flag CD and put it into her CD player. She knew the loud music would annoy her grandmother, but at the moment she didn't care.

Rory hated it when she was compared to her mother. Her mother wasn't mentioned too often around the Gilmore residence because, she suspected, it hurt her grandparents too much talk about the daughter that had shamed the family, and then left them behind with a mess to be cleaned up. But Rory, she was different, she was nothing life her mother.

Sure Rory liked to pull pranks with her friends, or more specifically her best friend. But she wasn't going to shame the family like her mother did, and her grandparents knew that, even if they choose to ignore the fact sometimes. Her mother had gotten pregnant and abandoned her baby. Now Rory wasn't a virgin, growing up in Hartford it was kinda hard to not have sex. It was something to do, another way to have fun. But Rory was also safe. She was on the pill and always used a condom.

Also she wasn't just about to give up the life she had here in Hartford, for something unknown. She loved her life, and she loved her grandparents. They had given her a great life so far. They didn't have to take her in when her mother left; they could've sent her off to live with Christopher. But they didn't, and for that she would be forever grateful.

She didn't have any homework to be done since she was no longer in school, and she didn't have a shift at the café that night, so she changed out of her uniform, crawled into bed and fell asleep.

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Logan couldn't stop thinking about her. She was the girl with blue eyes that had just blown him off as if he was nothing. And the thing that was bugging him the most was why she was so interesting to him. Why did he care what she thought of him? Was it the fact that she had bruised his ego, and he now felt like he had something to prove? Or was it something more? What ever it was it had brought him back to the coffee house at which she worked. He sat at the same table he had just the night before, but was disappointed when he couldn't see her. When the waitress came over to him he decided to ask about her.

"Hi there! What can I get for ya?" The waitress with name tag that read 'Steph' on it, and an overly bright smile asked.

"Just a coffee thanks." But before she could walk away Logan spoke up once more, "Actually, I was also wondering if Rory was coming in tonight?"

The waitress' smile seemed to falter for a second before she answered "No, she's not working tonight." Her voice sounded a tad harsh, but Logan ignored it.

"Oh, okay. Thanks!" Logan gave her a charming smile as Steph left to get his coffee.

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Rory woke up an hour later to a knocking on her door. The CD had ended, so she could hear the knocking clearly. Then all of a sudden the knocking stopped and it was replaced by the sound of her grandmothers' voice.

"Rory get dressed and come downstairs. We have guests joining us tonight for supper." Emily stated, and then walked away.

Rory sighed. She hated it when they had guests for dinner. It was either a business associate of her grandfathers', or yet another charming young man (that was probably the son of a business associate) that her grandparents were trying to set her up with. Either way, Rory was not in the mood to have to deal with anyone tonight. But she had to.

So slowly getting out of bed Rory stumbled into her walk in closet and pulled out a nice blue halter dress. She then proceeded into the bathroom to do her makeup and hair. Since she didn't have much time to get ready she put her hair into two side braids, and only applied the basic makeup that consisted of eyeliner, mascara and lipstick. After she was dressed, she started to head downstairs, pausing only briefly to take a deep breath and put on her best society smile.

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Logan had been sitting there sulking for the past hour. Why he was sulking he didn't know, but he didn't like it. So after he finished off his 6th cup of coffee, he stood up and went to pay his bill. As he approached the counter he spotted the manager talking to an employee. He made a quick decision, and decided to talk to the manager about Rory.

"Excuse me?" Logan said moving down the counter to where the manager was standing.

"Yes?" The manager said turning to face Logan.

"I'm a friend of Rory's and I was wondering if you could tell me when she's working next." Logan kept his best society smile in place, and was being as polite as he could to the manager who looked the local high school nerd that didn't grow up.

"I'm afraid I can't do that, it's against policy." The manager said while pushing up his glasses that were sliding down his nose.

"Oh, well you see the thing is, I'm came all this way from out of town, and I'd really like to surprise her, so if you could tell me you'd be helping me out a lot." After saying this Logan pulled out two hundred dollars and slipped it across the counter to the manager.

The manager looked at the money then back at Logan before nodding his head. "Yes well alright then, let's see here." He pulled out a sheet of paper from behind the desk and scanned it quickly. "Well it seems here Rory will be working tomorrow from 4-9." And as quickly as he pulled out the list he put it back away.

"Thanks for that," Logan said as he walked away from the manager towards the cashier, paid for his coffee and left. Now he had a name, and when she was working next.

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Toria