On Friday, Mom picked us up from school with the car packed with our stuff. Paris and I opened the back and put our book bags in our suitcases.
"Hey mom." We said in unison. I had a huge smile on my face.
"Well doesn't someone look happy." She said. I took my wallet and cell phone out of book bag and put it in my shoulder bag that had a few books in it for the plane.
"Oh yeah, she has been like this all day." Paris smiled at me.
"I am happy. It's now a mere amount of hours before I see Logan." I smiled. They laughed at me. We got into the car and drove off.
"Okay so I was thinking that we stop off and get something to eat and that will allow you both to change into comfy flying clothes." Mom said.
"Thank you. Oh did you get our bag with our change of clothes for the plane?" Paris asked.
"Yes, I did it's all there. Don't worry." She said as she pulled into a restaurant parking lot. We got out and mom pulled out a bag from the trunk and we all walked into the restaurant.
Once we were seated, Paris and I headed into the bathroom to change. Mom had packed us two matching black sweat suits and black ugg boots. A purple top for Paris and a blue one for me. I handed Paris her clothes and boots and we went into separate stalls to change.
"Hey Rory." Paris said from the stall next to me.
"Yes Paris?" I asked pulling on my jacket.
"I'm glad your happy." She said as I put my Chilton uniform and sneakers in the bag mom gave us.
"Me too Paris, me too. And I'll be even happier when we get there." I said coming out of the stall. Paris came out right after me and handed me her uniform and shoes to put in the bag.
"I bet. You've been looking at the picture long enough." She said smiling as she put her hair into a high ponytail. I smiled at her and nodded. I didn't do anything with my hair since it was already in two braids.
"Yeah well." I said.
"I know." She said giving me a hug.
"I am starving so we should go out there." I said turning to leave. Paris picked up the bag and followed me out. Mom was sitting at a table with three large coffees.
We ordered our food and we talked about our trip. Our food came quickly. Once we were finished, Mom paid the check.
"Hey guys ready to hit the road?" she asked looking at her watch and seeing that it said 3:45.
"Absolutely." I said with a big smile.
"Alright then let's go." She said standing up. We got in the car and started on our hour-long car trip to New York.
We made it to JFK with twenty minutes to spare. Mom parked the car and we started to unload our suitcases. Paris went and got a cart to put our suitcases and small carry on bag on. Once we had them on Paris and I grabbed our shoulder bags and we headed towards the terminal.
"Damn, he had to be here first." I said as I saw Tristan standing with Mr. Medina and a few other kids and their parents. He saw me coming and smiled.
"Great." Paris said rolling her eyes. Mr. Medina saw us and smiled.
"Ah good, Paris, Rory. We are still waiting for a few kids but until then you can check in right over there." Mr. Medina said pointing to a check in station the was near us outside.
"Thanks." Mom said as she pushed the cart over there.
"Oh good there is a bit of a line." I said crossing my arms. Paris and Mom started laughing.
"Oh this reminds me," Mom pulled a camera out of her pocket and handed it to Paris, "Don't forget to take a picture of his reaction. And you better email it to me." she said sternly. Paris and I laughed.
"Yes Mother." She said rolling her eyes.
We checked our bags and headed back towards the group. It looked like everyone was there.
"Alright well that is everyone. Now we have two hours before our flight so I suggest that you all get some dinner, but stay near the gate. We will all meet at the gate at 7:00. I will all let you say goodbye and then we will all head in." Mr. Medina said to us. Me and Paris turned and looked at Mom. She had tears in her eyes.
"I'm gonna miss you girls so much." she said hugging us both real tight.
"We're gonna miss you too." I said hugging her back.
"Yeah." Paris agreed.
"Call me the minute you get to Shira's house." She said to us.
"We will. Don't worry." Paris said.
"I want you both to call me every week. Okay? And I want you two to call me if you need anything. Even if it means it is 3 in the morning here. Okay?" she said.
"Okay Mom." Paris said.
"We promise." I said.
"And do you promise that you and Luke are going to come out there for Christmas?" I asked.
"Absolutely. He won't like leaving but he'll want to see the both of you." she said. She gave us another hug.
"Okay well it looks like everybody is heading inside. So I guess you better go." She said wiping a tear away.
"Yeah." I said trying to hold back my tears.
"Be safe." She said.
"We will." Paris said.
"And don't do anything I wouldn't do." Mom said with a small smile. I gave a laugh.
"That's a short list." That made Paris and Mom laugh too.
"Ha-ha you're so funny. Alright one more hug and then you better go before I change my mind about letting you both go again so soon." She said hugging us again.
"Love you Mom." We said together.
"Love you both. Now get, cause I am serious about changing my mind." She said pushing us towards the door. We gave a little laugh before we backed away towards the door. We waved for as long as we could before we had to turn around and head in a different direction. I grabbed Paris' hand as we made our way towards the group waiting in the long line at the security checkpoint.
It took us about an hour to get through all of the security. Once we made it through we headed towards the closest gift shop nearest our gate. I was very upset to find Tristan was in there. Paris noticed too and we turned to leave but he saw us and headed our way before we could duck out.
"Hey Mary, Paris." He said saying Paris' name with distaste.
"What do you want Tristan?" I asked getting annoyed.
"Why you Mary, I thought you knew that." He said smirking. Paris and I rolled our eyes.
"Go away." I said as I pushed past him into the gift shop Paris not far behind.
"God I can't wait for Tristan to meet everyone in Geneva." I said as we looked at the magazines.
"They are going to kick his ass if he even looks at you." Paris laughed.
"I can't wait." I said with a big smile. She laughed. We picked out some snacks and a few magazines before we went to find a place to eat. We found a Panda Express that was right across from our gate and we sat down at one of the tables.
"So do you think Logan will be able to convince Finn to come to the airport if he doesn't know that you are coming?" Paris asked. I laughed.
"I have no clue. But I guess he'll think of something. That is if they don't already know." I said smiling.
"Do you think he told them?" she asked.
"Oh no, but I bet that at least one of them will be hosting some of the others and I'm sure Logan didn't tell Shira that it was a secret that I was coming. So they might already know." I told her. She nodded.
"That's true." She said.
"So what do you want? I don't wanna carry all of our stuff up there and I don't want to leave it unattended either, so tell me what you want and I'll get it." she said standing up.
"Uh, my usual is good." I said as I took out a book. Paris came back a few minutes later with our food. She placed my food and a cup in front of me.
"Thanks. What do you want?" I asked standing and grabbing both of our cups.
"Pepsi please." She said digging into her orange chicken. After I got back with our drinks we ate in silence.
Once it got close to seven we put away our books and quickly ate the rest of our food before going over to our gate where the rest of our class was waiting. Mr. Medina was checking off names as we all showed up. Paris and I got our names checked off and we went and sat down waiting to board the plane. I pulled out my laptop. I checked my emails. There was one from Logan, Colin, Stephanie and Finn. I opened Logan's first.
Hey Ace, they know. Stephanie was going to host but her parents are going out of the country so they got switched but they still told Steph about it and she remembered where you went and she called Chris. Apparently you forgot to tell him that is was a surprise that you guys were coming. Well she went and told the boys so now they know. Sorry I tried. Love you see you at 9:30.
I laughed and turned to Paris.
"They know. Steph called Chris." I told her. Paris laughed.
"So much for our surprise. I probably have some emails from the guys yelling at me for not telling them huh?" She asked.
"Probably." I told her.
"I'll check them later." She said before going back to her book.
I opened the rest of my emails, they were all half yelling at me for not telling them that I was coming and the other half was telling me how excited they were that we were coming back. I laughed and showed them to Paris. She laughed.
I felt the seat next to me bounce as someone sat down.
"So Mar, why don't we join the mile high club." I sighed and closed my eyes. Paris gave him a dirty look. I turned to look at him with a small smile on my face. He looked a little shocked.
"I don't think that my boyfriend will like that very much." I said. He gave me a look.
"Boyfriend? What boyfriend? You've never mentioned a boyfriend before."
"Yeah well that's because I don't talk to you." I said turning back towards my computer.
"Well I don't think that you have a boyfriend. You're just saying that to make me go away." He said with a smirk.
"Oh I am, but it's also true. So did it work?" I asked.
"Did what work?" he asked with a smile.
"Did it make you go away?" I asked looking at him. He stopped smiling. Paris laughed. He opened up his mouth to say something but a voice came over the intercom.
"Flight 240 to Geneva is now boarding."
"Saved by the bell." I said closing up my laptop and putting it away. I took out my boarding pass, stood up, gathered my stuff and walked over with Paris to the line of people getting on the plane. We boarded the plane and found our seats. Luckily we were in the two-seat section and we were next to one another. We put our small suitcase with our change of clothes in the overhead and we took our seats. We put our other bags at our feet and took out a book as we waited for take off.
Seven and a half hours, a bad movie, and an uncomfortable sleep later we were only a half an hour away from Geneva.
"Hey, I'm going to go change." I told Paris as I stood up, took out the suitcase and headed towards the bathroom. I washed my face and brushed my teeth before I started to get changed. I changed into a pair of light, low, hip hugger jeans, a white midriff tank top and grey jacket that had blue and white stars on it. I put on my white keds and I redid my braids before I put on eyeliner, blue eye shadow that made my eyes pop and lip-gloss. I smiled at my reflection in the mirror. Logan was going to be floored. I reached up and played with the ring on the chain around my neck before tucking it back into my shirt. I put away all of my stuff before I exited the bathroom. I passed Tristan's seat and he whistled as I went passed. I ignored it and kept walking. I stayed standing as I got back to our seats.
"You look very cute." Paris said smiling as she got up grabbing the suitcase from me, "Hmm, I wonder who you are doing that for?" I hit her butt as she passed me for the bathroom, I sat down and smiled. After a few minutes she came back wearing a pair of dark jeans, a purple tank top and a purple paint splattered black jacket. She had re-done her hair and she too had put on a little eyeliner and some lip-gloss. She put the suitcase up and took her seat again. Just after she sat down the captain came over the intercom.
"We are making our final decent into Geneva international. If you could please take your seats, lock your tray tables, and buckle your seatbelts we should be landing in a matter of moments. Thank you for flying with us today." I looked at Paris and smiled. I took her hand as we landed. Once we were on the ground I let go.
"God I hate landings." We both said together and then laughed. We pulled into the gate and the fasten seatbelts sign went off. I jumped up and grabbed my bag from my feet.
"Chilton kids, if you can't find your host family come find me." I heard Mr. Medina call out. Paris got our bag from the overhead and we headed out of the plane with Tristan, unfortunately behind us. We quickly walked down the tunnel to the main airport. I stopped and looked around.
"Rory!" I heard a familiar voice call out. I whipped my head around and saw Logan, Colin, Finn and Steph waving at me. I beamed and dropped my shoulder bag and ran to Logan. I ran into his arms and kissed him. He kissed me back and I felt my knees buckle. His arms tightened around my waist to keep me from falling. Even though it had only been a month an a half since I last kissed him it felt like it had been a lifetime ago. I didn't care who was watching, I kissed him as if it was the last thing I would do. After who knows how long we finally pulled away. I looked into his eyes and smiled bright.
"Hey." I said biting my lip.
"Hey Ace." He said back. He gave me anther kiss before we were pulled apart by Finn's voice.
"Alright, enough already. You missed each other we got it. Now can I please hug her?" he whined. We pulled apart laughing. I turned towards the others.
"Finny! I missed you too." I said giving him a hug.
"Nice to know you did love." He said. I gave him a light tap on his arm when I pulled away.
"Colin, looking as stuck up as ever." I said jokingly as I gave him a hug.
"And you Hayden are looking as…and I can't think of a mean thing to say right now. I'll have to owe you one." He laughed. I gave him a laugh before turning to Steph.
"Stephie! God I missed you." I said giving her a hug.
"I missed you too Ror. I have so much to tell you." she said.
"Well you can tell me on the way to Logan's." I said. I noticed Paris wasn't with us. I spotted her walking our way carrying my bag as well. When she reached us I took it from her.
"Hey guys." She said giving them all hugs.
"Hayden." Colin said as he hugged her.
"McCrae." Paris said back. "Sorry I had to fill Mr. Medina in on a few things. Apparently Headmaster Charleston never informed him about us and all the press we would have to deal with." she said. I made a face.
"Great, well whatever we'll deal with that when we get to it. Now let me see the picture cause I know you got it, he was right next to you." I said excitedly. Everyone around us looked a little confused.
"Mom wanted me to take a picture of Tristan's reaction to Rory and Logan." Paris told them. I saw Logan clench his jaw. I walked up to him and kissed him again.
"You can kick his ass later, when we aren't surrounded by a bunch of people. Okay?" Paris and Steph laughed.
"Fine." He said kissing me again and putting one arm around my waist. I turned in his arms and walked back to Paris forcing Logan to go with me. She took out the camera again and showed me the picture. I laughed.
"Mom is going to love that." I said. She put away the camera and I turned and looked around, I saw Tristan close by looking at us, but that wasn't what I was looking for. I frowned and looked at Logan.
"You didn't bring her?" I pouted. He smiled.
"I did, she's with mom. They had to go to the bathroom they should be back soon." He said giving me another kiss.
"We're right here Rory dear." Shira Huntzburger said walking up with a blonde haired, blue-eyed baby girl who looked like an exact copy of me and Logan on her hip. I smiled and went over to her. I took the baby from Shira after giving her a hello kiss. I kissed her cheek and hugged her close.
"Hey Ella, did you miss mommy?" I asked kissing her again. She clung onto me, buried her head in my shirt, and made a little noise. I smiled. I looked up when I heard someone gasp. The gossip twins of Chilton were standing in hearing distance of me and Ella. They hurried off. I turned towards Paris.
"Well everyone in Chilton now knows." I said with a small smile.
"Who let those two on this trip?" Paris asked. I laughed walking over to her and Logan. Paris bent down and kissed Ella.
"Hey Ella." she said rubbing her cheek. Ella gave a little smile and buried her face in closer to my chest. I smiled at Paris.
"She's getting so big." Paris said. I nodded then I quickly turned towards Logan.
"Please tell me I didn't miss anything monumental." I said worried. He laughed and put his hand on my back.
"No nothing since I last talked to you about her." he said. I sighed.
"Good." I said smiling at him.
"Well as much as I hate to break up this reunion, but I see the paparazzi crowd has gotten bigger so I think we should get out of here before it gets too crazy." Colin said.
"Yes I have to agree. I'll call Frank and have him bring the car around." Shira said handing the diaper bag she had to Logan and pulling out her cell.
"Alright but we still have to get our luggage." I said.
"Well let's make our way over there." Logan said as he put his hand on the lower part of my back leading me towards the luggage claim. I held Ella closer to me as we made our way through the sea of people.
We reached the luggage claim and our luggage hadn't come in yet.
"Uh, hey I'm going to head to the bathroom real fast, I've been on a plane for eight hours and well airplane bathrooms are gross." I said to them.
"Yeah I'll go with you." Paris said.
"Me too." Steph said.
"Alright. You want me to take her?" Logan asked reaching for Ella. I turned her away.
"No. It's ok. I wanna take her. I haven't seen her in over a month. I wanna take her." I said. He smiled at me and gave me a kiss.
"I get it. Okay hurry back." I kissed him again and Steph, Paris and I made our way towards the nearest bathroom. I bumped into someone on the way.
"Oh I'm-oh it's you." I said when I saw it was Tristan. He looked at me and then at Ella.
"You never told me you had a daughter." He said. I rolled my eyes and carefully shifted the now sleeping Ella to my other side.
"Once again Tristan we don't talk. And why would I tell you? The only ones who know are my friends here and my family. Well and the press here but they don't count." I said getting annoyed.
"Okay then why does Paris know?" he asked looking over at Paris. She and Steph scoffed.
"And that shows how little you really know me Tristan." I said rolling my eyes. He looked confused.
"Paris. Is. My. Twin." I said slowly. "God, we have the same last name and the same birthday. How thick can you get?" He looked shocked.
"I didn't know that. And why did that one guy call you both Hayden?" he asked. I sighed getting angry.
"He called me Hayden cause that is our last name. My full name is Lorelai Leigh Gilmore-Hayden and Paris' full name is Paris Victoria Gilmore-Hayden. Our father owns the other half of the newspapers and entertainment groups that my boyfriend's father doesn't own. I'm sure you've heard of the Huntzburgers. And my daughter Lorelai or Ella here, is going to inherit both of those companies one day." He looked like a fish out of water. I took that opportunity to walk away. We made it into the bathroom without any further incident. Steph and Paris checked the stalls before busting up laughing.
"That was great Rory. He's probably still out there looking like an idiot." Steph said cracking up. I smiled a bit as I walked over to the baby changer. I pulled it down and carefully laid Ella in it.
"Yeah, but I bet we haven't seen the last of him. He is going to have more questions before the end of this trip." I said looking down at my daughter. The girls came up from behind me.
"She cried a lot while you were gone. I know that's gonna make you cry but she missed her mommy." Steph said. I started to tear up and I started to stroke Ella's hair.
"Logan hasn't let her out of his sight either. He actually brought her to school on the first day, but that got a little crazy so Shira has been taking her and she will bring her at lunch. After school she would be there to let Logan take care of her." she told me. I smiled as a tear rolled down my cheek.
"I missed her too Steph." I lightly kissed Ella's cheek before I turned and wiped my tears.
"Yeah she has a picture of the three of them that she has been staring at every night. She's been even using it as a bookmark." Paris told Steph.
"Hey watch her I'm gonna go to the bathroom." I said going into the stalls.
After we left the bathroom and made it back to the rest of the group our luggage was already there.
"Hey you got the luggage." I said as we walked up to them.
"Yeah now let's get out of here." Logan said. I handed Paris my bag.
"Hey can you get my sunglasses out of there for me?" I asked nicely.
"Yeah, but only cause you are holding the baby, who you haven't seen in a month." she said getting them out and handing them to me.
"Thank you." I said putting them on before I took my bag back.
We headed out the doors and were immediately surrounded by paparazzi. Logan guided me through them to the car. I held Ella closer to my body causing her to wake up. She started to fuss and I held her tighter. We finally made it into the limo.
No one spoke on the way to the house. I just sat snuggled up next Logan with Ella on both of our laps. I smiled as I watched Logan tickle her making her laugh. I was glad I was back, even if that ment dealing with the paparazzi again.