First, let me just thank everyone who reviewed my first chapter - Sumner, SuperxFreak93, Julia, AnimalLuv, ashleywood, baabygirl2004, and lollo, paulanka1 - your reviews are what keep me going, really.
And without further ado, here's chapter two! ; )
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"Ass, inconsiderate, mindless, frat boy, low-life, butt-faced miscreant!"
"But-faced miscreant?"
"Why would you do something like that!?"
"I'm sorry, but-faced miscreant?"
The elevator dinged that she had reached the top floor, and as the door opened Rory immediatley went to the break room to re-load on coffee.
"Ah, well, I see our little Monday sleeper-inner has finally decided to get her butt into work. You're lucky Mr. Boss isn't here yet, he had an early meeting."
Rory rolled her eyes at her friend's antics. "Kaly, I'm only like," she looked at the clock on the wall, "20 minutes late."
Kaly shrugged. "Still, it wouldn't kill you to call me when you're not going to be on time."
"Oh, and why is that?"
"Well, then I would have proper warning that I have no shield from Marty over there," she motioned to the brunette, slightly-nerdy guy sitting by his desk in the corner, looking almost longingly at Kaly.
Rory laughed at this. Ever since Kaly had joined her at the New York Times, Marty, the sports editor, had shown his interest in her in many ways. Flowers sent to her desk, small little notes slid into her drawer before he left for the day, the not-so-subtle asking out, the list goes on. No one could blame him, with Kaly's amazing, intense green eyes and wavy blonde hair, she was a knockout, but Rory had always found it amusing when Kaly was cornered by him. The same feelings weren't reciprocated, but Marty either didn't notice or didn't to care. Either way, it was always amusing to see Kaly's expression when he came up to her.
Chuckling, Rory took the coffee pot from her friend's hand and poured herself a cup. "Sorry, I'll be sure to warn you next time," she said sarcastically.
"That's all I ask," Kaly replied seriosuly, obviosuly not noticing the sarcasm in her friend's voice. "So...," she started, once Rory had taken a sip of coffee, "what caused you to be late this morning? This is the first time in, like, what...ever, you've been more then 2 minutes overdue."
Sighing, Rory looked into her coffee cup. "Me and Jess were up late last night, and I had trouble getting myself up this morning."
Kaly raised her eyebrows and smiled. "Ooooh, anything dirty?"
Rory rolled her eyes once again. "You know Kal, just because we were both up late doesn't automatically mean we were having sex."
Kaly's face dropped, obviously dissapointed at this bit of information. "Oh. Well, why were you up late then, if it wasn't because of sex?"
Rory looked down. "I didn't say we weren't having sex, I just mean that you shouldn't assume things like that."
Kaly's face lit up again at that. "Aha! I knew it!"
"Mhmmm. Not let's get to work before Mr. Boss gets back from-what did you say he was at, a meeting?"
Kaly nodded. "Yup. I was talking to Courtney about it a few minutes ago, when I was bored and didn't want to work and someone hadn't shown up yet to entertain me," she sent a pointed look Rory's way, making sure she got that by 'someone', she meant her. Rory laughed, but let her friend continue.
"She was telling me how Mr. Boss might be leaving us in the near future." Rory's eyes grew wide, and her mouth dropped slightly. Kaly nodded in agreement. "Yeah, I know, I was surprised too. He's been here, since what, the Stone Age? So anyway, I asked her why, and she said that he was thinking of leaving this place to go some newspaper that the Huntzberger Publishing Group owns. I swear, I had to prevent myself from doing a happy dance when she said that. I mean, it's not that I hate the guy, but I don't know, he's just always seemed a little...Rory, you okay?" Kaly stopped her babbling momentarily when she noticed that her friend had gone extremley pale and was looking at her like she was crazy.
"Rory?" Kaly snapped her fingers in front of her friends face, and Rory jumped, as if she was just noticing her friend was sitting there. As Kaly looked at her questioningly, Rory stood up. "Um, sorry. Listen, we really should get to work. Like you said, Mr. Boss is probably gunna be here in any minute."
"Um...okay..." Kaly watched her friend walk out of the break room at a hurried pace, confused as to her sudden change in attitude. Now any other person would have shrugged off this strange act as nothing, but not Kaly. She wasn't a journalist for nothing. Thinking back to what she had previosuly been saying, she tried to remember something she had said that could of caused Rory to bolt like that. Courtney...Stone Age...Huntzberger Publishing Gr-aha! Kaly didn't even have to finish her thought before she had a theory.
"Alright Gilmore, spill."
Rory looked up from her computer, to see Kaly leaning down, her green eyes searching Rory's blue ones for something. "Huh?" she asked.
"Huntzberger."
Rory's eyes grew wide again but she tried to pretend she was unaffected by that one word. "Kaly, what are you talking about?" She looked back to the article on her computer. She couldn't look at her friend if they were going to talk about this. It was just too much.
"Huntzberger. That name, it means something to you, other then it being the name of that famous newspaper mogul. What's his name? Michael? Or Mitchell?"
"Mitchum," Rory corrected her, spitting the word out like venom before she realized what she was doing.
"Aha!" Kaly pointed an accusing finger at the brunette. "Rory..." her eyes suddenly grew wide, "Ohmygod, Rory, please don't tell me you once had an affair with that guy. I mean, honestly, there are so many guys your own age pining for you, must you go after the old ones?"
Rory looked up at this accusation. "Kaly! Ew! Never! God! How does your mind think like that?!"
"I don't know, but I think I should be tested."
"Haha. Yeah, ok, well, don't worry, me and the elder Huntzberger never had anything going on. That's just...ew!"
"Okay...well then why did you say his name like that. You were all, Mitchum," Kaly said his name as Rory had previously, like it was the name of the most loathsome thing alive.
"Nothing. It's a long story." Kaly looked at her expectantly, and Rory sighed, knowing she might as well tell her now, as she would have to eventually. "I used to...I used to intern with Mitchum Huntzberger, back in college, sophmore year. I worked for him for a few months, and then, one day, completley out of the blue, he told me he thought I didn't have what it takes to be a journalist."
"What?!" Kaly exclaimed, not believing what she was hearing. "Rory, that's crazy. You're like, the best reporter here."
"Yeah, well, regardless of my potential, his comment got to me, and, well, it's what made me take some time off from Yale, and stop talking to my mom and everything."
"Wow." Kaly was stunned. "This guy's opinion obviously meant a lot to you if you it affected you that much."
Rory looked away. "Not really, it's just hearing about him again still gets to me. After all, he's the one who made Logan go to London, right when I thought that I w-"
Rory suddenly stopped herself as she realized what she had about to say, and even worse what she was about to say. Shit. At Kaly's expression, she knew she had caught that last part, and now wouldn't stop interrogating her until she found out who Logan was. And once she found out who Logan was, she would want to know how Rory knew him. And once she found out how Rory knew him, she would want to know all about their relationship, every detail. And that would lead to why they had broken up, to London, to-
Rory dropped her head to her desk. Kaly pulled up a seat next to her, not saying a word, knowing Rory already knew she would have to her everything. After a few moments, Rory slowly pulled herself up, and looked at Kaly.
"Okay, well the thing with me and Logan was..."
Minutes flew by, and it soon turned into hours, but the two girls didn't notice. Kaly just watched, completley amazed and into the story Rory was telling. She went on and on about her relationship with Logan, from that first debate in the hallway outside her dorm to that final scene outside Paris's the next school year. She described all the love she had for him, how she felt when she was with him, how much she was torn apart by the bridesmaid debalacle with such passion and detail, Kaly felt like she had been there for the whole thing, every single moment. Rory would laugh as she decribed funny moments she had with him, and would start crying as she decribed painful memories. Finally, several hours later, Rory concluded her tale.
"...and then, here we are, today. I'm here, in New York, with Jess, perfectly happy. He went to London, and now he's god-knows-where, but I'm sure he's fine to. I've moved on, so he must have too." The last sentence she stated was in a slightly unconvincing tone, but Kaly decided to bring it up later. For now, she was stunned. She leaned back in her seat, still in awe of what she had just heard.
"You really loved him, didn't you?"
Rory took another tissue out of the box on her desk, wiping away a few stray tears that kept falling out . "Yeah, Kaly I did. I really did."
Kaly wanted to say something else, from the way Rory was reacting to just just telling the story, but didn't want her friend to get mad at her. After a minute, she decided she would try her luck.
"Are you sure you're not-"
"No."
"But by the way-"
"No."
"Okay, but-"
"No, Kal. No no no no no. A million times no!" Rory said in with such force, Kaly was slightly taken aback. But not completley convinced.
"Okay. Well, from how how long that story of yours took, I think we're both gunna have to work overtime. Luckily Mr. Boss hasn't come in yet in the past 2 hours, surprisingly enough. I wonder what happened?" With that she got up, gave Rory a small pat on the back, before walking across the room to her desk, rolling her eyes as Marty immediatley jumped up from where he was sitting to follow her.
Rory sighed, leaning back in her chair and closing her eyes.
"Like the suit, cashmere?"
"I didn't know you were going to be here."
"Really, I thought you put my name on the list."
"Nope."
"Must be your grandparents, my parents are around here some here."
"Oh, so you came with your parents."
"Yea."
"And...who's the blonde?"
She had been so jealous. Ugh, she hated to be that girl, hated to be so possesive of a guy who hadn't even been hers yet.
Fate has a funny way of making things happen. Sometimes it takes a while, sometimes it just pops out at you. And Rory Gilmore had no idea what was coming her way.
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Okay, lot's of things to explain and say here.
1. Okay, I should probably give you more of a plot background, since you all should be atleast a little confused by now. And if you arent, then...well no, you pretty much should be. Okay, so a few months after Rory broke up with Logan she went to Jess, and they got back together, I won't go into to much detail about that, ugh. Anyway, they ended up moving to the Big Apple, where, due to Rory's amazing journalistic capabilities, she was offered a spot with the New York Times.
2. Kaly. I think you'll get to like her as her character comes in more often and her quirky personalitly shows through. Since in my other story I'm basically using the same people as on the show, I wanted to make up a few new ones for fun. : )
3. The whole Jess sex thing. God, I hate it too, and from my reviews I know you guys hate the whole Jess/Rory thing too. I just want you guys to know this, and to remeber it: THIS IS A ROGAN. I just need Jess in here for later stuff, you'll understand why when I get there. I hate them together too, but please bear with me.
4. No Rogan interaction yet. It'll come soon, I promise. If not in the next chapter, the next one for sure. This was kinda just to introduce a few characters, that'll be important throughout the story. Please be patient, and no I want it to come just as much as you.
5. Marty. No relation to the Marty on the show. Although do expect him to appear again. ; )
6. Mr. Boss - not his real name, but Rory and Kaly just call him that because they don't like his actual last name. Will you ever find it out? Probably.
7. I am really into this story, so do expect more updates soon. And longer chapters, just need to use these short ones to try to get the basis for the story written out. So review and tell me what you think : )