Chapter 2
Rory sits on her couch, stunned after he leaves. He goes back to campus. He still can't believe he broke up with his Ace. Actually she hadn't been Ace for a while.
For two days Rory did nothing except cry and think. She called no-one; she refused to answer her grandparents on the intercom. On the 3rd day she did the only think that seemed right. She packed her personal belongings into her car and drove back to Stars Hollow.
If she was going to make her life right – it had to start with her mom.She walked up to the door and knocked. Scared, for the first time in her life that Lorelai wouldn't talk to her. Lorelai opens the door shocked to see Rory but even more shocked by the heartbroken look on her kids face.
"I'm sorry mommy, I got so lost."
"It'll be ok kid, come here." Lorelai pulls her into a hug. This has been the hardest week of her life, walking away from her daughter, making her figure out her life on her own. Not something Lorelai was normally known for, she normally stood up to anyone and everyone that dared to treat Rory with anything but the utmost respect. For the next hour they talk but not about what happened. Instead they talk about the lighter things, what happened on their favorite shows, news in Stars Hollow, and then finally Rory opens the door.
"Ok Mom I'm ready now."
"Ok spill kid."
"I've never failed. I've never been second best, I am always liked, people don't think of me as not good enough, and I've always done more than was expected, above reproach. That's why what Mitchum did hurt me so bad. Mitchum showed me you can be great and focused and determined and none of it matters if someone has a grudge or a reason to dislike you. So what's the point, if the person in charge has it out for you, your screwed? What's the point? Why work so hard? Why be so good? Why study so much? Why care if it can be taken away by some overbearing jackass. Drive, ambition, goals, none of it matters."
"So what changed your mind again?" Lorelai asks and is apprehensive about the forthcoming answer.
"Logan broke up with me."
"What? Oh my God Rory are you ok?"
"Remarkably yes I am. I know I'll get him back. Its weird mom but I know that when I get me back, I'll get Logan too."
"Confidence, I like that in a daughter."
"Logan just told me without my goals and ambition and drive, he doesn't find me attractive. It was just the kick in the teeth I needed I don't find wimpy me attractive either."
Rory finishes the summer off in Rory style. She works at 15 places to get her community service done and out of the way. She petitions the court to expungeit from her record which they agree to, seeing as how she was so diligent to get the hours completed and it was her first offense. Obviously a different judge reads her letter than the one that she stood before in court. Rory enrolls in her junior year at Yale in full journalism mode. Mitchum Huntzberger be damned she was going to be journalist, that was her dream and no one can stop her.