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Chapter 3: Just friends, nothing more..right?
Rory could see the wheels turning in Steph's head, like logan, colin, and finn, steph had followed in their footsteps as not really ever having a real boyfriend. She never wanted to get close enough to someone that they would be able to hurt her. This was because of her parents awful marriage, which was common in society, marriages weren't happy, they were forced. Honor was snuggled up to josh on one of the big chairs in the den of the main house. They had all decided to spend the night in the main house instead because it would be more comfortable. The boys were outside talking to colin and trying to tell him that dating steph would be a good thing since it was steph.
Rory went over to steph. "Hey" Rory said with a soft smile
"Hey" steph said quickly trying to hide the sense of sadness she was feeling. though rory being her perceptive self picked up on it right away. "It's Colin Steph, he would never hurt you, hes one f your best friends, if anything he would be one of the guys who would kill anyone who even came close to hurting you." Rory said honestly.
steph looked up at her best friend."Yeah I guess deep down I know that, but what if we break up, what if i mess it up, ive never been in a real relationship before and what if our friendship is ruined. I can't live without him ror!"
rory looked at steph, she knew how she felt, trusting someone with your heart, knowing that they could break it is hard, but this was colin, he would do anything for her. Rory knew that even if they broke up not being friends wouldn't be an option."You will always be as close as you are now steph, and if you guys get together you can finally know what its like, whether you choose to deny it, we all know that you and colin have been dancing around each other for years. Tonight will make what you both have wanted for so long happen. So let it." Rory gave steph a reassuring smile. "So does that mean you will do the same with logan, i saw how you two were looking at each other."
"Steph logan is my best friend, nothing more. Now are you going to go talk to colin?" steph not in the mood to argue, took a deep breath and stood up. "Here goes nothing."
Rory watched her and colin walk off and just as they did logan and finn came in from the patio and joined rory in the kitchen. "Hey guys! Finally right" she gestured pointing to outside.
"Seriously, I never though they would suck it up and admit they liked each other, but I'm so glad they finally have."
"Mate, colin is already so whipped" finn said laughing, logan and rory joined in because they all knew it was so true. He hadn't been going out with other girls for a while.
"So what movie shall we watch?" rory turned to the boys
"ummm, love in case you hadn't noticed the sun is coming up, its 5:45 in the morning, i thinks its time to sleep."
rory let out a yawn, "I was wondering why I was so tired" she said giggling
"Well I guess we should just go to bed." She walked into the living room with colin and finn to fine honor and josh asleep.
"Well i guess we should just leave the patio doors open so colin and steph can come in. I'm going to bed, you guys can sleep where ever, ill see you ummm..well i guess this afternoon and then we can head for stars hallow"
"night love" finn said as he gave her a hug. "night ace" logan hugged her tightly as if he didn't want to let go.
Rory went upstairs, and changed out of her dress, brushed her teeth, washed her face, and then laid in bed. For the first time, she was able to think about everything that had happened. I mean she kissed logan and now that she definitely felt more sober and her hangover coming on and she still had the same feelings when he had hugged her right now, she was scared that she really might be falling for her best friend. Rory heard the door open around 6:20 and found a happy steph run up the stairs and open the door to rory's room.
"Okay, well i guess you get to say i told you so!" said an excited stephanie
"ohh steph im so happy for you both!" she leaned over to her best friend who was now sitting on her bed and gave her a hug.
Rory and steph were beginning to let their sleepiness over take them "I'm so happy ror" said a very honest steph "I'm glad" said rory full of sincerity and with a sweet smile.
Around 1:45 in the afternoon rory decided to get up, she let steph sleep still and took a shower. She packed her bag for stars hallow and grabbed the book she had most recently been reading. She walked down the stairs and made coffee. She walked out side to find Honor saying good by to Josh. Honor came back into the house with a smile on her face and went into the kitchen to join rory.
"Morning" honor said with a huge smile on her face "Morning honor" rory said "I see your chipper this morning"
"Josh just told me that he loved me!" she said squealing! "Oh my god! Honor thats amazing! I' so happy for you guys!" Rory said hugging her friend.
"I know, I can't believe it, but I really do love him, more than anything."she said in a confident and excited voice.
"Well in that case, today, or i guess tonight we must celebrate!" rory handed honor a cup of coffee "Is josh coming with us, i mean he can if he wants"
"I wish, he has to go to this thing in upstate new york so I won't get to see him until later this week"
"well we will still have fun, i mean it will be like a little family week, with just the 6 of us" rory said
"I know we haven't had time just for ourselves in a while, last night was so much fun to! I can't even begin to tell you!"
"I'm glad! and you deserve it miss yale grad! Oh also I was thinking we could head to the hallow around 4, its going to take a while to get there, plus we could all have dinner at lukes." "sounds great ror, oh by the way, you and logan were getting pretty cozy on the couch last night"
"I don't know what your talking about Honor, logan and I are just friends, we don't like each other like that." deep down rory felt it hard to get those last few words out.
"I'm just saying" she said with her hands up. sensing she wasn't going to get anything else out of rory she decided to change the subject onto Colin and Steph. "Hey so have you talked to steph about colin, or better yet did they talk last night, because i though i saw them kissing on the patio but I was so tired so I can't be sure." she asked
"YEAH THEY DID!" said an excited rory
"its about time they finally admit their feelings for each other!"
"I know I'm so happy for them! Oh hey guys" Finn and Logan walked in followed by steph and colin.
"Ohh god, its so bloody early" said a hungover finn
"its almost 2:30 Finn"
"Yes love, but we only got to sleep at like 6!"
"FIne Finn, here just have a cup of coffee." finn gratefully accepted the coffee
"So ace whats the plan for today?"
"Well, honor and I were thinking that if we left by 3:45-4 ish then we could get to stars hallow in enough time to still eat dinner at lukes and hang out for a bit, and celebrate" rory said winking at honor and then at steph.
The group all got ready and dressed. Honor, steph, and rory all drove down in honors car, while the boys took finn's escalade. They arrived in stars hallow at around 7:45 since they left on time and the traffic wasn't awful. They went straight to lukes and rory called her mom to let her know that they got there okay.
the group was happy to be away from their families and all the drama that came with being apart of society. It felt good to get back to their core group, which was really like their family. Well, besides rory's parents, who were like the adoptive parents of the entire group. The group walked into lukes and were warmly welcomed by luke.
"hey rory! its really good to see you, well all of you!"
"I know its good to be back, plus we have missed the coffee, and well the burgers and fries!"
"I'll get everyones usuals started, and i know its been a while since we have seen you all around here."
By the end of their dinner finn was behind the counter pouring coffee for customers and luke was yelling at him to get out. Mean while the rest of the group was arguing over where they should go for vacation. The whole group was arguing over where to go when finn finally retuned and luke brought them all pie.
"well why don't we all go through the places again, as I remember colin i think you wanted to do germany, finn you wanted to do australia or disneyworld, steph you wanted something tropical i think you had settled on Bora Bora, and Ace I think you said Asia, and honor i think you said that you were on board with going some where tropical, and I think I can speak for myself and Josh in saying that we should just get the hell out of hartford and away from our parents for awhile,well accept for you Ace." logan said thinking about how when the 5 of them had been trying to decide about what to do for this summer they always ended up getting so drunk that they would decide just to go for disney world for the whole summer.
"Wait , Disney World, okay I think I can drop my Asia dream for right now if we are guaranteed to go there" rory said smiling.
"Well I mean mate we do have 3 months practically for summer, so maybe we can do a few different places, I mean between all of us we should be able to afford a big trip" finn said to logan
"Yeah I guess your right, so what if we do this we will go to 3 places total, the girls can pick one place and the guys will pick one and they we can decide on the third together, oh and Disney World isn't included in the choices because we will go regardless."
Steph, Rory, and Honor turned to each other as the four boys did on the other side of the table. "Okay so I say we go to Bora Bora or some where like it since well its summer and hello i miss the beach!" said an excited steph
"I agree tropical, hot, and beachy sounds good, since last year we didn't really go anywhere for the summer together, and lets face it the beach by yourself is not as fun" said Honor
"well, I have a feeling colin will win his germany trip and well geographically, bora bora is pretty far away" said a logical rory
"But we need the beach!" argued steph
"And steph I agree, so why don't we go to Monte Carlo, its closer plus we haven't been since we were kids, and even then it's not like we were really ever able to go together!"
"Oh my god rory! How did i not think of that, I haven't been there since i was a sophomore in high school, and that means logan hasn't been since he was in 8th grade!"
"Ahhhhh yes, Go rory! Okay so then it's decided, but wait what if finn wins"
Honor turned to the two girls, "one, i mean colin doesn't loose, and two we can go to australia as the third place, i mean I know finn hasn't been home in forever, plus Australia has great beach clubs!"
"YAY okay goood, plus its ot like the boys could ever truly say no to us.
As the three girls had predicted colin won, and they had chosen germany, and the girls then announced their choices and about going to australia as well.
"Ahhh loves, you guys are the greatest, much better than these guys" logan and colin just rolled their eyes as josh laughed at an excited finn.
"Okay so I guess we just have to decide where to first." Rory said jumping in
"Actually before we decide that I have to talk to you all about something." Honor said in a more serious tone.
"Well as you all know I have just graduated YALE"
"really honor, well congrats it must have slipped my mind" logan said sarcastically
"anyway, all of you were initiated into the life and death birgade freshman year. and since my junior year i was soly in charge of the group because i was the only one apart old enough to lead from the 5 founding families."
"Wait honor are you saying what i think you are saying?" said colin
"yes, guys you all are legacies of the founding families of our society, and seeing that i have just graduated and you all will be juniors next year, you five are now the new leaders." said honor proudly
"wow! i mean i guess we all kind of knew it was coming but honor the society won't be the same without you!" rory said realizing that she wasn't going to be very involved anymore
"Are you kidding, just because i'm not in charge anymore doesn't mean I won't be around! rory look at your parents, more so than our parents who just contribute financially, your parents still come occasionally to events for fun!"
"Wait, so honor what does this have to do with our summer vacation?" said colin
"well for two reasons really, one its summer now, as of well yesterday, and the month of june starts next week which means.."
logan finishing for honor"the annual kick off to summer event"
"exactly, I will still be there and help you guys plan, but its all up to you 5 now, your in technically logan , since the Huntzburger's got the Morgan's, Vanderbulit's, Macrea's, and Gilmore's to join in, you are technically the one to make all the final brings me to the second reason of how this affects our summer plans for the location..." honor said
logan again jumped in realizing where his sister was going with all of this, "...we have to pick the location as one of our 3 vacation places, well if we want to still go to all three, right honor."
"yes. so where will it be guys?" honor looked at the group. logan turned to finn who was looking at colin who was staring at steph, who looked to rory for the answer on what to do.
"well, I would say disney world, i mean its in the U.S.,so we could spend more money on the actual event and stunt more so than if it was out of the country we could make it fun, and its in florida, i mean the summer scene out there is fun, i remember us going our freshman year for spring break and we had a lot of fun." rory remembering their miami trip, they had gone for their freshman year spring break at YALE, and then she remembered how logan had pretty much succeeded to have a new girl every night. Each one of them bring more of an air head than the last. As she was thinking about it she became almost sad, it seemed like logan would date any girl in the world before he would ever consider her. Rory snapped out of her thoughts trying not to show the realization of what she had just figured out in her mind.
"I think thats a great idea ace, I mean we loved miami, and we could plan a really cool stunt at the theme park, i mean no one has ever really done an event at a theme park before, let alone disney world!"
"Well, I think you guys have made up your mind, plus it seems like you guys are already coming up with some great ideas. On friday, we are having dinner unfortunately with all of our families, they will make you the new leaders, and will talk to you guys about whats in store for the summer event." said honor proud of the group.
"Hey, its getting late, we should go." rory said getting up from the table. She couldn't believe how much just sitting next to logan was affecting her, she finally realized why she was always so judgmental of the girls logan brought around and why she would get butterflies in her stomach when he would look at her, or how he could make her loose her train of thought just with one simile. No matter how hard she fought it, she had fallen for her best friend logan Huntzburger, and she had fallen hard.
The group were driving to rory's stars hallow house now, colin and steph were in the back seat practically on top of each other, finn was being stupid and trying to convince honor that it would be a good idea to convince honor that doing a giant beer pong game would be a good life and death brigade activity, and logan was driving. Now that rory had realized that she liked him, she didn't know how to act around him or what to say, this never happened to her around guys, but leave it to logan to leave her with no words.
"Hey ace, you okay there, your like not even blinking." he said with a chuckle
"I'm fine" she said quickly, but still looking forward. Logan now was trying to mimic her and make rory laugh in doing so. He glued his hands to the starring wheel sat up straight and looked intently at the road in front of him with a deer in the head lights look about him.
"logan what are you doing" rory sad laughing, there was no way she could keep up her straight face when he was doing that.
"Oh ya know, i'm just channeling my inner ace." rory blushed at his remark realizing what she looked like
"Anything you want to talk about ace?" logan said sincerley. rory trying to divert the attention away from her look back at colin and steph and said "yeah, how is it that they don't have to ever come up for air, I mean seriously" she said laughing and trying to push her self conscious thoughts out of her head.
"I don't know ace, but i must say we gave them a run for their money last night" said logan smirking
rory blushed a very deep shade of red and stared forward again. It was going to be harder than she though to keep her secret of liking logan exactly what it was. A SECRET. Logan noticing her uncomfortable body language decided to change the subject.
"So Ace, whats the theme for the movie night tonight?"
"well... I was thinking we could do a scary night, ya know we can do the main three, the grudge, halloween, and scream." honor hearing the movies had just listed immediately said "NO RORY, those movies are so scary! And Josh isn't even here so its not like I have a distraction"
"I'll be a good distraction love" said finn in a sarcastic seductive voice. everyone in the car was laughing at this point, even steph and colin had joind the conversation and come up for air.
"Ohhhh but we must get snacks, i mean if were really doing scary movies i need to eat!" said rory
"are you ever not hungry rory, i mean we literally just at dinner and like 3 pies at lukes, one you pretty much finished yourself!" said colin in amazement
"Colin, you think you would be immune to my eating habits after all these years" logan laughing at a still baffled colin as rory named off everything they needed to get, and how she had ordered pizza and chinese food as well. "Believe me, its not like we will be sleeping after these movies, plus you guys will be hungry soon,i am just thinking ahead." said rory
"Ohhh love don't forget the booze! If I'm going to be scared I might as well be drunk as well"
"Finn your always drunk, how are you not drunk right now" said logan
"well, luke doesn't serve alcohol, so I was at a lost, plus i finished the fun flask on the way up to the vineyard the other day, because, i needed a heavy buzz to get through a car ride with my parents"
"touche" was all logan answered. The group headed to Doose's Market and got all the necessary foods for their movie night. They made their way to the house. The boys brought all the bags in as the girls set up the food, got out the movies, and brought out extra pillows and blankets into the living room. The stars hallow house was one that they always could escape to, it was close enough to hartford that they could go anytime, but far enough away to feel like a different world. Mostly because well the small town life here was like another world to them, it was quirky, slow, and laid back which were things their daily lives unfortunately lacked. This house was their true home, it was their unique, quirky, and fun 6 person fun filled family home.
The group had finished the grudge and were half way through halloween when honor and finn had fallen asleep. Colin and steph had disappeared to get 'more popcorn' but hadn't returned. Logan look at the room and pulled rory into him. "I guess its just us Ace" he said Rory relaxed in his arms fighting the urge to just turn her head and kiss him. The movie saved her however, it was a particularly intense seen and rory couldn't help but bury her head in logan's chest.
"Why do you let me pick the movies, all i ever do is pick scary ones and then i end up like this at 1:45 in the morning trying not to listen to every creaking noise this house makes" she said with a hopeless and innocent look on her face.
"oh come on ace, you know i would never let anyone hurt you." he said sincerley rory wished that she could just tell him how she felt, but she knew that he wasn't the girl friend type of guy. he was the reigning playboy of YALE, he would never settle down, not in college at least, and not willingly. Plus the minor detail that rory knew that he didn't like her, i mean he had the chance for years and never taken it.
"i know" she said with a smile. Logan looked down at her sparkling blue eyes. She was so beautiful he thought to himself, but he didn't like her like that. She was his best friend, like steph, she was practically like his sister. But he had to admit, he never though honor or steph was as engaging or beautiful as he thought rory was. He shook the feelings away from the scotch he had drank with finn earlier and him being tired. He felt rory's breathing settle and he realized she had fallen asleep on him again like she had the other day. He began to run his hands through her hair, he looked down at the sleeping brunette, it was rory his best friend, his very attractive best friend, but still his best friend. Rory was special, he could never do what he did with other girls. He shoved these thoughts away and drifted off to sleep, he didn't have to worry about this, rory was just his friend, nothing more.
