Chapter 4: For your eyes only
A few weeks had passed since Logan had spend the weekend in Stars Hollow, but the weekend that Logan stayed in Stars Hollow was a very vivid memory. She never thought Logan would fit so well in Stars Hollow or with her mom, but he did. He had survived the Gilmore Girls' movie night which surprised Lorelai that he was able to eat a lot of sugar without having a sugar coma. He had survived Taylor and miss Patty and unfortunate they forgot their camera when miss Patty did one of her usual antics and pinched him.
The rest of the weekend, Logan and Rory had talked a lot. Sometimes about the baby and how they both wondered if it was going to be a boy or a girl but it was mostly about their lives and Rory then realised how different they were but yet alike too in a few ways. Logan had told her a lot about how he grew up with the maids and only talked with his parents once a week. His dad was always away on business and his mom had her functions at the DAR or had to attend one of his dad's business parties. Rory also told him about her childhood, how she grew up without a father and how she grew up with her mother and about her deal she made with her grandparents for Yale and Chilton.
Rory then realised how much she had actually told Logan without even a sense of feeling uncomfortable. Of course there were easy topics that had been discussed like favorite movies or music but also talk about relations or Logan's lack in relationships. But not once had she felt uncomfortable. Except she did not tell him about the whole Dean affair, after all in the end she did want her and Logan to work out but now was not the right time.
Checking her watch, she noticed it was already past twelve and she had told Logan she would meet him at his dorm at 12:30 for their first doctor's appointment. She had to say she was nervous. This made it all even more real. She was going to see their baby.
When knocking on his dorm door around 12:15, the door was opened by Finn, one of Logan's best friends. She then noticed that Colin and Stephanie were also present. This was the first time, since she knew she was pregnant, that she faced Logan's friends. She was afraid they were going to ask questions that she couldn't answer or didn't want to answer or look at her strangely, like she had become pregnant on purpose.
"Hi, is Logan here?" Rory asked Finn with a smile on her face.
"Yes love, he's in his room," Finn spoke up as he stepped aside so Rory could step inside their dorm. Rory stepped inside as Finn closed the door and walked over to the couch and motioned for Rory to sitt down as well. Following his lead, she sat down in one of the comfortable seats in the room and took a deep breath when she noticed how all three of them were looking at her.
"So," Stephanie spoke up. "How are you Rory?"
"Good," Rory said with a smile as silence filled the room.
"Weird," Colin all of a sudden spoke up and everybody looked at him in confusion.
"I'm sorry?" Stephanie asked him with a suspicious look.
"Never thought Logan would be the first one that would become a dad," Colin explained himself.
"And this is coming from where?" Finn asked him.
"Just seeing Rory waiting for Logan like that made me realise that she is indeed pregnant," Colin explained himself some more as he smiled at Rory. "I'm sorry for bringing this up."
"No problem," Rory assured him. "I already felt like I was a museum object not so long ago when I was in Stars Hollow with Logan so really, this is not so bad." and she smiled at them, hoping they would believe her story. But she knew it wasn't true, this was ten times worse then Stars Hollow. Of course she cared about the people in Stars Hollow but it was to be expected from them. She didn't know what to expect from them and besides they were Logan's friends. Logan trusted them and their opinion mattered a lot to him, she knew that.
"No sweats love," Finn told her with a smile as he saw how she was lost in deep thoughts. "We don't think low of you or something like that now that you're pregnant. We were caught by surprise but I think you didn't plan it either nor did Logan."
"Wasn't in my agenda, no," Rory joked slightly as she heard a door open behind her and saw how Logan, who was dressed up nicely, appeared behind her with a big smile planted on his face.
"Hey Ace," Logan greeted her. "Ready to go?"
"Isn't it a bit early?" Rory asked him. "Our appointment isn't until 2."
"Then why did you want to meet this early?" Logan asked confused as he took a seat on the same chair as Rory's, making them sit awefully close to each other.
"I didn't want to wait in my dorm all alone," Rory reasoned. "I have already been waiting for 12:30 since eleven and you wouldn't believe the things I've heard in only that hour when I was on the phone with my mom. She kept talking non stop for an hour about how happy she was that Luke and her were back together so she wanted to get into details a bit too much. I, of course, told her to stop but no, she then started to throw the Chliton Puff's at me and how she was called out of bed in the midst of night or how she was fat at the age of 16 when she was pregnant with me. And that was just the beginning."
"Rough," Logan said as he knew how Lorelai could be. In that weekend he stayed with Rory he realised how similair her mom and Rory were and how crazy Lorelai could be when she was low on coffee or just being hyperactive.
"That doesn't even describe how I felt," Rory sighed as she saw the three dumbfounded faces looking at her. "What?"
"If your mom is anything like you love, I definately want to meet her!" Finn exclaimed out of nowhere.
"Your mom was pregnant when she was sixteen?" Stephanie asked in awe as Rory nodded in return.
"Then your mom must be hot!" Finn exclaimed again out of nowhere.
"I am sure her boyfriend Luke agrees with you, Finn," Rory told him while sending him a small glare.
"All the hot people in the world are taken!" Finn commented.
'You've never seen her mom!" Colin objected.
"If she's anything like Rory, how could she not be hot?" Finn reasoned. "I mean just look at Rory!"
Everybody in the room started to look at Rory and all of a sudden she felt very uncomfortable. What were they thinking or more importantly, what were the boys thinking?
"Stop looking at me like I'm a 400 pound woman!" Rory broke off everybody's thoughts.
"Oh my," Stephanie then yelled as everybody looked at her in confusion. "Rory, you're going to be fat and big and pregnant!"
"Thanks for the reminder of becoming a big fat woman!" Rory said sarcastically as the men could only grin.
"Come on Ace, you're not going to be fat," Logan told her.
"How can a pregnant woman with a belly sized like a basketball not be considered fat?" Rory snapped at him.
"Let me rephrase it," Logan responded quickly. "You're not going to be fat forever, only for a few months."
"A few months is like forever!" Stephanie piped in.
"And who says I'll get my old figure back?" Rory wondered. "Maybe I'll get the body of a ninety-year old woman! With extra fat and all rumpled!"
"Come on Rory, you'll be all skinny again when you've given birth," Stephanie assured her. "So stop worrying about that and more about where you are going to put all those baby clothes I am going to buy for the baby. Some dresses and nice little hats and really sweet shoes that cost like $500!"
"Dresses?" Logan wondered out loud.
"It's going to be a girl!" Stephanie exclaimed like it was obvious.
Logan quickly looked at Rory for any kind of confirmation or denial but she just shrugged her shoulders in response.
"Don't look at me! I don't know anything more then you do," Rory told him.
"It's going to be a boy!" Finn exclaimed all of a sudden.
"Me and Finn just know what the gender of babies are going to be," Colin reasoned. "Like we knew years ago that Madonna's second kid was going to be a girl!"
"You're right, how could I ever doubt you," Stephanie said sarcastically. "Pity that her second kid is a son named Rocco!"
"I thought she had a daughter and named it Esther! It was all over the news!" Finn defended himself and Colin as Logan and Rory just smiled at the small banter in front of them.
"That's Madonna's name when she joined the kaballah community, you idiots!" Stephanie yelled at them.
"Calm down guys," Rory interfered. "We don't know what it's going to be so there's no reason that argue about it. We're not going to find out until the baby is born!"
"You don't want to know the gender before its born?" Stephanie asked her as she nodded in return as did Logan. "But then you'll have to buy clothes which can be worn by both a girl or a boy!"
"I really don't want to know," Rory told her.
"Neither do I," Logan added with a smile. "I'd like it to be a surprise."
"If it's a boy I want it to be named after me!" Finn exclaimed once again all of a sudden.
"What about me?" Colin wondered. "You can't just claim that they are going to name their kid after you."
"Of course they're going to name it after me, they want their son to be hot and sexy therefor my name is the pefect choice," Finn said like it was obvious as all of them just rolled their eyes.
"We are not going to name our kid Finn," Logan assured Colin as Rory nodded in agreement with a big smile plastered on her face.
"Why not?" Finn asked them. "Don't you want your kid to be hot and sexy?"
"Of course we want that," Rory told him. "We want it so much that we're going to go see if our kid is hot and sexy."
"Yeah I think we should go," Logan followed Rory's lead to leave the room as soon as possible. When Finn was on fire, he could go and annoy you forever until he got his way or until he was too drunk to continue the banter.
Logan rose from the chair as did Rory but were stopped by Colin who spoke up.
"I thought you said your appointment was at two o'clock. It's only 1," Colin told them.
"You know how traffic is around this time," Rory lied with a fake smile on her face. "Don't want to get late."
"It's only a twenty minute drive to the hospital," Stephanie added with a smile on her face when looking at the nervous faces on her friends' faces.
"We just want some extra time just in case we get stuck in traffic," Logan told them with a fake smile too as they moved closer to the door.
Finn didn't feel like playing the game along with Colin and Stephanie and just cut to the chase. "You're just sick of us!"
Not wanting to answer that question, Logan and Rory quickly said their goodbyes and left the dorm as they heard the banter continue behind closed doors. They could that they continued talking about what gender their child was going to be and how it was obvious to Finn that his name was a synonym for hot and sexy.
"I'm glad they're excited about the baby," Rory said with a smile as Logan closed the door behind him and put his arm around her waist as they walked to the parking lot together.
"A bit too excited," Logan added with a smirk as they entered the parking lot and moved over to Logan's convertible car. As a gentleman he opened the cardoor for Rory and then he moved over to the other side of the car as they made their way to the hospital where they would see their child for the first time.
Like they said in their excuse to Finn, Colin and Stephanie they did get stuck in traffic and it took them fourty minutes to get to the hospital. Both a bit nervous about the appointment they sat down in the waiting room of dr. Jonathan Mitchell. A lot of woman passed by them, some were still thin and other were being all big and pregnant.
"That's going to be me in like a few months," Rory said as she looked in awe at all the pregnant women that were waiting in the waiting room.
"And you would still look beautiful," Logan added as he knew Rory was unsure about how she would look in a few months.
"Thanks," Rory replied with a smile as she turned to him. She grabbed his hand and squeezed it a bit and she couldn't help but think how warm and soft his hands were.
Logan was thinking the exact same thing, her hands were soft and tender and it made him all shiver from the inside. Never had a woman that kind of effect on him. Yes, Rory Gilmore was not like every woman, she was more.
About ten minutes past two, dr. Mitchells called out for them and motioned them to step inside his room. There was a small introduction where Rory explained that Logan was the father of their child but that they were not married.
"So the child's name will be Huntzberger?" dr. Mitchells asked them as he wrote down a few things on a piece of paper that lay down in front of him.
Logan looked at Rory who nodded in response. "Yes it will be."
"Good," the doctor smiled. "So Rory, how long have you known that you're pregnant?"
"About four weeks I guess," Rory said as the counted the weeks.
"Why don't you lay down on the table there so we can look at your belly," dr. Mitchells told her as they moved over to the table where Rory lay down and she uncovered her belly.
Dr. Mithcells touched her belly a few times and then he took the ultrasound, which was displayed on a cart.
"Now it's time to look at your baby," the doctor announced as he put some gel on Rory's belly and moved the ultrasound over her belly as he searched for the fetus. "There it is."
On the screen, there was a small movement as the doctor pointed out on the screen where the head was and the baby's legs.
"It's so small," Rory said with slight tears in her eyes. Logan noticed this as he had slight tears in his eyes as well and he moved his hand over to hers and squeezed it a bit.
"And beautiful, Ace," Logan added with a smile which she happily returned.
"Well, when I look at the baby's development and when I felt your abdomen, I think you're about nine weeks in your pregnancy," dr. Michells informed them with a smile as he took a print from the screen and handed them to the young couple, he made a double print so both of them had one. "And the baby looks good."
"Aren't I too skinny for nine weeks?" Rory asked with a hint of uncertainty in her voice.
"Don't worry miss Gilmore," Dr. Mitchells started. "Most women are like you in this early stage. Most women start to grown when they're about 3 months pregnant. Some a bit earlier or some start to grow when they're four months. Nobody can tell."
"Thank you doctor," Rory thanked him.
"No problem," he told them as he lead them to the door. "You can make your next appointment at the front desk with my assistant. If you have any questions, please contact me. I'll see you in four weeks, miss Gilmore, mr. Huntzberger."
"Thank you," Rory and Logan both thanked the doctor as they left the room.
They headed for the front desk where they made their next appointment, which would take place in another four weeks. After that they headed back to the car, where once again Logan opened the door for Rory and she stepped in the car. Logan then took a seat in the car as well and started the car as they headed back to Yale.
"Isn't it amazing?" Rory asked Logan with a hint of excitement in her voice. "It looks like a little bean."
"You are not comparing our kid to a bean!" Logan shot back at her.
"Why not? I didn't say it was a bean just that it looked like one," Rory told him.
"You hate beans," Logan replied.
"So?" Rory asked him still not getting the point.
"If you compare it to a bean, which you hate, then you'll hate the baby too," Logan reasoned.
"That made absolutely no sense," Rory frowned.
"I guess I have been hanging out with you too much," Logan smirked.
"Be nice to me, I have to carry your child for another seven months mister!" Rory warned him. "If you're not nice, I'll make it hate you from day one."
"That's not possible," Logan told her as he drove into the parking lot, outside Rory's dorm building. Both of them stepped out of the car, where their banter continued.
"Why not?" Rory wondered as they walked to Rory's dorm together as Logan placed his hand on Rory's back.
"Everybody loves me," Logan smiled back at her.
"Not everybody,"
"Who doesn't love me?" Logan wondered.
"Well, Luke isn't your biggest fan," Rory gave an example.
"He'll warm up to me," Logan said with convidence in his voice. "Anyone else?"
"Paris," Rory told him.
"Hilton? No she always loved me," Logan smiled back at her.
"Paris Geller, my roommate," Rory corrected him.
'You mean that roommate of yours who is sleeping with our lovely editor Doyle?" Logan asked her with a big smile on his face. "The one who was standing in the middle of your dorm room while wearing boxers and a robe?"
"I didn't ask for that image," Rory said with a look of disgust on her face. "I'll get nightmares! And if I suffer, then the baby will suffer too. And you wouldn't want that, would you?"
"You are really exploiting your pregnancy. Everything I do to you will effect the baby, right?" Logan asked her as she nodded in return. "Well today was the last time you used that because that baby is a true Huntzberger and we only care about ourselves so your nightmares will have no effect at all!"
"You do forget that our child is a Huntzberger slash Gilmore, trapped inside a Gilmore's body," Rory told him. "This baby has no choice but to feel the consequences."
The both of them reached Rory's dorm where Rory grabbed her key and opened the door and walked inside.
"Want to come inside?" Rory asked him as she threw her purse and keys on a nearby table and waited for him to come inside.
"I have some work I need to do," Logan told her as she looked at him in disbelief. "I do work and if we're going to tell the parents and grandparents anytime soon, at least I should be able to say that I am working very hard in school, shouldn't I?"
"Ah yes," Rory was reminded. "Telling your parents and my grandparents. Fun!"
"Can't wait," Logan said sarcastically.
"I can imagine how it will turn out. We tell them the news of us expecting a child in seven months and then you'll tell them, 'well dad at least my grades are good'," Rory rambled on. "I'm sure they'll throw us a party just to celebrate your fine grades and the arrival of the next Huntzberger heir."
"I like your fantasy," Logan smirked.
"Well my fantasies are always good," Rory replied with a smile. "Most of the times they are much better then the reality."
"Well how about we hang out tonight? Watch a movie?" Logan suggested.
"Sure," Rory agreed. "Sounds like fun!"
"Cool, now go call your mom. I know you've been wanting to call her the entire time we drove back," Logan told her as he slowly walked towards Rory.
"You know me too well," Rory said with a smile as she got a bit nervous from the fact that the distance between Logan and her became smaller each moment.
"See you tonight Ace," Logan said goodbye as he planted a kiss on her cheek and with that he walked out of her dorm, leaving her behind startled.
It was weird to act around each other now that there was a baby involved. They had said to continue their no-strings agreement but these last few weeks things weren't going any further then kisses on the cheeks and a small touch by Logan or herself. They had physical contact but not the way she wanted it. This complicated things a lot more and it wasn't the way she wanted it to be.
Author's note: Thanks for the reviews I received. Very appreciatedNext chapter: Things you can tell by looking at her
It's time to tell the grandparents and parents!