Chapter 4: Karma
Logan looked at her confused, his eye's were narrow, and unknowingly he had sucked in his bottom lip, biting it gently. 'Did she just call me ...'
'She said something! Did she say something? What did she say?' Lorelai's frantic voice broke through his thoughts. Logan turned his head slowly away from Rory, and looked at the phone sitting on the coffee table.
"She - uh ... she said Tristin." He didn't know what else to say.
'Tristin? Who's Tristin? Are you Tristin?" Logan laughed and shook his head.
"No - uh - Tristin's my cousin." He looked back at Rory who still hadn't moved, his eye's narrowed again, as if he was trying to figure her out - and he was.
'Oh OK. ... No wait a minuet - not OK. Who are you? And ... how does my daughter know your cousin?'
Logan had a helpless look on his face, he didn't know how to answer the second part of her question.
"I-"
"He's a friend mom." Rory's voice was soft but loud enough for her mother to hear her.
'Ror? You OK Kid?'
"Yea I'm fine. Just got a little dizzy is all. All better now."
'OK ... now who's the guy? He sounds hot.'
Not being able to help himself, a smirk fell across Logan's lips. "Well thank you." He then turned to Rory and tilted his head in the direction of the phone. "You hear that Ace? Your mom think's I'm hot."
"No Logan she said you sound hot. If she met you she'd think differently."
Logan gave her a surprised look then smirked. "Nice blow to the ego. Didn't your mother ever teach you to play nicely the other kids?"
She acted as if she were offended. "Mom I think he's saying you have bad parenting skills."
'Humph... Well he's right you never did play well with the other children.'
Rory gasped. "What other children did I not play well with!"
'Well there was Jenny Kingsley down the street.'
"She stole my Barbie!"
'Oh yea your right - she totally deserved to be pushed off that swing.'
Logan's eye's widened, and he looked at Rory while laughing. "She pushed her off a swing?"
'Broke the girls wrist.' Lorelai sounded very pleased with herself, which caused Rory to glare at the phone.
"You broke her wrist!"
Rory glared at him. "I did not break her wrist. I pushed her off the swing. She broke her wrist. I mean come on who in their right mind, doesn't brace themselves when their falling?"
'Ror- you guy's were 5!'
"Exactly! We were 5 ... so that doesn't count ... all kids are bad at 5."
"Not true Ace, I was a perfect Angel when I was 5."
'Yea me to.' Lorelai agreed.
Rory rolled her eye's. "You guy's don't count, you had money, you had to be good."
'Says the daughter I had at 16.' Lorelai responded while laughing.
"And I can give you the names of at least 2 friends from military school who can tell you that I'm no Angel."
'Oh Dirty!'
Logan laughed while Rory closed her eye's tightly, wishing that she could just disappear. 'Military school?' She opened her eye's and looked at Logan again. 'Oh she's good.'
"Mom." Her voice was demanding. Logan looked at her slightly surprised by her sudden change of mood.
'Yes my beautiful daughter?' She was caught. She knew it, Rory knew it, and she was pretty sure this Logan guy knew it.
"When did you realize who Tristin was?"
Logan's POV
Sighing he fell back against the couch. He had no idea why he was dreading this conversation, but he was. Lorelai had been doing a very good job of distracting Rory, and then he had to go and open his mouth. He saw the look on her face when he said Military school. 'Maybe she knows him from North Carolina ... but no ... Paris told her someone "they" used to know. ... Paris...' It hurt still to even think about her, something he hadn't had to experience in close to 7 years. ' 7 Damn Years!' The day he left, he left that part of his life behind, and never turned back even once. And now here he was sitting in her dorm room, with her room-mate, who was not only her Best Friend, but apparently was someway connected to his cousin, his Best Friend. And all by chance, or was it fate? Logan let out a small laugh. "Fate! Who made that crap up?' Glancing at Rory he noticed she had picked up the phone and was having what looked to be a very one sided discussion, in the kitchen. Rory being the one side.
Getting up he walked around the living room. He stopped in front of a small side table, and picked up a crystal frame. The picture was of Rory & Paris in their cap and gowns, standing in front of Chilton, arms wrapped around eachother, tears in their eye's and huge smiles on both of their faces. It was one of thoes pictures, that literally captured every emotion, making you feel as if you were actually there. He rubbed his thumb over her face, and smiled at how happy she looked. He knew that smile, like he knew how to read. It was there, imbedded in his memory, never going away, and truthfully he didn't want it to. He remembered a time when he had been the cause of that smile, he also remembered that he was the reason to make it disappear.
Anger suddenly flared up inside of him. Anger towards his Father for ever even suggesting he transfer from Harvard, anger towards Tristin for telling him to go along with it ... and for the fact that he had a very strong suspicion that he knew Paris was going to be here, but mostly anger towards himself for listening to either one of them, and for causing the pain he saw in her eye's when she looked at him.
He sat the picture down exactly where he found it and continued walking around. Suddenly realizing something he walked back over to the picture and picked it back up. 'Chilton! ha! that's where she knows him from.' He laughed out loud to himself, it was to much to process for so early in the day, and on an empty stomach. Setting the picture back down he shook his head at two very familiar faces, smiling he picked up another frame. 'Louise Grant & Madeline Lynn' They were sitting with with Rory & Paris on what appeared to be a beach.
He laughed again, then jumped when he herd Rory laugh from right behind him.
"So I'm guessing by the look on your face, you know them also.?"
Logan smiled and gave a small nod. "Sense like 7th grade."
Rory's eye's widened. "Wow." He just nodded again and continued looking at the picture. Rory glanced at the table next to him, and saw the picture he had been previously looking at. "Wait - so you went to Chilton?"
"Yea for about a second." Noticing the bitterness in his statement, Rory raised one eyebrow curiously. "I left after Freshman year. - Military school."
"Oh." She suddenly felt bad for bringing it up. "Sorry."
Logan looked up at her, and saw that she felt bad. "Oh - don't be. I was an ass in high school." He smirked, which got a small laugh out of her.
Rory reached out and took the picture from him. "This was spring break Freshman year. I remember all we could talk about was how all we were going to do was stay in our room and relax, and maybe get some sun." Rory laughed while shaking her head. "And we did, the first day. Then we ran into these two. Made our first, and last, spring break very memorable." Still smiling she handed the frame back to Logan.
He glanced at it one last time then set it back down. He looked at Rory who looked like she was very deep in thought. "What?" He asked.
Rory shook her head then looked at him and bit at her bottom lip. "Well - doesn't this seem kind of weird to you?"
Logan thought about it for a second before shaking his head. "No I wouldn't call it weird."
"Oh really? Then what would you call it? - Fate?"
Logan sighed and tilted his head back. 'There's that damn word again.' Looking back at Rory he smirked. "Karma."
Rory seeming to accept this, simply nodded. Then narrowing her eye's at him, she tilted her head slightly to the side. "Wait - who's Karma? Mine or yours?"
Logan laughed. "Definitely mine Ace."
Noticing the slight bitterness return to his voice, Rory simply nodded, and decided to change the subject. She looked around the room, her eye's landing on the clock next to the TV. '11:30' Looking back at Logan she laughed. "You know that saying 'Time fly's when your having fun' ? Is that being literal? I mean do you actually have to be having fun?"
Thrown by the sudden change in topic, he gave her a funny look, before glancing at the clock. A smile played across his face.
"Wow." Rory looked at him with big eye's.
"You checking me out again?"
She shook her head unbelievingly. "First - I never once checked you out. And Second - It's just surprising is all."
"What is?"
"That the guy's in your family actually know how to smile. Because I mean Tristin - he always had that annoying smirk on his face. And you - same one. But just now - you smiled."
He was looking at her like she was crazy. "What? No I didn't."
"Yea - you did." Her smile grew, at his obvious embarrassment.
"Your crazy. And I'm going to go get something to eat. You coming?" He stuffed his hands deep into his pocket's.
"That depends - is there going to be some form of pancakes and coffee involved?"
"It's 11:30."
"So?" She shrugged her shoulders.
"So it'll be past lunch time after we get there."
"So?" She repeated her question.
Realizing this was a battle he wasn't capable of winning, he gave in. "Yea Ace there will be pancakes and coffee." Rory let out a very giddy squeal, and walked towards the door picking up her purse on her way. Logan watched her closely and shook his head. He glanced one last time at the picture sitting on the table, turned and followed her out the door.
A/N: Hey everyone! Wow! I DID NOT think I was going to get so many great reviews! THANK YOU ALL SOOOO MUCH! LOL
To clear some stuff up ... Tristin is not dead ... sorry if I made it seem like that. But I could never Kill him lol. Paris and Logans past will come out eventually. I'm actually thinking of ways for it to come out ... but it will soon I promise:)
Tristin will be in this story ... and it is going to be a TRORY.
Uhm let's see what else ... oh I might change some thing's about Rory & Paris relationship in the past, ya know - like make them closer. But everything else is basically the same backstory with them after Tristin left.
I might bring Jess in later in the story ... and I didn't change anything about Rory - Dean did happen and the only major difference in her, is the fact that she's still in school.
I think I might be substituting Marty for Mark ... because I don't really know if I can write the character of Marty, mainly because I never really saw any episodes with him in them. And with Mark I can just - go with him, make him whoever I want ya know?
Ok what else? Oh Lorelai & Luke are together.
Ok well I hope you all like this chapter ... I know not much happened but well I hope you like it anyway! Thank You ALL!
Always, OthGgC
