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Chapter 4 - Futures and Skylines

For the rest of the night they hung out in the limo, chatting, laughing, drinking and mucking around. They all had a brilliant time and before they knew it it was 3:00am! They decided to call it a night and Frank dropped them back to their apartments. Colin stayed at Steph's, claiming it was because it was 'closer' and more 'convenient' but they all knew that was a load of rubbish! Logan was happy to see two of his best friends finally happy together, he knew they would drive each other crazy but also be great as a couple. Having recovered from their hangovers Rory and Logan just decided to take it easy and have a relaxing day, lounging around the apartment seeing as they didn't have anything pressing that they needed to do. Rory was wearing sweats, curled up on the sofa reading a book with Logan stretched out at the other end doing the same.

Out of the blue Rory put her book down in her lap and turned to Logan. "Logan, what are we going to do now?" she asked in a slightly harsh tone.

"Hang on..." He muttered, wanting to finish his page.

"No, Logan!" she said slightly annoyed. He had no idea why.

"What?" He asked, looking up.

"What are we going to do now?" She asked again

"What do you mean? Right now?"

"No! As in like work. Where are we going to work? Where are we going to live? Will we be working near each other? What if we're not? What's going on in San Francisco? Did you get the job? Are you going to move there? What am I going to do? Will-"

"Woah, woah, woah." He said braking her train of quick fire questions. "Where's this coming from?" He asked, putting his book down on the coffee table and sitting up.

"What do you mean where is this coming from? We haven't talked about what we're going to do now once! I didn't get the job at the paper I applied to so I don't know what I'm doing! Then you've been out in California doing interviews over there and I have absolutely no idea what's going on because you never talk to me about it! I don't know if you're going to work out there or not or weather your moving there, how am I meant to know when you never talk to me!"

"So it's all my fault?"

"Well who else's fault is it!" She asked, getting angry and standing up in a huff, slamming her book down on the coffee table!

"Rory, calm down. We'll figure this out." He said, standing up, facing her and putting a comforting hand on the top of her arm in an attempt to calm her.

Rory shrugged his arm off and walked away flailing her arms about in frustration, he just wasn't getting it! "For once in your life just take something seriously!"

"I am! There's just no point in getting stressed over it, it's only going to make matters worse!"

"But this isn't something that you can just put off till next week Logan! It's important!" She shouted.

He didn't understand where this sudden outburst had come from. Everything was fine then suddenly she was all angry? He was about to defend himself when his phone rang. 'ring ring, ring ring' "I have to get that, It's my work phone." He said retrieving his phone from his pocket.

"We're in the middle of a conversation!"

"It could be important!" he said before answering the phone and pressing it to his ear as he walked round the corner into his office area. "Logan Huntzberger"

She let out an RRGGG of frustration before stomping off towards the kitchen.

Lorelai was walking down the aisle in the supermarket in Hartford, looking down, checking off the items on her list. She walked straight into the back of a tall man. She looked up "Oh, I'm so-" When the man turned around she was met by a familiar pair of brown eyes. "-sorry! Max! What are you doing here?"

"Lorelai, hi. Funnily enough, I'm getting groceries. What are you doing in Hartford?" He enquired.

"Oh, I just needed a few things and was passing through so I thought I may as well grab them from here. Then, being my normal clumsy self, I proceeded to walk directly into the back of a man." She laughed.

"You never were an elegant one!" He chuckled. "I haven't seen you in years then suddenly I see you twice in two days!"

"Aren't you a lucky man?" She teases. "So how was dinner with your parents last night?" She asked, remembering yesterday he said he had to go to have dinner with them.

"It was fine, pretty uneventful. What about you? What did you do last night?"

"Not much really, watched a film, ordered Chinese food. The normal."

"You haven't changed a bit."

"I like to think I'm wiser, but sometimes I really doubt that!"

He laughed. "Would you...err... do you err... maybe want to grab a cup of coffee?" He asked nervously.

"Ummm. sure. I'm never one to turn down coffee!"

Rory sat at the kitchen counter clutching a hot mug of steaming coffee, feeling bad for the way she had yelled at Logan. He hadn't done anything wrong. She was just taking her panic out on him which was in no way fair. Then when he was trying to reassure her and calm her she just had a go at him for it.

She leaned her elbow on the table and ran a hand through her hair. Logan entered the room sheepishly. He wasn't sure if she was still mad at him. Mad at him for what he didn't know! She looked a lot calmer. He slowly approached the kitchen counter and placed his Blackberry on the worktop before cautiously taking a seat on one of the breakfast bar stools.

"Logan I'm so sorry! I was just panicking about what we were going to do now and I was taking it out on you, which really isn't fair! Then I yelled at you for trying to calm me down, all you were doing is trying to help! God, I'm so horrible!" She said, resting her head in her hand.

He chuckled before squeezing her other hand. "Ace, you're not horrible-"

"Yes I am!" She interrupted.

"No, you're not. You were just getting yourself worked up." She gave him a sad smile. "And hey, look, we'll work it out, okay?" He said, lifting her chin so she was looking at him properly. "Your right, we may not have it all figured out right now but we will. Remember what you were saying last night? About everything being wide open and being able to do anything, anywhere and how exciting that prospect is?"

She laughed lightly. "What?" He asked.

"You're so great. I was all horrible and you're still being really nice to me!"

"I thought we already established that you weren't horrible?"

"You know what I mean!"

"I love you Ace"

"I love you too" She said as he leaned in and gave her a long kiss.

When they broke apart he spoke again. "Oh and It was pretty important that I took that call because that has a big bearing on what we do now"

"And to think I tried to stop you from taking it!" She laughed. "Who was it?"

"The offices in San Francisco"

"Reeealy, and what did they want?"

"To tell me I got the job!" He said with a massive smile.

"Oh my god! Logan, that's great!" She said jumping up from her seat and launching him into a huge hug. When she let go and stood between his legs she said. "Oh I knew you'd get it! You so deserve it, I'm so proud of you!"

"Thank you" He replied sincerely, kissing her softly on the lips.

She pulled back when a thought suddenly popped into her head. "Wait, does this mean you're moving to San Francisco!"

"Ahh, that brings me onto the next part of the conversation. He said he had decided he is going to open the main base of the company somewhere else because San Francisco isn't the most ideal location for business. So he's launching it in New York! But he doesn't want to move from San Francisco. So, although he would still be the main leader of the company back in Palo Alto, he wants me to run the New York branch!"

"Oh my god Logan! That's amazing!" She squealed. "So that means you'll be working in New York?"

"That's right. So I was thinking, and this is only an idea we don't have to, but I thought we could move to New York and you could find a paper to work at there. Because for starters it has some of the best newspapers in the country and there are loads to choose from. Big ones, small ones, loads of different ones that cover different aspects of news and-"

She cut him off with a kiss. "That sounds perfect"

"You sure?"

"I'm sure" she confirmed with a smile. "Now, I'm starved! Shall we order a pizza?"

"Yeah, definitely." He said with a smile, handing her the phone.

Rory and Logan sat on the sofa; he had his feet up resting on the coffee table with Rory curled up into his side. They had just polished off a pizza and were now sat in a comfortable silence.

"We're moving to New York" Rory stated happily, looking up at him with an enormous grin.

"I know" He said with a grin matching hers.

"I can't wait!" she said, snuggling in to him. "Where are we going to live? What about your apartment there?" She pondered.

"Well I was thinking we should get a new apartment, one that's bigger. I didn't intend to keep that place long term; it was just for me while I was out there. We're going to need more bedrooms for when your mum comes to stay and stuff. And it's a bit small anyway, if we want to have friends over. Also, that place isn't exactly personalized so it would be nice to make our place more personal, you know?"

She nodded. "Sounds perfect." They fell into another comfortable silence before she said. "I should probably ring my mum and tell her"

"Well why don't you do that while I clear up?" he suggested, getting up and picking up the empty cardboard pizza box.

"You sure?"

"Yeah, it's no problem."

"Okay, well thank you"

He just smiled before walking off into the kitchen area.

Rory picked up her phone from the table and dialled the familiar number of her mother. After a couple of rings she picked up.

"Fruit of my loins!" her mother exclaimed down the phone in her normal cheery tone.

"Hey mom"

"Did you have a good time last night?"

"I did! It was great; we had a really good time. We painted our names in massive black letters on the walls at Yale!"

"Wow! Tomorrow every headline in America will say 'Rory Rebels!'" Rory just laughed at her mom. "And I used alliteration! Some of your fancy journalism talent must be rubbing off on me!"

Rory just rolled her eyes at her mother's antics even though Lorelai couldn't see. "Anyway, I actually rung because I have something to tell you"

"Me too!"

"You first"

"Okaaay, well... guess who I bumped into in the supermarket today?"

"Beyoncé? I hear she got sick of someone doing her shopping for her. Something about them always getting the wrong milk" she joked.

Lorelai ignored her daughter's antics. "Max" she stated simply.

"Really?"

"Yeah and when I say bumped into him, I literally mean bumped into him! I was looking at my list and I walked straight in the back of him!" Rory laughed out loud before her mother continued. "So anyway, we talked for a bit and then he asked if I wanted to go for coffee"

"Did you go?"

"Yeah, and we had a great time, I know this may not be a great thing to say but it was just like it used to be, like nothing ever changed."

"Do you think there's a possible reconciliation coming?"

"I don't know. Maybe. If there is though, I don't want to rush anything. My relationship record isn't very good in the last several years and If anything does happen I want to be sure it's right, you know?"

"Yeah, that's very wise." She mused. Her mother had made her fare share of mistakes but ultimately, she just wanted her to be happy. Rory looked up and she saw Logan come back in the room and sit down on the sofa beside her and she lied down next to him with his arms wrapped securely around her.

Lorelai chuckled. "And just earlier I was telling Max how wise I'd gotten! Okay, so enough about me, what's your news?"

"Okay, you ready..." She looked up at Logan with a big smile, He knew what she was about to say and smiled back. "Logan and I are moving to New York!"

After a short pause on the other line, Lorelai said "Wow hun..."

"I know! Wow! This morning I was like freaking out about what we were going to do because we hadn't really talked about it then suddenly everything just fit into place. Logan got a call from..."

Logan looked down at his Ace in his arms. She was talking so animatedly about how their plans for the future came about. He was so happy to see her so excited about it, just as he was.

"...So yeah, that's pretty much it! We're going to look for a bigger place than the one he's already got out there so we can have people over and come and stay etc. I can't wait!"

"That's great hun" Although she sounded fairly genuine, the tone in her voice eluded to the fact that she wasn't over the moon about it.

"You don't sound excited" Rory frowned.

"Oh no, I am sweets! I'm just gunna miss you!"

"I know, and I'll miss you too but we're getting a bigger place so you can come stay for the weekend and we'll come down as much as we can" Logan began to kiss down her neck making her squirm. "Err mom? I have to go, but I'll speak to you soon."

"Bye hun"

"Bye" Rory said, quickly hanging up and putting her phone on the table before turning over so she was looking up at Logan.

"Did she not seem very happy about it?" He asked.

"I dunno, I think she's just going to miss me, you know? I don't think she likes the idea of me not needing her anymore, and doing my own thing"

He nodded in understanding. "So, I don't have to start work for another few weeks because he needs to finish setting up the business and stuff in New York, so I was thinking we should start apartment hunting! What do you think?"

"Oh yeah, that sounds great! I can't wait! I'll start looking online for places for us to go and look at!" She said, getting all excited.

He smiled brightly. "Sounds good. So, have we got anything we need to do this week?"

"I don't think so, oh wait, yeah, on Friday Stars Hollow wanted to throw me a bon voyage party so we have to go to that. But other than that, I don't think so"

"Ok, good. Why don't we go and stay in our apartment in New York for the week and come back on Friday? That way we don't have to keep driving back up there to look at apartments then we can come back on Saturday for the party" He suggested.

"Good Idea. Why don't we drive up there later today? We might as well. We have noting planned and that way we can start looking at apartments tomorrow"

"Yeah, let's do that" he said, pecking her on the lips before rising from his seat on the couch and heading towards the kitchen. "Do you want something to drink?"

The next day...

As Lorelai walked through her beloved inn towards the kitchen her phone began to ring. She retrieved the phone from her pocket and looked down at the screen. A huge grin spread across her face as the screen read:

Max Medina

"Why hello there, please press one to hear my plans for murdering Michele, press two to hear my top ten reasons of why I so desperately need a cup of coffee, or press three to have a delightful conversation with an incredible woman named Lorelai" She answered in her normal, cheery tone.

"I think I'm going to go with three, although one could be pretty interesting too" Max said, playing along with Lorelai's antics.

"Oh yeah, one of them involved a very big blender" She said with a mischievous grin.

"Wow, he must be pretty annoying today" He commented.

"It's Michele, what do you expect?" She brushed off.

"True. Now I called to see if you wanted to do something sometime this week?" Maybe dinner?"

"I would love to, but I'm really busy this week. Things are crazy at the inn; I have to work evenings most of this week. Apparently September weddings are all the rage at the moment! I have two weddings this week! TWO! I think I may just collapse of exhaustion, although there are two very large, very tasty looking cakes in the kitchen so I won't die of starvation, although that could lead to being killed by the brides... maybe that's not such a good idea after all..." She mused.

Max just chuckled at how over dramatic Lorelai was. "Well I guess we won't get to see each other then" He said, a little disappointed.

"Yeah. Oh wait! The town's throwing Rory a Bon Voyage party on Friday night, why don't you come to that with me? I know it's not exactly a romantic dinner but it will be fun and quirky and when Kirk's there it's guaranteed to be funny"

"Well, that sounds great! When shall I get there?"

"Get to mine about 5pm and we can walk down together"

"Sounds good" He smiled. "Lorelai, I have to go; I have a class to teach. But i'll see you Saturday at 5?"

"I'll be the one wearing the one wearing a cut superwoman costume with a cape and everything!" She joked.

"I beg of you not to"

She chuckled. "Bye"

"Bye" He said. She hung up the phone and put it back in her pocket, by this time she was standing in the kitchen pouring herself a cup of coffee. She turned around and was met by Sookie giving her a questioning look.

"What's with the big grin and dreamy eyes?"

"I do not have dreamy eyes!"

"Oh yes you do! Now who was that?" Sookie almost demanded.

"Ok, well, it's a long story. See, I was at Rory's graduation the other day and I bumped into Max-" She began but was cut off by Sookie.

"Max! That was Max? As in Max Medina, Max? As in guy-that-you-were-engaged-to-but-backed-out-just-before-the-wedding-ngiht Max?"

"Yes, that Max. We talked and stuff and It was great. He's a really great guy, you know? Then yesterday I bumped into him in the supermarket in Hertford and he asked to go for coffee so we did. And... well... yeah. He's coming to Rory's Bon Voyage party on Friday."

"Wow..." Sookie said, still processing what Lorelai had just said. To be honest Sookie sort of thought Lorelai should take a break, what with being engaged to Luke then calling it off then on and then marrying Chris. She thought it was too soon. But she wasn't going to tell Lorelai that. After all, she did just want her to be happy. "So, does this mean you two are... back together?"

"I think so. I mean we haven't actually talked about it but I... I dunno, I just feel like it's so right. Max has always been an amazing guy and it feels like nothings changed. I'm not going to rush into anything though."

"Good, that's good."

There was a small silence between the two as they were both thinking. "Well I should go, lot's of preparations to be done" Lorelai said, heading towards the door

"Oh yeah, and I've got food to cook, lot's and lot's of food!" Sookie exclaimed.

Logan sauntered into the kitchen area in grey sweat pants and a navy blue t-shirt having just rolled out of bed. He saw Rory sitting at the breakfast bar engrossed in the news paper, already dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, hair up and make-up done.

She turned around having heard a noise. "Morning sleepy head" She rose from her seat and put her arms around his neck, kissing him sweetly on the lips.

He put his arms around her waist and kissed her again. "Why are you up so early?"

"Its 10:35, the whole world is up!"

"Not this again" He said, playfully rolling his eyes, thinking back the conversation they frequently used to have when they lived together in New Haven.

She laughed and stepped away from the embrace walking back into the kitchen area. "Do you want some coffee?"

"Please" He answered, getting another mug out of the cupboard and handing it to her. She filled it with the hot beverage and handed it back to him before topping up her own mug.

"So, I have been looking online and found a couple of apartments in New York that look great and just what we're looking for. I rung the realtor earlier and she said we can look at them both today."

"That sounds great, Ace. The sooner we find a place, the better" he smiled.

"Exactly" She agreed.

"Where abouts are they?"

"Well funnily enough, they're actually really close together. They're both on the Upper East Side of New York on 5th Avenue itself!" She said excited, he thought it was cute! "They're both opposite Central Park! Both of them are penthouse apartments, one building's got 32 floors and the other ones got 46 I think."

"They sound great!" He said, genuinely looking forward to looking round their possible future home. "And in really great locations!" She nodded in agreement. "Do you have a preference out of the two?"

"Not really, ones a bit bigger but I think the layout of the other place is better. There are pros and cons for both so I guess we'll just have to have a look and see which one feels right." He nodded and smiled as he finished the last sip of his coffee and put his mug in the sink. "Oh, and both places have a private roof top!" She squealed with excitement.

His features were taken over by an ear to ear grin; it made him so happy thinking of his future with Rory. "They sound great" he said, pecking her on the cheek before he began to walk through the living area to the bedroom area. "I better get ready so we can go see them, I'll be done in 20 minutes" he said as he disappeared into the bathroom.

Roughly 20 minutes later they were heading out of the apartment. He locked the door behind them and followed Rory into the elevator. As they arrived in the apartment lobby, Rory asked. "How are we getting there?"

"I thought I'd drive?" He answered her. "I've got the Porsche parked in the underground garage under the building."

"Oh ok, sounds good"

15 minutes later they pulled up outside the first apartment building. They stepped out of the car and walked up to the tall building, admiring it. It was very classy, nice brickwork, yet modern at the same time. Just the right balance. Opposite the building, behind the tall trees you could see the wonderful, vast land that was Central Park. As far as location and aesthetics goes, this place was near enough perfect! They made their way inside the building. The interior was just as impressive as the exterior. It was modern yet sophisticated, and had a welcoming feel to it.

They were greeted by the doorman and asked what he could do for them as he obviously didn't recognise them as one of the inhabitants of the apartments. "Good morning sir, madam." He said, tipping his head slightly in their direction. "I'm Richard, what can I do for you?"

"Good Morning. We're here to view an apartment. The real estate agent is supposed to already be here" Logan replied in a friendly tone, matching that of the doorman.

"Ahh, yes. Your here to look at the penthouse!" it was more of a statement but they nodded anyway to confirm that is what they were indeed doing. "The real estate agent is already waiting for you in the apartment. Head on up to the top floor, she'll greet you up there."

"Thank you" Rory said as they began to head towards the elevator.

"Oh, and it's a really great place" He added with a genuine smile. They returned the smile before stepping into the elevator and waiting for the doors to close to take them to the top floor.

"This place is amazing, I love it" Logan commented.

"It really is, isn't it? And Richard seemed nice" she replied.

"Yeah" Logan said with a slight chuckle, stepping out of the elevator onto the chocolate brown carpet. The hallway was quite wide, with plant pots in the corners either side of the elevator doors. The walls were painted in a dark beige colour with wall lamps that caused the light to reflect off the walls, it gave it a calm, relaxing feel. At the end of the hallway was a large, wooden door, It had a simple knocker in the middle at the top with a peep hole below and a key whole and handle off to the left.

Rory and Logan approached the door, hand in hand. "I guess we just knock?" Logan shrugged. "The doorman said the agent was already in there"

"I guess so" she shrugged.

He tapped the knocker twice and after a short pause the door was opened to reveal a tall, blonde haired woman dressed in a fashionable grey pantsuit. Her hair was pinned back into a stylish messy bun and she had a pleasant smile on her face. "Hi, you must be Miss Gilmore, nice to meet you, I'm Courtney." She introduced herself, stretching out her hand for Rory to shake, which she did.

"Nice to meet you, and please, call me Rory." She smiled. "Oh, and this is my boyfriend Logan" She said, looking in his direction.

"Nice to meet you" She said, shaking his hand.

"You too" he responded politely.

"Right well please, come in, come in" she said, standing aside to let them into the apartment.

Rory and Logan walked into the apartment and stood, speechless. Neither of them knew what to say, the moment they stepped in they both knew it was perfect.

There was a small foyer area with light wooden flooring and beige walls, lit with spot lights in the ceiling. There was an alcove in the wall on the right, in which there were several shelves for shoes and a coat rack above. To the left was a white door leading to a good sized, very modern toilet. Slightly further into the apartment you reached the main living area. The light wooden flooring continued, with the back wall left as bare bricks giving it a very modern feel. The other walls were covered in a simple yet tasteful cream colour. Leather sofas faced a wall with a large, flat screen T.V built into it, just below it, also built in, was a very modern fireplace, just a simple strip of flames. Either side, there were tall, floor to ceiling shelves fitted into slim alcoves of the wall. A fluffy rug was situated under the low glass coffee table. Against the brick wall was a large sound system and shelves for CD's.

It was contemporary yet had a homely feel. This vibe continued as you veer round to the left into the kitchen area in the corner of the apartment. The kitchen was open and spacious, with lovely dark slate flooring with under-floor heating so it's not too cold! The cabinets were beech wood with polished black granite worktops. An island was situated in the middle of the kitchen with breakfast bar stools on the outside facing in and a large wine fridge on the inner side. The wall cabinets had glass fronts and were lit from the inside giving the kitchen a nice glow. Opposite the kitchen was the dining area, a beautiful, large dining table with thick dark wooden legs and a glass table top accompanied by tall brown leather chairs sat under the three low lights that hung from the ceiling.

Round the corner there was another large open area with a pool table and a poker table, also a bar. Perfect for entertaining and hanging out with friends. At the other end of the apartment were the bedrooms. After the foyer, if you turn right you come to a cream carpeted area with the same beige walls as in the foyer. A wide hallway had a door on the left side. This led to a large office with two beautiful mahogany corner desks in each corner and comfy, tall backed leather office chairs. There was a comfy sofa with a coffee table in the middle, perfect for relaxing and reading a book. There is plenty of space for their many books on the floor to ceiling mahogany shelves occupying an entire wall. In a corner of the room next to one of the desks was a coffee machine; this really was the ideal office for the two of them! Coming out of the office, further on in the hallway there was a door on the other side. This led to a beautiful big bedroom. Another bedroom came after this and finally at the end of the hallway was the master bedroom.

It had double doors leading into the huge room; it had cream carpets and deep red walls, elegant and modern. At one end was a comfy looking, king sized bed. Attached to the dark brown headboard were two nightstands with silver lamps on each. A large flat screen TV hung on the wall opposite their bed. At the other end of the room was a sofa and coffee table, and also two doors. One leading to a huge en-suit bathroom with stone floors and granite counter tops. It had his and hers sinks with a long horizontal mirror above them. There was a toilet and both a bath and a shower, with heated towel rails next to each. The other door in the bedroom led to a dressing room. As you walk in the three walls ahead were covered in one large unit. Many wardrobes and drawers, tie racks and shelves, shoe racks and jewellery stands lined the walls in a dark oak wood. On the far wall there was a gap in the unit in which there was a built in dressing table. A large mirror, lit from behind sat on the wall with a comfy chair to sit on. It was incredible!

Rory and Logan stood in the middle of the living area and looked at each other. Who knew a simple look could say so much? They both thought the place was absolutely incredible and just right. Logan was the first to speak.

"Oh my god! This place is amazing!" He said, looking around and taking it all in.

"It is, isn't it?" She replied, agreeing with him as she wondered over to the lounge area. "Wow, have you seen this fire! It's like a little strip of flames! It's so cool!" She exclaimed, looking at it in what can only be described as awe.

"I know, and this kitchen!" He said as he slowly made his way into the kitchen area running his hands over the granite counter tops. "You have to see this wine fridge Ace, it's incredible" He said as he took a look inside the massive fridge with lots of shelves. He noticed you could set different sections to different temperatures depending on how hot or cold the drink should be kept. For instance you could set the red wine section to room temperature while having white wine kept cold at the same time.

"Oh, no, you are going to love this!" She exclaimed, walking round the corner into the games room. "Come here!" She signalled frantically at him with her hand to come over.

"Alright, alright, I'm coming" He said as he made his way over to where she was standing. "Oh... my god! It's like this place was especially built for us or something! This poker table's amazing!" He said, running his fingers over the leather edge to it.

They both walked back into the living area and faced each other. "I love it, Ace." He said, wrapping his arms around her waist.

"Me too, it's perfect. I mean everything is perfect" She replied, placing her hands on his chest and giving him a chaste kiss.

Courtney stood, leaning on the kitchen counter, pleased that the couple seemed to love the apartment. "I'm so glad you like it. It's just been completely re-modelled so it comes with all the furnishings! Oh, and you haven't even seen the rest of it yet!" She said, leading them into the carpeted hallway and threw to first door to the office.

"Wow, it's huge!" Logan commented.

"Yeah, and it has plenty of room to store my books!" She said excitedly as she clung on Logan's arm staring up at the shelves in awe.

He chuckled. "We couldn't buy a place that didn't have enough space for your books, Ace!" He joked.

"Exactly" she said with a bright smile before walking over to the coffee machine. "Ooo, it has a coffee machine! And these desks are amazing" she commented, running her hand along the hardwood surface.

"Their mahogany" Courtney chimed in.

"Nice" Logan mused.

"They are, aren't they? Would you like to see the bedrooms?"

They nodded and followed Courtney out of the room and down the hallway into the next room. They looked around the two spare bedrooms, falling in love with the apartment more and more as they entered each room. Finally they came to the end of the hallway and stood in front of the double doors.

"And this..." Courtney said, placing a hand on each door knob and slowly revealing the bedroom "...is the master bedroom!"

"It's huge" Rory said, simply. Not knowing what else to say.

"Yeah" Logan agreed.

"Why are there two doors over there?" Rory asked Courtney.

"This one..." Courtney said, leading them over to the bathroom door "...is the en-suit bathroom"

"Oh my gosh, it has two sinks! Logan, it has two sinks!" she bounced up and down happily.

"I know" he commented with amusement evident in his voice.

"I was so jealous when my mum got her house redone and she had two sinks, now I can rub it in her face that we do too and our bathrooms bigger than hers!" Rory said excitedly.

Logan laughed at Rory and kissed her neck. "Good"

Courtney then piped up "It is a gorgeous bathroom, isn't it? Would you like to see where the other door leads to?"

"Yes please!" Rory said bouncing up and down excitedly awaiting what was to come.

They were led into the dressing room; Logan was the first to speak.

"Okay, I've seen quite a few dressing rooms in my time and I am yet to see one as nice as this!" He said, marvelling at the dark wooden cupboards lit up with spotlights.

"This is incredible" Rory agreed.

"Oh and there's one more thing to show you..." Courtney trailed off with a cheeky grin, making her way out of the dressing room and out of the bedroom. Rory and Logan followed, wondering what else she had to show them. As they walked through the hallway, past the bedroom doors, Courtney turned around so she was walking backwards in front of them and said "You are going to love it!" then almost squealed before stopping and pointed her arms out to the right displaying a modern wooden staircase going up with a door at the top. Neither of them had noticed this before as it was tucked away.

Without saying a word Rory darted up the stairs, her curiosity peaked. Logan followed her close behind.

Wow, this really is exciting seeing as it warranted a Gilmore running! Logan chuckled to himself. Before he had time to get through the door he heard Rory say "Oh.. my god..."

He stepped out onto the rooftop and stood, stunned. The view of the city was indescribable. Looking to the right you could see the picture perfect New York skyline. Tall sky scrapers for miles and miles, and in the distance you could see the Empire State Building. As you look to the right the scenery changed completely. Instead of a bustling yet marvellous city it was calm and peaceful. Miles and Miles of green was the scene of Central Park, a large lake with surrounding trees was a focal point. Beautiful didn't begin to describe it.

This view really was something to marvel at! Logan stood behind Rory and encircled his arms around her waist and bent his head down to place a soft kiss in the crook of her neck. Then he whispered "This is remarkable"

"Yeah" was all she managed to whisper, still taken aback by the scene before her.

They looked around behind them noticing there was a sitting area. Big comfy chairs with one sofa surrounding a rustic fire pit, perfect for keeping you warm in the evenings.

Rory turned to face Logan and, with a sad smile, said "This place seems too perfect"

He nodded in understanding. "Maybe we shouldn't question it, just accept that we've found the perfect place" He said, looking around at what could be theirs very shortly.

"Don't you just love it though? It's amazing" She said.

"I really do love it" he agreed sincerely.

Their thoughts were interrupted by the sound of Courtney's voice. "I'm so glad you love the place. I'll leave you two alone for a while to have another look around on your own; I'll be in the living room when you're done. But please, take your time, and remember, you don't have to decide today" she smiled then walked back down the stairs into the apartment.

"Shall we go back down and have another look around?" Rory asked.

"Yeah-" Logan began to reply but was interrupted by the ringing of his phone. "You go on back inside and I'll take this then join you when I'm done" He said, touching her arm as he walked off, grasping the phone from his pocket while she headed back into the apartment.

"Hey" he said in a cheery voice, noting it was Steph calling him.

"Hey" She replied in an equally cheery tone. "You alright?"

"Yeah, I'm good, you?"

"Yeah tha... COLIN!" Logan held the phone away from his ear slightly after the loud shriek down the phone at his other friend. "One second Logan" she said before he heard the phone being placed on a surface and the Steph walking away yelling "Colin I swear, if you take one more bite of my cake..."

He just laughed to himself. He'd always had a soft spot for Stephanie Vanderbilt. Even from a very young age they were always really close and as they grew up their bond became unbreakable. He confided in her and vice versa. Although he loved his other two friends dearly and couldn't do without them, it just wasn't the same as what he had with Steph. Whenever he needed to talk to someone about anything, she was the one he would go to, well her or Honor but Steph was around him more so tended to know the situation more thoroughly. He was always the one she came to with her problems with Colin or anything really. He drifted from his thoughts as he heard her come back on the line.

"Sorry about that, I'm back"

"You sound just like an old married couple! He joked.

"You think you're so funny!"

"Well I'm no Tommy Cooper but I'd like to think I was relatively funny, yes." He replied in mock seriousness. She just laughed before he asked "So, how are things going between you two?"

He heard her close a door, obviously going in another room so Colin couldn't hear her conversation. "Really well actually! I mean, this has been a long time coming but... I don't know, it's just so easy. It's just like it was before really, you know, good friends but..."

"With benefits" He finished for her with a laugh.

"No! Well yes, but..." He laughed again at her confusion of what to say. "I guess I just mean that I think it's easy because we get along so well because we're already really good friends."

He took a second to understand what she had said before saying "Steph"

"Yeah?"

"You happy?"

"Yeah, I am"

"I'm glad" He said sweetly. And he really was, he was glad Steph had finally sorted things out with Colin and settled down and was now happy.

After a short pause Steph spoke up. "So, I actually called you for a reason. I was going to ask you if you and Rory wanted to come out tonight with me, Colin and Finn?"

"I'd love to but... I'm out of town" He finished, he wasn't sure if he and Rory were going to tell everyone about their move to New York yet so decided to say that but knowing Steph she would probably ask about where he was and what he was doing anyway so he'd eventually have to tell her.

"Really?" She asked, surprised. "Where?"

"Uhh, New York"

"Why are you there?"

"Well... okay, I'll tell you, but you can't say anything to the others yet, ok?"

"Okay" She agreed.

"Rory and I are in New York looking at apartments"

"Like, to live in?"

"I think I've said this to Rory before, I know it is cliché but yes I do intend to live in my apartment"

"So your moving to New York!"

"Yep! The job I applied for in San Francisco asked me to manage the main branch of the company in New York and we figured it's perfect to move there because there are loads of papers for Rory to work at. So, yeah... we're moving to New York!"

"Wow! Firstly, congrats on the job Logan!"

"Thanks"

"And secondly, I would say I'm sad that you're moving away from New Haven when we just got you back from London and New York, but... Colin and I are actually thinking of moving to New York together!"

"Together?" He asked in shock

"Together" She confirmed.

"Wow"

"I know it's quick but we figured why wait? We've practically lived together in collage anyway; I mean I always stayed with you guys and stuff. And mainly, we know this is going to work because we've been friends for years and always liked each other; we figured we may as well just skip the middle stage. So, like you said there are loads of job opportunities in New York and most importantly, The McRae's lawyer firm is in the city!"

"Fair enough, well that'll be great! Now we just need Finn to move out here as well and we'll all be back together again"

"Yeah, just like it's meant to be" She smiled.

He spent the next 10 minutes or so telling Steph all about the apartment they had found that was just perfect and where it was etc. Before he headed inside to find Rory, reluctant to leave the picture perfect landscape before him.

Hope you enjoyed it! Leave me a review letting me know what you think and what you want to happen! :)

As always, a big thanks to my beta Julie who inspires me to keep going and is always full of good ideas! :)