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Two Different Worlds
Logan smiled at her, "Common Ace. It'll be fun. I really want you to come."
Those were the magic words. Rory smiled and looked into his wonderfully deep, warm eyes. "Ok"
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"Mom? I'm going out tonight, so you can have dinner with Luke or something if you want. I know having a teenage daughter living in your house gets in the way of all your gross lovey stuff in your own home!" Rory called as she swung her backpack onto her bed
"Thank you, oh considerate daughter of mine!" Lorelai called sarcastically from another room, but Rory knew she was smiling.
"Mom where is that red dress with the black around the waist?" Rory called as she rummaged through her clothing
"Well I know where it is, but why do you need it? Wait, where are you going kid? Did you join a brothel and not tell me?" Lorelai entered Rory's room, carrying the dress with her
"No, I'm just going out for dinner."
"With Dean?"
"No," Rory admitted reluctantly, "With some friends in Hartford."
"Oh. That's funny. I thought you told me you didn't like anyone at Chilton. In fact, I think this is the first time you have hung out with any of those rich kids in all the years you've gone there."
"Well I don't hate all of them. I just want to try something a little different. You know. Hartford just seems a bit more exciting than hanging out in Stars Hollow tonight." Rory wished she could take back her words. She knew they didn't sound like her at all, were almost insulting her town, and she knew her mother wouldn't like them either.
"What? I mean I got the whole going crazy before school started in New York thing, cause come on, it's New York. But you've never been the kind of girl that has to go be wild in a city to have fun. What brought this on?" Lorelai was confused. She had nothing against her daughter going out, but Rory was acting so weird about it.
"Well, Logan and his friends kind of showed up."
"Ok, what does that mean?" Lorelai laughed
"They transferred to Chilton. I don't know details. But they invited me to hang out with them tonight. I know it's not my usual thing, but I really like spending time with them." Rory raised her eyes to meet her mothers for the first time.
"Sure kid, I get that." There was an awkward emptiness in the room. Lorelai couldn't think of anything to do except hand Rory the dress.
"Thanks Mom."
"You're welcome. But just some advice, I'd definitely go with nice jeans and heels instead of a dress. You're not sure what you're in for, and you don't want to be caught off guard, giving people a broad view of your backside."
"Thanks Mom," Rory said again, but smiling, and almost blushing too.
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"And that's when I decided that my father actually might have been right; a rhinoceros was not a good idea for a pet." Finn finished his story to the peals of laughter. Rory carefully wiped a tear from her eye, having trouble breathing she was laughing so hard. It occurred to her that she didn't really have to many friends with which she could laugh like this. Since she had started going to Chilton she had been stuck somewhere in the middle; away from all her old friends in Stars Hollow, but not really in with the Chilton kids. She didn't have a problem with it. Lane and her band, and Dean, and her mom, they were all the friends she really needed. But there was something about being in a large group of people her own age, out having a good time that made her feel alive. She had been to a few teenage parties around Stars Hollow, but they all focused on the kids trying to drink without getting caught. Here, she felt like her new friends were more sophisticated, in a way. They were beyond having to sneak around and try to look cool. They were perfectly fine being themselves, and they seemed to radiate a feeling that made everyone want to be near and be friends with them.
"Gilmore? Gilmore are you there?" Colin's voice cut through her thoughts.
"Oh sorry, I kind of zoned out." Rory found she was still laughing from Finn's story.
"Well since Finn has finally finished confirming for us why he is an idiot, we decided it was time to play a game," Stephanie said
"Ok, what kind of game?" Rory asked
"You really don't get out much, do you?" Colin asked, incredulously
"We're playing I Never," Stephanie explained, "You just say something, anything, and whoever has done it has to take a drink."
"I want to start," declared Finn, "Never have I ever been to Washington."
"Finn what kind of question was that? I know you have played this before! Common man," Logan said, taking a drink. Rory took a sip of her own drink. Logan hadn't exactly lied when he told Rory there would be no drinking. He had not touched alcohol the whole night, and neither had she. But they could do nothing about the others; they were left to their own decisions.
"Alright, I want to go," Colin announced, "Never have I ever made out with a teacher." Rory laughed when Finn, Stephanie, and Logan all took a drink and said at the same time "But she/he was hot!"
"Is it my turn?" Rory asked, "Ok, never have I ever broken into somewhere." Everyone took a drink. They smiled when they saw that Rory did too.
"You really are one of us," Finn said happily
"Ok, Never have I made out with someone of the same sex," Rosemary, a friend of the gang who went to another school nearby, said next. To everyone's surprise it was Rory who took a drink. They looked at her, expecting an explanation.
"OK, but it was Spring Break and it was only one kiss." She blushed
"Oh we're not against that at all darling. We are just marveling in how amazing it is that Logan found such a hot, sexy, beautiful girl in a museum in New York. You get more interesting by the second." Finn said, swinging his arm around her shoulder.
"Hot, Gilmore, very hot," Colin confirmed, immediately glancing at Stephanie to see how she reacted to him saying this.
"OK you guys, my turn. Never have I ever had a relationship that didn't make it over the three month line." Logan, and everyone else except Rory, took a drink.
"You've kept a guy around for more than the magic three months?" Stephanie asked, almost envious
"Well I've only ever dated Dean, and we've been going out for just over two years," Rory admitted.
"You lucky girl. I always get tired of mine and move on," Rosemary said
"More like they go running for the door," Finn laughed, earning him a punch in the arm from the pretty redhead.
"Ok I'm bored. As much as I love learning all these sordid about Gilmore's past, this isn't nearly as fun without Logan tipsy," Colin stated, standing up. Logan shot him a look and quickly glanced at Rory. It was well known that he was a partier. Rory obviously knew, since she had partied right along side him in New York. But this was somehow different. Now that they knew they would see each other often, he felt like he should watch himself more. Maybe not drink so much to avoid trouble. Chilton seemed like a place he would like to be around for a while. He didn't want to have to leave Rory, or worse, have her think badly of him.
"Shall we dance darling?" Finn asked Rosemary, who rolled her eyes.
"The number of times Finn tries to make a pass at me in one night is something you can't count on all the fingers and toes in this club," she explained to Rory.
"I'll never stop trying my love, not till you say that you and your wonderful red hair will be mine!" Finn cried dramatically.
"In your dreams Finn," Rosemary sighed before they left for the dance floor.
"Stephanie, want to dance?" Colin asked
"Sure," She said, smiling and taking his hand
"How bout it Ace?" Logan grinned
"Let's go," Rory said, smiling back at him. They all made there way to the floor. Rory noticed how the group had a sort of presence. They were not the oldest in the club, or the biggest group, but everyone seemed to know that they were the sort of people you moved out of the way for. Usually Rory would be disgusted by how people treated the rich kids like they deserved something better, but this treatment didn't feel like she was being handed a silver spoon, it just felt nice knowing that their presence commanded a certain amount of respect that wasn't because they were just rich, but because they just had that sort of feeling about them. They danced for what seemed a life time, yet it went by so fast. A slow song came on towards the later hours, indicating that it was late and they should probably be getting home soon. Rory found herself looking up into Logan's eyes. His arm snaked around her waist and pulled her close.
"You didn't think you could get away from saving the last dance for me, did you?" He smiled. She loved his smile.
"Logan, I want to thank you for convincing me to come tonight. It's really been a great," Rory began
"Shh. You don't have to thank me. You don't have to talk. Dancing isn't about talking; it's just about your bodies talking with the music." Rory briefly thought of how she might once have thought that to be the kind of thing an asshole would say, but right now, coming from him, it seemed like the perfect thing to say. Somehow Rory found herself leaning in to his body, completely relaxed, resting her head on his chest. He was so warm. She could even hear his heartbeat. For a moment she couldn't hear the music, just his heartbeat.
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"Mom I'm home," Rory whispered as she tiptoed into her dark house around three am. Her voice echoed through the silent house. She knew her mom was asleep, but she felt like she should announce her presence in case Lorelai was waiting up and thought she was a burglar.
"Mommy sleepy kid," Lorelai mumbled from upstairs, and Rory knew she was just responding in her sleep. Rory crept into her room, flicking on the lights. Her cellphone was blinking on her desk; she had forgotten to take it with her.
"You have seven unheard messages," the automated voice told her. One was from Lane, just chatting about her bands new gig. One was her mom, saying that she wasn't going to wait up cause she had stomach ache from something at Al's Pancake World, which Luke was never going to forgive her for eating. Four were from Dean, wondering how her day had been, if she wanted to do something later, where she was, and why she hadn't called him back. Rory would have to call him right away. The last was from Logan, just saying goodnight, and that he would see her soon. Rory forgot she had to call Dean for a second as she listened to Logan's voice, which almost sounded like she hadn't heard it in a hundred years, and she needed more of it, though he had dropped her off only ten minutes ago. She remembered she had to call Dean. She knew he would be waiting up for a call from her.
"Dean?"
"Rory, where have you been? Are you alright?" Dean's worried voice sounded too loud, coming over the cellphone into the quiet house.
"Yeah I'm fine. Sorry I didn't get your messages till now."
"Where were you?!" His voice had a touch of anger alongside his worry.
"I went to my Grandparents, it's Friday night." Rory didn't know what caused her to lie so suddenly.
"But you said you didn't have to go tonight cause they had friends from overseas having dinner with them tonight. That's why your mom was in town with Luke tonight." Dean shot back at her. Rory realized that she had told him that, and now just blatantly changed the story.
"They do have people over, but they brought their daughter who is about my age, so my Grandparents figured it would be nice for her to have someone her own age to talk to." It seemed like a plausible answer to Rory.
"Oh. Well why did you get home so late. You are usually back from your Grandparents around eleven, not three am."
"Oh well I stayed later talking to the other family, and then fell asleep when I got home. I just woke up and got your messages." This seemed to pacify Dean.
"Oh ok. So is the girl your new best friend or something?" He said only half-jokingly
"Oh my god she was so boring," Rory laughed, knowing that that was the kind of thing Dean expected and wanted her to say about the rich kid she had made up, "I never want to hear another story about why her daddy wouldn't buy her a rhino." Dean laughed, and Rory was glad the conversation had lost its edge. She hated however that it was Finn's story about the rhino, that she had loved and laughed so hard at, that was making Dean laugh, but not with it, at it. There was a time she would have laughed for the same ridiculous reasons, but such obnoxious stories only seemed funny and endearing to her now, not greedy and stuck-up. She felt a little mad; at herself, at Dean.
"I know it's late, so Goodnight. I love you," Dean said, and Rory could hear the smile in his voice.
"Night. I love you too." Rory hated that her words sounded hollow to her. She did love Dean. He wasn't a bad guy. Her words must sound that way because she was just tired. But she couldn't stop thinking long enough to fall asleep. Why had she lied to Dean? Would she automatically do that whenever she went out with her new friends? She hadn't even told Dean about meeting them in New York. What would be so bad about him knowing? What was her mouth automatically lying to cover their existence? Why did she have to keep these two different lives?
Yay! sry I know there was a lot more inner monologue stuff than i usually, or ever, do. But i wanted to show how different the two worlds, and men, of Rory's life are. And a wee bit from Logans side too. Hoped you like it. I will update soon! please review!
