A/N: Hey, so I know that it has been forever, but the new chapter is here! So did anyone watch Grey's Anatomy last Thursday night? Well if you missed it or you were just totally oblivious, Edward Herrmann (a.k.a. Richard Gilmore) was on it! He was very funny!
Disclaimer: Nope, nil, zilch, nada, zero, nix, nothing. Like my use of synonyms?
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Wednesday
"So I was wondering, if maybe you'd like to go out Friday night? Just the two of us?" Logan asked trying to hide his nervousness. He was sitting at his desk in his dorm room talking to Rory on the phone. It had been about a week and a half since Stephanie's party and they only times they had gone out, they had been with their five friends. Logan really wanted to go out just with Rory, and hopefully start dating.
"Oh. Well, you see I would really love to Logan but-"
"No, no it's okay I'll just talk to you later then."
"Wait Logan-"
"I've got a lot of work to do so I'll see you later." Logan finished quickly and hung up. He didn't want to hear the probably fake excuse she had. Why had he been so stupid? That peck on the lips was so obviously platonic. He thought to himself.
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Rory closed her phone looking at it sadly. He probably thought she didn't like him now. God why couldn't she just tell her Grandmother she was sick? Then go out and have a great night alone, on a date, with Logan.
"Hey what's up with the sad puppy face?" Stephanie asked her, walking into Rory's room and opening her closet. Rory had gotten used to Steph doing this, barging in and going through Rory's closet or make up, testing it then asking if she could borrow it. It was one of Stephanie's flaws that should have bugged her, but didn't because it was nice to have a great friend who felt so comfortable with her. Plus she missed seeing Lane everyday and Stephanie was easy to talk to.
"Nothing." Rory lied. Okay so maybe she still had t work on the whole 'being open' thing.
"Ha, yeah right." Steph said pulling out a Navy Blue v-neck sweater from Rory's closet and pulling it over the tank top she was wearing then she walked over to Rory's bathroom and looked in the mirror.
"Can I borrow this?" she asked and Rory smiled and shook her head.
"Yeah go ahead." Steph smiled back then sat on Rory's bead next to her.
"Alright, no tell me what's up. And don't lie again and say nothing because I have a sixth sense about these things."
"Logan just called and asked me out for Friday night." She said falling back onto her pillows and sighing sadly.
"Well, that's great isn't it?"
"It should have been, except for the fact that I have to go to Friday night dinner." Stephanie gave her a what-the hell-are-you-talking-about look and Rory explained the whole situation about her Grandparents and then what had happened with Logan on the phone.
"Aww, I thought I'd never see the day Logan actually asked out a girl, to do something without us! And two days in advance I might add, he's playing by the rules." She said smiling but then quickly frowned. "Well I'm going off to explain this to him." Stephanie added and quickly ran out of the room before Rory could respond.
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"Steph, you don't have to give me some lame excuse about why Rory doesn't want to go out with me." Logan said exasperated. He had been waiting in line for coffee when Stephanie came running up to him and started going off about Rory and some 'Friday Night Dinner' she had with her Grandparents every week.
"Logan I'm totally serious! I swear on the fact that I will probably spill something on this sweater I borrowed from Rory by the end of the day." She practically yelled at him. Logan smirked at that; Stephanie was always spilling things or knocking things over.
"Hey guys what's up?" Colin called walking up to his two friends and picking invisible lint off his shirt to avoid looking a Stephanie who was watching the people around them avoiding the same thing. Logan rolled his eyes at his two stupid best friends. They made out at Stephanie's party, like many other times, and now they were avoiding looking and talking to each other. Logan was used to this by now and he knew it would blow over in a few days. After all it had been almost two weeks.
"I asked Rory out and she sent Stephanie here to give an excuse." He said then ordered his coffee. Logan's statement caused Stephanie's head to snap back to Logan.
"She did not! I'm serious Logan, she really can't go and you are just too afraid to get hurt and be in a committed relationship that you won't give her a chance!" She replied vividly and the stormed off. Logan took his coffee and paid the coffee guy and started to walk away with Colin.
"PMS-ing much?" he asked sipping his coffee and Colin gave him a look.
"I think she's right." He said as they walked to the dorm that the three of them shared.
"What seriously?" Logan asked incredulously.
"Yes seriously. When have you ever had a girlfriend for more than a week? Or what about those stupid 'no-strings' relationships? I'm one of your best friends Logan so I have the right to tell you when you're being an inconsiderate asshole. I think you're just afraid that you might actually want to be in a relationship with Rory for longer than your normal time period." Colin stopped walking and looked up at the sky which was perfectly blue, not a cloud in the sky and sighed; then walked away from Logan and towards Stephanie and Rory's dorm.
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Friday
"So I'll be back around ten." Rory said waling out of her room in a simple black cocktail dress and matching sweater, and then she grabbed her keys and purse.
"Okay we'll see you when you get back!" Stephanie said from her spot on the couch next to Colin.
Rory smiled and left. She had been in a funky mood since Wednesday. Stephanie wasn't able to talk to Logan and neither was Colin. Well at least something good had come out of this, and that was that the two had stopped avoiding each other and were friends again.
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Gilmores'
"Hey I've been waiting for twenty minutes!" Lorelai Gilmore said the moment her daughter stepped out of her car.
"Why didn't you just go inside?" Rory snipped smiling; she knew very well why her mom didn't go in.
"Don't get snippy with me!" Lorelai said in her best Emily voice and they walked up to the door and Lorelai rung the doorbell.
"Well there you two are! Late as usual! Anyways come in, come in!" Emily said and the maid took their coats.
"We've got some guests coming as well-" Emily started but she was cut off by the doorbell ringing once more. Rory walked up to her Grandfather who was sitting and reading the newspaper.
"Hey Grandpa." She said kissing his cheek and sitting down next to him. Lorelai was over at the drink cart making herself a martini and her Grandpa didn't notice.
"Well hello Rory! Tell me, ho are you enjoying Yale?"
"Oh it's incredible! I love all my classes and I got my first assignment for the Yale Daily News." She replied happily, she loved to talk to her Grandpa.
"Well that's wonderful! Sometime you and I should have-"
"Lorelai what on earth do you think you are doing!" Emily yelled cutting Richard off. Lorelai stood guiltily by the drink cart, holding an olive right above her martini. She smiled wryly.
"I was making myself a drink?" She said innocently and she dropped the olive into her drink.
"You couldn't wait two second for me to come back and make it for you?" Emily said striding over to Lorelai and shooing her away from the drink cart. Lorelai gave Rory her I-just-pissed-my-mother-off look and sat down next to Rory and the three seating couch.
"I'm so sorry, what would you like to drink? Oh and Do take a seat." Emily said towards the door way where none other than the four Huntzbergers were standing.
"Thank you Emily. I'll have a scotch neat if it's not to much trouble." Mitchum said sitting down across from Richard who was putting his newspaper aside and standing up to greet the guests.
The words 'I told you so' ran through Rory's head, or rather Steph did, when she locked eyes with Logan who was looking like he'd rather be kicking himself in the butt than be here right now, and facing the fact that yeah, he had been an asshole.
"Well it is wonderful to see you all. Logan, Honor." Richard exclaimed, shaking hands with each of them.
"You too Richard." Logan replied with a perfectly practiced society smile.
"Hey Rory! Lorelai!" Honor said happily moving around the coffee table to hug each of the Gilmore Girls.
"Hey how are you? I haven't seen much of you since Stephanie's party!" Rory said smiling a true smile. Even if Logan was being an ass Rory was still happy to see Honor who she had gotten along with really well.
"Yes I know! But Junior year, so much to do!" Honor said turning back to give Logan a quick glare. She had just heard of the whole Rory-Logan debacle from Stephanie on the way.
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Diner had gone by, thankfully, smoothly, followed by thirty minutes of coffee and small talk, Rory, Lorelai and the two Huntzberger offspring were on their way.
"So Rory can I get your phone number? Then we can get together sometime. Stephanie and Rosemary too; we can make it a girls night in… or out!" Honor said with a wink and walking towards her car. Rory gave her the number and said goodbye to Honor and her mom, then she started to walk to her car ignoring Logan who was standing close by.
"Hey, wait Rory." He said touching her arm lightly. Rory turned around; a soft expression on her face as she waited for him to continue.
"I'm sorry. And I know that, that sounds totally lame considering this whole big deal I made out of it, but really I am sorry." Rory smiled.
"It's alright." She said, and it was.
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A/N: So about time huh? Well this was again sort of a filler chapter, and I'm a little shaky about it, but please tell me what you think! So has anyone seen Across the Universe? I first saw the preview when I went to see In the Land of Women, and my friend and I both thought it looked horrible. Then it's like the preview was following me, seriously! I saw it everywhere, so Sunday afternoon I finally decided to go and see it with my cousin and sister. It was absolutely amazing! And man that Jim Sturgess, whoa, way cuter than in the commercials! (Or maybe it was the accent; my weakness…)
