Chapter Ten – Rory no function school well without
A/N: Woooooooh! We are officialy on the tenth chapter! It's a long-ish one, but full of Rogan moments. Oh, and this chapter is dedicated to my brilliant beta, Jasmine Fairy, my best friend AceHedz, and also to Genie and Jingle Jangle. You guys ROCK!
Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls. It is the property of Amy Sherman Pallamino and the WB. However, a couple of weeks ago I became the proud possessor of Gilmore Girls Season 5 on DVD! They're slow-releasing them series by series here in the UK. Annoying.
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Rory woke up with a start. She looked at the clock and screamed.
Logan, sleeping next to her, sat up, woken by her scream."Ace, don't scream like that! You'll wake up the whole building!"
"But I'm two hours late for school!"
"No, you're not. I cleared it with your professors. You're going to get a tape of the lectures and a copy of the lecture notes. It's okay."
"But I can't miss school!"
"It's our anniversary; you can do anything you like!"
"Rory no function school well without!"
"You've been watching too much of "The Simpsons".
"You can never watch too mock Simpsons."
"We can debate about this later but right now, do you want breakfast?"
"Oooooooh, yeah."
"Waffles then?"
"And coffee!"
"Ace, I know you, of course coffee!"
"Wow, I didn't know we have a waffle iron!"
"All you know about the kitchen is where the fridge, microwave, freezer and coffee maker are."
"Not true! I know where the cupboard where we keep the cereal and pop tarts is!"
"Yeah, but I bet you didn't know that we also have a donut maker, a sandwich grill and a chocolate fountain."
"We do?"
"Yeah, they all live in the cupboard with the ice-cream maker and the candyfloss maker."
"The big one? That's what it's for?"
"Yeah."
"Whoa, insight."
"I'm glad you found out something new about the apartment you've lived in for at least a month."
"Yeah, me too. So, waffles?"
"Yep. I will now demonstrate how to use the waffle iron in case you decide you want waffles some time when I'm not around."
"Uh-uh, I am not cooking! Just freeze a bag of mixture and I'll use that."
"Got it."
"But first, you said I have the day of school. Why?"
"Well, because it's our anniversary. Which you knew. But what you didn't know is that I did a bit of math and"
He was cut of suddenly by Rory saying "Including the no-strings bit thing, we've been together for a year."
"Yeah. And I think that a whole year is very special and so today is our day. Planned the whole thing out."Logan said as he put a plate of waffles down.
Rory started eating."Good waffles." she said "So, what are we doing?"
"Nu-uh. It's a surprise."
"But don't you want me to know?"Said Rory, batting her eyelashes. Logan looked away.
"No. It's a surprise."
"Fine! Be like that! And I would continue to be angry but WOW these are good. Next, let's try the chocolate fountain."
"Sure, but at the end of the semester, we're moving."
"Why?"
"Cause my parents think that we should have a bigger place, and they control where I live. We need to look, by the way."
"Sure. Oh, and let's get a popcorn maker and a peanut putter maker."
"See that cupboard, the small one?"
"Yeah?"
"That's where the popcorn maker and the peanut butter maker live. With the hot-dog maker."
"Whoa. Tomorrow, you need to give me a tour of this place."
"Yeah."
They both finished breakfast, and went out to Logan's Porsche. Rory was kind of distracted.
"Ace, what is it?"
"Oh, I was just thinking that I should look at some cars because me and mom decided to get a new car each. And the next check should come anytime now."
"Oh, get a Porsche! Or a Jag...no, an Aston Martin. Or a..."
He got cut off by Rory, who just said "I can promise not to care if you use my needing a car to get yourself a new one."
"So, the first place we are going to is about half an hour's drive away."
"Where is it? I wanna know!"
"I'm not telling you until we're there."
"I recognise this place! This is where grandma and grandpa renewed their vows!"
"Yes, but a more important event that happened in the dressing-room that we are just about to go to"
"Was out first kiss and nearly something else as well."
"Yep. And if you will look to the right you will see the escape route that I used to escape the wrath of Luke and your dad."
"Yeah, and then mom and Luke almost broke up and then mom proposed... and the rest is history."
"Yes, but today is about our history."
"Oh, so what are we doing now?"
"Quick detour to the foyer."
"Oh, where we danced, right?"
"Yes, where we danced."
"Then a quick stop to the dressing room and then back on the road."
"To..."
"A place with a name."
"Which is?"
"I'm not telling."
"Mean!"
"No, I just want it to be a surprise."
"Fine. So, foyer?" Rory said, all traces of sulkiness forgotten.
"Yep, then dressing room. Oh, and by the way, you looked good in a suit."
"I know."`
"I can't believe that she did that!" said Emily, sitting and talking with Shira Huntsburgur. "She can't have realised what a big impact she had on everyone lives. And she was such a nice girl at Rory's 16th birthday party."
In a different room at the Windsor club, Shira Huntsburgur and Emily Gilmore were having tea."It's not like she didn't do us a tiny bit of a favour, Emily." Said Shira."If they live together it's only a matter of time before they get married."
"But people are starting to think that they wouldn't have moved in together if Paris hadn't kicked Rory out. And it gives Rory a bad image if people think she was so horrid to Paris."
"Okay, you're right. We need to make a plan about what to do."
"One step ahead of you, dear. I have go a plan right here."
"So, milady, we have arrived." Said Logan, as he pulled up outside a posh Chinese restaurant.
"The place where we went with Colin, Finn, Rosemary, Juliet and Marty?"
"Yep. I thought lunch?"
"Lunch it is then. God, just the place alone brings back memories."
The couple walked inside, and were shown to a table for two where the table for seven had been.
"They've moved everything around?"
"Yeah. I saw them doing it as I passed a couple of week ago and thought it would be a good place to have lunch."
"Okay. Now, presents?"
"Of course. You go first."
"Okay. Here."
Rory handed Logan a flat, thin package wrapped up in light blue tissue paper. He unwrapped it and found in it a custom made photo frame, which had been made to fit a bunch of photos from a photo booth. It was purple and padded, and in it was four photos of Rory and Logan, smiling madly and pulling silly poses. In the first, they were striking poses, in the second they looked normal, in the third Rory was kissing Logan's cheek, and in the forth they were kissing, with Rory stretching her hand out in front of the camera, but a little to the left of their faces, so you could still see them. Logan looked up, grinning madly.
"How..." The pictures had been taken on the day they had agreed to strings. They had gone into the photo booth, taken the pictures and used the last of their change on buying them. The printing had gone wrong and so they had gone a cash machine for change and then back to get new ones. The machine had been broken, and was the only one for miles around. They had others from other days, but none quite like these.
"I tracked down the owners of the machine, and it turned out that they had all the pictures on archive. I gave them the date, and they found it. We were the first, and last, pictures of the day. I had a hard time tracking it down, let me tell you. But then I just went to a frame maker and gave them the plans for the frame. Easy."
"You are amazing, and nothing I could get you could compete. But, here." Said Logan, as he handed Rory a box wrapped in plan red paper. Inside was a gold ring with two stones. One was an emerald, and one was an opal. Next to the emerald was engraved the name "Logan", and next to the opal "Rory".
"I passed this jewellery shop when I was looking for the perfect present, and I saw a sign that said it would set two to six birth stones in a ring and engrave the names in them. I thought it would be perfect for us, and I just noticed how well the stones looked together." Said Logan. "Kinda like you and me. We look so good together that people just have to think us the perfect couple." Rory looked up with tears in her eyes. It was perfect.
"So, last stop and a very nice one too. I don't think I've been here since we came here to celebrate strings..."
"I don't think I have either. Wow, it looks exactly the same."
"So, shall we be seated?"
"Yep."
They were shown to the table for two where they had eaten before. Rory picked up the menu, and said "So, what kind of appetiser should we have? Or should we get more than one?"
"You hungry?" asked Logan
"Do you need to ask?"
"Okay, so six appetisers, then?"
Rory smiled."You know me so well." She said. "And I'm thinking garlic bread, mozzarella sticks, the shrimp cocktail, the smoked salmon slices sprinkled with chives, and the squash risotto. I love risotto. Especially Sukie's magic risotto. It's magic. She made the day that they thought her mother was going to die and she lived for much longer. Magic. Ooooh, I think we've managed to find it!"
"Find what?"
"A restaurant with enough appetisers to order the right amount without ordering a salad. Euh, salad, yuck!"
"You are soo childish!"
"I know." Rory said, grinning.
"And I think that you're right about the appetisers. To share?"
"Yep. Oh, but we should order the stuffed mushrooms. Too."
"Excuse me, sir?" said Logan "Can we order appetisers?`
"Yes, of course, sir. What would you like?"
"A plate of garlic bread, some mozzarella sticks, the shrimp cocktail, the smoked salmon slices sprinkled with chives, the squash risotto, and the stuffed mushrooms. Oh, and two glasses of Champaign."
"For starters, a plate of garlic bread, some mozzarella sticks, the shrimp cocktail, the smoked salmon slices sprinkled with chives, the squash risotto, and the stuffed muchrooms. And to drink, two glasses of champaigne. Is that all sir?"
"All for now, yes thanks."
"I'll just go and get you your order."
"Wow! He's the one who we had last time!" said Rory.
"Yeah. I didn't ask for him or anything, it's just that he never leaves and is their best waiter. They put us on the "Important customer" list because of my black card." Answered Logan.
"Ahhhh, the black card. What would we do without it? It should have a name."
"A name?"
"Yeah, like Hurburt."
"Hurburt?"
"Hurburt. From now on, your black card has been christand "Hurbert."
"Hurburt it is then. But yours has to have a name, too."
"What about...Nevill?"
"Nevill. I like Nevill. So, Hurburt and Nevill?"
The couple continued talking about nothing in particular, nto knowing that in a room in the Winsor Club, plotting about how to bring Paris out of the picture.
A/N: Okay, sorry about the melodramatic end note. But all will be reveled in the next chapter, called "Finally!" You can guess what happens. Now, because it is now half term, and I have already written the next chapter, I will probably update very soon. But my writing has slowed down because I have embarked on a new 's called The Pineapple Upside Down Cake Called My Life, which is named after a gorgeous tasting cake in Nigella Express.
R and R please!
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Lilly Bex