Chapter 10: Morning Glory

Slowly her eyes began to open, a few rays of light fell on her eyes and she had to blink a few times in order to adjust to the light. As soon as she did, she noticed that she wasn't that familiair with the room she woke up in, though it wasn't entirely unfamiliair either.

The arm draped around her middle though was unfamiliair, and she was unable to look behind her. Afraid of waking this person up and afraid that she might see something that would make her think that something happened that she couldn't remember.

She slowly began to remember the room as Logan's room, the one she had stayed in the previous day as well, although then she woke up to the smell of food and coffee, and most importantly alone and not freaked out.

She took a quick peek below the sheet and noticed that she still had clothes on and wore one of Logan's shirts. That was a relief. Not that the thought of sleeping with Logan was a bad thought, not at all, but he had only become her boyfriend the night before after a nice freak out on her part, not really the way she had imagined for them to become boyfriend and girlfriend, but they did. The idea of sleeping with him well it was great, he had a wonderful body that much she knew, well as far as she could judge him with his clothes on that was, but she didn't want to rush things, and she didn't know him that well yet.

But here she was, lying in his bed with his arm protectively wrapped around her tiny waist. How did they end up here? She could hardly recall getting back at his apartment, the only thing she could remember though was her grandmother being more then glad when she had noticed that she and Logan would leave together, and of course she had noticed the hand that lay on her hip when they left. Her grandmother of course wanted to know to full details right away and wanted to know if the rumors were true or not so she could gush a little more before the entire party was over. Rory could remember the conversation vividly.

"Rory!" Emily had called out when Rory bid her grandmother goodbye. "You and Logan Huntzberger. How wonderful! You're a wonderful couple together! You look so perfect together."

"Thank you Grandma," Rory returned.

"Your grandfather will be thrilled to hear this," Emily beamed.

"Where is grandpa? I want to say goodbye," Rory said.

"He's talking to Mitchum Huntzberger," Emily smiled. "Your boyfriend's father." Rory could tell that Emily was thrilled to say that. Noticing the not so comfortable look on Logan's face at the mention of his father, Rory offered him a sympathetic smile.

"I'll talk to him later," Rory smiled politely. "We have to go."

"Oh sure, the night is still young of course. Be safe," Emily smiled brightly as she let the young couple leave and went back into the room, probably to do a little of bragging about the fact that her granddaughter was dating a Huntzberger.

She knew that by now everybody in Hartford was aware of the fact that Rory Gilmore was dating the one and only Logan Huntzberger. Both of their families came from Hartford so she knew that it would be the talk of the day.

The sound of something ringing interrupting her thoughts though, it was a familiair ring, and she knew it was her cellphone and the ringtone that made it clear that her mother was calling, but where had she kept her cellphone?
She checked the clock and noticed that it was only 9 o'clock in the morning on a Saturday, that was not like her mother, not even when she had to work, she usually waited with calling till noon, so it had to be urgent.

Rory tried getting out of bed but as soon as she tried to set her feet next to the bed, the arm around her waist pulled her closer.

"Don't go," Logan's murmered voice said as he pulled at her a bit more.

"I can't," Rory said with a slight smile as she put his arm away. "My mom is calling, it could be important."

Rory got out of the bed, as she heard Logan complain a bit more and searched for her phone. She found it in her purse that was located at the end of the bed, on the ground. She walked to the living area so Logan could sleep a while longer, as she settled herself sat on the big comfortable couch in the living room.

"Why are you calling at 9 in the morning?" Rory replied with a sleepy voice, as she answered the phone.

"Why is Emily Gilmore calling me at 8:30 in the morning and telling me that I have a new son in law?" Lorelai countered.

Rory frowned, and forgot that there hadn't been time to tell her mom yet that Logan was her boyfriend. Boy, her grandmother did move quickly with spreading that news.

"I'm sorry," Rory apologized.

"At least tell me that it's Logan and not some other guy that I haven't met," Lorelai offered.

"It's Logan," Rory confirmed.

"Well at least I met him before she did," Lorelai said.

Rory sighed. "Grandma knew who he was. I guess she met him at functions and such."

"Ruin my fun," Lorelai pouted.

"I'm sorry," Rory apologized once more. "I just haven't had the time yet to tell you. I didn't expect grandma to tell you quite honestly."

"I think she knew that she had the scoop," Lorelai explained. "I think she has a sixth sense for things like that."

"I'm sorry you had to hear it from her," Rory said sadly as she placed her feet underneath her.

"Well at least give me details," Lorelai countered. "How did you get together? Did you freak out again?"

"What do you mean did I freak out again?" Rory wondered.

"You always freak out, whether it's when you start a relationship of any kind or if you end one," Lorelai reminded her daughter. "You freaked out when you kissed Dean, you freaked out when he said 'I love you' and you couldn't say it back which meant the end, you freaked out when he walked away at Chilton and thought you had lost all your chances. You freaked out, well you didn't really freak out when you broke up the second time, that was Dean. You freaked out when things went bad with Jess when I mentioned prom. And you freaked out the third time with Dean and the issue with Lindsay."

"Thank you for summarizing all the freak outs in my life mom," Rory rolled her eyes.

"Oh did I say that you freaked out when Tristan kissed you," Lorelai added with a small laugh.

"No you didn't," Rory murmered.

"Hey did you freak out with Mark?" Lorelai asked. "When you got together?"

"A little," Rory admitted.

"Really? You never told me that!" Lorelai gasped.

"I called him a manwhore because he spoke with every woman in the room at this party," Rory admitted shamefully.

"Seriously?" Lorelai stiffled a small laugh.

"Turned out they were his sisters," Rory said softly, and Lorelai laughed loudly, Rory immediately explained herself. "Well it took him long enough before he asked me to be his girlfriend, so I freaked out a bit."

"Oh you are such a cute little freak," Lorelai laughed some more. "So why did you freak this time and was my mother anywhere close when it happened?"

"Logan called me his friend when I met his parents and that freaked me out," Rory explained.

"That's it?" Lorelai said sadly. "That's a disappointing story."

Ignorning her mother, Rory continued. "So after me being stubborn for a few minutes, Logan wondered what's wrong, I told him and we became boyfriend and girlfriend. End of story."

"I like the Mark story better, I think it's better if you use that one for your kids and grandkids," Lorelai laughed. "So how will go things from now on? You're still staying in Stamford?"

"Yeah, I'm going back tonight. Logan will drop me off this afternoon at Anna's, and then I'll take the bus back," Rory explained.

"You're at Logan's now?" Lorelai wondered curiously.

"Yeah I don't know how I ended up here though," Rory said thoughtfully. "I don't remember. I think I drank a bit too much last night."

"Nothing, well you know?" Lorelai asked carefully.

"Nothing happened," Rory confirmed. "Would you mind? Didn't you want the pretty grandchildren popping out of me like I'm Heidi Klum or something?"

"Well I didn't want them like tomorrow," Lorelai admitted. "I'm too young to be a grandmother."

Rory rolled her eyes again as she yawned. "So is this all you wanted to know?"

"You're already sick of me?" Lorelai gasped.

"Well it's 9 in the morning and I'm sleepy so yeah I'm pretty sick of you," Rory yawned once more.

"And your pretty boyfriend is probably still in bed as well, right?" Lorelai taunted.

"Bye mom," Rory said as she ended the conversation and sighed.

Once she got up from the couch and headed back to the bedroom she noticed Logan standing in the doorway of his bedroom with a smile on his face.

"How long have you been there?" Rory inquired.

"Since you started talking about Heidi Klum and grandkids," Logan smiled. "What a way to freak me out Ace. We just dated and already grandkids?"

"Shut up," Rory narrowed his eyes at him as she walked past him and let herself fall back into bed, immediately pulling the covers back over.

Logan climbed back into bed with her and put his arm back around her middle just like earlier that morning. "Come on Ace. Be nice."

"Not without coffee," Rory mumbled into the pillow.

Logan laughed. "So why did your mom call?"

Rory turned around in the bed to face Logan, as his hand moved from her middle to her hip and rested there. She smiled as she spoke. "My grandmother had called to tell my mom about us."

"This early?"

"Yeah," Rory confirmed as she stiffled another yawn. "My mom was upset that my grandma knew before she did so that's why I got that lovely wake up call."

A silence followed...

"So what do you want to do today?" Logan wondered as he kept his eyes closed.

"Sleep."

"What about after that?"

"Have coffee and food," Rory replied with a slight smile.

"And after that?" Logan wondered as he rolled his eyes slightly.

"Packing," Rory answered.

"I had hoped that we could watch a movie before I would bring you back to Anna's apartment," Logan suggested.

"But my bus leaves around four thirty," Rory said as she opened her eyes to look at Logan. "And I have a lot of packing to do. I'm not sure if it's going to fit into my suitcase anymore. I don't think we'll have time to watch a movie properly. I'm sorry."

"No that's okay," Logan smiled slightly as he caressed her face with his thumb.

"Raincheck?" Rory offered.

"Sure," Logan agreed.

"I pick the movie," Rory smiled deviously.

Logan frowned. "I hope it won't be a chick flick."

"You'll be surprised by my choice of movie," Rory said. "Everyone is. Though it does depend on my mood." Rory noticed though that Logan had a somewhat saddened look on his face. "What's wrong?"

"I just wish you didn't have to go back today," Logan explained.

"I think my boss would miss me if I weren't in Stamford tomorrow," Rory countered.

"No your boss would miss you if you weren't in New York," Logan smirked.

"You're my boss' boss technically now," Rory replied.

"No I'm your boss, your supposed 'boss' is just the editor in chief," Logan explained.

"Mr. Know it all," Rory mumbled as she closed her eyes, and Logan laughed.

"How about we start saying goodbye then?" Logan said as he placed himself on top of her and attacked her neck with a lot of kisses. Rory giggled as she enjoyed the sensation of Logan's lips on her skin.

A few hours later it was already four o'clock and her bus would leave in half an hour, Logan had insisted on bringing her to the bus stop, but not before saying goodbye to Anna.

"I can't believe you're leaving again!" Anna whined as she hugged her friend for the millionth time that afternoon. "Why did you have to get yourself a boyfriend during your short stay here? He totally stole our time together."

"Hey," Logan objected with a smile.

Rory smiled. "Well we would have had more time if you hadn't kicked me out of the apartment."

"You'll never forget that, will you?" Anna smiled.

"Not in a million years," Rory laughed. "You still owe me."

"Not like it was so bad that you had to stay at Logan's," Anna rolled her eyes. "I don't see why I owe you anything."

"I can't argue with that," Rory smiled.

"Tell me you'll visit soon," Anna told her sympathetically.

"I'm sure I'll be back in the city sometime soon," Rory replied, how could she not if her boyfriend was living here.

"Even to visit little old me?" Anna smiled.

"Yes you big baby, even for a five minute visite for you," Rory replied.

"Five minutes?"

"It's not like I can drag you away from your boyfriend for much longer then that," Rory told her friend. "I can't believe you didn't let me meet him yet."

"I don't want to scare him away just yet," Anna told her in a mock seriousness. "I mean once he sees what you can eat."

Rory slapped her friend slightly on the arm. "Not funny."

"Hey, it's the truth," Anna laughed.

"Well now I really have to go, otherwise I'll miss my bus," Rory told her friend.

"There's nothing wrong with you missing your bus," Logan joked.

"Aww.. cute!" Anna fawned. "Already being protective and possesive."

Both Logan and Rory rolled their eyes now. "Bye Anna!"

With that Rory left Anna's apartment with Logan, who carried her suitcase to the car.

"How much did you bring Rory?" Logan complained. "This is heavy."

"Not that much," Rory said simply. "I think a few clothes, and about seven books or something."

"Seven books?" Logan asked in disbelief.

"Well I brought five with me, and I bought two new ones," Rory explained a bit more.

"Did you read any of them?"

"Just one," Rory replied.

"Then why did you bring five books?"

"I didn't know what I'd be in the mood for," Rory replied with a smile as Logan put the suitcase in the back of the car.

He opened the door for Rory so she could step inside and headed over to the other side of the car himself. He then drove her to the bus station.

"You know I've been here before," Rory smiled as she waited at the bus stop with her suitcase, ready to say goodbye to Logan. "When I skipped school."

"You skipped school?" Logan wondered, once again in disbelief. "I find that hard to believe."

"Well it's true," Rory told him with a smile. "But I'll tell you the whole story later because it's 4:27 PM."

"So?"

"My bus will leave in exactly 3 minutes," Rory told him.

"Plenty of time left," Logan smiled as he leaned in for a kiss. A kiss that took her breath away, but she had to pull back.

"Logan you've had the entire morning to say goodbye," Rory pouted, not really wanting to break away from the kiss.

"I know," he smiled as he planted a small kiss on her exposed neck. Rory took a deep breath and closed her eyes as she enjoyed the feeling.

"I gave you that time this morning so I wouldn't miss my bus this afternoon," Rory explained with a smile.

"I know," Logan smiled.

"But here you are, kissing me again," Rory said matter of factly.

"Are you complaining?" Logan wondered.

"Well no," Rory admitted truthfully. "But I'm going to miss my bus."

"Well what can I say, I don't like you taking the bus back home," Logan admitted truthfully. "I may have an ulterior motive." And with that he kissed her neck once more.

"Logan," Rory whined slightly, but not convincingly. "I have to go." Rory kissed him quickly on the lips. "I'll call you the minute I'm back at my apartment okay?"

"I'll be waiting by the phone like a true boyfriend," Logan joked, causing Rory to laugh. "Bye Ace."

"Bye Logan," Rory smiled as she kissed him once more on the lips, a bit more fiercly, but still too quick for her own likings, before hopping into the bus with her suitcase. She found an empty spot and seated herself there as she placed the suitcase near her on the ground. She noticed Logan who was still waiting outside the bus, and gave him a small wave as the bus started its engine and drove away. Away from New York, and back to Stamford.

Author's note:

I'm seriously happy with the reviews.. Thank you. This chapter was a bit fillerish, but oh well.. At least Lorelai found out.

Next chapter: Walk Me to the Distance

Long distance isn't as easy as Rory thought it would be.

Karen