A.N.: I know I know I haven't updated in about 3 and a half weeks but the end of the year was pretty intense at school and I barley had time to eat and sleep let alone write which sucks! Anyway I hope everyone likes this chapter, its has an exciting Rogan scene which is a always a plus! Anyway please review! I love to read what you think and I am open to suggestions if anyone wants to see something, doesn't like something, or really does and wants to see it more! I will shut up now and let you read, I hope you enjoy this chapter!
Disclaimer: Sadly nothing is mineeeeeee except for this storyline. :)
Chapter 11: Memory Lane
Rory felt her self slowly start to come out of a dead sleep, as she realized she was awake, she felt a rush of pain to her head causing her to let out a frustrated moan. She sunk back into her bed trying to ignore the pounding in her head, when she realized that her phone ringing had been what woke her. She reached for it blindly and in the process knocked over several things on the dresser.
"hello" rory grumbled as she answered the call.
"GOOOD MORNING VIETNAM!" her mom chirped cheerfully into the phone
"AHHHH, LOUD!" rory held the phone away from her ear, god that second bottle of tequila they got probably wasn't the best idea.
"no hello mom even for the woman who gave you life, your best friend in the whole entire world, no thank you to the mother who secretly put coffee in your baby bottles when your dad didn't know, god rory wheres the love" she heard her mom rant into the phone.
"Hi mom" rory said in a monotone voice trying to sit up and get rid of the woozy feeling she had.
"wow, i felt the love there" here mother shot sarcastically back at her daughter, her voice rising.
"Ahh, mom the volume, can you like keep it down a bit! I'm sorry we just had a late night last night" rory said again pulling the phone back away from her ear.
"really doin what?" her mom asked in a sarcastically unknowing voice
"you know mom, I mean I am best friends with finn, it is quite easy to guess why I am not feeling my best this morning" rory said getting out of bed.
"eating massive amounts of ice cream"
"mom, your really going to make me say it"
"say what" she said in an incredulous tone, "that my only daughter was up all hours into the night drinking away and is now suffering the lovely affects of a hangover induced by something strong considering your cheery disposition."
"yes mother, courtesy of the long island iced tea" rory stated falling back into bed, her head was not her friend this morning. she gruffly moaned into the phone.
"you sure that was all, you sound like you drank finn's normal amount" her mother said concerned
"well.." rory began "it started with vodka tonics, then made its way to long island iced teas, and ended with rounds of shots, ugh the thought makes me sick." rory said ready the puke at the memory of all she drank.
"wow, well you truly are my daughter, but seriously take my wit instead of drinking ability, okay kid"
"I know, I know, I'm sorry! It won't happen again" rory promised and by the way she was feeling at the moment it wasn't a hard promise to make.
"ohh you will, but hopefully not to this extent for a while, though I am sure that the even was a hit considering all the fun you had"
"it was eventful" rory remarked, trying to figure out how much she should tell her mother about well everything that happened.
"ohh really do tell"
"I jumped off a seven story scaffolding" rory started, it was big news but definitely not the biggest in what she was about to tell her mother.
"OH MY GOD RORY!" her mom screeched. "was it amazing how dare you do something like that without me" her mother lightly scolded
rory laughed at her mothers reaction,"next time mom I promise!"
"uhuhhh sure, well go on..I am sure there is more, your friends aren't exactly a dull group!" her mom urged her.
"No they are not" rory conceded smiling at the memory of her anything but planned evening with logan.
"look mom, I have to tell you something but before I do you have to promise, not too freak out, okay!?"
"...okayy, do I need to call Charlie Davenport or Andrew McCrea becauseI am really hoping that this isn't where this is going" rory let out a nervous laugh at the mention of the Colin's dad or Mr. Davenport, who were the families attorneys.
"no mom, you can call them off this has to do with well.. Logan" rory waited to here her mothers response as she heard a knock on her dor. "one sec, she called out"
"mom" rory questioned
"AND!" her moms voice rose in excitement
"and...we kissed well a lot" rory blushed furiously even though no one was there to see her.
"ahhh you are my daughter, though something tells me that there is more" her mom said happily
"yes.." rory grumbled in response and in a small voice continued, "we went skinny dipping and well we did body shots"her voice trailing off on the last event.
"I'm sorry the connection must be really bad because I could of sworn you said you did a body shot off of logan huntzburger, you my little straight A and innocent child, wow you really are my daughter." her mother gloated
"maybe I should have made you promise not to gloat instead" rory shot at her mother who was laughing.
"yes, well mom I have to go some one is at the door, and as swell as it always is to talk to you, I will see you soonish since we are flying home in a few hours" rory said walking over to open the door.
"alright fine, say hi to logan for me" her mom said before hanging up, "love you babe"
rory shut the phone and opened the door, she felt the pain in her head momentarily dissipate as she was distracted by the butterflies in her stomach upon seeing logan standing in fornt of her.
"hey ace, don't you look happy this morning" logan told her sarcastically as she moved away for him to have room to step in as she made her way back to her bed to sit down, she really didn't actually feel good.
"yes well, I would say that my current state of being makes me look amazing too" she said leaning her head on his shoulder.
"you take anything?" he asked with concern in his voice, he knew rory didn't really drink much, not that after all they had had aspirin would do anything.
"Asprin?" she looked up at him curiously, he couldn't help but smirk at the expression on her face.
"white pill with a big A on it"
"oh yeah, right" she said leaning her head back down on his shoulder. They sat in a moment of comfortable silence as rory tried to ignore the pounding of her head.
"why aren't you more hungover?" she questioned
"well lucky for you, and really well anyone who is friends with finn, he made his magical brew, which cures this particular ailment"
"ahh, that finn" rory inwardly laughed, her friends really were one of a kind.
"yes, so get dressed and come out, there is a nice glass of it waiting for you"
"ahh, gotta love finn!" she smiled
"yes you do" logan agreed, smiling back at her and then leaning down to kiss her forehead.
"alright well I will see you out there ace, do you need any help packing?" he said pulling away from her to talk to her
"no I'm okay, I'll see you out there in like 20 minutes" she said gratefully.
"okay" he said walking out the door and shutting it behind him.
Oh, god rory thought as she packed her bags, it had sure been a memorable trip.
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Rory heard the pilot announce that they would be landing momentarily and that it was 6:53 p.m. in hartford, the plane ride had gone by pretty fast, the boys had all decided to play poker while honor, steph and rory had discussed wedding details. Rory was also more than happy that honor had been so chatty about the engagement with josh since it too gave her an out not to talk about logan and their new arrangement. She had also texted her mom to tell her that they had landed and that she would be home soon.
"Ror, so I'll talk to you soon?" honor said as they walked off he plane.
"yeah sounds good, maybe we can do a little shopping miss bride to be?"
"sounds good, I'll call you! Bye Rory love you!" honor said hugging her as her and josh left.
"so 2 down 5 to go" rory commented seeing all her friends getting off the plane.
"yes well love, seeing as it is only 7, I think the pub is calling my name, maybe I will indeed be graced by the presence of a lovely red headed sheila." finn said in his usual upbeat tone
"well have fun then finn! Bye" rory called after him as he got into his car.
"bye colin!" logan said turing to his friend as rory and steph exchanged goodbyes as well.
"are you taking rory home?" colin questioned
"yeah, I'll talk to you later man, we should go out tomorrow get a drink, I know finn is excited to have our we made it back from another event party" logan said as the girls had come to exchange good byes with the boys
"pure finn logic" steph said rolling her eyes.
"okay well bye guys!" steph and colin called to the two of them.
"So ace, ready to go" logan asked walking over to the car.
"Definitely I'm happy to be back" she said getting into logan's porsche
"me too."
About 20 minutes later they were outside of the hayden mansion, they had driven in a comfortable silence, rory had desperately wanted to say something thing, but she couldn't figure out exactly what to say. I mean she knew that a commitment relationship wasn't in the cards, so she would just have to be okay with dating her best friend of almost 21 years 'casually'.
"you okay there ace?" logan asked smirking at her deep thought.
"fine" she said a bit dazed grounding her self back to reality.
"are you sure?" he asked knowing that she was obliviously in her mind probably rethinking their whole arrangement.
"positive' she smiled at him. they got out of the car and he helped her with her bags. "well I should go, I'll talk to you soon" she said looking into his eyes
"absolutely, I'll call you tonight" he reassured her, and trying to break that last bit of tension he pulled her into a hug.
She pulled away slightly to look up at him "good night logan" rory said with a shy smile
"goodnight ace" he said pulling her back into him but this time taking her cheek in his palm and guiding it slowly to meet his lips, they stood there in a slow, passionate, and sweet kiss. Rory felt him begin to pull away along with all her worry that she wasn't doing the right thing.
"bye" he said softly walking away, "say hi to your parents for me"
"I will" rory said as she rang the door bell
"Hey there sweetie!" her dad said opening the door and pulling her into a big hug
"HI dad! I missed you!"
"I missed you too kiddo! It's not the same around here without you, your mom was going crazy!" he told her in a serious by joking tone
"I'm sure! Where is mom?" rory asked wondering why her mother hadn't come out and tackled her when she had gotten home.
"RORY!" she heard her mom yell, apparently she had spoke too soon since her mom had surprised her by hugging her and causing her to topple to the floor, both of the girls erupting in a fit of giggles.
"Hi mom!" rory said happily seeing her mom
"I'm so happy your home!" her mom told her as her dad helped them both up and into the living room. "tell me everything we want to hear all about the jump, the estate, and ohhhh logan too!" her mom squealed
"logan?" christopher questioned looking from his wife to his daughter unable to follow what was going on.
"mom!" rory said embarrassed about having to tell her father about her late night rendezvous with logan huntzburger, and pleading with her mother to save her
"What, I'm sorry!" her mom said laughing at her blushing daughter, "I'll fill you in later honey" lorelai whispered to chris.
"You know what I'm really tired, its.."rory paused looking at her phone for the time, "almost 1:45 a.m. in sicily, I should get some sleep" rory said getting up and hugging each of her parents
"Alright, good night sweetie!" her father said kissing her on her forehead, "night hun!" her mom said
Rory walked up the stairs and into her room, she saw her bags in the corner of the room, the maid had probably brought them up she changed into a pair of yoga pants and a gray tank top, and then flopped down onto her bed. It was then when she realized that she actually wasn't that tired despite the time difference. She had slept on the plane, so she decided to pick up a book and loose her self in it for a while since she really hadn't had time to do much reading the past few days. She had dove into the kite runner by Khaled Hosseini for a while now, when she though she heard something, she set down the book, and picked up her phone,it was almost 3:30 in the morning. She smiled when she heard her phone right, and saw logan's name appear.
"hey! What are you still doing up?" rory answered
"well, I was bored and I wasn't really sleepy, and there was nothing on tv so as crazy as it sounds, I was actually going through some old papers form the daily news and I found this article you wrote last year." logan said
"ohh yeah which one" rory asked curious, and almost a little nervous that he was reading though all her old articles.
"the one where you reviewed that ballet." logan said laughing
"ohh god, the infamous one" rory rolled her eyes sighing at the article and all the drama it caused between her and that ballerina.
"Ace, remind me to never cross you with a pen in your hand, talk about the pen being mightier than the sword, that pen of yours is a howitzer." logan smirked
"you don't have to say that" rory said blushing at the compliment.
"I wouldn't if it wasn't true" he told her honestly
"Hey how did you know I was awake?" she asked incredulously
"well ace, you have taught me to do my research" he said smartily
Getting up and going over to her balcony, and looking our of the drapes to see logan parked in front of the gate. "oh my god your here" she said opening the french door and stepping out onto the balcony, feeling the summer air.
"Come on grab a sweater, lets go"
"what logan, go where? It's 3:36 in the morning" she asked him as if he was crazy
"come one ace, it will be like old times during high school when we would all go on mini adventures." he said trying to convince her, they looked at each other for a minute, logan trying to gage her expression, he knew it would be a long shot to get her to agree, but he was pretty confident that she eventually would.
"okay, give me a minute let me grab my sweater" her said giving him a smile conceding smile
"good" he said smiling up at her.
She went back inside locking the doors, she grabbed a sweater and slowly crept past her parents rom and down the stairs. She felt a familiar rush go through her as she went out the back door, running to meet logan.
"hi!" she said giving him a hug.
"hey ace" he said laughing at her excitement of sneaking out, she was so cute.
"so where are we off to huntzburger?" she said as he guided over to the passenger door and opened it for her.
"well.." she said getting in on the other side. "I thought we would take a little trip down memory lane" logan said vaguely causing rory to laugh.
"jeeze logan, can we be a little more vague" he smirked at how she rolled her eyes.
"oh come on , if its memory lane, you have already been to all these places" he stated as if she was being the ridiculous one.
"fine, but I need coffee, logan so we better find a place that's open!" she looked at him seriously to let him know that she really wasn't kidding.
"well ace, as a matter of fact, I came prepared" he said gesturing for her to look in the back.
She turned to see 4 venti cups of coffee in the back seat from Starbucks, she leaned over to pick one up removing the little green stopper to prevent if from spilling, she smelled the glorious scent of the americano and smiled in pleasure, "well, you are quite some thing huntzburger!" rory said leaning in to place a chaste but soft kiss on his cheek, and then happily drinking her coffee but at the same time wondering how he had gotten her Starbucks in the middle of the night.
rory was so caught up in her happiness that she didn't realize that they were on the familiar path that she went up everyday for four years of her life. She turned to logan to see him smile at her realization of where thye were going.
"I haven't been here since graduation, I almost miss coming up that crazy hill every day" she said with nostalgia
"yeah, I thought it would be nice to see how Chilton is doing without us" he said laughing at all the memories they had in these 'hallowed halls' during their four years of high school with all their friends.
"probably a lot better without you, colin, and finn, not almost burning it down every other day in the Chem lab" rory retorted laughing.
"hahaha, very funny ace" logan said pulling into coincidently his old parking space.
They pair stood outside the front gate of the school, coffee in hand.
"So ready to go on our adventure" logan said as rory dismissed all the thoughts running through her head.
"what, logan its locked, how are we supposed to get in?" rory wondered.
"ace, I am surprised you doubt my skills after so many years" logan said as he pulled out a set of keys from his pocket
"logan! Thats like breaking into the school! We can't do that we could go to jail!" rory said beginning to freak out
"ace relax, one its not breaking in if you have the key, two I promised you a trip down memory lane so arriving at said place isn't going through all the memories, and three look around for tonight this place is ours" he assured her.
"it is kinda cool" she said after a few seconds of looking around,and giving him a smile letting him no she was on board.
"I know, look around ace, It's not so scary anymore is it, even with all the gargoyles and centuries of tradition." he told her as they stood, now inside the school at the top of the grand staircase.
"No its not" she agreed confidently a smile firmly placed on her face that made her blue eyes shine bright even in the darkness.
They walked around the school reminiscing about different memories of past pranks the boys had pulled, places where steph had hooked up with guys or more likely made out with(colin), and where they had all hung out. They finally had made their way down to the courtyard of the school, onto what they had relocated as the senior lawn. They were now lying down on the grass.
"thanks for brining me here logan, I didn't realize how much really happened here, I mean we all, me, you, colin, steph,and finn; really really grew closer here, I almost with we could go back to those years, they were so simple"
"I know, its true we definitely left our mark on this place, oh my god remember how we all carved our initials onto the base board by the stair case by the stairs after graduation?" he asked her thinking back and laughing at the memory
"GOSH! I still can't believe we did that! I am still surprised we haven't gotten a call about that!" rory said thinking back to that day.
"should we go see it?" logan asked
"yeah! we should take a picture and send it to the guys" rory said as logan pulled her up.
They walked back to the main staircase, their fingers entangled as walking past where there lockers were senior year.
"there it is" logan said squatting down.
"I'm glad we did that!" rory said coming down to logan's level.
"that's not what I remember you saying after we did it at graduation" logan said sarcastically as rory just playfully hit his arm and shook her head while giggling, "no it wasn't" she admitted.
"do you wish that we could go back, escape for a while ever?" logan asked rory honestly as they sat down logan leaning against the wall, and rory leaning her head on his chest.
"at this moment, I think i am pretty happy with where I am" she said looking up into his big, soft brown eyes. "do you wish you could go back?" rory asked him, almost afraid to hear his answer, she really wasn't sure about their whole arrangement, when she was with him she knew that she was happy being with him, but they were best friends first, then she would be overwhelmed with worry that if they broke up or i guess 'ended' their little arrangement things between them would be ruined.
"I am pretty happy where I am at the moment too" he said smiling down at her and moving his hand to caress her cheek, pulling her into him and he brought her lips up to his and began to envelop them in his own. He felt himself loose himself into the kiss, wanting to savor the moment here with his ace. He knew that everything between them was changed forever, but he didn't want that to be a bad thing, but he couldn't do commitment, he felt rory's hands move under his shirt and her hands lightly touch his abs. He traced an outline of her lips with her tongue seeking entrance to her mouth, in which she welcomingly obliged, and deepening the kiss, by wrapping her hands around his neck. He moved his hands down to her waist to pull her into him more, and having the sensations of the kiss overtake his thoughts. He couldn't analyze anymore, all he knew for sure was that whatever was between him and rory was something that he didn't want to end.
He continued to rory, feeling her hands roam his body, she wasn't so shy when it was just the two of them he thought to himself causing him to smirk into the kiss, he moved one of his hands to her hair and he entangled his fingers in her soft waves, his other hand making small circles on the bare skin above the waist line of her pants, "logannn" she moaned into the kiss causing him to smirk once again, she move on top of him so that she was now straddling him, he moved his lips from hers so they could catch their breath once again, though his lips making their way down to the pulse point on her neck. She dropped her head to the side giving him better access to the sensitive area, as rory had now succeeded in pulling his shirt up and over his head, and was now placing light kisses along his neck and chest.
Logan missing the addictive taste of her kisses, brought her mouth back up to his and moved under her matching her grinding hips that were lightly grazing his lower half. They had both been lost in their own pleasure that it took two missed calls for both of them to come crashing back to reality, the third time the phone rang logan groaned at the interruption.
"yes?" he said annoyed into the phone, as rory climbed off of him fixing herself, and pulling her top back down.
"ughh colin, I though it was your turn" logan sighed frustratedly into the phone, rory laughed at the tone he had taken now knowing he was talking to colin.
"okay fine colin! You so owe me though!" logan said lastly before hanging up. Rory saw him turn to face him and he grabbed her hand.
"as much as I would love to continue this ace, finn is in jail and well colin needs me to bail him out since he is 'occupied' with something, or shall I say steph, at the moment." logan said annoyed
Rory just laughed at finn, "okay well lets go, this night sure wouldn't be complete without some of finns antics" rory remarked pulling logan up.
"we will finish this later" logan promised her.
"whatever you say master and commander" rory said sarcastically and placing a kiss on his lips once they had gotten out the front doors and out the front gate.
Through logan pulled rory into him once again, making rory forget why they were even leaving, he felt her immediately melt into the kiss and move her hands up into his hair, but then she protested by pulling away, "we have to get finn, logan!" rory gently reminded him, but was pulled back into the kiss again, loosing her will to stop herself from kissing him, it was crazy the little self restraint she had when she was in his grasp. "logan" she tried again only above a whisper, her eyes still closed.
"ughhh" he pulled away from her, leading her back into the car, "I am going to kill finn" he concluded finally.
"yeah well I am not to fond of his timing at the moment either to tell you the truth, but one thing is for sure, Finn really has a knack for bad timing" rory said recalling that it was indeed finn who had interrupted them when they were at the life and death brigade event.
They arrived at the police station about a half hour later, and picked up finn for dancing on the bar preforming his version of coyote ugly, which didn't float well with the owner of the bar.
"oh finn, you are truly one of a kind" rory commented after he finished his story.
"yes love well, I aim to be original" finn said drunkenly lying down in the backseat
"well this is definitely one for the scrapbooks finn" logan said dryly "and I must say your timing was just perfect as well."
rory blushed when logan shot her a look through the mirror, that didn't even go unnoticed by a very drunk finn.
"oh yes, what did I interrupt on this fine evening you two? I must say love, not that I'm not happy to see you but it is nearly 6:15 in the morning, what were you doing with my mate here" he said smiling at rory
rory brushed him off in an attempt not to fill him in on the exact details of her and logan's early morning adventure.
"its fine finn, we were just going down memory lane" rory said smirking at logan.
About 20 minutes later they arrived at Rory's house and they said their good byes. Finn was now sleeping in the back seat.
"good night ace" logan said lightly kissing her
"good morning logan, I'll talk to you later" she said kissing him one more time, and then getting out of the car, she looked back at him once and saw him smiling back at her as she went in the patio door.
She went inside, and stood their for a moment, unable to help the smile that was plastered over her face, she touched her finger tips to her lips thinking back to everything that had just happened. She turned around, looking to see if anyone was around, and she heard footsteps coming from the kitchen, praying that it was anyone but her parents she stood their frozen for a second, but was relieved to see that it was just Gabby their maid.
"hello rory!" gabby said surprised to see rory up and dressed before 7.
"hey!" rory said sighing in relief that it was just her.
"what are you doing up so early my dear? Can I get you anything, coffee or pancakes maybe?" the maid asked her
"no I'm good, maybe in a few hours" rory said hoping no one else would come down stairs, she knew it was unlikely since her parents weren't the type to get up super early, but still it was monday.
"okay, oh and miss" gabby stopped rory.
"yes?" rory said smiling
"I would try and cover that up" rory looked at the woman confused, but went over to the mirror in the hallway, and there she saw a nice little hickey, god she was going to kill logan.
"thanks!" rory said embarrassed and then went up stairs. She shut the door of her bedroom, she walked over to her bed and lied down. For the first time in the past 24 hours she felt tired, she felt sleep begin to over take her and was lulled to sleep by the memories of the past few hours.
Rory she felt as if she had just went to sleep when she woke up to a knock on her door.
"come in" she called
"hey kiddo!" her father said coming into the room and kissing her on the tops of her head, "good morning, or I guess afternoon" he said looking at his watch, it was a little after 1.
"hey dad, are you going somewhere?" she asked seeing his brief case placed out in the hall
"yeah, unfortunately your grandfather has decided that it is time I do my fair share and help out west coast office, so I have to go down their for a week." he said sighing
"ahh gilmore or hayden" she asked curiously knowing that it was probably hayden since she didn't think her grandpa (gilmore) had many offices down in california.
"hayden" he said dimly, "anyway I just wanted to say bye since I'm leaving for the airport right now"
"ohh, wow! well I will miss you dad, have fun, get a tan, surf the waves, have lunch with a celebrity, or drink a chai tea latte" she teased.
"I'll try, I will being you something back" he said getting up and leaning down to hug her
"i love you rory" he told her as she squeezed him, she hated how her dad always had to travel
"I love you too" she said smiling "bye"
"ohh by the way your mom is just dying to hear about the rest of the trip so I would get up and get dressed, she is in the mood to go to Luke's" he father said as he walked away
"oh thank god! I have been craving that coffee!" rory said excited, she still felt tired but for luke's coffee she would sacrifice the sleep.
"ohh and rory.." he father said pausing looking back at her
"yeah dad" she answered getting out of bed
"nice hickey" he said with a smirk, rory just sat there speechless and blushing as her dad left.
she was pretty sure that he didn't know about her sneaking out since she had barley made any noise and Gabby wouldn't tell him. She would have to be more careful to cover this stupid thing up or her mom would never left her live it down.
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"Rory ohh you better run faster than that" her mom called after her as they come out of luke's, she was heading toward the town square and away from her mother in the process.
After her dad had left that had decided that luke's was where they were going to go from lunch or breakfast in rory's case, but during their meal and talking about her trip, mother-daughter duo had landed on the topic of logan.
"I knew it you like him!" her mom said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world
"mom we are just friends, logan and I made that clear" rory clarified finally stopping, mostly because she never really exercised and she was tired of practically running through the streets trying to get away from facing her mom about logan.
"really, because most best friends don't make out or do body shots, or whatever else you guys did" her mom said cheekily
"mom" rory said frustrated
"okay fine, but swear on..." she said looking around and then seeing the to go coffee cup in her hand from luke's 'ahhh lorelai thought! Perfect'
"swear on coffee that you don't like logan as more than a friend" lorelai said seriously but smiling at the same time.
Rory just starred at her mother and then at the cup of coffee, "fine" rory admitted finally
"ahhh I knew it!" her mom cheered as if she was a 15 year old girl who just found out her best friends crush.
"you want to kiss him, you want to date him, you want to love him" her mom sang, rory just rolled her eyes and drank the rest of her coffee.
"okay, okay!" she said holding up her hand for her mom to stop.
"fine yeah, I guess I like him.." but rory was interrupted by her squealing mother
"a lot!"
"yes mom, a lot, but.." rory thought how to proceed, here she was again, thinking about everything between her and logan, she wished it could be simple, but she didn't know what simple was after all that happened. She liked him so much and she never understood how she hadn't realized it after being friends with him for so long. She couldn't help the smile that crept over her face when she would think about him, he was amazing.
"no buts missy, you like him" her mom said pulling her daughter into her
"i need more coffee" rory said suddenly realizing their conversation had stopped in all her thoughts.
"okay, lets hit weston's bakery and then head home" her mom said excited
"okay, hey mom do you think today is the day that we will make it through all 7 layers of the 7 layer chocolate cake?" rory asked excitedly taking in the sweet scent of the bakery.
"well hello girls" fran said, she was a small elderly woman who was the owner of weston's and was as sweet as one could be.
"hi fran, good to see you" rory greeted her
"we haven't see you around in a while rory, I see your mother when she pops by the inn, but we miss you around her" fran said smiling at the pair.
"I know! I will come around more I promise, I miss this place" rory said happily, she really did love this town, it was truly her second home.
"so what can I get you girls today, coffee I assume to start" she said going getting two cups.
"oh yes, coffee is a given, and I think we are hoping to tackle the 7 layer chocolate cake today" lorelai said hopefully
"oh well if anyone can do it its you two! Ohh and I added a bit of chocolate in the coffee just for a kick" the older woman said handing them the cups.
"thanks fran" rory said as they went to sit at a table.
"so dad's in California" rory said sipping the coffee, god it was good, that chocolate was heavenly
"yep, he got the call last night that he had to go, I swear sometimes I want to kill your grandfather" lorelai said annoyed
"yeah but then grandma francine would kill you" rory laughed at her mother
lorelai only nodded acknowledging the fact as they began to dig into the cake.
"hey mom?" rory said in almost a dazed tone, "does logan ever remind you of dad?"
rory watched her mothers expression soften into a small smile, rory couldn't help it, she saw so many similarities, both men were from very prominent families in hartford, their lives pre ordained in the womb, both having good looks and charm, and their rebellious tendencies.
"yeah, I actually notice their similarities all the time" her mother answered truthfully
"mom" rory said seriously, scaring her mother a bit
"rory" her mom answered unsure as to why her daughter had suddenly take such a nervous but sure tone.
"you know how I said I would talk to you before I.."rory said eluding to in her tone what she she was talking about
"yes.." her mother said thinking back to how her daughter had lost her virginity.
"well, I know that when it was my first time with jess, well I didn't tell you, and I'm sorry but I want to talk to you now about logan" rory said taking a bite of cake.
"ohh logan" her mom said trying to put on a brave face, she always wanted her daughter to come and talk to her about everything, but it was still hard for her to see her little girl all grown up when they talked about stuff like this, yet she felt a weird calmness knowing they were talking about logan, it was weird but a good weird lorelai thought to herself, she wasn't worried about rory if she was with logan, and she definitely felt comfort in that fact.
"yes, I want to talk to you about it now right when its well, starting" rory said setting down her fork
"ohh okay, wow okay so you two are starting something, okay good" her mom said trying to process everything
"yes, I wanted to let you know that we have started something" rory said with a shy smile trying to read her mothers expression.
"oh started, so you two have definitely already started something out of the whole life and death brigade thing, wow okay fast" her mom commented said trying to catch up.
"yes, I mean logan is amazing you know that, he's well beautiful, funny, and he is so smart, smarter than me I swear" rory finished unable to stop from gushing even when just talking about him
"well good, and he is treating you well" lorelai asked seriously, making sure that rory wouldn't be left in the dust by the infamous huntzburger charm, lorelai loved logan, he had always been an amazing friend to rory but she did want to make sure that rory and him didn't throw away nearly 21 years of friendship for her just to become another notch on his bedpost.
"yeah he really is" rory said as her mother watched her daughter happily take another sip of her coffee.
"well then thats great" her mom said letting out a breath that she didn't realize she was holding throughout their conversation.
"I feel like i should buy you a shot after all that" her mother joked
"what about a rum ball?" rory said playing along
"2 rum balls coming up!" lorelai said with certainty as she got up.
Rory felt her phone vibrate in her pocket as her mom left, she pulled it out, she opened the text from logan
'Another memory Ace:) I'll call you later!'
rory smiled at the text, yep definitely another memory. God why did she have to like him so much, why couldn't she be happy just being friends! And then she realized fro all the reasons she loved being his friend, he was so smart, he could keep up with her, he supported her, and pushed her to do things she thought she never would, he was unbelievably caring when his ego didn't get in his way, he was just amazing and amazingly frustrating all wrapped up into one! She liked him because he was the only one who would bait and debate her on the crazy topics she became interested in, he just got her, even more than colin or finn. Oh Finn! -she remembered!
'sounds good! how's finn?"
she replied, she had wanted to tell her mom about finn's evening because she knew her mom would die of laughter but then she would have to tell her mom about the events that preceded logan and her being the ones to pick finn up. Which reminded her she had to call stephanie.
"your rum ball my darling daughter" her mom said sitting back down at the table.
"ohh why thank you" rory said picking it up at the same time as her mother.
"Whatcha thinking about" her mother probed, "i see you laughing over there"
'back to normal, or I guess what is normal for finn. I have to go I will talk to you later Ace, Daddy Huntzburger is requesting my presence in a meeting #snore'
"nothing, just thinking about this thing finn did" rory answered cooly. realizing her mother was watching her and trying not to give away to much.
"ohhh stories about my favorite Australian, you have been holding out on me rory" her mom said excitedly, it was true though things were never dull when it came to finn.
"yeah finn went to a bar last night and was super drunk even for his own standards and was preforming his rendition of coyote ugly on top of the bar" rory said laughing slightly thinking back to how finn was last night when they had picked him up.
"ohh that finn" her mom said wiping a pretend tear away from her eye as she laughed, "so who's turn was it to pick him up?"
"yes, he is something and ohh it was colin's but logan ended up doing it, unhappily though" rory said remembering how annoyed logan had been since they had to interrupt their activities for finn.
"why couldn't colin do it?" her mom asked finishing off her rum ball.
"ohh well he was 'busy' with something thing" rory said sarcastically
"so he was with steph"
"most likely, plus you could hear her in the back round when Colin called logan" rory said, and then inwardly kicking herself for what she had just implied
"you heard steph in the background when Logan was talking to logan?" her mom asked suspiciously
"ummm no... oh i mean..well you see, i had talked to logan and he had told me about finn and stuff..and about how colin didn't pick her up, and then I went with logan early this morning to go get finn with him" rory finished unconvincingly
"uhhuuh" her mom said smirking at her daughter, but was unable to further the conversation because her her phone rang
"ughh its her, you talk to her" lorelai said annoyed
"no mom, you be a big girl!" rory said warningly
"please please please rory!"
"nooo, mom" she said inwardly laughing at her mom
"ugh fine"
"give me the phone i will talk to her" rory caved
"no its fine ill talk to her she is my mother after all" lorelai said frustratedly
"well your my mother"
"exactly its a tangled web!" lorelai said pointedly and answered the phone
"mom, how nice of you to call" lorelai said a little to chipper
"lorelai, rory's home!" emily said happily
"yes mom I know, I am sitting right across from her would you like to say hi" lorelai said grinning evilly at her daughter
"of course!" emily said excitedly
rory just rolled her eyes at her mom and took the phone.
"hi grandma" rory said
"rory! your grandfather and i missed oyu!"
"awww thank you grandma I missed you guys too" rory said as her mom smiled happily taking another bite of the chocolate cake
"yes well, you must come to dinner this friday since we missed you all last week since your mother had a 'cold', just make sure she is well" emily said exasperated, rory held back a laugh
"okay grandma well we will see you friday" rory concluded
"wonderful! put your mother back on the phone please would you?"
"sure grandma" rory said looking at her mom with a smile and handing the phone back to her
"hi mom" lorelai greeted
"don't forget dinner, Friday at 7" her mother said sternly
"oh really because I thought it was at Thursday at 6, are you sure" lorelai deadpanned
"Good bye lorelai" emily said dismissing her daughters last comment
"bye mom" lorelai said hanging up and letting out a groan
"so you were pretty sick last week i hear" rory said sarcastically
"yes your dad and I were suffering from since-rory-is-gone-i-have-no-bufferitis!" her mom said overly dramatic
rory just laughed.
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The rest of the week went by rather quickly, steph had decided to make a trip down to the book store and bought rory a ton of books and bags and bags of coffee bean as she had promised from the whole logan 'boat sex' debacle and in exchange for having a little shopping spree friend the Bloomingdales annual sale. So since her take over of barns and nobel, she had been reading many things and was now finishing her ode to Samuel Beckett in Waiting for Godot which had caught her interest.
It was now friday evening and she was getting ready to go to friday night dinner, she had been happy to have the distraction of her books because any second she wasn't in her world of the 1950's, she was thinking about logan. She was happy with how things were going, they had been talking a lot and just having fun, there was still though just that nagging feeling of what would happen if something went wrong, would she forever loose her best friend?
"hey hon ready to go?" lorelai said noticing rory staring at herself in the mirror
"yeah" rory said pushing away her thoughts "lets go, grandma will have a fit if we are late like we were last week" rory said recalling how her mother and her were 3 minutes late and received a lecture by miss manners.
15 minuted later they were at her grandparents mother-daughter duo were walking up the path to the door when lorelai suddenly stopped and grabbed rory's wrist to stop her in the process.
"Mom?" rory said confused looking at her mother who looked confused.
"Is this the same dress I wore to dinner last friday night?" lorelai said trying to think back.
"what?" rory asked confused but trying to think about what her mother wore last week. "how would I remember?"
"well you sit across from me during dinner and next to me during drinks, and while you and I may not remember emily gilmore sure will" lorelai said
"mom relax, i will deflect any attention away if Grandma says anything I swear, okay?" rory said pulling her mother over tot the door.
"okay. you ring the bell though, oh and stand in front, then maybe if I actually am she won't notice" lorelai said as they approached the door
"ughhh fine" rory said laughing, and rung the door bell.
"good evening" said the maid as she greeted them and ushered them inside.
"good evening"
"may I take your coats?"the timid maid asked, as lorelai and rory exchanged a knowing look watching the maid look so unsure as they took their coats off.
"you can go back and hide in the kitchen if you would like" lorelai told her
"thank you" the maid said relieved and scurrying off down the hall. lorelai and rory walking to the living room.
"HI grandma, grandpa!" rory greeted
"Rory! So happy to see you" richard said hugging his grand daughter and then moving over to lorelai "Hello lorelai" he said pulling her in for a hug as well
"hi dad, where's mom?" lorelai asked looking around
"I'm right here" emily answered as she came into the living room.
"Hello girls, sorry its that maid she is so mousy, ever since she got here she barley even talks" emily said sitting down on the chair opposite of richard's.
"oh emily, give the girl a break" richard interjected as he got up."May I get you all something to drink?"
"martini please" lorelai piped in
"make that two richard" emily said rubbing her head slightly
"Alrighty...may I get you something rory?"
"just club soda thanks grandpa" rory said smiling demurely
"perfect, okay here you go everyone" richard said passing out the drinks
"so rory are you glad to be on summer break" emily said turing to her granddaughter
"yes, grandma very, its going to be nice to just be home for a while" rory said sitting her club soda
"oh yes I can imagine it will be nice to spend some time with family and friends" emily continued
"uhuh" rory said, seeing the glint in her grandma's eye as she mentioned friends
"dinner is served Mrs. Gilmore" Emily the maid said quickly above a whisper and then fleeing.
"well she's fired" emily said rolling her eyes, "come on everyone lets go"
"So mom, are you and dad planning on going anywhere this summer?" lorelai asked trying to shift the awkward gazes rory was receiving from her grandparents.
"we are planning on going to England to visit your Gran this summer, she is thinking about moving to hartford and she wants to get the house in order to leave it there" richard said
"ohh that will be nice, to see gran more, won't it mom" lorelai said knowing how her mother and her gran didn't get along, winking at rory in the process
"yes lorelai, I am sure she will be excited to take you shopping as well seeing as though that must be the only dress in your closet, since you wore it two weeks in a row" emily shot back
"anyway, rory! How was the event, I was excited to hear that you put alot in to it!" richard boasted
"it wasn't that big of a deal grandpa, I just come up with the theme" rory said trying to deflect attention away from her, she really didn't want to talk about that night.
"And planned the whole thing my dear, we are very proud of you!" emily jumped in
"thank you guys" rory said reaching for her drink, god she now wished it was something stronger than club soda.
"we heard the stunt also went well! It must have been such a thrill to make that 7 story jump, I heard logan made a nice speech too" her grandmother said knowingly with a smile
"ohh yeah?" rory said nervously playing with her hair, seriously did her grandparents have spies?! How did they know so much!
"yes! I was so happy to hear that you had fun with your friends!" emily said sipping her wine, making rory a bit nervous, she just kept playing with her hair
"yes I did it was fun to be in charge!"rory said still waiting for what her grandma really wanted to know
"so how is logan" emily said with an innocent smile. Of course rory thought,this was about logan, I wonder if she has heard anything, I hope not!
"logan? he's fine" rory said with a small smile "as well as colin,finn, steph, and honor grandma" rory added in trying to change the subject
"good, thats good, oh rory did you get hurt at the event?" her grandma asked concerned
"no grandma why?"
"ohh that mark on your neck" rory looked like a deer caught in hard light and pulled her hair to cover the mark, 'great!' she thought sarcastically
"what mark" lorelai looked up from the spinach she was pushing around on her plate, to see her daughter going from pale white to tomato red.
"did you wear a necklace too tight or something, or get a bug bite rory maybe, it looks like a bruise" her grandfather suggested
"umm.." rory started nervously trying ot think of an explanation, looking at her mother for help
"sweetie, it was probably your purse strap or something, you know the one you keep your laptop in" lorelai jumped in saving the day
"oh right!" rory said agreeing whole heartily, god that was genius
"well, mom thanks for the lovely dinner but we should get going, rory and I have a busy day planned tomorrow"
"really lorelai on a saturday?" her mother asked disbelieving
"yes we need to..." loerlai started, looking for her daughters help this time
"make the surprise for dad!" rory announced as if she had just remembered
"yes, we are doing something since its his birthday" lorelai finished
"Isn't Christopher's birthday the 22nd of July?" emily added
"yes, but we have to plan somethings for his birthday and we are going to figure out what to get him before he comes back form his business trip" lorelai explained hoping that her mom would finally let them of the hook and give them their coats
"ohh, right then well we will see the 3 of you next friday."
"Alrighty bye mom, dad!" lorelai said opening the door and
"bye lorelai" they said in unison
"bye grandma, bye grandpa, love you" rory said giving them each a quick hug
"bye rory love you!" her grandmother called after them as they left and then closed the door
"ugh your parents are exhausting" rory said as they got into the car
"no, not as exhausting as your grandparents! hey it could have been worse!" lorelai reminded her
"how could it have been worse mom grandma saw the hickey on my neck, mom!" rory asked incredulously
"the hayden's could have been there two and you could have gotten tag teamed by francine and emily, which is a lethal combination, let me tell you i am only still here from my resurrective abilities" her mom pointed out
"good to know its a gilmore hayed trait" rory remarked sarcastically
"no sweets, just a lorelai thing" lorelai reminded her laughing
"gotcha!" rory said nodding her head and giggling
A few minutes passed as they drove, rory was trying to pick a station on the radio.
"so you never revealed how you get the hickey from Logan" her mom said smiling
"wait..how did you know it was logan?" rory wondered
"well sweetie, i mean you two have kinda had d thing" lorelai reminded her "I mean you told me that you guys kissed and now you guys are friends again" lorelai reminded her
"I know I know and yes if you must know it was logan" rory said trying to hide her smile, she couldn't help it, he was just so great.
"hmmm, well I guess friends are friendlier than they were in my day" lorelai said smirking
"mom" rory sighed
"rory as long as he's treating you well and your happy im good, okay"
"okay good! Because I am really really happy!" rory said trying not to gush.
"well good! Now that we are finally home on our friday night, what shall we do." lorelai said trying to change the subject
"hang out with ben and invite jerry along so he won't be jealous, oh and break out our dvds of the donna reed show, you know the usual" rory said smiling
"add a pizza and i think that will just about do it" lorelai said unlocking the door
"deal! you call im going to go change and check my phone real quick since i left it here" rory said going up the stairs
"okay hurry back, its only 9:40 so maybe we can get through 5 episodes before we die of lack of sleep" lorelai said taking off her coat and going to change as well.
"sounds good" rory yelled form the top of the stairs
Rory went to her room, turning on the light and changing into sweats and a t shirt. She went over to her desk and picked up her phone, she had 2 texts from steph asking her to hang out tomorrow and a missed call from logan, she decided to call him.
'hey ace!' logan answered
'hello you ran' she said in a fake british accent, joking with him
'yes I did missy, I haven't seen you the past few days and I miss you' logan said, which made rory's heart flutter.
'you did,did you' rory said flirting slightly
'yes i did' logan admitted sincerley
'well that's nice, i missed you too' rory said with a smile that carried through the phone
'so what are you doing tonight?' logan asked as rory sat down again
'usual movie night since we had friday night dinner i just got home' she explained.
'oh right, how are the gilmores and haydens?' he said knowing that those dinners were always lets say, eventful
'just the gilmores and there good, both sets im pretty sure, except emily enjoyed the lovely mark on my neck' rory said the last part too sweetly
logan burst out laughing when he realized that she meant the hickey he had given her on monday.
'ace, you should of covered it' he said thinking aloud and scolding her slightly, though he couldn't help but laugh at the situation
'yes well, i am to steph, i don't have much practice in that area' rory said slightly annoyed
'you should of asked her' logan pointed out still slightly laughing at the situation
'yeah well i haven't told her, but its okay because my mom covered for me' rory continued
'your mom knows/' logan said a little nervous now, he liked lorelai and he knew that she liked him as rory's best friend, but this was something that people who are just friends do.
'yes, and my dad, well my mom knows you gave it to me, my dad just saw it before he left for his trip when i woke up to say bye to him, and then before that sandy saw' rory ranted on
''well i'm excited to go over you house' logan said sarcastically and nervously
'oh come on you know they all love you, and honestly my mom thinks it funny' rory said honestly but laughing at his nervousness.
'yes well, well see i may have to use the alternate entrances into your house just to see you ace'
;or i could just go to your house' rory said being a little more forward
'always an option..so tomorrow, what are you doing?' logan replied happy with her confidence toward him
'well steph said that i must spend the night at her house since i haven't seen her in 3 days and that is just unacceptable' rory said imitating steph and causing logan to laugh
'ohh okay well then i guess i will probably see you soon then, i'm sure steph will also wasn't o see colin and colin will surely bring finn and i along'
'so i'll see you tomorrow master and commander' rory shot back sarcastically
'ill see you tomorrow ace, good night' logan said a bit huskily
'good night logan' rory said happily
'tell donna reed i say hey' Logan threw in at the end
'haha okay, bye'
"rory how long does it take to check your phone" rory heard her mom yell from down stairs
"i'm coming mom' rory said walking down the stairs
'so hows logan?"lorelai sang happily
"what?" rory asked shocked, great so it was obvious that obvious s
"you heard me, that smile obliviously isn't because of grandma and grandpa' lorelai said laughing slightly
"he's fine" rory conceded and slumped down on the coach
"good" her mom said smirking
"yes, it is good. oh and im sleeping over steph's tomorrow and hanging out with her this weekend'
"ohh fun!"
"yeah i don't know what we are doing yet though" rory thought
"well I am sure it will be fun hun! oh so the pizza just came" lorelai said bring it out from the kitchen
"oh yay, how is it we just had dinner and we are already starving?'
"we are haydens hun, scientists still haven't come just with a diagnosis, but as far as I know eating is good sooo" lorelai said picking up a piece of pizza
"amen to that" rory said cheersing her pizza with her mom and pressing play.
They got through 7 pieces of pizza, 6 episodes of donna reed, 5 cups of coffee, 4 new snappy comebacks, 3 present ideas for chris' birthday, 2 boxes of red vines, and 1 bag of chocolate covered expresso beans.
