Chapter 14: Dates, Revealed Feelings and on the run!

Two weeks had passed since Rory went to Stars Hollow with Stephanie and when Logan, Finn and Colin had dropped by to help their friend Stephanie. Two weeks since she had diner with Logan Huntzberger because of the bid of 5000 dollars on the auction.

Ever since that day, she stayed a lot with the guys. Stephanie and herself became closer, they went shopping, they annoyed the guys by whispering in front of them, which made the guys wanting to know what they told each other and they hung out at the pub.

And she enjoyed it, they were much more fun then she could have expected. The first time they met them, they were arrogant and mean to her friend Marty and if anybody would have told her that she would be hanging out a lot with them, she would have called them crazy. If anybody would have told her, she was beginning to fall for one of them, she would have yelled that they were a lunatics for even thinking that she might like them. But she did, she was beginning to fall for Logan Huntzberger.

And since a long time, she was happy again. Not that she and Logan were dating, because they weren't, but just about the fact to be in love again. She hasn't been in love ever since Jess left Stars Hollow for New York. This just felt good and she wanted to tell him, but she was afraid. Afraid to lose him as a friend, that things would become awkward between them, that he didn't like her back. All these things wondered through her mind.

But then again, every time she was near him or away from him, she couldn't help but think what it would be like to date him. Logan was fun, of course he had his arrogant moments but then again it was also charming. She had also seen a different side from him, he was supportive, ambitious, kind, a gentleman, persuasive and most of all, he made her feel safe and secure. He made her feel like nobody else had ever done.

Of course the times she had spent with Dean and Jess were special and most of the times, they made her feel special. They had accepted her love for books, Jess was even a fan of books too. But they were nothing like Logan. Logan also enjoyed reading books but he also challenged her on different levels, something Dean nor Jess had ever done to her. Logan challenged her to write more and to get the full story, to get to the bottom of a story. Like for the article for the Life and Death Brigade, he persuaded her to jump off a seven story building just to feel it, he made her participate and if he hadn't done that, she wondered if the article would have turned out the way it had turned out now.

But he also challenged her on other grounds, he challenged her to experience life some more and nobody besides her mother challenged her more in a conversation. He didn't back down when they were arguing over a stupid topic. He had to have the last word. Ever since they met, she met a lot of new people and began to look at life in a different way. She had a different look at the high society world her mother loathed, matter of factly, she loved it!

Then she came back to the real world, out of her thoughts when she noticed how late it was. It was about 20 minutes before class would start. Quickly she grabbed her bag and walked out of her dorm on her way to the coffee cart.

"Coffee! Two please!" she said the minute she arrived at the coffee cart. And the man behind the cart smiled at her.

"What?" she asked him as he prepared the coffee for her.

"It's just, that you really seem to like coffee. I've never seen anybody, buying so much coffee in my life or to drop by a coffee cart so many times," the boy explained.

"Well somebody has to be first," she said as the boy placed the coffee cups in front of her. "Thanks," she said as she handed him the cash and walked off to class.

As she walked to class, her phone started to ring. Struggling while holding two cups of coffee in one arm against her body, she tried to find her phone with her other hand.

"Need some help, Ace?" a voice said behind her and she turned around to find Logan smirking at her.

"If you wouldn't mind," Rory told him as he took both cups of coffee out of her arm as she searched through her bag some more. Finally, she found the phone.

"Hello?" she said as she took one of the coffee cups out of Logan's hand and motioned that the other one was his. With a shocked look, he looked at her while smirking.

"Don't expect that it will happen again," she told him as the voice on the other side of the line started to speak.

"What won't happen again?" her mother's voice spoke up.

"Nothing mom, I just told Logan that it won't happen again that he can keep a cup of coffee I bought for myself. But since you called me and I don't have a third arm, I told him to have it. So anyway, what's up?" Rory rambled much to Logan's pleasure.

He always enjoyed how Rory could talk without a pause.

"I have big news!" Lorelai announced.

"Big news? What happened? Miss Patty seduced Taylor or did Taylor seduce Miss Patty! That would definately be big news!" Rory speculated.

"No, nothing like that. All though it would be funny if Taylor seduced miss Patty! He would never hear the end of it. I can already imagine how the Town meetings will be," Lorelai told her. "But I wanted to tell you something else."

"And?" Rory waited for the big news.

"Well it concerns me and Luke," Lorelai started. "We've reconciled!"

"That's so great mom! I'm so happy for you!" Rory told her mother happily. "I want to know all the details, but not too much if you know what I mean!"

"You can get the entire package or nothing," Lorelai said.

"Mom! I don't want to look at Luke that way. If you want, okay, but sorry, i don't want to imagine Luke naked," Rory told him. "Oh no, too late. I already picture him that way now!"

"Looks good, huh?" Lorelai teased her daughter.

"Stop it mom!" Rory warned her mother as she noticed the time. Only a few minutes before class would start. "Besides I have to go. I do have classes you know!"

"What about the details?"

"Tell me about it tonight around five?" Rory suggested. "Call me then, okay?"

"Fine," Lorelai pouted. "I'll call you tonight. Love ya!"

"Love you too!" Rory exclaimed as she shut down the phone.

"Luke naked? You mean the guy your mother dated?" Logan asked her the minute she ended the phone call.

"Really, that's not something I want to think about right now. The same with Doyle and I keep telling Paris that, but she won't listen to me," Rory told him. "And Luke isn't the guy my mother dated!" which confused Logan, Rory had always told him about Luke and how he was her mother's boyfriend and her big coffee supplier.

"What?" he asked her. "I don't understand it anymore.

"Well Paris and Doyle date each other and sometimes when they do things," Rory told him. "He tends to walk through our dormroom while only wearing boxers. Not a pretty image if you must know."

"I definately didn't want to know that!" Logan told her with a disgusted face. "What I meant was what do you mean Luke isn't the guy my mother dated? You always told me your mother dated the coffee god Luke!"

"They are dating each other again, so in reality he isn't the guy my mother dated but is still dating," Rory explained.

"I think I understand," Logan told her.

"Good. Now give me back my coffee!" she told him as she threw away her empty coffee cup.

"No, you said it was mine!"

"Well I want it back!"

"Too bad! It's empty!"

"You're mean!" Rory pouted as she walked faster as she noticed her class room was in sight.

"I'm sorry. I'll buy you some new coffee over lunch?" Logan asked her as he quickened his pace to catch up with her.

"Lunch with you? Okay, but only because the coffee is there, that was a tie breaker!" Rory teased him. "See you around noon?"

"Sure. Bye Ace," Logan told her as he walked off as Rory walked into class. The room was full and she only noticed one empty spot. She sat down and waited till the class started.

"Hey!" a voice said and she looked next to her and saw a guy sitting next to her. He had dark brown hair and dark blue eyes. He was casually dressed as he wore a pair of jeans and a white shirt. "I'm Joshua Geller."

"Hi," she replied. "Rory Gilmore."

"So, I've seen you around before. You like this class?" he started the conversation.

"Yeah, it's a nice class. Hard sometimes but I can manage it," she told him.

"So actually I was wondering," he started. "If you might want to go on a date with me."

"Wow, I have to say I didn't expect that," she told him honestly. He seemed like a nice guy and now he was asking her out on a date. Of course he had a charming appereance but she didn't like him, not like Logan. But then again, saying no wasn't something she was good at either so in a low voice she spoke to him. "Sure."

"Great!" he said happily as Rory put on a fake smile. Why did she have to tell him that she wanted to go on a date with him? She liked Logan, she planned on telling it him very soon and now this happened. Why did she have so many problems with saying no?

The rest of the day went by quickly. Her lunch with Logan went by pretty fast. They talked a lot and it was fun to talk with Logan without Finn or Colin interfering and exclaiming to stop the arguing and to drink some more!

The rest of the day, she worked on her articles and studied some more. Stephanie dropped by quickly, wanting to know if the rumours she heard were true about her dating Joshua Geller. She told her that it was indeed true and that they were going out tonight and that he would pick her up around 6.

Around five o'clock she quickly took a shower and got dressed for her date. And promptly at six, Joshua picked her up and they went to the diner and movies.

"Nice place, you've picked out," Rory politely said as they stepped into a small italian restaurant.

"Yeah, when I go out on dates, I usually take them here. They all love this place!" he told them which made Rory uncomfortable. Did he have to talk about other dates and how he took them here?

"That's nice," she simply stated, not knowing how to react to it.

"Yeah once when I was here with a girl, she choked on a piece of spaghetti and another time when I was here with a girl," he continued as Rory stopped paying attention to him.

This wasn't how a date should happen, of course she didn't go on dates that often but talking about previous dates you've had was definately not a topic to be discussed.

As a matter of factly, Joshua couldn't stop talking about his previous dates and how he had been in love with a girl for a long time and how he folllowed her all around.

When diner was over, they went to the movies to see Batman Begins. Sometimes she liked the Batman movies but mostly she and her mother mocked the movies. But this wasn't a movie to go to on a first date, the first movie should be funny and perhaps slightly romantic, of course not too sappy but it should be a fun movie, which makes you want to go to movies more often with a guy. It shouldn't be a movie about action and some romance, that would be more likely be a movie to sit in front of the TV with or for the third date. Well at least that was her opinion and her mother's.

When he dropped her off by her dorm, she gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and headed in her dorm, happy that the date was finally over.

"How was the date?" Paris asked her the minute she closed the date.

"Aweful! He couldn't stop talking about how his previous date choked on spaghetti and then we went to see a movie. I didn't like the movie but it was better then hearing him about his former dates," Rory told her, happy to spill it out into the open air.

"Sounds like fun!" Paris said sarcastically. "Anyway, I'm going to bed. Sorry about the date, good night!" and with that Paris moved to her bed room.

"Night," Rory told her as she sat down on the couch, thinking about her aweful date.

In the meantime, Logan was in his own dormroom, studying and on his father's request, trying to write an article. It was then Stephanie who barged into his bedroom, where he was working on the article.

"You'll never believe what I just heard!" Stephanie told him excited, hoping that the news she had about Rory, would tick Logan off.

"Blond is out and brunettes are in?" Logan joked as he stopped writing and looked at her with a smirk on his face.

"No! Blonds always stay in!" she told him. "Of course some brunettes aren't that bad!"

"What's the big news?" Logan asked her, trying to stay on topic.

"Rory went on a date with Joshua Geller!" Stephanie told him while awaiting his response.

Logan was shocked when he heard the words Rory date and Joshua Geller. He hadn't heard Rory about this date, this afternoon. Was he now too late? Had he lost her to this Joshua Geller guy? Then he remembered that Stephanie was still in the room.

"That's nice. It's good for her that she's going to date again," Logan told her. It was a good sign for Rory to date again, it meant that she was ready to date again.

"Didn't you just hear what I said, she's on a date with Joshua Geller!" Stephanie told him again.

"What's so great about this Joshua Geller then, if you have to tell me this news again?"

"He's Joshua Geller," Stephanie told him, not knowing how to respond. "He's cute and he's on a date with Rory!"

"I know he's on a date with Ace now," Logan told her agitated. "You don't have to tell me three times you know!"

"Sorry, just wanted to know how you would react," Stephanie told him.

"Why is that Steph?"

"Come on Logan, everybody knows that you have a thing for Rory. Colin knows and even Finn knows and remembers it. I'm sure we aren't the only one who noticed this," Stephanie informed him.

"I know that Finn and Colin think that I like Rory, heck I even told them that I do have feelings for Rory that I haven't had for another girl but how come you know about this?" Logan asked her, wanting to know how Stephanie knew this? He hoped he wasn't too oblivious and that Rory also knew it. He wanted to tell it herself that he liked her, heck that he even wanted to commit to her. He never ever wanted to commit to a girl, the thought had never crossed his minds but now it has and every day he thought about it.

"Logan?" Stephanie asked him. "You seem to be lost in thoughts."

"I was, sorry. So how did you get the idea that I like Rory. I need to know Steph!" Logan told her.

"Just the way you look at her. Not paying attention to other girls anymore ever since she went with us to the LDB event. You're clearly showing it Logan," Stephanie told him as she noticed the bedazzled look on Logan's face. "Don't worry, I don't think Rory has a clue that you like her."

"I hope she doesn't. When I am ready, I want to tell it her myself," Logan told her as he looked down, not wanting to see Stephanie's eyes when he told her this.

"You're going to tell her? That's so great!" Stephanie yelled.

"Keep your voice down, will you? I do want to tell her, but I am not sure when the right time is," Logan told her honestly.

"Tell her soon. If you don't, she might find the guy she is willing to commit with and then you lost her. Tell me you do want to commit right? She's not the no strings girl and you know it!"

"I know she's not like that and she's not like other girls. But I am just afraid that I might hurt her," Logan told her.

"Then don't," Stephanie simply stated as she headed for the door. "Now go tell her!" and with that Stephanie walked out of Logan's room and dorm, leaving him alone with his thoughts.

Perhaps she was right, perhaps he should tell her before he might lose her to somebody else. Maybe he was already too late!

He quickly hurried to her dorm room, he had to tell her now! He knocked on her door and waited for her to open the door and hoped it wouldn't be her weird roommate Paris.

"Hi," she said as she opened the door. "What are you doing here? It's already eleven o'clock. I was about to go to bed!"

"Sorry Ace," he started as he looked at her, wearing a perfect outfit. The blue shirt she wore matched her blue eyes, she just looked amazing! "I had to talk to you."

"What about?" she wondered. "Did something happen?"

"Yeah somethind did happen. I realised something," he told her.

"Realised what?" Rory wondered as she had no idea where this was heading to. Logan was never the guy who had trouble to tell what he want and right now it seemed that he did have problems with saying what he intended to tell her.

"I realised that I truly like you Rory. That I want to be with you, go out with you, watch movies with you while you mock them. Kiss you and wake up next to you, bring you your coffee every morning. Buy you flowers and all that! I just want you and me together!" he confessed as he rambled on about how much he wanted her.

Rory was just shocked, she was happy that Logan felt the same way about her as she did about him, but she never expected he would blurt it all out in breath. How would she respond to this? He just told it her in one breath and it was sweet, he wanted to be with her no matter what.

"Oh," escaped Rory's mouth before she knew it. That was definately not the response she wanted to give Logan. She wanted to tell him, how much she wanted it too, being with him.

Logan was shocked at Rory's response, did she not want this? Was he just stupid, thinking that Rory might like him? It seemed like Rory just didn't. He could then feel his heart being ripped apart, he could no longer look at her so he ran. He ran away from his Ace, from her dorm, out of her building and on his way to his own dorm where some cold scotch would be waiting for him.

Before Rory realised it, Logan walked off when she told him 'Oh'. It was definately the worst response she could have ever given him. And now he ran, she called out for him when he was running out of the hallway but he didn't respond.

This was definately not the way it should have happened.

Author's note:

Thanks for the reviews, I enjoy it. Also sorry for letting the story go this way but I just like a bit of drama with a good happy ending!

Anyway, next chapter:

In Omnia Paratus!

Rory receives an invitation from the LDB! Rory wonders who send her this invitation and she is picked up by for the next LDB event! Who will pick her up and how will things between Rory and Logan turn out now?

Find it out in the following chapters!

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