Chapter 14

Rory was ready and packed. She had to get away, she couldn't stop thinking about Logan and Caitlin together and it was driving her insane.

"Mom!" Rory yelled as she walked into the house she grew up in, it was her safe haven. It was the one place she could go to when everything else was out of whack.

"Yeah sweets im here!" Lorelai yelled back as she came down the steps to hug her daughter. "How you holding up?"

"I'm miserable!" Rory replied. "But at least I'm home."

"At least one positive thing came out of this huh. Me and you get to spend some much needed mother, daughter time together." Lorelei said.

"Yep!"

"So let the movie marathon week begin!" Rory smiled when she saw all the allotted wallow food waiting on the coffee table for her. She had her mom, her best friend and there's nothing else in the world she needed---except for Logan.

Logan had been pacing in his room for a good half hour. He was psyching himself up, 30 more minutes and he would have to meet Caitlin for coffee, he wasn't sure he even wanted to go. But Rory was right, how could he build a future with someone if he wasn't really over his past. With that thought he grabbed his coat and went off to meet Caitlin.

Caitlin sat at the coffee shop waiting for Logan. She was thinking about what she was gonna say to him. Whatever it was she knew that it would come naturally. She never had to pretend with Logan. She could always just be herself and he always wanted her. Of course there was never anybody else in the picture. But Rory was just a temporary thing right? They were destined to be together weren't they?

"He's probably meeting her right now." Rory said quietly.

Lorelei heard her and put the movie they were watching on pause.

"What do you mean?" Lorelei asked.

"Logan-- Caitlin-- they probably are somewhere right now together, eating or drinking or kissing or -- I don't even wanna think about what else they could be doing."

"So baby don't-- don't think it -- don't say it" Lorelei reached over and put a hand on Rory's shoulder. "Didn't he say he loved you?"

Rory nodded her head. "Didn't he say he wanted to be with you?"

"Yes!"

"So then why torture yourself. I'm sure that they only reason he's even meeting with her right now is because you asked him to."

"Do you think that was the right thing to do?"

"Honestly?" Lorelei stated playing around.

"MOM?" Rory whined.

"Yes Rory I think it was. As much for your sake as his own. Because now when he comes back to you--and he will---- you'll have absolutely no doubts to the fact that he wants to be with you."

"Your right. Thanks mom."

"Your welcome sweetheart, why don't we finish watching the movie"

Rory kept watching the movie with a small smile tugging at her lips. Her mom was right Logan was gonna come back she just had to be patient."

Logan and Caitlin were sitting across from each other at the small café. They ordered their coffees and were sipping at them.

Logan was uncomfortable and Caitlin could feel it.

"You don't have to be nervous around me Logan."

"I'm not nervous Caitlin I'm frustrated."

" Why don't you call me Rose anymore?" Caitlin asked trying to change the change the subject. All she got in return was a glare from Logan.

"Alright, Alright!" Caitlin said trying to get Logan to back off with the glares. "Why are you so frustrated?"

"Why am I frustrated Caitlin? I don't know maybe because in the little time that you've been here you've managed to push me apart from the only girl I think I've ever really loved."

"You loved me!" Caitlin responded getting a little angry Logan said he never really loved her.

"No Caitlin I think I was more infatuated with you. I don't know if it was ever really love." Logan said honestly.

Caitlin didn't know what to say. She wanted to cry but didn't want to do it in front of Logan so she said her goodbyes to him and left the café. As soon as she walked out she waited for the tears to come but they didn't. She just started thinking Logan didn't really mean what he said. He only said that because of Rory. And she was gonna finish that off soon.

Rory and her mom finished watching the movies and talked some more. After awhile she felt better and decided to go back to her dorm. Her mom was right Logan loved her. As she walked into her hallway she noticed Caitlin coming towards her.

"Caitlin, what are you doing here? I asked you to stay away from me."

"I don't care! Listen Rory I'm only here to tell you that Logan and I are gonna be together it doesn't matter how many games you try to play."

"Caitlin I'm not playing any games. I'm not like you. I don't have to play games for Logan to love me, he just does."

"Right, so if he loves you so much why was he with me tonight."

"What are you talking about? That stupid little pity coffee date he asked you on because I wanted him to be sure he had no feelings for you?"

"It was more than that."

"Yeah like what."

"I don't think it counts as a pity date if he asked me back to his dorm afterward."

"Caitlin what are you talking about?" Rory was getting fed up with her.

"Face it Rory when it comes to me and you, with Logan you will always be the one who replaced me."

Rory couldn't take Caitlin anymore. She had to straighten this all out now and there's only one person who could possibly do that...

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