Hey everyone!

So here I am again and I want to say thank you, as always:

Jeremy Shane - Thank you

Silver of Melody - Thanks, I'm glad you thought so

snarkNsass - You should tell that to my teachers. They obviously think, we have too much freetime, so they are all making tests. But I'm glad you liked it - and I'm glad I rescued you, by the way ;)

Curley-Q - Thanks, I thought I just should bring them in

romance in the rain - You're probably right. I would go, but sadly I don't have the money. Anyway, I'm glad you liked this chapter!

So here's the new chapter. I'm in a little of a romance mood, so I couldn't let them be there without anything happen anymore.

Hope you like it, please R&R!

Hugs and kisses,

Susu :-)

Later that day Trish finally caught Rory alone. She had waited for an opportunity to talk to her brother's "best friend" without having him around for a while now, but it nearly seemed impossible to catch one of them not glued to the other.

"Hey" she said and sat down next to Rory. The other woman looked up from her book and smiled.

"Hi."

"So, where did you leave my brother?" Rory's smile grew.

"With your daughter. I think he needed a nap, too. When I left him, he was asleep in our room next to Rosie."

"So there's no chance, that he's coming down her soon?" Trish asked. She had it confirmed, than risk the possibility, that Finn found out about her concerns.

"I don't think so. It was a very sweet picture. I never took Finn as the fatherly type."

"Yeah well, there's a lot more about him than what meets the eye." Rory looked down for a moment.

"I know. I don't think I would be where I am in my life without him." Trish looked at her questioning. Finn had never told her Rory's full story.

"What do you mean?"

"I didn't grow up in society. But when I met Logan in college I changed. By the end of my second year I dropped out of Yale, moved in with my grandparents and joined the DAR. Luckily an old friend of mine helped me out of that after a while and I went back to school. But Logan and I were together until my graduation, even though I knew he had cheated on me. When he proposed I said yes without thinking twice; it was just the right thing to do for me. My mom didn't think he was right for me and tried to talk me out of it, so I broke contact to her and moved to Boston with Logan. We married and I was happy, but about one year after our wedding I found out, that he was cheating on me – not just with one woman, but with a lot. Well, that was basically the day, that Finn and I started our friendship. He was the only one, who knew about Logan's cheating besides me and he helped me through all this. I probably would have gone crazy without him. In the end I got the strength to move out and go back to my mom. Finn and Colin helped me, where they could. I know for sure, that I would still be with Logan, if it wasn't for Finn." A deep thankfulness could be heard out of Rory's words. But thankfulness wasn't always enough.

"Wow. I don't really know what else to say to this story!" They sat in silence for a few minutes till Trish began to speak again.

"Rory … After what you just told me, it might sound stupid, but … could you be careful around Finn?" Rory looked at her surprised.

"What? Why?"

"Well, your whole behaviour around each other … I think you might be a little more than a friend for him." To her surprise the other girl laughed.

"That's not true! If it seems like that, I'm sorry, but we're just friends. And since I know Finn he never looked at a girl unless she was a redhead!"

"I know, maybe you're right. I just don't want him to get hurt." With a look in Trish's eyes Rory was serious again.

"I won't hurt him, I promise." Trish nodded and stood up.

"I'll let you get back to your book." With that she disappeared.

"I want to see the sunset at the beach!" Rory decided, after they said goodbye to Trish and Rosie.

"No" was Finn's simple answer.

"Why not?"

"Sunsets are for couples! And since we aren't a couple, we shouldn't watch a sunset at a beach."

"That's not true! Come on!"

"No!"

"Please?"

"No!"

"Finn …" Rory looked up at him with her best puppy dog eyes. He held her gaze for a moment, then his walls caved in.

"Fine."

"Thank you! I promise I'll be your best friend for that!" He just shook his head smiling and silently asked himself, what he might have gotten himself in.

True to his opinion, Finn saw a lot of couples at the beach. He sighed. This kind of scenarios weren't really his type. He wasn't the romantic guy, but what could he do? When Rory finally had found a place to her liking they sat down and looked at the setting sun above the ocean.

She leaned a little bit more into him, as his arm came around her shoulders.

"It's beautiful" Rory sighed.

"Hmm …" he agreed, not really looking at the sunset. He had seen a lot of those in his life. They were pretty, but nothing against the girl leaning against his shoulder. You need to stop this, he thought, now … one … two … three … and look away … you're still looking!

In this moment Rory looked up and smiled at him. The smile in her eyes was suddenly replaced by surprise as he couldn't fight the urge anymore and leaned down. Her lips were soft against his. After a few seconds she responded to his kiss – it felt like nothing he ever experienced. Sadly the happiness didn't last long, because she pulled away abruptly and held her fingers to her lips on shock.

"You … You kissed me!"

So that's the chapter. Tell me what you think, even if it's just, that I'm mean!