The following words kept running through her mind...
"Would it be just Huntzberger, Gilmore-Huntzberger or Huntzberger-Gilmore?"
What would it be? The more she thought about it, the more she ended up with 'Rory Huntzberger', or well officially 'Lorelai Huntzberger'. That would at least gave her the same initials as Logan, LH. Lorelai Huntzberger-Gilmore didn't sound bad either, it sounded really fancy, like she truly had a status to uphold or something.
Gosh, why did Logan have to ask her that question four weeks ago at her mother's wedding. Four weeks later the question was still bugging her, not the question itself but more that she couldn't find an answer with herself.
It was weird though that Logan was the one who started the conversation about marriage. Another unexpected in the life of Rory Gilmore. The ultimate playboy of Yale, at least that's what he was known for until last year when he committed to Rory and their unborn child at that moment, this playboy had talked about the ultimate commitment with no fear in his voice. At least not that she could detect or remember.
Rory however was so caught up in her thoughts that she bumped into a girl.
"Oh sorry," Rory apologized to the girl she bumped into and continued to walk to her next class, her final class of the day.
She had been back at Yale for a week now and to say that it took some getting used to was an understatement. After being away for a whole year it was really different to be back, especially since at the end of the day it was not returning back to your dorm room or apartment near campus, but it was back to her house outside of Stars Hollow where she lived. Back to Logan, back to her daughter Amy, who she had to pick up from daycare.
Rory wasn't happy that she had to bring her daughter to daycare each day, or Logan brought her since it was the daycare at his office but usually Rory picked Anna up because she was off earlier then Logan. It was quite a race to pick Amy up, make sure she was fed, to have diner ready for both her and Logan, if he were in town which wasn't that often lately, and of course she had to study too.
It pretty much came down to, it was not as easy as she had suspected it to be. It was hard to fall into a routine with classes at different times each day, and even if she were on time, sometimes traffic was awful. And Logan wasn't home that often either, business trips were spontantiously planned all the time the last few weeks, which upset Rory. She missed him a lot when he was on those trips, and she was home alone with Amy in that big house of theirs.
But now, her class awaited. Her worries about finding the perfect routine would have to be figured out later on.
About an hour later Rory was back on the road, on her way to Logan's office to pick Amy up from daycare and to hit home.
When she got at the daycare center though, something was missing..
Her daughter!
"Where is Amy?" Rory asked the first person she saw, in a panicked tone..
"Amy?" the woman wondered out loud.
"Yes, my daughter!" Rory added.
"Her father came to pick her up about 45 minutes ago," the woman ultimately replied.
"Her father?" Rory said, slightly confused by that. "Uhm.. thanks. I have to go."
With that Rory headed out of the daycare as she searched for her cellphone in her bag.. When she finally found it she noticed she had a text message.
'Hey Ace, I'll pick up Amy today, I got off early. See you when you get home! Love, Logan'
Each day she checked her cellphone after classes to make sure that the daycare hadn't called about Amy, or if Logan or her mother had called, and today of all days she didn't check because she was in a hurry and now she had a message.
She hurried back home, only to find Logan cooking in the kitchen and Amy sitting in her little chair watching her father cook as she mumbled a bit..
Amy had actually already spoken her first word. Sadly neither Logan nor Rory were present, but Lorelai was, which explained the choice of word that Amy chose to have as her first word: Coffee.
"What's this?" Rory sighed as she let herself fall down on one of the chairs in the kitchen.
"What do you mean?" Logan said slightly confused.
"You being at home, early I might add, and picking up Amy," Rory explained a bit more.
"Did you not get my message?"
"Only after I heard one of daycare center people say 'Her father picked her up'," Rory sighed.
"I'm sorry," Logan apologized. 'I would have called but I got off early by surprise so I texted you and picked up Amy."
"It's okay," Rory smiled slightly. "So you're off early huh?"
"Yeah, I had done everything I needed to do before the weekend so I figured why not go home early and prepare you some diner," Logan smiled.
"That's sweet," Rory smiled.
"And it is Friday, and you don't have diners at your grandparents' house anymore since I'm paying for Yale," Logan smirked.
"And thank you for that mr. Vice-president of Huntzberger Publishing," Rory smiled brightly. "At least something good comes from you working for your family."
Logan smiled. "And once you graduate I'll make sure that you have no debt anymore with your grandparents."
"You really are wonderful, did you know that?"
Logan smiled once again. "It's no big deal Ace. So how was your day?"
"Tiring," Rory simply responded. "I'm so glad its weekend. I can finally catch up on some studying."
"Only tomorrow afternoon though, the rest of the weekend you are mine and Amy's," Logan smirked.
"Aren't you possesive," Rory remarked with a smile. "But I do have a lot of school work."
"No you don't," Logan said. "You just like to get ahead. You've been studying all week."
"How would you know? You've been gone all week, same goes for last week and the week before that."
Logan sighed. "I'm sorry for that. It's business trips. But now I am home, and they don't give you that many assignments on your first week of college. I've been to college Rory, I know how it works."
"But," Rory tried to interject.
'No buts, unless we're talking about mine or Amy's if it needs to be cleaned up," Logan smiled. "You're just going to have a relaxing weekend."
"I'll try."
"Your mom called by the way."
"She did?" Rory wondered. "Why?"
"She was wondering when we're going to watch the slideshow she made of her honeymoon," Logan smirked.
"I guess I'll have to call her," Rory said, not really in the mood to pick up the phone.
"Why don't you just call her tomorrow?" Logan suggested. "We have the whole weekend to find time to watch those slides. Tonight I just want to spend some time with my girls."
Rory smiled. "Okay. So what's for diner? I'm starving."
Later that night, while Amy was sound asleep in her room, Rory and Logan lay on the couch, in each other's arms, watching a movie.
"I really wonder why you love this movie so much," Rory commented.
"There's nothing wrong with Indiana Jones," Logan rolled his eyes.
"I just don't like Harrison Ford. He ruins the movie for me," Rory told him.
"Next time we watch a movie it's your pick again," Logan assured her.
"Which I'm thankful for, at least it will be a good movie," Rory mocked him.
"Hey don't mock me. I know plenty of good movies," Logan told her with a smile.
"Well when were you planning on sharing those wonderful 'I can pick a good movie' talents with me?" Rory smiled.
"The day you stop mocking me," Logan smirked. "Which will probably be never."
Rory sighed, which didn't go by unnoticed.
"What's wrong?" Logan wondered.
"I missed this," Rory said as she cuddled more into Logan's body.
"Me too," Logan said as he kissed Rory's temple.
"I wish you didn't have to go on those stupid business trips," Rory mumbled into his chest, which caused Logan to smile slightly.
"Me too," Logan agreed. "So that's why I talked to my dad."
Rory's head shot up. "What? Why? About what?"
Logan laughed at the questions she suddenly asked him. "Easy there. I asked him if there was a way that I could go on less trips."
"What did he say?"
"That it was a part of the job, those business trips," Logan told her truthfully.
"Which it is," Rory confirmed.
"It is," Logan agreed.
"But I don't like it."
"It's also not all that he nor I had to say about it," Logan continued. "I kind of had a feeling that you were not that happy with those trips I made, and neither was I, so I offered my dad a compromise."
"What kind of compromise?"
"Maybe compromise is the wrong word," Logan said with a slight frown. "I told him that I would rather work at the office or at home, which would suit me even better since you're back in college and everything. And that I would like to see my daughter every now and then instead of one or two days on the weekends."
"What did he say?"
"That it was not an option," Logan admitted.
"Sounds like Mitchum," Rory mumbled.
Logan smiled as he continued to tell his story. "But I told him that if things weren't going to change at all, that I would step away from being an heir and leave the family behind."
"Logan!" Rory gasped. "You can't do that! They're your family!"
"I know Ace," Logan laughed slightly. "But my dad took the bait and I guess he was afraid to loose his one and only heir, so he agreed on it. He still said I have to take some business trips, which I'm okay with, but that he'll cut back on the business trips and that he'll allow me to work at home more often so that means shorter days for me at the office."
"I can't believe your dad agreed with that," Rory said, amazed by the story she had just heard.
"I can't believe it either, but he did. So I'm not going to bother thinking about it but I got what I wanted to some degree," Logan smiled. "I think that may be the first."
"I'm just...," Rory said. "It's just wow."
"I know," Logan laughed as he kissed her temple once more. "It's good though, right?"
"Very good," Rory confirmed.
"I think its one of the best conversations I've had with my dad in over a year," Logan remarked.
"Which is sad if you think about it," Rory frowned slightly.
"It is, but let's not think about it anymore," Logan smiled. "Let's celebrate!"
"How?"
"I think I can think of a way or two," Logan smirked as he rose from the couch and pulled Rory up with him, as he lead her to the bedroom upstairs.
Rory laughed as she caught on. "But what about the movie?"
"Who cares about Indiana Jones when I can have my own little adventure right here, right now?" Logan smirked as he pulled Rory up to the bedroom, as Rory laughed.
Author's note: Thanks for all the reviews guys! I love them!
A short chapter, sorry for that, but I hope you like it.
Next chapter: Give Me A SignLogan has plans, Lorelai wants to know about said plans, Rory knows nothing about any plans, and Luke is in the know of Logan's plans, much to Lorelai's dismay.