AN: The Long Morrow. I loved it! Especially when Rory kept trying to figure out what the rocket meant. "Rocket space. He needs space away from me." And the "I'm his rocket. As in Rock ET. Like I'm his rock in the Easter Time Zone." HAHA. Anyways, I loved it and hopefully you'll like this chapter. Oh and guess what I'm doing! I'm writing a letter to Gilmore Girls to ask for their autographs. I have the address and hopefully they'll respond. They responded to my friend's letter.
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On Friday that following week…
Strolling along the Yale courtyard, Logan made his way to the nearest coffee cart and got in line. As he stood waiting for the line to lessen, he felt a girl tap his shoulder. He glanced down at his watch quickly and noticed it was 10:55. Five more minutes until Ace gets here. Then who's tapp-?
His thoughts were suddenly interrupted by another tap, followed by the person clearing her throat. Logan turned around and gave a small grin, not so small it was unnoticeable but not so big that it could lead the girl on. The blonde looked him up and down, all the while chewing a piece of gum, trying to look seductive.
She gave him a mischievous smirk and said in a high-pitched voice, "Hey Logan."
Logan nodded once, "Hey." Turning back around he hoped that the girl would leave. But of course, she didn't.
Instead she placed her right hand on his shoulder and willed him to turn. After succeeding in turning Logan to face her she introduced herself, "I'm Stacey."
"And I'm Logan." He answered briefly, stepping a step backwards as the line moved along.
"Oh I know." She replied, twirling her hair absentmindedly. "So, do you want to go out for dinner tonight?"
"Uh," Logan started not knowing what the question was but was soon interrupted by Jack.
"Logan." Jack greeted. Rory and Logan visited Jack's coffee cart the most and soon became friends with Jack.
Turning his attention away from the blonde, he smiled at Jack. "Hey, one large caramel macchiato and a small espresso."
"Logan?" Stacey asked but was ignored as Logan grabbed the drinks handed to him. "Logan…" She whispered seductively running her finger up Logan's back.
He sighed facing Stacey and his expression showed a bit of irritation. "Yes?"
She squealed and Logan took a step back. Clapping her hands she smiled brightly, "Okay, pick me up at 8. I'm at the Calhoun building room 8." She giggled, "Room 8 at 8 okay? Oh my God, that was like the same number! See you later Logan!" She walked away with a bounce and a step, leaving a bemused Logan and a few students whispering.
"Wait wha-?" He asked incoherently, standing next to the coffee cart.
Jack tilted his head at Logan, "I thought you and Rory were going out exclusively like you're her boyfriend."
"We are." Logan confirmed looking at Jack.
"Well then what the hell was that?" He asked pointing at the bouncing blonde who was talking with a group of girls. "Lacey or Stanley or whatever."
Logan shook his head trying to remember what he had said. "What did I say? Better yet, what did she say?"
"So you're cheating on your girlfriend? That's low man." Jack commented stepping away from Logan as he filled a small cup with coffee and handed it to a customer.
"What are you talking about? What the hell just happened?" Logan asked getting impatient.
"That girl just asked you to dinner tonight and you agreed. Room 8 at 8."
"No I didn't" Logan answered with a tinge of anger in his voice.
"Yes you did. She asked you while you were ordering but you didn't answer then she called you or something and you said yes."
"No I didn't." Logan persisted."
"Yes, you did." Jack stated then turned to his customer, "how may I help you?"
Logan walked away in a daze trying to replay what just happened. He glanced down at his watch and noticed it was already 11:02. As he walked towards Rory's class he could hear girls whispering about him:
"I knew it Karen, she was just some random girl to him." Lola said leaning against the wall putting her hand out.
"But Logan Huntzberger doesn't just hold hands with girls. He held hands with that girl." Karen replied taking out a five-dollar bill and pushing it onto Lola's hand.
"Poor Rory, she's being cheated on." Maria commented.
Lola looked at her with shock and said, "Poor Rory? What are you talking about? Logan's back on the market!"
Logan kept walking, past the myriad of girls assuming the worst for him and the best for them. He walked absentmindedly trying to think of how he would explain this to Rory.
What he didn't notice was one certain girl who he passed by. She gave him a confused look and stopped him, placing her hand on his chest. "Hey stranger."
Shaken out of his thoughts he turned to see Rory with a bemused expression. He grinned pulling her in for a kiss, immediately forgetting about Stacey. "Hey."
She pulled back a moment later and looked around, "Logan, a professor might see."
He smirked, "Live in the moment Ace." Pulling her in once again he kissed her and when things were about to heat up, she pulled away.
"I see coffee." She smiled and Logan smirked as he handed her the cup.
"That was your last class for today right?"
"Yea, Professor Bell cancelled today's class and moved the dates up so I have an extra week with him." Rory answered taking a gulp of the warm liquid. As it slid down her throat she leaned on Logan as he placed his arms around her waist.
"That sucks. You have to spend another week with the guy." He relented.
"What are you talking about? Professor Bell's class is one of the greatest out there. He's wonderful and not at all sucky."
He smirked, looking at her from the corner of his eyes. He felt his stomach tighten as he did so and wondered why he kept on getting that feeling. Letting it blow over he tilted his head, "Alright, what are your plans for tonight?"
"Well it is Friday so I have dinner with the grandparents."
"Hmm." He nodded in acknowledgement.
"Then after that I'm free."
"Great, we can head to the pub."
She shrugged and finished the last sip of her macchiato, throwing it away. "I guess. When's your next class?"
"Ah…" He trailed off trying to remember exactly when was his next class. "About 1:30."
"Okay." She yawned, resting her head on his shoulders. Taking his hand and looking at his watch she announced with another yawn, "It's 11:10."
"A bit sleepy there?" Logan asked grinning.
"Just a bit tired. I stayed up pretty late last night." She said.
"I know. You didn't come into bed until two in the morning." Logan replied. Last night she had spent five straight hours engrossed in countless research articles on the Internet.
"It wasn't two in the morning." She protested.
"Yes, it way. You got into my bed at two in the morning after researching China's viewpoint on the DPRK. You took hours."
"Well, first of all there's not that many articles on the topic because it's all articles on the US' viewpoint on the DPRK. Second of all, when I finally found articles, the titles were English and the rest were Mandarin. I had to copy and paste to the translator. And let me tell you that is an annoying process."
"Don't they have links so you can see it in English?" Logan asked unsure of what the answer might be.
"Nope. Chinese, French, German and Russian were the only ones available."
He shook his head in amusement as they reached his dorm room. Opening the door and heading towards the couch he said, "But that doesn't change the fact that you slept at two in the morning." He told her grinning as laid down on the couch, pulling her on top of him.
She rested her head on his chest and sighed, "I know, I'm just tired." She moved her hair that was currently covering his face and kissed him lightly on the lips then placed her head on his chest again.
Within a few minutes of silence, Rory had fallen into deep sleep and Logan was still under her. Slowly moving out of her embrace, he could see a red beeping light on his answering machine. Once he succeeded in standing up, he carried her to his bedroom and laid her down on the bed. Brushing her hair away from her face she kissed her on the lips and walked out the room, closing the door behind him.
He walked to the answering machine and pressed play.
You have one new message.
"Logan darling! How are you? Well it's your mother just in case you forgot." Shira giggled and someone else giggled as well. "And Emily is here with me."
"Hello Logan." Emily greeted cheerfully.
"Well, we wanted to let you know that our weekly dinners here with Emily are moved to Fridays. Not Tuesdays, but Fridays."
"I don't really care mom." Logan muttered at the recorded message, rolling his eyes.
"And since Rory comes on Fridays too Emily decided to invite you to the Friday night dinners as well." Shira giggled once again.
"Yes, Logan please do come. We don't want to make Rory feel alone because she doesn't have someone to talk to." Emily added.
"What?" He grumbled. He knew that he and Rory had to tell Emily and Shira soon about their relationship but having to attend Friday night dinners. Well it was a way for him and Rory to spend more time together. They spend most of their time together anyways. Not that he was complaining. They spent the nights in each other's dorms, considering they were just one floor away. But these past recent nights they've been in Logan's room and they still haven't done anything significant under the covers. Again, not that he was complaining. He is perfectly fine with how things are going. He didn't want to push Rory into doing something she would regret, and besides just her presence was good enough. But that thought scared Logan. Considering his past non-existent relationships and his reputation with the opposite sex. His normal dates always ended with him falling in bed with a random girl for meaningless sex. But with Rory…he didn't feel the need to end the night in bed like that, though it would be nice- he wasn't going to lie about that. He just wasn't looking for a relationship based on sex with Rory. He just wanted… well, her. And that scared him. Very, very much.
"See you tonight darling!" Shira's voice rang out.
"Bye Logan!" Emily chimed in.
You have zero new messages.
"It's a small world after all! It's a small world after all!" Finn shouted as he entered the room with a small ball in his hands.
"It's a world of laughter a world of peace." Stephanie joined in.
And surprisingly, Colin sang as well, "It a world of joy and a world of fears."
Altogether they sang with loud voices, "There's so much that we share that it's time we're aware. It's a small world after all!"
Logan turned around and motioned for them to be quiet and pointed to his room, "Rory's sleeping."
Stephanie shrugged and looked into the room and said in a normal voice, "She's not gonna wake up. You can only wake her up by physically shaking her or making coffee. I learned the hard way."
"I know Steph." Logan replied.
Finn turned around from the kitchen and announced, "We have no food in the fridge. Why?"
"Because we never did." Colin answered, turning on the TV.
"But Logan cooks." Finn pointed accusingly at Logan.
Logan shook his head in return, "I cook pancakes."
"They're very good pancakes, especially the ones with alcohol in it. The yummy goodness of breakfast and alcohol combined with just one bite. Then there was the crackling, popping thing with the milk. I forgot what it was called."
"Milk?" Logan inquired, he didn't remember making something with milk for Finn. He was pretty sure he made food with alcohol if Finn asked for it. And what crackling and popping?
"Yea, milk. And then this little itty bitty cereals started popping and crackling." Finn explained, his head nodding vigorously as he wailed his arms around trying to demonstrate the popping and the crackling.
"I didn't make that Finn." Logan shook his head at the man.
"Yes you did. I remember you poured the milk and spilled it on Colin's shoe."
"My shoe?" Colin asked incredulously. "Is that why it smells?"
"It's always smelled before." Finn said waving Colin away to which Colin responded with a grunt.
"Oh. Finn that was Rice Krispies." Logan said shaking his head.
"Oh. Well I want some of that. What else did we have?" He paused for a moment as if in deep thought, "Oh! And you made that other thing with alcohol once."
"What?" Logan asked confused.
"There was alcohol in it."
"Of course." Colin rolled his eyes turning the channels as Stephanie laid her head on his lap.
"Cookies! Chocohol Cookies!" Finn said triumphantly. "Those were good."
"Chocohol Cookies?" Stephanie asked. "I remember those."
"Yea, Logan made them with Finn's alcohol." Colin explained.
Finn turned around and looked at Logan, "what? You touched MY alcohol corner."
"You gave it to me." Logan answered.
"Ah." Finn nodded in realization then bombarded the alcohol cabinet. Turning away, he frowned, "there's no alcohol!" Then changed his tone of voice, "Oh wait I found it."
"Great." Logan answered entering his room to join Rory in her nap. He stripped down to his boxers and joined her in her peaceful sleep.
A few hours later Rory woke up to find Logan's arms wrapped around her. She checked the clock and saw the time, 2:00. She gently woke up Logan, "Logan… Logan…"
"Hey Ace." He said half-awake.
"Logan's it's two, you missed your class."
"Well then I guess I don't have to go." He answered with a smirk.
She rolled her eyes in return then closed it as she sighed, rolling into Logan's open embrace. A comfortable silence passed over them as they lay in each other's arms.
It was Logan who broke the silence first, remembering that he should at least tell Rory what happened this morning. "Rory…" His voice took in a hint of concern and Rory immediately turned to him. He called her Rory.
"Yea?" She asked.
"I have to tell you something."
"This is bad isn't it?" Rory moved away slightly from his embrace and looked him the eye.
"Well I didn't mean to."
"Oh my God." She said completely separating herself from his arms. Her mind raced through all the possible things that he might not mean to do. He might have slept with someone. He might have gone out with someone. He might have…
Logan took her arm and looked her in the eyes, "Rory, I swear it's not what you think it is."
Apparently it made everything a bit worse, "Oh my god!" She said a bit louder. She kept on repeating it, not wanting to look at Logan, "oh my God, oh my God, oh my God."
Logan shook his head and came to conclusion the she probably thought of the worst of the worst. He cupped her face in his hands and said, "I was in line buying you and me coffee when this girl, I think her name was Stacey or something, tapped me on the shoulder."
Again, Rory let another "oh my God."
"Rory, listen." He said with a small smile. He somehow found it amusing in a weird, uncanny way. "She asked me on a date tonight and-"
"You said yes!" Rory assumed her eyes beginning to water.
"Rory, I turned away the minute she asked me and ordered our drinks and by the time I got them she was still there. She said my name and I said 'yes?' and she took that as a yes to the date. I swear Ace, I would not agree to that date I knew she was asking it." He said in a quick voice.
Immediately Rory calmed and looked down in silence. After a few moments where Logan thought Rory was going to either start breaking into tears or break up with him, she started to laugh.
"I'm glad you find this funny Ace." Logan told her as he began to chuckle as well.
"I feel so sorry for you. You have to go on a date with some random girl." She said teasingly while kissing him on the lips between every word.
"Well at least I won't have to go."
"Why's that?"
"I have to go to Friday night dinner."
- - - - - - - - -
"So tell me again, why we're doing this?" Logan asked as he stepped out of his Porsche, opened Rory's door and fixed his tie.
"Because they're going to find out sooner or later. And it's better if we were the ones to tell them instead of being questioned why we didn't tell them." Rory explained as she helped fixed Logan's tie. After it was fixed she gave him a small peck on the lips.
"That's all I get? I mean we're about to tell Emily Gilmore and Shira Huntzberger that we're dating and that's all I get?" He asked teasingly.
Rory weighed her options and smiled then gave him a passionate kiss before taking his hand and pulling him towards the front door.
"Well that was so much better." Logan smirked at her and Rory laughed lightly.
Before Emily could reach the door, Rory quickly let go of Logan's hand and whispered, "Let's see how long until they figure out. But we'll start when we get to the living room." She finished with a playful smile.
"Rory! Logan! Come in!" Emily ushered in the two and announced, "Rory and Logan are here!"
"Hey mom. Hey Dad." Rory said greeting her parents with a hugs. "Hi Mitchum and Shira."
"Hello Rory." The Huntzbergers greeted in return.
After asking for their drinks Logan helped Richard by taking Rory's and giving it to her. "Here you go."
"Thank you." She said once he was seated with his own drink.
He leaned in and whispered in her ear, looking at Emily and Shira from the corner of his eyes, "Your welcome."
A few minutes later and polite chitchats were taking place while Emily and Shira watched Rory and Logan. "Are they?" Emily asked.
"I don't know." Shira answered.
"He's not allowed in the store anymore." Logan answered.
"All because he liked the red wigs and wanted to try them on?" Rory asked laughing as her hands lightly touched Logan's arms.
"Not just red wigs Ace. Red wigs for girls." Logan amended.
"Of course, I should have known." Rory said laughing as she rested her head on Logan's shoulder.
"And here I thought you learned your lesson already." Logan looked down at her and gave her a quick kiss on the lips before remembering that Shira and Emily were right there to witness it all.
Shira and Emily sat still after seeing Logan kiss Rory. Their heads slowly turned to face each other and they both let out an excited squeal. The room fell quiet and Richard looked at the two ladies. "Anything wrong Emily?"
"Not at all Richard, not at all." Emily said in an excited voice. "Oh this is so wonderful!"
"Dinner is ready Mrs. Gilmore." Sylvia announced.
"Thank you Sylvia." Emily said standing up and dragging a grinning Shira to the dining table.
Once everyone was seated and received their foods Emily said, "So when was it?"
The table fell quiet as Emily looked happily at Rory and Logan. After noticing Emily's gaze upon him, Logan looked up and said, "When was what?"
"When you two got together! Don't play dumb Logan, we know you're together." Shira said softly, excitement still hidden in her voice.
Rory sighed and answered, "Valentines Day." Richard and Mitchum shared a look, as did Emily and Shira.
Lorelai told Christopher proudly, "I was there."
"So was I." Christopher replied.
"Valentines Day!" Emily and Shira exclaimed happily.
"How sweet." Emily gushed.
"The sweetest." Shira agreed.
"So how'd you go about it?" Emily asked her question aimed at Logan.
"How'd you ask her?" Shira furthered.
"Uh…" Logan started uncomfortably.
"Let that be kept private Emily." Richard advised.
Small talk began again and slowly; the attention got taken away off of Rory and Logan. Near the end of dessert Logan announced, "We're sorry everyone but Rory and I have plans for tonight."
Emily looked up from her plate and beamed, "Oh, we're so sorry to keep you for so long."
"It's alright Grandma." Rory reassured her grandmother. Logan and Rory left the house with a sigh glad that it was over and headed towards Yale.
The drive to Yale was simple and quiet except for the songs that played over the radio. Logan held Rory's hand along the way and always looked at her from the corner of his eyes when he had the chance. He couldn't tell what it was but he could feel his stomach tighten or flip once he looked at Rory. And even when he didnt look at her but simply felt she was there, his stomach would do the same.
"So what about this Stacey girl?" Rory asked as they began walking back to Logan's dorm.
Logan turned to look at her, "What about her?"
"She expected you to come pick her up," she looked down at her watch and continued, "about 45 minutes ago."
"I'm sure she would've forgotten about it already and found someone to spen the night with." Logan replied with a shrug as he gave her a sweet kiss.
Veering left to go into the hall where his dorm was, Logan and Rory stopped when they saw a very angry looking Stacey.
AN: Hey YA! I liked this chapter. Please review. I cannot wait for That's What You Get For Making Whoopee. And oh my gosh, I wish that they would not spend episodes with Logan in just phone scenes. I will throw a rock at DR. I won't just in my head I will. HEHE. Review please. They make me happy and you get faster updates.