When they arrived at Tiffany's – their first stop – Finn opened the door for Rory and escorted her inside.

"Now, you're going to get mad, and say no, but you know I won't listen. So I want you to go and pick something out. I don't care what it is or what it costs. Tiffany is giving you a gift today."

"Finn-"

"What did I just say?" he asked her.

"That you don't listen to me?"

"Exactly. Now go, browse. I'm going to see about some Champaign."

"You'll use any excuse to get drunk. Won't you?"

"Yes I will doll. Come on, come on, we don't have all day. Now scoot."

Rory reluctantly walked to a display case as Finn went to talk to a man behind a counter.

"Excuse me?"

"Good morning sir. How may I help you?"

"Do you see that woman over there, in the black skirt and white top?"

"Yes sir."

"Well, I've asked her to pick something out. I have a feeling she will find the least expensive thing in here, so I have a back up plan." Finn explained the plot that ad formed in his head the night before. "I'd like to buy her a ring, something simple but beautiful. I also want to have it engraved. You do that here don't you?"

"Yes of course sir. Would you like any assistance in finding a ring?"

"No. I'll be fine, but thanks for you're help."

The man smiled and Finn walked to a display of rings.

As he looked them over, Rory wandered to some bracelets. The one that she liked the most was silver. It looked as if a little kid had gotten to it and twisted it, but after a while of looking at it, she realised that was how it was supposed to be.

"Finn I found something." She told him.

"Hmm? That's great, what'd you find?"

"It's a bracelet." She looked down to what he was studying. "What are you doing?"

"Oh nothing. Let's see this bracelet, huh?"

"Ok," she looked at him strangely a they walked back to where Rory had found her 'present'.

"Very nice. Ahh, excuse me?" he called to a sales woman.

"Yes sir?"

"We'd like this bracelet here please." He pointed

"Very nice choice." She moved to retrieve it as Finn puled out his credit card. She put through the sale and handed over a small bag. "Thank you for your purchase, and from everyone here at Tiffany's & Co, we wish you a great day."

"Thank you." Rory took the bag and turned to Finn. "So where's the Champaign?"

"The Champaign? Right, the Champaign, well that's this way. Follow me." He took her hand and led her out to a table.

They sat and their drinks were served. Rory slowly sipped her beverage. Finn looked around and fidgeted.

"I'll be right back." He finally said, breaking the silence. "I just have to go do something real quick."

"Ok, I'll wait here." She watched him walk inside. 'What the hell is going on?'she wondered. 'He invites me up here and then starts acting weird.'

"What is he hiding?" she asked herself.

"Can I help you sir?" another sales man asked Finn as he loked around the sore.

"Ah… Yes. I'd like to get that there." He said indicating his choice, the third ring from the left in a display case.

"Excellent choice sir. How will you be paying for this today.?"

"Credit card" he replied handing over the piece of plastic. He scratched the back of his head nervously. "I ah want to have it engraved."

"And what would you like engraved sir?"

He explained everything, and when the sales man had all the details he needed, he smiled and nodded.

"Of course sir. That can be ready to pick up by ten tomorrow morning."

"Thanks I have to go." He returned to Rory and sat down.

"Hey."

"Did you get your thing done?"

"Yeah, it's fine. Did you want to get out of here? We've got a few more things to do."

"Fine, let's go." She stood and walked out of the store ahead of Finn. He followed, trying to figure out what had happened.

"So, Central Park sound good?"

"Yeah. Whatever. You planned the day, lets do that."

"You've never been there before have you?"

"Nope. Have you?"

"Yeah, a couple of times. It's nice."

"Good."

They drove in silence. Finn continuously looked at Rory as she stared out the window.

"Ok, I give up. What have I done?" he asked as the pulled over at the park. Rory turned and glared at him. "What? Why are you mad?"

"What are you hiding from me? Why did you even bring me up here?"

"Because I'm in love with you. I've never felt like this, and it was important to me to introduce you to my dad."

"You're hiding things. There's something you aren't telling me."

"It's nothing. You don't need to worry."

"But I am. And telling me not too will not help. You go out in the middle of the night and don't tell me where you're going. You barely speak to me when you get home, then try to cover it by taking me out the next day. Great now I sound like the crazy insecure girlfriend. And lets face lately I have been so if you were planning on breaking up with me after we got home, can we just get it over with? I don't like living in suspense."

"I'm not breaking up with you. I promise you nothing is going on."

"So why are you keeping secrets?"

"If I tell you now, it'll ruin the mood for the rest of the day. But if you really want to know, I'll tell you when we get back to the hotel."

"I do."

"Ok. Well, can we just have our fun? Then I'll tell you anything you want to know."

"You promise?"

"I swear." He nodded. Rory looked out the windscreen towards the street.

"Ok. Let's have fun."

"You're sure?"

"Yeah. I'm really not good at this,. The guys in my life have either been completely unreliable or totally smothering. I just never know how to handle myself."

"Well how abut I be laid-back but caring?"

"That sounds perfect."

"Good. Now let's go or we'll lose our reservation."

"Finn it's a park. Open to the public. Why would we need a reservation?"

"We just do. Now come on." He jumped out of the car, ran around to Rory's side and helped her out.

"Ok, ok,. I'm coming." She laughed as he pulled her away. "What's with you?"

"I'm just in a good mood." He led her into the park towards a marquee. As they approached, Rory realised there were people waiting there. And she knew them.

"What are they doing?" she asked indicating Steph, Colin and Rosemary.

"They are our waiters for the afternoon." Finn replied with a grin.

"What?" she asked as she was brought to her seat.

"They're serving us. It's our own personal restaurant."

"You're crazy!"

"We've been telling him that for years, but he refuses to get help." Colin whispered handing Rory a menu. "would you like to hear the specials ma'am?"

"Ok." She couldn't stop herself from laughing as he went through his spiel.

After they ordered, Rory and Finn were left alone as the other three moved away to 'create the masterpieces.' When they were though with lunch, Finn anonced,

"Now it's your turn love." Rory gave him a confussued look. "You have to pick something to do that I've never done."

"I thought you had all of this planned."

"I do. This is part of the plan. Neither of us had ever been to Tiffanies. You've never been here – I've never had a meal here. Now you choose."

"You had to put me on the spot didn't you?"

"It's part of the fun. Now come on, time is of the essence!"

Rory squeezed her eyes shut, trying to think. Slowly a smile spread across her face.

"Come on." She stood up. "Thank you guys, that was great." Finn thanked his friends and followed her.

"Where are we going?"

"That would ruin the surprise now wouldn't it?" she replied running to the car as Finn groaned.

"You are one evil woman you know that?"

"I learnt from the best."

"So you really won't tell me?"

"Nope." She started the car and turned up the radio to drown out Finn's whining pleas.

"Ok, you can shut up now. It's just around the corner." She said as she looked for a parking space. Leading the way down the street Rory grinned with anticipation. She loved this place, it was so much fun.

"This is a record store. Rory, I have bought music before you know."

"But have you ever bought any here? This place is great. Come on."

After twenty minutes of looking, Finn couldn't stop smiling.

"This place is awesome! How did you find it?"

"When I was at Chilton, Luke's nephew came to stay with him, and I was tutoring him. That only lasted one night though, because we got into a car accident. Jess left town and I cut school to come see him."

"You cut school? No way."

"I did. And I missed my mom's graduation, which I felt like crap about, but she forgave me. Hey I should buy you something."

"Why?"

"Because, you got me this and I want to." She replied holding up her wrist.

"Ok, ok. I'll find something." He started looking again and minutes later, returned with a Split Enz album signed by Tim Finn.

"I loved these guys growing up. Especially when I found out that there were famous brothers with the last name Finn. I thought it made me so cool."

"Can I see?" she took it into her hands, looked it over and took it to the register along with the B-52's album she'd found.

Back in the car, Finn drove as the traffic thinned out a little.

"Next stop, The New York City Public Library." He announced in a tour guide's voice.

"Seriously?"

"Yep."

"Oh my God! I have always wanted to go there, but a Bangles concert isn't really the best time to study."

"You saw the Bangles here?"

"Yes. And before you ask it wasn't twenty years ago. It was a reunion concert. And they were great."

"I know. I was there."

"You were? In 2001?"

"Uh huh. My cousin had just graduated high school, and decided to do the travelling around America thing. My mom didn't want her to be alone at Christmas, so she sent me over to stay with her for a while. She got tickets, and I decided it would be a great place to meet girls."

"Are you serious?"

"Deadly. I never joke about meeting females." Finn replied with a straight face.

"I can't believe you were there. Where were you sitting?"

"About halfway along the fifteenth row." He replied after a moment pof thought.

"That's amazing. Ninth row aisle."

"Wow, and to think only a few rows of seats stood between the two of us starting out love affair years ago."

"Yep, that's all that would have stopped us. Do you really think my mother would have let me date you in high school?"

"Rory, she's the coolest mom in the world, she probably wiould have let you do anything if it made you happy."

"You're probably right, I-" she stopped speaking as they drove up to the library. "Wow." She started in awe at the huge building before her.

"Nice isn't it?"

"Wow." Rory blinked as she climbed out of the car.

"The outside's impressive love but you should see what's inside." Finn laughed and grabbed her arm as she stumbled towards the entrance.

The second Rory stepped foot inside she was in heaven.

"This place is amazing. It's more than amazing it's… astonishing."

"Must be why I love it so much." Finn muttered. He was looking directly at her and meant she was those things, but he was also referring to the books. He loved to read growing up, not so much when alohol became available, but he still had a pretty good collection of books.

"Are you coming in?" He asked as they stood in the foyer.

"We can really go in there?"

"Of coure we can. Come on." He took her hand and they walked into the main area where all the books were.

"Wow!" Rory was once again lost for words as she took in all the books. But only fr a moment. "I would love to have this many books. But first I would have to buy my grandparents house, remove everything they own, and then I might have enough room."

"We could do that if you wanted to."

"Buy my grandparents house? There are two flaws in that plan. 1; I will never have enough money to buy a room in that place, let alone the whole thing. And 2; they probably wouldn't enjoy being kicked out for books."

"Not their place exactly, but maybe someday we could get something like it. When we're old and can't stand each other, we can have a wing each."

"Planning my future for me already?"

"Well of course. As the man of the house, it is my duty to make all the decisions."

"I see, and the fact that I have, two and a half brains I believe you said has no impact on that decision?"

"Nope. None at all."

"Well at least you warned me."

"Something I did not have to do. Come here, there's something I want to show you."

He lead her up to the stacks. They were alone, all except for a young girl. She quickly found whaT she was looking for and walked away.

"What did you want to show me?" Rory asked when they were alone.

"Nothing really. I just wanted some privacy as we crossed another item off the list."

"And what would that be?" Rory asked with a grin creeping onto her lips.

"Have you ever made out in a library?" Finn asked, also grinning.

"Yes." Rory attempted to reply with a straight face, but at Finn's shocked expression she cracked. "No. I haven't."

"Good." He replied. "For a second there I thought you'd had more fun than me."

"Oh, well we can't have that now can we?"

Finn shook his head as he took a step towards her, pushing Rory against the bookshelves. He leaned down and kissed her, holding her as close as possible. She ran her hands through his hair as he moved down her neck. Moving back up he sucked her bottom lip between his and she granted him access to her mouth.

His hands moved quickly to remove unnecessary items of clothing, but Rory pulled away.

"Finn you're crazy if you think I'm doing that here." She warned him, knowing exactly what he was thinking. He grinned and pulled her back to him, kissing her left earlobe she groaned, knowing she couldn't do anything to stop him now. He'd found her weak spot.

Finn lifted Rorty from the ground, and rested her on a shelf as he finished removing the things that were in the way of what he wanted.

Their movements caused a lot of dust to be lifted from the usually dormant shelves. Luckily the library was almost deserted and no one had any use for the stacks that day.

As they reached their climax, panting and sweating, they smiled at each other.

"well that was definitely a first." Rory said as they got dressed.

"Not for the library though." Finn replied, pointing t a crude engraving on one of the lower shelves.

"Oh my god." Rory laughed and covered her face as she saw T.D.+J.K..

"Have you got a knife?" Finn asked, wiping a thick layer of dust from the shelf above.

"You think I carry a knife with me?"

"Anything sharp'll do. A nail file, a safety pin…"

"Umm… I have a safety pin." She replied pulling one from her bag.

"Perfect." Finn grabbed it and began to scratch their initial into the wood.

"What are you doing?" Rory asked, dropping to the floor beside him.

"Adding our names."

"You can't do that!"

"We just had sex in a public library and you're worried about a little vandalism? No one will see it unless they do exactly what we just did." He finiswhed his work with a quick 'R.G+F.M – 07∙03∙05' and stood up.

"Let's go." He walked away leaving Rory sitting there.

"I can't believe I just did that." she whispered, following him a moment later.

Driving back to the hotel, Finn couldn't stop smiling.

"That was fun wasn't it?" he asked as they drove away. "Come on, it was great."

"Are you kidding? I'm pretty sure we just broke a couple of laws."

"That's what makes it so much fun." He grinned at her, soon her angry face cracked and she smiled back.

"If you're not careful my mom's gonna steal you away. You're exactly like her."

"But she wouldn't do that. I wouldn't be nearly as much fun without you. Plus, that's why you and Lke are so great, you kep us crazy people grounded."

"I guess we do." As they arrived back at the hotel, Rory's cell phone rang.

"Mini me, when are you coming home?" Lorelai whined.

"Hey mom, we were just talking about you."

"I'm sure it was all good. The only person who has anything bad to say about me is my mother." Rory sat back as her mother rambled. "So when will you be here?"

"I thin all we jhave to do is pack our stuff, have a little talk and drive back, so a few hours maybe."

"What are we chatting about?"

"Never mind. I'll tell you if I think you need to know."

"Fine. Tell that boy I want you both home in one piece – preferably piercing and tattoo free."

"Damn, guess we'll have to come back a few hours later."

"Funny child."

"I thought so."

"Love you babe."

"Love you too." They hung up and Rory turned to her boyfriend. "We need to get home in one piece, mom insists. And their can't be any tattoos."

"I'll do my best."

"Good. Now can we talk about what you don't want to tell me?"

"When we get to our room." Finn replied putting an end to the conversation.