AN: Thank you to all of you that reviewed, I am sorry about the lack of updates, but my track season officially ended yesterday so now I am happy to be able to work some more for you to read and hopefully update more often. Thanks and enjoy this next chapter.
Chapter 37
Later that night as Rory and Logan lay on his bed in each other's arms looking out the window at the trillions of stars staring back at them.
"Logan?" Rory asked breaking the silence for the first time in a long time.
"Yeah Ace?" Logan replied.
"What cha thinking about?"
"Something I wouldn't think you would want to know."
"And how do you know that?"
"Cause you'd ended up a deep red blush by the time I finish telling you all the things running through my mind."
"You just went around in a circle."
"No I didn't you just need to think about what I wouldn't want to discuss with you," Logan said. Rory let out a sigh of frustration. She looked out the window again and tried to piece the puzzle together. Of course when it hit her Logan could see a red tint run down her neck, as he knew she blushed. "Told ya."
"You truly are a guy, if that thought runs through your head every five seconds."
"Not every five seconds, just moments like this. Then it is quickly followed by the thought of your mom killing me. And then it all drifts off to something that wouldn't make your mom want to kill me."
"I don't think she'd kill you."
"She would."
"Luke might castrate you though if he found out probably via my mom."
"Not any better, practically the same thing."
"So moments like this, what exactly is the 'this'?"
Logan thought for a moment before saying, "The moments like in cartoons with the angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other. And they are in a huge fight, but the angel has always won, thankfully."
"Thankfully?"
"Yes thankfully, I am not pushing you and I can tell myself that you are not ready, I am happy that you are not ready."
"How do you know that I am not ready?"
"That statement right. And, I don't know, I just can tell. As I person who has done it, it just something I can see that you can't."
"Really?"
"Really."
"I like that. I agree with you on it, at least for now."
"At least for now?" Logan asked just a little surprised.
"Yeah, I'm not really like my grandmother in that subject. I don't really think you have to wait to get married, but it is nothing to take lightly."
"Maybe you should be a philosopher."
"Or not."
"Or not," Logan nodded.
"So you are happy that I am not ready for it yet?" Rory looked at him suspiciously.
"It is something that can changes things and relationships, and I really like where we are at. I am perfectly content at where we are. Thus it is the reason the angel keeps that card in his back pocket until he is just about to lose and then he pulls it out and wins."
"What about win it doesn't make the angel win?"
"Then I am screwed and will dig into his back pocket to find another card that works even better."
"What about when you don't find anything?"
"You'll know and I will be sprinting out the door very embarrassed."
"Oh," was all that Rory managed to say.
"Yeah."
"This is one of those really embarrassing conversation I can see myself telling my daughter in the future when she considers it."
"And who is the father of said daughter?"
"I don't know yet. I'm not ready to think about any of it: marriage, children or anything of the future. I just want to make it through senior year and through college and grad school if I go before I even think about a romance. And don't take this the wrong way or take it as an insult or anything or-"
"Ace, I would be running for the door if you said me. I'm just 18 too. I want to think about hopefully graduating this year and how much I can annoy my parents about Yale and how many ways I can get out of managing my dad's business."
"Ok," Rory said awkwardly, "good, this is all a good thing. We are living for now and for maybe the next few days, not social security in fifty years."
"Nice business term."
"Thank you, I can't go into the flying room of a newspaper and not know what people complain about. I can tell a lot about the oil crisis in the middle east too."
"The United States has made some interesting choices in the middle east hasn't it?"
"Yes it is."
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The next day Logan and Rory walked hand in hand down the beach in the early afternoon. "So is there anything that we should do today?" Rory asked.
"Nothing that we should do, but there are things we could do," Logan said.
"And what could we do?"
"I think that there are harbor tours going on with all the tourists that come around Christmas, there are still yet more shops that your didn't see yesterday. My family has a fabulous movie collection at the house in my opinion. Um, we are on vacation, we should have a million things to do and absolutely nothing to do, and we seem to have reached that point."
"I think that I would like a tour of the harbor, I have yet to ever been here before so I would like to know a little more of the lay of the land so more. Or water I guess."
"It's really beautiful, just like you."
"That was such a scripted line, I feel like I am in a movie, and I can't act, like at all."
"How can you not act, it is just pretend. I can act, anyone can act, maybe not the best in the world, but everyone can do it."
"Well not this person hear, we had a school play in third grade and I sucked, even my mom sort of admitted it."
"Your mom wouldn't do that. My mom would do that, but yours wouldn't."
"She did, I think it went something like this – 'Well, you weren't the best one up there so don't quit your day job, but that means you have room to improve and work on it which is something you like, getting better at things.' End quote. I think that it was suppose to find a way to be positive, but it was lost in translation."
"You proved my point."
"I did not! How did I do that?"
"I said everyone can act and you did, and it is something that everyone has to work on it and no one it ever the worlds best, but everyone can do it, some just need small bits more of work to do than others."
"Ok, you just went Gilmore on me and said something so confusing not even you get it."
"Well it made sense in my head."
"Of course it did," Rory said looking at him and nodding.
"It did!" Logan stressed as he and Rory both held back a laugh. Rory rolled her eyes. Logan wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close before kissing her temple.
"So are we just going to walk or are we getting on a boat?" Rory asked just before they turned a corner and saw a boat. "Never mind just pretend the last 30 seconds didn't happen since you are such a great actor," the end had a sarcastic twist to it and Logan smirked.
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Later that night while Logan was in the kitchen getting ice cream for him and Rory, Rory called her mom. "Hey mom."
"Mom? Who is mom? I know I can't be mom; I don't seem to have a daughter that I didn't name after myself. It is just impossible..."
"Mom! So I maybe should have called you earlier, but we went on harbor tour, it was amazing, it is so pretty here. We should come here sometime in the summer. Grandma and Grandpa probably have a house here."
"And if we ask them for it they will want to come."
"Right, stupid idea, but still we should come here, you'd like it."
"Well maybe I will leave Stars Hollow right now and come and you can show me."
"Or maybe not. You are still ok with everything happening aren't you? Cause I can tell you nothing has happened nor will it, I swear."
"But you would tell me if it did?"
"Yes, of course."
"And I can tell you things you wouldn't really want to hear either then right?"
"I don't want to hear about Luke, if you do start that, I am hanging up."
"No this isn't about that."
"So what are you wanting to tell that you think I don't want to hear about?"
"Well, it is actually kinda funny how life wants to screw you over when you have such good things going for you. He's really sort of a meany, Mr. Life. And-"
"Mom, skip to the point," Rory cut in, "Dragging it out doesn't help any except makes you dread more what is to come."
"Well I just want you to think and guess who I saw in the diner this morning."
"Luke," Rory said automatically.
"Someone who if I saw them in the diner would make me trip over nothing and then lay shocked on the ground for a few minutes before Taylor comes and makes me get up because I am in the way."
"Um," Rory thought, "Miss Patty in something audacious?"
"Think outside the box, what happened to my genius?" Or I guess it would be outside Stars Hollow."
"Mom, why don't you just tell me?"
"One more guess."
"The president."
"That wasn't serious. But well, this morning when I was about to walk into the diner, through the window I saw Luke with one of his family members."
"Like-"
"Yep, like Jess," Rory fell off the couch and hit her elbow on the coffee table ("Ouch!"). Logan was walking over at that time with two giant bowls each with every type of ice cream he knew Rory liked, which was a lot. He set the bowls on the table and helped her up while giving her a quizzical look. "Liz wanted him in town for Christmas. And he of course was so excited to come back for a visit."
"Um, wow, so I think I changed my mom, I think we should just move here and never go back to the Hollow starting now."
"Yeah that was the reaction I thought would come out of that. So what?"
"I don't know."
"Ok Skippy," Lorelai said and there was a silence. "So what does Logan know about him?"
"Like nothing."
"You never told him about him."
"Your hims are confusing."
"Ok, rephrase, You never told Logan about Jess."
"Nope."
"Really?"
"Never really a problem or important enough to talk about."
"And you just totally ignored it hoping it would never come up and were way to scared to bring it up."
"No! Perhaps, maybe, ok yes."
"That's my Harvard-bound. Ok, so it Logan like by you, yes or no?"
"Yes."
"That is what I thought so Jess's new name for the next few minutes is Bob."
"Where did Bob come from?"
"Very generic so I thought it would work, I'm sure that Stars Hollow has at least four Bobs."
"Logical, so..."
"So I know you are surprised but will this make you avoid the diner for the next week when he is here?"
"Maybe, I just don't want to see. Everything ended all weird before."
"Little nervous."
"Yeah."
"Like butterflies or something that isn't like butterflies, flutterbyes!"
"Flutterbyes definitely, not the other."
"We have such good code skills."
"Yeah," Rory rolled her eyes.
"So I can expect awkwardness?"
"Yes, most definitely."
"Well just don't let Bob get to you."
"I don't think Bob can anymore, or at least I hope not."
"Good, and if I can make the suggestion, I think you should talk to the boy sitting or standing or whatever he is doing next to."
"I am sure Antonio wants to here all about Bob."
"Antonio? Oh, never mind, I know, the Spanish lover, just a little slow."
"Thank you not Harvard-bound."
"Be quiet and respect your mother who is hanging up."
"Ok mother, bye."
"Love you."
"Love you too, bye."
"Bye," they both hung up and Rory looked up to a curious Logan. So now it is a now or nothing sort of deal. Rory had to get it all out before she lost the courage her mother had given her. Gulp, this is scary.
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AN: And cut. So this is the first half of the chapter that I hope to get the rest of up in the next day or so, maybe a few, but most definitely soon. Please review, and thank you for reading.