Chapter 11

It's been a little over 2 months since the infamous dinner with the Huntzbergers. Since then things have been going by smoothly. They've stayed clear of the Huntzbergers, afraid of a repeat. They have a daily routine caused by spending too much time together. Depending on whether they had class or not, it was class, lunch together, the paper, dinner together, study time together, and down-time together. On weekends it was all Rory and Logan all the time. They were inseparable.

This weekend was the first weekend Rory's been in Stars Hollow in a little over a month. Logan has occupied almost all of Rory's free time and vice versa.

Rory walks in to the house and straight to the living room where she heard the TV on.

"Hey, mom."

"Hey, Hon."

Rory sits next to her mom on the couch.

"Sweetie, not that I'm complaining of this surprise visit, but how come you're here and not with Logan like always?"

"I'm not always with Logan. Besides, can't I come and visit my mother for no reason at all?"

Lorelei gives Rory a look.

"Ok. Logan's away for the weekend. Colin and Finn kidnapped him because they say we spend too much time together."

"Wow. Suddenly I've been second choice."

"Mom, that's not true."

"Yeah, well the boys aren't lying."

Rory sighs and lays her head on her mom's lap.

"Is it crazy to miss him already even though he's been gone for almost 2 hours?" Rory tells Lorelei.

"Yup. Love makes you go crazy………You do love him right?"

Rory thinks about it for a moment.

"Yeah, I do. I really do."

"I can tell."

"God, this is crazy. When I'm with him I can't get enough of him. And when he's away I can't stop thinking about him."

"Love will do that to you."

"It's weird. I loved Dean….so much, but not once have I ever felt like this. I feel like a mess right now."

"Logan's different than Dean. It's like a breath of fresh air. He isn't like your previous boyfriends."

"I know he isn't." Rory groans. "What am I gonna do?"

"About what?"

"This. I've never said it first. And I can't wait for him to say it."

"Why not?"

"It feels like I'm gonna explode if I don't get this out"

"Then just tell him."

"How? How do I bring up? How do I say it? How will he react? Will he say it back? Oh God I think I'm going crossed eyed." Rory panics all in one breath.

"Relax. It'll come to you."

"I hope so."

(Back at Yale on Monday)

Marty and Rory are walking back from getting coffee. They're hanging out; something they haven't done for a while.

"So, what did you do this weekend?" Marty asks Rory.

"I went to my moms."

"Again?"

"What?"

"You've been going there almost every weekend for the past couple months. And you're always busy with the paper. We don't hang out anymore."

"We're hanging out now right?"

"Right. That's better than nothing, I guess."

They continue walking until they hear an "Ace". Rory stops and smiles. She turns around and her smile gets bigger seeing who it is. Rory drops her bag and coffee on the floor. She runs to Logan and jump on him. She straddles and kisses him.

"I should go away more often if the welcomes are gonna be like this."

Rory is still straddling him.

"No you shouldn't. I missed you."

"I missed you too."

They kiss again adding on to their scene but they're too caught up on each other to notice. Rory jumps off Logan.

"What are you doing here? I thought you weren't coming home till tomorrow?" Rory asks confused but still excited to see him.

"Well I couldn't wait to see my Ace. I knew about this time you'd be getting back from getting coffee and heading back to your dorm to get ready for class."

"You know me too well."

"That I do. I wanted to give you something."

"Really?"

"Yup. And I know you get mad at me when I spend a lot of money on you so I brought you something simple."

Logan takes out a long-stemmed red rose from his back pocket. But it's broken.

"But I think you broke it."

"No, it's not."

Rory takes the broken bottom half of the stem.

"It just shrunk…….thank you." Rory adds.

"You're welcome. I should let you get back to Marty. He doesn't look to happy and I have some unpacking to do. Come over my dorm later? I have a surprise."

"Ooooh….What time?"

"6?"

"Perfect. I'll see you later."

Rory kisses Logan and watches him walk away. She turns around to see Marty. Logan was right, he was not very happy. Rory hesitantly walks back to Marty and picks up her bag.

"You're seeing Logan?"

"Yeah." Rory says tentatively.

"How long?" Marty asks.

"Couple months."

"So you've been lying to me for the last couple months."

"No."

"You said you were at your mom's."

"This weekend. You assumed on the rest."

"So you ditched me for him?"

"I didn't ditch you."

"Right. You've only been ignoring me since you started dating him."

"I'm sorry"

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"I'm sorry again. I don't know. I didn't want to get you mad."

"Yeah, cause lying is so much better."

"I didn't lie to you."

"Whatever."

Marty starts to walk away, but Rory grabs his arm.

"Marty, I don't get why you're so mad. What do you have against him?"

"He's not a good person, Rory."

"You don't know him."

"He's spoiled, he arrogant, conceited, and selfish."

"He's not like that, I know him."

"Sure you do."

"I'm sorry you don't like Logan, but I really do, ok. And for once in my life, I don't feel completely alone. I'm happy. And if you can't be happy for me than maybe you're not as good a friend as I thought you were."

Rory walks back to her dorm to get ready for her next class; a little up sate about loosing a friend like that. What a mess.

Rory is at Logan's door at 6 sharp. She has a thing for punctuality. She knocks on the door and the door swings open to a well-dressed and smiling Logan.

"Well, hello Ace."

Rory eyes Logan suspiciously.

"What did you do?"

"Nothing I didn't want to. Come on in."

Rory walks into Logan's dorm and smiles at the sight in front of her. In the middle of the living room is a table for two with a candle in the middle of the table.

"Happy 'official' 3 month anniversary."

"You remembered?" Rory says some what surprised.

"Of course. I'm a sentimental kinda guy."

"Huh. Well, lucky me."

"Lucky you. Come on. Have a seat. Dinner is now served."

Rory seats herself.

"It smells great."

"Don't get too excited. I didn't make it. I had it catered. Champagne for me and coffee for you. It's no Luke's but it's up there."

"You're amazing."

"I know."

"And amazingly self assured too, you know that."

"Don't we all."

Logan lifts off the lid of Rory's plate.

"Bon appetite."

"Thank you miseour."

They both start eating and enjoying the meal. After Rory finishes her meal she lightly throws her napkin on her plate.

"That …….was……..amazing." Rory says stuffed.

"I'll give the compliments to the caterers."

Rory starts to clear the table but Logan stops her.

"Nah-uh. You're the guest. Sit down and relax. I'm gonna put these away."

Rory gets up and walks to the couch and plops down on it while Logan clears the table. After Logan's done, he walks to Rory and sits next to her. Rory lays her head on Logan's shoulder.

"Thank you." Rory tells Logan.

"Thank you." Logan says back.

Rory lifts her head off Logan's shoulder and stares into Logan's eyes.

"For what?" Rory asks.

"Taking a chance on me."

"Anytime."

Logan leans down to meet Rory's lips. Things start to heat up as soon as it started. Rory suddenly pulls away. She looks down and nervously bites her bottom lip.

"Hey…..What's wrong?" Logan asks.

Rory continues to look down.

"Hey, look at me." Logan says genuinely.

Rory slowly lifts her head and looks at Logan.

"I love you." She says quietly.

Logan looks at her shocked. No one has ever told him that. "I hate you", he got that one a lot. "I can't stand you", numerous amounts of times. "I want you to leave", quite a bit. "I want you", definitely. But "I love you", never. Until now.

"And I don't need you to say it back. I don't want you to say it back just because I said it. I just want you to know. I had to get it out." Rory says a bit nervously.

They continue to stare at each other for what seems like forever. Logan gently cups Rory's head and guides her to him. He kisses her softly.

A.N. This one is a little longer than the rest of my chapters, I think. Please continue to review. You guys are awesome!