The rest of the flight, with the help of Finn and lots of champagne, was actually quite pleasant. Finn's date, the redhead from her dorm, was a nice girl. She seemed a little quiet for Finn, but when they were together Finn seemed to show a little more of his real personality rather than his hyperactive drunk alter ego. Stephanie made pleasant company, even in a state of slight tipsiness, and Rory was pretty much distracted enough to not look at Logan and Alicia during the flight. A thought gnarled at the back of her mind though. There were Finn and Lexi, Colin and Stephanie and if Colin and Stephanie hadn't been in a sore spot, whatever that meant, Alicia wouldn't have been here and… would that have meant she was Logan's date for the trip? It couldn't be. And if it was it would have been rather presumptuous of him to not ask or even inform her about it. By the 7th glass of champagne and another strip tease of Finn (cut short by Lexi), the little voices in Rory's head had pretty much died down. Or rather they had become sort of incomprehensible. Apparently Rory's subconscious could get drunk as well!
The drive to the resort was a short one, and Rory thanked the moon that she wasn't in the car with skanky ho and her pimp daddy. She was still a little drunk from the flight and rather sleepy, so the first hour in the car she spent sleeping, against the window, which turned out to give her a headache bad enough to wake her up again.
As she stretched out and inspected the view out of the window she was wondering where the day would take her. "So, Colin, Finn, Lexi, where are we going? I can ask that now, right? Since I'm not on reporter duty?"
Before anyone could answer, Lexi exclaimed, "You're Ace the reporter girl! I hadn't realised that! Oh my, I would never have thought you his type, doesn't L…."
"Right Lexi," Finn hurriedly interrupted. "What Gilmore was asking is where we are going and what we are going to do I presume. Well, we are on our way to Aspen, to the LDB ski cabins and we're going to experience the Snow-Fest of 2004."
Rory was a little confused. Why did Lexi know about Ace, and who was Ace according to her? Who's type didn't she look like? It couldn't be Logan, he was eating Alicia's face in the SUV behind them. He wouldn't do that if he liked someone else, say, her, now would he?
Rory thought back to the time when she was with Dean but had actually already fallen for Jess… She'd made out with someone she didn't really like anymore. Hell, her whole rekindled relationship with Dean was a farce too, she never had fallen back in love with him. It was a good thing they were over, it was too much trauma. Luckily, she'd found new friends like Logan… ghaaaa, she mentally slapped herself… no he isn't even your friend, Ace. Boy-girl friendships don't exist; you're mutualists, currently not living together so well at all, she thought disgruntledly.
"Rory, penny for your thoughts!" Colin said.
"You do seem to drift off a lot today" Finn added with a mischievous smile. Gosh, could that guy read minds or something?
"I'm just a little sleepy." she really wanted to divert attention away from herself. "So, we're going skiing then?"
The whole group erupted in laughter.
"Dear, dear Rory," Colin quite pedantically said, "The LDB Snow-Fest is much, much more than skiing. You will be amazed, bedazzled and stupefied! Hold on tight, it'll be a bumpy ride!"
Oh boy, what had she gotten herself into?
The cabins had been given out according to how the couples had been formed on the plane. Hence, Finn and Lexi, Stephanie and Rory, and Logan and Alicia were to share a cabin, and Colin was to share his cabin with the LDB stunt gear. He did not look too happy about it. To Rory's surprise she made out a slight hint of disappointment from Logan's face too as Alicia tried to be sexy about them sharing a cabin. The Hugh Heffner 'tude wasn't working for Logan obviously. Rory was relieved to find that Logan probably did prefer women with a little more style than Alicia. She was only Colin's rescue remedy gone awry after all.… And here she was, thinking about her and Logan again. This had to stop. It was total nonsense.
"You're losing your senses, Gilmore" Rory said to herself.
"Talking to yourself is an early sign of dementia you know." She heard a cocky tone behind her; she recognised it as Logan immediately.
"Yeah, well, at least I have brain cells that can degenerate to start with. I don't know how poor Alicia will ever cope after her brain starts to die off when she turns 21. She'll have none left by 25…"
"Ouch, Gilmore, got a problem with my date?" Logan said.
"No, no problem at all. You seem to have a problem with your date rather; otherwise you wouldn't be here with Miss McSluttyho now would you?" Rory knew it was below the belt, it hadn't been Logan's idea to call in Alicia after all.
"No, otherwise I'd be here with you." Logan hissed back at her. He looked strangely serious as he said this, but Rory had one more way to bite back her surprise over his tone, he couldn't be serious anyway.
"Well, you didn't seem to mind her all the time you were sucking her face, Huntzberger, so don't go complaining now." and with that she walked off toward her cabin. Finally, she'd gotten in the last word with Huntzberger, so how come it didn't feel as good as she'd expected it to feel?
Logan had indeed nothing to say back. She was right. He didn't really know why he had felt the need to make out with Alicia in front of Rory. He didn't like Alicia. She was way too easy and, frankly, not even a good kisser. Plus, she was indeed extremely dim-witted for a Yale student as Rory had guessed. She was a blond of the Jessica Simpson category. So why then had he been kissing her?
In all honesty, it was probably because he was just pissed at Stephanie and Colin for putting their problems between him and his goal. They'd been together since high school, and Colin was ready to settle, whereas Stephanie was not. They fought about it constantly. If it weren't for Stephanie and Colin's antics to piss each other off, he wouldn't have been stuck with Alicia, and Rory would probably not be pissed at him. He knew Rory was right, and it hurt him to think that he might have ruined his chances with her by being so blatantly a manwhore right in her face.
Yes, he liked her. He was ready and willingly to admit that now… to himself at least. He'd lived in denial for a long time, but dreams and visions of her haunted him in an increasing number of nights. After a week of hardly getting any sleep, right after their little argument over that silly stunt he had pulled in her philosophy class, and her subsequent excellent comeback, he had decided to make a pro/con list. He knew it was silly to do that at his age, but he always did this for important decisions. Colin had once made fun of him for it, but Logan had given him some grief over his own weirdness (shaving three times a day anyone?) and since then both these things were non-issues.
His pro-list of pursuing Rory was rather long, and there really were only two things on his con list. She might not like you back. She may break your heart. It could even be argued that this was one and the same reason. Seeing the enormous victory of the pro-list, Logan had some more sleepless nights, and finally decided to follow his longest list and follow his heart, no matter how heavy the issue(s) on the shorter list were. Unfortunately, his fears might already have come true on this trip that was meant to be special for him and Rory. The trip that Logan had thought might finally bring them together was blowing up in his face. With a deep sigh he picked up his gear and walked towards his cabin. Now to find a way to avoid Alicia as much as possible…
A.N.: I'm loving the reviews :D I admit that this story is utter cliché fluff, but I hope there's a place in your hearts for that too. I might start updating my other fic again...after finals...Don't ever expect too much angst from me however, I don't like it and can't write it very well...
"I broke up my ex-boyfriends marriage."