A/N: First I would like to take this moment to thank everyone for all the sweet reviews. You guys are great! Thank you so much! Well, I love Rory and Logan together on the show but I also love Finn so I don't really know who she's going to end up with. This kinda reminds me of Dawson's Creek, the whole Joey/Dawson/Pacey thing. I was always a Joey and Pacey girl. Ok, that's totally beside the point, sorry. Anyway, here's chapter 2, hope you guys like it and pleeease review! Byee!

Chapter 2: Finn, the backup guy

Rory was kind of nervous about taking Finn to dinner with her grandparents. She didn't know how they would react. They were expecting to see Logan, the boyfriend, and they were going to get Finn, the friend, instead. But she was also glad about it. Friday night dinners weren't exactly the highlight of her week, they were rarely fun, but she knew that Finn could change that. Nothing was ever boring with him. He made the most annoyingly dull events seem fun. Dinner with her grandparents was definitely a job for Finn. Rory was giving herself a last check up on the mirror in her room when Paris walked in.

"You look nice. Hot 'get over Logan' date?"

"More like Friday Night Dinner with the elder Gilmores."

"Hey, weren't you supposed to take Logan tonight with you?"

"Yes, I was."

"You seem very calm... that's strange. What have you got planned?"

"What are you talking about Paris?" Rory asked unaffected as she tucked a curly strand of hair behind her ear.

"Well if you didn't have anything planned for tonight, you'd be freaking out. You'd be only half dressed and talking to your mom on the phone trying to find a solution for your lack of man trouble."

"I don't have a lack of man trouble."

"You don't?" Paris asked suspiciously. "Who's the victim? Marty?"

Marty, why didn't she think of Marty? He was her friend, closer friend than Finn. Her grandparents already knew Marty, he was perfect company for tonight, but she didn't even consider Marty. Paris saw that she was deep in thought so Rory just shook her head and said "Victim? What are you talking about?" She was stalling. It was 6:30, Finn should be there any minute now and she would give anything to get away from Paris and her interrogation.

"You're stalling Gilmore. Don't."

How come Paris knew her so well?

"So it's not Marty," Paris continued, "and it's someone you don't want to tell me because you know I'd disapprove." She put her right hand on her chin in pensive mode. Rory just shook her head.

"I don't need you approval when it comes to dates Paris."

"Ah-ha!" Rory was startled by Paris exclamation, "So it is a date! Who is it?"

"It's not a date, it's just manner of speech."

"Who is it?" Paris repeated slowly. At the same time Rory heard a knock on the door.

It was 5:00, one hour before his "date" with Rory. Logan was with him is his room as he was browsing his closet to pick his outfit for the night. He didn't want to show it, especially not in front of Logan that he was a little anxious about this night. He knew that Rory had asked him just as friends, just as a company to sit through dinner, but this would be the first time they would go out, just the two of them. He couldn't tell why that made him nervous, but it did. Logan saw his worried frown.

"It's just dinner, Finn. Don't worry, Mr. Gilmore keeps his bar stocked."

"Oh, I'm not worried." Finn lied.

Logan knew he was lying, he just didn't know why. Why was Finn so worried about having dinner with Rory? Finn himself told him that they were just going as friends, that Finn's job was to fill a seat. Logan chose not to listen to the little voice in the back of his mind that said that maybe his best friend was falling for his girl. His girl? Was Rory still his girl? Didn't he give Finn the right to fall for Rory the moment he broke up with her? No, he wouldn't do that, not Finn. His best friend knew that he was still in love with Rory. He would never make a move on her knowing his feelings. Logan shook his head throwing those weird thoughts out of his mind and watched as Finn picked an outfit for the night and headed to the bathroom to take a shower. He left his friend's room and turned on the TV in the common room. At the same time Colin walked in.

"So, Friday night. What are we doing?" Colin asked taking a seat next to Logan on the couch.

"I don't feel like going out tonight, Colin. I think I'm just going to stay here and watch some TV."

"Oh, come on, Logan! This is your first Friday night without Rory!"

"I don't know in what planet that would be considered reason for celebrating."

"The same planet that had one Logan Huntzberger dump one Rory Gilmore for no apparent reason," Colin said ironically. Logan just looked at him. "Fine, we'll stay in," Colin said crossing his arms and making himself more comfortable on the couch. He didn't want to leave his friend alone tonight. Logan just smiled. It felt good to have people care for him. He just wished he didn't have to see his friend Finn get all dressed up to go out with the girl he loved, but then again, he did bring this on to himself.

Finn was ready at 5:55. He thought he'd stop by some coffee place around campus to get some coffee for Rory since she'd much rather get coffee than a bouquet of flowers. He got to her door at exactly 6:03. 'Good time.' He thought.

"You have to work on your timing Finn," Rory said as she opened the door.

He tried not to noticed how beautiful she looked and how good she smelled when she opened the door. "I'm only 3 minutes late!"

"I'm not saying that you're late, I'm just saying that you're timing is off."

"I don't understand." At the same time he said this he saw Paris come out of Rory's room.

"So, Finn, huh? Why?" Paris asked looking straight at Rory raising an eyebrow.

"No time for this Paris, I'll see you tomorrow! Bye, now." Rory said as she grabbed her coat and shut the door behind her, but she could still hear her roommate yell from behind the door "I'll remember this Gilmore! You'll have some serious explaining to do when you get back!"

"Understand now?" Rory asked looked at Finn. He just chuckled. That's when she noticed the cup of coffee in his hands. "Is that for me?" She asked with a sweet smile.

"Well even if it weren't, that smile would make me give up my pants for you," Finn answered as he handed the cup of coffee to a laughing Rory.

"Let's get this over with then!" She said after taking a sip of her coffee.

"What, you want my pants? You're naughty Gilmore! I like that!"

Rory shook her head, "I meant dinner, Finn, dinner."

"Logan, wow, hi! I didn't know you were on Extreme Makeover. I must have missed it. I love that show! But I do prefer the blond hair better," Lorelai said as soon as she saw her daughter come out of the car with Finn.

"Mom, I'm sure you remember Finn!" Rory said as if ignoring her mother's greeting. Finn gave a small bow in Lorelai's direction.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I must have misunderstood you last Friday when you said you'd bring your boyfriend today. I thought you meant Logan, not Finn. I didn't know you had already changed boyfriends. But then again I haven't heard from my ungrateful daughter since Sunday!"

Rory rolled her eyes. Nothing with her mother was easy, especially when she was right.

"I'm sorry I haven't called, it's just that a lot has happened since Sunday."

"I can see that," Lorelai said glancing at Finn.

"Mom, I'm trying to be serious here!"

"Sorry, honey, mommy will listen now. But only if you can come up with a reasonable explanation for why Logan's not here, why would you bring Finn as backup..."

"Hey!" Finn interrupted her.

"... why you did not call me this week, and why, oh why, would you do all this on a Friday Night Dinner with my parents. Must I remind you who my parents are?"

"No... I think I can give you one reason that'll explain all that."

"And that would be..."

"Logan's not my boyfriend anymore." Rory said starring at the ground.

Lorelai gasped. "Since when?"

"Since Sunday."

"Since last Sunday?"

"Yes." Rory was still facing the ground.

Lorelai gasped again. "You kept this from me all this time!" She said and then turning to Finn, "Did you have anything to do with this?"

"Not me, ma'am," Finn said raising his hands in defense.

"Finn's here as a friend mom, just so that I wouldn't show up empty handed. You know how mad grandma would get if I had come here alone after my promise to bring Logan. She'd complain about how much food she made, and who was going to eat all that, and so on. So I asked Finn to come."

"Hum, You're leaving some details out of this, but since we don't have the time to talk about it right now, I'll let you off the hook. For now." Rory smiled. She knew her mother wouldn't let it rest. "Just one favor that I ask, and I think I deserve it."

"What is it mom?"

"Don't tell your grandmother you and Logan broke up or we'll never hear the end of it and I promised Luke we'd meet him at the Diner at 9 sharp."

"I wasn't planning on telling her. At least no tonight."

"Not tonight, not ever. Hide it as long as you can. You should only tell her the day before his wedding to Mindy."

"Mindy?" Finn asked confused, Rory just ignored it.

"He could marry a girl named Mindy, couldn't he?"

Finn laughed at this.

"What? You think he couldn't?" Lorelai asked him in a serious manner. Finn looked at Rory and she shrugged her shoulders. That was her mom's way of making her feel better, being absurd.

"Oh, no, ma'am I believe he could. Logan's capable of doing anything," he said this glancing at Rory. Lorelai just smiled.

"I like him," she whispered to Rory.

They were standing in front of the main entrance, but no one had rang the bell, they were in silence. Finn was the one who broke it. "May I ask what we're waiting for?"

"Courage," Lorelai said in a whisper. Two seconds later the door was opened by Emily.

"I thought I heard something! Come on in! It's already 5 after 7!" Lorelai walked in first and Emily saw the strange boy. "Who are you? Rory who is this boy? I thought you said you were bringing Logan tonight. Did something happen?"

Lorelai opened her eyes wide and Finn was actually afraid that they were going to pop out. She threw her hands in the air signing for Rory not to tell anything.

"Grandma, this is my friend Finn. Uh, Logan couldn't come tonight, sorry."

Finn took Emily's hand and kissed the back of it. "Pleasure. How are you Mrs. Gilmore?"

"Fine, thank you." She said getting her hand back. "Why not?" she asked Rory.

"Logan has a make up quiz tomorrow morning so he had to study," Finn answered when he saw that Rory didn't really know what to say.

"Oh, poor boy, a test on a Saturday morning. You didn't have to come Rory, you could have stayed there helping him out, I'm sure he would have appreciated that."

"Oh, no, Mrs. Gilmore. You see," Finn said as he offered his arm to Emily and walked into the living room with her, leaving two shocked Lorelais behind him, "you see, Logan's very particular about his studying. He likes to do it alone. I'm his roommate, so I know this. Whenever he has some studying to do everyone has to disappear or he can never concentrate. It's very weird actually," he said in his serious Australian accent.

Lorelai looked at her daughter and whispered "way to go, kid, could not have chosen a better backup."