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Chapter 4: It ain't over till it's over

Finn opened his eyes and looked around not recognizing the room he was in and as it began to spin he closed his eyes again. He then started to remember what had happened the night before and smiled as he thought about Rory blushing when he opened his eyes as she took off his jacket. He shook his aching head as if trying to forget these memories and slowly stood up and headed to the kitchen. There he found Rory drinking a cup of coffee and browsing through a magazine.

"Morning." She said looking up at him.

"Not fair." He said looking at her in a sleepy voice.

"What's not far?"

"You. Clothes. Fresh. Smell. Good."

"Left your verbs in your dreams, Finn?" Rory said chuckling.

"Too early for verbs."

"It's 11 o'clock."

"Too early."

"I forgot about your thing with the sun. Too bright, right?"

"Yeah." Finn said with a disgusted face.

"Would you like to take a bath?"

"No clothes."

Rory thought a little trying to come up with a solution. She suddenly smiled and grabbed the phone to dial her mother's cell phone number.

"Mom, yeah, hi, no he's awake. Do you think you could stop by Lane's and ask if he could borrow some clothes from Zack? Ok, thanks, bye," Rory turned off the phone and then turning to Finn she continued, "clothes are on the way. Mom went to get us something from Luke's so I asked that on her way back she'd go to my friend's house and get some clothes for you."

"Oh, thanks."

"By the way, I called Colin last night. Let him know you wouldn't be coming home."

"From my phone?"

"Uh-hu"

"Oh, so that's what you were doing last night!" Finn said nodding his head with a grin.

"What?" Rory asked, a mixture of surprise and fear.

"I thought you were trying to take advantage of me in my drunken state."

Rory blushed. "I was just looking for your phone."

"No need to blush, sweetheart. You can take advantage of me whenever you want, doesn't matter if I'm drunk or not," he said with a smirk and a wink.

"Would you like some coffee?" Rory asked, trying to change the subject. Finn chuckled.

"Sure."

Moments later Lorelai was back with a pair of jeans and a white shirt. Finn took the clothes and headed for the bathroom upstairs. Lorelai put the things she brought from Luke's on the table and took a look at her daughter.

"You seem affected. What happened?"

"Nothing," she hesitated, "he just remembered what happened last night and was teasing me. I

didn't think he would. I thought he was out, but he was very conscious."

"Ok, you're scaring mommy here. What happened? What did you do?"

"Nothing like that mom, God! I just took his phone to call Colin last night and tell him that Finn would be staying here."

"And you didn't want him to remember this because it's bad to use other people's cell phones of course," Lorelai said mocking her daughter.

"No, I had to get the phone from his pants pocket," Rory said, barely pronouncing the last words.

"You reached inside the guy's pants?" Lorelai said almost laughing.

"It wasn't inside his pants. It was his pocket!"

"Dirty!" Lorelai laughed at her daughter. "Oh, Rory," she said shaking her head after a good laugh, "so what did you feel?"

"What!"

"Oh, you know" Lorelai said with a grin raising her eyebrows suggestively.

"Ok, stop it, right now."

"Oh, come on, play along!"

"I'm not playing along! In fact I'm ending this conversation right now... you freak!"

"I know you love me!"

Rory went to her room as her mom's phone started to ring.

"This had better be important cause my beautiful...hey Sookie, wait, slow down! What happened! Sookie speak slowly! What happened to the kitchen! You're kidding. Again? Who left it open? Oh, he's so fired... No, calm down, I'm on my way. I am Sookie. Sookie I am!

Bye!"

Lorelai flipped her cell phone closed with a disappointed look on her face.

"Rory," she called. Rory walked into the kitchen again.

"I told you I'm not playing along."

"I have to go to the Inn," she said.

"What? But it's Saturday!"

"I know, I wasn't planning on it but Sookie just called and guess who trashed the kitchen yet once again? Cletus."

Rory looked disappointed. "Mom, I have to go back to Yale tomorrow morning, I still have to finish that paper and the article. I can't stay here too late, you know that."

"I promise I won't be long. Stay and we'll have dinner. Please, Rory!"

"And what am I going to do while you are out?"

"Go to Lane's!"

"She's working."

"Oh, yeah, I forgot. Humm..."

"You don't know either!"

"Oh, come on, you're smart, think of something!"

"I have thought of something. I'll go back to Yale with Finn today."

"You are so not. You are staying missy! You owe me!"

"I owe you?"

"Yes, besides the fact that I gave birth to you which alone would make you owe me for the rest of your life , do I have to remind you that you did not call me this week and left your mommy worried sick, almost reaching the point of driving to Yale to see if you were still alive?"

Rory looked defeated, "Fine."

"Thank you! Oh, this works every time! I'll be back soon, promise. Bye, sweetie!"

Rory was sitting in the kitchen when she heard a cell phone ring. She rushed into her bedroom figuring it was hers but it wasn't. The cell phone kept on ringing and she followed it's sound. It came from the living room. It was Finn's phone which was sitting on the coffee table. She thought it was better to answer it, but she forgot to check the caller id because if she had, maybe she would have left it ringing.

"Hello."

The person on the other end was silent for a moment.

"Rory?"

Rory froze.

"Logan?"

This was the first time since the break up they listened to each other's voices.

"Uh, I'm sorry I must have dialed the wrong number. I wanted to call Finn but I must have called

you instead. Sorry. Bye."

"Wait, Logan."

"What?" he asked a little hopeful. Maybe she wanted to talk to him about their situation.

"You didn't call me. This is Finn's phone."

Again Logan was silent.

"Oh, I see. Uh, can he come to the phone?"

"He's taking a shower."

"Oh."

"Do you want me to give him a message?"

"No that's ok. Actually, yeah, could you have him call me?"

"Sure." Rory tried to have this conversation as unaffectedly as she could.

"Thanks... So, uh, bye then."

"Yeah, bye." She flipped the phone closed and allowed herself to drop on the couch.

"So is he on his way?" Colin asked when he saw Logan come back into the common room.

"No," he answered dryly.

"Well, where is he?"

"Same place he was last night, Colin," Logan replied impatiently.

"Is he coming back soon?"

"I don't know. I didn't speak to him."

"You know I'm a bit slow today, right?"

"He was in the shower. Rory answered his phone."

Colin gave a long 'oh' now that he understood his friend. He glanced over Logan and saw that he was hurt. There was probably nothing to it, Finn was just taking a shower to wake up and he'd be driving to Yale soon. But clearly Logan didn't see it like that. His expression showed suspicion and heartache.

"Why did you break up with her?"

"What?" Logan asked waking up from his thoughts.

Colin repeated the question. Logan, who was standing up behind a chair, took a seat. He put his hands on his face, a sign of desperation. He ran his fingers through his blond hair and stared at his friend.

"I thought I didn't want that. Not at my age. I thought it was getting too serious. You know, I'm young, she's young, I thought I was feeling too much. I wasn't ready to feel that way."

"This is the lamest excuse I have ever heard. I'm sorry, but it is."

"I know," Logan said with his face in his hands again, "but it's the truth, man. It's plain simple. I was scared."

"Scared of what? Commitment? You guys were together for what, six, seven months? Since last February, it was just normal to get serious."

"I know. I don't know! I'm stupid, I know that! You guys don't have to remind me every five minutes. I regret it now," he fell back against the chair, "I want her back, but I think I'm too late now."

As Logan said this Stephanie opened the door and came inside.

"Hello, boys, what's happening?" she greeted them cheerfully.

Colin gave her a look that told her everything she needed to know, they were having a serious and important conversation. She took a seat next to Colin on the couch and listened to the rest of it, not saying a word.

"Why are you saying you're too late? I don't get it."

"You really are slow, Colin. Finn, I'm talking about Finn."

Colin shook his head, "You're being paranoid, Logan. There's nothing going on. Finn's just her friend. He's just being there for her. He's good at the whole 'let's forget about everything and just have fun' thing. She needs that, you did, after all, break her heart."

"But I don't want her to forget about me!"

"I'm sure she hasn't. And I don't think you're too late. I'm going to tell you exactly the same thing Finn told you yesterday: talk to her and tell her how you feel. I'm not saying that she'll forgive you right away, but you shouldn't give up on her, she's worth fighting for. And I wouldn't worry about Finn that much, he's your best friend, he wouldn't do anything knowing how you felt. He would never do anything to hurt you."

Logan sighed. Colin was right, he wasn't going to worry about Finn and he would stick to his decision of talking to Rory. He was going to fight for her. 'It ain't over till it's over,' he thought.

"The air is so heavy here! Let's lighten up! Who needs a drink?" Stephanie said trying to cheer the boys up.

Rory didn't have enough time to process the phone call as Finn came down the stairs in fresh clothes holding his dirty ones in his left arm.

"Wipe the sad off your face. Finn's back. With verbs!"

She half smiled.

"What's the matter, love?" he asked seating next to her.

"My mom had to go to the Inn. She'll be gone most of the day."

"That's too bad. Do you want to go back with me?"

"No, I gotta stay. I owe her."

"You do?"

"Yeah." She sighed.

"Well, what are you going to do then?"

"Maybe I'll just go by the video store and rent some movies."

"Sounds like fun."

"Yeah." She sighed again. They said nothing for a while and then suddenly Rory sat up with a smile upon her face. She turned to Finn and asked him to stay.

"Stay? Here?"

"Yeah, hang out. I could show you around town, which is not going to take very long since it is a very small town, then we could have lunch at Luke's cause I still haven't talked to him, and then we could just watch some movies and wait for my mother to come. She wouldn't even have to drive me back to Yale, I could just go back with you. It's the perfect plan."

"Well, since you've got it all figured out, who am I to turn it down? I am but your humble servant, milady."

"Thanks, Finn," she side hugged him. He then noticed she was holding his cell phone.

"I'm going to start charging you for using my phone."

"Oh, no, it was Logan, he asked you to call him."

"You talked to Logan?"

"For like 5 minutes," she tried to say that as if it didn't matter but Finn saw that she didn't mean it.

"How was it?"

"Normal."

"Normal?"

"Yeah... mind if we don't talk about it? Just call him while I go put on my shoes and then we're ready to go."

"Ok, yeah, sure," he said as Rory handed him the phone. He watched her walk out of the room and then stared at his cell phone. Why was he so scared to call Logan? Maybe because he was sitting on his best friend's former girlfriend's couch on a Saturday morning when he should have been back at Yale the night before. He was going to listen. He reluctantly speed dialed Logan and waited for his friend to answer. How was he going to tell him that he wasn't going home till the next day?

"Finn?" Logan asked, fearing it was Rory again.

"Well, yes, Sherlock. This is my phone."

"It could've been Rory. She's been using your phone a lot this last couple of days."

Oops.

"Oh, yeah, I was taking a shower when you called."

"So I've heard."

"So..."

"Coming home soon, Finn?" Logan asked.

'Straight to the point. Damn!' Finn thought. "Well, actually, something came up."

"Something came up?" Logan was starting to get irritated.

"Lorelai had to work today so Rory asked me to stay here and hang out with her, so she wouldn't be alone."

"And you gladly accepted."

"Uh, yeah... you're mad." It wasn't a question.

"No, I'm not mad. I'm just trying to understand how it is that from one day to the next you and Rory became such good friends that you just can't spend one day apart," Logan said this quickly, a sign of his anger.

"Slow down there, mate. We were all friends before."

"But you were never this close, were you?"

"No, but so what if we are now?

"Finn?"

"What?" Finn was getting irritated also.

"Are you falling for Rory?"

Finn was silent for a moment, he was surprised. "What are you talking about, Logan?"

"I don't care if you are. Actually I do care, but I prefer that you just come out and say it than go behind my back."

"You know I would never do that."

"What? Fall for my girl or go behind my back? Please be specific."

"Logan!"

"Fine, Finn, just tell me that nothing happened and I'll believe you."

"Nothing happened."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome. Can I go now, you paranoid psychopath?"

"Bye, Finn."

"I'll see you later." Finn hung up the phone and thought about the conversation he had just had with his friend and he realized that somehow, unconsciously, he managed not to answer his friend's question: 'Fall for my girl or go behind my back?' He was thinking about it when Rory walked in.

"Ready to go?"

"Always, dear."

Logan turned off his phone and laid down on his bed for a while thinking about his life and how it had changed so much in the course of a week. He couldn't deny it was his fault, but that didn't diminish the pain he was in. He fell asleep since he had not been able to shut his eyes the night before and woke up about four hours later, rested. He walked into the common room and sat between Colin and Stephanie who were watching TV.

"I think Finn likes Rory."

"We all like Rory. She's a very likable girl." Stephanie said.

"You know what I mean, Steph."

"Did he tell you that?" Colin asked.

"He didn't have to, I felt it. He never answered my question."

"Which was?"

"I asked him if he could ever fall for my girl and go behind my back about it."

"He didn't answer? What did he say?"

"He just said my name as if I was asking some really absurd question. Only Finn would think that."

"Do you think something happened?" Stephanie asked a little concerned.

"He said nothing happened and I believe him, but I also think that something's going to happen soon"

"It is if you don't stop feeling sorry for yourself, and start acting on it. I'm not saying you should start a race for Rory but you should talk face to face with the both of them, see where they are, their feelings and everything. Sitting here complaining about it to me and Steph won't bring her back, my friend."

"Why the hell are you always right?" Logan said as he raised himself up and started heading for the door.

"Where are you going?" Colin and Stephanie asked in unison.

"I'm going to Stars Hollow."

It took Rory not more than two hours to show Finn around town. The tour ended at Luke's, where they were supposed to eat lunch.

"And finally, this is the famous Luke's Diner, where you can get the tastiest burgers and the most delicious coffee in the world. I actually think that Luke went to Brazil and learned how to make coffee in a coffee making school." Rory said, obviously joking.

"I didn't know they had those in Brazil," Finn said as he opened the door to the diner to let Rory pass.

"It was a joke Finn."

"Oh, ok, sorry. Like I said it's still too early for me. My brain's still asleep."

As they sat down at an empty table Finn looked around and realized that every single person in the place was staring at them, specifically at Rory.

"Why are they staring at you like this?" he asked in a whisper.

"They know," she whispered back.

"They know what?"

"Logan."

"And how would they know that? Not even your mother knew about it till yesterday."

"This is Stars Hollow. Knowing people's business is the number one priority to some people here. Someone probably saw me with you and not Logan and asked around. Someone could have heard my mom mention it to Luke and spread the word. I'm positive she told him or he would not be looking at me like that and cutting a bigger piece of pie than he usually does."

"You make it sound like it's all normal."

"I'm used to it."

"You've lived here your whole life?"

"Most of it. Before moving here, my mom and I lived at the Independence Inn. That's the inn she used to work at before she opened the Dragonfly."

"Do you like it here?"

"There's no place like home."

"Love that movie..."

"The Wizard of Oz?"

"Uh-hu."

"Never would have thought."

Luke interrupted the conversation when he brought Rory a burger, fries, a huge piece of pie and coffee. She smiled up at him. He didn't have to say anything, Rory knew he cared and that he was worried and she loved him for it.

"Can I get you anything?" Luke asked Finn. Lorelai had also told him about Rory's newest best friend and Luke immediately liked him. Going to dinner at the Gilmore's house just to help Rory turned Finn into Luke's hero.

Rory stopped by the video store to pick up a few movies to watch for the rest of the day, while her mom was still out.

"What are you in the mood for?" she asked Finn.

"Hum, I don't know... how about some Godfather?"

"Really?" she asked in a way that showed that Godfather was not the kind of movie she wanted to watch today.

"If not that, what then?"

"I want to watch something girly."

"Oh, no! You've already talked me into doing things I wouldn't normally do, going to your grandparents for dinner, hanging around your weird little town, but you're not going to convince me to watch some girly movie with you."

"Hey! You liked having dinner with my grandparents! You even said that you wanted to make it a weekly thing! You scared the crap out of my mother."

He chuckled. "Well, I'd only go there on a weekly basis if I was assured of your presence there, my darling." He said with a grin.

"Flirting will not help, Finn. We're not watching the Godfather."

"Damn."

Rory ended up picking Pretty Woman, Somewhere in Time and to Finn's desperation Dirty Dancing.

They were in the middle of Dirty Dancing when Lorelai arrived home. It was about 5 pm. They didn't hear her come in though and she could watch the two of them for a second. They were both sitting on the floor next to each other, Finn had the bowl of popcorn on his lap and his left arm stretched out on the couch almost touching Rory's left shoulder. Rory had her head resting on the couch falling a little towards Finn, but not really touching him. Lorelai didn't know what her daughter was doing, she wasn't even sure Rory knew what she was doing but she was glad that her daughter had such a friend to help her through this tough time, that she had someone she felt comfortable with.

"Honey I'm home!" Lorelai yelled as if she had just walked in. Rory sat up and looked back with a smile on her face.

"Oh, thank God!" Finn exclaimed when he stopped the movie.

"Come on, I know you were enjoying the movie. Nobody can resist Dirty Dancing." Rory said while she stood up.

"I will never admit to that," Finn said also standing up.

"Did I know he was going to stay here all day?" Lorelai asked.

"You did not, but you did want me to find a solution to my loneliness today."

"So you found Finn."

"He was already here, didn't really have to look that hard."

"Should I take that as a compliment?" Finn asked.

"As you wish," Rory replied and then turned to her mother, "so how ruined is the kitchen?"

"Not that ruined. Sookie made it sound as if Cletus had turned it upside down. There were just a

few broken plates and the refrigerator door now has his footmarks."

"No one got fired then?"

"Not necessary, at least I didn't think so. Sookie on the other hand was ready to hire new people for the whole inn and get rid of everyone working there now... Oh, boy, I need a bath! Why don't you kids clean up and we'll decide what to eat later," Lorelai said as she went upstairs but stopping in the middle of the staircase, "and I want to know what you both did while you were here by yourselves... or maybe I don't. Sometimes a mother is better off left in ignorance. Do I want to know what you did today?"

"Mom, go take a bath! You smell like horse shit."

"You ungrateful child!"

Rory and Finn had just started to clean up when they heard a knock on the front door.

"Put that on the cabinet over the counter while I answer the door," Rory said pointing at the Mallomars.

Rory felt her blood go cold when she opened the door and her eyes beheld him.

"Logan?"

A/N 2: Cliffhanger, I know, I'm sorry. You guys are going to hate me because I won't update as soon as I'm used to. But hey, don't forget I made this chapter twice as long! Anyway, hope it was to your satisfaction, I personally like it a lot, but hey I'm the author I'm supposed to like my story. Anyway, I'm going to ask you again: please, please, please review! You have no idea how happy your reviews make me. You don't have to write a lot, just tell me if you like it or not. If you want to throw a suggestion in there too, who am I to complain? Wow, I talk too much! Thanks for reading! Review! Bye now...