A/N: Oh, I'm so glad you guys liked chapter 7! And thank you for all the great reviews. I hope all the Logan supporters aren't mad at me. The only thing I can tell you is this: the story isn't over yet! Now on with my personal thank yous:

Smile1 - you weren't the first person to review but you most definitely deserve my first Thank You. Your review was just, wow! Thank you so much! If you were standing right in front of me now, I'd hug you! No seriously, it was great and very helpful. Sometimes I have a hard time writing something cause I don't really know how to say what I want to say, you know English is not my first language so that's another difficulty, but your review was so encouraging and sweet and like I said very helpful. I'm glad you think I'm improving my writing and that you're liking this story. I really hope you like this next chapter. Again Thank you!

ReeseAnn - why thank you very much! Hope you think the next one is good as well!

Honeyluv - are you rooting for Logan or Finn? Can't really tell... lol Thanks for reviewing and I hope you enjoy this next one!

AliciaJo - Rory's just being Rory I guess... I think you'll be pleased with this next chapter though! Thank you for reviewing!

BellaLou - told you so! And I think you're going to like this one very much as well! About the kiss thing, I really don't know who I'd rather kiss, I love Logan too, he's just so cute! And so is Finn! I guess I'd like to kiss both of them if it were ever possible...sigh

Sarah - well thank you! I'm glad you like this, even more so cause you don't like Rory/Finn stories, makes me feel special lol. I hope you like this chapter!

ProblemChild1 - Lol Thank you! There's a lot of drama and conflict in this chapter too if you're into that! Hope you like it!

Trory-addict - your new favorite! Wow, thank you, you're too nice! Here's the update!

Lillie M. Cheagana - Thank You! Here's the eight chapter for you! Hope you enjoy it!

Well, that's it for the thank yous. Would you like to see your name here? Review! Haha. No, seriously, please review, I love to hear, or read what you guys think of my story... This A/N is too long, I'll stop now! On with the story! Enjoy!

Chapter 8: Sweet Dreams... About You

Rory looked at the clock on the nightstand: 7:30 am. She never closed her eyes during the night. She looked over at Stephanie's bed, she was dead asleep. She saw when Stephanie came in at 4 in the morning making as little noise as possible afraid she might wake her. Rory kept thinking about Finn and the kiss. What had she done? She had kissed Finn, she had kissed her ex-boyfriend's best friend. She played the events of the night in her head. She wanted to fight it, she even told him she couldn't do it, but when he leaned in and came closer to her all the strength she had to resist vanished. The kiss wasn't a bad one, on the contrary, it was a great, amazing kiss, but how she regret it now. She knew she would have to face the consequences, she knew she would have to face Logan. She sat up on the bed, her eyes burned from the lack of sleep. She decided to go get some coffee, maybe it would help. Coffee always helped.

She closed the door behind her careful not to wake Stephanie.

"Morning, Ace."

Rory jumped up, startled. Had she only waited five more minutes!

"Logan! You're awake!"

"Yes, I am. So are you," he said with a grin.

"But you guys went to bed so late!"

"I couldn't sleep."

"Why not?"

"Cause o' you."

"Me?" Rory asked pointing at herself.

"Yep."

"What did I do?" she asked. Logan's expression wasn't giving away any clue.

"I know I screwed up, Ace, I know," he said taking her hand, "but I need you, it's not just possession like you once said."

Rory looked surprised but recomposed quickly. "Logan, I can't do this," she said repeating what she had said just a few hours before to another guy.

"I'm not pressuring you, I don't want to. I just needed you to know, before you made any decision, that..."

Rory interrupted him before he could finish his confession. She knew what he was going to say, at least she thought she knew, and she just couldn't hear it now, not after that kiss, it would only confuse her even more. She thought about her life, never had she been so confused before. Not even with the whole Dean and Jess thing. Even though she insisted in her relationship with Dean, deep down she knew that Jess was the one. Big disappointment there, but that wasn't the matter. The matter now was Logan and Finn. She liked Logan, she liked Finn, Finn had kissed her, Logan was going to tell her he loved her... what to do? Time, she needed time.

"Logan, don't, please. I need time, space, please," Rory asked sincerely.

Logan looked at her, he knew she was confused and that hurt him. He was now more certain than ever that Rory had some feelings for Finn. But she had asked for time. He couldn't push it, if he did, it would just drive her away and he didn't want that. If she wanted time, he would give it to her.

"Ok, Ace. Time."

"Thank you."

They were silent for a moment.

"Is everybody else asleep?" she asked after a few seconds.

"Yeah."

"You wanna go get some breakfast or something?"

"I'd love to, but I don't think that would qualify as giving you time or space," he said half smiling.

"I guess you're right."

"I'll just wait for the guys to wake up."

"Ok then."

"Ok then."

The silence was back again.

"We're going to Caesar's tonight, are you coming?" Logan asked just trying to make conversation.

"Yeah, I didn't go down last night cause I was kind of tired."

"Yeah, Finn told us."

"Finn told you?" Rory asked a little surprised.

"Yes, he came to check on you last night, didn't he?"

Rory couldn't help turning a little whiter and Logan noticed.

"You ok Ace? You look a little pale," he asked worried, not that she had turned pale, but that she had turned pale after the mention of Finn and his late night visit.

"It's nothing. Coffee withdraw. I'm going to go get some now. I'll see you later," she said, quickly walking away leaving Logan to his thoughts.

He walked into his room again closing the door not so very carefully causing it to wake Finn up.

He groaned, "Damn it Logan, some of us like to get at least 8 hours of sleep each night. The more the better," he said rubbing his eyes and checking the watch, "7:40! What the hell are you doing up, man? It's only been like 3 hours since we went to bed, go to sleep!" he said lying down again.

"I just saw Rory outside."

Finn, who was sleeping on the couch since the room had only two beds, had his back to Logan, not allowing his friend to see his expression when her name was mentioned. He pretend he was still sleeping.

"Finn? Did you hear what I just said?"

Finn turned with a very impatient look on his face. "Logan, I would gladly have this conversation with you. You know, about how much you love Rory and she loves you and how you're working things out and that soon you'll be together again, really I'd love to hear that, but only after I get my sleep. So address me again when it's one in the afternoon and I'll be all ears, promise," he said closing his eyes.

"What happened last night?"

"We went gambling and you lost 4 grand on a poker table,' Finn mumbled with his eyes still closed..

"I meant with Rory."

Finn groaned again, Logan was not going to let this rest, so he sat up and crossed his arms on his chest in a grumpy state.

"I'm really hating you right now, mate. I'll be killing you violently in my dreams."

"Great, Finn, now would you just tell me what happened last night when you came to check on Rory?"

"Uh, let's see, I knocked on her door and she was wearing this very sexy pale blue night gown, a little see trough I might add, and as soon as she saw me she gave me this inviting look so I went inside, closed the door, threw her on the bed and made wild, passionate love to her. Satisfied?"

Logan looked at him not really appreciating the joke.

"Oh, come on man, you wake me up at 7:40 in the morning and expect me to be serious! Have mercy!"

Again Logan said nothing and just stared at him.

Finn gave an exasperated sigh, "Whatever then. Nothing."

"Nothing?"

"Nothing."

"What did you say to her?"

"You're kidding me right?"

"Does it look like I'm kidding?"

Finn looked at him as if analyzing him.

"Damn it, Finn! Just tell me what the hell happened!" Logan yelled waking Colin up.

"The hell is going on?" Colin asked sitting up on his bed rubbing his eyes.

"Logan's being psychotic again," Finn replied.

Colin groaned and dropped on the bed placing his pillow over his head so he wouldn't listen to their conversation.

"I'm losing my patience Finn."

"No mate, I think you've lost it already, cause you're yelling at 8 in the morning at your half asleep best friend."

"Best friend?"

"Aren't I?"

"I'm starting to doubt that just a bit now."

"Have I given you any reason for you to doubt my friendship to you?"

"That's what I'm asking."

"I haven't and you know it."

"What about Rory?"

"Holy Jesus! What's with the broken record!"

"You just won't answer my question!"

"I think I have answered your bloody question!"

Logan was looking really angry and Finn was a little mad also.

"What did you say, or do, that made Rory turn white when I mentioned that you came to check on her last night to see if she was alright.? "

"Why don't you ask her?"

"I'm asking you."

Finn stood up and walked over to the window. The town looked so different during the day, all the lights off, not a single soul on the streets. He sighed. He didn't like lying to his friend but he told Rory he wouldn't say anything to Logan, he thought it was better to talk to her first before coming clean with his friend.

"Nothing happened, Logan, really. I just asked her if she was fine, if she needed anything or if she wanted to come downstairs. That was it, nothing happened."

"You swear?"

Finn nodded his head. Logan looked at him, he seemed sincere.

"I'm sorry man. I didn't mean what I said about doubting your friendship."

"That's ok, mate. I know you didn't. I'm sorry too, I didn't mean to joke like that. I've a bad sense of humor when I'm sleep deprived."

The two friends shook hands and then hugged each other, Logan a little relieved and Finn a little sad. He would have to talk to Rory and he was going to do it soon. He hated being in this situation, he hated lying to Logan. He wanted to tell the truth even if it cost him his friendship, cause he was sure that he was going to lose it one way or the other, but telling the truth made him feel less remorse.

The conversation didn't happen on Saturday though. During the day Rory and Stephanie took a walk round town to check out all the stores. They had fun, Rory tried to think as little as possible about her problem and Stephanie never mentioned it. She thought she had done her job warning Rory, the rest was up to her. The guys stayed in the room sleeping. They only woke up around 6 pm when their stomachs were begging for food. They called the girls and decided to go get something to eat. They met at a small restaurant in town, away from the crowd. Rory sat at one end of the table so she would avoid direct eye contact with either Finn or Logan. She actually did not say a word during dinner raising suspicions from all on the table. As soon as they got back to their hotel rooms to change to go to Caesar's Stephanie asked Rory, "what happened?"

"Huh?" Rory asked not paying attention.

"I said what happened? You were awfully quiet during dinner."

"I was just hungry," Rory replied.

"Hungry? But you're always talking, even if no one's listening, you're always babbling about something."

"I didn't feel like talking tonight, that's all."

"Rory." Stephanie gave her a doubtful look.

"Steph," Rory almost begged her to drop it but she didn't, maybe if she talked to Stephanie it would help. "He kissed me," Rory said in a embarrassed whisper.

"Finn?"

Rory nodded facing the floor.

"When?"

"Last night."

"When he said he was coming to check on you. Oh, my God. What did you do? I mean, did you kiss him back?"

Rory just looked at her.

"You kissed him back."

"Yeah," Rory said.

"What are you going to do? Do you like Finn?"

"I don't know, I really don't know. This morning I ran into Logan on the hallway and I swear I thought he was going to tell me he loved me."

"But you know he loves you."

"He's never said it."

"Ever?"

"Ever."

"Wow," Stephanie said in a sigh. "I so wouldn't like to be you right now."

"I wouldn't like to be me right now."

"Did you feel anything, I mean, when Finn kissed you? Was it like when Logan kissed you or was it better, or worse?"

"It was... different."

"Different?"

"It was good. It was great actually. You know when you kiss a guy and you think, 'wow, this guy's a great kisser,' when I kissed Finn I thought, 'wow, this guy is the perfect kisser.'"

"He really can kiss."

Rory was facing the floor, but when she heard this comment from Stephanie she instantly looked up.

"You've kissed Finn?" That came out with a hint of jealousy that she didn't even try to hide. Stephanie noticed.

"Just once, at some party. We were both very drunk, I don't know what made us do that," Stephanie explained.

Rory began to think. That was Finn. The drunk guy, the guy who kissed girls just for the fun of it, no feelings, no nothing. She couldn't get involved with a guy like that. What if he was just being Finn? What if he had kissed her just to see what it was like? But then she started thinking that Logan had also been like that once. He always had a girl attached to him when he walked around campus before they got together. Now he was different, now he only wanted her. Could Finn change like that too? She wanted to believe he could. Stephanie guessed Rory's thoughts.

"He does like you."

"Who?" Rory asked.

"Finn. I know you were thinking about that, that maybe he just wants to have fun with you. He doesn't. He's a little different now, a lot actually. I haven't seen him with a girl for a while now. Come to think of it, even when you and Logan were together, I haven't seen him with a girl for a long time."

"You think he likes me since then?"

"I don't know, but he could. I mean, it's Finn, he's always with a girl and for him not to be with one, there's got to be a very strong reason."

Rory smiled at this, she wanted to think she was reason.

"Do you really think he could change like this?" she asked.

"Do you want him to?"

"I don't know."

"Remember the advice I gave you last night? You know, about being sure? I stand by it. You have to be sure Rory, you have to start figuring out what you really want before you hurt people. I mean, this kiss, you have to think about what it means. Do you want to be with Finn?"

Rory sighed.

"You really have to think about this. It's not only about you, like I've said. I don't want to add anything to your already heavy load, but you do know that Finn's risking his friendship with Logan to be with you, right? I mean, don't think Logan's going to be all 'sure friend, go for it' cause he won't."

Rory hadn't thought about that. Logan and Finn have been friends forever and Finn was ready to risk that deep relationship just to be with her. He probably liked her a lot to do that. She really had better be sure about every little thing.

The girls were interrupted by a slight knock on the door. Stephanie, who was already dressed, went to see who it was while Rory went to finish changing. It was Colin saying that they were ready to go. Stephanie knocked on the bathroom door to rush Rory and 10 minutes later they left their hotel to go to Caesar's.

Logan, Finn and Colin went to the poker tables, Logan trying to win back the money he had lost the night before. Stephanie went to the Blackjack table and was very lucky there. Rory, who didn't really like cards went to the slot machines, but unlike Stephanie, was not so lucky. She had been there for a while and was down to her last quarter when Finn came to talk to her.

"Any luck?"

She showed him her empty cup.

"Sorry," he said sincerely.

"That's ok. How about you, any luck?"

"Not really, I thought it was just better to quit before I lost all the money I have and will have in the future. Logan's doing all right though. Won back the 4 grand from last night and won 5 more."

"Wow, good for him, I guess. Not that he needs anymore money..."

Finn chuckled. "So you're going to play that last quarter?"

"I guess." Rory put the quarter in and pulled the handle. She was already standing up when she heard the sound of quarters coming out of the machine.

"I won!" She exclaimed.

"You sure did!"

She jumped up and down a few times and collected her quarters putting them inside her cup.

"Ooh, it's so heavy now." She said shaking the cup.

Finn laughed a little. "Try again."

"I don't want to abuse my luck."

"It's called gambling, babe."

Rory thought a little, put another quarter in and pulled the handle. She watched closely as the pictures rolled and almost did not believe when she saw the quarters come out again. She looked at Finn with such a happy expression that made him smile. He thought it was sweet the way she felt about winning mere 20 bucks on a slot machine.

"See your luck's back. I'll let you play alone now. I'll go check on Steph, see how she's doing at the Blackjack table."

Rory watched Finn walk away, and put another quarter in, she was enjoying the game now that she was winning. But this time she didn't hear the wonderful sound of the quarters hitting the metal of the machine on their way out. She was disappointed but as if a great idea had crossed her mind she stood up from her stool.

"Finn!" she yelled. She had to yell out his name about 3 times until he finally heard. She signed for him to come back.

"Stay here," she told him when he came back, "I wanna try something."

Finn didn't understand but obeyed. Rory put another quarter in and pulled the handle looking at him. There it was, the winning noise. Rory smiled.

"I think you're my good luck charm."

Finn smiled back sweetly.

"Glad to hear it."

They played at the slots for some time, until Rory started yawning and Finn checked his watch to see that it was close to 1:30 am.

"You wanna head back?"

"Yeah, let's do that," she replied, "should we get the others?"

"Logan and Colin are still at the poker table, I guess things are going well for them. And I think Stephanie's got a date with the Blackjack dealer."

Rory laughed. "Then I guess it's just us."

Finn gave her his arm and they walked out of the casino, arm in arm.

When Finn walked out of the game Logan followed him with his eyes. He walked straight towards Rory. He almost walked out of the game himself, if he weren't on a winning strike, and then he saw Finn walk away from Rory and go to the Blackjack tables, and was pleased. 'He just went to check on her, now he's going to check on Steph,' Logan thought. But not three minutes later he heard Rory yell Finn's name and watched as he went back to the slot machine where Rory was. There he stayed. They weren't doing anything but Logan could hardly keep his mind in the game. When he saw the both of them walk out together, arm in arm, his first thought was to leave the game and go after them, Colin saw this.

"Logan, don't."

"I have to know."

"No, stop this, stop torturing yourself. There's nothing going on, they're just friends!"

"You know that's not true!"

"No, I don't know that, and neither do you. Look, maybe he likes her, but that doesn't mean she likes him. Give them time, if anything happens they'll tell you. Before anything they are your friends."

"Doesn't look like it," Logan said watching them leave.

"Give them time."

Logan complied, but wasn't happy about it. He remembered his talk with Finn in the morning, he had told him that nothing had happened and he had believed. He wanted to believe that there was nothing there, that they were indeed just friends, but as time passed this was getting harder and harder to believe.

"Logan, in or out?" Colin asked, making him leave his thoughts and go back to the game.

"Here we are," Finn said when they got to their rooms.

"Yep, here we are."

They stared at each other for a few seconds.

"I talked to Logan this morning," Finn finally said.

"And?"

"He was pretty mad."

"Did you tell him?"

"I promised you I wouldn't."

"What was he mad about then?"

"He thought I had done something Friday night."

"You lied to him?"

"Once again."

"I'm sorry."

He smiled and traced her cheek with his fingers.

"Finn, we're in the middle of the hallway," Rory said, but didn't move.

"I know, there's nobody here."

"But somebody could suddenly appear."

"By somebody you mean Logan?"

"By somebody I mean anybody, Logan too."

"Right."

"You're mad?"

"Why would I be mad?"

"I don't know. I'm asking."

"No, I'm not mad," by this time he had put his hands back inside his pockets and was a good 3 feet away from her.

"Why are you mad?"

"You kicked me out of your room last night, you don't want Logan to see us..."

"Well I don't want him to find out like this, I want to be honest with him. Sorry if honesty doesn't matter to you!"

"Are we having a fight? We haven't even started going out and we're already having a fight. Promising, don't you think?"

"Maybe it's a good thing, a preview of what's to come, make us think about it before jumping into something that's not going to work," she said a little hurt at his remark.

"How do you know it's not going to work?"

"Well, you said it!"

"I did not say that."

"You said it was promising!"

"I stand by it. From what happened last night I think it is very promising."

Rory blushed as she remembered the kiss. "Finn..."

He looked into her eyes. "I like you," he whispered.

"I know you do," she whispered back.

"Not the answer I was expecting..."

"Finn, don't pressure me, please. This is hard for me, I have to think this through. I can't act on impulse."

"Why not?"

"Because it's not only my life, other people could get hurt."

Finn sighed shaking his head, "Logan again."

"I'm sorry Finn, but it's how it works. He was my boyfriend and he's your friend. I like you, but,"

Finn heard what he had wanted to hear. "No, Rory, no buts" Finn said and leaned in to kiss her. She gave in easier than the night before. She shivered as she felt his hand on her lower back pulling her even closer to him. She didn't know what it was about his kiss that made all her will power to fight it disappear. She put her hands on his neck and ran her fingers through his hair now making him shiver. He started kissing her cheek and then moved to her neck making her let out a soft moan. That's when she realized what they were doing and suddenly pushed him away.

"We can't keep on doing this, Finn."

"Why not? It's so much fun!" he said trying to hold her but she pushed his hands away from her.

"What is this?"

"Uh, what?"

"What's going on between us?"

"Well..."

"We have to know, Finn. We can't just keep on doing this, sneaking around and making out when no one's watching."

"I know," he said leaning against the opposite wall.

"See, you know it's not right either."

"Yeah... we have to tell him..."

"What do you want to tell him?" she asked.

He looked at her. He didn't know what she done to make him feel like this, but he knew that he wanted to be close to her, no matter the consequences.

"I want to try this."

"You want to try?"

"I've never done this Rory, you're going to have to be patient."

"You've never dated?" Rory asked in disbelief.

"Oh, I've dated, if you know what I mean," he said with a wicked grin.

"Unfortunately yes," she said rolling her eyes.

"But I've never dated someone like you."

She smiled, "there's always a first for everything."

"I guess you're right," he said walking up to her and putting his hands around her waist.

"So I guess that's what we should tell him, that we want to try this."

"He's not going to be happy."

"Are you sure you want to do this then?"

"I've never been more sure of anything in my life."

She smiled. "I think I should do it then," she said.

"I think we should do it together. I mean, we both lied to him, the least we could do now is be completely honest and do it together."

"You're right. When?"

"I think it's safer if we do it when we're back at Yale. Monday, first thing."

"Ok, Monday," they stared at each other a little longer. It's amazing how lovers can spend hours just looking at each other, noticing every detail on the other's face, memorizing every single trait so that when they go to bed at night they can remember them in their dreams. "I should go inside, I really am tired," Rory finally said.

"I'll see you in the morning then."

"Yeah. Breakfast, nine o'clock?"

"Could we make it ten?" Finn asked trying to buy another hour of sleep. Rory smiled.

"Can't wait to see me! I'm glad!" she exclaimed in mock hurt.

He hugged her. "I'd spend the whole night awake just to be close to you," he whispered in her ear making her tremble.

"Ten o'clock it is then," she said. She opened her door and turned around for one more kiss.

"Sweet dreams," Rory said when they pulled apart.

"About you," Finn replied.