A/N: I'm sorry I didn't post this sooner! I always update on Wednesdays and Saturdays, I don't know if you've noticed. Anyway I had the chapter ready to go yesterday but I just did not find the time to turn on the computer to upload it. I had to work on this stupid 3D model for school... I hate making those, I really have no patience for it, but hey I kinda have to, I am studying architecture, right? Anyway, the important thing is that I'm posting this now... I don't know if I'll update on Saturday though. I have a meeting at my work tomorrow and then I work on Saturday till like 3:30 pm... So, not promising anything! Anyhow, let me get on with my thank yous then:

Smile1- Once again your review almost made me cry! You are so great and so sweet! I'm so happy you like this, I wrote this chapter already thinking about what you're going to say. I hope you like it. About Rory asking for time, you're right, she was stalling! ;0) Thank you for reviewing!

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That's it for the thank yous! I'd like to say something though. I'd like to thank -once again- all my faithful readers and reviewers (you know who you are), you guys are so awesome, I write this story for you! And everybody else who read this, please, please review, it does mean a lot to me, gives me encouragement! Ok, I'll stop now! Here's chapter 9! Enjoy!

Chapter 9: We have a new leader ladies and gentlemen!

Logan woke up and didn't see Finn in the room. He looked at his watch: 10:15 am.

"Colin!" he called waking his friend up.

Colin grunted. "What?" he asked not opening his eyes.

"Where's Finn?"

"Not in my dreams thank God."

"I'm serious, man, he's not here."

"I'm serious too, Logan. Go back to bed!" He said turning and going back to sleep.

Logan stood up and put on a shirt. He went over to Stephanie and Rory's room, somehow he had a feeling he wasn't going to find Rory there either. It took a while for Stephanie to open the door.

"Logan? Is everything ok?" she asked rubbing her eyes.

"Is Rory here?"

"No, she's out. Is everything ok?"

"When did she leave?"

"About 15 minutes ago... please tell me you didn't wake me up just to ask about Rory."

"Finn's not here either."

"So?"

"So? Don't you think it's weird that they're both out at the same time?"

"No, I don't. They went to bed earlier than we did, they're probably getting some breakfast, stop being so paranoid, it's getting on everybody's nerves!"

"I'm not being paranoid, I'm being realistic."

"Whatever, I'm going back to bed," she said trying to close the door but Logan stopped her.

"When she gets back tell her we're leaving at 2."

"What? Why? I thought we were leaving at night!"

"I'm driving, I choose the time we leave."

"Fine, whatever. Can I go to sleep now?"

"Go."

Logan went back to his room, Colin was still sleeping.

"We're leaving at 2, Colin."

Colin instantly sat up. "What?"

"We're leaving at 2."

"Why?"

"Because I said so."

Colin shook his head. "Is this because of Finn and Rory?"

"What if it is?"

Colin sighed. "Let me ask you a question, man. Have you thought about the possibility that Rory might have some feelings for Finn? And if she does, what if she wants to go out with him? What are you going to do? Lock Finn in his room so he can't see her? Cause this pathetic attempt to keep them apart by going back early is not going to do the trick."

"I'm not trying to keep them apart, I just want to go back early. Where's the crime in that?"

"No crime, if you want to believe that..."

Logan sat down on the couch. "I didn't believe he could do this."

"Finn?"

"Yeah..."

"I don't think he did it on purpose."

"You're going to tell me he couldn't help it?"

"Well, yeah. I mean, it's Rory, you fell for her, so why not Finn?"

"Cause he's my friend! He knows I still care about her! I would never do anything like this to either of you!"

"I'm sure he tried not to feel anything, I really am."

"He should have tried harder."

"What about Rory?"

"What about her?"

"If she has feelings for him too, she's as much to blame as he is. Or do you think he forced her to like him?"

Logan thought about this. Colin was right, Rory was as much to blame as Finn was, but he couldn't blame her, he didn't want to believe that she liked Finn, he liked to believe she was still confused.

"I tried telling her, she didn't want to listen."

"Tried telling her what?"

"That I loved her. She didn't let me finish."

Colin looked at his friend sympathetically.

"I think she didn't want to be even more confused than she already is. You gotta give her time, man. You can't push it. If it's meant to be..."

"Oh, don't say that!"

"What?"

"This 'meant to be' crap! It's bullshit!"

"It's not bullshit. If you guys are meant to be together, then you will be together eventually."

"Eventually?"

"Better than never."

"That was stupid Colin."

"I'm just trying to help, Logan."

"Then stop it, cause you're not."

"Then let me be realistic. If I were you I'd start preparing myself for the possibility of seeing Rory with Finn."

Logan sighed. "What hurts the most is that they didn't tell me. I've confronted the both of them and they lied."

"Maybe it's because nothing has happened. Maybe it's because they still have to figure out their feelings before telling you."

"Do you really believe that?"

"Would it have made a difference?"

"What?"

"If they had told you. If they had told you when you went to Stars Hollow that weekend that they were starting to like each other, would it have made a difference? Would you be any less sad or disappointed with them if they had told you sooner?"

"It wouldn't have given me the feeling of being betrayed by two of the people I love most in the world."

"We should be getting back," Rory said after checking her watch, "it's already noon, everybody's probably awake by now."

"Plus you don't want to raise any suspicions."

"When we tell Logan we won't have to do this."

"I know," Finn said taking her hand and kissing it. "You want to go first?"

"Ok," she said walking away. She suddenly stopped and looked back at Finn, who was standing where she had left him. She smiled and walked to him again. "I forgot something."

"I know," he said with a smirk grabbing her and kissing her.

"I'll see you soon," she said when he let her go.

"Yes, you will."

When Rory got to the hotel lobby she saw Stephanie and Colin.

"We're going to eat," Stephanie said when Rory reached them, "Logan asked me to tell you that we're leaving at 2."

"2 in the afternoon?"

"Yeah."

"Why? I thought we were..."

"So did we, but he wants to go back early, what can we do? It's his car and he's driving."

She shrugged. "I'll go pack then," she said and went to her room. She had been there a while neatly packing her bag when Logan walked into the room without knocking on the door which she probably had left open.

"What are you doing?" he asked startling her.

"You don't knock anymore?"

"What are you doing, Rory?" he asked again not hearing her.

"I'm packing, can't you see?"

"I meant Finn. What are you doing with Finn?"

"What?" Rory asked surprised.

"So you ask me for time to think and you decide to spend this time with my best friend!"

"What are you talking about Logan!"

"Where were you this morning?"

"Having breakfast, not that it's any of your business!"

"Why are you doing this to me, Rory?"

"I'm not doing anything to you, Logan."

"So you're denying?"

"There's nothing to deny!"

"You don't have any feelings for Finn? None whatsoever?"

"Logan, please, don't do this."

"Just answer the question!"

"I can't!"

"You can't!"

"You know, this is your fault! You did this!"

"I did this! I cannot believe you're saying this!"

"I am! You dumped me, you weren't sure! I can't be with a guy who can't express his feelings!"

"What the hell are you talking about? I love you and you know it!"

"How could I know it, we spent 7 months together and you never said it! Then we're broken up and you want to tell me and expect me to be happy about it?"

"Well, you never said it either!"

"Sorry! I didn't know it was a contest. Wins the prize who says 'I love you' first!"

"Don't do the sarcasm now."

"What do you want Logan? What do you want me to say?"

"I just want you to be honest with me."

She stared at him. She tried telling him, it was the perfect opportunity. But how? How would she tell Logan that she was falling for Finn? She didn't know.

"Fine, you're not going to say anything," Logan continued seeing that Rory was thinking. "Let me just ask you something: when you do make a decision, don't lie to me, don't hide anything from me, don't go behind my back, because that, Rory, that's even worse." With that he left the room, leaving Rory alone with her feelings. She sat down on her bed still holding her clothes and cried.

Finn was back about a half hour after the fight in Rory's room. He went inside his room and found Logan zipping up his bag.

"Packed up already?"

Logan looked at him and Finn saw the anger in his eyes.

"What happened, Logan?" he asked concerned.

"It's best that you don't know, trust me."

"Fine then. Why are you packed up so early?"

"We're leaving in half an hour."

"What?"

"What? Rory forgot to tell you?"

"Again: what?"

"Nothing Finn, just pack your bag cause we're leaving."

Finn thought it was best not to argue and went to pack his bag, while Logan went down to put his in the car. Half an hour later he was closing his door and walking to the car. When he got there he noticed a little change in the sitting arrangements. Logan was still driving, but instead of Rory sitting in the passenger's sit, it was Stephanie, Rory was sitting in the back seat and Colin was sitting in the middle. Finn scratched his head and looked at Colin, who gave him a significant look: 'do not seat next to her' it said. Finn thought it was better to do as Colin hinted and sat next to him, leaving Rory alone in the back. She didn't mind it, it was better this way she thought, it would give her more time to think about things. A few hours before she had been sure about her feelings for Finn, but when the opportunity to tell Logan presented itself, she chickened out. Maybe she was just scared of telling him, or maybe she wasn't so sure after all. She closed her eyes for a while, her head resting on the window. When she opened them again the first thing she saw was a sign that read that Stars Hollow was just a few miles away.

"Could you drop me off in Stars Hollow?" she asked Logan. Finn looked back at her.

"But you have class in the morning," Logan replied.

"Could you just do it?"

"Whatever."

"Are you sure? I mean, how are you going to get back in time for class? You don't have your car with you," Finn asked.

"I'm sure. Don't worry about it, I'll just ask my mom to drive me."

"But will you get there on time?" Finn was hinting that they had agreed to talk to Logan on Monday, he didn't want to think that Rory was having second thoughts.

"I will, Finn. I'll probably go back tonight, I just want to see my mom."

Logan knew that every time Rory had something important going on inside her she had to talk to her mother. He knew she was going there to ask her mother for advice so he didn't argue so much when she had asked him to drop her off there, he was even happy about it. It meant that she wasn't as sure as he thought she was, besides it would also keep her away from Finn.

"Mom?" Rory called as she walked inside her house.

"Rory is that you?" Lorelai called from upstairs.

"Who else would be calling you 'mom'?" Rory said as she went up the stairs.

"Good point," Lorelai said as she met her daughter in the hallway upstairs. "What are you doing here? I thought you were supposed to be in Atlantic City wasting you money."

"I was, but I'm back now. Logan decided to come back early."

"Oh... any reason in particular for this unexpected visit? You do have class in the morning and while I do not mind at all driving you to school you could've at least called."

"I'm sorry, I didn't plan it. I was just looking out the window and saw the Stars Hollow sign and I just thought it would be better if I came here."

"Okay, so there's nothing wrong?"

"Everything's wrong."

"Why? What happened?" Lorelai asked taking her daughter inside her bedroom.

"He kissed me."

"Who?" Lorelai was interested.

"Finn."

"What? Why?"

"Mom!" Rory said as if the answer was obvious.

"Sorry, stupid question. So, did you kiss him back?"

"Well, yes..."

"How many were there?"

"How many what?"

"Kisses, how many kisses were there?"

"Is it important?"

"Of course it is. If it was just one, maybe you were confused and it was a mistake which you didn't let happen again. Now, if there were more than one..."

"You're just making this up so I tell you about the kisses."

"I was going to get to that question later... so not just one, nice," Lorelai said with a grin.

"I didn't say that."

"You said kisses, meaning there were at least two."

Rory gave in. "Four, there were four kisses."

"Ooh, that's so cool. So on a scale from 1 to 10 how good a kisser is our little friend Finn?"

Rory thought a little. "10, definitely 10."

"We have a new leader ladies and gentlemen!"

"What the hell are you talking about, mom?"

"Our kissers rank."

"Kissers rank?" Rory asked raising her eyebrows.

"Well, yeah. First we had Dean. You said he was a ten but he was your first boyfriend, you didn't really have anyone to compare him to, so I put him as an eight."

"Dean's not an eight."

"Ok, what is he?"

Rory thought for a moment. "8,5"

"Oh, sorry! Half a point to Mr. Forrester then! Well, then came Jess. You said he was a 9 but you were comparing him with Dean and since I never liked Jess I gave him an 8,5, making a tie between Dean and Jess. Ooh, wouldn't they just love that!"

"Mom, Jess is not 8,5, he's a 9. Now I have more experience so I know he's a 9."

"Fine then, so no tie with Dean... He's in a tie with Tristan."

"Tristan!"

"Didn't you kiss him?"

"How did you know? I don't remember telling you."

"Oh, a mother always knows, but I think you did tell me."

"I didn't grade him, that I'm sure."

"Oh, but he looks like a 9."

"Whatever. This is getting more absurd by the second."

"Logan then took the lead with that beautiful 9,5 you gave him 8 months ago."

"That I remember."

"So now we have a new lead: Finn with his perfect score." Lorelai finished very pleased with herself.

Rory shook her head. "Insane, only word that comes to mind to describe you."

"Why, thank you my dear daughter. Now on to more important things. What are you going to do about our Number 1?"

"Number 1?"

"Finn, our new number 1!" Lorelai said in a exasperated tone.

"Oh, right... I don't know."

"What about Logan? I thought you still liked him."

"I do..."

"But you kissed Finn, that means you kinda like him."

"I do..."

"You like the both of them? Look at my daughter, the big player." Lorelai said teasing Rory.

"Mom, I'm not a player and stop making fun of the situation, it is a very serious one, I'm confused!"

"Sorry, I just can't help it sometimes."

"I'll say..."

They were silent for a moment.

"I don't know what to do," Rory finally said.

"Well, since you can't have both you're going to have to choose."

"I know...Last night everything was set, Finn and I were going to tell Logan tomorrow, but then this morning I had this big fight with Logan and I had the opportunity of telling him and I just couldn't. I was scared."

"Scared of what?"

"I don't know... God I've been using this sentence a lot these last couple of days."

"Right... well let me help you then. Were you scared of hurting Logan or were you scared of losing him for good?"

Rory just looked at her thinking.

"Cause it's perfectly normal for you to be afraid to hurt him, he was your boyfriend, now you're with his best friend, that's gotta hurt."

"Thanks for helping."

"Now, if you're afraid to lose him, maybe you shouldn't be kissing Finn."

"Ugh, I hate this! It's so hard!"

"It shouldn't be, it should be simple, be with the guy you actually like."

"But I like them both!"

"You can't like them both. You don't like them both. You're just afraid to see, afraid to confess

to yourself who you really like."

"I know... I also know that if I choose one I'll lose the other and I don't want to, they're both my friends."

"Maybe you won't. Dawson's Creek turned out just fine."

"Please tell me you're not comparing my life to a TV show."

"Oh, but you've gotta see the similarities. Logan's Dawson, the sweet guy, the guy you've always wanted and dreamed of, Finn's Pacey, the funny guy, the guy who was there for you when your other guy broke your heart. And you're Joey, the ever so confused girl, always thinking about everybody else but herself, afraid she might hurt others and not really minding her own feelings."

"Ok, please stop. God, if I didn't know any better I'd think you were watching this show on TV again. Wasn't it enough the first time around?"

"Watching something just once is never enough! You've got to watch it at least three times to actually count, didn't I teach you that!"

"Ok, daughter going through major life crises here, please focus!"

"Sorry, hon. Seriously now, things could end up fine. They won't if you lie, but if you tell the truth things will eventually be fine. If you tell Logan you like Finn, of course he'll be mad at first, but he'll forgive you cause you were honest with him, you just can't go behind his back, that's just wrong."

"That's what he told me... You're right, I should stop being such a coward and tell him how I feel about Finn!"

"So you've made your decision?"

"What?"

"Well, you said you were going to tell Logan how you feel about Finn, so you've made your decision."

Rory smiled. 'That was easy' she thought. "I guess I have."

A/N 2: I know, no Rory Finn interaction... I just had to throw that fight with Logan in there and I just thought it was time we saw Lorelai again. I hope you guys liked the little crazy talk, I liked writing it. Anyway, guess what I'm going to ask you guys to do? Correct! Please review!