A.N.-I still don't own anything in this story

They looked up at the red light they'd been stopped by, right in front of Luke's. "Weird," she remarked. "Kind of ironic, a red light right now." "Even weirder than that."

She walked through Doose's Market, picking up candy for movie night with her mother. She dumped every sugar-filled thing she could find in the shopping basket. She stopped as she passed the corn starch. It wasn't exactly a candy, but the memories it brought back were sweeter than candy. Hotter than candy, too, she thought with a laugh, the memories brought back by that as good as the others. She reached out her left hand to pick it up, and watched the light glint off the huge, extravagant diamond. So fancy, expensive, and gaudy. A way for Logan to show her just how much he had to offer her. She hated, although she could never tell him that. She pulled it off and stuck it in her pocket, picked up the corn starch, and stared at it, letting the memories wash over her.

"Rory?" Lorelai asked, jerking her out of her reverie. "What are you doing? I've been waiting for you for over an hour!" The look she got made her feel like she had been caught cheating. Why did she feel so guilty? She was allowed to remember her first kiss. For over an hour. With her engagement ring off, and in her pocket. Shit, maybe not. "Rory?" Lorelai asked again.

"What?" She could practically read her mother's thoughts. That she had practically cheated. That Logan was the perfect guy, and she shouldn't be staring at a box of cornstarch and thinking about Dean for who knows how long. "Why aren't you wearing your ring?" She dropped the cornstarch into the basket and pulled out her ring, sliding it on her finger.

"I...it was pinching...and heavy...so, I took it off." The words sound fake even to her.

"Let's get the rest of the stuff and go home." Lorelai said, her tone of voice saying clearly that the conversation wasn't over.

"Okay."

"Now, tell me, is everything alright between you and Logan?"

"Yeah, everything's fine."

"You're doing the blinky thing! What's wrong with the two of you?"

"Nothing's wrong, per say, I'm just having doubts."

"About marrying him?"

"Well, yeah, I mean I'd have to live the way his parents live, and I wouldn't be able to work, and other stuff, too."

"What is this 'other stuff?' Because you know that those things are not true. Logan loves the fact that you want to work! He convinced you to go back to Yale so you could work!"

"And that's the only reason you like him! Shouldn't you want more from your son-in-law than the fact that he convinced your daughter not to take a year off?"

"That is not the only reason I like him for you! It's just the first thing I saw in him that made me realize I like him for you!"

"Can we just watch the movie?"

"No, we are not finished with our discussion yet!"

"Yes, we are. I'm leaving."