Finn woke up to something hitting him in the head. It was a pillow and glancing around it seemed Logan was the culprit. "Your back?"
"Obviously." Logan said continuing to stand in the doorway.
"Why'd you wake me up?" Finn asked stretching and sitting up a little. He rubbed his eyes and looked at the clock. 11:30.
"Because you snore." Logan rolled his eyes. "Aren't you supposed to go see your dad today?"
Finn's eyes got wide. "Oh shit!" He jumped out of bed and started dressing quickly. "Has he called?"
"Actually no." Logan had a weird smirk on his face.
"Okay then what?"
"He's in the living room talking to Rory and Lane." Logan laughed. "You're an idiot."
"Thanks mate." Finn said quickly running a comb through his hair. He rushed past Logan and into the living room.
"Nice of you to join us Finn." Mr. Dye said smiling at his son.
"Sorry." Finn said sitting down and throwing a smile at Lane.
"You always are." His dad said, though it wasn't condescending but said like a fact. "Well I talked to these lovely ladies here. Colin would have stayed an had a conversation with me, but I've had quiet enough conversations with Colin and told him to go to work." Finn's dad smiled.
"Well then you talked to the smartest people in the house." Finn said getting back up and pouring himself a drink, he started to offer one to his dad but saw he already had a full cup.
"I noticed." Mr. Dye smiled. "Once Logan went away." He added as Logan came into the room.
Logan laughed. "I'm going to have to agree though." He said sitting down next to Rory. He smiled at her and held her hand.
Finn sat back down. "Seriously though sorry. Lane was looking through my records last night and we lost track of time."
"Yes, she knows the Proclaimers so she's good on my list." Mr. Dye smiled at Lane. "But as I've been here an hour and should have been at work thirty minutes ago I think I'll go to work now."
Finn frowned. "Can we replan?"
"Of course." Mr. Dye looked to Logan. "And thanks for waking him up."
Logan laughed. "It's no problem."
"Bye ladies, Logan. Bye son." He hugged Finn and left.
"Your dad seems really nice." Lane said laying on the couch and propping her feet on Rory.
"He is the coolest dad ever." Logan said in a voice of almost awe. "If I ever have kids I hope I'm as cool of a dad as he is."
"I'm not sure I want kids." Lane said biting her lip just a little.
"That's just because your mom is a wack-job. No offense." Rory said looking at her.
"None taken. Your probably right." She got up. "So what else interesting is in this house?" Lane asked. "Anything cool outside?"
"There's a really cool old abandoned house out in the woods." Finn said smiling at her. The house wasn't really that cool, or even that old. It was actually more of a shack, but mentioning an abandoned shack in the woods wasn't very interesting.
"Lets go see it." She looked to Rory. "You want to come?"
Rory shook her head. "I don't do woods."
Finn looked to Logan. "Coming dude?" He gave him a look clearly saying if he agreed to come he was going to be mad.
"Nope staying with Ace." He laughed. "You two have fun." He rolled his eyes.
Lane had her headphones around her neck with the music up loud so she could hear it.
"That's it." Finn said pointing.
"I thought you said it was a….house, and um old." Lane said. She had been expecting a old creepy house like in the movies. This was definitely not that.
Finn smirked. "An abandoned shack didn't sound cool. But how about a picnic?" He asked pulling off a backpack. He'd worn it the trip, and Lane had thought it was weird but didn't know him. For all she knew he always took backpacks with him.
Lane smiled. "Um sure." She definitely wasn't use to guys bringing picnic stuff for her. But she also wasn't use to guys like Finn.
"If you call it a picnic." He started setting up smirking. As he set out more and more of the 'picnic' his smirk grew into a smile and eventually he started laughing. He had a sheet, a case of beers and ham and cheese sandwiches.
Lane looked at the beer. "For future reference, if it ever comes up again, I don't drink much."
Finn nodded. This chick was definitely different from the ones he was use to. He should have figured she wouldn't drink much, she was Rory's friend, and Rory rarely drank, especially now that she was older. "Sorry."
"It's okay." Lane nodded opening a beer. "I'm not that straight-edge." He took a drink. "Even though this is amazingly gross."
Finn laughed and took a drink. "So how long do you think you'll be staying for?" He passed her a sandwich.
"As soon as I get enough money for an apartment I'm gone. I don't want to be an annoyance to you guys."
"The house is big. We won't mind." Finn said looking at the shack and wondering why he had even called it a house. It was like something a homeless person had built.
"You know what they say about house guests and fish." Lane took a bite of the sandwich, which was okay.
"Colin is always here, and he doesn't annoy us. Well sometimes he does but he's an annoying person."
"Colin is your friend." Lane laughed a bit. "Don't feel guilty that I'm going to leave."
"Whatever you say Lane." Finn rolled his eyes sarcastically. "It's not like your Rory's best friend or anything. And you know Rory's not Logan's girlfriend, which says a lot…" Finn decided to shut up. Why the hell did he care anyways…cause he wanted Rory to be happy that was it. That had to be it.
Lane laughed. "I'm glad I have someone to hang out with here. You know besides Rory cause she has Logan."
"She'd still hang out with you." He might not know Rory that well, but he knew she'd never blow off a friend for a guy.
"Yeah that's the thing, if you weren't here she probably wouldn't spend much time with Logan so that I didn't feel alone."
"Yeah I'm a hero." Finn said in mock casualty.
Lane laughed. She looked over towards the lake. "You ever swim in that?" She asked, getting a surprisingly playful look in her eyes.
"Yeah." Finn said looking towards it and taking another drink.
"I want to go swimming." Lane smiled at him.
"It's probably still cold." Finn looked at her.
Lane shrugged. "It doesn't get that hot around here. I'm going swimming." She finished her sandwich and took a big gulp of the beer. "Nasty crap." Standing up she looked at him. "Coming?"
Finn finished off his beer and stood up. "What do you plan on swimming in?"
"Lane went over and took off her shirt and pants leaving her only in her underwear then quickly jumped in, almost as if ashamed to be seen in just underwear.
Finn did the same and jumped it. "God this is freezing." He said coming up and looking at Lane.
"I know." She laughed. "This was a bad idea." She started laughing.
"You could have told me before I jumped in."
"I didn't want to be the only one wet." She said laughing and pulling herself out of the water. She went over the sheet, they had used for the picnic and wrapped it around herself to dry off.
Finn got out also. "Okay your sharing that sheet."
Lane backed up a bit trailing the sheet behind her. "Nope that's okay." He laughed.
Finn ran and grabbed her tackling her down. "Opps." He said standing up and helping her up.
Lane let him help her up. As soon as she got up Finn grabbed the sheet and ran off with it putting it around himself. "Mineeeeeeeeee." He yelled running away from Lane.
Lane chased after him until she was tired. "Okay, okay I give up." She said going over to her clothes and getting dressed.
