Six years after graduation Rory Gilmore was walking out of a posh private school in New York. She was there doing research for an article on the influence of private schooling in university admissions, for The Point a New York based magazine. The school front was crowded with parents since it was almost time for children to go home. She was reviewing her notes from her interview with the principal when someone called her name.
"Rory?"
She loooked up to find a familiar face among the parents. What´s her ex-boyfriend doing here? she thought. They had broken up before she graduated. And even though it had been a clean break up, a sort of mutual agreement one,she had never seen him again.
"Logan? What are you doing here?"
As if on cue a beautiful little girl with long blond curls yelled "Daddy!" and ran towards Logan, who picked her up and then kissed her cheek. Rory thought the girl couldn´t be more than five years old.
"Hi beautiful, how was your day? " Logan said to the little girl.
"It was great, Mrs. Kleinstein..."the little girl then noticed the woman standing by her father´s side and stared at Rory who was still in shock by the fact that Logan was a father.
Logan understood what was happening and intervened. "Sarah this is Rory Gilmore, she is an old friend of mine. Rory this is my beautiful daughter Sarah"
"Hi Sarah, nice to meet you"
"Hello miss Gilmore" Sarah said grabbing Logan tighter. Unlike her father she was obviously shy.
"You can call me Rory, ok?"
The girl nodded and then all of a sudden remembered. "Daddy Mrs. Kleinstein wanted to talk to you" Then by the look her father gave her she added "I didn´t do anything, I swear daddy"
"I´ll be the judge of that, now why don´t you go talk to Elizabeth and her mom?"
"I can´t daddy, Elizabeth left early today...Can I stay here with Rory?"
Both adults were taken by surprise by the question. Logan looked at Rory and she nodded "Thanks" he said and went into the school.
Rory and Sarah stayed in silence for a while until the latter broke it. "I know you were daddy´s girlfriend"
"What?"
"Yes, the other day I was looking through daddy´s old things and I found pictures of you and him and then Nanny told me that the box said Ace"
Nanny? Rory thought. Logan seemed to be a very attentive father but what about the girls mom? "Does you dad know you were going through his things?"
The girl smiled and shook her head "Are you going to tell him?"
"No...should we pinkie swear?"
Sarah nodded and the girls entwined their pinkies. Logan found them laughing.
"Okay, Sarah you were right, you didn´t do anything...this time" Then looking at Rory he added " This one here can be a bit of a miscreant when she wants to"
Rory smiled at his choice of words. "Just like her father" she added.
"Okay Sarah, let´s go get lunch, you are probably starving" He said lamenting he didn´t have more time to talk with Rory.
"Can Rory come to lunch with us?"
"You can ask her...but I´m sure she has things to do"
Facing Rory , Sarah said "Would you come to lunch with us? Please, please, please."
"You don´t mind?" Rory said to Logan.
"Of course not, besides I want to hear what you´ve been up to all this years and I´m sure you have some questions of your own to. Are you driving?" When Rory shook her head he added "So you´ll come with us. Shall we go? My car is around the corner." With this he grabbed his daughter´s hands.
Sarah grabbed Rory´s hand too and the three of them walked towards the car trying not to analyze the weird situation.
A/N: I know this leaves you with a lot of doubts but théy´ll clear ot soon. I hope you´ve liked it. Reviews are a great ego-buster. Please do it.
