A/N: I seriously doubt I'll ever post this because I seriously hated the other two chapters. But I seriously love Finn and Rory so oh well. Man, I said seriously WAY too many times right there. Here's chapter three of our little trip down under.

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"Wake up, we're here," Finn's voice stirred Rory a while later.

She woke up realizing she must have dozed off in the car. Finn was already out of the car and halfway up to the small building.

She jogged a few steps to catch up with him. "Do your friends know we're coming?"

He shook his head and she sighed hoping he would snap out of this mood soon.

They entered the small pub and there didn't seem to be anyone there.

"Tom!" Finn yelled.

A man appearing to be about fifty-five came out of the back room muttering about how people have no respect.

"Holy dooley!" the man said when he spotted Finn leaning against the counter.

"How ya doin mate? Thought I'd lob in," Finn grinned as the man stood in shock.

"You little larrikin!" Tom said coming around the bar and hugging Finn in a manly-pat-on-the-back thing.

Finn chuckled. "Has the gang been in?"

"They're still down at the—never mind, that'd be them now," Tom began and then revised his statement as they heard what sounded like a few cars pull into the parking lot outside.

"Tom! Who's the wowser that owns the car out in the back?" one of the guys asked.

Rory assumed he was referring to Finn's BMW parked in the back of the small lot. The group hadn't noticed Finn and Rory yet so she took this opportunity to appraise them.

There was about fifteen of them, maybe twenty. More guys than girls and they were all wearing beach apparel and looked like they lived in the sand. The one talking to the barman was wearing Hawaiian flowered trunks and a white t-shirt. His sun-bleached hair was wavy and touching his shirt collar. He couldn't have been more that 23.

"That would be me," Finn said taking a small step forward toward the group.

Everyone stopped talking and stared at him.

"I'll be stuffed!" the man said with his clear blue eyes running over Finn's face and then over to Rory and immediately back to Finn.

Finn didn't say anything there and just waited for the other one to make the first move.

"Finn!" another guy who seemed to be about the same age as the first one yelled. And suddenly he was throwing himself at Finn and hugging him.

"Roo! Good to see you mate!" Finn laughed hugging him back. This one had crazy brown curls sticking up in every direction.

"Don't you guys see? This is Finn! Our old pal," Roo said turning back to the others who were still standing there.

The first boy, with blonde hair, muttered something and then pushed through the crowd and outside.

"Don't worry about him mate. He's just being a standover man but no one will pay any attention," a girl said coming over and hugging Finn.

Soon they were surrounded by people hugging and hitting Finn.

"Who's this little Seppo?" one of the guys asked.

"This is my mate, Rory," Finn said to each of them after that indicating Rory.

"Come with us!" a few of the girls said and dragged her off toward the other side of the bar.

Rory cast a glance back at Finn but he completely ignored her.

"So why are you here? Is Finn moving back?" a girl with red hair asked.

"We're just here for the week with some other friends," Rory told them. She was extremely uncomfortable with these people that she didn't know but she was trying to act in a way that might get Finn to open up to her. She assumed that if she was nice to his friends that was more likely to happen.

"Have you had a naughty with him? Are you preggo?" a brunette one asked. Rory was surprised at how much she looked like this girl.

Rory wasn't quite sure what they were asking because they were talking quickly, there was now music from the old jukebox, and she wasn't familiar with the dialect.

"They're asking if I've gotten you pregnant," Finn whispered in her ear joining them at the table.

"Oh! God no! Finn and I are just friends," Rory cried. She might have a crush on him but they weren't sleeping together and she didn't want his friends to think that they were.

The girls all cast her a look that clearly said they didn't believe it.

"Oh come on love, don't deny the pash," Finn said.

Rory was in shock. What the hell was he talking about?

The girls all shared a secret look and Rory could tell they were going to ask more when a guy, another blonde, spoke up.

"Tom, we'll be back. Everyone time for a barbie!" he announced.

A cheer went up in the crowd and they all immediately headed for the parking lot.

Rory stood and started to leave but Finn pulled her back.

"Let's put our stuff in the room and then we can go," he suggested.

"Okay, first of all, I'm not talking to you. And second, where are we staying?" Rory asked. She was mad at him for telling his friends that they were sleeping together.

"You just did speak to me and Tom has a room off in the back that he said we can stay in," Finn explained.

Rory gave him a stubborn look and sighed. "I don't have any other clothes."

"You can borrow some of mine," he offered and headed back to the car where she saw him grab an overnight bag.

"You knew we were spending the night and you packed a bag but didn't tell me?" Rory asked outraged. His little mood swings were starting to get to her.

"You didn't ask, as I already pointed out," Finn said and walked past her and through a door into another room that had two beds and a bathroom.

"This isn't fair. I want to go back!" Rory protested.

"Too bad, I know you want to stay because you like me. So just, get over it. We'll go back in the morning and until then stop being such a mongrel," Finn said and his tone meant business.

She stared at him. She couldn't believe he had just said he knew that she liked him. She hadn't even told Steph!

"Here, you can change in the bathroom," he said tossing a pair of basketball shorts and a t-shirt at her.

She did as she was told but still couldn't believe what was happening.

Once she changed out of her skirt and into Finn's shorts, she went back into the room and was surprised to see Finn standing in only boxers.

"I'm so sorry!" she exclaimed and turned around.

"You'll live," Finn said and she could hear in his tone that he was still annoyed about earlier.

"Look…I'm sorry okay? It's just I wasn't expecting you to lie to your friends and say that we are sleeping together," Rory explained.

"I know. I shouldn't have said it but I had to," Finn explained.

Rory was shocked; this was the closest she had ever heard Finn come to apologizing. "Why would you have to say that?"

"That girl, the brown haired one. I dated her for a year or two. When I moved back to Australia we lived here in Sydney and we fell in love. We even kept it up when I left for Switzerland; we couldn't get enough of each other on holidays. Then when I went to Yale I kind of just left, I didn't tell any of them I was going. We all planned to stay here and then I left. I hadn't talked to her since then, or any of them for that matter until today. Except Roo, the one with curly brown hair. Now Erin is dating Colby, that's the first blonde one," Finn told her sitting down on one of the beds.

"He didn't seem to like you very much," Rory pointed out. She knew this wasn't the nicest thing to say but she wanted to get all the info.

"We were best friends before I moved away and kept in touch while I was gone. I came and visited him every year and he came and visited me. Then I left and from what Roo told me he's pretty angry," Finn explained.

"Finn…I'm so sor--," Rory began.

"Don't!"

"Well okay now I understand what's going on. But I still don't get why you told them we are hooking up," Rory asked.

"Because, I don't want them to think that I came back here for Erin. I didn't, I still love her, but I know that we're done. I don't deserve her. I figured that if I pretended we're dating then I can't just catch up with my friends for a day until we go back tomorrow," Finn replied.

"You want me to be your fake girlfriend?" Rory wanted to know trying to wrap her mind around the idea.

"Lorelai Leigh? Will you fake date me until tomorrow afternoon?" he asked getting down on a knee in front of her.

"Why of course Hammy," she laughed and kissed him on the forehead.

He stood and she couldn't tear her eyes away from his lips. They looked so inviting. Just as she was about to take the opportunity and kiss him her phone began to ring loudly.

She sighed and pulled away from his arms and saw that Logan was calling her. "It's Logan."

"Put it on speaker," Finn told her.

She nodded and hit the button. "Hi Logan."

"Ace? Where the hell are you?" Logan asked frantically.

"At the boozer," Rory said trying to not laugh. She loved driving him crazy.

"Which one?" Logan asked.

"O'Hara's," Finn replied when Rory looked to him for help.

"Finn? What the hell are you doing? Where's O'Hara's?" he asked.

"Come on mate, you remember. You've been here before," Finn replied sharing a mischievous grin with Rory.

"Finn the only O'Hara's I've ever been to is in Sydney," Logan exclaimed and Rory could hear the frustration in his voice.

"Yep, that's the one," Finn told him.

"You're in Sydney?" Logan yelled.

"We'll be back tomorrow. Talk to you later mate," Finn said and his the end button. "Come on, let's get down to that barbie."

Rory followed him to the car still chuckling at Logan's reaction. At the same time she was processing everything else that had just occurred. Fake dating Finn, almost kissing Finn, learning more about him…it was almost too much to comprehend.

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A/N: This chapter was longer than all the others but oh well.

Ryan's Note- Hi again everyone. Okay, to revise a typo in my first note at the bottom of chapter one. Lara was in a car accident, not a bar accident. Let's see, thanks for reviewing to the other chapters. The next chapter is about the party and the one after that is the next day. Then that's all Lara had written for now but she's doing well and might be home soon. Thanks for all your concern and stuff like that. Review please, it cheers her up! Thanks. God Bless. -Ryan

P.S. Just so you guys know, I'm not allowed to post the next chapter until this one gets 15 reviews. Lara usually hates when people do that but she doesn't think she's going to get them all that fast and she's trying to slow down the updates. Personally, I just want to post what she has written. Oh well, her fic, her rules. So please review to get the next chapter..