Australian love 2: You've gotta be kidding me!

AN: Wow! 47 reviews for the first chapter. You guys are amazing! Thanks to both Laurin and Michelle (another stars hollow freak and mrmp) for reading through this story and telling me that I should post it. You guys rock!

Disclaimer: yeah sure and I'm the queen.

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A week went by and Rory had adjusted to the time difference and her new family's routine. She had seen the boys, and girl she had seen fooling around in the pool a couple of times. And every time she did she couldn't help but stare at the one with dirty blond hair. He reminded her of someone she just couldn't remember who. She knew that the guy with brown hair and an accent was called Finn. Apparently he was the trouble maker of the group. If they were out in the pool she could hear the three other people yell: 'Finn!' every once in a while.

"Rory are you ready?" Shirley yelled from downstairs. Rory picked up her book bag and took one last look around her room to check that she hadn't forgotten anything before she walked downstairs.

"As ready as I'll ever be" she said as she walked into the kitchen where Shira and April were.

"Are you scared?" April asked.

"A little. It's always a little scary to start a new school"

"I'm sure it'll turn out just fine" Shirley said.

"You're probably right" Rory said.

"So are you ready to go?"

"Mhm, is the school far away?"

"No, about 10 minutes by car" Shirley said as they walked out the front door. Rory nodded, she was glad it wasn't far away. Once April was fastened in her car seat they hit the road. Rory looked out the window and her thoughts wandered to her mom back in Stars Hollow. She was usually the one to drive her to school on her first day. It was strange to not have her here. She felt her eyes start to water and blinked a couple of times to make the tears go away.

"You ok?" Shirley asked. Rory just nodded.

"You know its ok to feel a little homesick" she said. Rory turned her head and looked at Shirley with tearful eyes.

"It's just a little strange. My mom and I have this really close relationship; she's pretty much my best friend. It's just a little strange to not have her here." Rory said and wiped away the tears from her eyes.

"I understand that"

"Rory sad?" April asked from the backseat. Rory turned around and smiled at the little girl.

"Yeah I was a little sad. But I'm ok now."

"Ok" she said and went back to reading her book. Rory smiled, she really liked this family.

A couple of minutes later Shirley stopped the car outside the school. Rory took a deep breath before she unbuckled her seatbelt.

"If you need anything just call ok?" Shirley said.

"Ok, thanks for the ride"

"No problem, see you after school"

"Yup, bye"

"Bye Rory!" April yelled.

"Bye April"

Rory waved as Shirley drove out of the parking lot. She was on her own now.

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Five minutes later Rory had managed to find her way to her first class. She had spotted the blond boy from her neighborhood two times already, a part of her wanted to meet him face to face while another one was scared that he wouldn't be as she imagined him to be. Before her thoughts could wander any further the bell rang and people started to walk into the classroom. Rory hesitated at the door; she had no idea if the kids here had assigned seats or if they cold just sit down where they wanted to.

"Excuse me are you one of the new students?" a voice asked from behind her. Startled Rory turned around and came face to face with a teacher.

"Yes sir"

"Ok then. Come with me. I'm Mr. Baxter"

"Rory Gilmore" Rory said as they walked into the classroom.

"OK class, as you can see we have a new student here today, it was supposed to be five new students but we're missing four. This is..." Mr. Baxter started but was cut of by three boys and a girl that walked into the classroom.

"Well it looks like the four other students have decided to grace us with their presence. Now as I started to say, five new students are starting here this year, they all live in the USA, four of them have been going to various boarding schools in Europe and one is originally from Australia. I'll let you guys introduce yourselves to the class." Mr. Baxter said. Rory looked at the group of people standing next to her. It was the same group of people she had been watching from her balcony.

Logan looked at the brunette girl that was standing next to Colin. It was the same girl that he had spotted standing on the balcony watching them this past week. He knew she was pretty, but up close she was drop dead gorgeous. There was something about her though, something familiar. Although he had no idea who she reminded him of.

"I'm Finn Morgan! I'm Exotic!" Finn exclaimed. Colin, Steph and Logan rolled their eyes.

"Finn! You're in Australia, you're not exotic here..." Colin said.

"That is true...I'm home!" Finn yelled and the class burst out laughing.

"Hey, I'm Stephanie Vanderbilt."

"Colin McRae"

"What about you love?" Finn asked.

"Care to share your name?"

"Rory Gilmore" she said. Logan's eyes widened. He felt almost embarrassed now. How could he not have recognized her?

"You've gotta be kidding me!" he said loudly. Rory turned to look at him.

"What?" she asked.

"Hey Ace" Logan said with a smile. He had started to call her that after he had read her first article when she was 6. He knew her dream back then had been to be a journalist, and she certainly had what it took to be one. Any kid that could write a good article at six had what it took. Rory's blue eyes grew to a new level of big. He had called her Ace, only one person called her Ace, and she hadn't seen that person in a very long time.

"Logan!" she asked and looked into his brown eyes. Eyes she knew so well from when they were little and had staring contests. She had always won.

"The one and only" Logan said and Rory squealed, ran over to Logan and wrapped her arms around his neck. Logan wrapped his own arms around her waist, lifted her up and turned around.

"I never thought I'd see you again" Rory said.

"Me either Ace"

"Is that who I think it is?" Steph whispered to Colin. She and the gang had heard stories about Logan's former best friend Rory Gilmore, they had seen pictures of her, but they never thought that they would actually get to meet her.

"I think it is" Colin answered.

"Logan mate I knew she was sweet as a kid, but you never told us she was so damn hot now!" Finn said and Rory blushed.

"Finn if I had know the girl was Rory I would never have waited this long to approach her. And for the hot part...I had no idea she was. I haven't seen a picture of her since she was ten." Logan said with a grin, Finn was right Rory was hot, hot and beautiful.

Rory blushed to an even deeper shade of red. Logan thought she was hot...she was in need of some serious girl talk with her mom.

"Ok, ok. Reunion over, you guys can take the seats in the back." Mr. Baxter said. They all nodded and went to find their seats. Finn in the corner, Logan next to him, Rory in front of Logan, Steph in front of Finn and Colin in front of her.

Logan wasn't paying attention to the teacher, all he could think about was the fact that Rory Gilmore was sitting in front of him. And Rory Gilmore had definitely grown up.

This year was going to be interesting.

AN: I hope you people liked this chapter. Please review, if I keep getting the same amount as for the first chapter these chapters are going to come quick. Reviews are very inspirational...hehe.

Caroline