Australian love 4: The death of you.
AN: I'm so sorry this took so long, but I have a really good excuse. You see I was home alone for two days while mom was in Denmark, and then the electricity decided to go nuts. The whole house got dark eight times! My neighbor had to help me because I didn't know what to do. But the sad thing is that the little box that gives us the internet died in the many blackouts...But we got it fixed today! Yay!
As a little bonus this chapter is extra long. Hope you enjoy reading it.
Disclaimer: Yeah sure, if Amy Sherman Pallodino was my mother I'd own this, but
sadly she's not.
Little shout outs to: Another stars hollow freak, mrmp (hope you're feeling better) and ilovelogan19. You all helped me in one way or another. Thank you.
Now on with the story
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Rory sighed and placed her phone back on the bedside table. If she was going to have everything ready by 6 she needed to get started. She grabbed her valet and walked down the stairs. She could hear Sarah crying from the garden and decided to find out what was wrong.
"What's wrong with her?" Rory asked.
"Nothing's wrong she's just tired, but she refuses to go to sleep in her bed." Shirley said as she tried to calm the crying girl.
"I'm walking over to the store. If you want to I could bring her in her pram, she might fall asleep on the walk over there"
"Would you? Oh that would be wonderful"
"Sure it's not a problem"
"Thank you so much. Could you hold her while I go get her pram ready?" Shirley asked. Rory nodded and Shirley handed Sarah to her. Rory placed the crying girl on her hip and started to walk over to the sandbox where April was playing.
"Shh honey, there's nothing to cry about" Rory said soothingly to the angry little girl. Sarah looked at Rory with big blue tear filled eyes and a big pout before she calmed down and stopped crying. Rory smiled and kissed her forehead. She sat down next to the sandbox and placed Sarah on her knee.
"Hey April. What are you building?" April looked up from her creation and smiled.
"Stars Hollow!" she said proudly. Rory smiled. Almost every night from the day she had arrived she had told April stories from Stars Hollow and apparently April liked that very much.
"Aww, really" Rory said almost a little touched.
"Mhm, that's Luke's, and school, and your house..." April said and pointed at the different 'houses' she had built.
"Rory! Are you ready to go?" Shirley yelled from inside.
"Yes!"
"Where you going?" April asked.
"Just to the store"
"Can I come?"
"Not now because your sister needs to sleep, but tell you what. If you promise to be a nice little girl I'll buy you something" Rory said when she saw April's face fall when she couldn't come. However her frown was replaced by a smile when she heard that Rory would buy her something.
"I'll be nice I promise!"
"Ok then I'll have little surprise when I get back" Rory said and kissed April's head.
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15 minutes later she reached the store. Sarah was fast asleep in the pram and Rory tucked a thin blanket around her. She walked into the store and started to put different kinds of junk food into the basket she had placed on top of the prams folding top. She walked through the candy isles and threw red vines, jelly beans, marshmallows, chocolate chips, cookie dough and a three pack of kinder surprises into the basket as well. However she felt that something was missing; she looked around and spotted the missing items; Skittles and kit Kat, Logan's favorite candy. She grabbed two bags with Kit Kat mini and put them in the basket. Just as she was going to pick up a bag of skittles her hand collided with another hand.
"Sorry" she said and turned her head to look at the person standing next to her. She smiled when she was met by Logan's brown eyes.
"Skittles Ace? I thought you didn't like skittles" Logan said.
"I don't"
"Then why are you buying skittles?"
"Because you like them" Rory said quietly. Logan looked at her with wide eyes, after all these years she still remembered his favorite candy.
"I can't believe you remembered that"
"I remember a lot of things Logan, but do you seriously think I would forget your favorite candy? The candy you made a song about when you were 7? The song that you preformed for all of stars hollow at that year's summer festival?" Rory said and laughed a little at the memory.
"You and Lorelai will never let that one go will you?" Logan asked.
"Nope" Rory said and grabbed five bags of skittles.
"Are you planning on feeding a third world country or eating yourself to death?" Logan asked as he looked into Rory's shopping basket.
"Who's eating themselves where mate?" Finn asked as he, Colin and Steph approached them.
"Rory's eating herself to death" Logan said and pointed at all the junk food.
"If I'm eating myself to death, then you are too, cause you're going to help me eat all this stuff"
"Oh no I'm not" Logan said and shook his head. Rory placed her hands on her hips and looked at him with a stern face.
"Logan Elias Huntzberger! What is the Gilmore girls rule about movie nights?" she said rather loudly with a completely straight face. Colin, Finn and Steph looked at Rory and grinned. She was the first girl (except Steph and Logan's sister Honor) that they had ever seen talk to Logan like that.
"A Gilmore movie night must include; 1. At least 3 movies. 2. At least 2 persons. And 3. Enough food to make all the people involved eat themselves into a sugar coma." Logan said.
"And what are we doing tonight?" she asked.
"Having a movie night" Logan sighed in defeat. Rory nodded and glanced at her watch.
"Oh crap, I have to pay for this stuff and take Sarah home. I said I'd be back in like 20 minutes" Logan nodded.
"See ya later Ace"
"Yup" Rory said and walked over to pay for her junk food.
"I like her" Steph said, the others nodded in agreement.
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A few hours later Rory had everything ready. All the candy was divided into different bowls and spread on her bed. The movies were lined up next to the DVD player and a couple of soda cans were placed on her bedside tables.
The clock was 5.55 and Rory was pacing in front of her bed. She hated that Logan had this effect on her. Sure she wasn't the one to march up and talk to random boys, but she didn't usually pace around her room before she was meeting one either. She had NEVER paced with Dean, why did Logan have to be different? She sighed and sat down in the Winnie the Pooh beanbag chair that April had left in her room the night before. Meeting Logan again wasn't as easy as she thought it would be. And the fact that the boy was drop dead gorgeous didn't help the matter at all. The sound of the doorbell brought Rory out of her daze; it was time to face the music. She heard Shirley welcome him in just as she walked into the hall. Before she could say anything April tugged on her arm.
"Rory, do I get my surprise now?" she asked. Rory had told her earlier that she would get her surprise when Logan arrived; apparently that little girl had a good memory.
"Yes you do. Wait here" Rory said and walked into the kitchen. She got the kinder surprises out of the fridge and walked into the hall again.
"You have to share with your mom and sister too" Rory said and gave April the box. April looked at Rory with a bright smile and nodded her head.
"Thank you. I will share" she said and ran into the living room where her father and sister were.
"That was very nice of you" Shirley said to Rory.
"It was nothing"
"To her it was a lot. I'll leave you to alone now" Shirley said and gave Rory a little kiss on the cheek. As soon as Shirley had left the room Rory turned to look at Logan. She smiled when she saw what he was wearing. He was standing in the doorway in a blue and white Yale Sweat suit; looking cute as hell.
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Logan stepped into the hall as he was asked to by Rory's host mom, he was nervous as hell. He had always imagined that if he ever met Rory again it would be just like reunions on TV. That was not the case. Sure it had been that moment at school that had been perfect. But now, after the initial shock had worn off; he was nervous. There were so many things he needed to explain, things that didn't really have a good explanation. His only hope was that Rory would understand. His thoughts were cut short when he saw her walking down the stairs in a pair of baby blue Capri pajama pants and a white tank top. Her hair had been pulled up in a loose pony tail and she had no make up on. Logan didn't mind though; she looked beautiful.
The two teenagers looked at each other for a while before the silence became too strange. Rory took a deep breath.
"My room is upstairs. I have everything set up in there" Logan nodded and followed her up the stairs and into her room. He knew that they had agreed on movie night, but deep down he knew that they wouldn't really watch the movies, there would be more talking than watching.
"So should we start the movies, or start talking?" Rory asked.
"I think talking" Logan said, he dreaded this part, but he knew they had to do it sooner or later.
"Ok" Rory said and sat down in April's beanbag chair again. Logan sat down on the floor in front of her. He took a deep breath before he looked at her.
"I guess you wanna know why I didn't keep in touch with you...or visit" Rory nodded her head and Logan continued.
"I guess it all started when I turned ten, I had just started my first boarding school and hadn't met the gang yet"
"I thought you were sent to a boarding school when you moved away" Rory said a little confused.
"No, when we moved the whole family moved to London. I went to a school there for almost two years, but when I turned ten I was sent to a boarding school in Holland. As I was saying everything started there. Up till that point we had kept in touch through letters and phone calls, but at the new school the rules were strict. I could only talk on the phone for a certain amount each day. (AN: Have no idea if any schools have that rule, but just go with it) I called you a couple of times, but it was hard for me. I hadn't gotten any friends yet so I was lonely, and talking to you made me miss my old life even more..."
"It hurt me too Logan" Rory said and felt her eyes start to water.
"I know Ace"
"I don't think you do Logan, you had been in my world everyday since the day I met you in kindergarten. And all of a sudden I was alone; I had to do everything alone. I had to go through our routines alone. At least you got new routines, I was stuck with the one you and I had done together...that hurt"
"I know it hurt you Ace, and I thought about you everyday. What you were doing, who you were playing with, if you thought about me...all those things. As the time went on I met the gang and found it easier not to keep in touch with you. That didn't mean that I didn't think about you though. It wasn't until I got a bit older that I realized that you might have thought that I had forgotten you. But by the time I figured that out, too much time had passed. It would have been too strange to suddenly contact you..." Rory looked at Logan with tear filled eyes, in a way it made sense, but at the same time it didn't.
"I can understand some of this Logan, I really can. What I don't understand is how you say you couldn't keep in touch with me because it reminded you too much about home. But you could talk to Matt and Dylan, god Logan! You even visited them! Didn't they remind you about home too? I mean, they were your best Guy friends" Rory said rather loudly and fought back the tears that were threatening to fall. Logan sighed. He had hoped that she didn't know about that.
"They did remind me about home Ace, but it wasn't the same"
"How was talking to them different from talking to me!" Rory said loudly. She was getting angry, and she wanted a good excuse.
"You really don't get it do you!" Logan asked, raising his voice as well.
"No! So would you please tell me?"
"God Ace! I loved you in every way a10 year old can love, and deep inside I knew that if I saw you at 15 I would fall, hard and fast. Just the thought of seeing you and then having to leave you made me sad..."
"So you stayed away from me because you might fall for me?" Rory asked. Logan nodded.
"That's stupid! Do you have the any idea how it made me feel when Matt and Dylan walked up to me at school and told me about stuff you had told them? I just pretended to know so they wouldn't make a big deal about you not talking to me!" Rory yelled as she let the tears fall. Logan felt guilty; he knew he had hurt her a lot when he didn't talk to her, but he had no idea it was this bad. And honestly he never thought she knew that he talked to Matt and Dylan.
"I'm sorry Rory. But I was right about one thing, I would have fallen" Logan admitted. Rory couldn't help it, the only thought that was going through her head was 'He called me Rory' he only called her that when he was serious about something. She didn't know what came over her. If it was her brain that stopped working, or if it was her heart that reacted to the fact that he had told her he loved her, and in a way he had just said that he liked her. Whatever the reason was, her lips suddenly found their way to his.
AN: I know I introduced some new characters in this chapter, and probably said some things that made you guys wonder about their past. Everything will be explained in the next chapters. I hope you liked this one, and please review. Next chapter will be up a lot sooner if I get many reviews.
Caroline