A/N: Thank you so much for the reviews, I'm glad that you like the story! It certainly gave me a reason to write this next chapter, which, after my opinion, is even better than the first. And a little longer too!
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Chapter 2 - Three kids, a rose-garden and a swing-set
When she woke up the next morning it took her no time to figure out where she was. Finn and Colin's dorm had become one of her favourite and most visited places the last few months. Whenever things with Dean were bad she would come to Finn and he always had something up his sleeves that would make her forget, even if it was only for a little while.
"Finn," she whispered to the sleeping body next to her. He stirred a little, but didn't open his eyes. "Finn?" she tried again as she shook his body lightly, earning her a slap in the head. "Hey!"
"Sorry babe," he apologized with closed eyes. "Please... Just let me sleep, love," he begged. "The sun it too bright. My head is going to hurt."
Rory raised her eyebrows and rubbed her sore forehead. "Yeah, well... Mine already do!" Finn only groaned as he slept on. Shaking her head, she looked down at the tired body and finally let him sleep. "Remind me to buy you some shades one day."
"Will do darling," he answered sleepy.
Rory shook her head again, but couldn't help herself and kissed his forehead. "Some day I am actually going to be mad at you and calling me 'darling' won't help," she promised.
Finn nodded half-hearted. "Sure darling."
Nipping her friends arm softly, she got out of the bed before Finn had time to do anything.
It was already ten o'clock and even though it was a Saturday, ten o'clock was extremely late for Rory to get up. She quickly took off her old clothes, not worrying about Finn seeing her. She knew that he was sound a sleep and even a half naked women wouldn't wake him up now. After she had put on her Betty Boop pajamas pants, that she kept in Finn's closet just in case, she searched after a shirt to wear and decided that Finn's old white one from the day before would have to do.
"Hey Finn?" she asked. He in respond moaned. "Why didn't you wake me up when you took off all of your clothes? I slept all night in a pair of hot jeans and a sweater. It was extremely hot!" Rory complained teasingly. "Or you could just have taken off my clothes if you didn't want to wake me up. Normally you would grab such an opportunity."
"Need sleep," came Finn's lousy respond. Rory shook her head and decided to leave him alone. After all, it was an 'ungodly' hour, but she really enjoyed teasing him. Especially at this 'ungodly' hour.
Not bothering to run a brush through her hair, she opened the door and walked out.
"I didn't know you were up," an unfamiliar voice said, causing Rory to close the bedroom-door loudly and Finn to groan from inside the bedroom.
Rory turned around and saw the blond from the night before. He was wearing a pair of dark boxers and fortunately and unfortunately for her, nothing else. Suddenly it didn't seem like such a bad idea to have combed her hair. "Logan, right?" she tried with a smile, keeping her eyes focused on the walls behind him. "I just have to make some coffee, I can't do without it." She could feel her face go red but prayed to God that either this boy was oblivious to thing like that or colour-blind.
Logan smiled back as his eyes traveled over her body. She was wearing a pair of red pants with the words Betty Boop written across them. They looked like they were at least four sizes too big for her and hung loosely on her body, but she still looked cute. As his eyes moved to her upper-body, he frowned at the white shirt. Finn's shirt. Somehow it was a real turn-off.
"So a big fan of coffee, huh?" he asked, pushing every thought of her, her body and her wearing Finn's shirt in the back of his head.
"That's putting it mildly." Rory went over to the small kitchen and began to make the coffee as Logan sad on one of the chairs close to her. "Want some?"
"No thanks, not the big coffee-drinker." Rory shot him a look of mock disgust. "So, um, we were never really introduced. It seemed as if, um, you were otherwise..." He searched for the right word. "...Occupied."
"Yeah," Rory said and smiled. "That may be a good idea. After all, you have seen me in one of the most embarrassing situations ever."
When he saw the slight blush that covered her face, he quickly said, "Everybody have tried to break up."
"Yeah, I guess. But freaking out and crying over your cheating boyfriend is something else. Or ex-boyfriend, that is." There was an awkward silence. "I'm Rory Gilmore. If you don't already know."
Logan nodded. "Yeah, Colin told me. Short for Lorelai."
"Right. And don't you dare ask how that can be short for Lorelai, 'cause I have no idea," she laughed and Logan soon joined her.
"Logan Hunztberger, son of-"
"Mitchum Huntzberger, yeah I know. Lucky you," Rory said sincere.
"So you are into the whole newspaper-thing, right?" Rory nodded. "Yeah, I figured that. You know, Colin and the whole Reporter Girl-thing."
"Colin's way of showing me how fond he is of me," she answered sarcastic. "So is he up, by the way? Or is he already on his mission: Finding the blondest girl at Yale?"
"Something like that," Logan laughed.
"Meaning he left to pick Steph up?" When she saw the surprised look on Logan's face, she couldn't help but laugh. "It is obvious, right? Those two can't keep their hands of each other. Before they know it they are married with three kids, living with grandpa and grandma in their small villa with a rose-garden and swing-set."
Logan was quite surprised to say at least, that she knew so much about his friends. It had taken him a long time to figure out just how much Colin and Steph cared for each other. Hell, Finn hadn't even noticed yet. But Rory, she had only known them for a few months and she already knew this. When he met her last night it was obvious that Finn cared a lot about her and that they were close friends. He had just never considered that she might actually be friends with more people from his group. It appeared as if he had been wrong.
"Logan?" Her soft voice pulled him back to reality. "You did know about Colin and Stephanie, right?"
He watched the way she bit her lip, almost as if she was fearing that she had let some big secret slip. "Yeah, yeah I know. But you may keep that whole married with three kids-thing to yourself if you don't want to bring Colin in a state of shock," he joked as he flashed her his killer smile.
"I'll remember that," Rory promised as she sad down on and began drinking her coffee. "Even though that might be quite fun. One day he is going to pay for calling me Reporter Girl... Not to talk about making everybody believe that I am some freak who was stalking Finn!"
"He did that?" Logan asked as his eyes widened.
"Yes!" Rory smiled. "One day in class someone came over to me and told me to leave Finn alone if I didn't want them to call the police! I only frowned and walked away thinking, 'what a freak.' Then at lunch break me and my roommate were sitting together planning our movie-night, when a girl came over and gave me this really sad look. Before I knew it she started talking about her own obsession with Earl, I believe his name was, and how the cops dragged her away right after she had declared her eternal love to him."
"Man, Yale has some strange students!" Logan said as he and Rory began laughing hysterically.
While the two were still caught up in their laughter, the bedroom door opened and a tired-looking Finn came out . His eyes were half-open and his dark hair was looking even more messy than usual. He was only wearing a pair of boxers, which Rory assumed was simply because he was too lazy to put anything on.
"Would you two stop the bloody laughing! Some of us have very sensitive eyes! I need sleep or else my vision gets blurry."
"Yeah Finn," Logan chuckled. "It has nothing to do with the amount of alcohol you drink every night."
The Australian sent his friend a death-glare but then sighed. "All right, I can't sleep now," he said as he sad down on one of the stairs next to Logan and Rory. "But can you at least roll the curtain for?" he asked as he used his hand to stop the sun from reaching his eyes. "Please love?" Rory glared before doing as told. "And those shades you were talking about, doll, they would be greatest appreciated."
"Finn, I love you and your charming smirk, but not even that is going to get me to buy you sunglasses now."
"Right," he said clearly disappointed. "Changing the subject... What were you two laughing about?"
"Rory just told me about Colin and his stunt," Logan answered.
Finn looked at Rory and asked, "the stalker thing?"
"Colin has pulled more than one stunt?" Logan asked amazed.
"Oh yeah," Rory nodded. "Colin reeaally doesn't like me."
"But Colin likes everybody!" Logan said. "He is the nice one, Finn's the drunk one-" The door flew open and Colin entered with a blond-haired girl. "-And I'm the hot one!" Logan went on teasing and smiled flirtatious.
"And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the Logan Huntzberger I know!" the blond, Stephanie, said as she walked over to the just as blond guy and hugged him. "Nice clothes, by the way," she said with a smile as she looked at her basicly naked friend. He only raised his eyebrows. "So... Long time, no see, Huntzberger. You didn't even bother to call! What is up with that? I'm suppose to be your best female friend, who is actually only a friend."
"Sorry Steph, I were busy," he answered with a smile.
"And we all know what that mean," Steph muttered. "So blond, brunette or redhead?" She noticed the smirk on his face grow bigger. "I'm killing you if you say all three."
Logan held his hands up in mock surrender. "Hey, you asked."
"And I repeat, the Logan Huntzberger I know." Shaking her head, Stephanie sighed before she turned her attention to the others. "Finn, hey. Why are you up?" she asked surprised.
"You know, one day I am going to be pissed by all of you talking about me like I am some lazy stupid man!"
"Said the guy who just had me roll the curtain for because the sun was too bright," Rory mumbled with a soft smile while everybody but Finn laughed.
"Doll, if you weren't so damn cute you would be out the door right now," Finn threatened. Rory simply rolled her eyes.
"Rory, what are you doing here anyway?" Stephanie asked with a smile.
"Oh," Rory stuttered. For the first time the whole morning she remembered her Dean-situation. "I don't want to bore you."
"Yeah, let's talk about something else," Finn quickly said when he saw the sad look in his friend's eyes. "Up for a party, everyone?"
"Aren't we always?" Colin said matter-of-fact. "That is of course if Reporter Girl doesn't need any more time wallowing over her boyfriend."
"Ex-boyfriend," Rory mumbled under her breath. "No, I'm fine, Colin. I must say, your concern really surprises me. Actually it warms my heart."
"Oh boy," Steph muttered. She knew where this was heading. Colin and Rory often had one of their discussion, as they called it. A fancy word for fights. To be honest it was kind of entertaining sometimes, as long as it was about stupids things. But she had known Rory for a few months now and she knew that it was not smart to make fun of her and Dean's relationship.
"Just because Finn has gone soft doesn't mean I will!"
"You know what? I don't know what Steph sees in you!" Rory yelled, standing up quickly and began walking away. "Stupid asshole!" she mumbled before walking out of the dorm.
"Cold-hearted bitch!" Colin looked up to see six pair of eyes staring intensely and angrily at him. Sighing, he turned his back to them. "I'll go apologize," he said as he went out the door.
The three other stared at the door for a moment, before Steph turned back and looked at the guys. "Do you think she realizes that she is still wearing her Betty Boop pajamas?"
