Hey everyone! I've had some major writers block, I've tried over and over again to write this chapter. This is attempt number five.
Someone suggested I get a beta, I'd love to know if anyone is interested. Let me know, Please!
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Rory had thrown herself into her studies. That way when someone asked her if she had talked to Logan she had a reasonable excuse to say no.
That's not for his lack of trying, Of course. Logan had tried everything to get in touch with her. He'd done everything from visiting her in newsroom to taping notes on her bedroom window.
She had to admit she missed him. Though their relationship had been a bit rocky ever since he got back to the States. A little drama filled time with Logan was a lot better than none at all.
Rory decided she needed coffee, she'd been in the newsroom with Doyle for almost two hours and anything over twenty minutes with Doyle was to much to endure.
As she walked out to the coffee kiosk she sighed the line was almost twelve people long. "This is ridiculous!" These people did not need coffee like she did. Coffee was her life line.
"Well, well, well if it isn't Rory Hayden." She heard a deep voice from behind her say. Then she heard a familiar chuckle. Turning around she was greeted with Tristan DuGrey and Jess Mariano.
"Oh my…" She trailed off before launching herself into Tristan's arms then pulling away and repeating the action with Jess.
"Why on earth are you guys doing here?" Rory asked disbelievingly.
"Well, Turns our my old man thinks I should go to Yale, it's much more closer to home and god knows how I love to be home." Tristan rolled his eyes.
"Your going to Yale?" Rory questioned only to be responded by Tristan shaking his head. "Nah, I am just here for the pretty picture in my Dad's head to make him think I am considering transferring from Princeton."
"Oh, and I thought you were here to see me." Rory pouted giving him puppy eyes.
"Ror, You know I cannot resist the puppy eyes! Of course I had every intention of coming to see you! That was the only reason I didn't arguing for a full hour to visiting this campus, I cut it back to a mere 45 minutes."
"Well, I am glad I am worth those fifteen minutes." She laughed. "But that doesn't explain why you're here, Mariano."
"Can't a guy just come and see his ex-girlfriend who he has remained close friends with?" He ask innocently.
"A normal guy could, but you can't."
"I'm hurt that you would even consider me being here for any other reason than your company!" He said feigning hurt.
"Shove it. What's the real reason?" Rory asked.
"DuGrey dragged me along. I was perfectly content hanging out in Stars Hollow." He shrugged. "Liar, Paris was driving you crazy and you told her you were going to be away for the day so she couldn't call you." Tristan revealed.
"We all told you Paris was a little high strong but god forbid you take our word for it." Rory said shaking her head and letting out a little laugh.
Rory had dated Jess for about a month when they realized they were better off as friends. There was no romantic spark, Not to mention in her mind she was still picturing a blonde haired, brown eyed boy that was traipsing Europe.
It had take Steph, Tristan and Rory forever to get Jess to admit that he liked Paris. Once they started dating they warned him that Paris was a little high strong but he didn't believe them. However, he was in for the shock of his life when he got to know the real Paris Geller.
"Don't get me wrong. I love her, she's amazingly driven and smart but there is something about her that makes me want to kiss her and duck tape her mouth shut so she can't talk at the same time." Jess admitted.
Tristan and Rory laughed, Jess was crazy about Paris and as much as he wanted to pretend she was just some chick to him everyone knew how he really felt.
"So, Does Steph know you guys are here?" Rory asked as they began to walk towards her dorm room.
"Nope, This is a surprise visit." he smiled "Plus, I knew that if I told Steph that she would tell you. I love her but she cannot keep a secret to save her life."
"True." Rory laughed. "Well, Let's head back to my dorm and see whose hanging around."
"Sounds like a plan." Tristan grinned. Rory smiled and linked her left arm with Tristan's and her right arm with Jess as they walked in the direction of her dorm.
Rory knew that Finn, Steph and Logan were sitting in her dorm watching TV because that what they did every Thursday afternoon. So she decided to have a little fun.
"You two wait out here." She ordered as she turned to burst into her dorm room. "What the hell, Ror?" Finn asked confused at what all the fuss was.
"I'm sorry Finn, But Steph we've got to leave. Our boyfriends have come back for us. And remember we did promise them we'd wait forever for them."
Steph didn't know what Rory was doing but she decided to play along. "They're back! I missed them so much." She said dramatically then turned back to Finn. "Sorry Finn, But you were just a temporary replacement until my true soul mate returned to me!"
Finn suddenly paled and looked very upset and Logan just looked confused and praying to god that she was kidding. "They're waiting outside for us so they can whisk us off to Paris and make honest women of us!" Rory said excitedly.
"Well, Then why are we still here with these losers!" Steph exclaimed and threw the door open only to be greeted with Jess and Tristan.
"Oh my god!" Steph screamed hugging Tristan tightly. "What are you guys doing here!" she said and pulled Jess into a hug as well.
"Visiting our favorite girls, of course!" Tristan said winking at Rory. "I missed you guys so much!" she said hugging them both again.
"Umm…Stephanie?" Finn said wearily peaking out of the dorm room cautiously. "Finn! Meet my lover, Jess." She said seriously throwing her arms around Jess's neck. "Jess, Meet your temporary replacement Finn."
"I always knew you had a thing for guys with a accent! How can I compete with that, Steph?" Jess stated trying to muster up as much dramatic effect as he could. Clearly, Jess was not meant to be an actor because he was not convincing.
Both Rory and Steph fell into giggles from the looks on Logan and Finn's faces. Steph walked over and hugged Finn. "Don't worry, Babe. You're my number one. This is Jess and Tristan our friends from Chilton."
"Friends?" Finn questioned skeptically. "Hey, No worries man. I've got a girlfriend. Name's Paris." Jess reassured the Australian that was giving him a death glare.
"Yeah, plus if anyone's gotta worry about Jess it'd be Logan. Jess is after all, Rory's ex-boyfriend." Steph blurted out before she could stop herself.
Rory glared and Steph sent her a look of apology. "I mean…It wasn't for a long time. Only a month. They were better off as friends." Steph elaborated noticing the look on Logan's face. It had turned cold and guarded.
"Two steps forward, fifty steps back." Rory thought to herself as she leaned back and hit her head against the wall.
"Ror, Stop that! Your going to give yourself brain damaged." Tristan joked when he noticed Rory repeatedly smacking her head against the wall.
"I won't be that lucky." She muttered. "I'm hungry. I am going to the pub, Come if you want. I don't care." she said walking out of the dorm corridor.
"I'm in. I haven't ate since seven o'clock this morning at Luke's." Tristan shrugged as him and Jess ran to catch up to Rory.
"Steph, Who are those guys really?" Logan questioned.
"We met Tristan at Chilton when he proclaimed Rory to be the schools Mary. But we soon became friends and he dropped the Mary bit. Then we met Jess in Stars Hollow, where Lorelai has the inn. Jess and Rory dated for about a month and they saw what everyone else saw, they didn't have any chemistry."
Logan let out a breath he didn't know he was holding. "Plus, Regardless of how much she denied it. Every guy she went out with she compared to a certain blonde guy who was in Switzerland."
"They look awfully comfortable together." Finn pointed out. Steph elbowed him in the rubs and shook her head 'NO'
"Jess and Tristan were for us when things happened . Granted Jess was the boyfriend that she got into the car accident with but they got past that. They also beat the shit out of that guy who tried to feel Rory up."
"I know it shouldn't bother me but I gotta admit I hate thinking that she had a life here…without me." Logan laughed at how selfish he sounded. He was allowed to have his own life and friends but she wasn't.
"Logan, I have one thing to say to you. Make your move and make it soon. She's gonna get tired of waiting for you. You might always have her heart but any girl in her position is going to start to think that he person who has it doesn't want it." Steph advised.
"But I do want it." Logan protested.
"Then tell her, Mate." Finn smiled reassuringly. "Tell her tonight."
"Tonight." Logan repeated. "I will tell her tonight."
"Good, Now lets go." Steph said pulling both guys towards the pub where Rory and the guys were residing.
Finn walked into the pub with his arm slung around Steph's shoulder and Logan followed behind them. They found Jess and Tristan sitting at a table but they didn't see Rory. Which immediately worried Logan.
"Hey guys, Where's Rory?" Steph questioned. "Well after she stopped ranting about taking two steps forward and fifty steps back…which confused the hell out of me. She said needed some air."
"She's talking about you!" Steph accused with a pointed stare at Logan.
"I don't know what steps she's talking about!"
"Two steps ahead in her relationship with you and fifty steps back. She obviously thinks your upset about Tris and Jess."
"I was jealous, Yes. Angry, not so much." Logan admitted.
"Go to her." Jess told him as he pointed out the pub window to a pacing Rory. Logan smiled "Thanks, man."
They watched as Logan walked out of the pub and led Rory to a bench. "I swear if they don't come in here holding hands and saying 'I love you' I will kill them both." Steph threatened.
"Not all of us can be as lucky as you and Finn." Tristan said sincerely. "He's right, Blondie." Finn said pulling her closer to him and kissing the top of her head.
Logan walked and spotted Rory talking to herself. He laughed to himself he found it amazingly adorable that she was talking to herself.
"Ace." He called as he walked up to her. She looked up at his with big, sad eyes. "Hi."
"We've got to talk." he said as he lead her over to a bench out of view from the pub window. "You know what was going through my mind as I met Jess and Tristan?"
Rory shook her head sadly "No, but if it's anything I deserve. I don't blame you." she whispered.
"What are you talking about? You haven't done anything wrong."
"I was the reason you go completely wasted, I am the one who completely ignored the fact that you said you loved me. It's all my fault your not with me." She whimpered as tears threatened to spill onto her face.
"Hey, Look at me." Logan tilted her chin up to look in his eyes. "None of that is your fault. You didn't hand me that Alcohol. Not unless you magically learned to morph into Finn."
Rory let our a little smile through her tears.
"I didn't really expect you to say much about what happened at the café because I didn't declare my love for you as much as explain it. Honor has drilled it into my head since I was little that every girl wants a guy to declare his love for her not just assume she knows." He told her.
She smiled and leaned into him slightly. "So, Rory Hayden. I am here declaring my undying love for you. You have my heart and always have." he told her confidently.
Her eyes began to overflow with tears and he frowned "I didn't mean to upset you."
"Happy tears Logan, Happy tears." She laughed as she crashed her lips onto his after she pulled back "I love you to Logan, so much."
He stood up and pulled her into a hug then proceeded to swing her around happily. "Your finally, My Ace." he mumbled into her hair.
"I was always your, Ace." she told him and kissed him again.
They knew they still had a lot to talk about but right now they were enjoying finally being in each others arms. Rory felt like she was heaven and Logan was just glad to finally feel like he was home.
I know this chapter was slightly corny but I couldn't help it, Rory and Logan needed to be together. It was getting on my nerves that they weren't and it was my own story.
I know I said no Tristan and Jess but they just sort of worked into my story. Earlier I mentioned Seth and Robert (just mentally replace them with Tristan and Jess.) SORRY ABOUT NOT STAYING CONSISTANT..I AM A VERY INDECISIVE PERSON
There is still no Dean, I hate him. Him and his floppy hair.
More Finn/Steph action next chapter...Because I for one like that pairing!
Anyways, Reviews are welcome!