A/N: Wow guys! Firstly I would like to thank all of my fabulous reviewers! I've been writing on HPFF for a couple of years now, and I've never received such a response to a story before! So here's chapter 2… Umm… thanks to a review I'm gonna change the ages a bit… Logan, Steph, Colin and Finn are 6 and about to start grade 1, Rory is 5 and starting kindergarten. Cool? I'm keeping with the theme of being bored at work and using that time (instead of looking at the wall for 6 hours) to write new chapters! Hope you like it!
Chapter 2: Turned Tables
"Logan I found you!" Stephie screamed as she spotted Logan crouching behind a chair in his room. It was almost the end of the summer and the foursome could be found having as much fun as they could 'cause they had all been told by their parents that they would be starting Grade 1 in September, which meant boarding school.
"Gees Stephie don't yell! Did you find Colin or Finn yet?" the disgruntled six year old asked.
"Nope, but you're gonna help me!" she said, smiling at him and pulling him along behind her.
"Fine, I'll go this way, you go that way." He said pointing in opposite directions. They split up and started the hunt for their other friends. Logan found Finn standing behind a lamp (looking like he was trying to blend in with the wall behind it) and the two went to find Steph and Colin. A minute into their search they heard Steph screech.
"I guess she found Colin, let's go Finn."
Stephanie had been looking for the two remaining friends when she spotted the top of someone's head… a brunette head!
"FOUND YOU COLIN!" she screeched with glee. Only it wasn't Colin that screamed and jumped at her announcement, it was Rory.
"I'm not Colin! I'm not even a boy!" Rory said with shock that someone could have mistaken her for that butt-head. She got up from her spot on the floor leaving her 'hug-a-world' behind her, and ran as quickly as her little legs would carry her. She wasn't watching where she was running, just thinking it was the general direction of her room, didn't see the approaching Logan and Finn, and ran into the former.
"Ouch Rory, why are you so dumb I was obviously right there!" Logan said angrily pointing to where he had been standing moments before. Obviously this wasn't the right thing to say to her, because she got up as fast as she could and ran the rest of the way to her room with tears streaming down her face.
Finn had already gone to see Stephanie, and Colin had come out of hiding to see what the yelling had been about, but Logan stayed in his spot on the floor. Staring at the spot where Rory had fallen, he could hear his friends talking behind him but he couldn't stop thinking that maybe they had gone a little too far, but being a four year old this thought didn't fully process, so he thought she was just trying to get some attention. All summer she had been doing it and his dad and mom had fallen into her trap; he wasn't going to.
Walking over to his friends he picked up the plush world that was on the ground and laughed at how weird she was. The group decided they'd go outside for a little bit, but as soon as they got down the main staircase the front door opened to reveal the same man and women from three months ago. Just then Shira and Mitchum rushed out of the adjacent room and embraced the new arrivals.
"She's a gem Chris! I can't wait to have her over again! I think we'll have to have at least monthly, maybe weekly dinners!" Mitchum said, now hugging Lorelai, and giving her a little kiss on the cheek.
"I like that idea, we'll have to work it out later though, and both of our parents want the same thing so we're trying to work it out. Where's Rory?" Lorelai had been talking to Shira, but then addressed the last question to the foursome that stood behind them.
"Umm… She's in her room, just getting something… I'll go get her." Logan said looking uneasy.
He ran as fast as he could up to her room, and passing the stuffed globe on the ground he picked it up so that it might cheer her up.
"Rory?" he asked tentatively as he opened her door. He watched her look up from a picture and saw the tears still pouring down her cheeks.
"Logan? What do you want?"
"I brought you your globe…"
"Hug-A-World… it's called a Hug-A-World."
"Sorry… Rory the real reason I'm here is 'cause you're parents are here… they're down in the entrance hall now. So you should get down there." He didn't need to say anything else, she grabbed her toy from his hand, the picture she was looking at was still firmly grasped in her other hand and she ran through the door and down the stairs and right into her daddy's arms.
"Hey kiddo, miss me much?" he said laughing as she squeezed him even tighter. He kissed her on her cheek and asked Lorelai to take the things out of Rory's hands (the frame was poking him in the back a little too hard). Shira and Mitchum both said goodbye to Rory and Rory was excited when Mitchum said he'd visit her soon. She didn't even bother saying goodbye to the other kids and the newly reunited family walked out the door, only returning seconds later.
"Shira… next summer, send Logan to our place. We could get to know the little guy it'd be fun!" Lorelai said in a playful tone.
"I like it! We'll send him at the start of June, just after he comes home from school."
"Sounds like a plan, we'll talk later, goodbye again!"
The Following May
"Mommy does he have to come? I had enough of him last summer."
"Yeah but this time the ball is in your court Ror." Chris said as though it solved everything.
"I don't have a ball… and even if I did why would it be in court? Daddy your crazy." Rory said laughing at her fathers confused expression.
"Rory babe go and play with your friends and then… Logan will come… but maybe he won't be so bad right? I mean maybe you remember it wrong! That's it… and to welcome him here we'll have a movie night, and maybe Tristan and him will get along so he'll be nice and have fun with you eh? Sound good? I know I'm brilliant! Now go, they're sitting in your room waiting for you!"
Rory walked out of Logan's temporary room and into her own, which was right across the hall. Her best friends that she had met in school in September were lying on her bed talking about 'the new guy' aka. Logan. They were Tristan, Madeline, Louise and Paris.
"Rory what does he look like?" Louise asked. "Is he cuter than Tristan?"
"Tristan? Hmm… I always thought Tristan looked like that monkey we saw on the field trip to the Zoo, so I guess he is cute… in a fuzzy animal way." Rory said laughing at the disgruntled expression of her best friend.
"What about Logan?"
"He's a gigantic butt head… that's it." Rory answered, remembering all the times Logan had made fun of her, and had ignored her along with his friends.
"Rory he's here, all of you downstairs now please." Lorelai said quickly poking her head into the room.
Logan couldn't believe he had to spend all of his free time with Rory at her house. He couldn't even do anything with his friends! He had come home from his first year at school yesterday evening, and it seemed like he had dinner, slept, and now his parents are shipping him off again! He was walking up the front steps to a house that held his boredom for the summer. He rang the bell and the door swung open to reveal a smiling Chris and Lorelai. They had, in fact, installed a bi-weekly dinner but it was just the two couples and Rory (seeing as Logan was away at school). Rory stood behind her parents, with her friends standing behind her very much like he had done to her the year before.
"Hey Logan, how've you been?" Chris started off.
"Umm… Good…"
"You obviously know Rory." Logan looked right into her eyes and she glared at him.
"Rory introduced your friends."
"This is Maddie, Paris, Louise, and Tristan."
"It's nice to meet you all." He replied and then heard Louise say,
"He is cute… not sure if he beats Tristan though."
"Come on guys let's go to my room, bye Logan," and with that the five of them walked back up the stairs to Rory's room. Leaving Lorelai, Chris, and Logan behind.
"I'm sorry Logan, I don't know why she did that… we'll take you up to your room then you can join them. We're having a movie night tonight at 8, so if you wanted to call one of your friends to come over then you can." Lorelai said, then ushered him up the stairs and showed him to his room.
"Why don't you like him Rory? He seemed cool." Tristan asked as they all lay on Rory's bed.
"Because he was mean to me. Him and all of his stupid friends." She grumbled to him. Just then there was a knock on the door and Logan was standing in the door frame.
"Uh… Rory? Your mom said I could invite someone over for a movie night… but is that okay with you?"
Rory looked at him shocked that he had even asked her. "If my mom said you can then you can."
"Who do you think I should invite? You pick."
"I don't care Logan… Finn… invite Finn. There problem solved."
"Okay…" and with that Logan walked back out of her room and into his own.
"Rory he's nice, I think you must have imagined him being mean," Maddie said.
"I didn't!"
"Let's go swimming Rory!" Paris said.
"Fine let's go."
Ten minutes later the group left Rory's room to head down to her pool. Logan's door was open and Rory saw him just sitting on his bed. She told the others she'd meet them and walked into his room.
"Logan? We were all going swimming… do you want to come? I know we're not your friends but my friends are really fun." She said really fast, and to her relief he smiled and ran into his bathroom coming out a minute later in swim trunks.
"Logan I'm here to save you!" Finn said as he came up to the door Lorelai had said belonged to Logan. But he opened it to find an empty room, he heard voices across the hall, and opened that door to see Logan tickling Rory along with another blonde boy and three girls laughing at Rory as she tried to get away.
"Logan get off! Tristan stop! Please!"
"Uh… Hello?"
Everyone stopped what they were doing when they heard Finn.
"Oh hey Finn, umm… hi!" when Logan said this everyone started laughing, making Finn feel like he had walked into a crazy house.
"Finn do you want to stay here this summer?" Rory asked from underneath Tristan and Logan.
"Umm… I uh… I've got this thing… sorry Logan… I can stay tonight, but I'm leaving tomorrow." Logan stopped laughing and looked questioningly at his best friend.
"Mum and dad are taking the whole family back to Australia."
"For…?"
"We're moving back Logan, but my mum said I can visit you guys though."
"Well then Finny, we need to make your last night fun! Rory declared, as she wiggled out from under the boys. To the movie room!"
A/N: I could have made this longer but I'm not feeling top notch, so I'm going to leave it there. Hope you liked it… Just so you know I will be going through their summers quite quickly until they are either 17 or 18 years old. I didn't want the entire story to be about their childhoods. So yeah, review please! And as soon as I feel a bit better I'll get chapter 3 up!
