A/N: Now we get into the real story! Haha… thanks again for the amazing reviews all of you! You're making me actually want to write more! So really thanks so much! And remember that this is in fact a Rogan… but we're going to see some Trory action as well… I have some big ideas forming right now… I'll try and make this one very long! And maybe I'll start on chapter 4 too (I am here ( work) for 6 hours)! Enjoy!
Chapter 3: Dirty Hobo
12 years later
"Tris you are not wearing that! It's hideous!"
"Come on Ror please? It's a guy thing… the others on the team are wearing it and if I don't they'll think I'm some kind of pansy!"
"Well then they'll just have to think that won't they because Mr. DuGrey I will not be your date if you wear that. I'm sorry Tristan but I'll have to be dateless."
"Rory come on you're not serious! I thought you loved me?"
"I do Tristan but this is my last, our last, homecoming dance. Louise and Maddie are telling me that I'm a shoe in for Queen and I will not be queen if my date is dressed like a dirty hobo!"
"It's not a hobo costume Ror, it's a …"
"It's a what Tristan?"
"Never mind…"
"So does this mean you won't wear it?"
"No that's not what that means."
"I wonder if Jake Lynch is free still… Louise had hinted to me that he likes me…"
"Rory! Be realistic… you're going with me."
"No Tris I am going with a handsome boy in a suit, if that is you then yes I am you're date. If that isn't what you plan on wearing then I'm not your date."
"Rory you have been my girlfriend for 3 years and you won't even go to Home Coming with me?"
"It's up to you isn't it. I have to go now, the Mitch and Shira are here, I love you Tris. Talk to you later."
Rory and Tristan had in fact been dating since their freshman year Home Coming dance. Logan and Rory were the best of friends, as soon as he realised that Rory was not in fact there to ruin their lives. Steph got even closer than Logan did when she moved into the same Hartford neighborhood as Rory and went to the same school (even though they weren't in the same grade they were inseparable). Finn had in fact moved to Australia but his parents had promised he could return to the states when he was 18 to attend Yale University along with his friends. Colin was just… Colin… still pompous as ever, but had grown to love Rory and now considered her his unofficial little sister. Shira and Mitchum still came over once a month, but Logan never did and they only got to see each other on their summer vacations which were still spent at one another's houses.
"Mitch! Shira! This month passed too slowly! How are you? Oh my god Mitch I have the best book for you it's in my room I get it for you after we eat! Shira did you get new highlights? They look awesome!" to say that Rory loved them would be an understatement.
"I look forward to that book Rory, but I have a present for you first."
"I like presents what is it?"
"Oh a pony?" Lorelai asked.
"No ponies or horses mom, that incident at the carnival still haunts me that pony just die! IT DIED!" Rory yelled clearly reliving the memory. Just then a voice she wasn't expecting to here in person again until the next summer came in through the door.
"Yeah Rory it did die! And you were freaking out like a mad woman!" Logan said laughing at the memory.
"LOGAN!" Rory squealed jumping into his open arms.
Granted it had only been a month since she last saw him but she still missed him. He had changed from the cute 5 year old boy, into a 6 foot tall handsome man. He still had blonde hair, but instead of it being nicely combed like his mom used to do it, it was an organised mess that matched the impish grin in his deep brown eyes.
"Whoa there Ace relax… geez it must be this new cologne the girls just can't help but through themselves at me." He said with a cocky grin.
"Logan why are you here? Shouldn't you be at Andover?" she asked ignoring his comment.
"Uh Ror… I'm a Yalie now, and it really hurts to know that you forgot that bit of information." He said holding his hand over his heart and taking on a very dramatic expression.
"Oh … So you not visiting me more often was your own choice I get it." She said with her patented puppy-dog eyes and pout.
"Rory… I'm sorry… how can I make it up to you? Please I'd do anything."
"Anything? Would you take me to Home Coming?"
"Umm… What happen to Tristan?"
"Nothing, Hey mom, dad, Shira, Mitch do you mind if I steal Logan tonight?"
"Go ahead you two, Rory you're car is still in the shop, so you can take my Jag."
"Thanks daddy, Logan do you have your wallet?"
"Yeah…"
"Then let's get going!"
She pulled out of the driveway and made her way to some place Logan didn't know. After some time he realised they were on their way to Yale.
"Ace why are we going to Yale?"
"Because if you are at Yale that means that the others are too. You all felt the urge to keep me in the dark as to what you were doing this year and this summer you were at my house so I didn't see Colin or Finn plus they took my Stephie away to Europe so I had no one!"
"So I'm no one? What about Maddie, Louise, Paris, and your ever loving boyfriend Tristan?"
"Shush you." She replied because she had nothing better to say.
"And why do you need a date to Home Coming? I figured you'd be going with your future Husband."
"Him and his stupid football team are going to be idiots so I told him I would have no part in it and I wouldn't go with him unless he was in a nice suit. So I can go with you and I know you'll dress nicely!"
"Rory does he know that you've been planning this and your senior prom since you were 11 and had first heard about it?"
"Yeah… and he was always going to be my date too… Louise told me Tristan and I looked good together, and she assured me that he had no cooties or anything else wrong with him so it would be safe for me to be with him." She had been smiling as she recalled the day the girls had planned the perfect senior Prom and Home Coming, but her expression changed when she remembered that she had dreamt of Tristan for so long and now her dream was going to be ruined. "I'm not being stupid right Logan? I just wanted it to be perfect…" She pulled into a parking space next to a familiar red mustang (she had a matching one in black) and saw Colin, Stephanie, and Finn all walking into a building.
"It's the campus pub; Finn would live there if he could. Come on, let's get inside."
The pair walked into the pub to find their friends already downing the first round of what ever it was they were drinking.
"Where's Logan tonight? He never misses a trip to the pub if he can help it." Steph asked her two friends.
"He's having dinner with the lovely Rory." Finn answered flagging down the waitress to order another round.
"Last I checked she was dating Tristan, what happened?"
"It's a monthly family dinner we do, how was Europe?" Rory said pulling up a chair next to her favourite Australian.
"Love! I've missed you! I brought you some gifts from down under, I'll give them to you later though, cause I want to wrap them first."
"I look forward to it! So-" she stopped talking as her phone started to play "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot. "Hey Tris what's up?"
"I kept calling and calling you number, so I called the houses main number and was told you went out for dinner… just you and Logan."
"Well we're actually having drinks, not dinner I'm at Yale! And Colin, Finn and Steph are here too… do you want to come? Oh and don't worry about Home Coming, Logan said he'd take me so you can go with your team."
"Rory I want to go with you though… I always thought it'd be you and me… ever since we were 11 and you told me that I had to be good if I wanted to take you to Home Coming when we got older. Don't you want to go with me?"
"Of course I do you idiot… but I don't want to force-"
"This isn't force trust me, if it's a choice between a bunch of sweaty smelly guys and my gorgeous intelligent sweet and sexy girlfriend then you win hands down… please Rory?"
"Fine you big suck up… I love you, you know that right?"
"I do… and I love you too Ror… I'll let you get back to your friends."
"Come down here, it'll be fun! Please Tris?"
"I love that even though I can't see the eyes I know you're doing them. I'll be there as fast as I can, bye babe."
"Bye Tris."
"So he's coming?" Logan asked.
"Yeah and don't worry about Home Coming, I'm going with my 'future husband' as you put it."
"Drinks all around!" Finn yelled (apparently already quite drunk).
A little over a half an hour later Tristan walked in to see the group completely smashed and trying to tell stories from Europe to Rory, who was equally trying to tell stories from her and Logan's summer but only managing an unidentifiable slur.
"Rory! I was 30 minutes! Finn what did you give her?"
"A little of everything Trissy Poo! You're very handsome tonight, don't you think Steph?"
"Yeah you're gorgeous Trissy Poo!"
"Hands off ladies he's mine!" Rory slurred.
"Fine then I get Logan!" Finn said taking hold of Logan's hand and kissing it. Logan just leaned into Finn and fell asleep, giving Tristan the chance to take an adorable picture of the new couple; he wouldn't want them to forget their first night together.
"Never again… I will never drink again."
"Don't talk like that Ror, there's still so many nights for you to waste drinking, don't give up now." Tristan teased, only having had one beer himself he had no hang over.
"Shut up Tristan."
"Ouch Mary that hurts."
"You of all people know that that nick name doesn't work any more."
"It does too… I added Magdalene to it, but I just don't say that part out loud."
"I hate you."
"I love you too Mary, I'll go and fetch coffee and Tacos if you drink that water I put next to you and take those little white pills."
"Die."
"So no to the coffee then?"
"Coffee… yes… now."
"Right I don't need sentences, I'll be right back."
Rory sat up and downed the pills Tristan had put out for her, along with the glass of water. She heard some one moaning from the floor and saw Finn sprawled out on his back, with one arm covering his eyes.
"Rory?"
"Hey Finny, Tristan went to get tacos and coffee do you want some Advil?"
"Yes please love."
Five minutes later the two were found curled up on the couch together fast asleep once again. Ten minutes later they were woken by Tristan putting tacos under their noses.
"Mmm… I love you so much right now." Finn said, after taking a large bite of his burrito.
"How is Logan going to feel when I tell him what you said?" Tristan asked his Aussie friend seriously.
"Uhh… What on earth are you talking about Tristan?" Finn asked confusedly. He watched Tristan take out his phone and flip through the pictures then had a huge smile on his face and turned the phone so Finn could see the picture of himself holding Logan with one of his hands holding one of Logan's.
"The perfect couple if you ask me." Tristan said with a smirk.
"Bad night." Finn mumbled then hid his face under Rory's hair, while she examined the cuddly picture of two of her best guy friends.
A/N: Okay… Honestly I'm just tired… I didn't sleep last night (on a good note I finally found a coffee that I'm not immune to! It actually keeps me awake!) So I'm dying to just fall asleep. Luckily for me the store I work at isn't really that busy in the last little bit so I'll be able to just listen to some music and not really do much of anything until I close (and I take a taxi for the first time in my life.) … Crap my boss just called and asked me to do something that HAS to be finished for the person opening tomorrow so I've gotta jet… I hope tomorrow night I can write chapter 4! Much love, Courtney (aka. FinnisIMP)
