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Rory sat on a kitchen stool waiting for Steph to emerge from the bedroom. When she did she was holding a big comforter. "Let's go outside and we can talk." she suggested.
Rory nodded and followed her best friend out of the cottage.
Steph and Rory wrapped themselves up in the comforter that Finn had given Steph to use as they sat outside.
"So, What happened? You told Finn nothing happened but he could tell you were lying." Steph told her.
"I didn't want to lie to him, I hate lying in general." Rory said quietly.
"Don't worry about it, Ror. Just please tell me what happened."
"I had sex with Logan." Rory said slightly above a whisper as tears welled up in her eyes.
"Oh, Ror. Come here." Steph said hugging her best friend tightly. Rory probably thought she could handle the situation at the time but the aftermath of it was to much for her.
"I'm stupid, I can't believe I did this." Rory sobbed.
"It's ok. It'll be ok." Steph whispered rubbing comforting circles on her best friends back.
"No, No it won't."
"Ror, I know this isn't something you really want to talk about right now but you were safe right?" Steph asked.
"He used a condom. And I'm on the pill" Rory said though her tears.
"That's right. Ok, So you were safe, that's good." Steph muttered trying her best to calm Rory down.
Steph heard food steps on the porch and she saw Finn walking up to them with a second blanket.
"I figured you girls could use this." he smiled sincerely at them.
Rory tried to hide her face from Finn but it didn't work. "Are you alright, Love?"
Rory nodded but a sob came out at the same time. Finn looked at Steph who just shrugged. She didn't think Rory would appreciated her telling Finn she had slept with Logan.
"What's wrong?" Finn asked again pulling Rory into a hug.
"Nothing." Rory managed to get out.
"Does this have to do with Logan?" Finn asked cautiously. Finn didn't have any of his own sisters and he had in the short time he had known them adopted Rory and Paris as his own.
Steph cut in noticing the panic on Rory's face. "Sort of."
"What did he do?" Finn questioned his voice thick with concern.
"Finn, It's a girl thing." Steph said trying to stress that hoping he'd catch on without her having to say anything.
Finn looked at her confused then it all clicked. Rory being in bed with Logan when he went to get the condoms, her acting strange when she left his room and lastly the hysterical crying. They'd had sex and he was guessing it was her first time.
Not wanting to upset her more than she already was he hugged her and kissed the top of her head. "I'll leave you girls alone but Ror, Just know you can talk to me about anything." he told her.
Rory hugged him back "Thanks."
He walked over to Steph gave her a kiss on the lips and hugged her "Tell me about it later?" He asked. "Maybe." She whispered back.
He nodded and walked back into the cottage.
Sitting in silence staring at the stars Rory still had tears falling but she had calmed down a bit.
"I don't want to see him tomorrow." Rory confessed.
"You can't hide from him forever." Steph smiled sympathetically.
"I wish I could. I wish I could go home and snuggle up in my bed and never face the world."
"I promise. When we get back, we'll call your mom and we'll have a wallow fest. Nothing but super sappy movies and super sugary foods. How's that sound?"
"Good." Rory responded as she wiped the tears that were still silently falling.
"It'll be ok. I promise." Steph said pulling her friend into another hug.
"Thank you so much, Steph. You should be in the cottage with Finn instead of out here taking care of your emotional wreak of a friend."
"You might be an emotional wreak but you're my emotional wreak." Steph assured her with a smile.
"We should go inside, It's freezing." Rory said shivering.
"Let's go." Steph repeated as they walked into the cottage wrapped together in the blanket.
They walked into their room and Rory immediately got into her bed and curled into a ball. Steph looked at her and her heart broke, her best friend looked confused and broken.
"You can go back and be with Finn." Rory told her.
Steph just shook her head. "I am staying here with you, You need me more than Finn." She stated firmly crawling into Rory's bed. "Night, Ror."
Rory turned over and turned off her light "Night, Steph."
Logan woke up around eight the next morning. Opening his eyes he realized Rory was not sleeping next to him and her side of the bed was cold.
He sat up and looked around to see that all her clothing was gone. In the few times he had experienced a girl sticking around after sex they always put on his shirt when they got out of bed.
He got out of bed and threw on some lounge pants and a t-shirt before making his way out of the room. The cottage was quiet except for the slight ruffle of papers from the kitchen.
Walking in that direction he saw Colin and Paris sitting at the table both reading the paper and eating breakfast. "Morning." Logan greeted.
"Morning." Colin and Paris said in unison not looking up from the paper.
"Have a good night?" Logan questioned.
"It was fine, Why?"
"Oh, Just asking." Logan shrugged then walked towards his friend and gentle poked his neck "Nice Hickey."
With that he walked down the hall into Finn's room. Opening the door slowly and cautiously because you never knew what you'd see when you went in there he peaked in. All he saw was Finn asleep, alone in his bed.
"Odd." Logan thought to himself. "Steph and him got together last night."
Walking down the hall he poked his head into Rory and Steph's room.
Rory was in the same bed as Steph but Steph was sitting up sitting up slightly and Rory's head was laying on the pillow and her cheeks were tear stained.
She was pale and exhausted looking. His heart sunk at the knowledge that he had done that to her .
Closing the door quietly he walked back to the kitchen feeling nothing but guilt.
Rory woke up and groaned. Her body was achy and sore, her head hurt and she felt sick to her stomach. All the events of yesterday came rushing back to her and the room began to spin.
Curling into a ball and squeezing her eyes shut she wished that it would all just disappear. She wished she had never done the auction, that she had never met Logan.
She let tears stream down her face hoping that they could wash away her problems.
There was a quick knock at the door then it opened. The foot steps walked closer to the bed and sat next to her.
"Ror." Paris whispered.
Rory's eyes opened slightly at the recognition of her friends voice. "Hi." was the only thing she could manage to get out with out breaking down into sobs.
"Steph told me what happened. How you holding up?"
Rory wanted to say she was fine. She wanted to jump out of bed and go banter with Logan like they had before but that wasn't a possibility anymore.
Rory just shook her head as the tears flooded her eyes and down her cheeks. Paris took Rory into her arms and hugged her.
"You and Steph shouldn't have to take care of me. I didn't do this for you." Rory whispered.
"Yes, you did. After I slept with Jamie we went shopping and had a movie night of nothing but Megan Ryan movies."
"And we all cried hysterically at the end of 'Sleepless in Seattle' for no reason." Rory recalled. The memory made her smile, she loved hanging out with her friends.
Paris comforted Rory as she cried and fell back asleep. Slipping out of the room quietly she walked into the living room.
Colin and Finn were arguing about which was better 'Finding Nemo' or 'Toy Story', Logan was sitting on the couch already nursing what appeared to be whiskey and Steph was buttering some toast.
"How is she doing?" Steph asked quietly hoping not to bring the guys attention to their conversation.
"She balled her eyes out and fell asleep."
They didn't think he could hear them but he did. Logan was listening to how Rory was inside her room crying about something he had done to her.
Slamming back the rest of his drink he went to get another but was stopped by Paris. "I don't think so buddy, Your not going to drown whatever sorrows you might have in alcohol."
"Can I go talk to her?" He asked hopefully.
Steph shook her head. "Even if she wasn't sleeping, I'd still say no. She's not ready to sit down and talk to you. Hell, If I were you I'd consider myself lucky if she even looks at you for the rest of the weekend."
"Why are you making me out to be the bad guy!" Logan exclaimed.
"We're not. At least we are trying not to. We understand that Rory is nineteen years old and is able to make her own decisions but she's still our best friend. She's hurt, confused and emotionally strained. She just needs a little time alone."
"What the fuck happened last night!" Finn yelled. "I looked the other way when the girl that I have come to love as my sister was bawling her eyes out last night but I'd really love to know the details."
"Me too!" Colin chimed in.
"I know you three gossip like little old ladies that play bingo together so, I am sure Logan will fill you in." Steph said as the two girls turned around and walked towards the bedroom Rory was in.
"What the hell did you do to her?" Finn question again.
"I didn't do anything!" Logan defended.
"Bullshit." Colin stated. "Fess up."
"She came to my room last night and we were talking then all of a sudden we were kissing and we ended up in my bed. We were about to have sex when she confess that she was a virgin. I said we needed to stop because she needed to be in love. She then told that she didn't care and she wanted to do it. So…We did."
Finn shook his head and smacked Logan. "I don't care if she threatened to tell every girl at Yale you're gay. Why would you have sex with her? You know your reputation and that means you should know better than to use girls like Rory and then cast them aside."
"I'm not going to cast her aside!"
"Then what Logan? She knows that she was one of the many. She knows that you don't think she's special. She's not going to want to become someone in your little black book."
"I kissed her." Logan said slightly above a whisper.
"Yeah, You did a lot more than that." Colin stated dryly.
"No, I mean I kissed while we were having sex."
"So?"
"So, I don't do that. I kiss before sex and I might kiss after but never and I mean never have I ever kissed a girl during sex." Logan confessed.
"What does that mean?" Colin asked.
"I don't know. It was just instinctive to kiss her. To hold her close to me after we were finished. I've never done that before."
"I think that being with Rory meant a lot more to you than you thought it would." Finn stated. "I mean, You can't deny that you've had a thing for Rory since the day of the Auction."
"You haven't went out on a date with anyone since then." Colin pointed out.
"It's to late for any of that to matter. Like you said, She already thinks she's one of the many and there isn't anything I can do to convince her other wise." Logan shook his head. "I'm going to take a shower." he said as he left the living room and into his room.
Colin and Finn didn't know what to do for Logan. This was the first time he ever had truly sincere, meaningful feelings for a girl and she wasn't going to want anything to do with him anymore, Not that they could blame her.
I am not happy about this chapter, This was the fifteenth attempt at it. Which I realize qualifies me as a loser to have so much time on my hands to try and write this 15 times.
I couldn't seem to find a way to follow up last chapter. So I apologized if it completely sucks, I might try to rewrite it again but I doubt the outcome will be much better.
Please Review, They are always welcome!