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Logan was about to leave when Rory's voice stopped him, "By the way…Tracey said she can't wait for your date tomorrow."
"Who?"
"Tracey, she's very excited." Rory spat bitterly.
"I don't know who that is, Ace."
"Don't lie for my benefit."
"Rory, I am telling you the truth! I have no idea who Tracey is, but I can assure you I have absolutely no knowledge of arranging a date with her."
"Then why would she call you? Why would she say that you have a date tomorrow?" Rory asked trying her hardest not to cry in front of him.
"I don't know! My cell phone number, as much as I am against it, is available to the public due to the amount of dating I used to do."
"I don't believe that," Rory told him. "I don't believe that you've all of a sudden stopped dating. So, I advise you to go before I am forced to call Paris."
"You wouldn't call Paris to remove me from your dorm, Rory."
"I would because Paris is pretty protective of me and tends to act when I am not exactly comfortable with the situation."
"You're not comfortable with me being here?" Logan asked, confused by the situation. He had no idea who Tracey was and he hadn't had a date since he bought a date with Rory at the auction…Not that he'd ever admit that to her.
Rory paused for a moment, "NO."
"Fine, I'm leaving," Logan said dejectedly. "But Rory, I'm not going on a date tomorrow, because in all honesty the one person I want seems to continually find reasons to push me away."
"Save your sappy lines for someone who will buy them." Rory snapped.
Logan shrugged, grabbed his coat and left.
The minute the door was she Rory's tears began to fall, she wanted to believe him and know that he was telling her the truth, but she couldn't. There was a voice in her head saying there was no reason to give him a little credit because he'd done nothing to prove he deserved it.
Rory felt torn, the angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other. The angel was telling her that he had taken care of her when she was sick and had been so kind to her at the LDB weekend and he wouldn't dump her like that. The devil telling her that a tiger can't change his spots, why should he stop dating other people, they weren't dating.
Rory curled further into a ball and let her tears fall. She knew she shouldn't care, she had told herself when they first met that she shouldn't care about him because he wouldn't care about her.
Logan closed the door and the moment he did he heard her begin to sniffle and his heart broke. He honest to god did not have a clue who Tracey was. He'd slept with a lot of girls and dated even more but he was almost positive he'd never come across a girl named Tracey.
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Deciding to give Rory her space, he walked back to his dorm. The moment he opened the door he was greeted by Finn and Colin yelling. 'I am so not in the mood for this.' he thought to himself.
"Colin, I swear that you will wake up with no toes if you do not give that back!"
"No! I refuse, I'm sick of listening to it."
"I live here too! You cannot dictate what I can and cannot do."
"I can and I will." Colin shouted back.
"You bloody bastard!" Finn hissed angrily.
"Are you aware what you are fighting for?" Colin asked incredulously.
"Yes, it's a good cause."
"No, Finn. It's not."
"Who the hell are you to tell me what's good and what's not?"
"I'm a human."
"Debatable."
"Can you even spell debatable?"
"Yes! D-e-b-a-t-able!"
"That's your Yale education in the works." Colin said sarcastically.
"If I remember correctly, Colin, I got a better score than you on the SAT's." Finn sneered.
"That's because you got me drunk the night before!"
"I was drunk the night before as well!" Finn argued.
"You're always drunk! You're blood stream is used to it!"
"I'll kill you!"
"GUYS!" Logan yelled tired of listening to his two friends bicker back and forth.
"What!" They both yelled in unison.
"What are you fighting over?" Logan questioned.
"Finn's completely stupid, ridiculous, immature, annoying…"
"Stop with the adjectives, Colin." Finn said dryly.
"I think this day should down in history, Finn actually knows what an adjective is!" Colin said in false excitement.
"Guys!" Logan intervened, "Can you please explain to me what started all of this?"
"He took my Teddy Geiger CD!" Finn accused.
Logan's mouth dropped open in shock that his friends could be so immature. "You are fighting because he took a fucking CD?" he exploded.
"Yes!"
"Colin, give him back the CD and Finn go put the CD on your iPod and if you still feel you have to listen to it loudly, then play it in your room. Teddy Geiger is good music…In moderation." Logan ordered.
Colin grudgingly handed the CD back to Finn. "Why are you so pissed off?"
"I'm not." Logan denied.
"Bullshit, usually you find our petty fights entertaining, but tonight you look like you are going to murder us in our sleep."
"Long day."
"Didn't you just come from Rory's room?" Finn question sitting on the couch.
"Yeah."
"Things not so good in paradise?"
"There is no paradise because there is no couple."
"Which you seem awfully bitter about." Colin pointed out.
"Shut up, Colin."
"Hey, just an observation. I understand that you like her, we all do. Except for maybe her."
"You've got to show her how you feel. In the words of that British guy on 'Chasing Liberty' make the big gesture." Finn advised.
"Don't you think I've tried!" Logan exclaimed "I've done everything besides getting on my hands and knees to beg her to give me a chance."
"Then what's the problem?"
"She apparently thinks I'm going on a date with someone named Tracey." Logan sighed.
"You haven't had any dates since the auction." Finn stated.
"I know that, you know that and every girl on the Yale campus knows that, but Rory doesn't know that and I don't intend to tell her."
"Why not? It would prove that this Tracey girl is obviously just trying to…" Colin started but then stopped as realization dawned on him.
"Trying to what?" Logan asked.
"Umm…Trying to do what she was asked." Colin mumbled under his breath.
Finn heard him and he immediately understood "Shit." he muttered.
"What the hell is going on?" Logan questioned. He didn't know what was going on but if it was anything like he thought it was, his friends would not be waking up in the morning.
"We…might have possibly been the cause of this." Finn said quietly.
Logan stared at his two friends waiting for an explanation.
"Well, you see right after the auction we noticed you hadn't been dating many people so we decided to take it upon ourselves to set you up on a date…" Colin began.
"But then no sooner had we set it up had you confessed that you could quite possibly have feelings for the lovely Miss Gilmore." Finn continued.
Logan just stared blankly. He couldn't believe this had happened; the one time his friends decide to be selfless it ends up biting him in the ass.
"I guess we forgot to call and tell her that she would no longer be needed."
"You make it sound like I had been hold up in my room for months; I didn't date for like a week! Plus, you are aware this girl would constitute a hooker." Logan said.
"Not technically. There was no money involved, in fact all we had to tell her was your name and she was more than willing."
"You both are going to go tell this to Rory."
Colin nodded, "First thing tomorrow."
"No," Logan shook his head "Now."
"What?"
"Now, you two are going to walk to her dorm and tell her you set up said date with Tracey…You will also call Tracey and tell her that I will not be attending and she will have to find other means to occupy herself."
"Dirty." Finn snickered earning a death glare from Logan.
Colin and Finn grudgingly put on their shoes and coats. As they walked out of the door Logan settled on the couch hoping that this problem would be resolved.
The door swung open and Finn walked back in picking up the CD case on the table and handed it to Logan, "Teddy Geiger can sing your problems like no other." And with that he walked out the door.
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Both guys arrived at Rory's room and knocked on the door but no one answered. "Steph should be here." Finn commented as they knocked again but nothing. "I'll call her cell."
"Hi, you've reached Stephanie. I can't answer my phone right now, leave me a message!"
"Odd." Finn said handing up after leaving a message.
"Maybe they went out to eat or something?" Colin suggested.
"Yeah, let's just go back and we can do it tomorrow."
Logan was sitting in his room listening to Finn's Teddy Geiger CD.
Your voice could break loudest silence
And take me from this place
Cause I could love you
If you'd only let a lonely boy have a taste
And I can't wait
And I don't need to walk on these ideas
Since you crossed my path
'You are a wise man, Teddy Geiger.' Logan thought to himself as he heard the common room door open and close then his bedroom door open and close.
"Do you guys knock…Ever?"
"When we think there is a possibility of something awkward being on the other side of the door."
"Which means?"
"If we thought you were having sex with another person or yourself, cross-dressing or possibly even playing some sort of unusual instrument like the accordion." Colin listed.
"Ah, I see." Logan nodded deciding it was better not to question their logic. "So, what did Rory say?"
"About that…She wasn't there."
"She wasn't there?"
"Nope, neither was Steph which I found odd considering she said she'd be home all night." Finn commented.
"The probably went to get a bite to eat or something. There is no need to worry; it is after all only 10 o'clock now."
"Yeah, tomorrow we'll give them a call." Finn said casually "Let's go play video games."
Colin nodded and left Logan to his sulking.
'Did she honestly think I'd have a date with someone else?' he asked himself. 'After everything that's happened does she honestly think that she means nothing to me?'
Logan sighed and pulled his laptop off his desk. Opening it up he remembered that had promised Doyle he'd do that human interest piece.
He opened word processor and stared at the blank page. He decided that he was going to be completely honest about his experience and how much it affected him. He didn't care who read it or how people would react. This was a human interest piece and he was going to give it humanity, hoping one person in particular would be interested in it.
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"Can you please inform me why I am avoiding Finn and we are not answering the door?" Stephanie asked.
"Because Logan has a date and I know that Finn and Colin were here to try and prove his innocence."
"A date?" Paris repeated slowly.
"Yes, a date with another girl. Her name is Tracey and she sounded like a bitch." Rory informed Stephanie but her cold, bitter demeanor slowly fading into sad and helpless. "It's like I'm not good enough."
"What do you mean?" Steph questioned sitting on the couch next to her best friend.
"He was in the bathroom and I accidentally answered his phone and the girl said to tell Logan she was excited for their date. But you know the thing that bothers me most is that she sounded like a bitch. She was probably stick-skinny, gorgeous and a complete bitch." Rory sniffled "I don't exercise, but I'm not fat. I'm not drop dead gorgeous, but I'm decent looking and I'm a nice fucking person!"
Steph laughed a little, "Ror. Paris and I are both envious of your body and your ability to eat and not gain any weight, you are beautiful and you're an amazing person. This is either a misunderstanding or Logan is a big ass and doesn't deserve you."
"B-b-but I want him." Rory confessed. "For some unknown reason I find his arrogance charming and that smirk, that I just want to slap off his face, adorable."
"As much as you might hate me for saying this do you think that you could have possibly been the cause of him going out with other girls?"
"Excuse me?" Rory asked shocked.
"Hear me out. After the event you were distant, even in the car ride home you refrained from planning being with him anywhere in the near future. He probably read you wrong." Paris explained.
"Or maybe he read me right. " Rory mumbled. "I was afraid that he was going to push me away so I pushed him away first. You told me I was stupid, but I wouldn't listen."
"How do you intend to fix it?" Steph questioned.
"By finding out if he was lying about that Tracey girl."
"Do you honestly believe he'd do that to you Rory? He took care of you while you were sick; he let you stay in his dorm so he could keep an eye on you." Steph pointed out.
"How many guys who just have casual feelings for someone do that?" Paris added.
"None." Rory mumbled.
"Exactly, you need to get the story, and then apologize."
"I guess."
"Now let's order food I'm hungry." Paris said searching for their menu book.
"Chinese, Italian or Mexican?" Steph listed as the girls settled down to have a girl's night in.
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I wouldn't blame you if you hated me, this chapter sucks! This is pretty much another one of those chapters that tells you what you already know. It's mainly a segue chapter to get me where I want to be going. I apologize for it being horrendous and short.
I have nothing against Teddy Geiger, in fact he's from the same town I am so he's pretty much sort of a local hero.
Important Question: Do you want me to write out each of Rory and Logan's pieces or so you just want me to skirt around the details. It's up to you guys!
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