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AN: Here's another chapter of A Lifetime...there are a few mild profanities in this chapter, just thought I should put it out there. Anyway, on with the story...

Addy pulled up and put her car in park. She breathed in and then out, mentally preparing herself for what's to come. She got out of her car and walked slowly towards the door. She did not know what was waiting for her but she held her head high and cautiously turned the knob.

The door was unlocked. She entered the house and her eyes blinked trying to adjust to the darkness that blanketed the room. She closed the door behind her as quietly as possible.

It was twelve in the afternoon when she picked up the phone. She was glad that Jess covered for her; otherwise her parents would be hounding her for answers had they seen her earlier. When she woke up it was to the sound of Veronica's worried voice. Logan did not go home to Jess' house when he walked out on her the night before.

She hung up after reassuring Veronica that she'll look for him. She changed into fresh clothes and grabbed her keys. She knew exactly where he was.

Addy walked over to the kitchen and saw him slumped in one corner, staring at a bottle of vodka.

"Are you planning on drinking that or mind melding with it?" she forced the cheerfulness in her voice.

Logan looked up and then glared at her intrusion. His eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep and his face had a beginning of stubble.

"What do you want?" he asked brusquely.

"Oh, you know world peace, end to world hunger. Anything along those lines." She replied flippantly.

"Go away." Was his only response.

"Yeah, not gonna happen." She proceeded to sit across from him. "So drinking or mind melding?

"Why don't you just leave me alone?" he turned away from her.

"I know." She picked up the bottle and headed for the sink. She opened the label and poured it down the drain.

"You're wasting my money and my alcohol." He growled at her.

"Yeah well tough. Besides, you have plenty of both." She threw the bottle into the garbage can and went back to sit across from him.

"I told you to leave me alone."

"If you want me to leave you alone then you'll have to carry me out of this house and into my car." She responded firmly.

"That sounds very tempting right about now." He looked at her angrily.

"You see I'd rather not be the reason for your drinking yourself into oblivion. Your body isn't used to it anymore, so I'm here to make sure that you won't drink." She smiled weakly.

"Don't flatter yourself." He snapped at her.

"I can't remember the last time I was here." Ignoring him she looked around and then faced him again.

Logan snorted in disdain, "The last time you were here you told me that you can't see me anymore. I figured it's the appropriate place to celebrate another ending to our beautiful relationship." He remarked sarcastically.

"Three years ago. I remember now." She nodded in the memory. "I wanted you to follow me. I wanted you to stop me but you didn't." she smiled at him ruefully.

Logan was quiet, but he started banging his head against the wall.

"Would you stop that? You don't need a concussion added your list of injuries, physical or otherwise." She grabbed his arm to stop him. He wrenched his arm away but she refused to let go.

"Would you let go of my arm?" he asked, annoyance tainting his question.

"No." she replied obstinately, keeping a strong hold on his arm.

"I don't want your pity." He sneered as he gave up trying to wrench his arm away from her.

"Well it's your lucky day because I'm not here out of pity."

"Then why are you here?" he closed his eyes in exasperation.

"Because I am as susceptible to the Echolls charm as the next girl, I wanted to make sure you were okay. Is that a crime?"

"You are so full of shit. All night last night you were going on and on that we can't be together. And now you are so concerned."

"No need for foul language you jackass. Besides I owe you the truth, after all we've been playing tonsil hockey for the last year and a half." She remarked lightly.

"You mean your not wanting to be with me is a lie. Say your piece and get out of my house."

"That's not very friendly." She frowned at him.

"Well I'm not in a very friendly mood."

Addy let her fingers travel down his arm right to his fingers. She allowed their fingers to intertwine. "You were right. I do love you Logan. But I think I'm in love with someone else." She whispered softly.

Logan glared at her, "Is that supposed to make me feel better? I love you but I'm in love in someone else." He mimicked her mockingly, "What a load of bullshit."

"Can you honestly say that you are in love me?"

"Yes." He looked at her directly in the eye as he answered.

"Then how can you kiss Rory?" the question was asked with a hint of bitterness.

"Why do you care? You practically told us to go at it again." He rolled his eyes at her.

"You probably skipped class and missed the day they gave a lecture on the rich kids' guide to acting indifferent even if you're heart just shattered into a million pieces." She looked at him with such honesty.

Logan scoffed loudly, "Didn't you just tell me you're in love with someone else? How can your heart shatter if you're not in love with me?"

"Well for one thing I did tell you I'm just as susceptible to your charms as the next girl. And for another I said I think, not I know, big difference." She moved over to his side without letting go of his hand. She settled down right next to him, leaning against him, but he did nothing to move away from her.

"Who is the lucky guy anyway? Anyone I know?" Logan tried to ask casually.

"I'd rather not say. As I said I'm not even sure. For all I know I'm just imagining things. Besides I'm here to get you to attend Jess and Veronica's wedding rehearsal."

"So that's why you're here. Not out of concern or guilt. You just want me to attend the damn rehearsal." He edged closer to the wall to move away from her but she only leaned further against him.

"No I'm here because after you left last night I felt so empty. I know that we were doing the casual thing so it could lead up to the real thing. But you know as well as I do that we won't end up together. We've already hurt each other so much and it seems we just can't help ourselves. When we decided to do this thing, us, I had hoped for a better ending, even if it was just an actual ending between us."

"But I'm in love with you." He declared quietly.

"And I love you. But love is not always enough. These past few days I was almost convinced that maybe it could be. We were getting along so well, and I did bring up the possibility of sex, I thought that maybe…" she trailed off sadly.

"Then what happened? If you were starting to think that we may have a chance, what happened that made you change your mind."

"Some stuff that I had run away from nine years ago caught up with me." She admitted gently.

"What stuff?" he gripped her hand tightly.

"Stuff that I'm still trying to process. Then you kept pushing for something that I was thinking about but still weren't ready for. Everything just blew up." A tear trailed down her cheek.

Logan released her hand and pulled her to his lap. He wiped away her tear and kissed her cheek tenderly.

"Don't" she uttered as he moved his lips to catch hers.

"Try and stop me." He crushed her mouth against his, pouring his every emotion to the kiss.

"You're making this harder." She whispered against his lips when they parted. She breathed in shakily and got up from his lap. He stood up as well and kept his eyes locked on hers.

"Oh you bet I'm going to make it harder. Whoever the other guy is he won't have a chance."

"But you kissed Rory."

"And I liked it too…" she backed away from him and he advanced towards her.

"If you like kissing her so much then why don't you just date her?" she suggested as she kept walking backwards.

"Because sweetums I still have you in my system. I need to get you out first before I even consider trying a different model."

Her back hit the kitchen sink and she had nowhere to go. Logan took one final step and he had her cornered. He placed his hands on each side of her body, making sure she had no escape.

"Logan-"

"I love hearing you say my name." he whispered against her hair.

"I can't do this."

"Do me a favor?" he wrapped his arms around her waist.

"What kind of favor?" she asked nervously.

"Let me flush you out of my system. Just until Jess and Veronica leave for the honeymoon. Let's pretend that you and I are a couple, we'll do things that couples do for the next four days. And I mean everything." His fingers traced circles on her back.

"Why would I agree to that?"

"Because if, at the end of those four days, you decide that you can't forget about the other guy I'll willingly give you the better ending to our story that you've been wanting. I'll be sated and spent that I would be willing to do anything for you." He whispered to her ear.

"And if I say no?"

"But you won't. You said it yourself; you are just as vulnerable to my charms as the next girl. And you know I will exploit that knowledge to my advantage. Like now for instance, you are so consumed by what I'm making you feel that you won't be able to say no."

"You sound so full of yourself." She placed her hands on his chest as if she was going to stop him.

"Come on Addy, just give in." he kissed the corner of her lips.

"I-"

"Just give me those four days Addy Bell." Logan whispered achingly as their lips met.

"You better not kiss anyone else in those four days." She warned him but she was unable to finish her threat as Logan kissed her and simultaneously pulled her closer to him.

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It was quarter to four in the afternoon. Everyone was already at the church, except for Addy and Logan. Jess looked at his watch again and shook his head in disapproval.

"Are we ready?" Father Patrick Fitzpatrick asked him but he only shook his head.

Jess was just about ready to explode when Addy and Logan walked into the church hand in hand. Addy whispered something to Logan that made him chuckle and pull her closer to him.

Hunter and Rory were both sitting at the front pew; they exchanged meaningful looks at the two new arrivals.

Jess walked purposefully towards the two and scowled at them. "You two are late."

"What are you talking about? It's three fifty." Addy mocked scowled at him.

Before Jess could reply the Townsends walked over to them.

"Hi mom, daddy." Addy released Logan's hand and hugged her parents.

"So how was the meeting with the writer?" Jason Townsend smiled at his daughter.

"Oh that, I actually lied to Jess and spent the day with Logan. You guys remember him don't you?" she grabbed Logan's hand again and pulled her next to him. He smiled at her parents shyly.

"Did you two get back together?" Muriel Townsend looked at Logan critically.

"Back together." Addy beamed at her parents and Logan smiled and nodded.

Jason held his hand out for Logan to shake, which the younger man took gratefully. Muriel looked at him and then hugged him without warning.

"Don't worry about my wife; she tends to be a little emotional when it comes to the boys that our baby girl dates." Jason smiled at Logan reassuringly.

"Mom, can you let Logan go? Jess is already complaining about our lateness, even though we got here ten minutes before the actual time." Addy made a face at Jess who did the same thing in return.

"Now kids, behave. Jess; go on and tell Father Patrick that we're ready to proceed. I'll make sure that Adriana behaves." Jason clapped Jess on the back. Jess shot Addy a triumphant look and then walked over to the priest.

"You know you are giving me a complex. I'm your real child here, not Jess. But you are always siding with him." She mock pouted.

"Now, now Addy. This is Jess' time." Muriel patted her daughter's cheek.

"Yes mother. I promise I'll behave." She grinned at her parents and told them she had to go to where Jess was.

"It's lucky that you're a best maid and I'm the groomsman. We get to stand next to each other." Logan commented as he swung their hands playfully.

"You call it luck, I call it coincidence. Or maybe it is luck that Jess asked you to be a groomsman." She looked at him thoughtfully.

"Would you two quit it?" Jess snapped at the two of them.

"Hey, you didn't even bother with the silent treatment. You're supposed to begin with that then follow up with the hostile tone." Addy commented teasingly.

"You mean he does this all the time?" Logan asked her in mock surprise.

"That's Jess trademark treatment of me whenever I do something that doesn't please him. Right Jess?" she gave Jess a plucky smile.

Jess just rolled his eyes at them and then proceeded towards the front of the church just as the music started. With him was Luke, Addy followed after them and so did Logan. The twins had to walk with Lorelai as they traipsed down the aisle.

The bridal march began and then Mac walked in first, followed by Wallace. The rest of the guests rose just as Veronica and Keith walked down the aisle. Jess' attention was focused solely on Veronica.

Once they reached Jess he smiled at her and she grinned back. Keith was supposed to give her arm over to Jess but he pretended not to let go. When he finally handed Veronica's arm to Jess he smiled warmly at the younger man, his vision became a little cloudy.

They pretended to go over the vows then the priest declared them man and wife, urging Jess to kiss the bride. Jess did just that and when they were supposed to walk down the aisle as man and wife Jess released her hand and grabbed Addy; they walked right outside of the church.

Veronica shrugged and looked at Father Patrick, "I think we can go over it again in a few minutes." She stated and then she walked over to Logan.

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"You're supposed to walk away with Veronica, not with the best man." Addy commented as Jess steered them out of view.

"What is going on?" Jess glowered at her.

"What do you mean?" she asked stubbornly.

"Stop acting dumb. You and Logan back together. I thought we went over this already."

"Look, don't make a big deal out of this."

"Adriana Arabella Townsend, give me a straight answer." He ordered darkly.

"Okay, short story Logan and I are officially dating, until you and Veronica leave for the honeymoon."

"How did this happen? I told you to tell him the truth and give him a clean break from this. What about Hu-"

"Don't say it. I know what I'm doing Jess. Logan and I agreed to this arrangement."

"You had sex." He accused her, disbelief in his eyes.

"What!" Addy actually looked horrified.

"You two had sex. That's why you're very comfortable with him, all touchy feely. You slept with him. I can't believe you slept with him." Jess glared at her.

"Look Jess, we know what we are doing, we're both adults." She insisted.

"Addy, what the hell?" Jess covered his face with his hands in frustration.

"I know it can be confusing but Logan and I agreed. And this time I actually think it'll work out. At the end of the four days we'll part ways and he promised we can be friends."

"Did he promise you that in or out of bed?" Jess looked at her skeptically.

"Out of bed. I thought you'd appreciate a drama free wedding, now that Logan and I decided what to do you can have that." She glared at him.

"What about Hunter and Rory?" Jess finally calmed down.

"What about them?" she asked coolly.

"Are you forgetting that Logan and Rory made out?" Jess pointed out derisively.

"No. But as far as I'm concerned they have nothing to do with our agreement. If at the end of four days Logan decides that he wants to date Rory I won't hold it against him. After all you dated her, I'm sure she can take him." Addy remarked confidently.

"What's the point then, if you're not doing this to get back together?"

"I-"

"You can't even answer that." He gave her a meaningful look.

"Logan explained it better." She replied helplessly.

"Maybe I should talk to Logan." Jess started purposefully for the door.

Addy grabbed his arm, "No don't. I want this, I need this."

"Are you sure?" Jess looked at her for confirmation; she nodded "You do know getting involved like this would not make thing easier? It'll probably be that much harder to break things off with him."

"I told you he explained it better. Besides, I've dealt with worse things." She muttered with little conviction.

AN2: Hold on to your tomatoes please. There is a point to the direction of the story. Like making its resolution harder...but it will be resolved. I did not actually want to make the relationship between Addy and Logan even more complicated. I wanted there to be a concrete ending, but then the Logan in my head told me that there is no possible way that he hasn't gotten laid in over a year, that I should at least give him a few days with the Addy character so there would be closure for him. So stupid me, I listened yet again to the inner Logan. But bright side I actually found a way to resolve this turn of events. Okay, proceed to throw your tomatoes. Thank you.

To my reviewers:

Problem Child1: Thanks for the review, I'm just glad you are reading this fic. I threw in the Veronica and Jess because they are just so darn cute together. It'll be a few more chapters before the wedding but I can't wait either. Congratulations on converting another person into one of us. I think that's the best way to insure that VM will get a full season instead of only 13 episodes. I miss Aaron as well, I actually voted for Harry Hamlin in Dancing with the Stars just because he was Aaron Echolls, even if his dancing was too painful to watch, paid off though, he was one of the dancers who were sure to stay for another week. LoAd, perfect I think, because they are loaded with issues. Thanks for the review.

tylerhiltongrupie53: And she'll get it too, but it will take a little while. Thanks for the review. Is this ASAP enough? I'll be updating again soon. Thanks as always for the review.

LoVe23: LE's reaction to the kiss will be up next week. But in the meantime thanks for the review as always. I thought it would make LH likable if he just came out with the truth instead of hiding it and maintaining his relationship with Rory when he actually just wants to pursue Addy. So yeah, both will go after their hearts' desire but the way they do will it won't be so sneaky, which is how everyone seems to think they'll do it I'm glad you are happy with the story, I only hope you still are even after the direction it took. Rest assured that I won't go back on my word about the RoganE pairing, I just seem to keep setting myself up for more challenges. Thanks for the review.

MHxxPAPERDOLL: Sneaky? Maybe not so much, it's more straightforward than I actually expected it to be. But yeah, I loved the I jump you jump jack as well. I just had to make LH more likable and that was part of the reason why I just had to let him be honest. Thanks for reviewing.

shotswithMrsKim: Thanks for the review. I like their breakup too. It felt right. Thanks for reviewing.