Sorry this took me longer to update it's just real life is starting to kick in with school starting plus I am going to take a lot of units cause I need to graduate but I will try and update every two weeks.

Some asked that Rory should tell Luke about Jess, I believe she should. However, I found it more true to Rory's character that she would want to preserve the family relationship between Luke and Jess. It was also part of a threat so Jess would not pursue her after she and him broke up; and Rory taking many precautions so that would not happen. Maybe if Luke appears in this story later I might think on how she would tell him, but as of right now I have no plans to bring him in. Jess will not be appearing for the rest of the story I know that for sure. So Rory will not be able to act on her threat.

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August 16, 2004

Rory was awestruck by Logan's apartment. Of course, she had heard lot about it on CNN when Rupert Murdock had spent 44 million dollars for an apartment suite. However, it did not compare to how it really looked; there was a fancy dining room with fine china and a big illuminating chandelier. There was also a study with a huge library that appeared to have more books then her grandfather's. Rory also loved the bathroom with the Jacuzzi tub, and the glass door for privacy when she wanted to take a shower.

Rory was impressed at how Logan had made the place less museum like by surrounding it with funky chairs and photographs of him and his friends. Rory was surprised to see that the knight, the pool table, and the telescope from her dream were in that very apartment. Rory tried to brush that off as a funny coincidence.

What Rory loved most about the apartment was her room. The guest room was painted in a light blue, which was Rory's favorite color and there was a nice fluffy goose down bed that if one lied down it would feel like heaven. Rory knew from looking at the room that Logan had known that she would eventually come because in the room were posters from some of Rory's favorite movies, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Casablanca, and A Roman Holiday. The room contained a white bowl of flowers that was filled with Rory's favorites, lilacs, sunflowers, and roses with the faintest pink color. There also was a CD system, a sparkly Wizard of OZ jewelry box that played Somewhere over the Rainbow when it was opened. But the thing she loved most of all was the baby blue coffee maker next to her bed. Looking at this room she realized that a swimming pool on an August day means meeting an amazing person that you are proud to call your best friend.

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Evening of August 16, 2004

Rory and Logan were sitting in front of the plasma TV eating pizza along with Coronas with lime watching the movie Someone Like You.

"So I cannot help but imagining what people will think at work now that I live here. I know that Kelly and Allison who write for Page Six would love to write a headline like Huntzberger Living With Coworker. Oh God, if my grandmother sees that!" Rory was very mortified at that thought.

"Rory, relax, they both know that they are not allowed to write anything about me or my family, otherwise they will be fired. Trust me, both of them have been tempted, and they have had many warnings about that."

"Could they leak it to another source?" Rory asked still not convinced

"Nope, their phones are monitored" Logan assured her.

Rory breathed a sigh of relief, but was still worried about the gossip. Logan could sense that, and said "Rory I promise you to keep things quiet at work, but the most important question right now is: Are you happy?"

Rory smiled, she was greatly touched by Logan's concern. "Well, I am not quite dancing-in-the-clouds-happy, because I'm still drained about everything that happened with Jess. However, I'm relieved to be out of that relationship, and first of all I'm very happy that you are in my life Logan."

"I'm very happy you're in my life, too, Ace."

"Despite all the baggage?"

"What baggage? What's happened with him was not your fault." Logan put his arm around her, and she leaned against him. The whole time Logan could not stop thinking how perfect she felt in his arms whenever they would embrace. All these thoughts were driving him crazy, because he was never going to be with Rory romantically. The girl had been through a lot of pain, and Logan was not going to cause her anymore pain. Still, Logan kept having these thoughts every now and then and that drove him crazy. Logan shifted his attention back towards the movie.

"Could this movie get anymore repetitive? How many times do people have to remind her that these are people, not cows?"

Rory laughed, grateful that Logan had once again lightened up her mood. "Hey, we agreed to chick flick for my wallow session, since you did not want to watch anything weepy. Second of all, every girl who gets her heart broken tends to compare men to certain types of animals. I know I did during on-again and off-again break ups with Dean and Jess."

"Do you think men are cows now?" Logan asked curiously.

Rory thought of it for a minute and realized that if there was no Logan she would have probably sworn off the entire male population. "No, Logan, I don't think all men are cows, but I do think that certain people, male and female, tend to have their cow moments while searching for a new cow. Look at what I did to Dean."

Logan remembered Jess's words, and he did not want Rory to continue being affected by them. "Rory, don't let what Jess said get to you" he said seriously. "You were a seventeen year old girl who fell out of love and took a risk. You just took that risk with the wrong person; that doesn't mean you're a slut. I've met plenty of loose girls my entire life and you're not one of them; everybody makes mistakes."

"I know that," Rory said. "Just sometimes I wish I never made those mistakes." Rory looked so sad, that he decided to bring his own experiences to comfort her.

"We all wish that, Rory, and sometimes I wonder that if I hadn't spent so much time trying to get kicked out of every boarding school on the eastern seaboard then my Dad and I would have a better relationship. Then again, I think that it would have been useless because my Dad was not giving me that much attention before I started getting kicked out of schools. Plus, he never congratulated me when I spent an entire year at Andover and graduated without getting kicked out."

"Your Dad doesn't give you much attention?" Rory asked sadly. Despite her mothers flaws Rory experienced a lot of love in her childhood, that she couldn't imagine a childhood without love.

"My Dad is all about work; he only talks to me when it's about the business or when I screw up. He never talks to me about my friends, hobbies, or even tells me funny stories about his life. Plus, he was always away on business while me growing up so I didn't see him very often. I only have three good memories with my Dad: one, when he taught me how to sail on my 12th birthday; two, when he gave me Henry" -he pointed to the knight- "when I got all A's on my report card when I was 8. Three, when I was five years old and did a good job helping him print. Of course some of these good memories are a little tainted because my Dad seems to only value achievement and not anything else. "

"Well, maybe if you talked to him, and told him how you feel, could you make more good memories?" Rory suggested.

"It is not that simple, I mean why don't you try talking to your mom?"

"Point taken, but unlike me you at least know what to expect from your Dad. But from my mom I felt that she would support me in whatever I did, and she didn't. She wants things to be her way, that's why she freaked out when I wanted to go to Yale instead of Harvard. Only when she approved of it in the pro and con list I did go. It has always been like that, and I'm tired of being her do-over. I need to make decisions on my own and not always wait for her approval. I need my mom to realize that I am going to make my own decisions, and to start supporting that.

So, Logan, how is your mother like?" Rory wanted a topic change.

"Well, she is a 100 different from your mom, except she is a snob even though she doesn't come from money. She is a stress-smoker; every time a situation is stressful or she is with a person she does not like she goes to the back corner and smokes." Logan started to laugh. "Unlike my Dad, I know she loves me but she is not very hang-on and has this ridiculous notion in her head that I need to marry a socialite without a brain."

"That must be tough. My grandmother has tried to set me up with a boring society boy once; although, he and his buddies spend the entire time getting drunk and ignoring me." Rory shuddered at the memory; that was the night she ran off with Jess.

"Rory are you okay?" Logan asked concerned sensing that something must be wrong.

"I am fine" Rory said looking at him. "Just hours after that, Jess and I came to New York."

Logan pulled her close. "Parents and grandparents should definitely not meddle in other people's lives. If it was not for my sister Honor who is smart and compassionate I would have grown to be very bitter."

"I'm glad you're not bitter Logan; I love that you're such a free spirit and so kind." Rory hugged him closer and Logan hugged her back.

"Let's focus on the movie." Logan had enough talking about his family, yet felt completely at ease talking to Rory about all this and he was amazed on how they both had this ability to comfort each other with just a touch.

They were at the part where Edie told Jane all her good qualities and said that Ray wasn't going to be the last guy that she would ever love. Logan turned towards Rory and said, "Rory, Jess is not going to be the last guy that you will ever care about."

"Logan?" A little confused she looked at Logan.

"You're like Jane, Rory. You are beautiful, interesting, intelligent and funny, and you deserve a man who is a 100 times better then him." Logan said seriously.

Rory started to laugh.

"What is so funny?"

"Logan, are you trying to make yourself my Edie? Because there is no way I'm chasing you in the streets."

Logan started to laugh as well. "Why? Am I not irresistible?"

"Logan, that is your ego talking I'm not chasing you in the streets for two reasons. The first reason is that I don't have feelings for you; and second of all Gilmore women don't chase, there is too much exercise involved. It's part of the reason why in my relationships and in my mother's relationships the men chased us. "

"Look, Ace, one of these days you're going to meet an amazing guy who is going to love you and all your crazy quirks and no matter how you feel about exercise you are going to want chasing him in the streets."

"Don't bet on it Logan." Rory started to feel very tired. It had been a long day and she was light headed after drinking to Coronas. She started to close her eyes, her head still resting on Logan's shoulder.

"You will, Ace, I am sure of it." But Rory didn't answer, and Logan noticed that she looked as if she was sleeping. "Ace?" He asked again in order to make sure, but Rory didn't answer. She appeared to be peacefully sleeping on his shoulder.

After ten minutes Logan lifted her up, and took her to her room. He gently laid her on the bed and tucked her in under the soft white covers. He gently lifted some of her hair and put it behind her ear. She looked so beautiful, like sleeping beauty that Logan's heart started to pound in a way it never did for any other girl. However, Logan tried to brush it off as being hormones. However, taking one more look at her he said "Damn it, Rory, sometimes I wish we were both different people so I could be the person you chased in the street. Since that is not going to happen please try and be happy. You deserve that. Goodnight, Ace." He quietly closed the door to her room and tiptoed his way back to the couch. The movie was about to end and he heard the song.

"I've been searching for a long time for Someone Like You."

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August 17, 2004

Rory woke up the next morning feeling relaxed, even though she was a little dizzy from the drinks; she was still a light weight. Logan must have brought her here, since she didn't remember coming to bed last night. The covers were so comfortable that she wanted to go back to sleep, but something smelled so well in the kitchen that she had to go in there and see. She saw that the coffee maker next to her was filled with fresh coffee and there was a white coffee mug filled with it. Logan really knew her too well, and sometimes she wished Logan was the one she would chase in the streets. Rory dismissed the thought as nonsense grabbing the mug and walked into the kitchen. Rory was amazed by the wide variety of scones, muffins, and Danishes that was in the kitchen.

"You got all this for me? Rory asked in amazement.

"Well, I wanted to do something nice for your first morning here, so don't get spoiled." Logan said smiling.

"I'm not; it's just that you didn't have to do more than you have already done. It's too much." Rory explained slightly blushing.

"Nothing is too much, Ace, just shut up and have something to eat."

"Okay, then I will start with a blueberry scone."

"My favorite kind." Logan smiled.

Rory smiled as well; living with Logan was going to be complicated and fun.

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The movie Someone Like You for those who do not know and will be confusedIt's about this women named Jane who works for a talk show and has a relationship with this guy Ray who breaks up with her because he is not over his ex. Anyway, Jane devastated over this and develops this theory that men are like cows not faithful with their partners, and she moves in with a really good guy friend, Edie, who like Logan is a bit of a playboy and he helps restoring her trust in guys. I did not write the movie in this chapter to show that Rory and Logan are like Jane and Edie; there are big differences between them. I just noticed some similarities and made it part of this chapter.