I do go back and edit my earlier chapters regularly, so if you notice any other mistakes do not be hesitant to tell me. I would like to give a special shout out to Sweet Girl I love all your good insights on my story in every chapter. I will give insights to Lorelai in later chapters. Here is another warning Rory might be nicer to Emily then Lorelai if somebody who has a problem with that, then you should not read this chapter or brace yourself. I am a very big Emily fan, despite her flaws. Richard and Emily are my favorites characters after Rory and Logan so there are going to be portrayed pretty well.

August.18.2004

Rory and Logan were in the foyer standing very close to the door. Logan was getting ready to go on a date, but he was still hesitant to leave Rory, he had grown so used to spending time with her. "Ace, are you sure it is alright? I mean we could stay in and watch movies again if you like, or if you get sick of that we can go to the movie theater and see the Notebook I know you would love to mock it."

A part of Rory did not want Logan to go, but she felt that they both needed time to themselves. "Logan that is so sweet, but you have put your social life on hold by spending your Friday and Saturday night with me. You deserve to go out and have a night be about you. Plus, you already made plans with someone, and its rude to cancel on the last minute. You can take her to see the Notebook I am sure it would be nice to go out with someone who does not mock.

"I can never see the Notebook with someone who does not mock it; or, someone who does not say the movie brings every romantic cliché together."

Rory laughed, she was again suprised at how well Logan knew her."As I was saying Logan you spend way to much time with me lately. You deserve to go out have fun, and to not keep that poor girl waiting.

"Fine Mom, but are you sure you need time to yourself what if if that crazy ex of yours decides to show up.'

Rory laughed. "Logan there is not a chance in hell that will happen. I locked him in, so he could not follow me here. So far, only Lane has this address and there is no way in hell she would give it to him, she has always hated him. Also if by some miracle he did find me here I do not think Rob would let him come up." Rob was the door man of the building.

"Alright, but if you need anything do not hesitate to call me. I will have my cell phone on at all times. So what are you planning to do?"

Rory groaned. "I am going to continue working on my pro and con lists, after all there are 12 days left until school starts. On top of that call my grandmother, since she is probably back from Europe and my mother."

"Are you sure you don't want me there I know talking to the older generation is tough?"

"No Logan I need to do these things myself."

"Alright, but can I give you some advice on those pro and con list that saw you struggling with all of yesterday and today."

"Are you going to start criticizing my pro and con lists, because they are very important to me?" Rory said in mock seriousness.

Logan chuckled lightly. "Rory I know how much these lists mean to you, but if you still can't decide with them then I suggest you close your eyes and then picture yourself in the future. It could give you a much clearer picture than a list. "

"Logan that is the most ridiculous idea that I have ever heard"

"Well it was just a suggestion; I will see you tomorrow since I won't be home until three am.

"Well you can wake me; my mom would always do that after her dates. She would not give me extensive details but she would often tell me if they were bad or good."
"Okay I will do that." He then gently kissed her cheek. "Don't forget to call me if you need me." He quietly opened the door and left, Rory was a little sad to see him go but she knew that Logan deserved to not always be glued at the hip with her.

Two hours later Rory collapsed on her bed with her pro and con lists still in hand. She had two types of pro and con lists one for Yale, and another one for staying in New York. Her lists had started to give her headache everything in them was tedious and repetitive. The only thing that really shocked her about them was Logan once again being in her pro and con lists. Logan was under the pro list to return to Yale, Rory did not understand what had possessed her to put his name on the list. True, he was one of her best friends, but Rory did not feel the need to put her other Yale friends like Paris, Marty, and Glen. They were good friends, but not enough of a reason to be put on the list. Maybe, it was because she was more connected as a friend to Logan, than she was to them. Rory continued to look at the list, pushing away her Logan thoughts, and thought about her lists. No matter how many times she had worked on them she kept writing a circle of the same things. The list for staying New York the pros were freedom, adventure, and a chance for Rory to be her own person. The cons on the list were not enough money, no job and no place to live; since she did not want to take advantage of Logan and live in his apartment for a year. Rory also knew that going to school in the city was pretty much out of question. Columbia and NYU did not accept transfer applications in the middle of August it was to late. Even if they did how was Rory going to pay for those colleges, she would not qualify for financial aid again her grandparents wealth enabled her, and she was too young to declare herself independent on the Fafsa. Taking classes at a community college was an option but to go from an Ivy League school to a community college would be a big sacrifice to make. Rory really needed to think really hard about that. Plus, there was not a variety of courses toward journalism at a community college, and no school newspaper that she could work on. The Yale list was longer, good classes, noble prize winning professors, studying in the quad, continuing to working on the Yale Daily News and so on. The cons were making her mother happy, not seeing the other side of life, and most importantly continuing to be seen as a perfect girl on a pedestal. The lists were right now not helping her and she did not know what to do, suddenly she remembered Logan's idiotic idea of closing her eyes and imagining her future.

Rory did not think that would work, but she felt it was worth a try she would back to her pro and con lists tomorrow morning. Rory closed her eyes at first what appeared to her was a pitch black screen she knew this idea was lame, but continue to keep her eyes closed. Nothing happened until a second later, Rory saw an image of her being in a desk in a big newsroom, she did not which Newspaper but she was working at a paper. She was not Christine Amanpour saying the news in front of a camera, and Rory was not in the limelight at all. She was just writing an article on a desk, she wanted to be a writer for a Newspaper, and not a foreign correspondent. What type of reporter? Rory did not know she needed to go back to school and figure out what kind of journalist to be. When Rory got back to Yale she was determined to focus herself on a different variety of stories, and not just on features. Who knows maybe she could be a sports writer, although she seriously doubted that.

A half an hour after her revelation, Rory looked at the phone and wanted to tell Logan his method had worked, but she did not want to interrupt his date. Rory did not like the way her stomach would work at the idea of Logan with another girl. Thus, she shifted her attention on having to make phone calls to two strong and very stubborn women. One a part of her looked forward to call her the other not so much. She decided the one she looked forward to first, after all this woman tended to go to bed around 10 o'clock. Thus, she scanned the number on her cell phone and pressed it.

"Hello"

"Grandma, hi it is Rory"

Emily wasted no time in pleasantries; instead she immediately got into what she needed to say. "Young lady do not just say hi to me, for you have got some explaining to do. I hear from your mother that you are at some camp. Now, I find that suspicious, since your not the type of person to leave without saying goodbye to me and your grandfather. However, I was stressed with the separation and everything, so I brushed it off hoping we would talk about it when you got back. "

"Grandma listen to me"

"I am not finished yet Rory, when I came back two days ago I find out from your Grandfather that he found out from that dreadful invention called the internet that this supposed camp does not exist. Then on top of everything I get a call from my friend Tweene Halpurn saying she saw you come out of Logan Huntzburger's apartment, while visiting her niece in New York. I then call your mother, and of course in typical Lorelai fashion she makes insipid jokes, and then tells me to call you. Of course when I try to call your cell phone they say the number is no longer in service. How irresponsible is that Rory?"

Rory felt so ashamed at the way she had been treating and neglecting her Grandparents. That she started to cry and blurt out. "Grandma I ran off with Jess, right after finals ended."

"Who is Jess?"

"He is my ex boyfriend, you met him the night he came to dinner with a black eye." Rory said in between her tears.

"Rory do not tell me your back with that hoodlum. That boy is not good enough for you in more ways than social class." Since Emily hated the way she had seen that guy treat her granddaughter at that Friday night dinner.

"I am not you were right about him; I broke up with him two days ago just don't say I told you so."

Hearing Rory's tears through the phone broke Emily's heart it reminded her to a night almost twenty years ago. After Lorelai had told her the news, that she was pregnant. After, their big confrontation Lorelai had spent the entire night in her room crying. Emily wanted to go in that room that night, and comfort Lorelai and tell her everything would be okay. However, her pride would not let her, this time Emily vowed not to make the same mistake with her granddaughter. "Rory it is all right calm down every young lady has made mistakes with men. I definitely know that your mother has, and I have dated my share of lousy Harvard, Yale, and Princeton men before meeting your grandfather. There was this one man in particular from Dartmouth who was so dull and insipid. He had the nerve to go on and on about this stupid sport Rugby, and he had nerve to say women should not play field hockey after I told him that I was on the field hockey team at Smith. Well, I later elbowed him where it hurt."

Rory laughed, her mother was really missing a lot by not having a fun relationship with Emily.

"Any way, Rory it appears to me you are not staying with your mother would you like to come stay with me until school starts. Your old room is still there and your grandfather is in the pool house, so it will be just us girls."

Rory was touched at her grandmother offer, but she had to decline. "Grandma that is very kind of you, but I have this internship in New York so I have to be there for another week. I am staying with Logan Huntzburger, but I am not dating him as your friend implied. His father owns the paper I work at, and he is working for him as well and we became very good friends. He has an extra room, it is very lovely Grandma." She hoped her grandmother would not go on and on about her living with a boy."

"There is nothing more than friendship going on between you?"

"No Grandma just friends."

"Well, then that is certainly very kind of him, then again the Huntzburgers have always been well known for their generosity. Why don't you bring that handsome young man to dinner this Friday? You are still coming to dinner?

"Yes, Grandma I will be there but I do not want to trouble you bringing Logan. I know how guests stress you. Plus, maybe Logan might have plans."

"Nonsense, the boy deserves a good meal and if he has plans tell him to call me and we will definitely work out another date."

Rory reluctantly agreed, and then gave Emily her contact information. Rory then said goodbye and thanked her grandmother for understanding her; tearfully apologized for her behavior that summer, and then hung up promising to call more.

After talking to Emily Rory felt relieved, but also dreading the next phone call she would make. She quietly punched on the phone, and waited for her mom to answer.

"Rory?" Lorelai's voice was filled with panic

"Mom, before you say anything I called Grandma, and told her everything. About running off to New York with Jess; I did not tell her I was going to drop out of Yale because I am going back."

"Oh my god, Rory I am so proud of you I knew you would do the right thing." Lorelai felt that their relationship would finally be back on track, Rory would come home and they go back to being best friends. After all, Lorelai felt they did not have any problems before this summer.

Rory could not believe her mother's enthusiasm. "You really did know I was going to do the right thing?"

"Of course, you are just like me in every way. God, you won't believe the crazy story my mother told me today on how her "friend" said she saw come out of Logan Huntzburgers apartment. Of course then I naturally ask who is Logan Huntzburger, then my mother says he is a very handsome young man from a very good family." Lorelai said that in a very Emily like tone. "Then I tell my mother to tell her so called friend to get glasses, because there is no way that you would be interested in that type of guy."

"What do you mean that type of guy?" Rory yelled.

"Rory why are so defensive? Are you with him, despite what I felt about Jess I do feel you need some time to get over him? "

"I do know that Mom, just that guy Logan Huntzburger is my best friend, and I am staying in his apartment until school starts."

Lorelai was a little relieved that Rory was not dating him, yet found it weird that she would chose to live with him instead of her. "Rory you did not live with anyone else, just come home."

"No Mom Logan's is closer to the paper, and are relationship right now has too many problems for me to live with you."

"What are you talking about?"

"Mom, it has been along day and I cannot get into it right now, but I can give you my new cell phone number and addresses if you want. "

"I will get the napkin" Lorelai said angrily

After Rory gave Lorelai the contact information, Lorelai had to pipe in and say. "Rory are you sure staying with this guy are the right idea? I mean for one you barely know him, and I known my parents world my entire life and the people there tend to be back stabbers when you are not looking."

Unbelievable she had heard her mother's prejudice toward her Grandparents world her whole life, but this was ridiculous her mother was passing judgment on someone did not even know.

"Mom you do not even know him, this guy hugged me for hours when I was going through a tough time. This guy listens to me, he respects me, and the thing I love most about him is that he does not put me on a pedestal."

"Rory I am only saying these things from experience, I do not want you to get hurt."

"Well, your experience is lousy; anyway I see you at dinner on Friday and Logan will be there as well so be nice."

"Rory dinner is a family thing, I don't think would be wise to your grandparents to bring him there."

"Grandma insisted, and why do you suddenly care about who comes to dinner."

"Alright I was just making an assumption."

"You always make assumptions, and right now I would rather go to bed then hear about them."

Lorelai was surprised at Rory's behavior she thought, once Rory left Jess things would go back to the way they were before. However, Lorelai felt that once they talked on Friday things would get better. "I guess it's good night then?"

"It is goodnight Mom." Rory silently hung up the mom, and crawled under the covers, her mother was wrong she was not exactly like her. She was not a reverse snob who blamed an entire social class on her problems; she felt sorry for her mother because if she kept her attitude she would never get to know someone like Logan.

3'am

Logan gently tapped a sleeping Rory on the shoulder. She stirred gently. "Logan?"

"You said I can wake you if wanted is it still alright?"

"No it is fine, do not get to smug but I made a decision on going back to Yale on your method."

"See I am always right" Logan smirked

"Well there were more pros more Yale so again doesn't get to smug. Plus you won't be too happy to know that your presence is required for dinner this Friday with my grandparents. Grandma said if you have plans another Friday would do, one of her friends saw me come out your apartment. Although, I have no idea how she knew who I was I don't go to a lot of society events. Any way I did not tell grandma we were dating please do not be mad at me."

Logan sit down amused at the way Rory tended to ramble, when she had to ask someone a favor or was nervous. "Rory relax, I will be there. Plus it won't be that bad they like me the few times I have met them, the only thing you have to worry about Rory is them trying to set us up. However, I will find a way to get us out of there when we do."

"What are you some kind of spy Huntzburger?"

"The very best kind." Logan smirked.

Sorry not a lot of Sophie interaction I never use the word Rogan I just hate combining names. I hope I did not offend anyone who goes to community college I have nothing against them as a matter of fact I took classes there and they were pretty good. I just emphasized that is a very big sacrifice to go from Ivy League to community college and I do not think that is a sacrifice Rory should make. Plus I was trying to contradict a lot of the Lit myths, and believe after S4 aired 3 years ago I had read one or two lit stories this was before Logan and before I could not stand Jess where said Rory could have gone to NY and gone to Columbia or something and I am like how naïve thinking is that. Any way that is enough of my rambling.