The timeline takes place two days after the events of Jews and Chinese food.

February, 14, 2005

Rory woke up Monday morning to the familiar rock and roll station on her clock radio at approximately 7am. She frantically showered and got dressed to make it to her morning class. She was surprised when she went to the common room and saw Logan standing there, looking freshly dressed and shaved. This surprised her because he had spent the night every night during that weekend, ever since he had knocked on her window that Friday night, and Rory was always the first one up. Logan didn't get out of bed until around 11 or 12, and usually demanding that she should stay in bed as well.

"Oh my god what are you doing up so early? Mr. Keith Richards and Bret Michaels aren't up at this hour."

"Well Keith Richards and Bret Michaels don't have a cranky brunette who would probably be all crazy about missing class," Logan teased.

"How did you know I would be crazy in the morning? You've never spent a week day morning with me…"

"No but I spent Sunday evening in a pub with you refusing all drinks cause you didn't want to miss your early morning class. Plus you keep going on and on about how you don't drink on school nights; and then when you caved in and drank a martini you kept worrying about how you spent the next day being hung over. How are you by the way?"

"Fine. I'm sorry I was such a pain; I don't have a lot of experience with drinking. Anyway I'd love to sit and chat but I need to go have a quick breakfast before class starts."

Rory started to leave when he stopped her. "No need to go. I brought you coffee and Danish, which is what you told me goes best with your coffee." Logan smiled remembering how once when he ran into her at the coffee shop she ranted on how Danish was sad without a cup of coffee.

Rory smiled at his thoughtfulness. He never ceased to amaze her. Despite them being in a no strings relationship he tended to treat her really well. "Logan you didn't have to do that."

"Nonsense, I know better than to let you go hungry and without coffee, since you drink them the same way Finn drinks alcohol," Logan smirked.

"You know me to well." It amazed her that in a very short time that they had known each other Logan was able to grasp many of her quirks and knew many of the things she liked and disliked.

Logan liked how Rory could appreciate simple things. Most girls would be more appreciative over a diamond necklace than a Danish, which to them would be too fatty. It was one of the reasons he wanted to spend this day with her, even though it supposedly was the most romantic day of the year. He didn't know how Rory would take it. So he took a deep breath. "Rory do you want to have dinner with me tonight?"

Rory was surprised by the seriousness in his tone; he was just asking her to dinner. "Um, Logan it's Monday and I have a lot of work to do. I barely studied this week, and midterms are coming up in another two weeks."

Logan laughed. Only Rory Gilmore would view Valentine's Day as just another Monday. "Come on, Ace. You study way too much as it is. It's only a few hours, plus I do owe you a day where it's an us-thing, not a group-thing," he suddenly remembered the promise that he had made her after the poker game.

"That's right, but how about you spent tonight with someone else and we can have our one-on-one time on Friday?" Rory was surprised that she felt her mouth tasting like vomit when she mentioned Logan with someone else, but she tried to brush it off.

Logan knew that Friday would be a day of no pressure but a part of him really wanted to spend today with her. He didn't know why he chose his words carefully. "Come on Ace girls today act really crazy, and it's only going to be a few hours. I promise to drop you off at your dorm early so you can study."

"You must date girls who aren't Monday people. Fine, but I'll hold you to that, Mister." She quickly kissed him. Little knowing that she had forgotten that today was the most romantic day of the year.

It wasn't until around 5 o'clock that Rory got a phone call that over-stressed her. She was looking over her history notes in the common room, grateful that Paris was spending the week with Doyle. "Hi honey. Happy Valentine's Day," Lorelai greeted her over the phone.

"It's Valentine's Day today?" Rory asked in confusion.

So that's what Logan meant earlier about girls acting really crazy on this very day. It wasn't because of Mondays, as Rory had originally thought. This made much more sense. It was also probably why Logan was so serious when he asked her out. How could she not know – she usually knew about these holidays ahead of time. It was probably true what they said about alcohol killing your brain cells. She cursed herself for ordering the martini that Logan had insisted she would like the night before.

"Yes, it is February 14th. I figured that you, with all your calendars, would have remembered a day like this."

"I've been busy with school, plus it's Monday today, and midterms are coming up soon."

"My little worker bee. Why don't you take a break from that and come home and we can mock lifetime movies and then put on Casablanca, to remind us how a good love story is made. We can have fun being to single girls together."

"I actually have plans tonight with Logan," Rory said softly. She was still not comfortable talking to her mother about Logan, mostly because of the way Lorelai criticized the Life and Death Brigade the night before the vow renewal. She just couldn't stand her mother's prejudice.

"Oh, I thought you said when we had dinner last week that you hadn't seen him in awhile."

Rory rolled her eyes for she could tell her mother was trying too hard to hide her disappointment. "Well he came over Friday night, and we've been hanging out during the weekend." Rory didn't want to imply what the hanging out meant. She wanted to wait until spring break, when she would have more time to explain to her mom in person.

"Well that sounds fun, and Valentine's Day sounds serious…" Rory could tell that her tone was really forced.

"No it's not serious it's just two people hanging out." Would it be just hanging out? Rory didn't know. Their relationship was supposed to be casual and to have nothing to do with romance. God she hated that her mom had reminded her that it was Valentine's Day, and cursed Logan for asking her out today of all days.

"It's okay, I was only teasing. Well it sounds good. I'm glad one of us is having fun tonight…" Lorelai's tone was so sad that Rory forgot her issues with her as she remembered her recent split with Luke.

"Mom are you going to be okay? I could call Logan and cancel."

"No, honey, it's alright. I didn't mean to put you on the spot. Enjoy your time with Logan and tell him I said hi. We can do this mocking on spring break. I'll record all the good mock-worthy movies."

"You sure?"

"Yeah, I'm sure."

She and Lorelai said a quick goodbye. At first Rory started to wonder when things got so tense with her mother. Was it since the whole Dean affair when Rory started to become more afraid of confiding in her mother? Was it this year when Rory started to spend less time with Lorelai? Rory was afraid that if her mom didn't have the break up with Luke, which made them side track their issues, then they would have been fighting and Rory didn't like it. Then Rory started to panic it was. Valentine's Day and she didn't know what to do.