AN: Thanks again for all the great reviews, I'm really glad all of you are staying interested! Now, this chapter is more on the serious note, I don't even think I put much humor in it because the fact that they're discussing relationships and such is a serious matter. Things with Austin, Jess, Dean, Matt, Tristan, and Marissa will all be explained. But this is not the intial hook up. That's next chapter!
If I turly owned Logan and Tristan, then honestly I wouldn't be sharing.
It had been hours and Rory still couldn't get to sleep. That kiss was the most amazing one she had ever had in her life. It was probably because for once she felt comfortable enough to let her defenses down and just give herself completely to someone. But now, as she lay next to a snoring Finn and a murmuring Stephanie, she couldn't help but let regret take over her. What if he just leaves you, just like all the other two, or what if he cheats on you, or what if he hurts you? Rory made her way silently away from the still bodies, and with a glance back at Logan, she climbed the steps with to go to the haven of her balcony to let her tears fall.
On the other side of the deep-set sitting area made into a giant bed, Logan lay with his eyes closed thinking about the same amazing kiss. How could you let your guard down like that? You can't fall again, not after what Marissa had done to you. Remember everything you went through, remember the pain? And you're willing to be in jeopardy of repeating history, because of someone new that interests you? Logan heard footsteps silently make their way up the steps, but he just assumed it was someone going to the bathroom. He remembered that Rory's room had a balcony, and decided it would be a nice place to think, so he made his way upstairs. He didn't allow himself to look back at Rory, because he knew if he did her heavenly face would make him lose all coherent thought.
Rory went onto her dark balcony and shut the door behind her. She took a seat on the bench wrapped her arms around her legs with her face in her knees. She allowed her mind to be taken over by memories of Jess, Austin, and Dean as tears fell liberally from her eyes. She looked up at the sky with her head leaning back on the bench as she asked, "Why am I weak? Why do I always set myself up from the same shit over and over again?" She was too busy completely sobbing to realize someone had stepped onto the balcony behind her.
Logan had reached Rory's balcony, unaware that there was someone there already. He suddenly heard a desperate voice call out from the darkness followed by sobs, and he knew exactly who it was. He stepped out onto the balcony to see the girl that was invading his mind, sitting shivering cold and crying.
Rory jumped when she felt a hand touch her shoulder. She quickly wiped her tears but they were only replaced with fresh ones. She felt a weight shift and realized the person was now sitting next to her with their arm around her shoulder. She turned to see the deep coffee eyes that she had grown to love so much in the past few days staring at her intensely.
"What's the matter Rory?" Logan asked her with evident concern.
"Nothing, everything, I don't know," Rory said rubbing her forehead, cries growing stronger. Logan just pulled her into him, allowing her to cry into his chest as he kissed the top of her head. He knew they had to talk about that kiss, but he wanted her to calm down a little.
After a couple minutes, Rory's sobs had stopped and she pulled away from Logan, embarrassed at her vulnerability. Logan was still looking at her. Even after crying she's beautiful.
Rory turned to Logan and saw in his eyes that he had something to say, but she beat him to it, "We have to talk about what happened downstairs."
"Yeah, I- "Logan started but was cut off by Rory.
"Please don't tell me you thought I was somebody else again," she said almost bitterly, looking away into the sky.
"No," Logan said as he felt a pinch at his heart after her tone, "Rory that was the most amazing kiss I've ever had," he admitted with a sigh. Rory's head shot back to look in his eyes disbelieving.
"It was," Rory stated with a stray tear falling down her cheek. Logan quickly brought his hand to her face and wiped it way. "Listen," she continued with a shaky voice, "I don't know what came over me down stairs, and I'm sorry for that. Let's just forget this kiss like we forgot the other one. It was just a dare." She was trying to protect herself, not realizing that this means of protection would only find her in more heartbreak.
With those words spoken, Logan felt familiar pains. This is why you never do relationships. Logan was just about to agree with her, when Colin's words echoed in his head, "If you can honestly look at her and say to yourself there's nothing there that interests me, then fine go off into your playboy ways. But if you look at her, Logan, and you know that you'd do anything for her, then get it through your damn head and admit your feelings, to yourself and to us, and most importantly to her!"
"No," Logan said determined.
"What?" Rory said confused.
"No, I'm not going to pretend nothing happened. I've had a hard enough time trying to do that with the kiss at school. Damnit Rory! Why did you have to do this to me!" Logan exclaimed utterly puzzling Rory.
"What did I do?"
"I was fine, I got past Marissa, I was freaking fine with being a playboy, never sticking with one girl for too long. But the moment you stepped out of that damn car it was like I was falling all over again," Logan said now standing up pacing and running his hand through his hair.
"Logan, I don't know what to say," Rory said still not believing that he was confessing feelings for her. You should confess too, what else can you do?
As Rory was considering what to say, Logan came to realize that he had no idea if Rory had feelings for him. She had admitted to liking someone in the room, but for all he knew it could've been Tristan. Logan sighed and did what any guy who was confused about his feelings would do, he ran away. He made his way back down stairs leaving Rory still thinking.
Rory had finally gained the confidence to tell him the truth, but when she looked up he was gone. He had left her, exactly what she feared the whole time, and the tears started once again.
Logan reached the basement to find the lights on and all of his friends looking facing him, as if they had expected his arrival. "What are you all doing up?" Logan said trying to fight the tears that were threatening to spill over.
"Well I woke up having to use the John, and imagine my surprise when I saw the two who were just getting hot and heavy in the closet were missing," Finn said smirking. "So I wake up my mate Colin and tell him that we're going to be uncles."
Stephanie slapped the back of Finn's head while Logan just sighed.
"Anyways, I woke everyone else up, and Tristan suggested we should look for them, but we were all to lazy to get up," Colin said.
"So I just turned on the room surveillance, and we overheard you talking…" Tristan said worried.
"Oh, how much did you hear?" Logan asked.
"All of it," they said together. Just then, the soft sobs that were playing in background were replaced by sniffles. They all turned to look at the intercom with interest.
"You guys left it on? Can't she hear us?" Logan said, peeved that his friends were eaves dropping. "We muted our end," Tristan replied. They all just looked at Logan ashamed at themselves but turned their heads back to the intercom when they heard the sound of a phone dialing. The 7 looked at each other with curiosity. Then Rory's trembling voice was heard, "Hello Matt? It's Rory, sorry for calling you so early."
A sluggish male voice then said, "It's alright Rory, what time is it there?" Apparently, she had put him on speaker, much to their aide.
"It's about 2 here."
"Oh my god, is everything alright? Are you crying? Did Dean pull something again? I'll get Austin," The male voice said quickly becoming defensive. "What's he talking about? What does he mean did Dean pull something?" thought Tristan.
"NO!" Rory's voice exclaimed, "You can't tell Austin I'm crying and you can't tell him I called either. I'm fine… kind of. I just really need someone to talk to." All 6 looked at Logan accusingly while Logan listened on with interest. "Who's Matt and Austin?" asked Colin curiously. "Later," Tristan hissed quickly.
"What's the matter babe, did you and Tristan get in another fight or something? And why don't you want me to tell Austin about this?" said the voice labeled as Matt's.
"No it's nothing with Tristan, and I don't want you to tell Austin because it's about him."
"What do you mean it's about Austin, how could he have done something if he's here in Europe with me?" asked Matt confused. Tristan knew what confession was coming, but he didn't think to turn off the intercom, he wanted to hear this whole story as much as everyone else.
Rory sighed. "Matt, before you guys left for school there, me and Austin had something. A big something," This comment caused even more attention from the 7 in the room, and the voice on the line to scream, "What!"
Suddenly, another angry male voice came on the line, "Matt who the fuck could you be on the phone with at 8 a.m. in the morning!"
"Uhh.. Sorry Austin it's uhh my Aunt Aireen," said Matt as footsteps were heard along with the shutting of a door.
Rory's giggling filled the room, a sound that made Logan smile.
"Shut up Pinky," said Matt. "Ok I'm out of the room, elaborate on this big something."
"Well we were together for all of 8th grade," Rory said causing Colin to snort, "Who could have a serious relationship in 8th grade?" Logan cleared his throat causing to Colin to apologize.
"8th grade was you twos' last year with us, and he asked me out at the fall festival, in the gazebo," Rory explained causing the girls to aw. "Well we decided to hide it from you and Tristan, because we didn't want you guys to think we would be all paired up and everything. We were pretty head over heels in love, he told me he wasn't even going anywhere," she said her voice noticeably sadder.
"Imagine my surprise when at the end of that summer, when me and Tristan ask you two to go shopping for new school clothes with us, you inform me that you both are moving to Europe!" Rory said her voice starting to shake.
"Oh man, is that why you threw water in our faces! I thought you just had PMS or something!" Matt said understanding. "Yeah always blame it on PMS," said Louise rolling her eyes.
"So I was heartbroken, he left. We didn't even bother with the long distance thing over freshman year, we only kept in touch with emails and everything, and while you two were gone it was hard for me to move on," Rory said.
"What happened next," Matt asked interested
"When you came back for the summer, things went back to the way they were again. Things were perfect we were together again, but then August came and I knew you guys would be leaving again. And, well, remember that day near the end of August that both me and Austin coincidentally had dates, leaving you and Tristan alone?" Rory said, sobs starting to break through her voice.
"Yeah I remember that, what happened Rory?" knowing that he was in for a shock.
"Well that day we spent the day together, and as a goodbye we…" Rory was obviously crying now. "Guys maybe we should turn this off," Stephanie said only to be hushed by the guys.
"That was that day that me and Austin," Rory said trying to gather self- assurance. "GUYS TURN IT OFF!" Louise screamed trying to protect her friend. Just as Louise got up to turn it off Rory's voice came out clearly.
"That was the day that I had sex with Austin," Rory said full out crying now. The girls looked down at the floor feeling beyond guilty for listening on. Tristan looked at the intercom paled and as if he were going to kill someone. Finn and Colin asked looked at each other with unsure looks, feeling awful while Logan very a mixture of jealousy, pain, and guilt.
"That's the day you lost your virginity to Austin…"said Matt, unconsciously correcting what he thought was a mistake.
"No Matt, I said that's the day that I had sex with Austin," Rory said sheepishly.
"Uh Rory what do you mean? Who did you -," Matt said but was cut off by Rory.
"Another time for that Matt," no one noticed the guilty look that Tristan had on his face.
"Well ok, but what does this all have to do with the present, on why you're crying?" Matt asked concerned but confused.
"Because after that, he went back to Europe, and then he called me on my Birthday, to tell me that it wouldn't work and that maybe we could have something during the summer, but with you two in Europe it would just be too hard," Rory's voice yelled shaking violently. Tristan's face was turning red with anger and his fists were clenched, along with all the other guys, especially Logan. The girls had tears in their eyes, feeling pity for their Rory.
"What happened tonight Rory, tell me!" Matt said catching on that something brought these feelings to surface.
"I don't want to get hurt again Matt!" Rory screamed. "He's perfect, he told me he likes me, he told me and I was about to tell him my feelings, and when I look up he's gone! He left! Just like Austin, just like Jess, everyone always leaves me!" Rory cried, breaking the hearts of everyone who was listening.
"Who's he Rory?" Matt asked.
"Logan. Logan fucking Huntzburger the Chilton playboy!" This caused Logan's face to pale and everyone to look at Logan with sympathetic expressions.
"Rory, you're stronger than this, don't be scared. Take a chance, don't run away from your heart," Matt said trying to give her advice. "He isn't gone Rory, just please be strong, you can get through this I promise."
"How do you know?" Rory asked.
"Because I'm amazing and I know everything, like right now you're on your balcony lying on your bench looking at the stars, thinking about this Louis kid, right?" Matt asked. Rory laughed at how right he was.
"Right, Logan thought," she said.
"Yeah whatever his name is. But that's how I know that you're going to get through this, and that you're going to end up with him. Think about it Rory, a guy doesn't say he likes you then steps out of your life forever, he's still around Rory," he said causing Logan to be thankful that Rory had called this guy.
"Thanks Matt, I Love you so much," Rory said pushing herself up off of the bench and going into her room, making her way to bed.
"I Love you too Rory we miss you out here, and talk to him," Matt said before hanging up. Rory put her cell phone down and allowed the sandman to take control. I'll talk to him tomorrow, but now I sleep.
The group just sat in the basement in silence. They were all going through similar emotions: sympathy for Rory, guilt over what they did, and anger for Austin. "This is entirely your fault," Stephanie said to the guys pissed off.
"Us? Why? What the hell did we do?" Colin spat at is on and off girlfriend.
"That was just mean guys, we shouldn't have listened," Madeline said, surprising the others that it wasn't a stupid comment.
The guys all looked shamefaced as Tristan rubbed his head. "I'm going to fucking castrate then kill Austin," he mumbled.
"Who is Austin anyways?" Logan asked, wanting to hurt him for hurting Rory in the way he did.
"Yeah mate, and who's Jess and Dean?" Finn asked remembering the other names mentioned.
"And what was this with you having feelings for Rory?" Louise asked.
Tristan sighed. So many questions. But they deserve to know, they're our friends now. "I'll tell you guys about Austin, Jess, and Dean, and even maybe me if you tell me who this Marissa girl is," he said looking at Logan.
"Deal," Logan said sighing while taking a seat next to Colin. "Considering my story is probably shorter, I'll start," Logan said. He looked around at the group; they gave him looks of compassion. They had been there during the Dark Period subsequent to Marissa and had been his only support system keeping him sane at that time.
"I met Marissa at a camp all of us attended the summer before 8th grade. She was the prettiest girl there, blonde, green eyes, and came off to everyone as a sweetheart. It was immediate attraction," Logan said looking down the whole time. "By the end of the summer, we had both said I love you to each other and agreed to keep in touch over the school year, we thought it would be hard but we were willing to risk it. The, the first day at school in the Chilton Prepatory Academy for grades 6-8, she was there. Turns out, she convinced her parents to let her attend there instead of Andover Prep, and we spent that year together." Logan was fighting the tears now, tears that he had been holding back ever since his Dark Period. Colin pat him on his back and decided to continue.
"So we graduated, and when we did, we found out all of our parents had enrolled us in boarding school in Zuberg. Marissa found out that she would be staying here, and attending Andover. So that meant separation. These two decided that they would try for the freshman year," Colin said.
"I knew there was something about her I didn't like," said Louise taking over, "I mean she had become a supplement to our group, but it always felt like she was hiding something, but we put it behind us to support Logan. Every month of the school year, Logan would send her flowers, and when we came back for the summer the two's relationship was rekindled."
Finn spoke up, "Then sophomore year, the same thing. Every month, mate would send a different gift for the Shirley, whether it be jewelry, chocolate, flowers."
Logan now spoke, with a quavering voice, "And then, I saved up some money, to surprise her on Christmas. I flew in sophomore year and took a limo to her house. My plan was to take her around to her favorite restaurant, then do what ever she wanted, but when I got to her door, she was standing there wearing the diamond necklace I got her one of the months, and she was kissing another guy." Logan had to be strong; he had gotten past this already. "I went up there and confronted her, and just laughed saying 'You're so cute, you thought it would really work'. I was broken to say the least, and I broke up with her of course."
"From then on," Stephanie said, "he wasn't the same. We did all we could, but his trust in the female gender was gone. Then he started his playboy ways."
"I want to kick her ass really bad right now," Madeline said through sniffles. Although Madeline seemed naïve, she still cared about her friends, and she had possibly the strongest dislike for Marissa out of the group, minus Logan. Logan chuckled at his friend's words. "Me too Maddy," he said pulling her into his lap as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Your turn mate," said Finn, ready for story time.
"Alright, who to start with…." Tristan asked himself out loud.
"Austin and Matt," all of them replied in eagerness.
"Ok, me, Austin, Matt, and Rory are best friends. We met back in 5th grade, and ever since we have been inseparable. Rory was and is our queen. We love her to death and will do anything for her, and during the summer they come back and we do everything together. We didn't even let boyfriends or girlfriends get in the way of us, if they tried to break us up, we would break up with them. So anyways we spent 4 years together, until their parents decided to move the two of them to Europe for high school after 8th grade. We knew it would be hard to keep the friendship up, but we weren't going to give up like that and obviously it worked," Tristan said before pausing and starting once again.
"I didn't even realize the relationship between Rory and Austin until the end of the summer before they left for Europe. Rory was crying saying goodbye to them, but I noticed she cried a lot more when she was hugging Austin and Austin had some tears in his eyes too. After the two had let go of their long hug, Matt said he needed to go to the bathroom, random I know, and I said I would go too. I guess the two thought we wouldn't look back, but I did and when I did I saw the two of them making out. So then I knew their relationship, I just didn't think it was as intimate as we found out." At this point, the six were looking at him with such interest that Tristan had to chortle.
"Anyways, the summer after freshman year, things were fine and dandy. But then when they came back after sophomore year things were different. Austin and Rory were really uncomfortable around each other, and couldn't make eye contact with each other. Rory always had on this fake smile when he was around, as if she didn't want to show weakness, but I knew better than that, I knew she was hurting. Then, this summer, when they came back everything was like it was back to normal, I don't really know what happened, but Rory didn't have that fake smile on anymore. But apparently, she's still hurting over it."
Stephanie analyzed the story, "I don't think she's at conflict with Austin anymore, but at conflict with herself. I mean she must be so scared to love anymore, after you share such a big moment with a guy, and he decides to leave."
"He wasn't the only one who left," Tristan said causing the group to stare at him with mouths open.
"Now we're going to have to kick two guys' asses," Finn said angry already.
"Who's the other one?" Madeline asked jumping off of Logan's lap and sitting cross legged on the floor like a 3 year old during story time.
"His name was Jess, the nephew of the local diner owner. He and Rory had a lot in common: the love of reading, same taste in music, and their playful banter was a sight. He was in some ways different though. He was the town badass, always getting in fights and never going to class. It was during the last half of sophomore year that she was with him, now that I think about it, he was probably the rebound guy to get past Austin. What he and Rory had was kind of weird. They had that attachment to each other, but it seemed like Rory was going to go places and Jess wasn't. So one day, at the end of the school year, he shows up at Rory's door, kisses her, says he loves her, and says he has to go. That was the last we saw of him," Tristan said shaking his head.
"Mother fucking ass hole!" Logan suddenly erupted. They all looked at him like he was a lunatic. "Oh sorry, I said that out loud.. Heh," he said slightly blushing.
"Its ok mate, I'm thinking the same thing," Finn replied chuckling.
"Then who's Dean?" Louise asked.
Tristan opened his mouth but was beat to it by a girl's voice coming from the stairwell, "Dean was the biggest mistake of them all," causing the six 7 to turn wide eyed.
Rory had fallen asleep for a record of 5 minutes, when she decided she didn't like being alone when she had a bunch of friends downstairs, she slowly opened the door to find that the lights were on and her friends were talking. She silently shut the door behind her and sat at the top of the steps listening in. She had missed the part where the girls scolded the guys for eavesdropping, but she was just in time to hear Logan's story about Marissa. That explains a lot. She wanted to run down and hug him after hearing the story, but wanted to hear what Tristan had to say about Austin and Mike.
She had nodded along with the beginning descriptions of their friendship, but when he mentioned the intimate relationship she knew that something was off. How did they find out? Rory then looked up at the intercom system at the top of the stairwell, and realized that the room surveillance was on. They were listening in on my conversation? Anger took over her, she was about to barge down and reprimand them all but she heard Stephanie's voice speaking. She had managed to analyze exactly what Rory was feeling, and couldn't help but soften at the sound of the concern in her voice. They were just doing it because they care… but I'm still a little angry. She then proceeded to listen to Tristan's description of Jess, and even smiled when Logan and Finn yelled out in anger.
The question of Dean was brought up, and Rory knew she would have to be the one to tell the story because Tristan didn't know the whole of it. He knew that Dean was very possessive of her, but he didn't know that Dean had hit her. She had to tell her friends, they had the right to know about her past, because it was obvious they were more than concerned. "Dean was the biggest mistake of them all," she said loudly enough for them to hear. She slowly made her way down the steps and met face to face with her 7 pale, wide-eyed friends.
"Rory how long have you been there?" Tristan asked, obviously worried she had found out they were eavesdropping.
"Long enough," Rory said knowingly causing her friends to look ashamed, "We'll get to that later."
Rory took a seat in between Logan and Finn and gave both of them a feeble smile, "I'm glad you guys care," she said giving them each a kiss on the cheek, but letting the one on Logan's cheek last longer, and closer to his lips. Logan had to try his hardest not to move his fae and kiss her hard on her lips.
Rory immediately started, "I met Dean after Jess had run away, getting supplies for a wallowing night. He was working at the local grocer store as bag boy, and he seemed really sweet. That summer, Austin and Mike came home, so me and Dean didn't spend time together. But then the school year started, and I realized that I went to school with him. We started going out after homecoming, and things were going great. Great, until halfway through the year he wanted me to spend every waking minute I had with him. Sometimes, I would refuse so I could be with Tristan, who I wasn't spending as much time with. He would always yell at me, always tell me to stop being a slut and stick with one guy, and I would always say me and Tristan were just friends, but he never believed me."
Tristan nodded his head. He knew that Dean would say that stuff. He always caused a scene in the middle of town saying those things about him and Rory. Rory's eyes were quickly being filled with tears as she felt Logan's fingers slide their way in-between hers and his thumb caress the back of her hand.
"It went on all school year, until one night," Rory said crying once again. "One night, I broke plans with him to go to dinner at my Grandparent's house with the family and Tristan and his family, and when we got home his car was parked outside of the house, we didn't notice it at the time though. Tristan and I had gone home earlier than our parents, because they had business matters to attend to, and Tristan agreed to stay over cause we weren't sure when our parents would be home. Tristan went to get some movies from his house real quick, and I went into my house and was about to shut the door when someone pushed it open. I saw it was Dean so I let him in, thinking it would be alright. Then he started yelling again, telling me I was cheating on him and saying I was just a good for nothing whore and Tristan was a jerk off. I tried sticking up for Tristan… but when I did he…" Rory was now shaking from both her sobs and from fear of reliving the memory.
Tristan, who had never heard this story spoke up, "Rory, what the fuck did that ass hole do?" he said in a violent whisper.
"He slapped me across the face," Rory said letting go of Logan's hand and covering her face, "and when I told him it was over, he said good, he didn't want anything to do with a slut anyways, the whole time he was pulling my hair, and then when I pushed him away, he pushed me back, knocking me into the wall!" she said doubling over and completely bawling.
"Rory, why didn't you tell me this, when I came in and you were on the floor crying you just said that you slipped and fell, why didn't you tell me or your mom or anyone?" Tristan said going over to sit in front of her and lifting her face up All the guys were seeing red while the girls had gone over to Rory, pushed Tristan, Logan, and Finn aside and enveloped her in a hug.
"I did tell someone," Rory said after she had calmed down.
"Who?" Tristan asked offended that she had told someone other than himself.
"Austin and he told Matt. I called him and told him everything, that was the same night we patched things up," Rory said looking at Tristan scared that he would get mad at her for telling his two friends and not him.
"Oh," Tristan simply said looking defeated.
"Tristan, I'm really sorry… I knew if I told you, that you would kill him, you know how you are when you're mad. Austin was always the most rational of the group, and apparently the big mouth," Rory said trying to provide a good reason.
Tristan sighed, "You're right… but what did Austin do?"
"Well when he showed up that summer, he and his dad's shot gun paid Dean a visit," Rory said allowing herself to giggle.
"Oy, Austin shot that bloke!" Finn said happily.
Rory laughed this time, "No Finn! He just had some words with him, and he learned his lesson. After that, things went back to normal, but just to make sure, I had my parents transfer us to Chilton. That's were you guys came in." Rory smiled at the group. The group smiled tired but sincere smiles back.
A lot of the air had been cleared but there was one last thing on everyone's mind.
"So what about you and Tristan?" Colin said, voicing the thing everyone had left on their mind. Rory and Tristan both flinched and looked each other in the eye, as if telepathically speaking.
"Well let's see," Tristan said trying to stall.
To his luck, Rory took the reigns, "He was infatuated with me in 5th, 6th, and 7th grade, and I liked him back. We never acted on feelings though because we were just so young. But when Austin and Matt left, it was only the two of us. At that time, I was still hurting over Austin but I was doing my best to ignore all of it. But then, I started getting these weird feelings for Tristan, and he returned them, so decided to try a serious relationship as more than friends."
"So why'd you break up?" Steph asked. The group knew there was something they weren't mentioning.
"Uh, we realized some things, decided for the better," Rory stated averting everyone's eyes.
"Spill," Louise said unsatisfied. Rory and Tristan looked at each other unsure of what to say. Tristan just sighed. We can't lie to them.
"Me and Rory's relationship was pretty much based on lust," Tristan said causing Rory to stare at him wide mouthed and the group to raise their eyebrows. "We both had just gotten over hard breakups, me with this girl Rory didn't know about and apparently Rory with Austin. Those weird feelings Rory was talking about were caused by the multiple times we would make out and then the next day pretend it never happened. It was almost a pattern we had going. Eventually, we both realized that we were throwing away a good friendship for a bunch of desires we needed to fill this void caused by the break ups, so we went back to being best friends. And here we are." Tristan finished biting his lip and sending apologetic glances towards Rory. That wasn't all there was to it, and Rory knew it, but for now the group accepted it. He hadn't lied after all, he just skipped the part where the two had lost their virginity to one another, causing them to come to their senses, but that would serve as drama for another time.
Rory and Tristan simply sent a smile to the group, which they mirrored.
They all just sat in a comfortable silence, processing what had just happened and one by one fell asleep, it being already 3 a.m. Rory shut the lights off for them, and sat quietly. I can trust them. I can trust Logan.
On the other side of the room, Logan also sat still awake. She can trust us, I can trust her.
AN: Ok I tried really hard with this chapter and made it extra long, so please try and be nice with your reviews even if you think it sucked!