AN: Wow! Thanks so much for your reviews I really loved them all! Ok, so I ended up updating the day after like i said I might. I've decided that my update schedule will be every other day, especially since I want to start that AU She's the Man fic. Not really much else to say, but this chapter doesn't have the make up yet. There's some jumping around in it though so try and keep up. Also, the song mentioned here I learned about from Ace-not-Mary who's a great writer, you should go look at her stories too! Enjoy!

Don't own anything.

"Logan let us in," Louise demanded through his thick solid oak door of his bedroom.

On the other side, Logan droned out his friends pleading voices with his music blasting from his iPod.

Cause everybody tries to put some love on the line
And everybody feels a broken heart sometimes
And even when I'm scared I have to try to fly
Sometimes I fall
But I've seen it done before
I got to step outside these walls

I've got no master plan to help me out
Or make me stand up for
All the things I really want
You had me to afraid to ask
And as I look ahead of me
Cry and pray for sanity

These walls can't be my haven
These walls can't keep me safe here
Now I guess I got to let them down

"Easy for you to say Teddy Geiger," Logan mumbled before the loud incessant knocking on his door finally got to him. He pulled out his earphones while silently opening the door and plopping back down on his bed.

"Get up we're going out," Stephanie demanded throwing clothes from his closet into his bed.

"Aren't you mad at us or something?" Logan asked trying to change the subject.

"I was but I'm too worried about you. Logan it's Sunday, you've been locked up in your room since Friday night after dinner, you didn't even come to the sleepover to cope with the dull pain our parents left us with. You need to get out of the house and stop being such a girl," Stephanie said sitting on his bed and running her hand through his messy hair.

"What are you talking about? I'm fine, dandy! How are you and Colin?" Logan grumbled taking the attention off of him.

"Actually we're better now. I apologized for being such an ass," Colin said with a smile while taking a seat next to her on the bed and wrapping his arm around her.

Logan looked up as if he didn't believe Colin and shot the two a dirty look, "I need some ass," he said getting up to change.

"Logan mate, if I see you cheat on Rory tonight I'll be forced to kick your ass," Finn said seriously.

"Me too," Colin agreed.

"Then I'll make sure to do it somewhere private," Logan said with an angry tone.

"Logan, stop it, that's just wrong," Louise said starting to realize that he was being completely serious.

"If she can do it so can I," Logan replied nonchalant but throwing his shirt off in anger.

"You are fucked up!" Madeline suddenly yelled causing everyone to look at her surprised. Madeline was always the quietest when it came to group drama but when she heard about Logan wanted to cheat on Rory she was appalled, even though she didn't know what it meant.

"First of all how could you even think of cheating on Rory and second how could you think Rory is cheating on you? You are fucked up Logan! First you don't trust her enough thinking she's cheating on your just because she's hanging out with an old friend and her childhood best friend. And then she puts her self on the line to trust you, she put behind all of those other assholes she dated and the shit she went through for you and now you're going to go and throw it all away and make her impression on guys even worse than it is. You're a fucker!" Madeline screamed with tears starting to fall. The group just looked at her disbelieving, especially the one Logan Huntzberger who had just been told off by one of his best friends who was defending his girlfriend.

"She's not Marissa Logan, she is RORY. She looked past her reputation and your past so you have to grow up and look past hers," she finished before stomping off into the hallway and down the stairs, not wanting to cry in front of her friends. Logan looked around at his friends who just gave him blank stares.

"Nice best friend," he said bitterly.

"She's right you know," Stephanie said while she and Louise went after her to try and comfort her.

"You two going to yell at me also?" Logan asked Finn and Colin running his hand through his hair.

"No mate, but some of those things Madeline said were true," Finn reasoned with Colin nodding his head in agreement.

"Like all of it," Finn added replaying the speech in his head with a smile. He was proud of Madeline for finally speaking what she was thinking.

"You need to trust her," Colin said seriously.

"I know," Logan said, "I'll worry about it more after tonight, I just need to try and clear my head tonight alright?"

Colin nodded and led Logan and Finn downstairs to meet up with the girls.

Rory wiped the sleep from her eyes and turned to her side to see the sleeping angelic face of Tristan. She unconsciously brushed his hair back, causing his eyes to flutter open and him to smirk at her, "Watching me while I sleep, hard to resist I know but it's kind of stalkerish."

Rory rolled her eyes and playfully hit him. "Why do I put up with you?"

"I'm gorgeous, charming, intelligent, sexy…"

"Incredibly modest too," Rory deadpanned before hopping out of his bed and grabbing clothes and towel from Tristan's closet to take a shower.

"Don't use up all the hot water Pinky!" Tristan yelled.

"You should've thought about that before forcing me to dance last night in the club. I bet we're all over the tabloids now. Thank god that we opted not to drink alcohol, our grandparents might have had heart attacks," Rory said before slamming the door of the bathroom.

Tristan rolled his eyes at Rory's uptight attitude before turning on the TV and watching MADE reruns. The two had woken up pretty late, it was now 2 pm and they had to pick up Aiden at 7 to go to a restaurant lounge. Tristan just hoped that Rory being seen with Aiden wouldn't cause farfetched stories from the press and even more conflict with Logan. Why couldn't my parents just be poor?

Rory enjoyed the feel of hot water pelting on her body, washing away the build up of stickiness from sweat the night before. She replayed the eventful night in her mind, letting herself think of something other than Logan for once.

"Tristan, I really don't feel like all this attention tonight. The point was to talk about what's going on, spend some one on one time together."

"Rory loosen up, we did plenty of talking back at home and now we can talk more in the limo, so that covers the talking aspect of the night. Now we're just going to the spending time together aspect."

Rory just harrumphed and crossed her arms over her chest in defeat and also as a means for warmth. Somehow, Tristan had convinced her to wear a low cut tank top with an open back and a pair of jeans that were a little too fitting in her opinion.

"You look great," he said reading her mind. "Now we've already talked our heads off about how you can't forgive Logan until he trusts you, is there anything else to say on that subject?"

"No… you don't think I'm over reacting are you?" Rory asked. Tristan sighed. Just when you think she's run out of conversational pieces.

"He didn't trust you and that's wrong but you have to give him a chance Rory. Marissa really shook him up by cheating on him and he never had to deal with being so committed and trusting to someone since her, it's like he's starting new," Tristan replied trying to give the best of both worlds.

"But I'm not Marissa!"

"I know Rory and I'm sure everyone else has reminded Logan about that too, but we're going out tomorrow night with someone who's living with Marissa so of course the guys going to be a little jealous. How would you feel if he hung out with one of Dean or Jess's close friends?"

When Rory didn't answer, Tristan knew what she was thinking. "That's what I thought. So just enjoy tonight and have fun and forget about him. Give him his space to figure things out and you figure your things out. If by Tuesday things are still in the rough, we initiate the plan."

"What plan?"

"The plan,"

"Tristan no! I was just joking about that, I mean I know the song is perfect and everything and we have the dance made but it was just to kill time. I don't seriously intend to do that," Rory said looking at Tristan as if he were crazy.

"Well then you better hope that things are better then Tuesday," Tristan quipped before changing the subject to something lighter.

Soon enough, their limo arrived at the front of the club with much of the press there trying to look out for any high socialites that might be lurking in Hartford's hot club 'Prime'. As soon as Rory and Tristan's limo, that was a constant on tabloid covers, showed up, the cameras went crazy as the bouncers of the club immediately pulled the two in, not even asking for ID of any sort.

Away from the flashing bulbs of camera lights, Rory and Tristan enjoyed the night dancing on the floor and talking in a secluded booth that they had managed to snag. After getting bored, Tristan suggested to Rory she dance on the bar and see how many guys she could pick up. Of course Rory had denied the request but after much whining and convincing that Rory had to stop thinking about Logan for at least a little, she had complied. Her dance wasn't too provocative but she managed to get many guys to hoot at her that Tristan immediately shooed away, making sure they didn't cross the line.

By the end of the night, Rory and Tristan were pooped to say the least and both plopped down into Rory's bed, leaving Rory's thoughts to float back to Logan.

As Rory pulled out of her flashback, she couldn't help but wonder what Logan had done last night, if maybe he was one of those guys at another club, trying to pick up the girl that was dancing at the bar. She also thought of what he could be possibly doing now, and hated the fact that she couldn't call him and just find out like she usually would.

The 3 boys found the girls in Logan's den watching something on the screen intently.

"Playboy channel?" Finn asked excitedly running over to the couch and plopping down next to Madeline trying to see.

"Rory's clip is coming on soon," Steph said distracted.

"Even better kitten," Finn said with a chuckle causing Logan to clench his fists. Does he have to talk about her that way even when we're fighting?

"What happened? Is she ok? Why's she on Hartford News?" Colin asked sending a side glance to Logan before sitting next to Steph and pulling her into his lap.

"It's the star sighting section," Louise replied turning up the volume so everyone could hear.

A perky, upbeat voice spoke from the TV while pictures of Rory and Tristan flashed behind her to go along with her dialogue, "As for the teen scene, sixteen year old Lorelai Gilmore-Hayden and seventeen year old Tristan Packard-Dugrey were spotted last night at the posh club 'Prime'. The two best friends or friends with benefits, who knows with how close these two are, did not stop to sign anything or take pictures with any other club heads as they were quickly rushed into the safe haven of Prime by the burly bouncers. An inside source told us that the whole night Lorelai, more affectionately known by her friends as Rory, and Tristan were out on the dance floor or in a private booth talking and straying away from the alcohol, good little socialites! However, despite the lack of tipsiness that would prompt outlandish behavior, Rory Hayden still rewarded the many men in the club with a genuine bar dance showing off her expert moves. Who knew Hollenzallen princesses were so limber? Unfortunately, every time an offer came to the table…or the bar in this case, Rory politely but forcefully declined and Tristan kept an eye out for any wandering hands from guys watching her. So if you were one of those guys rejected by the rich beauty, don't be too disappointed because you aren't the only one! Perhaps our blooming socialite is just saving herself for the one Logan Huntzberger, who has she has been spotted with having several public displays of affection with? But where was the gorgeous other blondie in Rory's life tonight? Who knows! However, if you're out there watching, Logan, be pleased to know that Rory stayed faithful and enjoy this little clip of her performance taken by an anonymous source!"

The group looked at Logan as Logan turned to the television and paid special attention once his name was called out. The woman who was spreading the gossip disappeared and was replaced by a clip of Rory on a bar dancing around but not smiling. She looked tenser and her usually sparkling blue eyes were dull. Nevertheless, she was on the bar shaking around what she had to a techno song. Several guys were reaching out to her but she stayed just out of their reach. In the far corner of the screen, an attentive blonde boy who was none other than Tristan Dugrey was tapping a guy on the shoulder that was holding on to Rory's ankle, Tristan just glared at the guy before he quickly walked out of the view of the camera.

Logan felt the heat of anger take over him. He was supposed to be spending this day forgetting about Rory for at least 12 hours, but now here he was watching her dance on a bar. She was out doing that stuff, as if there was nothing wrong with the two of them, meanwhile he was home last night watching Charles in Charge reruns and ignoring the incessant ringing of his cell phone due to his friends.

But as quickly as the anger had come, it was replaced by a wave of relief. She was doing all of that stuff but she wasn't happy. He knew it was wrong, but he took pleasure in knowing that she was just as unhappy as he was last night, the two had just handled it differently. He was also relieved to know that Tristan had been looking out for their relationship, keeping the other guys away from Rory. A reflexive smile spread across his once sad face and was quickly noticed by his friends.

"Something funny Logan?" Steph asked bewildered by his calm cool and relieved expression his face suddenly took on.

"No nothing, let's go out for some dinner," he replied simply trying to wipe the grin off while leading the group to Finn's Escalade. The group just looked at each other with raised eyebrows before following him out.

"At least he looked happy," Louise said.

"Was it happy or crazy?" Colin deadpanned shaking his head.

"Grandma I was just having some fun!" Rory rebutted at her Grandmother Gilmore's last comment. For the past 20 minutes she had seen the Hartford gossip about her and watched her booty shake around on the screen of the limo's television while being reprimanded by her grandmother for her 'unladylike behavior'. Tristan sat next to her with an annoying smirk while waving his finger around in feigned disappointment.

"I promise Grandma, that is the last time you will see me shaking my female body parts around on television, goodbye," Rory said before slamming the phone shut and throwing her head back onto the head rest of the limo seat with a grunt. Tristan sat smiling before Rory opened her eyes and smacked him. "This is your entire fault; you forced me to get up there!"

"It'll all blow over, it was just one night of a teenage girl having fun," Tristan tried to reason rubbing the spot Rory had hit.

"Yes but can you imagine how much of a hard time our parents are going to give me for this? They'll be comparing me to George Bush's daughters and asking me if that job at Coyote Ugly ever pulled through!"

Tristan laughed, "That's a good one; remind me to bring that up when they're around." Rory just glared at him before the limousine came to halt, pulling up to a large brick home with iron gates.

"So this is Marissa's house. I didn't know she was high society," Rory said.

"In and out as fast as possible I promise," Tristan said getting out of the limo and grabbing Rory's hand dragging her with him. The two approached the door hesitantly but before they could even knock Aiden quickly opened the door and stepped out closing the door behind him just as fast. He looked at the two's surprised faces and chuckled before giving them both a big hug, "My saviors, let's go before she spots us," he said practically running into the limo he saw them exit out of.

Rory looked at Tristan who looked at her confused and they quickly followed him, ordering Geoffrey to step on it.

"Is she like abusing you or something?" Tristan asked dumbly.

"Yes because a skinny little blonde bitch is capable of doing that to Aiden," Rory deadpanned before sending an apologetic look to Aiden. "I'm sorry the bitch part just slipped."

Aiden laughed, "Don't worry about it Rory, your opinion is the censored version of mine."

"You don't like living with her man?"

"Hell no!" Aiden yelled quickly. "Especially today and every other day that she has her little bimbo backups come over and try taking pictures of me while I shower!"

Rory and Tristan looked at him waiting for some kind of expression that said he was joking, but they came to realize that he was completely serious, causing them to laugh in his face.

"It's not funny guys! I'm scared one day I'm going to type in my name to Google images and find a picture of my bare ass with over a million hits," Aiden said letting out a chuckle.

"Over a million? Aren't you being a little presumptuous?" Rory said with a raised eyebrow.

"You tell me," he shot back with a wink before the three of them burst out in laughter. Rory was sure that if Aiden hadn't lived so far all of his life, that she Tristan and Aiden would have been best of friends. The three of them together always equaled a great time with laughs and good memories. It was good for them to catch up and be able to talk again, and after 3 years there was a lot.

The car ride to the trendy Hartford restaurant lounge 'Fresh & Clean' was spent catching up on the less interesting aspects of their separation period. The three talked about their parents, any big life changing events that happened such as the inheritance, and past love interests. The group didn't go too much into the last subject because they agreed to save the juiciest subjects for dinner, including Aiden's strong dislike for Marissa.

"So you guys are like celebrities and my friends… that's freaking awesome!" Aiden exclaimed after Tristan and Rory launched their story about their sudden birthright.

"Well I'm glad you think so, because we're at the lounge now and so is the press. And me and Tristan have to talk to one of them because it's our punishment for Tristan's great idea of having me dance on the bar last night," Rory replied.

"Oh yeah, I saw that. Nice moves Hayden," Aiden said laughing. Rory just glared at him before pushing Tristan out the open door of the limousine and following. "I hope you're ready to have your face in tabloids saying you're the father of my baby and I had an affair with you," Rory mumbled when Aiden stepped out. He sent Rory a questioning glance only to find her start walking away with Tristan with a fake smile planted on her pink lips. He caught up with them to find them speaking into a microphone that a woman from Hartford news was holding out.

"Rory Hayden and Tristan Dugrey, can you kindly define the relationship that you two share?" the reporter asked curiously.

"We are and have been best friends since 5th grade, nothing more and nothing less," Rory replied kindly but shortly.

"I see, so are there any love interests in your life at the moment?" the reporter shot back with a look towards Aiden.

"Yes we love each other as best friends and our families," Tristan replied cleverly avoiding the question.

"I see," the reporter replied obviously not pleased, "Well where is the rest of your small exclusive clique tonight, and who is he?"

"Our friends are out doing their own thing tonight, we're actually here to catch up with our old friend Aiden Dennison," Rory replied pulling Aiden to her side. Aiden just smiled at the camera before Tristan spoke.

"Well we should get going, don't want to miss our reservation," Tristan said with a final smile before leading Rory and Aiden into the lounge.

"Where to Logan?" Finn said starting up the engine as everyone piled in behind them.

"I made reservations at Fresh and Clean, got a private room that we'll be sharing with another party," Logan said checking he watch.

"Are you crazy? There's so much paparazzi there every night, they'll be sure to get into asking you about we aren't with Rory and Tristan like usual," Stephanie said.

"It's alright we can go in through the back so no one spots us and go straight into the VIP section," Logan replied.

"We're so sorry Miss Hayden but a sudden party of six asked for the VIP room also and the manager was wondering whether you minded them sharing the room with you since it is a rather large room. As compensation we are willing to give you and your friends an unlimited amount of cocktail drinks and we assure you that all serving of it will remain confidential. We really would like to serve you here," the hostess said once Rory, Tristan, and Aiden walked into the lounge.

"Alright we don't mind sharing," Rory said. The hostess smiled widely before grabbing three menus and leading them to the back of the noisy lounge that was filled with music, laughing, talking, and slurred words of the drunks at the bar. The group reached the farthest back of the lounge away from all of the regular paying customers and to the VIP section which was in actuality a large closed off room with luminescent lighting and contemporary design. A table set for 3 sat on one side of the room anticipating their arrival while on the other side of the room was a larger table set for 6. A separator sat in between the two tables that was thin but still served as a apt barrier.

Rory took a seat in between Tristan and Aiden at their round table and glanced over the menu. "Chicken Parmesan, that's what Logan ordered on our first date," Rory mumbled but was still heard by Tristan and Aiden.

"I think it's time to talk about ex's and drama," Aiden said with a smile.

"Ok what happened to Nicole?" Rory asked. Nicole was Aiden's over protective over jealous girlfriend that he had when they were in Washington D.C. that had a passion for hating Rory.

"Why don't you just answer it?" Rory groaned after hearing 'This I Promise You' by NSYNC for the 5th time in a row playing from Aiden's cell phone.

"Because that ring tone is the one that my girlfriend Nicole put for herself on my phone and it has been playing every hour since I landed here," Aiden said while unpacking some of his shirts onto his bed in the hotel room.

"Aw that's cute," Rory said while trying to find a place to plug in her portable coffee maker her mother had sent with her.

"Or whipped," Tristan said laughing while throwing up his football in the air idly.

"Tristan you should unpack," Rory scolded play the mother of the group being the only girl.

"Maybe later," Tristan said making an angry face at the cell phone that had silence but quickly started once again.

Rory groaned before running over the cell phone and pressing the green button to prompt a call. "She's going to regret that," Aiden whined to Tristan who shot him a confused looked. Aiden only pointed to his ear signaling him to listen.

"Hello Nicole!" Rory said very kindly into the phone.

"WHO IS THIS?" a screechy voice boomed through the phone while Aiden shook his head.

"I'm Rory, one of Aiden's room mates. You're his girlfriend right?" At her introduction as room mate Aiden dropped his stuff and winced before running over to Rory and pulling the phone away from her trying to save her from his girlfriend's psycho over reacting. He pulled the ear to his phone with Rory swatting to get it back but it was too late.

"HIS ROOM MATE! IS HE CHEATING ON ME WITH YOU! YOU SLUT I HATE YOU AND I HATE AIDEN AND I NEVER WANNA SEE HIS FACE AGAIN!" boomed the voice on the phone as Aiden held it away from his ear. Tristan was now on the floor cracking up while Rory looked at the phone half amused half scared.

Aiden just shook his head and glared at Rory before putting the phone back on his ear and speaking, "Babe calm down she and her boyfriend are my room mate. I'm not cheating on you baby." Rory raised her eyebrow as Tristan calmed down. "What a wimp!" Rory mocked. Tristan just laughed and nodded in agreement. Aiden glared at them before saying goodbye, "I love you too babe."

"She hates you now," Aiden said to Rory simply.

"What did I do!"

"You answered my phone. She's really a jealous person," Aiden replied.

"Then why do you put up with her?" Tristan asked looking at Aiden like he was pathetic.

"She's hot and she can be really nice, to me and my guy friends," Aiden replied with a shrug.

"Well that's a long list," Rory replied before getting back to unpacking not letting Nicole hating her bother her.

"She got a little too … scary especially when I came back and she tried taking all my pictures I had of you so she could get rid of them," Aiden replied shivering at the thought of her. Tristan and Rory both laughed out loud at how ridiculous she handled the situation.

"What about this Logan guy, what's been going on with that?" he asked concerned.

Rory sighed but before she could answer the door opened to reveal 6 familiar faces and the voice of none other than their Australian friend Finn. "Oy mates look who's here!"

"Oh God," Tristan, Rory, and Aiden all said in unison.

AN: I guess it's kind of a cliff hanger... it was a fun chapter to write though, especially with the gossip woman's part.. I love writing gossip column sounding things. Now you may be wondering about Rory's age being 16, but it made sense since her birthday is in October, so let's just say she made it to the cut off date that let her be in senior year instead of junior, I think thats how October Bdays work anyways. Tristan's birthday here will be in April making him older than her by a couple months. Well, review!