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"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.

"Who?" Logan asked looking up from his cell phone to be met with the blue eyes that he was so close to getting out of his mind. "Oh," he managed to get out while eyeing Aiden with resentment.

"I think I should leave," Aiden mumbled to Rory. Rory tore her eyes away from Logan's to look at him. "Don't worry about it," she said reassuringly before rising out of her seat to greet the group with Tristan and Aiden close behind.

"Hi Finny!" Rory exclaimed running up to him and hugging him while kissing him on the cheek. "Hello love, looking gorgeous as always," Finn said with a smile and a wink as he twirled her around in her black spaghetti strap silk and lace dress.

"Well thank you Finn, right back at you!" she replied with a similar wink.

"Hi Steph, Madeline, Louise, Colin, Logan," she said with her voice becoming more hollow as she went down the list. She received an assortment or nods, hellos and hugs as greetings before an uncomfortable silence engulfed them all.

Rory stood staring at Logan unsubtly. She couldn't believe the repetitive irony that her life had as she took in Logan's appearance. God he's so hot I wish I could just over there and kiss his brains out. She looked him up and down noting how good he looked in his button up shirt with tousled blonde hair and wished she could just bring herself to forgive him, but so many harsh words had been said between the two and then there was that unconvincing mini speech he had told her during dinner. She couldn't quite comprehend why he had such doubts in her. She was aware that all of her friends were assuring him that he could, and she was proving that she could but she also understood that his past relationship could cause trust issues. Relationships are so hard!

Logan stared right back at her without any intentions of ever turning away. When she ran up to Finn and kissed him, he frowned at the thought of feeling her touch that he hadn't for so long, or feeling her lips on his. His mind was reeling from what could only be described as withdrawal from his girlfriend. He knew it was horrible not to trust her, and looking at her now only made him regret his idiocy more. All his friends had told him that she wasn't Marissa, that she wouldn't cheat on him, that she wouldn't screw him over. But he was waiting for something from her; he was waiting for her to say those things. He wanted the hear affirmation from her mouth that he could trust her, he had told her plenty of times that she could trust him, but she had never uttered those words and it phased him. The fact that she was molding her future plans around Tristan didn't help either, so he just need to hear 'I trust you' from her mouth. It was a stupid concept, and he knew that, but he was one of those people who didn't believe unless they had some kind of confirmation. He knew that if she just said those words to him and heartily meant them, he would take her back in less than a heartbeat.

The two torn lovers were pulled out of their thoughts by the entrance of the lounge's manager. "Hello everyone," he greeted before approaching Rory.

"I'm so sorry once again Miss Hayden for the inconvenience, and we're very happy that you decided to stay and dine with us. Just tell us anything and we will be happy to comply, and we hope that you, Mr. Dugrey, and Mr. Dennison have the utmost comfort tonight," the manager said professionally. He apparently didn't see the tabloid covers that showed Rory and all of her socialite friends so he didn't recognize the other 6.

"Actually, could you please get rid of this separator you have here and put in a larger table for 9? We know this group you have here and we'd like to eat with them," Rory requested. Although things between her and the group except Finn, Madeline, and Steph were rough she found it stupid to eat in the same room with them but pretend she didn't know them.

"Surely Miss Hayden, we will gladly do so and serve all of you with the free drinks that we promised," the owner said before quickly snapping his fingers and instructing some of the employees to do as told. Rory and the group just stood to the side looking at each other awkwardly.

"Hi I'm Aiden Dennison," Aiden said suddenly sticking his hand out for someone to shake. While Colin and Logan looked at it like he had just sneezed on it, Finn gladly accepted it and smile. "Finnegan Rothschild mate, Rory's Aussie lover," he said with a wink. Aiden chuckled and looked at the girls hoping one of them would also show some kind of acceptance.

"Stephanie Vanderbilt," Steph said from under the possessive arm of Colin while sticking her hand out for him to shake. "Nice to meet you," she added. Colin nudged her but she ignored him, knowing that he was being irrational.

"I'm Maddy but you can call me Madeline Lynn!" Madeline said sticking her hand out. Aiden took it confused until Rory stood on her tiptoes and mumbled, "Switch it around." Aiden nodded in comprehension while Logan clenched his jaw further in jealousy, but remained silent.

"The table's ready," Tristan said pointing to the quickly assembled table. Everyone took seats, sitting next to people they could tolerate. Rory took her seat hoping that Logan would even attempt to sit by her despite their argument but he immediately sat between Finn and Colin, not facing her so Rory was left in between Aiden and Tristan. The group was silently looking at their menus when Finn spoke.

"So tell us about yourself mate. How do you know Marissa?" Finn said causing everyone to stop what they were doing and drop their menus.

"Finn!" Rory hissed about to scold him but was stopped with Aiden's hand on her arm. "Don't worry about it Rory," he said as Logan stared at his hand trying to telepathically move it with his eyes.

"My parents and Marissa's parents were best friends back in high school. When my parents got sent to Africa to help with the famine over there, they had me stay with Marissa and her family," Aiden explained.

"So are you fucking her?" Logan asked with a bitter smirk.

"Logan!" Rory hissed at him surprised that he would say such a thing. Logan looked at her surprised that she even addressed him while the others shook their heads preparing for another lashing out, but it was interrupted by Aiden.

"Where do you get off assuming that? You don't even know me," he replied calmly.

"If you're with Marissa then I do know your type. You're into several fuck buddies at one time and you try to get as many as possible," Logan replied nonchalant with Rory shaking her head ashamed of the way her boyfriend on the rocks was acting.

Aiden and Tristan both chuckled heartily. "You are so wrong man," both of them said together.

"What are you the double mint twins?" Colin asked trying to take Logan's side.

"First of all Logan, if you went out with Marissa, doesn't it mean that you're one of those guys who are only into fuck buddies?" Tristan asked. Logan stared at him blankly while Rory looked up at him as if pleading that he would deny it.

"Good point!" Stephanie said gaining glares from Logan, Colin, and Louise. She just ignored them and turned to look Aiden once more.

"Why don't you like me?" Aiden asked.

"He doesn't like you because you're living with his ex girlfriend that cheated on him: Marissa. So he thinks that just because you're living with her, you're like the guy Marissa cheated on him with and he thinks you're going to take me from him and prompt me to cheat on him too. Logan and Colin and Louise all got mad at me because I said I was going out to dinner with you tonight and we've been fighting for a couple days now about it. Oh, and Logan doesn't trust me," Rory said all in one breath. Everyone sat in silence going over the details of her story while Aiden tried to process it all.

"Wow," Aiden said after a couple minutes. "Listen Logan, I don't know what it is that's making you not trust Rory but I'm not trying to take her from you and I'm not like any of the other man whores that Marissa hooks up with. I hate living with that girl, I mean she's a pretty face to look at but once you get past that she's completely rotten and I'm surprised you would even think I go for that. She is extremely annoying and I don't go for the fuck and dump method she does because in all honesty, I'm a virgin not that it's any of your business anyways. You should know that anyone who is friends with Rory would never be friends with Marissa because Rory is the completely opposite of her: she's smart, trustworthy, loyal, caring and not superficial and if you haven't notice that then you don't know her at all. So get your facts straight man," Aiden lectured.

Everyone just sat dumbfounded. Rory's tears that she was trying so hard to fight back had now returned at were silently falling down her cheeks and onto her napkin draped lap. Tristan was rubbing reassuring circles on her back while Colin, Louise, and Logan looked at her guiltily for how close minded they were. Finn, Madeline, and Stephanie shook their heads in disgust to see how much it took their other friends the error or their ways.

"Rory," Louise suddenly said. Rory quickly wiped away her tears, hoping that no one had noticed, and looked up to the blonde that had ignored her the past few days.

"I'm so sorry," she said, "I'm so so sorry to both of you." Rory and Tristan looked her in the eyes and saw the pleading look, "It's ok Louise, just trust us now ok?" Rory requested. Louise nodded her head and went over to the two of them to give them a hug.

"Your turn," Steph mumbled to Colin. Colin sighed; he hated to be proven wrong and now he had just been proven it in front of all his friends.

"I'm sorry too," Colin said quickly to Tristan and Rory. The both of them looked at him surprised and silently forgave him before the waiter came in and took their orders.

Four hours later the group's proverbial ice had been broken and things were back to normal with everyone; except the two still feuding lovers.Logan had quietly apologized to Madeline for his rant, but had yet to say anything to Rory. Aiden had been quickly accepted by everyone, especially when he had shared embarrassing stories of Tristan, Rory, and even a couple about Marissa.

Since it was a school night, all of them had agreed to stay away from the hard drinks except for Finn, not wanting to take the risk of having a hangover while having to endure the sound of a loud ringing bell. With everyone thinking relatively clearly, they decided that it was best that they cut their night short at eleven so they could all talk to each other without snapping the next day. The group left the room still talking, leaving Rory and Logan to decide who would pay for the bill.

"I got it A-Rory, there was more of us anyways there were only three of you," Logan said handing her his black card and mentally kicking himself for almost calling her Ace.

"No it's alright I got it," trying to offer hers that she had gotten from her parents as an early birthday gift.

"Don't worry about," he said as the final statement while handing the confused waiter his card, leaving the two waiting for it back in silence.

"Why do you still not trust me, even after all that he said why don't you trust me?" Rory asked suddenly looking him in eye with a weary expression.

Logan sighed while silently signing the receipt the waiter had quickly brought back and retrieving his card from the holder. After slipping the card back into his wallet and his wallet back into his pocket, he looked at Rory.

"Everyone tells me the same thing, that Rory isn't Marissa that I can trust you," he said.

"Then why don't you believe it?" Rory asked.

"I don't know and I don't know if I ever will because I hear it from everyone but the person I want to hear it from the most, you," he said before walking out of the room sadly leaving Rory to think. The ball's in my court.

"I can't believe he said that, it doesn't make any sense," Stephanie said shaking her head while changing out of her gym outfit. It was Monday, the day that gym class was right before lunch and Rory worked up a large appetite. But today, she had no appetite whatsoever, which was a lot to say for a Gilmore girl. Today, she was nervous as hell for the early initiation of her and Tristan's plan.

"Not really, he just wants to hear from Rory that he could trust her, I mean wouldn't it be kind of weird when everyone's telling you that you can trust your girlfriend when your girlfriend hasn't even said it herself?" Louise reasoned.

Rory nodded, she could see in some aspects where it would make sense, she could trust Logan because he had told her that she could; along with the fact that he proved him self trustworthy. She guessed that maybe if Logan hadn't told her those simple words that she would feel the same way. She was idly playing with her regular school uniform when the bell rang signaling the beginning of lunch. "Guys go ahead, I'll meet you there," she said.

She really had no intention of changing for her gym clothes, if she was going to dance around and sing along to a pop song on a table, she surely wasn't going to do in her regular Chilton uniform fulfilling the whole Britney Spears fantasy many guys had in their mind when Rory first stepped into Chilton.

"Now or never," she mumbled while putting on her black high heels she would be dancing in today. "What I do for this guy," she said to herself before making her way to the lunchroom, thanking god that the halls were relatively empty.

"Where's the fourth of you?" Colin asked as Steph took a seat in his lap at the table.

"Rory said she'd meet us here, what about the fourth of you?"

"Mate said he had to get something from his locker," Finn replied. Everyone at the table looked at each other suspecting.

"You don't think they're in a janitor's closet somewhere do you?" Logan asked.

"Logan!" Everyone scolded shaking their heads. "This guy doesn't give it a rest," Louise said to Steph who nodded in agreement. At that moment, Tristan burst into the lunch room with a boom box while locking the door behind him. The whole room looked at him confused as he made his way to the table looking like nothing was out of the ordinary.

"Planning on battling someone to a dance off mate?" Finn asked as he placed the boom box on the table. Tristan just feigned laughter before looking at Logan.

"Logan Garret Huntzberger, you are called to the charges of mistrust, and infringement of the solemn oaths you took on the first date with the one Lorelai Leigh Gilmore Hayden the 3rd how do you plea?" Tristan asked loudly turning all the heads of the room.

"Uh what?" Logan asked stupidly, not quite understanding what was going on. "My client pleads guilty!" Colin said, catching on and letting his lawyer blood take over.

"Very well, in what terms do you plea in this direction?" Tristan asked, thank god he was taking law as an elective, it made talking like this a lot easier and a lot more understandable.

"Because he says it himself he doesn't mate, duh," Finn said. Tristan just shook his head and looked at Logan who just looked as if he were the only sober person in a room of drunks.

"We call Miss Lorelai Leigh Gilmore Hayden, why is her name so long, the third to the stand!" Tristan boomed, mumbling the middle part. Everyone looked around for her and saw her walking out of the kitchen in her gym uniform with her hair up in a ponytail and black high heels. Many guys hooted, including Finn who whistled and barked. "Order in the court!" Steph giggled out while watching the whole show as if it were one of her favorite soap operas. Rory sent a wink to Steph before taking the empty seat next to Logan and crossing her legs, giving him a good view of them. Logan gulped trying to control himself and remind himself that he couldn't look at her like that when he didn't trust her.

"Lorelai … screw it… Lorelai Hayden how do you defend yourself on the charge of not being trustable by the one Logan Huntzberger?" Tristan asked.

"Not guilty!" she said confidently standing up dramatically.

"What is your defense statement?" Tristan asked slowly inching his finger to the boom box play button.

"Because," she started looking Logan in the eye before climbing onto the table, "THIS IS ME!"

Tristan then pressed the play button starting the song of 'This Is Me' by Dream. Rory stood on the table kicking off the trays with her high heels while dancing and singing along to the song, looking at Logan and pointing the whole time.

She stole your heart
Only did it because she could
Chewed you up and spat you out
That girl never was no good
Baby I will never do that
I'll love you faithfully
But your suspicious mind thinks
I'm gonna repeat her story

The room watched in admiration as Rory once again showed off her dance moves, all the while looking at Logan who was stunned to say the least. Logan was listening to her sing the song, granted her voice wasn't perfect but at least it didn't sound horrible. He listened closely to the lyrics, especially the parts that she was stressing.

She's making you crazy
Making you a wreck
Making you follow me
Making me a suspect
You seem to think I'm playing her game
Don't you know my name?

That was her, this is me
We're as different as can be
She and I are nothing alike
You confusing day with night

That was then, this is now
You wanna trust me,
But you don't know how
I'm never gonna mess around
Set you down, can't you see?
That was her
And baby this is me

Stop making me feel bad
I'm the best thing you ever had
The only thing I'm guilty of
Is giving you too much love
Don't suffocate me, give me some space
Don't make me pay, for all her mistakes
Believe in the love that's in my kiss

Several guys hooted in the room as she leaned over giving Logan a good look at her cleavage as she blew a kiss to him while singing the last line about love in her kiss. She felt a slap on her ass which she was pretty sure was from Finn who couldn't keep his hands to himself but she simply ignored it and climbed down from the table, dancing around the table and sang the last part of the song whole heartedly.

That was her, this is me
We're as different as can be
She and I are nothing alike
You confusing day with night

That was then, this is now
You wanna trust me,
But you don't know how
I'm never gonna mess around
Set you down, can't you see?
That was her
And baby this is me

As she finished, Rory ended up straddling Logan's lap and running a hand through his hair while giving him a firm but quick kiss on the lips, trying to keep herself from totally making out with him when the familiar sparks took place.

Logan stared at his under dressed girlfriend that was on his lap with beads of sweat forming on her forehead. The whole song is what he had wanted to hear all along, the recognition his mind was begging for from Rory. It was stupid, and he knew it, but he just wanted to be put in his place that he could trust her by Rory. As she kissed him on his lips and ran her hand through his hair, he immediately felt the need and want that he had been trying to deny rush back to him.

"Is there anything else you'd like to add Miss Hayden?" Tristan asked pulling them out of their trance.

"You can trust me," she said in a whisper looking him in his eyes while still on his lap with her hands on his shoulders.

Logan looked into her eyes and saw the pleading but truthful expression they took on, and it meant the world to him. Those four words were music to his ears and the perfect way to top off what she had sang in the song. "I know now," he whispered back watching her expression go from hopefulness to happiness before he grabbed her waist and crashed his lips into hers, savoring the taste he had missed since the fight began. The room immediately erupted in applause and catcalls.

"Court adjourned," Tristan said with a smirk as he picked up the boom box and walked out of the cafeteria as the bell rung signaling the beginning of class. The room slowly emptied leaving Rory and Logan still going at it in the same position.

After 10 minutes, the need for air finally became evident and the two pulled apart, oblivious to the lack of students now in the cafeteria. "I trust you Rory," Logan said running his thumb up and down her cheek, caressing the skin he had missed the feeling of. "So all it took was me dancing on the table singing a stupid pop song for you to really feel it?" Rory asked.

"Yea, that and us totally being late for our 6th period class," he added with a smirk. Rory looked at him questioningly before the silence of the room hit her causing her to gasp. "Logan we have a Biology Test Review today!" she exclaimed jumping up and running towards the door while dragging Logan with her.

"Ace wait!" he exclaimed. Rory immediately stopped in her tracks and turned to face him with a smile. "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"You haven't called me Ace for a while, it sounds nice," she replied blushing.

"Well how about we get you changed into uniform and then you can call me my nickname while I give you a good reason to. I know an empty classroom with a lock," Logan said suggestively, not being able to deny the need he had for skin on skin contact with Rory that he had missing so desperately.

Rory looked at him puzzled before realization hit her and she smirked. Usually she would totally laugh off a statement like that, but she had missed Logan just as much as he missed her. "I guess we'll be missing Biology?" she purred from under Logan's arm as they made their way to the girls locker room for Rory to change before going to their second destination. Logan was surprised but quickly recovered.

"I've always liked Anatomy better anyways," he said cockily.

"That was corny, but I'll let it go because God I've missed you," she grumbled.

"Ditto, except a lot more," he said sincerely, eager to show her how much he really did.

AN:Annnd there's the make up! Haha it was cheesy I know but I had fun writing it, and I heard the song on my iPOD the other day and i was like Oh my gosh this is so Rory! ahha Well next chapter is going to be Rory's bday... the chapters are going to have some jumping around after the next just because I need to give them some good times during the holidays again before I bring in some more drama. Yes more drama! evil mee haha Review!