"So where are we sailing daddy?" Rory inquired once they were all seated in the spacious limo.
"Mediterranean, Italy and Greece area."
"So how are we getting there?" Logan questioned as he adjusted his new watch.
"Well we're going to fly out on Straub's private plane, should be about an eight hour flight, into France and pick up the boat in Nice." Mitchum replied to his son. "New watch you have there son?"
"Yes dad, Rory got it for me for my birthday." Logan smiled.
"May I?" Mitchum asked reaching for the watch.
"Yes." Logan said handing the watch over.
Mitchum smiled to himself as he read the engraving, and gently tapped Chris on the shoulder; they shared a look conveying the same message: the relationship between the two children had formed wonderfully. "It's a beautiful watch you picked out Rory. Now, Logan remind me why you call Rory Bubbles."
Rory and Logan looked at each other and laughed before he proceeded, "The was one summer when we were like five or six Rory was obsessed with trying to learn how to blow a bubble with bubble gum, so I started calling her Bubbles, and it sort of just stuck."
"Oh I remember that summer," Lorelei smiled, "I had to get gum out of your hair so many times, I just wanted to shave your head. New necklace Rory?"
"Ya, it was birthday present from Logan." Rory replied as she opened it up to reveal what was inside.
"Oh my God, I remember this birthday party, Shira look at this, remember that party?" Lorelei practically squealed.
"I do!" Shira exclaimed. "That was one of the best parties we put on, a royal party, remember the horses and the crowns?" Lorelei, Shira, and the rest of the group went in to a long conversation that took them a long way down memory lane.
The next thing Rory knew Logan was shaking her, "Bubbles, come on up, we're here."
"Mmhmm, ok." Rory mumbled as she fell back asleep on Logan's shoulder.
"Nope, up we go." Logan smiled as he tugged on Rory's hands.
"I hate you." Rory mumbled again.
"I know you do. Come on you can sleep on the plane."
"Okay why don't you and Logan take the T.V. room in the back, and us adults will take the front." Straub said smiling at Rory.
"Alright Granddad." Rory replied as she led Logan to the back. "So," Rory started as they sat on one of the sofas in the back, "how is Michelle?"
"You've always been up front Bubs," Logan smirked, "I don't know how Michelle is, we broke up last month, so how's Dave?"
"Happily back with his ex-girlfriend Lindsey." Rory said rolling her eyes.
"Do I need to hurt this one?" Logan grinned.
"I don't think so, but I will defiantly let you know if hurting is needed.
"So, Mitchum, did you bring the ring?" Richard asked as he sipped his Manhattan.
"Indeed I did Richard." Mitchum replied reaching into his briefcase and pulling out a small velvet box and opening it. "It's a family heirloom; it was my mother's engagement ring."
"Oh it's beautiful!" Francine gasped as the other ladies nodded in agreement.
"So we have all the particulars worked out then?" Christopher asked the group.
"I have a question," Lorelei started, "how long of an engagement are we planning here?"
"Hopefully not a very long one, the sooner the marriage the better, however we will give Rory and Logan until their twentieth birthdays, although we're not telling them that." Mitchum answered.
"Don't the children have to go to school?" Shira questioned.
"Well of course they do, they will go to the same school and we will invest in an apartment for them."
"Let me guess, you have a school picked out for them too?" Lorelei questioned.
"Yale." Mitchum and Richard said in unison.
"But Rory has he heart set of Harvard." Lorelei stated. "Why can't they go there?"
"Lorelei," Sighed Richard, "we have been over this; Yale is our alma mater, that's where the children will go."
"Quick Lorelei," Emily whispered from the doorway into the T.V. room, "get the camera, we have to take a picture of this."
"What mom? You're kidding right."
"No Lorelei, I swear get the camera and bring Shira."
"Alright I'm here mom, what is so important?"
"Shh, Lorelei, look," Emily said smiling pointing at Rory and Logan who had fallen asleep on the sofa; Logan had Rory wrapped in his arms and she was sleeping on his chest, "it's precious isn't it? I wanted a picture; I want their entire relationship documented so we can have pictures at the wedding reception."
"Of course mom," Lorelei sighed as she rolled her eyes, "but we do need to wake them up seeing as how we're sitting on the run way."
"Logan, Rory, loves, time to get up!" Shira cooed from the doorway. As it had always been since they were babies, Logan stirred and woke up first, and proceeded to wake up Rory.
Rory and Logan blinked in the bright French sunlight as they climbed off the plane.
"Shit I left my purse on the plane, wait for me Logan." Rory called as she ran back on to the plane.
"Ok Bubbles," Logan called after her, "hold on dad, Uncle Christopher, Rory left her purse."
Rory quickly returned and proceed to put on her Coach sunglasses.
"Come on kids, let's move a little faster!" Mitchum called as he stood by the door of the waiting limo.
Logan watched Rory as she walked a few paces ahead of him, then turned and called to him, "Hurry up bro!" He felt a twinge in his heart as she smiled at him; what the hell he though, am I falling for Bubbles.
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