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4. Time To Say Goodbye

A few hours later Steph and Rory were on the dance floor together and Rory had made her plan reality. She was really drunk and Steph had a hard time to keep her from drinking more alcohol.

Steph didn't know Rory that good but she knew from what Colin had told her that she wasn't the kind of girl who got drunk on a regular basis. In fact, Rory never got drunk at all. Unless she had a reason. And Steph knew who exactly that reason was: Finn!

Colin had assumed for quite some time that Finn had more than platonic feelings for Rory, but he and Steph had been sure that the Australian would never do anything about it because Logan was his best friend and friendship was more important than anything to him. But it seemed like Logan's absence had made him less careful to control his feelings.

And it got worse: apparently Rory started to see more in Finn than her boyfriend's best friend. And realizing that fact made her drink too much. Way too much!

Steph knew Rory would have a terrible hangover the next morning, but that wasn't what was bothering her. Right now she was afraid that Rory might do something stupid she would regret the next morning. So she never left her side the whole evening. That means, she never left Rory's side until Colin came around.

Steph and Colin used to be best friends since they were five when they both spent their summer on Martha's Vineyard with their families. They had always been there for her no matter what and Steph had been sure that this friendship would last a lifetime. She was sure Colin would never be more than a friend to her until the incident on the LDB spring break party in Florida.

She had gotten drunk and Colin had looked after her as he usually did. Nothing was different than on one of the other occasions one of them got drunk and the other one took care of them. Nothing was different until Steph had kissed Colin, without really knowing what she did.

But that wasn't all. The kissing had lead to more and since then both of them had successfully avoided to talk about their feelings. They acted as if nothing had happened, but Steph knew they couldn't go on like this. Each time Colin was around her heart was beating faster and thousands of different feelings fought inside of her.

Exactly that happened when Colin came towards her while she was on the dance floor with Rory. Suddenly she forgot her plan not to let the drunken girl out of her sight.

„We need to talk!" Colin whispered into her ear and being so close to him almost made her crazy.

So she nodded and followed him outside without looking back to Rory. That was exactly what Colin did to her since he had slept with her: He made her forget everything around her over the wish to be close to him. Somewhere deep inside she knew that crazy feeling was love but she wasn't ready yet to admit that to herself.

When Rory noticed that Steph was gone she took the opportunity to go to the bar once more. Steph had stopped her successfully from doing this for the past hour and Rory had secretly waited for the blonde to leave her alone. When she arrived at the bar she waved at the bartender.

„Two shots of Tequila for me, baby!" she told him in a flirty voice and didn't notice that Finn had appeared next to her.

„You sure you should do this?"

Rory turned around and smiled when she recognized him. „What do you mean? Flirting with the bartender? I probably shouldn't do this. But drinking Tequila? Oh yeah, I definitely should do this! Tequila is fun!" she rambled drunkenly and giggled.

„I think you shouldn't do any of it. And concerning this ‚Tequila is fun' thing, let's talk about that tomorrow morning."

„Oh, now I get it! You don't want me to flirt with the bartender because that makes you jealous. If I'd be flirting with you there would be no problem at all. Right, Finn?" Rory stepped towards him and her voice changed into a seductive tone when she spoke out his name.

Finn could almost instantly feel himself getting hard. And he had worried about himself getting drunk, totally oblivious to what a drunken Rory was able to do to him. Damn! She was seductive enough without even wanting it but that tone in her voice caused a stream of images on Finn's mind. And for each one of it Logan would have killed him!

He was pretty sure she would have kissed him if she wouldn't have trapped over a barstool. But there was no time for him to be thankful for this because she fell directly into his arms. He looked around in the nightclub, looking for Steph. As much as he would have loved to take care of Rory, he knew he was the last person who should do this.

„Ooops!" Rory giggled. „Maybe you were right. Looks like I had enough to drink."

That was something Finn was glad to hear. „Yeah, I think you had." His hands were still resting upon her hips but he was unable to take them away. It felt so good to touch her. Too good! Once more he looked around, but he couldn't find Steph anywhere. But at least Rory had agreed to stop drinking, maybe there was no such need to take care for her anymore.

„I …. I don't really feel that good. I think I should go outside for a moment."

„Sure, love. I'll look for Steph so she can go with you." Finn knew all too well what was almost sure to happen if he went out with Rory. And he knew that one single kiss would make him lose control completely.

„She disappeared with Colin. I don't think you're going to find her. Can you come with me, please? I really need some fresh air now."

Damn! was all he could think as he followed her to the exit. They stepped out onto the Strip with all its bright and colorful lights and Rory insisted to walk a few meters. After a few minutes they arrived at the Bellagio Hotel where the fountain show was about to start.

Rory stopped walking and looked at the dance of the fountains and her eyes sparkled and she smiled. Until she recognized the song: „Time to say goodbye". Immediately she remembered Logan leaving her a week ago. On her mind the image of him standing behind the shutting elevator doors repeated over and over again and she couldn't help but start crying.

She turned away from the fountains and faced Finn. „Why did he have to go, Finn? Why did we have to say goodbye? Why couldn't I tell him to blow of this whole Huntzberger crap and ask him to stay? I need him! I love him! I don't think I can stand a whole year without him!" Tears were running down her cheeks and the sobs made her unable to talk.

Although each of her word hurt Finn he knew that this realization was probably the best thing that could have happened to him. But when she threw herself into his arms and cried on his shoulder he almost forgot that her boyfriend, his best friend, was the reason for all this. All he felt was happiness because he held her in is arms finally.

After a while Rory looked up at him and smiled lightly. „Thanks for being there for me, Finn!"

„Don't you remember what I told you earlier? Anything you want, kitten. I will always be there for you."

Somehow his last words changed something in Rory. All that you wanted was someone who was there for her no matter what. She knew it should be Logan, but he was far away. Her boyfriend who should be there was in London, but she was lucky. Finn was here!

Without really thinking about it she got on her tiptoes and kissed Finn. At first it was only a small kiss but Finn pulled her towards him and kissed her back with more intensity. She leaned against the stone balustrade and opened her mouth to allow him to deepen the kiss even more.

Over the passion of this kiss both of them forgot that there was a guy named Logan sitting in his office far away in London, trying to call his girlfriend in this very second, wondering where she might be and why she didn't answer his daily call. She had always answered when he called!

Another thing Rory and Finn were totally oblivious to was the fact that Colin and Steph had watched the fountain show too and were now on their way back to the nightclub. They had finally talked about the night they had spent together and realized that they both wanted the same: being together, as boyfriend and girlfriend!

They were happier than ever before but on their way back Colin suddenly stopped. „I can't believe it! How can he do this to her?"

Steph didn't know what he was talking about until she followed his stare and saw what he saw: Finn and Rory kissing each other passionately.

„I'm going to kill him! How can he do something like that. Logan is our best friend. You don't do that, you don't kiss your best friend's girlfriend! I'll kill him!"

Steph had a hard time to hold Colin back from storming towards the kissing couple and beat the crap out of Finn.

„Colin, stop! There is nothing we can do about that right now. It already happened. If you beat him up right now, that doesn't help. We will talk to them tomorrow."

„No way! I'm not waiting until tomorrow. I'm not going to wait until he had his chance to get in her pants until I beat the crap out of him." Colin yelled at his girlfriend.

„Colin, please, be rational. We will keep an eye on them and if one of them tries to take things further we are going to interrupt. Otherwise we will talk to them tomorrow. And besides, don't blame it all on him!" she tried to calm him down and her last sentence made him forget his wish to beat up his best friend.

„What is that supposed to mean? Of course I blame it on him. He's the one who's totally into her! And she's drunk, didn't you tell me how drunk she was? He's taking advantage of her, don't you see that?"

„You are right, she is drunk! But I also know what I saw earlier today! She totally checked out his ass. Maybe she would never have done that if she was sober but I can tell you that: it's not that she doesn't want to kiss Finn!" Steph explained to Colin.

„Why do I always get in those situations?" Colin sighed. „Logan is going to kill me if I tell him what happened. And if I don't tell him he's going to find out and kill me then. Anyway, I'm a dead man!"

„No way, baby! I won't let him kill you, I promise! And I'll stop him from hurting any important parts." Steph assured him with a seductive smile.

Colin kissed her softly before taking his eyes back to his best friend and Rory. No matter what a mess his friends created around him, it felt good to know that Steph would be there for him, not only as his friend but as his girlfriend!