Paris parked her car into the parking lot of the D.A.R. offices and rushed into the small brownstone. She didn't bother to acknowledge the petite brunette who was sitting at the front desk. She didn't have time to deal with Rory's secretary. She also didn't bother to knock before walking into Rory's office. Instead she sat down in the plush floral chair that was facing Rory's desk and sighed.
Rory was startled to say the least when Paris burst into her office. She had a feeling that Paris had probably startled Jeanine. She looked at her dear friend and frowned. She could tell that something was wrong. "What's the matter Paris?"
"What do you mean Gilmore? Am I not allowed to come to your workplace and visit with you for a bit on days when I don't have class?" Paris demanded. Something was wrong but for some reason she couldn't figure out how to word her present problem.
"Cut the bull Paris this isn't your style. What is the matter? You look upset. You never just show up here especially unannounced. Plus they should presently be debating about the stem cell research on C-SPAN. You never miss a debate on C-SPAN." Rory pointed out calmly. She was used to Paris being like this. Paris was a very angry person in high school.
"That is why they invented TIVO Gilmore." Paris tried to keep up this banter but she couldn't. "Jamie called."
Rory froze. She wasn't sure what to say.
Paris took her lack of a response as a sign to continue. "He left a message on my answering machine. He'll be in town next weekend. He thought maybe we could get together for lunch. He also said he was sorry to hear about Asher."
Rory nodded. Jamie was a sensitive topic when it came to Paris. He was her first love. He was the first guy who would have followed her to the end of the world and back if it meant that he would be with her or that he would make her smile. Rory had always liked Jamie. She'd felt bad for him when Paris chose Asher over him. She knew that Paris was now worried about his presence because of her blossoming relationship with Doyle. "Oh."
"Is that all you can say Gilmore? I come in here and pour my heart out to you and all you can say is oh?" Paris was now irate. She needed Rory to tell her what to do.
"Do you think you want to go eat lunch with him next weekend?"
Paris paused. Her heart was telling her yes. Her head on the other hand was telling her no don't even. She looked at Rory and sighed. "Yes I think I do, but what about Doyle?"
Rory completely understood what Paris was dealing with. Back in high school she had the same predicament. It was the only time she had ever been involved in a love triangle. "Paris if you want to have lunch with Jamie then all you can do is sit down with Doyle and explain the situation. The worst thing that is going to happen is he is going to tell you that he doesn't feel comfortable with it." Rory paused. "The real question is are you scared that Doyle is going to be mad about you eating lunch with Jamie or are you scared that things aren't over between you and Jamie?"
Paris felt as awkward as she did when she was in high school and things were just starting between her and Jamie. Gosh just when things had gotten normal he had to call her on the phone. She couldn't lie. She did miss him. "I've missed talking to you Rory."
Rory was a little surprised by the vulnerability of Paris' statement. She wasn't usually one to admit to having things like feelings. Being friends with Paris was often like being friends with someone who suffered from roid rage. "I'm sorry things have just been so crazy lately. Finn's fiancée is in town and I've been helping her look for a wedding dress. When I'm not doing that then I'm planning these events. Plus I've been handling my stuff so that I can go back to school next semester. And then there is Logan. I spend most of my night with him. Still I miss you too Paris. I miss your neurotic habits. I swear I heard you on C-SPAN the other morning. Maybe I'm crazy though."
Paris laughed. She looked down at her feet and sighed. "I'm scared to eat with Jamie because I'm scared that'll mean things aren't over. I don't want to burn Doyle. It's just Jamie was the first guy to make me feel like I was as beautiful as you or as charming as Louise." Paris stood up and started to pace. She picked up a picture of Logan and Rory from her twenty-first birthday party. She smiled. They were a cute couple.
"Then you should go to lunch with him Paris. I mean don't stick it out with Doyle just because your scared to try things again with Jamie." Rory spoke gently. If you had told her in high school that Paris would come to her when she had a problem Rory would have laughed at you right then and there. She often found it funny how close they had become in the years since they had left the hallowed halls of Chilton.
Paris looked at her and nodded. "I'll call you later this week and you can help me pick out an outfit. Okay?"
Rory smiled and nodded.
"I'll let you get back to work then. Thanks Rory." Paris said and then she left as abruptly as she came.
Rory sighed and put down her pen. She couldn't believe that had just happened. She looked at her watch and sighed. It was almost four and she had done everything she wanted to do. She got up from her desk and stretched a little. She then turned off her computer, grabbed her purse, and left. She stopped at her assistant's desk and smiled. "Don't worry about Paris. She's just Paris."
The young woman laughed. "Are you going home already?"
"Yeah I think we're done for the day." Rory waved goodbye and then made her way to her car. She smiled when she got closer and saw that someone had left a note on the windshield of her car. She grabbed it and opened it. Ace, I picked up your dry cleaning for you. Finn, Anne Marie, Colin, and Stephanie are demanding that we meet them for dinner at Mulroney's tonight. I'll pick you up at the pool house at 7. Call me if you want me to cancel. Love you, Logan. She smiled. She wondered why he hadn't come in. She figured he probably didn't want to disturb her while she was supposed to be working. She couldn't help but smile when she thought of. She parked her car into the back driveway by the pool house. She noticed that Francine's car was here. She smiled and decided that she would stop in and say hello.
Emily smiled and adamantly nodded her head. "Lorelai and Christopher were definitely the cutest couple at her debut. I mean she was at least three months pregnant at the time and had the most beautiful glow about her."
"Remember when that retched girl who had tried to steal Christopher from Lorelai tripped on her last stair and took her escort down with her." Francine couldn't help but laugh at the memory. This is what they did. They remembered what it was like when things were good and their children were still together.
Emily smiled when she saw Rory walk into the living room. "Rory, how lovely it is to see you."
Rory sat down on the couch and found it a bit awkward. She wasn't used to sitting there by herself. "I'm sorry to interrupt. You two seemed to be having a nice time before I came in."
Francine laughed. "Nonsense Rory we were just reminiscing about your mother and father. I found an old picture of them two of them from when they were like fourteen. It was from the first they were dating. See your mother was never a boarding school child but your father was so they had a tendency to get together, break up, get back together, and well break up again."
Rory found herself learning more and more about her parents as the days flew by. She was sure that her neither of her grandmothers had discussed their children this much in years.
"You should have seen those two back then. They were inseparable. Your mother and father would do things that would just make us so angry."
"Oh my gosh you mean like that time that they went to Christopher's Uncle Kinsey's funeral. They were standing there in these black t-shirts for some band I don't even remember. Kinsey had bought them the tickets for the show where they got them. Somehow they had snuck in this flask. It was raining and both of them just stood there without an umbrella. I remember thinking those two are going to have the world's surliest child." Francine paused to smile at Rory. "And then those two little hellions got lucky and they got you."
Rory felt herself begin to blush. "They were really that surly?"
Emily laughed. "You wouldn't believe the things they did. One time we were having a dinner party and your mother said she wanted to go upstairs to change her dress after she "accidentally" spilled some coffee on it. Then I hear your father's motorcycle pull up. She had gone upstairs to climb out her window so she could go out with him for the night."
Rory was listening to them talk rather intently when she realized that it was nearly six o'clock. "I'm sorry to have to run out on you but I have to go get ready. Logan and I have date tonight."
Emily and Francine both smiled as if on cue. "Oh it's fine. We know how busy pretty young things like you are. Just make sure and tell Logan that we both say hello." Francine loved Logan Huntzberger. He was the perfect socialite for her granddaughter. He was cocky but not in that way that made you want to knock him down a few notches. He also seemed to care very deeply for Rory which was a plus. Actually she couldn't remember an infatuation so deep since well Christopher and Lorelai of course.
Rory smiled. "I will."
Logan parked his car beside hers and smiled. He knew he was early. He just couldn't wait to see her. He missed her lips. He missed her smile. He missed her touch. Colin kept telling him that his new love routine was making him nauseous. He grabbed her clothes out of the backseat and didn't bother to knock on the door. He smiled when he heard her shower running. He placed the clothes on her bed and then made his way into the steamy room. "Hey Ace…"
Rory smiled. She peeked out from behind the shower curtain. "Logan we have a problem."
Even though Rory was smiling Logan couldn't help but feel nervous. "What? Did something happen today?"
Rory grinned. She loved it when he worried about her. It was so cute. He would get this little wrinkle in his forehead. "Well it's just I haven't gotten my hello kiss."
Logan smirked. "Oh well we do have a major problem then." Logan said as he walked over and placed a gentle kiss on her lips.
She sighed. She loved kissing him. It was weird. Kissing Jess had been great. Kissing Dean had been sweet. Kissing Tristan had been surprisingly nice. Still kissing Logan was like watching Casablanca for the first time it was just so satisfying. She would rather go a month without reading than a week without kissing him. "So how was school today?"
"It was really good actually. Anne Marie stopped by and she was the mastermind for this whole dinner tonight. She loves you by the way. Anyway I bumped into Paris and she seemed kind of upset."
Rory sighed when she remembered how upset Paris had been earlier today. Still she was happy to see her best friend even though it was under such crazy circumstances. "Yeah uh she came to see me today at work. She was just a little frazzled because an ex-boyfriend called to see if she wanted to go to lunch next weekend."
"Paris has had boyfriends other than Asher and Doyle?" He couldn't hide his surprise at that detail.
Rory laughed. Oh how little most people knew about Paris pre-Yale. "Yeah actually one boyfriend Jamie Davis I think. He was going to Princeton and was a couple of years older. He really loved Paris. You think she is neurotic now you should have seen her when it came to him. I'm telling you she was crazier than Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam."
Logan laughed. He tried to place the name. "Davis doesn't sound very Jewish."
"It's not which is just even more proof of how much she cared for him."
Logan was silent for a moment. He didn't have anyone like that in his past. He was sure that if by some fluke he and Rory didn't last that one day she would be the same for him as Jamie is for Paris, a first love and a romantic memory. Still he didn't like to think of life without Rory. He knew that he wasn't her first love. "So uh do you have any guys like that in your closet?"
"What do you mean?" Rory didn't know whether or not she wanted to have this conversation with Logan. She knew she was the one with past relationships not him. She had relationships while he had flings.
"Well I mean who was your first love? Is there any guy in your past that if he marched back in he would be able to make you swoon even just the slightest bit?"
"Dean was my first love and I could never be with him again because I'd always remember the third time we tried to make it work. I don't think there is anyone else out there for me other than you right now." She said as she slowly got out of the shower. As soon as she saw his face she knew he was relieved by her answer. She grabbed her towel and wrapped it around her chest. Sometimes she still felt weird about being naked in front of him.
Logan smirked. "Good answer Ace."
"Well you know I've never had a problem with knowing the right answer." She joked. She walked over to him and looked deep into his eyes before leaning down and kissing him on the lips. "If you must know I've never loved kissing anyone as much as I love kissing you."
Okay so that was the update. I don't know where I'm going with this. No clue. I think Rory and Lorelai are going to make up soon. Lorelai and Luke are going to break up soon. Anne Marie and Finn are going to keep things interesting. Jamie and Paris are going to have lunch. Rory and Logan are going to keep getting more serious. A certain bad boy will show up. Francine and Emily will try to reunite their children. The list goes on and on. I hope you liked this chapter. I tried to have a little bit of everything. I just wanted a scene between Rory and Paris. I love Jamie to pieces so I wanted him to come back on the scene. Please review…Please…Oh and if there is anything you want to see let me know…I can see if it'll fit into my storyline…Thanks again for reading and of course REVIEW!
