Chapter 6:
"Mmmmh… early, too early," Rory moaned, leaning heavily on Logan as they made their way down the side walk.
Logan put his arm around her waist and hoisted her upright. "You need coffee, that much is obvious," he said, smirking at her.
"Coffee?" Rory said, turning the full force of her cerulean eyes on him.
"I'm sure Luke will bring some for you," he said, laughing at her begging expression.
"Lorelai, stop closing your eyes, you will run in to something and we will not be able to participate," Michele said angrily, taking Lorelai's arm and guiding her around a telephone pole.
"Too sleepy," Lorelai said. "Besides, I know you won't let me run into anything," with that, her eyes closed again, and she leaned against Michele's shoulder pretending to sleep.
"Wow, looks like you guys are in need of some coffee," Jess said, stepping up to the Gilmore girls and their escorts.
"Jess! Coffee!" Rory said, jumping away from Logan and lunging for the thermos that Jess was holding out for her.
At the last second he pulled it back. And Rory frowned, and proceeded to pout as she went back over to Logan. "Meanie," she wined.
Jess laughed. "Here, sleepy," he said, holding out the coffee. She grabbed it from him and took a large gulp. Lorelai had opened her eyes long enough to see that Rory had coffee, and grabbed the container from her daughter, downing the burning hot liquid quickly.
"Yum," Lorelai said, smiling in satisfaction. Rory grabbed it back from her and gulped the rest of it down.
"Delicious," Rory said, handing the now empty thermos to Jess and continuing their walk down the street.
"Lorelai! Rory!" Sookie called out from the end of the street.
"Hey, Sookie! You look great!" Lorelai said, turning around and looking at Sookie's dress.
"So do you guys! Wow, Michele! I love the outfit!" Sookie said, smiling at the French Concierge.
The group continued to walk toward the dance marathon. They were joined by Lane and Zach, who were also going to be dancing. Jackson had already arrived to scope out a good dancing spot for him and Sookie on the floor.
"Everyone ready?" Taylor called out with his megaphone. "There is only three minutes remaining before the dancing begins!
Logan and Rory were ready to go, as were Lorelai and Michele. A very grumpy looking Luke was in the corner, handing out coffee to the dancers. Sookie and Jackson stood hand in hand, and Miss Patty was at her usual spot on Taylor's right hand side.
"One minute!" Taylor cried out.
"Ready, Ace?" Logan asked, smiling at her.
"Ready, MAC," she replied. Although rarely used, Logan's special nickname from Rory was MAC- Master and Commander. He laughed and put his arms around her waste as the countdown began.
"Ten… Nine… Eight…" The dancers called out, following Taylor's lead.
"Seven… Six… Five… Four… Three… Two… One!"
The band started in with loud music, and the entire floor erupted into a flurry of movement.
Lane and Zach danced past Rory and Logan.
"You guys are going down!" Zach yelled as they passed.
"You wish!" Rory yelled back.
Kirk was dancing with his partner of the year. His face was deadly serious as he focused on flipping the tiny girl over, doing a cartwheel.
Lorelai glared. "Kirk, no one here is impressed by your fancy flips! Stop showing off!"
With only 8 hours remaining, the couples on the floor had thinned out considerably. Jackson and Sookie were out, as were Lane and Zach. Kirk was still in of course, and Michele and Lorelai were still going strong. Rory was leaning heavily on Logan, half asleep.
"When's the next break?" Rory mumbled into his chest.
"Soon, I hope," Logan said, trying to ignore his heavily beating heart. Having Rory this close to him was putting his mind into over-drive.
"Jess!" Rory called out, seeing him walking their direction.
"Yeah?" he asked as Logan and Rory steered their way over to the edge of the dance floor.
"Can you be the best friend in the world and go get me food from Doose's?" she asked, begging.
"Don't they serve sandwiches and stuff here?" Jess asked, trying to get out of it.
"Mrs. Kim is serving Eggless Egg Salad Sandwiches," she said, giving him a pointed look.
"Enough said, I'll be back," Jess said, heading outside and across the street.
Logan was staring at Rory, his eyes confused.
"What?" She asked him.
"Eggless Egg Salad Sandwiches?" he asked, incredulous.
Jess opened the door to Doose's Market and froze, shocked.
Dean was standing against the counter, his arms wrapped around a petite blonde girl. The two were kissing passionately.
"Oh my God," he said.
Dean pulled away from the blonde and locked eyes with Jess.
Jess just shook his head and ran out the door. He was half way across the street when he heard Dean running behind him.
"Wait! Jess, please, wait! Rory never needs to know about this!"
At that, Jess whipped around to face him.
"She doesn't need to know that her boyfriend of the past three months has been cheating on her?" Jess said, furious.
"What? Dean, what's going on?" The blonde said, running up to stand beside Dean.
"Lindsay, don't worry about it, just go back to Doose's,"
"No, Dean, I want to know what's going on," Lindsay said, her eyes begging for an explination.
Jess decided to step in. "Were you aware that Dean has a girlfriend?" he said angrily.
"Yes, me!" Lindsay said, confusion covering her features.
"Ha. Ok, let me rephrase that. Were you aware that Dean had two girlfriends?" he said.
Lindsay turned to Dean, shocked. "Excuse me?" she said, her voice emulating anger.
Jess shook his head furiously at Dean, and turned to run back to Rory.
The horn blared, signaling the ten-minute break, and Rory collapsed, exhausted, on the edge of the dance floor. She stood up immediately when she saw Jess heading toward her, breathless, with an angry look covering his face.
"Jess? What's going on?" She asked, confused.
Logan walked up, curious as well as to why Jess looked like he had just seen a ghost.
But before Jess could get farther than opening his mouth, Dean barged into the room, followed by Lindsay.
"Rory, don't listen to him," Dean said desperately, trying to shove past Jess to get to her.
"Rory, Dean is cheating on you," Jess said, staring at her, trying to make her believe.
"It's true," Lindsay said, her voice leaking anger and sorrow.
Rory remembered Lindsay briefly from her Stars Hollow Elementary days.
"I'm so, so sorry," Lindsay continued. "If I had known he was already dating someone, I never would have…" she trailed off.
"W-what?" Rory said, still not understanding what was going on.
"Dean is my boyfriend of the past two months," Lindsay said quietly. "Or rather, he was she said, directing her comment and glare towards Dean.
"I don't understand…" Rory said, her eyes tearing up and her step faltering. She leaned against Logan for support.
As Logan looked into her eyes, he saw how broken she looked, and suddenly, he wanted to kill Dean for making her look that way.
"Get out," he said to Dean.
"Excuse me?" Dean said threateningly.
"I think you'd better leave," Logan said, matching Dean's tone.
"Yeah, I'm going to have to second that motion," Jess said, standing at Rory's side.
Despite the circumstances, Rory almost smiled at the two boys standing at her side. No matter what happened to her, she'd have Logan and Jess with her.
"Rory, please. I love you," Dean said, desperately.
"Rory, don't listen to him," Lindsay said through tears. "He told me the same thing.
"Dean, just… just go," Rory said, shaking her head.
Dean looked at her for a few more seconds, and turned around, walking out of the room, and out of Rory's life.
"Ror…" Jess said, looking at her apologetically.
And she couldn't stop the tears. Logan pulled Rory against his chest. For a second, she let herself be comforted by him, but then, angrily, she pushed away.
"Leave me alone," she said, running off.
Logan and Jess stared at each other. "Let me," Logan said. Jess watched as he ran after her.
"Five minutes until the dancing starts up again," a cheerful Taylor announced, oblivious to the drama unfolding right in front of him.
"Rory! Hey, slow down!" Logan said, finally catching up to her and grabbing her wrist.
"Let me go!" She said, still angry.
"Hey, why are you mad at me? You're acting like this is my fault or something," he said, keeping his hold on her wrist.
"Well, it is!" she shouted.
"Excuse me?" Logan asked, confused and uncomprehending.
"If I had spent more time with Dean, he wouldn't have found the need to get someone else!"
"And you not spending time with Dean is my fault how?!" Logan shouted. He knew she was upset, but this was getting ridiculous.
"Because! When I spend time with Dean, it always feels like something is missing!" She said, still yelling.
"Oh, I see," Logan said, his voice dripping with heated sarcasm. "And when your with me, you feel more 'complete'?" he said, using air quotes.
"Yes!" she shouted, before she knew what she was saying.
"Fine!" he yelled.
"Fine!" she yelled right back.
And before either of them knew what was happening, he had pulled her to him roughly by the shoulders, and lowered his lips to hers.
Both of them were shocked, but after a few seconds, Rory began kissing him back. As clichéd as she knew it was, she could only describe the feeling she was having as sparks, fireworks, erupting. Her hands slid up his torso and wrapped around his neck. One of Logan's hands went up and tangled in her hair, and the other pressed against her lower back, pulling her even closer. The kiss got more heated, and neither one of them ever wanted to let go. But eventually, air was necessary and they pulled apart. Logan rested his forehead against hers, pulling back only enough so he could see her face. He had dreamed of kissing Rory for a very long time, but he never could have imagined that kissing anyonewould feel that good.
"Wow," they both said at the same time.
At that moment, the horn blared, signaling to everyone that the break was over.
"Should we…" Logan asked, a little breathless.
"Yeah, lets go," Rory said, letting go over her tight hold of Logan, but keeping one hand securely in his as they walked back to the dance floor.
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