Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls or anything that pertains to them.
AN: Here is the next chapter. I decided to write on another computer, since I don't have my laptop and don't know how long its going to be before I get it back, bummer. I do use parts from the show transcripts in my story, but I do add or take things away. So if you notice that things seem familiar, that's why. Okay, enough of my rambling, the next chapter...
Chapter 3
Marty and Rory part ways once they get back to Branford. Rory just wanting to get away from Marty and any conversation that might bring up things she doesn't really want to talk about. She unlocks the door to her room and stops short. Everything in the common room has been rearranged and almost completely set up.
Paris comes out of one of the bedrooms and starts talking with a sad look on her face, "I moved some things around. I also changed rooms."
"Wow. Hey." Rory starts, as she walks over to where Paris is standing.
"What?" Paris asks, just as Rory pulls her into a hug.
"I am so sorry, Paris. How are you holding up?" Rory says, as she pulls out of the hug.
"Thanks. I'm fine," she waves off, "I am actually relieved that I am not around people who are arguing over the first-edition Faulkners. I swear, those people wanted anything and everything that held any sort of value."
"You know Paris, you don't have to handle all of this stuff." Rory states, seeing the stress that Paris is under, on top of everything else.
"I know. I just want people to remember and respect him. I still can't believe that he is gone. He left me his manuscripts," Paris says, as she starts to fidget around the room, "I want to have a wake."
"A what?" Rory asks, slightly confused at what Paris is saying.
"A wake in Asher's honor. I want it to be here. People can pay their respects and say good-bye to him," she starts, "I think it would be the right thing to do."
"Sure." Rory says, seeing the defeated look on Paris' face as she talks about Asher. Rory knows that it's the least she can do to help out her friend. Rory doesn't think that she has every seen Paris look this sad before. She has seen a lot of Paris' emotions, but sad is a new one for her. Rory is jolted out of her inner monologue, buy a cell phone ringing. She looks around the room, as Paris barks at whomever is on the phone.
Rory walks over to her room, wanting to give Paris some space. She decides to start unpacking some things that Paris didn't already touch. The next time Rory looks at the clock, she sees that it is well after noon and she is getting hungry. She can still hear Paris yelling at someone on her cell phone. She grabs her keys, cell phone, and purse, signals to Paris that she is leaving and heads out the door. Once the door is closed she sends Logan a text message.
Meet me for lunch? -Ace
He almost replies immediately.
Sure. Louis' Lunch in 15? -LH
She smiles and sends him a reply.
Works for me. See you in 15. -Ace
She closes her phone and heads to her car. She gets in, starts the car and pulls out of the parking lot heading to the little, hole in the wall restaurant to meet Logan.
Rory arrives and notices that it is not really that busy. She sees Logan's car and parks in the spot near him. When she walks in, she sees Logan sitting at a table in the back of the restaurant. Her face instantly lights up and she picks up her pace. Logan stands, and pulls her into him, with a breathtaking kiss.
"Man, I have been wanting to do that since I saw you earlier today." Logan says, as he pulls away breathless.
"Me too," Rory says, with a huge grin on her face, "It was so hard to not be able to do that around our friends earlier." She sits down at the table and Logan sits next to her.
"So, what else did you do, after our little meet and greet near the coffee cart?" Logan asked, as he took Rory's hand.
She smiled at the gesture, "Well...when I got back to my room, Paris was there and she had changed everything in our room around, and she even kicked me out of the bedroom that I picked first, and put her stuff in there," she turns and gives him a mischievous look, "but now I have a window with direct access to my bedroom." She is pleased at the look on Logan's face as she tells him this.
"We just might have to check that out later, Ace." He says, as he wiggles his eyebrows, suggestively.
She blushed and looked away from him for a moment, before she remembered what was happening in her room later. Just when she was about to tell him about Asher Flemming, the waitress walked up to take their orders. The waitress started to check Logan out with no shame at all and completely ignored the fact that he was sitting with a girl. Rory was starting to get pissed at the boldness of the waitress. She barked out her order and practically threw the menu at the forward waitress. Logan calmly gave his order, and once she was gone, turned to Rory with an amused expression.
"A little jealous there, Ace?" Logan teased her.
She narrowed her eyes at him, "Jealous, I don't think so, but I didn't like that she was practically eye-fucking you. I mean, I know girls are going to do that, but seriously she could have been more subtle about it," she practically growled out at him. He smiled at her as he watched a new look come across her face, "What about you, Logan? Care to explain the jealously you had going on with Marty earlier?" She almost laughed out loud at the look that crossed his face.
"W-Wh-What? I-I wasn't jealous of Marty earlier," He stuttered, as she started laughing at him, "Go ahead and laugh it up, Ace." He looked down and tried not to show that he was slightly blushing at the fact that she caught him being jealous.
"Aww...poor baby," she laughed out, as she stroked the side of his face, "It's okay, if you get jealous from time to time. That's completely normal for people in relationships to be jealous of other people hanging around them or if they are being hit on." She said with a pointed glare, hoping that he not start with the fact that she just admitted that she was jealous of the waitress.
"I know," He turned his head and gave her a small kiss on the palm of her hand that was still on his cheek, "I just didn't like the way Marty was looking at you."
"I am with you, Logan, I am not interested in anyone else," She reassured him with a kiss and a smile, "as long as you don't go all caveman possessive and territorial, I think you look sexy being a little jealous." She finishes, just as their waitress came with their food. They start eating their food and remembering how their lives had changed over the summer, for the better.
*Flashback*
Rory and Emily had just arrived at their hotel in Greece. Emily was going on and on about things that they should see while they were in Greece, but Rory wasn't really paying any attention to what Emily was saying to her. She grabbed her cell phone and immediately sent a text to Logan and told him what hotel they were staying at. He replied saying he was staying in a hotel just down the street from them. They both wanted to stay at the same hotel, but knew they couldn't run the risk of Emily finding out about their plan for Logan to follow them through Europe.
They are walking along the street in Athens, just talking about their lives back in the states. Rory tells him about the reason why she is traveling with Emily to begin with. She has a strange feeling of being able to open up about anything to Logan and knows that he will not judge her because of what she had done. She tells him about Dean and how he was the perfect boyfriend when they were 16. She tells him about Dean breaking up with her when she couldn't say "I love you" back, when Dean said it first. She tells him about them getting back together, when Jess came to town and the drama that he caused for her and Dean. She goes on to tell him the rest about Dean breaking up with her at the dance marathon, and then her immediately falling into a relationship with Jess, then Jess' subsequent departure. She finally gets around to telling him about the night of the Inn's opening and then her losing her virginity to Dean, a married Dean at that. He just gives her an encouraging smile and lets her get everything that she needs to say off of her chest. She finally finishes with telling him about the letter she wrote and her agreeing to travel Europe with Emily. When she finishes telling him this, she realizes that they have stopped on the sidewalk, she can't make herself look him in the eyes, afraid of what she might see there. He turns her towards him and puts a finger under her chin so she has to look him in the eyes. He sees that she has unshed tears and pulls her into a soft kiss.
"None of that stuff matters to me or changes my view of who you are," he tells her softly, "everyone makes mistakes. It only makes you human." She searches his eyes and sees the sincerity in them and knows he is telling her the truth. She feels better that she is finally able to be able to tell someone who didn't judge her because of the mistake she made.
She gives him a smile and another kiss. At this moment she realizes that she has fell for Logan. There is something about Logan, that draws her too him and she is at her most comfortable around him. Even though she hasn't really known him that long, she is happy that she feels comfortable enough to tell him things about her life that she is ashamed of.
Logan puts his arm around her shoulders and continues walking down the streets of Athens, telling her about his family and how they are not close and that he is really only looked at as the heir and not the son. He tells her that his father thinks he is just a disappointment and that he will never grow up and make something of himself. Logan admits to her that he wants his father's approval and that is one of the main reasons as to why he is in Europe this summer. Trying to figure out how to make his father be proud of him. She gives him a squeeze and a light kiss on his lips, but doesn't really know what to say to him. Logan becomes lost in his thoughts, as he starts thinking about just how messed up everything was in his life up until he met Rory. He knows that she makes him happier than he has ever been and that even in this short amount of time, she has wormed her way into his heart and he fell for her. At this realization, he starts thinking of ways to ask her to officially be his girlfriend.
*End of Flashback*
"You know, I first realized that I fell for you, after I told you the whole Dean debacle." She says, with a sly smile on her face.
"Really?" He asks, a little shocked at this revelation, "I knew I fell for you after I told you about my family and how messed up my life really was before I met you that fateful day in Italy." He states, while looking deep into her shinning blue eyes. "That was when I knew I wanted to ask you to be my girlfriend." He tells her with a big smile. She just responded with a soul-searing kiss, as they finished their food and got ready to leave the restaurant. He walked her to her car and gave her a kiss and tells her that he will call her later. With that she gets in her car and he watches her drive back to campus.
AN2: Well what did you think? Read and Review.
