Logan walked in, and Rory broke out of her trance, and gave him a hug. Luckily, Louise and Haley were there to break the awkwardness.
Haley introduced herself, looking at him appreciatively, but Louise was oddly quieter than normal. She muttered a hello, and then started texting on her phone.
Logan said, "Hey, Ace, I'm back, and I think that I'm ready to be friends."
She replied, "I'm so glad, Logan. I've really missed you. I mean, it's hard not being able to talk to your friend, you know? How have you been? Met any girls?"
He said, slowly, "I haven't even touched a girls' hand, excluding Honor, ever since you broke up."
She stared at him incredulously, "You'd do that for me? Really? See, so us just being friends is really helping you out."
Logan sighed, "It's not that I told myself that I had to listen to you, Ace, because in the beginning I didn't want to. It was just that I couldn't see myself with any other girl, because it felt like I was cheating on you."
I glanced sideways at Jess. His jaw was clenched, and I realized that he wasn't going to let Logan ramble on much longer.
Rory said, "Logan, that makes absolutely no sense. When we took a break, I made it pretty clear that we were going to get back together. But you still decided that it was necessary to sleep with a whole bridal party. When we broke up, I made it clear that we most likely weren't going to get back together. I tried to make it easy for you, Logan, but you're not listening. I told you that I want to be with Jess. Do you realize that you came to his house to find me?"
Logan stepped forward, "Ace. I wasn't coming here to try to break you and him up or anything. I'm here to say hi to you, because I honestly need you as a friend. And as your friend, I should be able to meet your boyfriend."
He stuck out his hand, "Hi Jess, I'm Logan."
Jess scowled at him, "We've met before. Remember when I came to visit Rory as a friend? And you swept in and insisted that we all go out to dinner together? Remember how well that went?"
Logan nodded, "So I'm here as a friend. Doesn't that mean that I deserve time alone with Rory as well?"
Jess replied, "I wasn't exactly there on good intentions. I didn't think that I would find that Rory had completely screwed up her life. When I saw you, all of that went out the window. This is my house, Logan. If you want to talk to her, fine. But I'm going to be right her with her."
Rory stepped in, "Jess, please. Logan, if you honestly want to rebuild our friendship, then you're going to have to try to at least cooperate with Jess."
Logan said, "Ace. Is this really what you want?"
She tried to reply, but she couldn't make the words come out. She turned away, and mumbled a, "Yes, of course."
He shook his head, "I don't believe you, Ace."
I stepped in, "Logan, you're leaving. Now."
Rory said, "Daisy, what are you doing?"
I looked her in the eye, "I am not going to let you hurt yourself again."
I pulled him outside, and I said, "Logan. Stop this! Rory is finally happy. She and Jess are meant to be together. Now I know that you're really trying to be friends with her. But you're acting like you're still in love with her."
He had a tortured look on his face, "Maybe because I am."
I nodded, "If you really love her, then you'll let her be."
He said, "I wasn't trying to push anything. She had this look in her eyes…"
"I never said that Rory wasn't over you. You and her are cute together. I'm sorry to break it like this, Logan, but she is nothing without Jess. I don't know if you ever knew the real Rory, but Jess brings it out in her. The whole time you were together, Rory and I had a really rough time."
Logan told me, "Daisy. Please just let me go in there and start all over and try to forget that we were ever together."
We walked back inside. Logan said, "Listen, let's just forget the last few minutes happened, and that I just walked in, okay? Hi, Ace, it's really great to be able to hang out with your friends and your boyfriend."
Rory stammered, "Um, it's great to have you here too, Logan. I'm going to go get you a drink."
I walked into the kitchen with her. She said, "Daisy, I can handle things myself. I don't need you following me or taking Logan outside to have a talk with him. You know how you can help me? Occupy Louise and Haley, please!"
"I'm sorry, Rory, I didn't mean…"
She snapped back, "I am perfectly capable of dealing with Logan. He knows that I'm with Jess."
"Yes, because I told him that! But do you even know you're with Jess? Because by the way you're looking at Logan, I'm really not sure."
I walked out, and decided that Rory was under a lot of stress right now. If I had had enough experience with guys, then I wouldn't want to be in the same room with my boyfriend and an ex who I had been with for a while.
I walk over to Louise, who seemed really nervous. She saw me, and whispered, "Why is it that Rory always gets the cute guys?"
I shrugged, "I don't know. You've probably been with cuter."
She shook her head, "Did you know that I was madly in love with Dean the whole time Rory was with him?"
I shook my head, "No, I definitely did not know that!"
Louise nodded, "Oh, yeah, I definitely was. But I never had the guts to go after him, and I could get all of the Chilton guys much easier, so I eventually forgot about him. But it's happening again."
"You've seen Dean lately?"
She waved her hand, "No, not Dean, Logan. There's something about him that I can't put my finger on."
I said, "You know, he's not Rory's. He might want to be, but I bet that you can distract him."
"I could, but I don't want to hurt Rory or anything."
I replied, "You're only helping the both of them get over what was never meant to be."
I left her to think about that, and spent the rest of the day with Haley. I was glad that Jake didn't bug us anymore, even though Haley kept asking me awkward questions about him.
Jess seemed to be doing better. He had his arm loosely around Rory as they all talked to each other. I knew that they would never be best buddies or anything, but at least they were getting along better.
Louise said, "So, Haley and I had plans tonight to hit the clubs. Do you guys want to come?"
Logan drained his glass of wine, "I'm in, I need some partying to shake off today. You coming, Ace?"
Rory shook her head, "No, Logan, I think I'll stay here with Jess and help clean up. Go ahead and have fun. Daisy, I think you should go."
I knew that she was still obsessed with me and the fact that I was completely guy-less, but I nodded. After everyone hugged Rory goodbye, we headed out to L.A. All I knew that because I was with the Grants, it was going to be a crazy night.