A/U: Okay, so I'm sorry it took so long for me to update... I have a lot to do with school, student politics, our weekly pokergame, and just hanging with my friends...And honestly, my muse has been less than cooperative lately, loosing my stories was tougher than expected... Any how I'm doing my best to get up to speed, but it will take some time for me to do so...

Be safe, and enjoy...

Nine Ladies Dancing

They were out buying food and candy, since there could be no movie night without either. Last night Logan had called, and they had agreed on meeting up for a movie night the next day. Logan, Colin, and Steph would be at Rory's dorm in around an hour, and right now Finn and Rory was pressed for time. They had just finished picking out the candy and junk, skittles, juju bees, red vines, pixie sticks, salt and vinegar and ketchup chips, but they still needed to pick out the movies, and to pick up burgers, fries and onion rings.

"Okay," Rory sighed, "forget about the burgers, we'll just order some take-out"

Finn pouted, he had really wanted burgers, but he knew she was right, it would take an inhumanely effort for them to pick up both burgers and movies in less than an hour. They hurried into the nearest video store, and started looking around.

"So, what did they say they'd like to watch?" Rory was snooping around in the thriller section.

"They didn't really care, all they said was that they drew the line at two movies"

Rory pouted, but then she lit up.

"I got it then," she sounded exited "'Dr. Strangelove'," she held the cover up for him to see "and 'Lolita'"

He looked confused.

"If we're doing Kubrick, couldn't we get something else?"

She had told him about how she and her mom picked out their movies to match a certain theme, and the only connection he could see between those two movies was the fact that Stanley Kubrick directed them both. Rory shook her head, she had located 'Lolita', and they were now on their way to the cash register.

"Its not just Kubrick" she gave him a sneaky smile "We're doing a double tribute, to make up for only renting two movies"

He was truly confused, but just paid for the movies and followed her out of the store searching the movie covers for some clue as to who she was talking about, but he found nothing. As he got behind the wheel, she took pity on him.

"Peter Sellers" she just said, as if that explained everything.

"What about him?"

"He's in both movies!" she sighed.

Finn looked even more confused. He had seen both movies, but had no memory of Peter Sellers appearing in 'Lolita'

"He plays both Claire Quality and the school psychologist" she smiled at him.

Finn shook his head before he turned the key in the ignition, he backed out of the parking spot and drove out of the parking lot before he answered her.

"Who knows stuff like that?" his voice was bubbling over with laughter.

"I do!" she sounded as if she was trying to convince him that it was perfectly normal.

They drove in silence the last 5 minutes back to Yale, and after he had parked, he leaned over and kissed her on her nose.

"You're nuts" he tugged her hair behind her ear.

"No, I'm not" she smiled.

"Yes, you are"

He jumped out of the car, and went to open her door for her, completely ignoring that she again came with a disagreeing comment. They entered her dorm room, and she threw the bags on the couch, before following them, slightly less gracefully. She sprawled her body across most of the couch, and took up all the room that the bags left empty.

"So tired" she whined "need coffee!"

Finn grinned and went to make coffee. He started the coffee, and then went to find some take-out brochures. He knew that Rory kept a bunch in the top drawer of her desk, and he went in there to find some. The doorbell rang just as he had left the room, and he could hear her groan. He found the brochures, while Rory got up and to open the door. He took a handful of them from the drawer, and only in passing noticed the book that was lying under them before he walked back into the common room. Steph and Rory were sitting with legs crossed on the couch talking, and Logan and Colin was still in the door bickering. Finn went over to the coffee table and threw the brochures on it.

"Right guys," he yelled, to drawn out Logan and Colin's bickering "Come and pick your poison"

After half an hour of arguing about whether to get Italian or Chinese, they finally agreed on Moroccan, and Finn made the call, ordering everything on the menu. They sprawled themselves around the room, and put on the first movie. Finn and Rory were cuddled up in one end of the couch, Colin was sitting in the chair, and Logan was in the other end of the couch, with Stephanie sitting on the floor between his legs. Halfway through 'Lolita' Rory noticed that Logan was caressing Stephanie's hair, and she gave Finn a saying look. He followed her eyes, and looked a little surprised. As he looked back at Rory, she could clearly see that he had no idea what was going on. They returned to watching the movie, but every now and again Rory's attention swayed and went to the couple in the other end of the couch. All through the movie Logan was fiddling with Steph's hair, and she didn't seem to mind, on the contrary she leaned her hear back into his lab, and closed her eyes for a minute. Rory couldn't help but wonder where Calvin was, and why he was even in the picture. Steph didn't seen to be very interested in him, and he was a bit of a stiff.

Exactly when 'Lolita' was over, their takeout arrived, and instead of putting on the second movie while they ate, they decided to wait till they were done. Rory arranged the food on the coffee table and went to get some plates while Finn opened a bottle of red vine he had bought. When Rory returned to the common room there were three opened bottles on the coffee table, and Colin, Logan and Steph already had a glass each. Finn was pouring another glass, and handed it to her after she had put down the plates. Then he poured one for himself.

"Cheers mates," he said and raised his glass.

"Cheers" the rest of them fell in, and they clinked their glasses over the coffee table.

"To youth!" Logan cried out in a sudden fit of euphoria.

"To being single!" Steph joined in, earning looks of surprise from everybody. She shrugged "He didn't seem to like how close I was to you guys."

"To freedom!" Colin sounded slightly amused.

"To happiness!" Finn's voice was more serious, and he shot a look in Rory's direction.

As everybody turned to her, awaiting her toast, Rory smiled. She had a feeling that they expected something solemn, some profound truth, and she cleared her throat.

"To red vine!" she proclaimed in a grave voice.

For a second they just looked at her, disbelievingly, and then Steph broke into a fit of laughter. Logan and Colin shook their heads and glared at her, and Finn threw an arm around her waist, pulling her close.

"Now that's something I can toast to!" he exclaimed happily and held up his glass.

Soon all their glass was raised, and they all joined in.

"To red vine"

Instead of watching the last movie, they ended up sitting on the floor around the coffee table, eating and of cause drinking the vine, and a bottle of scotch that Colin had brought with him. The girls decided to make Irish Coffee, and went into the kitchenette to make coffee. While Rory found the coffee tin, and Steph poured water on the coffeemaker they had a serious talk. It was Rory who initiated it, not knowing how to cover up her question, she just attacked it right on.

"So, no more Calvin?" it was a rhetorical question, and Steph picked up on it. She just nodded "It was because of Logan, wasn't it?"

Stephanie looked shell-shocked for a moment, and then nodded.

"Is it that obvious?" her voice was barely a whisper.

Rory smiled and shook her head.

"I doubt that anyone else has noticed" she said and smiled "that'll be, maybe Finn has now"

Steph gave a weak smile.

"I had never thought that he would be the first of them to realize it, he's always walking around in his own little alcohol induced, rose colored world." She giggled, and then looked dead serious "Do you think Logan knows?"

Rory smiled at her, the blonde didn't strike her as an insecure person, but right now she seemed completely lost. She handed Steph a cup of steaming hot coffee, and smiled again.

"No, I don't" Steph looked as if she couldn't decide if that was a good or a bad thing "But I don't think he would have a too bad reaction to it if you told him, I think that your feelings are mutual"

Steph thought about it for a while, and then she shook her head and shrugged.

"Maybe," she smiled "but not now. I need to gather the nerve to do so"

Rory grinned to her, and they gathered the stuff they needed, before they again joined the boys in the common room. Rory made her drink, and sat back down on the floor between Finn's legs. Steph sank down next to Logan, and his arm found its way behind her, resting on the couch. They talked a little longer, and then decided to play a game of Monopoly, mainly because it was the only game Rory had. Colin was a real master at the game, and of cause, he and Logan ended up in an argument over who won, and whether or not Colin had cheated during his turn as head of the bank. They ended up throwing the pieces after each other and hitting Stephanie in the eye with the little shoe, which made her yell and give them a motherly talking too. This lasted till she noticed Finn was making faces behind her back, and that this was why neither of the other guys would stop laughing. At first she tried to act angry, but looking at the boys who were lying on the floor clutching their bellies couldn't do anything but make her smile. A couple of hours later they were all royally wasted, and Colin, Logan, and Steph decided to leave the loving couple alone. The three of them swayed dangerously out the door, arms locked, and singing 'We are the Champions' at the top of their lungs. After having closed the door behind them Finn threw himself in one corner of the couch, and Rory climbed up and joined him. He was halfway lying down, and she climbed up his body, till she could rest her head on his chest. She settled in, listening to his heartbeat, strong and steady like clockwork. Finn breathed in and out slowly, his hands running up and down her back before burying them in her hair. He sighed out in silent contentment, and squeezed her a little closer, and then he remembered the how Logan and Stephanie had looked at and touched each other tonight.

"Do you think something is going on between Logan and Steph, Kitten?" he mumbled into her hair.

There was no reply. He looked down at her, and realized that she had fallen asleep. She was looking completely peaceful, silently breathing in and out, and wrinkling her nose as a small tread from his woolen sweater tickled it. He smiled gently, and stroked her hair. It only took five minutes for him to fall asleep too, the weight of her soothing him, and making him feel protective and important. He couldn't help but think about how he had earlier sworn that he would never fall in love. That he would never submit himself to the possible hurt that love might bring him, but he didn't even think about that anymore, it was like she had removed all his fears and doubts about love, and he had no regrets anymore. The only thing that mattered was her, and that she was with him. And slowly he dozed of, with a smile spreading over his face. They lay there, arms around each other and her head on his chest, deep asleep, till the sun started pouring through the window, and a lonely bird twittered a tune outside.