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Chapter Nineteen
Rory and Robert's Date
Rory and Robert sat down to dinner at the most expensive restaurant she had ever been to. Robert was the perfect gentleman, opening doors and pulling out her chair. "Have you ever been here before Rory?" Robert asked
"No. I haven't been to a lot of fancy restaurants." Rory replied drinking a sip of her water.
Robert was about to say something about how this wasn't really a fancy restaurant when Rory's cell phone rang. Rory answered it after Robert told her to go ahead. "Hello?"
"Daughter of mine!"
"Yes Mom?"
"Why do you sound annoyed with mommy?"
"This is the second date this week you've interrupted." Rory explained smiling sweetly at Robert
"You're out with Logan?"
"No, I'm not with Logan."
"But you're on a date?" Lorelai asked confused
"Yeah, I'm on a date."
"With who?"
"With Robert."
"Where did you meet this Robert?"
"He's one of Logan's friends. I met him at a poker game that I went to at Logan's one night."
"You're with one of Logan's friends? Kind of crass isn't it sweets?"
"I don't think so." Rory said annoyed again
"What's this Robert's last name?"
"You know I don't actually know."
"Don't you think that's something you need to know?"
"Not at the moment." Rory stated. She looked up at saw that the waiter was coming to the table. "Mom let me call you back later tonight ok, the waiter is here. I love you. Bye." Rory said hanging up the phone.
"Do you know what you want Rory?" Robert asked noticing she was off the phone
"Whatever you're having is fine." Rory said
"Ok." Robert said and went back to ordering. Rory looked at her phone and then turned it off.
Richard and Emily Gilmore's HomeEmily sat in the living room looking at the watch on her hand. It was getting closer and closer to seven and Rory was not there for Friday Night Dinners yet. Forty-five minutes later at 7:35 Emily stormed into Richard's study. "Where is she! You don't think anything has happened to her do you? Oh My God, my granddaughter is probably lying in a ditch somewhere!" Emily Gilmore yelled
"Emily calm down. Maybe there was a traffic jam or something." Richard said trying to reassure his wife
"Yes, maybe so. I'll try to call her again." Emily said picking up her phone and hitting redial. She sat there anxiously awaiting Rory's voice and got the voicemail again. She hung up and hit the redial button again, and still getting the voicemail. She did this at least four more times before getting overly frustrated. "It's Lorelai!" Emily suddenly screamed startling Richard
"What do you mean its Lorelai? Lorelai is here?" Richard asked
"No, of course Lorelai is not here Richard! But it's Lorelai's fault that Rory is not here!" Emily fumed
"Why do you say that?"
"Well, it's obvious. Rory was probably on her way and called Lorelai who probably convinced Rory that I am the wicked witch of the west, and that Rory shouldn't come over. And Rory does whatever Lorelai tells her to so she didn't come. Lorelai is turning our Rory against us."
"Now Emily you don't really believe that."
"Yes I do. And I'm going to do something about that."
"What are you going to do Emily?" Richard asked almost afraid to know
"I'm calling Lorelai." Emily said defiantly walking back towards the phone
"Emily." Richard started but Emily just ignored him. "Emily. You are just going to make this situation worse." But Emily was already dialing
Emily listened to the phone ring three times before Lorelai picked it up. "Hello?"
"Lorelai it's your mother." Emily said and was promptly welcomed with a dial tone.
"Insufferable child." Emily muttered under her breath before picking the phone back up and hitting the redial button
"Hello?"
"Lorelai, its Rory." Emily blurted out before Lorelai could hang up
"What about Rory?" Lorelai asked with worry and annoyance etched into her voice
"It's Friday night and she's not here. It's Friday night and I can't get her on her phone. Where is she? Did you talk her into not coming? Did you Lorelai? Are you trying to alienate us from Rory too just because your mad at us."
"You know just for the record mom, I am not mad at y'all. I'm mad at you.I still love Dad.You ruined my relationship with Luke. And as far as Rory goes, I talked to her today, we didn't mention you once, and I have absolutely no idea where she is or why she isn't there at your Friday night torture appointments, but it had nothing to do with me." Lorelai ranted and then hung up the phone again.
Emily rolled her eyes before yelling for the maid. "Althea remove one of the place settings it looks like it's just going to be me and Mr. Gilmore."
Lorelai
Lorelai called Rory's cell phone. She couldn't believe that Rory had missed Friday Night Dinners. She kept getting Rory's voicemail. Apparently Rory had turned her phone off since Lorelai had interrupted her date with Robert. And just who in the hell is Robert? What is Rory doing? My girl is playing with fire, Lorelai thought to herself. She gave up and dialed the dorm room hoping that maybe Paris would know some other way to reach Rory. The dorm phone rang twice before Paris answered it.
"Hello?"
"Hey Paris, its Lorelai."
"Hey Lorelai, Rory's not here."
"I know. Can I ask you a hypothetical question?"
"I guess." Paris said a little unsure
"Ok great. Let's say that you're Rory and you know that I don't necessarily like you dating a different guy every other night, and I called while you were on a date with a guy that I never even knew existed and you got mad and turned your phone off. And then something came up and it was really important that I go in touch with you, how would I go about it?
"Are you asking me if I know how to reach Rory?"
"Yeah, I guess I am."
"So why didn't you just say that?"
"I dunno." Lorelai said pausing, "Well do you know how to get in touch with her?"
"I'd call Robert's cell phone."
"Do you have that number."
"No."
"Do you know Robert's last name?"
"No."
"Thanks anyway Paris. If she gets in tell her to call me please."
"Sorry I couldn't help you Lorelai. I'll tell her to call you."
"Bye."
"Bye."
Lorelai hung up the phone and tried to think of how she could get Robert's number. She couldn't call information because she didn't know his last name. Then suddenly she had an epiphany. He's Logan's friend! I could get the number from Logan! She didn't care how weird it was or if it made Rory uncomfortable. It was Rory's fault that she had been ambushed by Emily. Lorelai grabbed her phone and called Paris back.
"Hello?" Paris asked
"Paris, hey it's Lorelai again, I'm sorry to call again but I was hoping that you could give me Logan's number."
"Yeah hold on, I know I saw it somewhere." Paris said before finding it written on a piece of paper on Rory's desk. "OK, I found it are you ready?"
"Yeah." Lorelai said while writing down the number that Paris was giving her.
"Can I ask why you are calling Logan?"
"He's friends with Robert. He'll have Robert's number. Thank you Paris."
"Your welcome I guess."
Lorelai hung up the phone and dialed Logan.
"Huntzberger."
"That's a very nice way to answer the phone." Lorelai said
"Who is this?" Logan asked slightly confused
"It's Lorelai, Rory's mom."
"Oh, well if you're looking for Ace she's not with me. She had a date."
"I know and she cut off her phone, and I need to get a phone number from you."
"Um… OK, who's?"
"Robert's."
"Why? How do you know Robert?" Logan asked completely confused
"Rory's with him."
"She had a date with Robert?"
"Yeah, and I need to get a hold of her cause she skipped out on Friday night dinner with her grandparents. And since she turned off her phone I'm going to call her on Robert's.."
"Oh ok, yeah sure I'll give you the number." Logan told her before rattling off a phone number
"Thanks Logan." Lorelai said before hanging up.
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Logan shut his phone and sat it on the counter. He grabbed a glass and filled it with some scotch before sitting back down on the table. "What in the hell is Ace doing with Robert! I swear to God, if he tries anything with her I'll kill him!" Logan yelled
"What's wrong mate?" Finn asked
Logan whipped around. He hadn't realized that they had come in the door. "Nothing Finn."
"It certainly seemed like something Logan. In fact it sounded like Rory was out on a date with one of your semi-friends and you sounded kind of jealous." Colin stated
"I am not jealous. Ace can date whoever she wants, I don't care who she dates."
"You're lying Logan and the second you admit that to yourself you'll understand everything that's making you feel the way you're feeling now. Think about it Logan. It's Friday night and instead of being out with some blonde, you're sitting in your dorm, drinking, alone." Colin said
"I'm not lying. I am not jealous. Now if you two will excuse me I'm going in my room." Logan said before slamming back his drink and throwing the glass back on the table, causing it to shatter, and slamming his bedroom door.
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"This is getting pathetic mate." Finn said to Colin who was shaking his head. The two of them started cleaning up the glass on the table when they heard a loud crash coming from Logan's room. "I'm not cleaning that one up." Finn said
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Logan slammed his door and in the process knocked a picture frame off the wall. Logan plopped down on his bed He got up and started pacing around the room. When in the hell did this happen! When did I turn into this psychotic jealous boyfriend. We aren't in an exclusive relationship! She isn't my girlfriend! Then a sudden thought popped into his head. I'm supposed to meet Rory at 11! And then he looked at the clock. 10:15.
xoxoxoxoxoxo
Rory and Robert had just now finished their dinner and the waiter was bringing out the dessert. Rory had admitted to herself that Robert wasn't very interesting, even though she was having fun on the date. He spent a lot of the date talking about himself. She had learned more about him in the last two hours than she had learned about Logan in the last six months. But nevertheless the food was amazing. She had already ate the most amazing pasta she had ever tasted, it was even better than Sookie's, and was about to eat what Robert had described as the most decadent piece of chocolate cake she would ever put into her mouth. She heard Robert say something about buying a parrot and naming it Polly and then leaving all his money to the parrot when he died but he was cut off by a shrill ringing from his jacket pocket.
"Do you mind if I answer this?" Robert asked Rory
"No, go ahead, answer it." She told him sweetly
"This is Robert."
"What is it with you guys, no one knows how to say hello anymore?" Lorelai spat out
"Who is this?" Robert asked causing Rory's interest to perk.
"Yeah, sorry. I'm Lorelai, Rory's mom."
"Rory's mom?" Robert repeated looking straight at Rory whose eyes grew to the size of saucers
"Yeah, look I know this is awkward but I've been trying to get in touch with my daughter for over an hour now and her phone is off. It's extremely important and I need to talk to her, so if you don't mind would it be possible for me to talk to her?" Lorelai asked
"Yeah, uh… sure. One second." Robert told Lorelai before looking at Rory and handing her the phone. "It's your mom she says it's extremely important."
"I'm sorry." She apologized to Robert before taking the phone. "Mom, is everything ok?"
"I know that you're on a date and all but I need to ask you a few questions."
"Um.. ok." Rory replied unsure of where this was going
"Ok what day is today?"
"Friday?
"And I know you haven't done it in a while but what do we always do on Friday night at seven o'clock?"
"Oh My God!" Rory said gasping
"Is everything ok?" Robert asked concerned
"Yeah, sorry everything is fine." Rory told him before putting the phone back up to her ear. "Grandma's dinner. I completely forgot. Grandma is going to kill me."
"Yeah she is kiddo. But not nearly as bad as I am!"
"What?"
"She called me Rory. I hung up on her. She called back and used the only card she had with me. She said it was about you. She used you and forced me to talk to her. She accused me of turning you against her. Rory I got berated by a mother that I refuse to talk to because you had a date. I suggest you call your grandmother and lay on some of that charm that's rubbed off from Huntzberger, and lay it on thick." Lorelai said with anger evident in her voice
"Mom, I'm sorry and I'll call grandma right away, but what's Logan have to do with any of this."
"How do you think I got this number Ror?"
"You got Robert's number from Logan?" Rory said causing Robert to choke on his wine. He looked up and saw that Rory's eyes were the size of saucers again. Logan is going tokill me, he thought to himself.
"I had to get it somehow Ror, you turned your phone off."
"Excuse me for a second Robert, please." Rory asked him
"Of course." Robert said standing up as she exited the table.
When she was out of earshot of Robert she hissed at her mother. "I can't believe you called Logan and got Robert's number Mom."
"Why? He knew you were out on a date." Lorelai said in disbelief
"No, I know he knew I was out on a date, but he didn't know I was out with Robert."
"Does that matter? You said it yourself the only friends you weren't allowed to date were Colin and Finn."
"I know I know but I don't know how Logan is going to react to this. He's friends with Robert but he has no respect whatsoever for Robert. And Logan asked me to go out tonight and I told him no because I had to go to dinner at the grandparents. And then I guess he forgot cause he asked me again and I had forgotten about dinner and agreed to go to dinner with Robert so I told Logan I had a date. And Mom he had this look on his face. It was almost as if it hurt him that I had another date."
"Well maybe it did. Go call your grandmother." Lorelai said before she hung up the phone.
Rory walked back to the table where Robert was sitting waiting for her. "Is everything alright?"
"I forgot about a dinner with my grandparents. See every Friday night for the last five years I've had dinner with my grandparents. It's a deal we made. They paid for my Chilton tuition and are paying for my Yale tuition and in return I go to dinner. And I completely forgot about it when I agreed to come out with you tonight."
"I'm sorry."
"It's fine. I just need to call my grandmother really fast she's probably worried."
"Well go ahead."
Rory turned on her cell phone and saw that she had twenty missed calls. She scanned through them and noticed that ten were from her grandmother, nine were from Lorelai and one from Logan. She sighed and dialed her grandmother's number, who answered on the first ring. "Rory dear God please tell me you are ok!"
"I'm fine grandma."
"Well then where in the hell were you? It's ten o'clock. You were supposed to be here at seven. That's the agreement Rory. We pay for Yale, you come to dinner every Friday night!"
"I know Grandma, but I honestly forgot. It's been a stressful week at school and I just wanted to relax a little tonight and I guess it just slipped my mind that it was Friday. I am so sorry grandma. What can I do to make it up to you?"
"Nothing. Don't worry about it. Yale is stressful school and I guess I understand. You will be here next week, no questions."
"Of course I will grandma. I swear to you."
"Goodnight Rory." Emily said
"Goodnight grandma." Rory said hanging up the phone and looking back at Robert. "I'm so sorry about that."
"It's fine Rory. Are you ready for your dessert?"
"Yeah." Rory said smiling as a waiter put the chocolate cake down on the table in front of her.
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After they finished with their dessert, Rory asked Robert if he minded calling it a night because she was exhausted and he took her home. Rory had been in bed for about thirty minutes when she woke up to the sound of tapping. She climbed out of bed and saw Logan standing outside the window.
AN: Ok this is a really long chapter that actually didn't take that long to write… I found that if I make an outline of what I want to accomplish with each chapter and stick to it, it's much easier to write the chapter… so I hope you enjoy this chapter… read and review….