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Chapter Twenty Two

Rory walked out of Luke's and went straight into the video store. She grabbed Willy Wonka and a few other choice movies that her and Lorelai could make fun of for the rest of the night. She then went into Doose's for the provisionary junk food. Loading the cart with Red Vines and every other candy down the candy isle she headed towards the ice cream. She was looking at the flavor choices when she bumped into someone.

"Sorry" she said before she looked up to see who she ran into. "Oh hi Dean…"

Dean looked at Rory for a second or two before saying "Hey Rory."

"So… um…" Rory says clearly uncomfortable and searching for something to say

"How are you doing?" Dean asks trying to fill in some of the awkward moment

"Great. I'm great. You?"

"Great. So… um… what are you doing in Stars Hollow. Did you have a break from Yale or something?"

"No just the weekend. I'm actually here to surprise Mom. She's been feeling a little blue, you know ever since the break up and we got into a little spat last night. I'm trying to make it up to her."

"Yeah, I heard about her and Luke. I'm sorry, I thought they were going to be forever."

"Yeah so did I." Rory said. She grabbed her ice cream and headed for check out with Dean trailing along beside her. She paid for the food and walked outside.

"No limo this time?" Dean asked

"No, just my Prius."

"What was with the limo?"

"Oh, I stayed with… um… a friend the night before and my car was at the dealership when Sookie called me telling me that I should come home and help Mom and they let me use their car service."

"One of your rich Yale friend's I'm guessing."

"Yeah." Rory said uncomfortably

"So is he one of the one I saw you come out with that night? I bet he was the one that was right next to you with his arm practically draped around you."

"His name is Logan." Rory said sighing

"Are you with him?"

"We go out. It's not exclusive."

"My divorce was finalized yesterday." Dean said suddenly

"Oh." Rory responded unsure if he was happy about it or not

"It was a stupid mistake. I never should have done it."

"What?"

"Get married. I never loved Lindsay. It was always about moving on from you."

"Dean." Rory says unsure of what to say

"I'm not trying to make you feel guilty. I just wanted you to know that I understand it all now. Even if we had never had the affair my marriage would have failed. It was fake, a lie. I never loved her. I wanted to, but I didn't."

"I don't know what to say." Rory admitted

"So say nothing. I still love you Rory. I will always love you, and I'll probably feel extremely jealous when I see you and Logan around here all lovey dovey but this is closure. I know we're done. I know that we won't ever be together again. I know that I don't fit into your world anymore. And I'm ok with it. I just want you to be happy. And I couldn't move on until I told you that." Dean said. He dropped a kiss on Rory's cheek and then got into his truck and drove off.

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Rory showed up at home to find her mother sitting on the couch eating pizza and watching Jeopardy. "Hey Mom!" Rory yells out scaring Lorelai and making her drop her pizza.

"Fruit of my loins you scared the hell out of me. Don't make momma have a heart attack sweets. What are you doing here and what's with all the bags?"

Rory just walked over and dumped the junk food on the table and handed her three movies.

Lorelai giggled and jumped up in glee. She wrapped her arms around Rory. "Daughter of mine you are fantastic."

"I know."

"You're my favorite daughter!"

"I'm your only daughter."

"Well still…"

"Put the movie in."

Lorelai got up and put in Willy Wonka. They were about half way through when Rory's cell rang.

"Hey no fair. No phone during Willy Wonka."

"I can't help it." Rory said searching for her phone. When she looked at the caller id it said Finn. "Mom I have to take this."

"Fine answer it." Lorelai said pouting

"Hello."

"Rory luv, there's been a brawl."

"A brawl?" Rory asked

"A brawl?" Lorelai repeated

"Yes a brawl. It appears that our dear friend Robert kissed you last night."

"Yeah so, it was just a kiss goodnight. It lasted all of two seconds."

"OOOO…. Rory got kissed! Rory got kissed!" Lorelai chanted in the background.

"Anyway Robert made the mistake of telling Huntzberger that and he boxed the shit out of him."

"Logan hit Robert!" Rory exclaimed scaring Lorelai causing her to fall off the couch

"Rory what did I say about scaring Mommy? You made me fall off the couch! Wait did you say Logan hit Robert!" Lorelai asked

"Yeah I did." she said to Lorelai, "What in the hell happened tonight Finn?"

Finn sighed. He knew that Rory wasn't going to like this. "Well there might have been some egging on by me and Colin about your date with Robert last night. We were just trying to prove to Logan that he was jealous."

"He's not jealous Finn. His ego is just a little bruised, but he'll be ok."

"That's not all that's bruised love. His pretty little face is bruised too. Then again Robert's is worse."

"Look, I'm only going to say this one more time. Me and Logan are fine the way we are. He doesn't want to date me exclusively and you two are making things between us uncomfortable. Find a new hobby!" Rory said hanging up the phone.

"So Robert kissed you huh?" Lorelai asked suggestively

"Jesus Mom, that's why you choose to comment on?"

"How was the date?"

"It was fine."

"Are you going to see him again?"

"I dunno. He's not really my type. He likes to talk about himself. I learned more about him last night that I have Logan in six months."

"So Logan and Robert got into a fight huh?"

"Yeah, from what Finn said it was bad. They both are covered in bruises or will be by morning."

"What else did Finn say?"

"That Logan was jealous. Which is insane. Logan can't be jealous."

"Why not? You're jealous of all the other girls he sees."

"I don't want to talk about this. I'm going to go call Logan make sure he's ok and then I'm going to bed."

"But what about Willy Wonka?"

"We've seen in a million times. Night Mom." Rory said shutting her door.

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Logan sat up when he heard his phone ring. He looked at the caller id and smiled slightly when he saw the word Ace flashing on his phone.

"Hey Ace!"

"Hey Logan."

"How are you?"

"I'm good, you?"

"I've been better. Where are you?"

"Stars Hollow."

"So I've been thinking."

"Never good."

"You wound me Ace."

"Go on, you've been thinking…"

"I want you to go out with me tomorrow night."

"Ok."

"And Monday night too."

"Why?"

"Can't a guy just want to spend time with a beautiful and amazing girl?"

"Ok. Sunday and Monday it is."

"Good, I'm going to go bed now it's been a long day. Night Ace."

"Night Logan." Rory said hanging up her phone.

He didn't mention the fight. He knew she knew about it. It was why she called and he knew that too. He also knew that it was either Finn or Colin that called and told her. The two of them couldn't stop meddling. Logan laid down and tried to drift off into slumber but thoughts of Rory and commitment clouded his head.

AN: Ok, this chapter was short and sweet, but then again it was more or less just a filler… I have one more chapter of this story planned out and then I'm going to take a little hiatus and work on my other story "Nothing's Simple Anymore". I've slacked off a lot on it. I want to try to get it up to where this one is chapter wise… oh well read and review…