AN: Finally getting to the good stuff. Yale male's, tiaras and late dates.

"So I told him, 'No Rick, six cylinders is not acceptable, it's eight or nothing!'" The group of boys laughed while Rory stared blankly into space, fuming at the thought of what her grandparents were doing. 6:47, she still had forever until Jess came.

Rory excused herself and found the phone in Richards study. She dialled a familiar number.

"You told them about Jess, didn't you?" She accused her mother once the other end had picked up.

"Rory? What? No, I didn't do that! What did they do?" Lorelai sighed.

"First, I'm wearing an entire Tiffanies store on my upper body alone, then I come downstairs, and get this, all, all, the guests have brought with them their twenty something year old sons!!"

"Aw Hun! I'm so sorry! But did you think, that maybe they really do think that you are single, and are doing this out of somewhere nice?"

"Wow mum, wow, never thought I'd hear you say that…" Rory said shocked.

"You're right, someone slap me. They know… how could they know? This sucks! Do you want me to pick you up?"

"No, Jess will be coming later. I can hold up with insurance chatter until then."

"Well good luck. And Rory, I really am sorry they did this to you, they suck." Her tone was sincere.

"Yeah, well I'll see you later, bye." Rory hung up and took a breath before heading back out into the lions den.

"Just making sure everything's legal" The Chase boy said to her with a cocky grin.

'EW EW EW!! Gross!' Rory's brain screamed at her, but she resisted the temptation to slap him and just smiled.

She saw the boy with the messy blonde hair and the hazel eyes that made grown women weak at the knees. She gave Logan a pleading look and he walked over to her.

"Hey Rory, sorry I'm late! Hey, thanks for keeping my girl busy. Otherwise she would have noticed how late I am and that would have been bad." She tensed when he put his arm around her, but quickly played the part of girlfriend and leaned into his embrace.

"Wait, you're with him?" Jordan Chase asked.

"Yep, going on a year and a half!" He squeezed her shoulder and she smiled.

"Then what am I doing here?" Jordan walked away in search of some new amusement.

"Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!" Rory chirped at Logan once Jordan had walked away. Logan withdrew his hand from around her shoulders and she surprised herself with the feeling of disappointment that washed over her before she mentally slapped herself.

"Well, I kinda owe you one…" He said, avoiding eye contact.

"Yeah… no, sorry, what?" Rory asked confused.

"Well, it's my fault you're trapped here in the first place. You see, I was telling my sister about you, and she um… mentioned you at the dinner table… and they all got a bit… excited. So I told them that you had a boyfriend called Jess… and then phone calls happened and parties were arranged." He ran his hand through his hair in a mix of nerves and embarrassment.

He didn't really want to get into the details of the conversation, how his sister had insisted that he went all dreamy when he talked about Rory, and how his mother had started talking wedding plans.

"I've never seen your squirm before, it's entertaining, but you do realise you are going to pay for this. So, people talking about me huh? Anything juicy?" She said playfully. Logan looked around for an escape.

"Hey look, Finn is in the pool house! We better go save your grandpas scotch before it's too late." He took off towards the pool house before Rory could utter another word on the subject.

She spent a while in the pool house, drinking with Logan and his friends. Finn was a constant laugh and she lost track of time. She was halfway through Finns very embellished story of the time he went to a party as Tarzan and woke up naked on the roof of the library, closest he has ever been to one he assured them, when Rory checked her watch.

"Oh! I'm late! Jess was supposed to meet me half an hour ago!" She grabbed her bag and ran to the front door, only to find no one outside. She pulled out her phone and saw a little envelope in the corner of the screen.

Hey, sorry I'm going to be a bit late.

I'll see you when I get there kay?

Rory sighed, she was a bit relieved that she hadn't held him up, but still disappointed that he was late. She left the mob of boys who had followed her to the door and went to get changed. Five minutes later she came back out in jeans and a t-shirt to find Jess leaning against his car, scowling at Logan.

"Hey, sorry I held you up." Rory said, giving him a quick kiss on the lips, "Am I interrupting something here?" She gave Jess and Logan questioning glances.

"Not at all, just getting to know your boyfriend is all." Logan said with a smile.

"Mmkay then… Oh shoot! The jewellery! I'll just run inside and give them to my grandma, I'll be right back." Rory started to remove the earrings but Logan laughed.

"Relax Ace, I'll put them away. You go have fun." Logan went to take the diamonds from her, but Rory stopped him.

"How do I know you wont steal them?" She asked, giving him a suspicious glare.

"Trust me, they're not my taste." He said with a wink, and Rory handed them over to him.

"So, two choices, we can go watch Kirk's one man band, or, we can drive to one of the bars around here where I know a battle of the bands is taking place." Jess said, still eyeing Logan off.

"I'm not quite drunk enough to handle anything Kirk related…" She smiled at Jess.

"Battle of the Bands it is! Although how you manage to get through these parties without being a little drunk." Jess joked, pulling Rory towards him, with another quick scowl at Logan.

"Good company this time," She smiled, thinking of Logan saving her, "and I am a little drunk." He pulled her into a deep kiss, getting catcalls from Finn who stood with a laughing Colin at the door.

Logan turned and walked away, confused with his new emotions at seeing Jess' hands slip into Rory's back pocket. 'I'm just looking out for her, don't want him to hurt her…' he told himself. He walked back into the house, the jewellery in his hands reminding him of how amazing he found this new girl.

"So what's going on with you and Logan?" Jess asked once they were in the Car, driving away from the party.

"Nothing, he's just a friend… I guess." Rory said, unsure if what they had was a friendship or a mutual understanding of some sorts.

"Sure." Jess didn't sound convinced.

"What do you think is going on then?" Rory asked, frustrated.

"I think he has a thing for you."

"Logan does not have a thing for me!" She couldn't help but laugh, "He has a thing for every girl who wears their skirts above their knees and leaves their morals at home, but not me!" Jess nodded and kept driving, while Rory hoped that the smile she couldn't keep off her face was hidden in the shadows.

AN: I hope that you liked this chapter, please review. I have a lot of people wanting me to keep her with Jess, and while I have the middle of the plot kinda planned out, the ending isn't so definite so we'll see where all that goes…