As she laid there in Logan's arms, watching the storm, she realized that she felt safer now than she ever had with Jack. During her entire relationship with Jack, she hadn't been as content as she had been for the past ten minutes with Logan. Things are changing, we're changing.

Rory shifted and rubbed against Logan. She didn't know what she was doing to him, he was going insane having her in his arms. He loved holding her, being so close to her. They'd done this before, but something had changed after her debutante ball, that night had been amazing.

He looked up at the shelf and a picture caught his eye. It was a photograph of them. It had been taken a few months ago at the ball; neither of them had known that it was being taken.

They were dancing, she had her hands around his neck and he had his hands on her hips, holding her close. They were smiling and looking into each other's eyes. He remembered that night so well, it had been perfect.

He remembered her walking down the stairs holding onto her fathers arm. He remembered looking up the Cinderella staircase and having his breath catch in his throat when he saw her. When she reached him he kissed her cheek and whispered in her ear, "Rory, you look amazing, like the princess that you are." The rest of the night had been just as magical.

That night he thought to himself, "I can't believe that I'm lucky enough to be her escort tonight, I get to hold onto her all night. She's gonna remember this night for the rest of her life and I'm gonna be in those memories."

Rory realized that Logan was thinking about something, something that he liked because he had a smile on his face and his body was reacting to his thoughts as well. She shifted again but this time she moved herself out from between his legs and laid down next to him. Logan moved so that he was lying down next to her. They were both on their sides looking into each other's eyes.

She whispered to him, "what are you thinking about Logan?"

He looked into her eyes and saw that something had changed. Logan moved closer to her so that the space between them was almost nonexistent. He brought his hand up to her face, gently brushed a strand of hair behind her ear, he cupped her cheek with his hand and softly moved his thumb across her skin.

"You." His voice sounded full of love and at the same time desire, "I was thinking about the debutante ball and how when I saw you at the top of the stairs I couldn't breathe. You looked so beautiful, I wanted nothing more than to whisk you out of the room."

Logan watched her face when he revealed his desire from that night, her eyes lit up when she heard him. Her blue eyes met his in a telling gaze, "what was stopping you…"

His breath caught in his chest, did I hear her right? Did she just ask what was stopping me? His voice came out with a hint of pain, "your boyfriend was stopping me Ace."

Rory brought her hand to Logan's face and touched him the same way he was touching her. Then she took his hand from her cheek and pressed it to her chest, he felt her heart beating furiously. "Do you feel that Logan?" she asked, "do you feel what you do to me? How my body reacts to you?" He nodded at her, "baby, this, my heart, has always belonged to you."

When Logan heard the last thing she said, he closed the gap between them. As soon as their lips touched, he felt a spark, something he had never felt with anyone else. Rory responded instantly leaning into the kiss, she felt the spark too. Logan traced her lips with his tongue, hoping that she would let him deepen the kiss. She parted her lips and the passion that came out of the kiss made her body burn.

She felt his hands grasp her waist and roll her over so that she was underneath him. Normally she would have been scared out of her mind, but not now. Rory had finally admitted to herself what she'd known deep down all along, Logan was it for her. She wasn't scared because it felt right, it felt normal.

Logan suddenly pulled back, Rory groaned at the loss of contact. This is going too fast, this is Rory! I don't want her to regret anything, I don't want to be to rebound guy…

Rory looked into his eyes and saw so many emotions, desire, love, concern, confusion. "Logan, what's wrong? Why did you stop? Did I do something wrong?"

He heard the pain in her voice, she thinks that I don't want her. He gently brushed the hair from her face. The feeling of his fingers on her skin made herfeel so content. He kissed her forehead, it was an act of love. When he spoke she heard the conflict in his voice, "no Ace, you didn't do anything wrong. In fact you were doing things too right, we're going too fast. You just had a fight with Jack, I don't want you to regret anything, or to act out of anger with him."

She was shocked at his response, she hadn't expected that. Suddenly she was angry with him. "You think that that's what this is? An act of revenge? That you're the rebound guy. God Logan do you know me at all! That is not what this is." She moved away from him and leaned against the window, breaking all physical contact, "Did you not hear what I said before? I want you. I always have, I just never listened to what my heart was telling me. I never listened when my heart told me that it was taken, taken by you."

The anger in her voice was now accompanied with pain, he could hear the tears that she was fighting to hold back, "I felt more passion and love in the one kiss we shared then in all the kisses that I had with Jack." She paused to catch her breath, it was a fatal pause. The tears that she had desperately been trying to conceal fell from her eyes, "and it kills me that you think I only said what I did because I'm mad at Jack."

Logan watched her fall apart in front of him. He was ready to kill himself for causing her pain. How could I doubt her, how could I think that she didn't feel the same way? What am I going to do to fix this? Logan found the strength he needed to speak to her, "baby I'm so sorry. I don't know why I said what I did. I know you hate me right now and want nothing to do with me, but I need to give you something, hopefully it will show you how I feel."

He crawled over to the secret compartment, lifted the door, and pulled out a CD. He put it in the CD player that they kept on the window seat, and let it play.

Rory was looking out the window avoiding Logan's eyes when she heard his voice. "Rory this is our song, I hope you like it…"

Maybe it's intuition

But some things you just don't question

Like in your eyes

I see my future in an instant

and there it goes

I think I've found my best friend

I know that it might sound more than

a little crazy but I believe

I knew I loved you before I met you

I think I dreamed you into life

I knew I loved you before I met you

I have been waiting all my life

I'll be your crying shoulder

I'll be love suicide

I'll be better when I'm older

I'll be the greatest fan of your life

Rain falls angry on the tin roof

As we lie awake in my bed

You're my survival, you're my living proof

My love is alive not dead

Today was gonna be the day

But they'll never throw it back to you

By now you should've somehow

Realized what you're not to do

I don't believe that anybody

Feels the way I do

About you now

And all the roads that lead to you were winding

And all the lights that light the way are blinding

There are many things that I would like to say to you

I don't know how

I said maybe

You're gonna be the one who saves me

And after all

You're my wonderwall

I'll be your dream I'll be your wish

I'll be your fantasy

I'll be your hope I'll be your love

Be everything that you need

I'll love you more with every breath

Truly, madly, deeply do

I will be strong I will be faithful 'cause I'm counting on

A new beginning

A reason for living

A deeper meaning

I want to stand with you on a mountain

I want to bathe with you in the sea

I want to lay like this forever

Until the sky falls down on me

Hey, yeah yeah yeah

You got something so real

You touched me so deep (touched me so deep)

See material things

Don't matter to me

So come as you are

You've got nothing to prove

You won me with all that you do

And I wanna take this chance to say to you

What makes you different, (alright, yeah yeah) makes you beautiful (alright)

What's there inside you, (alright) shines through to me

In your eyes I see, all the love I'll ever need

You're all I need, oh girl

What makes you different, makes you beautiful

You don't know (you don't know) how you touched my life (touched my life)

Oh in so many ways (so many ways) I just can't describe

You taught me what love is supposed to be

You saw the little things that make you beautiful to me

I've never had a dream come true

Till the day that I found you

Even though I pretend that I've moved on

You'll always be my baby

I never found the words to say (words to say)

You're the one I think about each day

And I know no matter where life takes me to

A part of me will always be

A part of me will always be with you

15 there's still time for you

22 I feel her too

33 you're on your way

Every day's a new day...

15 there's still time for you

Time to buy and time to choose

Hey 15, there's never a wish better than this

When you only got 100 years to live

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road.

Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go.

So make the best of this test, and don't ask why.

It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right.

I hope you had the time of your life.

Rory couldn't breathe. The song was so perfect, it represented their relationship perfectly and showed how much he cared about her. She didn't know what to say so she did the only thing she could think of. She moved across the window seat until she was right in front of Logan and kissed him with as much passion as she could muster to let him know that everything was ok.

Then Rory remembered that what they were doing was what caused the fight in the first place. She pulled away from him. Logan looked at her with utter confusion, "Ace what's…" but then Logan saw her eyes, she was scared. Scared that he didn't believe her, scared that something bad would happen.

Logan pulled her down next to him and just held her in his arms. He realized that the way he felt about her was nothing simple, he knew what he had to do. After a few minutes he whispered in her ear the words that he'd wanted to say for so long, "Rory, I love you."

She felt his heart beating beneath her and knew that this was meant to happen. They were perfect for each other. Rory moved herself closer into him and felt his arms cling to her, she whispered, "I love you too Logan, more than you'll ever know."

Logan had been playing with one of her curls, twirling it between his fingers, God I'm so lucky, I can't wait till everyone knows that she's mine. He suddenly let go of her and got up to open the compartment one more time. Then just as quickly as he had gotten up, he was once again lying down, but this time she was in his arms like before, with him leaning against the wall and her lying in between his legs. her. Rory looked up at him, utterly confused. "Logan what was that?"

She watched as his infamous smirk appeared on his face, I know that look; it usually means trouble or a surprise. "Ace just trust me ok? I have a present for you. I was going to wait to give it to you as part of your Christmas present, but I want you to have it. Close your eyes and give me your hand."

Rory closed her eyes as she was told, but forgot to give Logan her hand. She felt his fingers gently brush the top of her skin, bolts of electricity shot through her body. He took her left hand and gently caressed it, making small comforting circles with his fingers. Logan than moved the hair away from her neck and nibbled that spot that literally made her knees weak. He placed gentle kisses up and down her collarbone, her mind was going wild now, she had completely forgotten about the gift.

Until she felt his hand running up her left arm and became aware of a new feeling on her middle finger. Rory looked down and sitting on her was the most beautiful ring she'd ever seen. It had three stones, two diamonds on either side of a peridot, her birthstone. He watched her reaction and then watched her sit there in awe for a few minutes, just staring at her ring. Logan was so lost in her that he hardly heard her whispering, "Logan it's beautiful, I love it."

"That ring's beauty," he said softly into her ear, sending shivers down her spine, "is nothing compared to the beauty of the one wearing it."