Sorry about the wait! Life got in the way AGAIN! Sorry! Here's the next chapter! Hope you like it! :)
Chapter 7
"So I'll see you next Friday?" Lorelai asked as Rory stood at the front door, ready to leave.
"Yeah I'll be at dinner." Rory nodded.
"And you're sure you're going to be ok?"
Rory smiled. "I'll be fine." She said. "This time at home really helped."
"Right so I made your favourite and even put some coffee in here against my better judgement." Luke said coming in with a Luke's takeaway bag.
"Aw Luke you didn't have to do that." Rory said.
"It was no trouble. Besides I don't want to even think about what you eat at Yale." Luke said.
Rory grinned. "Thanks Luke!" She said taking the bag. "See you April! It was nice meeting you." She smiled giving April a hug. "If you want a tour of Yale at all, just let me know."
"Thanks! It was nice meeting you too." April smiled.
"Anyway I better get going. I'll call you." Rory said giving her mom a final hug.
"You better!" Lorelai smiled. "Bye hon."
"Bye." Rory said, giving them all a smile before leaving.
Rory was stood outside Paris' apartment. She hated that Paris and her were in a fight after all that editor business but she had nowhere else to go. She took a deep breath and knocked on the door.
"Who is it?" Paris' brusque voice answered through the door.
"Uh...your favourite person?" Rory said nervously. She sighed when she heard silence but when she was about to lose hope she heard the chain getting taken off and the door unlocking. "Hi..." She said quietly as Paris opened the door.
"Hi.." Paris said.
"Look I know we've been fighting but I have nowhere else to go..." Rory said.
"Yeah..." Paris said. "Tristan mentioned something went on between you and Logan."
"He did? Oh right...he said he was going to come and see you." Rory said remembering. She sighed. "Logan and I broke up."
"I assumed as much." Paris said.
"Can I come in?" Rory asked hesitantly.
Paris was quiet for a moment before nodding and standing aside to let her in.
"He cheated on me. With an entire bridal party." Rory said quietly.
"Ouch." Paris said.
"Yeah..." Rory said.
"I'm sorry." Paris said surprisingly sympathetically.
"Thanks."
Paris sighed. "Your room's still the same if you want it."
"Really?" Rory said relieved.
"Yeah. I should never have taken what happened at the newspaper get between us. I know you wouldn't have actively lobbied for the editor role." Paris said.
"I didn't. I swear I didn't." Rory said. "They chose me and...I just, I couldn't say no..."
"I understand."
Rory gave her a small smile. "Thanks Paris. I've missed you." She admitted.
"Yeah, same." Paris said returning the smile.
Rory collapsed on the couch in their living area. "I have to go get my stuff from Logan's apartment but I really don't want to see him again."
"Would you like me to go for you?" Paris offered sitting down next to her.
"You'd do that?" Rory asked.
"Sure. I mean there's numerous things I want to say to that pompous, smug, rich boy but out of respect to you I always refrained. But I don't mind unleashing it all on him now." Paris said.
Rory had to smile at that. "Thanks." She said. She then sighed. "But I think I have to do this. I wouldn't mind some moral support though."
"Count me in."
"Thanks Paris." Rory smiled.
"So..uh..maybe we can do this again next weekend?" Luke said as Anna stood at the front door waiting for April to collect her stuff.
"Uh..actually..." Anna started.
Luke tensed. "I only want to get to know her better. I wouldn't insist on every weekend but at the moment I want to spend as much time with her as I can." He said gruffly.
"Luke..." Lorelai said placing a reassuring hand on his arm.
"No it's not that. We're not here next weekend." Anna said quickly.
"Oh?" Luke said surprised.
"Yeah we're going to visit my mom in New Mexico. She's..uh...she's not too well at the moment." Anna said.
Lorelai saw Luke's composure soften a bit.
"Oh." Luke said. "Sorry."
"She's been ill for a while." Anna said. "I just want April to be able to see her as much as possible."
"Of course." Luke nodded.
"The weekend after that though, we'll be here." Anna said hesitantly. "Or..uh..."
"What?" Luke asked.
"April has this school trip the week after next and I would normally chaperone but I can't this time. I mean, you might not be interested, or get time off work but...you could go? If you want." She said hesitantly.
"Really? You wouldn't mind? April wouldn't mind?" Luke asked surprised.
"Well why don't we ask her?" Anna said forcing a smile on her face. "Hey darling."
"Hi mom." April smiled.
"So I was telling Luke about your maths trip...are you still a chaperone down?" Anna said.
"Yeah..." April said.
"Well...why doesn't Luke go?"
"You'd want to?" April asked Luke surprised but excited.
Luke glanced at Lorelai who smiled supportively at him. "Caesar can cover the diner. You know he'd be fine. Plus I could go in and check up on him if you want..."
"Swipe some free coffee and a burger you mean." Luke smirked.
"Well, seeing as I would be there..." Lorelai grinned.
Luke rolled his eyes and turned back to April. "I'd love to."
April grinned. "Great! I'll tell my teacher."
"You do that." Luke nodded. He glanced at Anna. "So I'll call you?"
Anna nodded. "I'll let you know more about the trip when I know more."
"Ok." Luke said.
"Come here, kid." Lorelai smiled at April holding her arms out. "It's been great hanging out with you."
"You too!" April smiled giving her a hug. "Hey, can I walk Paul Anka next time I'm here?"
"Sure!" Lorelai smiled.
April grinned and then turned to Luke. "So I'll definitely see you for the trip?"
"Definitely. You can count on me." Luke nodded.
April smiled shyly and then slowly went and gave him a hug. "Bye...dad..." She said hesitantly.
Luke stood for a moment, surprised by her calling him dad already. He glanced at Lorelai who smiled at him. He then slowly reciprocated the hug and gave April a kiss on the top of her head. "Bye kid. Take care yeah?"
"I will. I'll call you?" April said with a slight question in her tone.
"You do that." Luke nodded.
April smiled and gave them both a small wave before leaving with Anna.
"So that went well..." Lorelai smiled as they watched them drive off.
"Yeah..." Luke said quietly.
"Hey, are you ok?" She asked concerned.
Luke turned to her slowly. "She called me dad..."
Lorelai smiled. "Yeah I heard that."
"We've spent like one weekend together and she's called me dad..."
"Well she obviously felt comfortable enough to. She's a sweet kid." Lorelai smiled.
"She's perfect." Luke corrected.
Lorelai smiled thinking back to when she had said that about Rory just after she'd been born. "Yeah she is."
Luke glanced at Lorelai and smiled slightly embarrassed. "I better head to the diner for a bit just to make sure everything's ok. Want to meet me there for dinner or want to have it here?"
"I'll come to the diner. I need to go to the inn anyway to check on Michel." Lorelai said. "Meet you at 6?"
"6 is fine." Luke nodded. He gave her a kiss and left to go to the diner.
Rory stood outside Logan's apartment with Paris by her side.
"Are you ok?" Paris asked.
Rory took a deep breath. "The quicker I go in, the quicker I can leave right?"
"Right." Paris nodded.
Rory got out her key and unlocked the door. She slowly went inside hoping Logan was out. Unfortunately, he was sat on the couch and jumped up when he saw her.
"Rory!" He said.
"I'm not staying. I've just come to get my stuff." Rory said coldly.
"Come on Rory, this is stupid. Can't we talk about this?" Logan begged.
"Talk about what?" Rory snapped. "You cheated on me! Multiple times!"
"We were on a break!" Logan exclaimed. "We weren't going out at the time."
"We'd had a fight Logan! That didn't mean we were over! Couples fight!" Rory snapped. "Look I don't want to even talk about this. We're over, really, now! I just need my stuff." Rory said heading to the bedroom to get her things.
"Rory!" Logan said beginning to follow her.
"Oh no you don't." Paris said blocking his way.
"Will you just get out of my way?" Logan said annoyed.
"No. Rory's said her piece. Respect that!" Paris snapped. "You know I've always refrained from telling you what I really think of you because of Rory, because for some reason she actually loved you. But now...well I don't have to anymore. You're a horrible, cheating liar! Do you know how lucky you were to have Rory?" Paris said angrily. "She is the kindest, most compassionate person I know. And you hurt her. You hurt her in the most horrible way possible."
Logan groaned. "Just stay out of it Paris!" He exclaimed frustrated.
"No! Rory's my friend. I'm not going to let you hurt her again. Ever!" Paris said.
"Yeah? Well you weren't much of a friend when you kicked her out, were you?" Logan snapped.
"We've made up." Rory said returning from the bedroom with a bag of her stuff. "You really think badmouthing my friend will get you back into my good books?" She exclaimed.
"I was just saying it's none of her business! Which it isn't! Come on, Ace! We were good together. We could still be good together! Just stay here please. I'll show you how much I love you. I want to be with you. Please?" Logan begged.
Rory felt tears prick her eyes but she quickly wiped them away. "I loved you too." She said quietly.
"Well can't we work on this then? Please! I love you!" Logan said hopefully.
"I said I loved you. Loved." Rory said. "I don't anymore. I was a fool to think this would ever work. You were right before. You're not cut out for being a boyfriend." She said. She sighed. "So just go back to being who you were before and I'll get back to my life. And just...stay away from me. Please." She said quietly. "Bye Logan."
Logan went to follow her but Paris got in the way again. "Don't even try it. Don't you think you've hurt her enough? If you have any shred of morality in your body, which I doubt by the way, you'll stay away from her." She warned. She then followed Rory out leaving Logan standing in his apartment.
Rory headed to bed early that day just wanting some time by herself which Paris had respected. She heard Doyle arrive and heard them talking quietly in the living room. Paris had told her how they'd had a bit of a falling out but Rory was glad they had made up. Weirdly, Paris and Doyle made sense. And Paris was happy. She sat at her desk and signed into her email. She was surprised to see one pop up from a familiar person.
From: tdugrey...
To: rgilmore...
Subject: Hey
Hey!
I got your email from Paris, I hope that's ok! I didn't want to bother you this weekend because I knew you were with your family but I thought I'd send you an email so you could see it when you were back.
Firstly, I hope you're feeling better. For what it's worth, I think that Logan guy was a jerk. If he didn't know how lucky he was to have you, then he's not worth it. Anyway, I know how hard it is to get hurt like that so I'm sorry. I really hope you're ok.
Secondly, it was nice catching up with you. I never thought I'd see the day that Rory Gilmore got accepted into Harvard but chooses Yale instead. ;) It would be fun to see the reasoning behind that sometime. Maybe we can get a coffee one weekend when I'm back in Hartford?
Anyway, I should probably wrap this up now seeing as I think I've caught the rambling bug from you! Is that contagious? ;) Seriously though, it would be cool if we could stay in touch. So send me a reply if you want to. I check this quite regularly.
Take care!
Tristan
Rory couldn't help but smile after reading his email. She didn't know why but she had to agree with him. She'd enjoyed catching up with him as well. She couldn't help but think it had been too brief as well. She had hardly spoken to him at the panel and the second time she was at the bar, she was a wreck.
She bit her lip and slowly pressed the reply button and started typing. Am I going to regret this? She thought.
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