A little while later, dinner is complete and the small kitchen table is set. "I feel like I didn't really do anything to help." Rory says, sitting as Logan serves her. "That's because you didn't." He responds, laughing and putting food on his own plate. "Hey! Blame my mom! Plus, you didn't seem to have a problem with it." Rory exclaims, laughing but trying to defend herself. "You seem to have forgotten everything I taught you." Logan says, smirking slightly and tilting his head at Rory. "I still know how to chop vegetables, but if I'm honest, that wasn't high on my list of things to remember from college." "It probably should have been. Especially since you need food to live." "Well now I have you so I don't need to know how to cook." "That you do." Logan responds, smiling lovingly at Rory, who gives him the same look back.
"So have you told Honor yet?" Rory asks, beginning to eat her food. "Have I told Honor what? That we're back together?" "No, dummy, that you're not spending Christmas with her. You don't need to tell anyone we're back together. I mean unless you want to, then you can, but you don't have to tell Honor or anyone." Rory rambles. "Oh, no I haven't." Logan says. "And I was planning on telling her we're back together. I mean first because she was the first person I told when we first got together." "That's a lot of firsts." Logan smiles and tilts his head slightly as if he was saying 'let me finish'. "And secondly because she means a lot to me and you mean a lot to me, so I figured she should know." Logan says.
"So you're comfortable with telling her that we're back together?" Rory says, smiling to herself. "Yeah, I mean basically all your family knows, I figured I ought to tell her. Plus, she loves you." Rory nods her head in agreement. "Makes sense." "I thought so."
"Dinner is really good, by the way." "Thank you. I thought so too." "Okay, Huntzberger. I give you one compliment and then your head grows three sizes." Rory says laughing, hitting Logan's arm lightly from across the table. "Hey I did say thank you!" Logan defends, holding his hands up. "That you did. It was a good attempt to disguise the cockiness." Rory says, smiling. "Hey!" Logan says, dropping his hands loudly onto the table. "Okay, I guess I forgive you, but only this one time." Rory says smiling and grabbing his hands. "Oh good. Thanks." Logan says, rubbing his thumb across Rory's hand.
"Do you want to stay and watch a movie?" Logan asks, picking up his and Rory's plates and setting them in the sink. "Aren't you sick of me by now?" Rory asks, standing up and rolling up her sleeves so she could help wash the dishes. "Never." Logan says, leaning over to kiss her. "Well in that case, a movie sounds great." Rory says, smiling up at him. "It's not going to be anything like you and your mom's insane movie nights but I can run to the store and get some stuff to prepare." Logan says, beginning to wash the dishes. "We can go together." She says, drying the dish that Logan hands to her. "You sure? You can stay here, I don't mind." "No I want to go. Plus, you would probably get all the wrong stuff." Rory says, and Logan smiles at her, "yeah you're right."
"It's not a Friday night so it's not really an official movie night." Rory says, as they walk down the brightly lit street to the nearby Target. "Am I ever going to get to attend one of these acclaimed events?" Logan asks, grabby Rory's hand. "Well they are by invite-only and it is very hard to get invited." Rory says, tilting her head to make a point. "Is that a no?" "There will probably be more than one while you're in Stars Hollow." Rory confesses, and Logan grins. "I can't believe I finally made it into the club. It only took 5 years." Logan says, laughing and shaking his head.
"Well, I would say once you're in, you're in for life, but that hasn't always been the case." Rory says, and Logan gives her a weird look. "Not that I want you to go! That's not the case at all! It's just, Jess and Dean both attended Friday movie nights on a semi-regular basis, but they didn't stick around." Rory says, looking down. "I'm a little offended that I dated you the longest and I've never gotten to experience a Friday movie night, but I'm just going to roll with it." Logan says, trying to reassure Rory. "I'm sorry." "For what? You've had other boyfriends that lived in Stars Hollow and have been to your house. I understand. It's understandable, Rory. Ace, you're amazing and so beautiful, I would be astonished, and frankly a little confused if you hadn't had a boyfriend before me." Logan says, stopping to turn to face Rory. "Well, Jess did kind of hate it." "Well then he's an ass." "You felt that way before I told you that." "Shh, no one needs to know that." Logan says, causing Rory to laugh.
"Sorry about my comment. It was weird and I shouldn't have said it." Rory says, once they've started to walk again. "It's okay. You have nothing to be sorry for." Logan says, lifting her hand and kissing her knuckles. "I'm just honored to be included." He says, and Rory looks at him and smiles.
"Movie night isn't going to be the same because we already had a real dinner." Rory says, once they've stepped into the store. Logan reaches to grab a basket, and looks at Rory with a confused look. "When has a real meal stopped you in the past?" He asks. "I mean you make a good point, but usually on Friday movie nights, at least before we went to my grandparents for a real meal, we would get Luke's or pizza, or Chinese, or all of them. I mean we would do that after we went to my grandparents too, but dinner lasted so long and it was a long ride home, so we were hungry by the time we got back to Stars Hollow." Rory says, and they begin to walk to the junk food section of the store. "Do you want to order pizza or Chinese when we get back home?" Logan asks, and Rory notices that he calls his apartment home. It makes her feel weird, but in a good way. Even though they had only been dating for a day, it had felt like no time had passed from their time at Yale.
"Eh. I'm okay. Your dinner was really filling. That being said, we do still need the other movie essentials." Rory says, grabbing Logan's hand and leading them to the candy aisle. "What are the Gilmore movie essentials?" Logan says, chuckling at his girlfriend. "Pop tarts, of course." "Of course." "Twizzlers, marshmallows, chips, jelly beans, chocolate." Rory begins, grabbing things off the shelves, and Logan just smiles in response. "Anything else?" "Maybe some coffee? Or alcohol?" Rory says, which causes Logan to chuckle once more. "What are you laughing at, mister?" Rory exclaims, hitting Logan lightly on the chest. "Oh nothing, this is a very serious matter." He says, trying to stop his laughter. "That's correct." Rory says definitively.
"Are we set on supplies?" Logan asks, after Rory debated over what flavor of pop tarts to get. (Brown sugar cinnamon was of course the final choice.) "I think so. Thank you!" Rory says, taking the blueberry pop tarts out of the basket and replacing them with the cinnamon ones. "When Babette's cat, Cinnamon died, there was a wake for her at Babette's house and everyone in town came and brought food." Rory said out of the blue. The name of the pop tarts reminding her of Babette's antics. "God, I love that town of yours." "I'm glad." Rory says, and they make their way to the check out.
"So are there any cat ceremonies scheduled for when we're in town or do they lean more towards being spontaneous events?" Logan asks, as the cashier scans their items. "Usually spontaneous, but we can check the Town of Stars Hollow Website and see." "How is this the first time I am hearing about the Town of Stars Hollow website?" Logan asks, emphasizing 'Town of Stars Hollow website', and his eyes showed a level of shock, causing Rory to laugh. "I thought I told you about it! Plus, I figured you'd do your research on Stars Hollow beforehand and find it. Though, I did think it was weird you didn't mention it." Rory muses, while Logan grabs the bags.
"Oh shoot. I forgot. Back in 2007 I think, Kirk lost the password to the website and it hasn't been updated since then." Rory says, making a frustrated face. "Ace! How will I know about the cat ceremonies in the Town of Stars Hollow now?!" Logan exclaims, and they both burst into laughter. "I don't know, I'm sorry!" Rory says, still laughing. "I still want to see the website." Logan says, a few seconds later. "I figured." Rory responds.
"I feel like you don't actually like Stars Hollow as much as you say you do, you just like to make fun of it." Rory says, kind of joking, but Logan could sense the seriousness in her voice. "Okay, you know that is not true, I really do like Stars Hollow. It is a very charming place, but it does have some oddities that even you make fun of." Logan defends. "But you seriously do have to show me this website." "It is pretty great." Rory says, less stiff then she was a minute ago.
When they arrive back to Logan's apartment, Rory takes the groceries out of the bags, and Logan walks to his room to get his laptop. "Please, your majesty, show me the Town of Stars Hollow website." Logan says, presenting his laptop to Rory, causing her to laugh. "Come here, you. We can look at it together." She says, grabbing his hand and the laptop, and leading him to the couch. As she types in the url, Logan puts his arm around her and kisses her head. "Oh my god this is amazing. Click on the town updates." Logan says, taking in the website.
The first thing that pops up is information about Rory's farewell party, as well as a transcript of Taylor's speech. "Okay, Taylor is fascinating, but that speech is terrible." Logan says, shaking his head. "He was right, the hay bale maze was great." Logan says, once he reaches the hay bale maze entry. "I'm a little offended there isn't anything about me, especially since everything before this has been about you." "Hey, we talked earlier about the big head." Rory says, shooting Logan a joking mean glance. "Okay, okay, but still, the daughter of Stars Hollow's boyfriend isn't featured? What kind of news source is this?" Logan asks, laughing.
Logan continues to make commentary as they read through the posts on the website. "I have to admit, I've never read all of the entries on this website." Rory says, and Logan looks astonished. "How could you not? This is incredible." "I've read a couple but Kirk and Taylor aren't the best wordsmiths." Rory says, grimacing a little.
"The ice cream queen?" "Oh god no." "Oh yes." Rory had dozed off slightly while Logan was perusing the website. "The ice cream queen is too busy for town participation? Rory I'm honestly ashamed." "In my defense, I didn't even sign up for the role." "Yeah you don't sign up to be queen, jeez, Ace, you went to Yale." Logan says, sounding fake-disappointed. "Oh shut up," Rory says, going back to leaning her head on Logan's chest.
After a few minutes, Logan shakes Rory's shoulder slightly to wake her. "Hey, Ace. Do you want me to take you home?" "No, we haven't even watched our movie." She says, whining a bit. "Hey, it's okay, we have plenty of time for movies." He says softly. "You can sleep here if you want, but I figured you wanted to go home." He says, allowing her to remain with most her upper body on his. "Home sounds good, but I don't want to move." She says, closing her eyes again, and snuggling closer to Logan. "Do you want to stay here?" He asks, unsure of what to do with the half-asleep Rory. "We're still taking it slow. Me sleeping over here is not taking it slow." Rory says, more awake this time, but her body unmoving. "I agree, but I can sleep on the couch and you can sleep in the bed if you don't want to go home. I'm guessing you didn't sleep well last night because you're falling asleep and it's not even 9:00." Rory shrugs, and begins to sit up more.
"I can take you home, or you can sleep here. It's up to you." Logan says again once Rory is sitting up all the way. "Can you take me home?" She asks, not really wanting to go home. "I'm sorry I fell asleep, too much wine and too much moving of boxes today." "It's okay, Ace. I understand. We can have our movie night another day."