A/N: I just wanted to say a big thank you for all you reviews so far. I hope you are enjoying reading this story as much as I am enjoying writing it. Please keep reading and commenting, it definitely motivates me! As a side note, is a bit crazy right now and it seems that email notifications are not being sent out and people have been missing my updates which makes me sad. The best thing to do is check manually. I updated at least 4-5 times per week. Hopefully it will get back to normal soon - It definitely means less reviews and I miss them!

A couple of weeks passed by with Logan and Rory enjoying a couple more casual dates. They'd gone out to dinner a few more times and had the odd night out to watch a movie but so far, other than a few kisses and a bit of chaste hand holding, they had not been intimate again since the night in the Pool House at Lily's birthday.

Logan had arranged to pick Rory up that night to go out for some drinks while Lily was staying over with Lorelai in Stars Hollow. She was looking forward to going out and letting her hair down, but it was going to be a bit different for them that night, as they had plans to meet up with Colin and Finn. Rory was nervous about seeing them again after so long, she couldn't help but wonder how they would be towards her. She'd had no contact with them since graduation. They'd been friends in their Yale days, but ultimately, as Logan's friends, their loyalty was to him and in the event of their break-up it hadn't seemed right to maintain any contact.

"Don't be nervous Ace," Logan said as he squeezed her hand.

"I'm trying, but I feel a little like I am about to go in front of the firing squad." Rory grimaced as they walked into the bar.

"Hey, guys!" Logan said as he walked up to the table where his friends were sitting.

Finn jumped up to greet Rory "I'm sorry, do I know you?" he winked "Love, you look great," he said pulling her into a hug.

"Rory" Colin nodded. "Nice to see you."

"Hi, Colin" Rory smiled nervously.

"Drinks?" Finn said as he rubbed his hands together and beckoned the waitress over.

"So Rory what have you been doing with yourself since Yale…" Finn started to ask before Colin interrupted.

"…inbetween having a secret love child that is." Colin finished. Logan shot him a look.

"Oh yeah, how is motherhood treating you, darling? You had plenty of practice playing mother with us three" Finn winked.

Rory took a deep breath and smiled before telling them all about Lily and her life over the past eighteen months.

"It didn't really turn out like I had planned," she said as she took a sip of her drink.

"I'll say," Finn said.

"So, are you two, you know, together now," Colin asked as he looked directly at Rory.

Logan fumed at his friend. Colin knew fully well what the situation was but for some reason, he was determined to cause trouble. He thought about stepping in and moving the conversation on but on the other hand, he was fairly interested to see what Rory would say. He'd only suggested the casual, no strings dating as she had seemed uncertain and he hadn't wanted to spook her.

Rory looked at Logan apprehensively. "Erm, I…no we're not…I mean, well, we're just seeing how things go right now."

"Right" Colin raised an eyebrow as he looked at Logan.

Finn could sense that there was some kind of tension amongst the group. "Hey, it's Saturday night, why don't we get a little crazy. Shots?"

"Sounds good to me!" Rory said knocking back her drink.

"Really Ace, you sure?" Logan said as he looked at her in surprise. He hadn't seen this side of her in quite a while.

"Oh c'mon Huntzberger, live in the moment." She smiled.

"That's my kind of girl love," Finn said as he put the vodka shots down in front of them.

They had a couple of rounds of shots and a few other drinks and before long Rory found herself merrily tipsy. Colin had seemed to chill out a bit and had got off Rory's case. He was stood on the other side of the room chatting up some blonde and Finn was off chasing a redhead who couldn't have been less interested if she tried. Rory laughed to herself when she thought about how nothing had really changed since their college days.

Logan and Rory were sat in a booth, talking closely. She couldn't help herself any longer and before she knew what she was doing, Rory leaned into Logan and kissed him, softly at first but as he opened his mouth and deepened the kiss, it became more urgent.

"I thought we were taking things slow," Logan said as he pulled back and looked at her.

He absolutely wanted something to happen with Rory but wasn't about to take advantage of his slightly drunken date, especially as right now things were so up in the air. She'd made it clear earlier in the night when talking to Colin that they were just casually dating and if that were the case, Logan wasn't ready to start blurring the boundaries yet.

"We have been taking things slow…" Rory said as she trailed little open-mouthed down his neck and he groaned.

"Come on Logan, why are you holding out on me. We haven't…you know…since the pool house." She said as she moved her hand down his body to his waistband and started sliding her hand down his pants. "Don't you want to? You know it would be good." She whispered.

Logan's breath hitched. It was going to take all his strength. "That's it, time to go home Ace, you're drunk," Logan said as he moved to stand up.

"Spoilsport" Rory pouted.

"You'll thank me tomorrow Ace," he said as he pulled her up and went to find the guys to let them know that they were leaving.

A few days later Rory sat at the Pool House waiting impatiently for Logan. They had arranged for him to come by after work that night to spend some time with Lily as Rory had an evening class but it was half an hour after he was meant to show and there was no sign of him. Rory was getting worried about him, it was unlike him to let her know if he was running late and her mind starting working overtime.

She'd already tried phoning him several times but there was no answer so she grabbed Lily and drove over to the Huntzberger estate to see if she could find him. When she got there the maid who recognised her, welcomed her in but there was no sign of him. Rory was just walking out of the door to leave when his car pulled up outside.

Logan looked surprised to see Rory and she registered the awkward look on his face when the penny dropped.

"Shit, I totally forgot…" Logan said getting out of the car and walking towards Rory. It had suddenly dawned on him why Rory was there and why she was looking so irritated. He knew that she was going to be pissed with him.

"I'm here now, I'll take Lily and you can go get to your class." He said placing his cell phone and keys down on the table in the entrance hall. Taking hold of his daughter he walked to place her down in the living room.

As he did so his cell phone beeped and a message flashed up on the screen. Rory picked up his cell and walked over to him.

"Logan your phone…" she stopped as she read the message on the screen.

"I had fun, let's do it again sometime? x"

Rory looked at Logan. "You complete ass! I don't believe you. You forgot to pick up your daughter because you were screwing some girl?" she yelled and threw the cell phone in his direction.

"What?" he said as he caught the cell phone Rory threw at him. "Oh," he said reading the message.

"Real nice Logan" Rory said turning to leave.

"Rory, I wasn't screwing her as you so nicely put it, we just went for a drink is all," Logan said. "There's no need to get mad."

Rory turned at scowled at him. "I'm not mad at you because you went on a date you asshole…."

"No?" Logan questioned.

Rory glared at him.

"Rory, we never said we were exclusive."

Rory shook her head. "Oh my God. What is this Logan, I hurt you so you have to hurt me back? Is this how it is going to be with us because if it is, I want out of this, whatever this is. I'm not interested in playing games."

"I'm not doing this right now Rory, I've had a long day, I went for a drink with a work colleague that's all"

"Fine" Rory said putting her hands up "Do you know what Logan, you are not my boyfriend, you don't owe me any explanation at all but you ARE Lily's father and when you say you're going to show up, you have to show up!" she said as she stooped down to pick up Lily and walked out of the room.

"Rory, where are you going…" Logan sighed as he followed her out of the room.

"Home," Rory said without looking back at him.

"But you have a class, leave Lily here and get going, we'll talk later"

"Forget it, Logan, it's too late for my class now and I am not leaving my daughter here with you." She said as she clipped Lily into the car seat and drove away.

Rory got home and threw her keys on the kitchen worktop before pouring herself a large glass of wine. Rory was so mad at Logan for so many different reasons – she was mad that he had forgotten that he was meant to be looking after their daughter, she was mad that he had gone on some sort of date with someone else and she was really mad that she had missed her class. He should know better than anyone that she hated to miss class, she always had done, especially when she still had so much to catch up. She put her cell phone down next to her keys, ignoring the five missed calls from her ex-boyfriend.

After she had put Lily to bed, Rory sat at the kitchen counter, sipping her wine. She had calmed down a little but was still feeling irritated. A knock at the door startled her and interrupted her thoughts.

"Come in," Rory said without getting up. "Oh, it's you," Rory said as Logan stuck his head around the door. "I don't want to talk to you right now," she said.

"Tough luck," Logan said as he walked in and sat on a chair next to her. Rory didn't look at him. "Rory, I'm sorry, I screwed up."

Rory looked up and laughed sarcastically but didn't speak.

"I didn't forget about Lily. Well, okay, I forgot that I was meant to be looking after her tonight…but it's not the same thing."

Rory took a sip of her wine. "Logan, if this is going to work, us doing this parenting thing, I need to know that I can rely on you."

"You can," he said firmly.

"Well a missed class and my soaring blood pressure currently say otherwise," she said knocking back the rest of her wine. "And I was worried about you."

"You were?" he said with a smirk.

"Yes! Anything could have happened. You didn't show, I couldn't get in contact with you…I was stressing out"

"It's nice to know you care Ace." Logan smiled.

"Of course I care. You are Lily's father…but I would have cared less had I known you were simply on a date." Rory said as she poured another glass of wine.

"About that…"

"It's fine Logan" Rory shook her head "Please do me a favour and spare me all the gory details…"

"It wasn't really a date, it really was just a drink with a colleague after work" Logan pleaded gently.

"Are you sure, because from that message, she sounds like she thought it was a date…"

Logan rubbed his hand through his hair. "Rory, what do you want. Do you want us to be exclusive? I mean, we talked about taking it slow and you didn't seem keen on us having an official status when we discussed it…"

"I know what we talked about," Rory said quietly.

"So….what do you want?"

"I don't know what I want. I'm not sure I am ready to enter into a full relationship right now but…selfishly I don't like the idea of you dating anyone either." Rory admitted.

Logan sighed. "So you want me to sit around and wait for you until you're ready and you've made your mind up because I don't think that's very fair."

"That's not what I am saying, Logan. I'm just saying…Oh, I don't know what I am saying" she dropped her head into her hands.

"Why don't we just do this? What is there to lose?" Logan asked.

"This. Us. We're friends, I don't want to ruin that. I don't want to make our lives difficult with Lily" Rory said quietly "You understand that, right?"

"It didn't seem like you just wanted to be friends at the bar the other night…" Logan remarked and Rory blushed.

When the memories of how she came on to Logan had all resurfaced the next morning she had tried very hard to push them out of her mind and pretend like it never happened, which was easier said than done when there was someone around who was only too happy to remind her.

"I'm not saying never, I'm just saying that, whatever I might have been implying at the bar…" Rory blushed furiously again. Stupid vodka, she thought to herself. "Doing this slowly and carefully is the right thing to do but I want you to know that ultimately…that's what we're working towards, I hope."

"You confuse me, Rory," Logan said as he shook his head.

"I confuse myself." She laughed before turning more serious. "I want to be with you Logan, I do, but I need to be sure that this is going to work, for all of us."