The next day Rory and Logan headed to their old haunt of Rich Man's Shoe in New Haven where they were meeting their friends for brunch, leaving Lily with Marta for the day.

After the interruptions of the night before, it was fair to say that Rory was ever so slightly apprehensive about going in. She was still completely mortified that Finn had found them in flagrante delicto while Logan, much to her annoyance, just seemed to find the whole thing highly amusing.

"Relax Ace" Logan laughed as he squeezed her hand "Nobody will care, we'll just dazzle them with this," he said as he brought the hand adorned with her engagement ring up to his mouth and kissed it.

"Hey guys," Logan said as he approached his waiting friends.

"Logan, Rory" Finn nodded with a laugh as Rory tried not to make eye contact with him. "I'm really sorry love, I just don't think I can ever look you in the eye again without laughing. "

"Finn…" Logan warned and Rory shook her head as she blushed. She just wished the ground would open beneath her feet and swallow her right up.

"What's going on, what happened?" Colin asked, sensing there was something he wasn't party to.

Rory looked at Finn pleading with him not to continue but she knew that it was completely fruitless. She knew these guys well enough to know that they weren't going to stop now until they found out what was going on. She threw herself down in the booth and Logan slid in beside her laughing as he slipped his arm around her shoulder.

"Where do I start!" Finn said as he rubbed his chin. "Well, last night, I was on my way home, just driving near Casa Gilmore-Huntzberger and I suddenly remembered that that last time I was there I left my jacket behind, so you know, I thought as I was passing and I had a key…"

"Which you will be returning with immediate effect!" Rory interrupted.

"…I thought I would just nip in there and get it while they were out. What can I say? It wasn't my fault that this pair had come home early from their date. To cut a long story short, I kind of interrupted 'proceedings' and may have seen a little bit more of Rory than I should have…" Finn winked.

"Oh my god, he walked in on you guys having sex?!" Steph asked Rory "Oh this is too funny" she laughed and clapped her hands with glee.

"Well, now strictly speaking I don't know if they were actually having sex or whether they'd even got that far. Let's ask them! Rory, what exactly was it you were doing down there? I mean from where I was standing it looked like you were…" Finn said trying not to laugh.

Rory pouted and threw a coaster at him across the table.

"Now now darling, there's no need for violence. We've all been there…I just hope you got the job finished after I left." He sniggered.

Rory blushed again and Logan leaned over to kiss her on the cheek before addressing the group. "Okay, enough with the ritual humiliation guys…we actually came here for a reason today and it wasn't to relive what will surely go down as one of our more memorable evenings…we wanted you to be the first to know that we're engaged" he said as Rory smiled and waved her hand so everyone could see the big sparkly rock that she was now sporting on her left hand.

"What!" Steph screeched "You're engaged! That's like the most amazing news ever!" she said as she jumped up to embrace both of her friends in a hug.

"That's awesome mate," Finn said as she shook Logan's hand and patted him on the back.

"Yeah, that's great news. I hope you'll be very happy together." Colin said from across the table.

Logan smiled at Rory "We are very happy" he said as he gave her a squeeze.

"So how did all this come about?" Finn said "Though, to be fair, after what I saw last night, I'm almost tempted to propose myself" he joked.

Rory rolled her eyes at Finn. "Actually, I asked Logan and he said yes."

"In my defense, she got me when I was half-asleep, I would have said yes to practically anything right about then" he joked and Rory poked him with her elbow.

"Ah, you two are so sweet." Steph sighed "Have you thought about your wedding yet? Where will you do it?"

"No, we've not thought about it at all" Rory shook her head "but probably around here somewhere, I guess. Not too far away. All our family and friends are here so it makes sense to do it locally."

"Well, I think this calls for some champagne don't you?" Finn said as he called a member of the wait staff over to bring over a couple of bottles.

After they'd seen their friends, Rory and Logan headed to Stars Hollow so they could break the news to Lorelai. Rory had called ahead to see if her mom was going to be at work or not but as she had the day off, she arranged to meet them at Luke's for coffee.

Despite telling her that she would call when she had run out of the house a few nights ago, Rory hadn't actually called Lorelai at all – mainly because she wanted to break the news face-to-face and she knew if she spoke to her she would just blurt it out. She had at least text her to say everything was okay - she had left suddenly and the last thing she wanted was her mom worrying about her.

They pulled the car up outside Luke's and got out and headed inside where Lorelai was waiting at the counter.

"So this was quite unexpected today, to what do I owe the pleasure…" Lorelai asked as the couple walked in "and where's my Lily!" she said with a frown.

"She's at home with Marta" Rory stated.

"Bah, rubbish. I wanted a squeeze from my favorite little girl." Lorelai pouted.

"What about me? I thought I was your favorite" Rory said matching Lorelai's pout.

"Well you were my favorite but she's way cuter than you and plus she shares her candy with me which you nearly never do. Here, coffee." Lorelai said holding out cups to Rory and Logan.

Rory took them out of her mom's hand and passed one to Logan.

"Hold the phone! What is that!" Lorelai gasped as she took in the sparkler on Rory's finger. "Is that…" she asked as she looked at Rory and then at Logan, her mouth wide open.

"It is" Rory smiled "We're getting married," she said happily looking at Logan.

"What!" Lorelai squealed. It was so loud that Luke came out of the storeroom to see what was happening.

"Everything okay?" he asked. Lorelai caught his eye and beckoned him over.

"Luke, look! Rory and Logan are engaged" she said excitedly.

"Wow, congratulations guys," Luke said.

"It's why I ran out on you the other night," Rory explained. "I just needed to go home. While we were watching that movie I sat and thought about everything you said and I knew that what I wanted more than anything in the world was to marry Logan, so I went home and I just asked him!" she said proudly.

Lorelai looked at Logan who beamed a huge grin back at her. "It's true, though there was the addition of a rather unwelcome wake-up call but I guess it was worth it," he said as he kissed Rory.

"Oh, my baby is getting married." Lorelai sighed contentedly "I couldn't be happier for you guys, honestly."

And it was the truth. Though Lorelai had many concerns over Rory's relationship with Logan in the past, she wasn't blind. She could see that the two of them were destined to be together come what may. They just kept getting drawn towards each other, like there was an invisible string holding them, and if Rory had the chance to make it work with Logan, and it meant that Lily would have her father on the scene, then Lorelai was all for it.

"What are you guys doing now, can you stay for lunch?" she asked.

"We've just eaten actually, brunch in New Haven," Rory said.

"Yeah, we're going to head back now and tell my parents…" Logan added.

Lorelai grimaced. "Ha, good luck with that!" she said as she smiled at Logan sympathetically.

"It's all good, the Huntzbergers have been very nice to me," Rory said with a smile. "..and we'll drop into grandpa and grandma too if we get time, I'm more stressed about that, to be honest!" she joked.

By the time Logan and Rory had delivered the news around Hartford they pretty were exhausted. Honor had predictably been completely over the moon with the news, jumping up and down with glee and the rest of the Huntzbergers were perfectly pleasant and didn't hesitate in congratulating the newly-engaged couple.

Rory thought it was a far cry from the first time that they met her when they had been only too happy to tell her that she wasn't right to marry into their family but apparently that was all water under the bridge now, though deep-down Rory was still very skeptical. Shira couldn't have been nicer about the whole thing and even went as far as volunteering her services to help with the wedding planning. Rory knew that she would probably never take her up on her offer but she graciously accepted it with a smile. Logan was impressed with how well Rory managed to handle his family these days. He knew they weren't easy people to deal with but she dealt with them admirably and gracefully.

The hardest part of the day was telling Emily and Richard, Rory's grandparents. Not because they weren't thrilled for them, on the contrary, they were ecstatic about the news, always having been a great fan of Logan, but more because Emily went from 0-60mph in a heartbeat. Rory had no sooner mentioned the word 'engaged' and Emily was practically on the phone to the caterers. There was a constant stream of questions about where they would get married, when would they get married, had they set a date, what kind of dress did Rory want, would she take Logan's name – they were all perfectly acceptable questions but ones that as yet they had no answers to - seeing as they had only been engaged for approximately 48 hours.

They had let Emily run with her excitement for now but Rory knew that at some point she was going to have to put her foot down. There was nothing conventional about Rory and Logan or their relationship and one thing was for sure, they would be getting married, their way. In fact, on the drive back to Hartford Rory's mind was swirling with an idea of exactly how she would like to get married, but she wasn't ready to tell Logan just yet.

"That was a long day" Rory sighed as she relaxed back on the sofa "Next time I get engaged I am just sending an email announcement or something."

"Next time?" Logan said in faux-surprise.

"You do know that this is just a starter marriage, don't you? The next one is for keeps." Rory yawned.

"Oh really?!" Logan laughed. "So after that bombardment of questions, have you actually had any thoughts about how you want to do this or even when you want to do it?"

"I have actually" Rory smiled "but I wasn't about to tell them that!"

"Well…can I be let in on the secret, you know, as your fiancé and all"

"Maybe, but not quite yet…" Rory said.

"Intrigue!"

She laughed "I've just had an idea about something but I'm not sure if it's going to be possible so before I say anything and get anyone's hopes up I just want to explore it as an option, okay?"

"Ah that's okay, I didn't want to be involved in my own wedding anyhow Ace," Logan said as he crossed his arms and sat back.

Rory pulled Logan over "You'll be involved stupid, don't worry there'll be tons of tiny inane tasks which will be delegated to you. Just let me surprise you for once, you're always surprising me! It's my turn!"

A/N: Thank you for all your lovely comments - I read each and every one and appreciate them massively. You keep me writing! Thank you. PS I feel like I might be nearing the end of this story, yikes!