AN: I've recently gotten back into OTH, so I decided to write a OTH & GG fic. This is AU. I don't usually write things that are this AU, so it's an experiment for me. Let me know what you think!

Disc: I don't own GG or OTH. If you sue me, you get three temperamental cats and that's it.

Chapter 1

"Ace, wait up!" Logan Huntzberger yelled, hurrying to catch up to his girlfriend.

"Oh, hey Logan," Rory said as she stopped in the courtyard, waiting for Logan to catch up.

"Hey Ace." He said, giving her a quick kiss. "I have an idea I want to run by you."

"Ok" She nodded as she moved over to sit on a nearby bench.

Logan looked at his beautiful girlfriend. He cared for her a lot, but lately things had been rocky between them. His family didn't approve of their relationship since she wanted a career. That in it self had caused things to be strained between them. He could only hope his idea would be the beginning of making things right again.

"As you know, Finn, Colin, and I always go away over the summer. Just so we get away from our families, Hartford, and all that. Will you go to Australia with us this summer? We would all like you to." Logan took a breath and looked over at her, a hopeful expression evident on his face.

Rory bit her lip. As much as she cared for Logan, the summers belonged solely to Lucas and her. Nothing would ever change that. Summer with Lucas was sacred time to her. She just was not sure how she was going to explain that to Logan.

Taking a deep breath, she began. "Logan, as great as that sounds, I can't." God, she hated the hopeful look on his face. She hated letting him down.

He blinked. Had she really just refused to spend the summer with him in Australia? "Excuse me?"

She sighed. Logan was nothing if not persistent. She knew he wouldn't give up any time soon. "Let's go back to my dorm, and once we're there I'll explain everything, ok?"

Logan looked confused, but nodded his head in agreement anyway.

Once they were at her dorm room they sat facing each other on the couch. Paris was at Doyle's, so privacy was not an issue.

Logan looked over at her expectantly.

"Logan, I care about you a great deal. Please don't doubt that." She said, taking his hands in her own.

"So why won't you go?"

"My best friend, Lucas Scott, and I always spend our summers together. Always. Ever since we were born. I already have plans to stay with him in North Carolina this summer."

"Let me get this strait. You are blowing me, your boyfriend, off to stay with another guy. Another guy whom I never even knew existed until today?" He looked astonished. At this point, he honestly had no idea what to think.

Rory had been afraid this would happen. None of her ex boyfriends had ever been comfortable with her friendship with Lucas. She told him everything, more than Lane, her mom, and Paris put together. She didn't want to make Logan feel uncomfortable, so she had never mentioned Lucas.

"Please understand." Was all she could think to say.

"Understand? Understand? That's a joke, right?" As his voice grew louder, he stood up and began to pace across the floor.

Just watching him going back and forth and back and forth was beginning to make her dizzy.

"Logan, I didn't tell you about Lucas before because I was afraid of how you would react!"

He continued to pace.

"Would you stop that? You're like that damn pink bunny… you keep going and going and going, and you're driving me crazy!" She finally said, after a few minutes of awkward silent pacing.

He turned to glare at her. "And I'm just chipper because you're going off with some other guy all summer!"

"Oh my God! This isn't some guy. It's Lucas. My best friend. The guy I call at any and all hours of the day or night to tell anything and everything to! For God's sake, he's given me tons of advice about our relationship!"

The pacing stopped.

Oops. Perhaps when informing your boyfriend of your best guy friend, telling him you went to the guy friend for relationship advice wasn't the smartest move.

"What advice?"

She put her head in her hands. Could this go any worse?

She lifted her head up. "Just, advice. In general. We talk at least once a day, so it's about anything and everything basically."

Logan raised an eyebrow. "You talk at least once a day?"

"He's my best friend!" She defended, hoping that Logan wasn't feeling the urge to walk out the door and never look back. Guys really could be so needlessly insecure.

Logan plopped back down beside her. He let out a deep breath, and turned to look at her. "Ace, it's not about him being your best friend. It's about you not telling me you have a best friend named Lucas. It's about how you talk to him every day and I never knew. It's about me not knowing this." Well, mostly. That, and the fact that he's a male. But she didn't need to know he felt that way.

Geesh… could I feel any guiltier? "I am so sorry Logan! I never thought of it that way. I just didn't want you getting the wrong idea about Lucas and me. People do it a lot."

Logan took another deep breath. He could tell by looking at her that nothing was going on. At least not on her part.

"Come here, Ace." He said, gathering her into his arms.

As they settled back onto the couch, cuddling, he wondered how he was going to get the guys to agree to go to North Carolina with him. And how much Rory would want to kill him once she found out they would be accompanying her on her vacation.