AN: Thank you so all of my reviewers. I am so sorry about how long it has taken my to update, and I won't make excuses like I was busy or whatever because that takes up space and I want to get on with the story!
Chapter 8
"So you guys just left after Lorelai blurted that out?" Logan asked later when the Lorelais got home. The three of them were in the living room pigging out on Chinese food. Rory had called Logan and told him that they had left and he should order food to keep them happy. He willfully did so. The girls got home not long after the food came. Lorelai and Rory then recapped what had happened at Friday night dinner for Logan and they enjoyed a laugh and a frightened look of what would happen next. "So now what?" Logan asked.
"Never go back to Hartford and lock ourselves in here with no connection to the outside world watching tons and tons of movies. Except for getting food, we don't connect to outside air," Rory said.
"That can be arranged," Logan said.
"But then I never get to see Luke, and Colin and Finn are in the outside world right now," Lorelai whined.
"So we bring them in here and then lock the doors," Rory said.
"Or we could forget the evil scheme and watch a movie now," Logan said.
"You don't care do you that my life is totally ruined?" Rory asked looking at him.
"And you have forgotten I am part of this too. I can't ever see my parents again so I am not in a great spot either in life in that aspect," Logan said logically.
"Oh yeah, forgot about that. You didn't have to go to dinner so your life doesn't seem as bad as mine," Rory said.
"Thanks a lot Ace, thanks a lot," Logan said sarcastically.
"Just doing my job," Rory smiled.
"Oh sweet pea!" Came an Aussie voice from the door. The three looked up to see Finn and Colin coming.
"Lock the door quick," Rory ordered.
Finn did the task before asking: "Why?"
"She doesn't want to ever see the outside world ever again," Logan said.
"Again, why?" Finn asked. Lorelai quickly recapped the story again for the two boys. "Oh," Was all Finn said.
"I would agree with Rory if I were in her position, I would never want to see the outside world ever again," Colin said nodding.
"What am I going to do?" Rory wailed.
"Pretend everything is normal and be confident, be yourself, and don't let any one get to you," Logan said.
"And call me your new best friend, Logan check your voice mail. Got a call from the 'rents. Finn's going to Australia, I'm going to be with your girlfriend and you are somewhere in New York," Colin said.
"Great," Logan sighed taking out his phone and dialing his voicemail. The group was silent as Logan pushed a few more buttons, listened to the message and angrily slamming the phone shut before throwing it on the coffee table.
"So was I right?" Colin asked.
"Vermont actually and about as close to Canada as you can get," Logan said.
"At least you aren't going halfway around the world, mate," Finn piped up.
"Yeah, I guess you are right," Logan said still unhappy about it, "When do you guys 'report for duty'?"
"Monday," Colin said.
"Wednesday and the flight leaves Monday night," Finn said, "und du?"
"Dienstag," Logan said.
"Huh?" Finn asked.
"Going along with the German, Tuesday mate, I report Tuesday," Logan said.
"That was German?" Finn asked stupidly.
"Why did you say it if you didn't know what it meant?" Colin asked.
"I knew what it meant, I just didn't know anything else about it like what language it was," Finn said, "And how do you know German?" he directed at Logan.
"I've been to many business trips there, and I took a year of it in Switzerland, remember that?"
"Swiss cheese, Swiss chocolate, Swiss maidens, yes I remember," Finn said before spacing out to la-la land.
"We still haven't figured out what is going to happen," Rory said.
"We will, it'll all figure itself out with time. Don't worry about it so much," Logan said.
"Well, I want to know what to expect," Rory shot back with just a tinge of anger.
"So do I but I don't have all the answers. Expect for it to be different. We will deal with it as it comes and try not to worry and get worked up about every little thing. Just be calm and try to be flexible," Logan said.
"I am a Gilmore we are not flexible," Rory said.
"You always wanted to be different so here is your chance Ace," Logan said, "Try not to worry so much, we'll figure it out, just bear with me for a short time and it'll come to us of what to do. Take a deep breath and pick out a movie, today is only Friday." Rory begrudgingly did so and picked out The Breakfast Club. "See that wasn't so hard," Logan said before they all settled in for the movie
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Saturday, the next day was a day of exploration for the new couple. Finn went home to pack and Colin went with him to give them some time. Lorelai went to the inn to let them figure things out. The moment Lorelai was out the door, Rory grabbed Logan's neck and crashed her lips to his. "I have been wanting to do that with out my mom around for the longest of times," Rory said after they came apart.
Logan, with his hands on her hips pulled her close for another earth-shattering kiss, "Me too," He said simply.
"I can't believe you aren't going to be here," Rory said.
"Stop thinking about the future and think about now and today and this moment," Logan said before kissing her again.
"Ok, stop that, that is getting us nowhere," Rory said.
"I am getting somewhere as in distracting you from worrying. Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but gets you nowhere so stop rocking and get out of the chair!" Logan said.
"Fine, then we are going to Luke's, I'm hungry," Rory said grabbing his hand. She dragged him out the door not even bothering to lock it and went off to Luke's. They walked down the sidewalk swinging their hands slightly each with a small smile playing on their faces.
"So what do you want to figure out?" Logan asked as they reached the diner. They went in and took a seat.
"Hey kids," Luke said walking up to them, "What do you want?"
"Coffee and a burger," Rory said.
"Me too," Logan nodded.
"On its way," Luke said before walking away.
"What are we going to do about you being in Vermont so far away?" Rory started.
"Never one to waste getting right into the thick of things Ace. Well you see a long time ago Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone and it allows people over long distances to talk to each other. And then I don't know whom, but also a long time ago someone invented the automobile which makes it that a person can travel long distances in shorter amounts of time than it would take for a horse and carriage. And then someone not so long ago invented email and text messaging and instant messaging, all of which are way to communicate long distances instantly electronically. So with that history lesson, does it help your issue problem thing?" Logan said.
Rory had a smile on her face and was trying not to laugh, "Yes that helps, it just doesn't seem like enough." Luke brought their food over to them and refilled Rory's coffee cup.
"All the wrinkles will come out. But if you really wanted to, we could tell my parents who would then send me to Chilton and it would make you happy."
"Oh no, never doing that again. And I couldn't put you through that agony," Rory said.
"That was the response I was hoping for," Logan grinned.
"So, now what?" Rory asked.
"You are the one with all the questions, doubts and worries, I am looking at an almost perfect world from my seat," Logan said.
"Well, I'm out for now, but just for now, maybe not later."
"Don't forget we have a date tonight, just leave when you have to go get ready, heaven knows a girl takes forever," Logan teased.
"Shut up," Rory said, "Just because you don't care what you look like doesn't mean all of us are that way."
"I care about how I look, I just don't go for perfection, but I do accidentally stumble upon it, I take it quickly and I am ready."
"And how often do you stumble upon this perfection?"
"About one every thousand times, so about every three years."
"And when was the last time you were perfect?"
"Never, maybe it will be tonight."
"Or maybe not."
"I can try can't I?" Logan asked.
"But actually achieving it is totally different than trying," Rory pointed out.
"True, Ace, very true, so are we hanging out here or going somewhere?" Logan asked as they finished their meals.
"Do you want Luke to kill you?" Rory responded.
"No," Logan said, "definitely not."
"Then go," Rory said with a smile as she got up and left, Logan right behind her.
"So what do you intend to do exactly today?" Logan asked coyly as he draped an arm across her shoulders.
"Well, I plan on training a monkey to sing the ABCs, then teach an elephant to belly dance, write a New York best seller, win a Nobel Peace Prize, save a life, learn to skydive, climb Mount Everest, build a time machine and meet Betsy Ross, become an astronaut and travel to Pluto, discover a gas lighter that hydrogen, and build a ladder that reaches the moon," Rory ticked off.
"And in real life?" Logan asked.
"That was in real life, now in my dreams I plan to spend the day with my boyfriend and do god knows what," Rory said simply.
"I think I can help you with that," Logan said as he noticed that they came to her house. "And this is where we are going?"
"Yes, I love my house, it is so homey," Rory said.
"There is my Yale bound."
"I am not going to Yale no matter how much you beg and plead and try to convince me, I am set on Harvard," Rory corrected as she opened the still unlocked door. "Let's hope Kirk didn't set up another alarm while we were gone."
"Cause that is the only real danger that comes with leaving your front door unlocked," Logan said as he rolled his eyes.
"If you convince Finn and Colin to break in and pretend to be burglars I tell your parents what really went on in Italy last summer," Rory said and she saw Logan go white.
"I would never do that, let me make a quick call," Logan stepped outside.
"You weren't really planning that were you?" Rory followed him.
"No, just going to make you believe I was," Logan laughed, leaning against one of the poles holding up the porch, "Come here," He said softly and she stepped into his embrace, "Care to give Babette a show?"
"How about our invisible pig, Chicken instead," Rory said pulling him by the hand in the door.
"You have an invisible pig named Chicken?" Logan asked.
"We got him about ten seconds ago, don't make fun of him," Rory said, hitting him playfully.
"Chicken," Logan said to nothing in particular, "I am very sorry for making fun of you, please forgive me."
"Oink, Oink," Rory made the noise, "I think that means you are forgiven."
"Thank you, I wouldn't want him to come in and kill me in my sleep."
"Me too, I don't want you dead," Rory said before Logan leaned over and kissed her. It quickly escalated to a make out session as they landed on the couch.
"Is this why you thought Luke would kill me if we stayed at the diner?" Logan asked as they came up for air.
"Yes," Rory said simply before leaning up to kiss him again.
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Later that night, Rory was scrambling around in her mother's room looking for her shoes as Logan patiently waited for her in the living room. She finally found them under a pile under her mother's bed. She pulled them out and quickly put them on before throwing open the door and rushing down the stairs. "Sounds like a herd of turtles," Logan laughed as she reach the bottom, "and you look beautiful Ace."
"Shut up to the first part, thank you to the second," Rory said digging under the couch before pulling out her purse, Logan laughed at this. Rory sent him a glare, but said nothing as she went to fill the purse with a few needed items. She came out of her room a few seconds later and announced she was ready.
"Lets roll," Logan said getting up from a chair and taking her hand.
"Wait! Wait!" Lorelai called from the kitchen. "I have to remember this and commit it to film. Stand on the stairs."
"This isn't Prom mom," Rory complained.
"Just do as she says, you'll get out of here faster," Logan said to her as he led her to the staircase.
"Listen to lover boy there, except don't make it sound as though this is a abysmal place that you don't want to be," Lorelai said coming in with a camera, "Say something and smile," She said before snapping a picture.
"Monkey-butt," Rory said as Logan said, "Ringmaster."
"At least say the same thing, like, I don't know, penguins," Lorelai instructed.
"Penguins," They said together.
"Now a goofy picture and you can go," Lorelai said. They both made a funny face and Lorelai took the picture, "Now don't stay out too late, but don't come back too soon either. Not so late I should have to yell at you, but not so soon it is like you are eighty. Just a normal teenage ten, ten-thirty type of thing," Lorelai said as she pushed them out the door.
"I wonder what she is up to?" Rory wondered as she climbed into Logan's car. Logan closed her door and went around to get in the driver's seat.
"You never know with Lorelai, except that it will be disastrous, and probably embarrassing too," Logan said.
"So where are we going?" Rory asked.
"A place you will like," Logan said shiftily.
"A direct answer please MAC," Rory said.
"You won't find one of those despicable things around here," Logan said.
"Ok, then how far is this place we are going?"
"About fifteen minutes."
"Will I get anything else out of you?"
"Nope."
"I hate you."
"I hate you too Ace."
"Then entertain me."
"Ok, so a guy and a girl walk into a bar-"
"Not a drunk joke, those only are funny if you are indeed drunk."
"Fine, then we can sit in silence until we get there."
Rory sighed and leaned back further into the seat, "How much longer?"
"Exactly zero seconds," Logan said pulling into a parking lot, "We are here."
Rory stepped out of the car and looked at the restaurant, she smiled. "Indian food. I love it but you hate it."
"I do not hate it," Logan said taking her hand.
"You ran away screaming once when I told you we were having it."
"That was when I was thirteen, now I am sixteen and I no longer hate it."
"Really? You wouldn't just come here because you know I like it."
"It went from love to like. Now are we going to stand out here all night or are we going in?" Logan took her inside. They were given a table and menus quickly.
"You really actually like this stuff now?"
"I am not going to die without it, but I find way more tolerable that most of the food my mom orders for parties."
"Everything is at least one step above that junk."
"True, but this is more that just one step above it, it is a couple steps above my mother's food."
"I am really glad you brought me here," Rory said softly with a smile.
"So am I, now what should we order?"
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The next morning, Lorelai had spent the night at Luke's with full trust in Rory and Logan and let them sleep in leisurely. When they did get up around ten thirty, Logan got a crazy idea about making breakfast. Rory laughed as she sat on the counter beside the stove and he cooked. They had turned the radio on loud to an oldies station. They were playing almost every old song to so an old dance. There had been the electric slide, which had brought up funny memories from learning it in gym class. The cha-cha-cha had played and they almost burnt their pancakes doing it before Rory smelled them burning, needless to say, that small set of pancakes were pitched. The Twist came on and Rory jumped off the counter. "Don't burn the eggs this time," she said as she started to dance.
"I hear music and smell food," Lorelai said walking in the front door. She came into see the strange sight of them doing the twist. "And you are about to burn your food that I smell."
Logan scrambled back to the stove and mixed the eggs together to make scrambled eggs, "That is how you solve that problem. Maybe the radio should go off now."
"No way!" Rory said, but she turned it down.
"Hey! Where'd the music go?" They heard Babette yell from next door.
"Sorry, Babette!" Rory shouted back. She took a seat at the table as Logan set a plate in front of her loaded with eggs, pancakes, bacon, and a glass of orange juice. "Smells good. Since when did you cook?"
"I've always cooked, just never here when we have Luke's his is better, and don't say this is good, because I know that it is ok, but it will never equal that of the diner that is just a few blocks away."
"You are right about Luke's being better, but this I could live off of if I had to, better than mine, that is for sure," Rory nodded.
"Can mommy have some food?" Lorelai asked sitting down with a pleading look that was only half-baked.
"You just came from Luke's," Rory said.
"Yeah, but I had to walk all the way back here."
"You drove," Logan said, "I saw that the jeep was gone earlier this morning."
"Some little thief must have stolen it and then got a guilty conscious and returned it," Lorelai reasoned.
"Only if you have good gossip from the gossip corner," Rory decided.
"Ok, I have gossip, but not from the gossip corner, from Luke's. I was there late last night, well actually it was about ten minutes ago before I left Luke's which was really the reason I left Luke's because Luke got really unhappy and wouldn't entertain me anymore," Lorelai started.
"Just spit is out mom," Rory said almost irritably.
"Luke's nephew is coming to town so Luke can straighten him out," Lorelai said simply.
"See was that so hard?" Rory asked.
"No, but it wasn't as fun," Lorelai said unhappily.
"So what do we know about this kid?" Logan asked.
"He caused his mom some trouble I guess or she can't handle him or something, I don't really know what he has done. But Luke is going to straighten him out and then send him back to New York to his mom."
"Luke trying to be a parent, should be entertaining," Rory thought.
"And you and I are the surrogate mothers of Luke to tell him what he is doing wrong and to spoil this child," Lorelai said dramatically.
"That is just gross mom, I need that thought out my head, quick, Logan say something fun or cute," Rory made a face.
"Cotton candy and lollipops, unicorns and leprechauns, dancing in the rain and a midnight kiss," Logan said.
"Aw, I like it, and now I want a funnel cake," Rory said.
"I didn't say that," Logan said confused.
"Cotton candy, carnival, carnival food, funnel cake," Rory explained her Lorelai logic.
"So what are we going to do today as a fateful last day together until I leave tomorrow?" Logan asked.
"Why did you have to bring up leaving? And don't you have to pack?" Rory groaned.
"Yes, but I will be doing it while you are at school tomorrow."
"Oh, ok, but who said I was going to school tomorrow?"
"The law, and Colin, he wants you to show him around, and secretly watch out for you, I think he wants to take over my big brother position."
"I think he would be a perfect filler," Rory nodded.
"Yeah me too since Finn is going to be in Australia."
"Oh, I forgot, it is going to be so boring and less drunk around here."
"Take it up with Colin, I'm going to be in Vermont."
"Think Colin would take up Finn's drinking habits, and flamboyant personality part of the time."
"The drinking absolutely, the personality, for you maybe, just maybe, and just for you and no one else."
"He and I are going to have a very long talk Monday morning."
"And he will be driving you to and from school, it makes less time he has to spend at home."
"Except tomorrow, tomorrow is still you, right?"
"Yes, but he will bring you home, and I will be here, hopefully."
"I think I can deal with that."
"Good, 'cause you have to," Logan said.
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AN: And that is it. Now I am apologizing in advance because I don't think I will be able to update again before I leave for my trip. I will be gone for just under three weeks leaving June 9th to AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, and FIJI! I will try but I don't think I will be able to but I could be close so I can update really soon after getting home.