London Rain

Start of Something Good

Hello all!  This is my first FinnFiction so please be gentle.  This first chapter focus a lot on Logan because I'm using him as our way into the story, but don't worry, he's not going to be the primary focus.

Chapter 1 – Start of Something Good

You never know when you're gonna meet someone
And your whole wide world, in a moment, comes undone
You're just walking around then suddenly
Everything that you thought that you knew about love is gone
You find out it's all been wrong
And all my scars don't seem to matter anymore
'Cause they led me here to you

I know that it's gonna take some time
I've got to admit that the thought has crossed my mind
That this might end up like it should
And I'm gonna say what I need to say
And hope to God that it don't scare you away
Don't want to be misunderstood
But I'm starting to believe that
This could be the start of something good

Rory is in Logan's arms, and he wants to keep his cool, keep it simple and carefree, but she looks amazing in that suit, and the look on her face tells him she's thinking something. God when isn't this amazing woman thinking about something?

"What?' He can't help himself but to pry.

"Why did you come?" She asks

She's not the kind of girl you just fuck around with. That he knows with such certainly that it scares him. She's the girl you lose your heart too and he's just not ready to do that. "Open Bar." He smiles, trying to distract her. Surely she's been witness to his carefree drinking enough to believe that.

"Quite a draw for a guy with an American Express Black card." She says and it surprises him to hear the irony in her voice and not the awe at which most girls view his relationship with money.

But then, she's not most girl. Keep it fun, Huntzberger, he says to himself again, "Live band, salad, butter pats,.."

"Logan," she interrupts but he keeps talking.

"Little bags of those Jordan almonds."

"Are you ever going to ask me out?" He smirks. She has no idea what she's asking of him.

"You flirt with me, you act like you like me a little. You show up here with a friend, not a date. I mean, aren't you, ever? You do like me right?"

"Oh, ok, umm." He hears her saying and realizes that she's beginning to back out of his arms. "Ok, I'll just umm, let you go back to your table, and I'll start burrowing directly into the ground."

That is the moment Logan regrets. He regrets it like it's the worst decision he's ever made in his life, which to him, it may very well be. He let her walk away thinking he was only flirting with her because that's what he did with good-looking girls. He let her walk away in the middle of Moon River and the song is like an echo in his mind of the biggest mistake he's ever made.

He did it out of what he thought was nobility. You know, doing the right thing, the greater good. She was a good girl. She was sheltered somewhat, and naive, and he was not ready to be that kind of a man yet. He was enjoying being the playboy with no responsibilities; because soon he would have more responsibility then he knew what to do with.

So he did nothing when she walked away embarrassed. Later he called her, told her he wanted to be friends, and he did mean that, but he had no idea what his continued insistence that he only wanted to be friends with her would mean now that he was having to sit on the sideline while she and her now boyfriend laugh at the table with him and Colin and Robert.

He eyes the happy couple from across the table and orders another round of drinks for the table. The couple recounted the "funny" story from their first Friday night dinner at Emily's as a couple. Watching the shocked reaction from the Gilmores as they tried to hide their confusion at the relationship because the boy was not exactly what they'd imagined for their granddaughter, and yet the breeding was magnificent.