The last time

Chapter Five

As I was turning around to see who's warm hand it was, it was my dad's. "Hey hun, that was great! I guess you've done this before?"

"Yes, I have. The first time I hung out with Logan and his friends we pretty much did the exact same thing, so I could get some insight, for an article I was writing at Yale. He told me before we climbed up there, 'People can live for a hundred years, without truly living for a minute. We climbed, I looked at him and said..."

"You jump, I jump Jack." 

Just as I was about to finish my sentence, somebody else had already finished it. I didn't want to turn around and see who I knew would be standing there. Dad looked up, and smiled at him, knowing I needed to turn around, because everyone else was already looking at us, and trying to gage what my reaction would be to seeing him. 

I finally turn around and look at him. "Logan, what are you doing here?" I don't know how I got it out, without becoming a blubbering mess.

"Ace, who's idea do you think this was? I was the one that originally started this idea, with my dad and grandfather being in the LDB. Ace, I was the one who had called Finn, and told him to set the plans in motions. I heard about him laughing at you, with everything you told him. He laughed at me as well when I told him what I needed to tell you as well. I about him every inch of him that I could reach but then I just stole his bottle of scotch and smashed it against the wall." I just looked at him, hardly able to breathe. "Ace, would you please say something, even if it's to tell me that you hate me and never want to see me, again?"

"MAC, can we go somewhere and talk, just the two of us?" He smiled at me and turned towards Finn, who looked at my dad, who threw Logan the keys to his car...somehow, I don't even want to know how, dad's car had arrived here...who knows. "Lead the way, Logan."

Logan grabbed my hand, and pulled me away, as everyone had watched. We reached dad's car, Logan opened my door, and let me climb in before he closed it and got into the driver seat. "Ace, I'm so sorry about everything, let's get into town, and we'll find somewhere secluded to go, and we'll sit and talk about everything. Including where you and I stand and where we go from here." Logan turned and smiled at me, and just drove, not saying anything else.

When we got into town, he pulled up to a very secluded Cafe Bistro. "Hey Ace, this is just the place. Nobody is here yet." We get out and walk in, and get a table in the back of the cafe, and both order some coffee. "Ace, before you say anything, let me start off by saying, I love you. I have missed you the last 34 days, 17 hours, 21 minutes, and 12 seconds every day, there wasn't a day that went by that you weren't in my head, and no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't get you out of my head at all. I told Odette, as well as my family that the engagement was off. I couldn't go through with the dynastic plan for anybody. Not for Mitchum, not for my mom or my grandfather, and definitely not for the company. My dad was pissed of course. Shira checked into a spa, for however long, and it actually gave my grandfather a minor heart attack, but he's been kind of more easy going since then. He was asking to meet with you again, finally understanding that you are way better than what him and my mom gave you credit for. My dad, now doesn't want me in the company but that is fine by me, I brought a few people from London with me who are helping me open up another business, THE LR PUBLISHING GROUP. I told Odette, and everyone the engagement was off 3 days after I got back to London, I couldn't go on living without you."

I couldn't help myself, I smiled at him, and couldn't believe he had done all of this for me, and that this whole trip was his idea. "Logan before you go any further, let me get something out I've been wanting to tell you since you left me at the bed and breakfast roughly 35 days ago, and that is that I loved you. I made a mistake 10 years ago, of turning your proposal down, I wanted to marry you, I had even talked at length about it with my mom, and knew if you ever asked me, I would jump at the chance to marry you, only when the time came, I didn't jump at the chance, instead I had to think about it, and when I started thinking about it, I told myself if I had to give it any thought at all then we weren't meant to be together, and I since realized how wrong I was. In fact I was considering all aspects of our lives. Our families. Our business life. If we would have children, and if we did how many would we have. Would I want to go back to school for my Masters. Where we would live if we couldn't decide on California together. I thought about it all, of course my mom was all for Stars Hollow, hands down, and then said she would follow us where ever we went, including Luke said he'd finally open his franchise of Luke's and no matter where we were that would be his first place to open it..." Stopping to take a breath, I finally looked up and looked right into his eyes, they were the type that you knew could see right into your soul, and would never come out. The kind you knew you could trust, and they knew they could trust you. "I love you Logan, now more than ever, even when I first fell in love with you, I honestly don't think it's possible to love you anymore than I do right now." He was getting up from the table, came around picked me up, hugged me and just held me like that for quite some time. I finally had to push him off of me. "Logan, there's something else, you need to know."

"Ace, if it's to tell me you don't want us to be together, I don't think I could handle that, but if it's what you want, I will respect that. I know we've put each other through hell, but i'd do it all over again if I knew you and I would be together at the end of it all." 

"Logan, no that's not it at all." I had tears in my eyes, because I had no idea how he was going to take this news. 

"Ace, why are you crying?" He looked at me, and went to hug me again but I stopped him. 

"Logan, i'm pregnant."

He looked at me and the next thing I know, hes passed out on the floor of the cafe.