Life Choices, Challenges and Changes

Part II Chapter 1

Chapter 1 Love Tap

It was on Friday September 16, 2011 that Rory's life changed forever. She had just left her job for her classroom and stopped at the coffee shop in downtown Hartford. Tonight, was her parent Curriculum night and she had planned to change and eat before returning. She had left her classroom around two-thirty, so she had plenty of time and return by seven for the event.

She pulled in front of the local coffee shop in Hartford and quickly ran in to grab a Grande Mocha Latte with extra whipped cream before returning to her apartment to eat and change. She had parked out front and quickly got into her car. Quickly glancing over her shoulder and picking up her coffee she began to pull into traffic when she felt a bump. She had been hit. Her coffee went flying all over her. She was covered with coffee. She was driving her 2008 Toyota FJ Cruiser, it was now two forty-five and she had no time for this.

Covered in coffee she opens her car door and gets out. Walking towards her she sees a face she has not seen in four years.

Finn could see that the stars lined up and he ran into her, the coffee drinking brunette with those beautiful blue eyes from Yale, Rory Gilmore. He never was happier. Here he just smashed a car with his new Escalade, but when she emerged covered with coffee, he knew that he could not let her leave again. He literally ran into his "Reporter Girl".

"If it isn't my favorite Reporter Girl. Luv, fancy running into you like this."

"Finn? Oh My God! Yes, and you literally ran into me."

He picks her up and swings her around in a hug. "You do smell delicious. Ok, Luv, let me move my car and we will check out the damage."

He looked her up and down and she was covered with coffee. He walks back to his car and moves it to the parking lot beside the coffee shop. He then pulls out his Yale T-shirt that he keeps in his gym bag and walking back to where she is standing he hands it to her. Taking her by the hand he says, "Come on, I can't have you look like that and I owe you a coffee."

They enter the coffee house and she goes into the bathroom and removes her blouse and puts on his T-shirt. Coming out she sees him sitting at a table, smiling he hands her a Grande Mocha Latte with extra Whipped Cream.

"Kitten you look better in that shirt than I do." he growled. She laughed. She sat down across from him and began to sip her coffee groaning and making a noise.

He chuckled and thought how he would love to be the one to make her make that sound.

"What are you doing here in Hartford?" she asked him.

"I am here to open up a new flagship hotel and I was on my way to a meeting. But they can wait. And you?".

"I live here now, I bought a townhouse and I am an English teacher at Chilton."

Looking at her now, he remembered how he felt when Logan had told them that she turned down his proposal. Logan didn't deserve someone like her. She was too good for him. Even covered in coffee Rory was beautiful. They sat and talked for a half an hour catching up on the last four years.

"So, Finn what have you been doing?" she asked him.

"Well I went to NYU where I worked on my master's in hospitality and worked for the Morgan company. Then in the fall of 2007 I opened my first club, The Omnia Club, in New York City."

"Wait, my friends are in the band Hep Allen and they played there. In fact, I went there on New Year's Eve. That's your club? It was amazing."

"Yes, it is, and I remember seeing you there that New Year's Eve."