Mondays

5

As Rory was running outside, Alison spotted her almost knocking the door down. She followed her outside and jumped into the same taxi as her, seeing her cry, for the first time ever.

„Rory, what's wrong?" Alison asked, sad to see her like this. She knew she saw her walking inside of that office with Logan, and she thought it was a continuation of last nights event, but was Logan so bad in sex that she needed to cry?

„Alison? Wha-what are you doing here? You should be at the party?" Rory said, whipping her tears away quickly, hoping Alison won't see them, but it was too late.

„I saw you ran out, what happened?" Alison tried comforting Rory.

„Nothing, you should go back to work, it's important." Rory demanded, but Alison wouldn't hear about it.

„What did he do?"

„Nothing, it is all my fault." Rory finally gave in.

„Rory, I need details, what happened?" Alison asked again, determined to understand her.

It was difficult for Rory to talk about this to anyone, after all, she was afraid that nobody would understand, nobody would care enough and everyone would think that she is a complete psycho. Yes, love makes you like that, weird, isn't it?

„It really is my fault, all I ever do is push him away, whenever he dares to come close or start something serious." Rory looked away, out of the window.

„Something serious? You mean the wedding proposal?" Alison asked, confused.

„Everything, ever since he came to town, all he tries do to is to get close to me, and all I do is push him away like he did something so horrible that I can't get over." She hated this, all of it.

„But he did walk away form you when you declined his proposal?"

„Right after I said I wouldn't marry him, anyone would be mad about that."

„But it was your full right to not want to marry him right away, you were heading towards a big job." Alison tried justifying Rory's decisions, trying to make sense out of all of this mess.

The cab ride back to their hotel was filled with tears and sadness, so Alison made sure they made a stop at the liquor store, to get some tequila, to which Rory cracked a first little smile. Alison followed Rory into her room and they drank and talked, this was the first time Rory honestly talked about what has happened and how she felt afterwards.

„I felt betrayed Ali, he wanted all or nothing." Rory cried out, her make up already smudged, all over the place as she took another sip of her drink.

„He was angry Rory, imagine how he must have felt."

„All he cared was his reputation, a Huntzberger getting denied." Rory said, rolling her eyes.

„And because he was so humiliated and angry for loosing his reputation, he has decided to... what? Ask you thirty times to go out with him while he is here?" Alison crossed her arms, proving her point with sarcasm.

Alisons words hurt her much more than what she liked to admit, It was painful to hear someone else's opinion on that matter, all that people did up until now was wonder what he has done wrong and accuse him of forcing Rory into something that she wasn't ready.

„You should have seen us Alison, we were screaming at each other like little kids." Rory said ashamed of her behaviour today.

„You don't scream at someone you don't care about."

„I can't face him tomorrow Ali, I can't do the press conference tomorrow." Rory looked at her calendar on her phone, which was also her screensaver, if I must add.