A/N: This is starting at the beginning of the second season---Rory is a Junior at Chilton----, and she is still seeing Dean, but you know it is going downhill. Jess wasn't really that big of a factor. Jess and Rory are more friends, but jealous Dean thinks differently. This is a TRORY, so stick with me and don't loose hope! THANKS!

Chapter 1:

"Mom! I have to go! I am definitely not going to be late for my 1st day as a Junior. Plus, I still haven't had my coffee yet!" Rory shouted to her mother, Lorelai Gilmore, up the stairs.

"Hush, child. Chilton can wait upon the arrival of the spawn of Miss Coffee, USA." Lorelai briskly walked down the stairs and gave her daughter a peck on the cheek. "Oh, daughter of mine..wipe that coffee stain off your shirt and get your lazy butt to school." Lorelai laughed as she walked out of the house.

"What?" Rory looked down at her stainless shirt.

Rory rushed outside to catch her mother before she left.

"Gotcha!" Lorelai called out from the window of her Jeep.

"Well…" Rory smirked as she walked towards her mothers car. "I guess I will just have to tell Luke that your doctor prohibits you from drinking coffee."

"Oh! You wouldn't dare!" Lorelai gasped.

"Oh, but I would!" Rory laughed as she got into her own car.

Rory backed out of the driveway and sped away, leaving a deep-in-thought- Lorelai.

Rory knew her mother would be calling her any second now with a come back. Usually, it didn't take this long for Lorelai to spit out a remark, but seeing as Lorelai hadn't had her coffee, it was reasonable.

Just then, Rory's cell phone buzzed the main chorus of "100 Years."

"Here we go again." Rory sighed as she flipped open her phone.

"I will tell Dean that you had that crazy dream about him packing groceries in Spiderman whitey-tidies!" Lorelai spat into the phone.

Before Rory could scream into the phone, she thought a come back that would leave her mother unable to gasp, let alone breathe.

"Oh, Miss Lorelai Gilmore, you see, this was your dream but Dean wasn't the one in the underwear, you've got yourself mixed up with Luke." Rory grinned as she clicked her phone off.

Rory always knew her mother had a secret crush with Luke, but she never had the guts to reveal it. Lorelai would always hide herself with other guys, but she was never satisfied.

"Genius…I am a genius." Rory grinned.

"Lorelai! You look like you've just seen a ghost." Michel, the desk clerk at the Independence Inn, said nonchalantly in his French accent. "Wait a minute…you might just be the ghost, seeing as your face is as white as the snow."

"I…uh….well…COFFEE!" Lorelai stammered.

"Why do I have to deal with this nonsense!" Michel huffed as he dragged Lorelai into the kitchen and threw her to Sookie, Lorelai's best friend.

"Here, Sookie, she is all yours. She is hung-over or just went through a break up. You decide, I have no time for this!" Michel turned on his heal and strode out of the kitchen.

"Lor? Sweetie? Answer me!" Sookie sat Lorelai on a nearby stool.

"Eh?" Lorelai squinted her eyes at Sookie.

"Hello! We're going to need some coffee over here!" Sookie shouted to her fellow chefs.

"Gracias, Savio." Sookie nonchalantly took the coffee and put it into Lorelai's hand.

"Excuse me, Sookie?" Savio tapped his foot.

Sookie turned to the Italian man she thought was Mexican.

"Me…busy…you…go." Sookie motioned.

"I do not speak Spanish. I am Italian!" Savio shouted as he threw his apron in the air.

"Shh, now. No need to get angry." Sookie whispered.

"I am tired of your attitude, Sookie. I quit!" Savio spat as he waltzed out of the door.

"Okay, buh-bye." Sookie flipped her air and turned her attention back to an aware and down-to-earth Lorelai.

"Well…?" Sookie proded.

"Okay, so Rory basically informed me that I am in love with Luke, which I'm not because I'm in love with Max, right? I mean, Luke has been there forever. Luke has never been interested in me. He likes Rachel, or wait…is it Nicole? Bottom line…I don't like Luke…Luke doesn't like me. End of story. Hasta la vista, and good bye." Lorelai rambled.

All of the kitchen workers stopped what they were doing and gave Lorelai an "I don't believe you because you are so in love with him."

"Okay," Lorelai sipped her coffee. "I am in love.

Sookie jumped up and down clappoing.

"I knew it! I knew it!" Sookie cheered.

"You knew what, Sook?" Lorelai said obliviously.

"That you're in love with Luke…Mr. Diner Boy!" Sookie paraded around Lorelai.

"Whoa! What I meant was that I was in love with Max…my fiancé." Lorelai left the kitchen very confused.

As soon as she was out of sight, Sookie smiled and said, "She is so in love with Luke!"

Lorelai jumped back into the kitchen and remarked, "I so heard that and you are very wrong."

When Lorelai huffed out of the kitchen, the kitchen staff rolled their eyes and went back to work.

Sookie twiddled her fingers together and said to herself, "I don't know how I'm going to do it, but Lorelai and Luke will be together. The time has definitely come."

Rory waltzed down the halls of Chilton Prep, admiring every bit and piece of it. It had been about 3 months since she had last been here and it had seemed like forever.

She stopped to look at this month's calendar events. One event seemed to catch her eye.

"On Labor Day weekend, the newspaper staff is taking a cruise to the Bahamas so they can have an exciting issue all about the Caribbean." Rory read the exciting bulletin. "Chilton would like to give the seniors a taste of what their senior trip is going to be like."

Rory couldn't believe her good fortune. She, just a junior, was getting to go to the Bahamas so she could experience it first for other people. This was awesome.

There was one last line on the announcement that Rory just realized was there.

"The Dugrey family has so kindly donated a great sum to the school so the newspaper could take this educated trip." Rory dropped her books in shock.

"But he left last year and she I haven't seen him since. We just started to get to know the real him in a closer way, when he was shipped off to military school. I don't get it." Rory thought to herself.

Just then, a blonde haired-blue eyed boy waltzed up to her and genuinely picked up the fallen books for her.

As this boy placed her books in Rory's hands, he whispered in her ear, "That's right, Mary, I'm back."

Rory flipped around to see the gorgeous Tristan Dugrey walking away from her, intriguingly.

He turned back and smirked at her.

Rory rolled her eyes flirtatiously. The boy that had caught her eye in a weird, different way was back.

Tristan Dugrey had returned.

A/N: Well, there's the first chapter! Please review and it will make me go faster and write more! Thanks so much! PS. I love reviews…please!