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Okay, here's some info you might need to know:

-Sherry never got pregnant, so Lorelei and Chris got married and Luke is just a good friend, who is on good terms with the whole family including Chris

-Chris isn't super rich like in the show, they are pretty much the same financially.

-When Lorelei got pregnant at 16 it was with Nick, Rory's older brother, then a year later she had Rory, also with Chris, but Lorelei didn't want to ruin Chris's career so they didn't get married until later.

-Rory is not a virgen, she slept with Jess before he left, and Dean at the end of season 5 but broke the relationship off before she went to Europe. Lindsey never found the letter.

- Alex is Rory's best friend since Kindergarten, she lives in Star's hollow, right next to Rory, they both went to Chilton together in High School and now are both going to Yale.

-Nick has already been at Yale for a year, and is best friends with Colin, Finn, Logan, everything they have done in Yale so far has included Nick.

-Nick is like a big brother to Alex and is super close with both Rory and Alex they tell each other almost everything.

Chapter One

Can Buildings Grow?

Rory and Alex pulled up in front of the main entrance to Yale and at the same time, both tilted their heads to the right and looked up in awe at the buildings in front of them.

"Whoa, is it just me or does it look bigger than the time we came to look around last fall?" Rory asked her friend.

"Nope, its definably grown" Alex replied.

"I love how we both got into Yale, Harvard, and Princeton, and still accept 'the building has grown" as a logical explanation . But maybe it will look smaller with a….. oh never mind." Rory looked away, avoiding eye contact with Alex.

"What? You know I hate it when you don't finish your sentences, what were you going to say?" She looked down at Rory's hand that was fingering her empty coffee cup. "Oh no! Not another cup! You left Star's Hollow with two cups of Luke's coffee and since then we have stopped at a Starbucks and gotten another. There is no way your system can handle another cup."

"Please! My mom always says that its easier to face the world with a cup of coffee in both hands" Rory replied matter-of-factly.

"Well you and your mom are freaks, besides both of your hands will be full with all the stuff we brought, and might I add the books that apparently were to precious to leave behind, even though we are going to school with one of the biggest libraries in Connecticut." Alex sighed. "But once we bring in all of our stuff we can take a walk and try to find coffee."

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Rory yelled while getting out of the car and doing a little dance. "Come on, hurry!" By the time Alex had gotten out of the car, she had already opened up the trunk and began pulling out the boxes. She grabbed two and put them in Alex's outstretched hands before grabbing two more for herself along with the map of the dorms. She ran ahead squealing, "Coffee, coffee, coffee!"

Alex ran to catch up with her friend while yelling "Freak!" When she caught up with her she saw some amused boys looking on as Rory obliviously continued squealing while fumbling around in her purse trying to get her key and balancing the two boxes.

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Finn looked on as a stunningly beautiful girl trying to get her key out of her purse and balance her two boxes. At the same time she was shouting "Coffee!" barbarically. He walked over and took the two boxes from her. She glanced up from her purse and immediately turned beet red as she realized he had been there witnessing her coffee frenzy.

"It's okay love, we all have our weaknesses," he said, but then he realized she was eyeing his coffee cup. "Here" he said handing it over.

Rory couldn't believe herself could she really have just run through one of the top schools in the country yelling for coffee and did the group of boys that looked like they lived in her hall have to see her? The rest had walked away chuckling but one of them helped her out and was now offering her a cup of coffee. "Thank y- ew!" She shouted as she spit the "coffee" onto the boy. "What is that?"

Finn threw his head back laughing and just then another beautiful girl with red hair walked up. She was laughing so hard she was shaking.

"Alex, I can not believe you are laughing it is so not funny, that was disgusting." She turned back to the boy, "What was that?"

"As I said before love, we all have our weaknesses, as you have just found out mine is not coffee it is vodka. I mix the two together and it is actually quite tasty." At that Rory cracked up.

"I can not believe that I have been in Yale five minutes and already I'm drinking illegally."

"Lorelei will be so proud, but technically, you didn't drink vodka, you just used it as mouthwash" Alex added.

"Your beautiful friend is right coffee girl, but why don't we get your stuff inside, my back is starting to hurt."

"Oh right, I'm so sorry. Here." She opened the door and then took one of the boxes from Finn

"So love, tell me your name" Finn said to Alex and she giggled.

"What?" Finn asked puzzled.

"Oh nothing its just, your accent is pretty sexy," said Alex, always the blunt one.

Finn smiled and kissed her hand.

"But this is Rory and I'm Alex."

"Beautiful names for beautiful creatures," he said smoothly but his gaze was only focused on Alex.

Rory just smiled broadly as she looked at the two.

After a few seconds Finn broke away. "Oh yes, the first party of the year is tomorrow and my job was to spread the word to lovely ladies but I think I can stop now because when you two are in the room no one else will matter," he said, laying on the charm. "You both can bring dates if you have them…."

"Nope, both single," Alex quickly added.

"Oh wonderful, so would you, Madam, do me the honor of accompanying me tomorrow?" he said to Alex.

"I would love to," Alex said blushing.

"Okay then, the party will be pretty much be everywhere in this building but mostly upstairs near my room. I'll see you tonight" He walked away whistling.

"Oh my God! I cannot believe we are in Yale for ten minutes and you already have a date!" Rory screamed.

"I love college!" Alex shouted jumping up and down with Rory.

After a minute they stopped screaming and looked around the common room.

"Hey wait, there's three rooms here not two. They have names though, here's yours; A.D., here's mine; R.G., and this one is S.V.. That means there's another girl living here. I hope she's nice."

"Well, I am." They heard a voice behind them. They turned around and saw a beautiful blonde. "Hi, I'm Stephanie."

"Oh my god! Are we lucky or what? We have a brunette, a blond and yours truly a red head. This is going to be the coolest dorm room. We have a little of each, so if a cute boy comes by with a specific hair color need we will be able to fill it for him."

Rory just rolled her eyes at here friends pretend shallowness as the Stephanie cracked up. "Oh Steph, this crazy "redhead" is Alex and I'm Rory. Come on in, lets get unpacking."

Before long the girls were as close as if they had known each other for years.

"Stephanie, right before you came a really cute boy invited us to a party tomorrow so would you like to go shopping with us in a little while?" Alex asked already excited at the prospect of shopping.

"Yeah, I'd love to." Steph said smiling. She was happy to have already made such good friends.

"Oh my god! Nick!" Rory shouted. She couldn't believe she had forgotten her brother, he had come a week earlier to get set up saying something about his roommates making his room the sex room if he didn't get there first. Her brother was one year older than her, but they were best friends and told each other everything. He was like an older sister to Alex as well because of all the time she spent at the Gilmore's house. He was a sophomore at Yale now, and had told her to come see him when she got here.

"We have to go see him now, come on!"

"Who's Nick?" Steph asked "Boyfriend?"

"Nope, big brother of Rory." Alex answered as she turned towards Rory who was running around looking for her shoes. "Ror, lets go shopping first and then we can show him all the inappropriate stuff we bought. Kay?"

"Okay, but Alex this is not a day long shopping trip this is quick in, out. Got it?" Alex and Stephanie both stood at a attention with their hands at their forehead saluting.

"Yes sir!" They yelled.

Rory just laughed and shook her head, grabbed her purse and walked out the door as the others followed still in army position.

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Finn walked into his dorm and said to his three friends on the couch, "I have a feeling we are going to be spending a lot of time in room 104."

"Why?" Logan, Colin, and Nick all chorused, without looking up from the video game.

"Because I just ran into two beautiful girls in there, scored a date, and then as I was leaving bumped into another one."

Colin looked up, "I'm just going out on a limb here but was the girl you are bring to the party tomorrow maybe, just maybe a redhead?"

"Yes mate, she was." Finn answered with a proud glint in his eyes. "There just aren't as many as there was, it's a sad thing actually."

"Well Finn now there is two more to add to that list." Nick answered.

"Mate, I said only one was a red head." Finn looked back exasperated.

"I know but I know a red head too and she is going to Yale this year, but this one is off limits, she can't be one of your one-night stands." Nick paused the game and looked back at Finn.

"If she is anything like this beauty I met today I won't disgrace her with just a one night stand." Finn answered. "But tell me more about this redhead of yours."

"She isn't mine, she is the best friend of my-"

"Okay enough talk about redheads, Tell us about the other girls you met." Logan interrupted.

"And why do you have coffee all over you? "

"I had a run in with a coffee addict and offered my version of coffee."

They all laughed, "Poor girl" said Logan.

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"Almost there, we can make it." Stephanie whined as they dragged their bags into the dorm.

"Whoa! I didn't think they had such good shopping here so close to Yale, I was in heaven." Alex said while looking around. Rory was on her cell phone.

"Okay, 302, got it, no I won't forget it ,see you then, love you, bye. Okay guys, Nick is in 302. He said to come see him tomorrow morning because he is going out to the pub with some friends tonight. Lets get to bed, its going to be a late night tomorrow."

"But its only- oh my god its 11:15. I didn't know we spent that much time shopping" Steph said amazed.

"You know what they say, time flies when you're having fun." Alex answered back. They looked into Rory's room and she was already fast asleep. They closed the door and went to sleep themselves.

Rory woke up and looked around confused, where was she? she thought. Then she looked over and saw the Yale poster and it all clicked. Just then Alex and Steph came in her room,

"Wake up sleepy head!" They called in unison. "It's 11:30!"

Rory slowly got out of bed cursing her friends. But then she remembered all the classes she had to sign up for. She threw on her clothes and realized she didn't have coffee.

"Oh I am going to die a slow painful death unless I get some coffee in my system."

"Look, go sign up for your classes and when you get back we will go to Nick's, he's rooming with those super rich friends of his so they will have a coffee maker there or at least know where to find one. Okay?"

"Okay." Rory said trying to remember the last time she went a day without coffee as she walked out the door with her friends.