AN: Hey guys this is my very first FanFic. I hope you guys enjoy it. It is a Trory. I love those!! And like I said it is my first FanFic so harsh reviews are going to be considered constructive criticism!

Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls

Tristan was sitting in a café in Star Hollow. He had done this often since he had returned from military school. He always hoped that one day Rory, his Mary, would walk through the doors and see him and they would start over. He would show her the man he'd become, and he'd thank her for helping him get there. It's true had it not been for her he would have never changed his life. He would have done the bear minimum needed to escape military school if it hadn't been for her. But she was in his thoughts all the time. That is why he decided that he would shape up. He graduated first in his class, stopped sleeping around, and improved his relationship with his family. Well at least with his mother but he was working on his father.

It had been four years since he last saw her in that Chilton hallway. He had left North Carolina and went to Harvard, expecting to see her there. But to his dismay she had decided to attend Yale. He figured this out from his mother, who he had recently told the whole story of his Mary to.

He was just about to leave the little table he had been sitting at when he looked up into two crystal blue eyes. He couldn't believe it. It was Rory. She just kept staring at him and he couldn't help but laugh. Apparently she had been staring at him for awhile. He had to cough several times to finally get her attention, and when he did she blushed realizing that she was staring and turned to leave.

Tristan was up in a second not quite sure of what he was doing but he just knew that he couldn't let her leave. Not until he was standing in front of the door did either one of them speak.

"Hey Mary" he said, "where you going?"

"Well four years later and you still can't remember my name Bible Boy?"

"And apparently you don't know mine either" he retorted. Why he was acting like this he didn't know he wanted so much to show her that he wasn't that immature boy from Chilton. "Stay and have coffee with me, you are still a coffee-a –holic right?" Nice save Tristan real smooth!

"I never turn down coffee even if it is with ET." Rory said with a smirk. They then returned to the table Tristan had previously occupied.

God Tristan missed her smile, her voice, her hair, her everything! And she was here with him he couldn't believe it!

"ET?" he asked a little confused. "What does that mean?"

"Maybe one day I'll tell you", Rory laughed.

"So are you implying that there is going to be more of these little outings?" he couldn't help but smirk. God why was it so easy for him to turn into a jerk?

"I've missed you Tristan, a lot. When you left I found myself a little sad." Rory suddenly confessed looking a little shocked at her outburst. "I mean, um, you were the only" she started to ramble, and Tristan couldn't help but think how cute she was, "thing I had that even remotely resembled a friend, and you were, well I mean it's not like I was pining or anything but I."

"I missed you to Rory," Tristan decided to interrupt her here, you were the only thing that kept me going the two years I was in military school." He was a little shocked at his own outburst, but he decided to be honest with her from the start and hopefully then she would realize that he had changed.

"Rory I was such a jerk in high school and I know it. You had every right to hate me."

"I didn't hate you Tristan you just got on my nerves."

"Well either way you had the right to hate me. And when I got shipped to military school the only person I wanted to talk to or see again was you. Seeing your face every night when I closed my eyes made me want to change"

"Tristan that is a bit extreme I knew you for two years and from what I can remember you hated me, or at least didn't like me very much."

"No you see that is where you're wrong, Mary. When you first turned me down my ego was hurt and I was mad, but for some reason I couldn't leave you alone I couldn't get you out of my head. And that is when I realized that you were the first girl that I had actual true feelings for."

"I don't know what you're trying to pull here Tristan but I'm not falling for it. You made my life a living hell there is not way that you could have been so cold if you had liked me." Rory said or more like yelled, "And for the last time my name is Rory not Mary and when you can remember that then maybe I can take you a little more seriously." With saying this she got up and left.

Tristan sat there looking dumb founded. What had just happened? Two seconds ago he was pouring out his hear to the one person he cared for most and then WHAM she was yelling at him. But he could have sworn he saw her wipe away a tear before she slammed the door. And she didn't even stay long enough to finish let alone order her coffee. Was he wrong to assume that her rant a few minutes ago meant that she had some sort of feelings for him, even if they were only extended to friends? Something was wrong, and he was determined to find out what.

Just as he walked out of the diner he saw her leaning on the hood of his car crying. He walked over to her and held her. They stood like that for about 10 minutes before anyone spoke. Rory was the first one to break the silence.

"I'm sorry ET," she said trying to lighten the mood. Tristan only laughed. He didn't know what else to do. He was confused beyond belief.

"It's okay, but if you are gonna call me ET and Bible Boy I think it is only right that I get to call you Mary," he winced waiting to see what she said. It's not that he meant any harm with the high school nick name its just that in his mind if he called her Mary then it would seem like they had some sort of relationship, even if it was just being friends.

"Fine I give in," she finally said, "I actually sort of like the name."

"Hey you want to go some where?" Tristan asked. They had finally let go of each other, and Tristan hated the sudden loss of contact.

"We can go to my house; my mom is at the Inn." Tristan walked to the other side and opened the door for her. He was more confused than he had ever been in his life, but it didn't matter, Rory was with him and that is all he needed. The ride to her house was silent.

AN: Hey yeah it's not awful but it's not all that great either. But I am sort of stuck so this is it for this chapter but ill but another one up with in the next few days...2 tops. But if you think that it totally sucks and that I should just stop now then I will post a very short chapter that ties it all up...I won't leave it hanging like this! Any like I said all types of reviews are welcome. (oh and if I do continue it anyone want to be my beta?? (w/e that is! lol) Oh and one last thing...my grammar and spelling suck! So I am apologizing for all my error now...yes I used spell check but sometimes it doesn't catch them all!