A/N: So, this is my first story... hope you like it. If there are any mistakes please tell me so I'm trying hard to improve my English... Caro

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What was love about? Was it about kissing? About holding hands? Or just being close to each other? Everyone has their own way of showing love, affection. You can see these people every day. You see them in the subway, in the park, in the café where you drink your your coke all on your own. You see the teenagers, the grandparents and everyone else and then you think to yourself 'What is it really about?'

Rory sat in the car with her mother and stared at the impressive building in front of her. In the pictures it never seemed so ... scary. All kinds of emotions were flowing through her body. She was shivering but not from the cold. It was the fear of the unknown and excitement. This was a new beginning that could make all her dreams come true. Her heart was thumping wildly in her chest and she thought it might never slow down again.

"Are you all right, kiddo?" Lorelai asked her daughter who was mesmerized by the building with its gargoyles. Lorelai knew her daughter and was aware of the fact that she was scared but so was she. Lorelai left this world and now she was sending her daughter back in. She was afraid this would distance them from each other.

"Yeah ... yeah, I think so." Rory answered. "Let's go!"

And with that they slowly exited their Jeep. Her mother looking like she was about to go to a rodeo and she in her new school uniform.

When they had enetered the headmaster's office they were surprised by her grandmother, Emily Gilmore, who apparently was friends with headmaster Charleston's wife and who wanted to wish her granddaughter a good first day.

After some not so subtle stabs were exchanged between her mother and her grandmother, Rory was finally alone with the headmaster.

He told her that Chilton was not an easy school and only the best could succeed. And when he found out that she did not even participate in any clubs at her old school, Star's Hollow High, he sent her off with a feeling of failure. But she was also determined to show everyone that she could make it.

Seriously, this was not her day. First she could not open her locker, then she ruined Paris Gellar's history project and now officially had her first enemy in her new school. But to top it all off Paris Gellar's friends could not seem to remember her name and kept calling her Mary.

Who was this Mary anyways?

During lunchshe finally had some time to herself. Now she could take her copy of 'Moby Dick' and keep on reading. She drowned out the noise in the cafeteria and focussed on her book and the music that was coming out of her headphones. But suddenly she was jerked out of her peaceful reading. Someone sat down in front of her and started talking. One would think they would stop talking when the other person does not react. But apparently this ignorant person did not know that.

Sighing she took off her headphones, closed her book and looked up at this guy. He was one of those who called her Mary.

"Excuse me but can I help you?" she asked politely. "Well, yes, love, you can. I heard you broke Paris' project." She had not been too sure before but now she knew for certain that he was Australian. "And although I love her like a sister I think she overreacted."

Rory had studied his face while he was talking. He had a nice tan and from afar his eyes seemed to be green but when you looked closely you could see that they were more blue than green. She could get lost in them.

She was shaken out of her reverie when he waved his hand in front of her face.

"You like what you see?" a smirk was slowly growing on his face and she was blushing like mad. She did not mean to stare, it was just that she could not stop it.

"Well, I am sorry about that and I told her so but she doesn't want to hear it. So, why are you really talking to me?"

This Mary looked like a doll with her porcelain skin and these deep blue eyes that should be forbidden. And these lips, the way she was nibbling on her lower lip it was driving him crazy. She was so tempting with her innocence and she did not even know it.

"Mary, I may be cool but I'm not heartless." he smirked again. "I saw you sitting here all by yourself and I felt sorry for you. No one should sit alone in the cafeteria. So, I thought I'd keep you company!" he was sitting there in his non-chalant way that seemed so fitting and probably made him so irresistable to all the girls in the school. "And what makes you think I want your company? I was perfectly happy until you showed up and started to annoy me!" she smiled sweetly at him and started to gather her things.

"You're making fun of me, Mary, I am hurt!" he was putting his hand over his heart in mock hurt. "I wanted to be nice to you and you turn me down. I am deeply wounded, I think I'll never recover!" he sighed dramatically and rested his head on the table now.

"You'll live." with that she took her things and walked outside.

"Damn!" was all he could say and as he looked over at the table his friends were sitting at he saw that they were laughing their heads off. He knew he had lost the bet against Logan but they did not need to gloat like that. His head hung lowly as he walked over to them. He was getting older. His charme did not work the way it once did. It was the first time he lost in this game but he would not give up.

Rory was leaving against the lockers just outside the cafeteria. Her heart was beating in her chest like it did just that morning but this time it was not fear that had gripped her but something else. Something she could not quite put her finger on.

Slowly she walked towards her own locker and all the time one question was running through her mind. "What was his name?"

Her belongings were easily put away and her chemistry books were taken out. Finally her heart was slowing down and the bell rang signalling the end of lunch and the beginning of the last lessons of the day.

Lorelai had promised to pick her up with a big double coffee.

That was the only thing that kept her up. She just wanted to see her mother, go to Luke's with her and then go through the notes she got from her teachers that day.