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It had been a year since I left Chilton. No one knew where I went. No one knew why. If they knew, I highly doubt that they would believe it. Now that I'm back, it all seems different. The halls seem drearier, the classrooms less inviting then they had been before.
Even the people seemed meaner, if that was even possible. There were whispers as I passed. I was sure that there were a dozen rumors going around about why I left and why I was back. I heard some of them in passing. I laughed, apparently, I had killed my neighbor because he stole my book. That I went to jail and now the only reason I was out is because I slept with the warden. I couldn't wait to tell Paris that one. Okay so she knew, but she is my best friend and my fraternal twin, so of course she knew. Plus she had gone with me.
There were other rumors that Paris and I were lovers and decided to runaway and we had made it a year when our parents found us and forced us to come home and to separate. Which is proof of how little the kids at Chilton actually knew us. They didn't even know that we were twins. They didn't even put it together that we had the same last name.
Tristan had gotten to me the second I had walked into the door and he tried to get me to go out with him, again. I wanted to shout and him and tell him everything just to make him go away, but the little voice in the back of head stopped me. I had to keep a low profile here. No one could know that I was Lorelai Hayden heiress to the Hayden and Gilmore fortunes.
During the year we were gone I changed, in more ways than one. For one I was no longer the shy bookworm. I took risks, got in trouble at the school I went to when I was gone. I did things some people here never though I had even heard of before.
They have no idea who I am. Every year at Chilton, I put on this mask and hide my true self. But every summer when me and Paris blow town for Switzerland, I become Lorelai the heiress.
I have a whole different life there, a boyfriend, great friends and people who look up to me and envy me. Our Dad may not be at the house ever but when he is, there are moments when it seems like he actually cares.
Anyway enough about that, we were back at Chilton and it was killing me. I missed Switzerland, I missed Logan, Finn, Colin and Steph. After spending a year there, it wasn't the same without them anymore. I am just glad that I had Paris with me. We put some of our books in our lockers before we headed to our first class.
"So have you talked to him yet today?" Paris whispered as we walked down the hallway ignoring the stares of all of our classmates. I sighed and played with my necklace I had hidden under my sweater.
"Not yet. But I think that he is kind busy." I whispered back before tucking my necklace back in my sweater.
"Right, right. But still I would think that he would try to send you at least something, you know to-" she was interrupted by Tristan.
"Hey Mar, miss me when you were gone?" he asked with an arrogant smirk on his face. Paris and I rolled our eyes simultaneously.
"Never in a million years." I said pushing past him into Mr. Medina's classroom. Paris was not far behind and quickly took the seat next me to keep Tristan from taking it. Tristan smirked at us before he sat down across the classroom. Mr. Medina sat on the desk in the front of the class and smiled at me and Paris.
"Ahh, welcome back every one. Rory, Paris, good to see you both back." He smiled. We nodded at him and gave a small smile.
"Alright well let's get right into it. I am happy to announce that ten students have been chosen to study abroad for six months. They will be living with host families and be attending the local prep school. This decision was made on your grades from the past year and you behavior as well. I am happy to announce that four of the students going are in this classroom." He said. This got mine and Paris's attention, we looked at each other and smiled. We both knew that the other was thinking that it would be cool if we could be chosen.
"The following students will be leaving on the 26th of this month, your parents have already been contacted and they have all given their consent. The four students are Paris and Rory Gilmore, Brad Peterson, and Tristan DuGrey." Mr. Medina announced. Paris and I gave a little scream and smiled bright when our names were called but then our smiles faded when we heard Tristan's name be called. We looked over at Tristan and he gave us a satisfied smile. We rolled our eyes simultaneously.
"Now the four of you might notice that I didn't say where you were going. I've been saving that part for last," he said getting our attention once again, "The four of you, will spend the next six months in Geneva, Switzerland." He told us with a smile on his face. Me and Paris gave a squeak that to any other person would sound like an excited one but to us it wasn't. I looked at Paris with wide, worried eyes. She took my hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze. Luckily, at that moment the bell signaling the end of homeroom rang. I made a move for the door when Mr. Medina's voice held me back.
"I would like the four students to stay after to get some information from me please. Thank you, have a good day." I sighed and stayed in my seat. Paris sighed along with me and still held onto my hand as if to keep me from bolting out the door.
"Alright well I hope you are all excited to be going on this trip. It will be a great experience for you all." He said standing up and walking around his desk to pick up four packets. He handed Paris two packets that had our names on them. She took them both and didn't bother opening them.
"There are two families that will be hosting you, the information is in your packets. Paris and Rory will be staying at one host house and Tristan and Brad will be at the other. Now all the information you will need about the trip are in your packets. If you have any other questions, my office door is open. Or you can have your parents give me a call, my number is in there as well. We will have a meeting when the time gets closer for you to leave. But for now that is it, you may leave." He said smiling at us. Paris and I shot out of that classroom so fast. I leaned up against the wall just outside of the classroom. Paris was in front of me. I was about to say something when Tristan came up next to us.
"So Mar, you and me in Switzerland. This should be fun." He said smirking. I was about to say something when a thought crossed my mind. 'Logan, Colin, and Finn finally get to meet him. And maybe they'll kick his ass.' That thought gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling. I looked at Paris and I could see she was thinking the same thing. Tristan was looking at us funny.
"Day dreaming about me again?" he smiled. I stood up straight and took a small step closer to him. Paris had to bite her lip to keep herself from laughing.
"You're right. I have been daydreaming." I said in a voice that I hadn't used since I left Switzerland, "But it certainly wasn't about you." I said giving him a look that was a side of me he didn't know and should probably fear. I pushed past him and walked towards the girls bathroom. Paris laughed and followed me. As soon I was in the bathroom I lost my cool. I started hyperventilating and sweating. Paris quickly checked the stalls before shoving the doorstopper under the door. She rubbed my back and took out her cell phone. It rang twice before someone picked up on the other end.
"Hey it's me." Paris said.
"I'm on my way. Tell her to hang on. Five minutes tops." The other person on the other side said.
"Okay." Paris said hanging up the phone.
"Mom's on her way Rory. It'll be fine, I promise." She said to me soothingly. I took a deep breath and gave her a hug.
"I'm excited to be going back but-" I started.
"You don't want our secret to be revealed. I understand the stakes, but I'll be there by your side the whole time. Don't worry. Now come on by the time we get to the office Mom will be there." Paris said taking the doorstopper out from under the door and ushering me out of the bathroom and down the hall towards the office. We made it to the office without another run in with Tristan and I was glad cause if I were to have seen him then I would probably let him have it.
Mom was waiting in the office when we got there. So was the nurse and the headmaster.
"Hello Paris, Rory. Your mother tells us that you and Paris aren't feeling well." Headmaster Charleston said to us.
"That's right sir. I think it was something we ate." Paris said putting a hand on her stomach pretending it hurt.
"Well alright I see no point in making you girls stay. Mrs. Danes you may take them home as long as you sign them out." He said signaling to the nurse to get him the sign out sheet.
"No problem." Mom said as she signed us out. Mom handed the sign out sheet back to the nurse.
"Yes well, I hope that you two get well soon." He said.
"Thank you sir." Paris said as we left the office. Once we were in the car mom looked at me.
"You okay kid?" she asked me with a sympathetic smile on her face.
"Yeah just a little afraid of how everyone will react. Don't get me wrong I love my life over there and I love Logan, Colin, Finn and Steph. But I love my quiet little life here too. I don't want that to change." I told them.
"I know kid but lots of stuff changed since last year. And we dealt with it didn't we?" she asked.
"Yeah, I guess. I'm just scared is all." I said leaning onto Paris' shoulder.
"Alright well let's get us home and then we can go to Luke's and get something to eat. Then we can make a call to Geneva. How about that?" I smiled and she started up the car and we made our way out of the parking lot.
"I'd rather make the call to Geneva first." I said smiling.
"Okay well then what are you waiting for? Call, you know you want to." Paris teased. I sat up and whipped out my phone. It read 'Two Voicemails'. I quickly dialed my voicemail and a familiar voice came over the speaker and into my ear. I smiled.
"Hey Ace I know it's your first day of school so I wanted to wish you luck. We all miss you over here and I can't wait for Christmas break. I love you and miss you. I can't wait to hold you in my arms again. I love you. Talk to you soon. Bye." I smiled and pressed the save button on my phone. The next message was Finn, Colin and Steph all calling at the same time and then fighting over the phone until there was a crash noise and then the line went dead. I played the message out loud for Mom and Paris and they both laughed. I dialed Logan's number and it rang twice before he answered.
"Hey Ace, did you get my message?" he asked me.
"Yeah I did. I love you too. And I'm counting the days too." I said doing the math quickly in my head. 25 days. I smiled bright.
"102 days and counting Ace." He said. I could hear the smile in his voice. I gave a little chuckle.
"Try 25." I said smiling finally getting excited about going again. Paris and mom both smiled at me when they saw me smile.
"25? Ace what's goin on? You're coming back?" he said sounding excited. My smile faltered a bit but Paris grabbed my free hand.
"Yeah. Well me and Paris were in homeroom when the teacher announced that there were ten students that were going to get to study abroad. Well me and Paris were chosen to go. And guess where we are studying." I said to him. All I heard was silence.
"So Chilton is coming to ou-my school?" he asked.
"Yeah." I said.
"How do you feel about that?" he asked me.
"I'll let you know when I know." I said giving a light chuckle. I heard him chuckle.
"Well are you excited to come back?" he asked me.
"Yes I am I'm just scared, that's all. I promise." I said. I heard him sigh.
"Alright well do you want me to let the others know that you both are coming back, or do you want to tell them yourself?" He asked. A smile creped up on my face.
"Uh-oh I know that look." Paris said.
"Uh, hun, hold on a sec." I said.
"Alright." He said laughing. I turned to Paris.
"Open our packets. See who our host family is." I said. Paris smiled and opened the packet on top, she laughed.
"Who is it?" I asked her.
"We are staying with Huntz and family." Paris laughed. Mom laughed from the front seat.
"Babe we are apparently staying with you." I laughed. He laughed with me.
"Alright, Mom probably had something to do with that. But do you want me to tell the guys or what?" he asked.
"No." I said, "I want them to be surprised. So don't even tell them that you know who is going to be staying with you just tell you that your mom is making you pick us up from the airport, or something." I said with a glint in my eye.
"Alright well I gotta head out. I am meeting the gang for dinner. I'll tell them you and Paris said hi but nothing else. I promise." I laughed.
"Good. So I'll see you soon. Love you." I said.
"Love you too, bye." He said as he hung up the phone. I now had a smile on my face I took my necklace out of my sweater and played with it. Paris saw me playing with it.
"You miss him don't you." I nodded.
"25 days Paris, 25 days." I said and she nodded understanding.
"Alright girls we are here and now I am hungry so let's go in." Mom said pulling up to Luke's and shutting off the car.
"Yum coffee, food." I said getting out of the car. We walked into Luke's. Luke was at the counter. He looked up when we walked in.
"Hey what's going on? I thought today was the first day of school." he said. We sat down at the counter and Luke put three large coffee cups in front of us without question.
"We did, we found out that me and Paris are going to Geneva for six months." I said taking a big gulp of the delicious beverage.
"What? Again? But we just got you both back from there." He said. I nodded. Okay so Luke knew too, but hey, he was our step-dad so of course he knew.
"Yeah I know but now Chilton is doing a study abroad program and me and Paris have been chosen to go and now everything is going to change. Again." I said finishing off my cup of coffee. Luke filled it up again without me even asking.
"Jeez Rory I'm sorry. Have you called Chris to let him know that you guys are going to be back in Geneva?" he asked us.
"No I didn't even think about it. He is in Prague for the next month anyways so he won't even be there when we get there." I said. Luke nodded.
"Yeah okay but you should still call him because if all of a sudden you guys run into him on the streets then he will get very mad and make a scene, you know he will kid." Mom said.
"Alright so we'll call him when we get home." I said.
"Okay I'm really hungry can I order now. Pleeeaaasssee?" Paris pleaded. We laughed.
"Yeah, okay I will whip up all of your favorites to go that way you can discuss all of this at home." He said going into the kitchen to fix our food.
After we had our food, we made it to the house and we watched movies for the rest of the day.
Later that night me and Paris went to our shared room. We shared the large downstairs bedroom. It was the master bedroom in the house but Mom let us take it when we first moved in because we wanted to share a room.
We got ready for bed quietly. After I was done, I took out a picture from my nightstand and sighed. I knew Paris was watching me so I put the picture away before I got all weepy. 25 days, just 25 days.
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21 days later we had decided it was time to look at our packets as we were going to have our final meeting later that night, before we left in four days.
"Okay so we know we are staying with Logan and that is pretty much it. Do you have a plan? Because everything will come out once we are over there. You won't be known as Rory Gilmore over there. You're Lorelai Hayden heiress to a butt load of money and things you'll never use. And I am Paris Hayden heiress to about the same amount of money and things I'll never use." Paris said as we were all on the living room floor. I sighed.
"Yeah I know. I think I am just gonna be who I am over there. I like who I am over there. And if the Chiltonites don't like it, then too bad." I said with a final sigh.
"Alright well then let's break out the Louis Viton luggage and all of your Geneva stuff." Mom said getting up. I smiled at Paris and we followed her down to the basement where we kept all of the stuff we brought to Geneva every year.
"Okay, now I am really excited to go." I said as I looked through all of my stuff.
"Me too. I missed everyone." Paris said holding up one of my shirts to her body.
"No you cannot have that." I said before she could ask. Mom laughed as she set up her sewing machine so she could make adjustments on our uniforms that we wore last year. Paris's head shot up and looked at me.
"Why not? It doesn't fit you anymore and it'll fit me." she said pouting.
"Fine, fine whatever." I said rolling my eyes with a smile. Paris smiled at me and tossed it into her pile of stuff.
"Thank you." she said.
"Yeah, yeah. Hey what time is it?" I asked. Paris took her phone out of her pocket and gasped.
"Shit. 5:30 we have to go the meeting's at six." She said running up the stairs. Mom and I cursed under our breaths as we followed her up the stairs to throw on some shoes and a pair of jeans.
We were all out in the car in a matter of seconds. In my opinion, we reached the school in record time. We parked and went inside to the meeting room. Mr. Medina and most of the kids were already there.
"Ah, yes our last two students, come in. Have a seat." He said. We sat in the back.
"Alright so by now you have all paid for the trip and got all your information about who's house you are going to be at and the school and other thing like that, but this meeting is to give you all of your uniforms for school, your tickets, and a list of school rules to go over. Now if you will please form a line and we will get you your tickets, uniforms and school rules." He said we got up and went over to the line. I saw Tristan and he winked at me. I rolled my eyes and ignored him.
"God I can't wait for Logan to meet him." I said just loud enough for my mom and Paris to hear it. Mom had to cover her mouth to keep quiet. Paris just laughed a little.
"Sorry I just totally forgot. Oh, I would pay top dollar to see that meeting." Mom said picturing it in her head. I smiled.
"Yeah well I'll give Paris a camera and have her take a picture for you." I said smiling brighter.
"Don't tease mommy." She said. Both Paris and I laughed.
"Who said anything about teasing?" Paris said. I laughed again.
When we got to the front of the line Mr. Medina handed me and Paris an envelope with our tickets and school rules in it and a bag with a few sets of school uniforms in it. After all of the kids got their uniforms Mr. Medina began speaking again.
"Now I'm sure you've all noticed that you only have two sets of uniforms in your bags. You will all be getting the others when you get there. This is due to sizes. They wanted to be able to give you the right ones. If the ones in the bag don't fit don't worry we will take care of it when we get there. Any questions?" he asked. I looked around, no one spoke up.
"Good, so on to travel. We will be meeting at JFK, terminal 2, at 5:00pm sharp for our 7:30pm flight on Friday afternoon. This will give us enough time to go through security and maybe get a little dinner in us before our very long flight." He chuckled, "Your host families will pick us up at the airport at 9:30am and from there you are on your own until Monday morning when we will meet at the school to get our schedules and books. If you have uniform trouble tell your host family they will contact me or the headmaster there and we will sort it all out. If you have any questions for me stay, ask them, if not, I will see you all on Friday." He said dismissing us. We got up and headed out the classroom towards the parking lot.
"Well that was fun." I said sarcastically as we got in the car.
"Oh butt loads." Paris said back. We all laughed and headed towards Luke's to get something to eat. I smiled to myself and played with my necklace. Four days, until I saw him again.