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2 winnings
zugerburg, Chilton and bail.
Time passed and people filtered out of the apartment and somewhere around one or two in the morning Rory smiled up at Colin as he put a new drink in front of her along with the ice cream shed asked if they had a few minutes before hand as she put more poker chips on the table. A blonde who was Roberts unsuccessful good luck charm for the night looked repulsed over her chick drink "are you really gunna eat that."
Rory lifted an eyebrow and the spoon paused as the boys around her chuckled. "yeah – yeah I am."
"straight from the tub? More than a spoonful?"
Unlike the boys Rory restrained her laughter "most probably the whole tub. Why?"
"And your drinking beer?"
Rory nodded before the blonde replied "do you know how many calories that is?"
Rory chuckled slightly "it hasn't really crossed my mind no."
The girl still seemed repulsed as Rory had another mouthful and Logan spoke up "ok people. Round up and bets down I got to win some money back from Rory."
Rory smiled slightly and glanced at her cards again as Colin sighed and folded. She was fiddling with her chips in the hand not holding a spoon. She put down a few more and Logan sighed "your raising again?"
She shrugged "what can I say? new fashion collections are out and if the night keeps going the way it is well…I wont have to work out what Choos I want cause you boys will be paying for them all!"
Logan sighed and folded and Robert slammed a few more chips onto the table "I call." He announced defiantly, sure he was about to win money back. However his determination and good luck charm both proved empty as Rory pulled the chips off the center of the table. After a few more rounds going the same way Robert got annoyed and pulled out of the game before disappearing with the blonde and leaving Rory with the four boys. Logan went to deal her back in but Rory declined "its just not the same stealing money from you boys as it is from Robert. I'm going to pull out with my pretty shoes, a red bag I've been eyeing off and maybe a few records to see if you have any sugar daddies."
Logan and Colin's wallets notably sighed in relief as she wandered over to their kitchenette. She returned after awhile with a bag of sugar daddies and another round of drinks. After her sugar kick set in she began to grow restless of watching the boys lose money to each other so slid closer to Tristan. He was in the middle of contemplating his next move as Rory looked down at his piles of chips and then at his hand before pulling a few smile of his chips towards her "Rory what are you doing?"
"being your assistant of sorts. Don't worry if I make a wrong move I'll find something else to entertain myself with."
Tristan smirked "I've got a few suggestions." He commented with a raised eyebrow and allowed her to throw a few chips into the pile after a quick glance at the other three boys.
After a the second round of Rory winning on Tristan's behalf the boys kicked Rory away from the table. Sighing she disappeared into one of the rooms and returned with a few cosmetic bottles and some CD's.
After she changed the music, she sat herself down on their couch and kicked off her shoes before removing the nail polish on her toes.
Tristan glancing occasionally in her direction to watch her paint her nails "she's here enough to have cosmetics around?"
Logan chuckled "she's around so frequently that I'm not sure what we keep in our bathroom cupboards, however, the nail polish isn't hers."
To answer the unasked question Finn moved the hand holding a beer bottle so that the painted nails were more obvious and Tristan nodded mutely for lack of a better response. The night wore on and the boys had ventured from the poker table to the couch to watch something with Rory. Halfway through the movie Rory had sighed and pushed herself off the couch. Grabbing a bottle of water she began to walk back to the boys and made her way down the set of them with a kiss on the cheek and a hug, in doing this she dodged Logan's hand and pointed out he'd had to much to drink, she began to bend again for Tristan but paused hesitantly for a second before bending down to hug him. however, due to the swaying and hesitating before the bend and the sleepiness she lent a little to far and fell somewhat ungracefully into him. she laughed somewhat nervously and Tristan slid her properly into his lap before she fell completely face first. She smiled and straightened her top "thanks."
"had a bit to much to drink I see mare?"
"oh I don't get drunk."
He chuckled slightly "no of course not."
She frowned "no really. I don't."
Logan turned his gaze from the TV to them "she's not drunk. She's right. She can drink more than Finn unless upset – then she drinks like a 15 year old girl."
Rory chuckled "sad that he knows how much a 15 year old can drink huh? The torment you caused even back then to poor females across the globe" Rory mumbled before becoming serious and turning to Tristan "thanks."
"hey – if I hadn't caught you, you could have poked an eye out – mine to be exact."
She chuckled "well yes. But also? Thanks for letting me spend some time here. I know its got to be weird for you. I've barely spoken to you since I got back, we weren't exactly friendly before I left and you let a group of people you don't know make you spend night in a smelly dorm room as a thanks for bailing us out slash lets spend time with Rory."
He smirked slightly "well maybe we should be friendlier."
"I'm ignoring the innuendo in that statement, kissing you good night," she lent in and gave him a peck on the cheek before continuing "standing up" she slid off his lap "and disappearing until brunch tomorrow. Night boys. thanks Tris. See you in bed Finny."
"be in soon kitten." Finn commented before returning to an argument with Colin. Tristan had a million thoughts running through his head already, but her walking into Finn's room made them double however before he could begin to process them her head ducked back out from the room as she said "oh and don't make him have the couch. Give him a room guys." And with that she was gone again. A half hour after Rory disappeared the movie was over and the boys seemed to silently decide that at 4 in the morning it was a good a time as any to go to bed. They all stood and while Logan and Colin were glancing between each other and Tristan mentally debating who's bed to give up Finn waved a good night and wandered towards his bed room, announcing "oh kitten! Its time for hot passionate debauchery."
As he opened the door. From where she lay she waved him off and Tristan could here Rory mumble something along the lines of "I don't have to be awake for that do i?"
And Finn chuckle before returning "its not really some thing you could sleep through my love."
Sheets shuffled as Rory rolled over and he closed the door as she replied "Finn its not really anyone on campus could sleep through."
After that Tristan couldn't define words in the murmur of soft voices slipped under the door.
Tristan walked out of Colin's room (as he had lost) to find Logan drinking coffee and Colin going through the fridge he slumped next to Logan and the three sat in a fairly comfortable silence as Colin cooked, Tristan flicked through the sports section of a paper that had been delivered earlier and Logan tried to wake up. Things stayed like that until a blonde burst through the door "where is she?"
"who?" Colin asked notably quieter than the blondes almost deafening volume before adding "why aren't you in Hawaii Steph?".
"Rory! I tried to ring her when I go off the plane and Lorelai said she was here. She's still here right?" she replied, ignoring or not hearing the second part of Colin's comment.
Steph took a breath and chuckled to herself before Colin could ask again, or any of them could talk at all for that matter "who am I kidding of course she's still here." She mumbled making her way over to Finn's room and swinging the door open. "Finn! Get up."
His reaction was to mumble something incoherently before burying himself deeper into the sheets and Rory.
"Finn! Get out! I need some girl time." She said determined and trying to tug him out of the bed.
Finn, though barely awake managed to come up with a response that included him wriggling his eyebrows "I'm good at girl time love, why don't you come join me and Rory under the covers."
"FINN!"
"can I at least watch?" he asked as she continued to pull his shoulder out of place.
A minute later he stumbled out slash was forced out of his room before the door slammed and Stephanie took his place, burying under the covers and into Rory's shoulder "he got all serious and I freaked and…I bro…well actually I'm not sure who did the breaking but were broken." They spoke for a few minutes about how Steph didn't really care about the relationship but was freaked that she ran from the commitment so quickly before the two lay there almost asleep in consideration.
Rory mumbled almost incoherent sympathies in her sleepy state before adding "I kicked the boys ass at poker last night – we'll go buy something pretty with my winning to help ease your pain when were awake."
Steph nodded with a small smile on her face before asking "who's the Logan look alike?"
Rory suppressed a yawn "when were awake." And Steph nodded as both the girls hid from the day burying into each other a little more and drifting off to sleep.
Finn appeared in the common room, under the boys confused watch as he rubbed his shoulder and mumbled about a lovely little insane asylum and Sass and Bide making straight jackets now.
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