He was stocking the selves when he saw them walking to Luke's. Not holding hands, but close enough that there arms brushed each other. He opened the door for her as she smiled at him. Hearing threw the grape vine had Lorelai not caring for Tristan to much right now. He watched them as Tristan played with her hair and she blushed and looked down at the table. He went back to worked not wanting to see them anymore.
Lorelai walked into the store and she smiled at Dean as she walked over to him. He stood up and wiped his hands on the apron.
"Hi Dean."
"Lorelai."
"I haven't seen you around since."
"Yea it just seems not right since Rory is with him." He looked down at the floor. "How is she doing?"
"Seems happy." Lorelai started picking up them from the selves.
"Mom are you ready yet?" Rory looked at Dean. "Hi Dean."
"Hi Rory." He looked over at Lorelai who mouthed sorry to him. "I need to get back to work nice seeing the two of you." He walked away as Lorelai finished getting the food. Rory walked looked at Dean and took off after him.
"Dean I didn't mean to hurt you."
"I know Rory. You couldn't hurt anyone even if you tried." She laughed as Dean looked at her hair. "You colored your hair?" She now had a few blonde streaks and she looked down.
"Yea."
"Why?"
"Tristan said I would look good with it." He always hated to hear Tristan's name, but he hated it more coming from her mouth.
"It's not you Rory." She looked up at him and just shook her head.
"I like it, mom likes it, and Tristan likes it. I just wanted to do something different." She walked away and Dean cursed himself for making her mad.
He saw Tristan and Rory getting out of the car. He looked away when Tristan wrapped his arm around her shoulders. They walked into the store. Over the last few weeks he noticed a change she had changed from his Rory the sweet shy girl, to Tristan's Rory colored hair different clothes and attitude. Even after all of that he was still in love with her. They walked up to the cash register and put the items in front of him
"Find everything alright?"
"No the store is way too big to find everything." She laughed as Dean started to ring them up. He noticed that they had all the things for sundaes, but not the ice cream.
"How's your mom?"
"Out for the weekend Inn meetings." He stopped at the last item a box of condoms.
"We would like to get out of here before you close." He looked up at Tristan and felt like punching him. "Is one box going to be enough?" Dean's eyes shot of to Rory would just nodded as she reached into his back pocket and pulled out his wallet. He saw that Tristan didn't even blink as she handed Dean the money. She reached the wallet out to Tristan who just put it back into his pocket.
"You forgot ice cream." Rory looked into the bag that he just handed her.
"Nope didn't forget anything thanks Dean." She walked out as Tristan stayed behind.
"She's in a Varsity Blues kick right now." He walked out and grabbed her by the waist as she laughed.
She was reading at the bridge the next time he saw her. Her hair was back to normal and she looked completely different then the week before.
"Hi." She looked up and smiled at him
"Hi how are you doing." He pointed to the spot beside her and she nodded. He sat down and beside her.
"I'm doing good. I see your hair is back to normal." She laughed some.
"Yea I haven't decided what color to dye it yet."
"Where's your boyfriend?"
"Visiting his grandparents in Florida for the weekend he will be back sometime tomorrow."
"How is everything going with?"
"It's going great. Mom might warm up to him before school starts."
"Why are you with him for if Lorelai doesn't like him?"
"Because I like him. Mom might not like him, but she never told me that I couldn't date him. She thinks this is a stage in my life and it will pass."
"Is it?"
"I don't think so, but you never know." He stood up and dusted off his pants.
"Are you happy with him?"
"Yea I am." Dean nodded and walked away from her.
As school started up Dean saw less and less of Rory. She never had to ride the bus since Tristan would pick her up and drop her off. He would see her when she would go to Luke's and come to the store with Lorelai to get the junk food for movie night. She would always smile at him or wave. In his mind he was just waiting for Tristan to mess up and he would move in and be there for Rory when she needed someone to cry to, besides Lorelai. A new girl just moved into town and she was flirting with him, but he just smiled at her and talked to her.
He saw Lorelai and Rory jumping up and down and waving a letter above her head. As he walked over to them Rory run up to him and hugged him. He closed his eyes he had almost forgot how it was to have her in his arms.
"I got in." She waved the letter in front of his face. "I got into Harvard." She jumped up again as he laughed.
"That's great Rory." He hadn't seen Tristan around in a few months. "I'm happy for you."
"We all are." Lorelai walked over and she hugged Rory again. "We need to celebrate this." Rory nodded as they walked away.
He walked into Luke's and saw the almost the whole town was here for Rory. It made him happy to see her smiling without having him around her all the time. Rory's face fell some and he looked over his shoulder and saw Tristan was leaning against his car arms folded. Rory said something to Lorelai before walking outside. He walked over to the window and tried to listen to them.
"What are you doing here?" She crossed her arms and looked at him.
"What I have to have a reason to come visit you know?"
"After what happened last month?"
"Nothing happened Rory and you know that." She closed her eyes as the tears started coming down her cheeks.
"I know what I saw Tristan, Summer walking out of your house at nine in the morning." Tristan pushed himself off the car. "She said how great you were last night and how she missed you."
"You know what I love about this? You not even giving me a chance to defend myself. You came busting into my room and breaking up with me right on the spot."
"What did you want me to do?"
"I don't know Rory how about you asking me why Summer was at my house?"
"Fine why was she at your house?" He laughed some as Rory turned around.
"You know what's funny about Summer? Her stepfather is a drunk who beats the crap out of her and her mother. So when he starts to drink they come over to our house and spend the night." She was still looking at him as he walked right in front of her. "What she was talking about was us staying up all night talking and watching movies. We hadn't done that since we started to date."
"Why?" Her voice broke and Tristan reached his hand up and wiped the tears from her cheeks.
"He went to rehab. So she didn't need me anymore and we fell out of touch." He left his hands on her cheeks.
"I'm sorry Tristan." She reached her hands up and laid them on top of his. "I should've talked to you about everything before breaking up with you." He leaned down and his mouth was close to hers.
"You know what this means?" She shook her head. "We get to have hot make up sex."
"Sounds great to me." She grabbed his shirt and crashed his lips to hers.
Dean moved away from the glass and knew it was over. Anything that might've been left between them was now over. He looked over at Lorelai who had watched the couple also and she smiled. He knew it was time to move on and put the Rory chapter behind him.
Thanks for the reviews for the first chapter. Next chapter will be Lorelai's reaction to Rory being with Tristan it will take some of the points that were in this chapter and a few different ones. Once again thanks for reading and reviewing.