Challenge

Ch. 2 Welcome

Author's Note: Thank you for the reviews and alerts. The next chapter is a pretty good one.

Thank you and enjoy.

Cindy

(Rory's point of view)

The producer met with me first. He gave me a lot of the information I needed. I was covering the All-American Cake Challenge. There also had to be an extreme element. The producer said I would be meeting the Host and Judges of the show first.

"Hello I'm Claire Robinson." A dark haired woman said as the producer left us to talk.

"I'm Rory Gilmore-Hayden." I said shaking her hand.

"Nice to meet you Rory." Claire said.

"You too." I responded.

We chatted for a little bit. Claire was really funny. She welcomed me to the food network family. She also laughed when I confessed I wasn't much into food except to eat it.

I meet Keegan Gerhard next. He was the previous host and now was a judge. He was nice too. He gave me a full background on the show.

After that I met Kerry Vincent. She was a judge too. I was honestly a little scared of her. I wrote a few more notes and then Claire took me to meet two of the contestants.

The first one was Collette Peter. She is a world known medal winning pastry chef. She was really funny. And she said that I would quickly learn the challenge was full of surprises.

I met Jacob Loners next. It was another challenger. He had a couple of wins as well. I thought he was nice too even when he hit on me. I hadn't found a feature piece though. I was about to greet the other two contestants when my phone rang. I quickly stepped out to answer it.

"Hi Mom." I said without even needing to look at my caller id.

"Hello there fruit of my loins. How's your first day going?" Mom asked.

"Yuck Mom don't call me that. And pretty good though the day has really just started." I answered.

"Oh sorry for calling so soon Hon I just wanted to check in." Mom apologized I knew she was as excited as I was about my first day.

"It's okay I can talk for a second." I said hoping to make her feel better.

"Are you sure?" Mom asked.

"Yeah so how are Gigi and Dylan doing?" I asked.

"Gigi likes a boy that reminds me of your Dad and Dylan broke my I-Pod." Mom said with a laugh.

"Sounds like we need to catch up." I said.

"Yes we should little missy." Mom said as I saw him.

"Oh my…" I said shocked.

"Are you okay Ror?" Mom asked.

"One of the pastry chefs looks like Tristan Dugray." I answered.

"Bible boy?" Mom questioned.

"Yes weird huh?" I questioned back.

"Well Mommy needs to get back to work and you need to go meet the hottie chef." Mom said laughing.

"Bye Mom I'll call you later." I said.

I hurried back inside. I didn't see the Tristan clone anywhere. Had I imagined him? Claire took me to meet one of the other contestants.

Her name was Annie Chow. She was a scientist along with being a baker. She was young though barely 19. She had only been baking for two years. This was her first competition.

I looked up and there he was. He truly looked like he could be an older Tristan. His hair was shorter and he was scruffy. He couldn't really be Tristan could he? That's crazy what would he be doing here?