Tristan and I walked into the diner together after school. It was our usual everyday routine. He would come in the morning and walk me to school, we would go to our classes then we would meet up outside after school to walk back to the diner together. Once at the diner I would make us something to eat and we would talk about our day. Eventually we would go upstairs to work on homework. He would leave around seven or seven-thirty after dinner. I don't know the last time he actually had a meal with his own family. The first thing I saw walking into the diner was Dad running around trying to serve everyone at once. I looked around to find Jess but didn't see him. Anger rose up through me.

"Get comfortable I will be right back." I told Tristan. He sat on the nearest stool. I ran up the stair two at a time up to the apartment.

"JESS!" I yelled swinging the door open.

"What?" He asked calmly sitting on his bed.

"What are you doing up here?" I asked irritated with my hands on my hips.

"Reading a book." He answered not missing a beat.

"You are suppose to be working!" my voice rose.

"I don't feel like it." Jess said turning the page. I marched over to him. I grabbed the book from his hands and threw it across the room. It hit the wall and fell to the floor with a loud thud. Jess looked at me surprised.

"We had a deal! I work in the morning and you work in the afternoon then we both do the dinner shift!" I yelled at him

"You just want me out of here so you and your boyfriend can have the place to yourself." Jess was pressing his luck with me. He knew that Tristan wasn't my boyfriend and that I hated it when people said that. I pierced my green eyes into his hard brown eyes.

"Get downstairs and help my father." I said with a steady even tone.

"Whatever." He mumbled and walked out. I flew my arms in the air and let them fall back down to hit my legs.

"Family argument." I heard Tristan say. I spun around to see him leaning in the doorway.

"I just get so annoyed with him. We are doing everything to help him. My dad gives him a job, helps pay for his car. I help him with his homework so he can at least graduate because that's the deal and how does he repay us, by being a complete jackass all the time." I said getting emotional. I rubbed both my eyes with the palms of my hands. "I just don't get what else we are suppose to do." Tristan came over to me and wrapped his arms around me. I fell into him. I never noticed before how nice he smelled and how built he actually was.

"He will come around." He said when I pulled away from him slightly. I rested my forehead against his.

"I hope so."

Tristan ended up helping me with the dinner shift because Jess left and didn't come back. I was counting money after we closed praying that the register balanced out.

"I have to head home." He said coming up beside me.

"Ok I will see you tomorrow then." We pounded our fists together and he headed out of the diner.

"Can you take out the garbage?" Dad asked me walking out of the kitchen with a big black garbage bag in his hand.

"Yeah sure." I took the bag and walked out of the diner. The cool breeze hit my face. I walked to the dumpster and threw the bag in. I was about to turn and walk away when something caught my eye. It was two people kissing against a nearby wall. I walked closer and adjusted my eyes to see better. My mouth dropped open. It was Jess and Rory! Jess had Rory pinned against the wall and there hands were wondering each other's bodies. I should have said something but selfish me wanted to see how this played out. I quietly walked backwards to the diner.

"Did you see Jess while you were out there?" Dad asked me when I walked back into the diner.

"Nope." I answered and ran up the stairs. Jess didn't come in until ten that night. Of course Dad and him argued about it. I didn't want to hear it tonight so I grabbed my phone and went down stairs to call Tristan.

Even though today was Saturday Tristan treated it has any other day. He barged into the diner about the same time to get himself breakfast. Lorelai and Rory followed him shortly after. I had to control myself from laughing. Jess entered the diner in his usual broody mood. He noticed Rory and gave her a small smile. She smiled back at him but was interrupted by Dean. I leaned against the counter watching as Dean's face grew suspicious. Tristan leaned next to me putting crème cheese on his bagel.

"This is going to better then a movie." He said. I meet his glance and smirked. I had told him about the kiss last night when I called him.

"What is going on here!" Dean yelled looking back and forth from Jess to Rory. Dean had always been possessive of Rory and got jealous really easy.

"Nothing." Rory stammered out.

"Dean it was just a friendly hello." Lorelai said defending her daughter.

"Yeah it looked really friendly." Dean said crossing this arms over his chest.

"Dean it was nothing." Rory said getting upset that everyone was watching this.

"Are you cheating on me with him?" Dean asked. I stiffed back a laugh and Tristan just about choked on his bite of bagel. Rory, Jess, and Dean all turned to look at us.

"No I am not…" Rory started but couldn't finish her sentence. She sighed and put her face into her hands.

"I can't believe this. Are you cheating on me with TrisTAN too." Tristan narrowed his eyes at Dean. I put my hand on his arm to keep him from leaping across the counter.

"No I am not cheating on you with him." Rory pointed in our direction.

"But with Jess?" Dean said in an almost whisper.

"Can we talk about this outside?" Rory asked him.

"No because I don't want to talk to you right now Rory." Dean turned on his heels and stormed out of the diner. Rory followed him yelling his name down the street. Jess looked over at us. I raised an eyebrow at him and turned away to continue serving coffee.

"That was an amazing fight." Tristan said as we walked around the town.

"Ehh could have been better." I said popping some skittles into my mouth.

"So why do you hate Rory so much anyways." Tristan asked me. I stopped walking

"I thought we had talked about this." I said throwing away my wrapper.

"No you just say something like 'I don't know we just do'" Tristan said trying to mock my voice.

"I do not talk like that!" I shoved his playfully "I don't really know why the real reason is. We just grew up hating each other."

"But there had to be that one moment that made you hate her." I sighed and sat on the steps of the gazebo, Tristan sat next to me.

"Why are you pushing this so much? Is it because you used to like her."

"Used too?" Tristan said looking over at me.

"You still like her?" I asked surprised.

"No, that was only a moment." Tristan laughed at me.

"Good because other wise our friendship would be over and I know that you cant live without me." I said getting up from the step and continued my walk.

"Oh you are so right. I would die without you." Tristan said in an exaggerated voice. I laughed at our stupidity. "But don't avoid the question." God why does he have to have an amazing memory.

"She is too perfect and goody to shoes for me. I don't like that and she don't like me because I kind of bullied her in kindergarten. Were rivals always have been always will be." I noticed shadows in front of me. I looked up to see Rory and Lorelai standing in front of us. We all stood and looked at each other for a moment before moving around each other. I didn't see it but I could feel Rory's glare into my back.

A/N: Rory and Jess will end up together just because I like them together. I am thinking about have Lacy and Tristan end up together also but I haven't completely decided on that one. Anyhow REVIEW!