Laws Of The Less Traveled Road

I own Austin, Kyle, Evan, Shayna, and Nick. Gilmore Girls is not mine.

Pairing: Trory?

Thanks to my beta Jackie!

I hope you enjoy:0)

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BACKGROUND (that I promised):

Rory was in another school up until now. She's about 16 and starting Chilton a few months into the school year. She's a sophomore. Lorelai and Chris are not together, but instead of having just Rory, she also had Nick. Therefore, Rory and Nick are twins. They both live with Lorelai in Stars Hollow. Rory has dated a few guys, at the moment it doesn't matter whether she dated Dean or not. As you can tell, Rory is a bit out of character, but it won't be too extreme…at least I don't think so. And now, any questions, ask me! And now, the next chapter!

CHAPTER TWO:

"Hey Ror?" Nick peeked his head into Rory's room. She was sitting at her desk typing on her computer.

She turned her head around, "What's up?"

"You're already finished the homework?"

"Yup." She said smiling. He walked farther into her room and saw she was instant messaging someone.

"Who ya talking too?"

"Oh Jeremy."

"Jeremy? Who's that? Someone from your other school?"

"Nope, it's who you like to call 'Dreamy Boy'. I'm just telling him about the new school since I haven't talked to him in a few days." Nick nodded.

"Does mom know you do this?"

Rory looked down, "No, but don't tell her. I'm waiting till she's in a really good mood." Nick nodded.

"Kay, well I'm gonna catch some sleep. I'm walking you up tomorrow by 6:30." Rory groaned as he left her room. She turned her attention back to the computer screen.

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"Rory, COME ON!" Nick sighed pulling Rory out the door.

"Why must we be late…again?" He asked as she shut her car door. She mumbled a sorry and moved with him towards the intimidating building. Shayna greeted them at the door.

"Sleeping late again? Better be careful, Charleston doesn't like lateness. 'Frowns upon it' actually." She said smiling and using quotation marks. Rory smiled back at the girl she'd become friends with so quickly. Rory signed in at the Wellness Center and walked with Shayna to their first class. Nick had already ran ahead.

"So how's that tattoo? Feel okay?" Rory placed her hand lightly over the spot and nodded.

"A little sore, but that's it."

Shayna nodded, "Are you okay? You seem sorta down?"

"Nah, I'm alright. Just tired." Rory said smiling as they entered their classroom. All through class, Rory couldn't get her mind off of a particular person. Although they hadn't said much to each other, she still couldn't shake off the feelings his eyes sent through her. Tristan. That was it. She didn't know his last name, or anything about him. Yet, he intrigued her. Soon she was on her way to lunch.

"Hey Rory, are you in any clubs yet?" Austin asked as she paid for her food.

She shook her head, "No, I don't even know what clubs there are here." He nodded.

"Well, today at lunch there's a CHAOS meeting. It stands for Chilton Acting On Stage. It's pretty much an acting club, or a theater club. But it's chaos." He said smiling, "You welcome to come if you'd like. Since you're new, we can make an exception."

Rory thought about it and shrugged, "Yea sure. Why not?" She followed him to the Theater building.

"Sup guys?" Evan asked running up to them.

"Evan's in the club too." Austin supplied. Rory nodded understandingly and entered the building. Carved into stone were the words, "The Bryn Miller Dramatic Workshop". They went into the house and saw a bunch of people sitting on the stage eating their lunch.

"Come on, let's eat." Evan said climbing the steps and taking a seat next to a small group of people. They sat down and started to eat.

"You're Rory, right?" A girl asked.

She nodded, "Yea, I'm sorta new here."

"Cool, I'm Page. Well Elizabeth Paige, but I go by Paige."

Rory cocked her head, "Does everyone who has the first name Elizabeth go by their middle name?"

"Umm I don't think so, why?"

"Well because you do and so does Shayna." Paige laughed.

"I never realized that! That's funny, but no. Not all of us go by our middle names." They were interrupted when they heard a voice quieting them all down. Rory looked up and was surprised to see the voice belonged to Tristan.

"Welcome everyone, umm it looks like we have a new face today, so we'll do some easier crap today. Umm any ideas?" He asked the group. A guy raised his hand.

"Carl, go ahead."

"That hitchhiker game. You know where there's two people and they pick up a hitchhiker?"

"Okay, let's do it." Tristan pulled out three stools and placed them in a row center stage. "Pretty much, there's two people in a truck and they pick up a hitchhiker. The hitchhiker has a personality, anything you want," Tristan started to say. "The other two people have to take on the personality and play along. The number one rule of improv is that you can never say no. Make sense?" There was a murmur of yes' around the stage.

"Great, I need two people. Bella and Casey." He called on two girls. They made their way up and sat down. "Hitchhiker?" He pointed to a guy and he made his way. The game started and soon, the audience was laughing hard as they picked up hitchhikers. There was a lady going into labor, a guy with a massive erection, some one talking about how they'd explain to their kids the birds and the bees which proved to be one of the funniest, and of course a criminal escaping the police.

Rory watched. She noticed all of the girls didn't care what people thought of them. It was so unlike the other girls she had met so far. The guys weren't flirting with the girls either. "All right you guys! That's it for today. Next week we'll start talking about how we're going to go about the winter play. Mr. Dawson was looking for people to audition. There's tech, stage crew. Keep it in mind. I'll post sign up sheets for the crews next week." Tristan said as everyone dispersed to their afternoon classes. Tristan ran up and caught up with Rory.

"So you're interested in acting then?"

Rory shrugged. "I don't know actually. I've never really acted before. Austin just suggested this club today, and I thought, why not? It seems like a lot of fun though." Rory breathed.

"You should try out for the winter play. None of us know what it is yet, but the experience is great." Rory nodded.

She stuck out her hand out, "I'm Rory Gilmore, by the way." He tilted his head and raised an eyebrow. She blushed.

He smiled and stuck his hand out, "Pleasure to meet your Mary. I'm Tristan Dugrey." Rory pulled her hand away.

"I just told you my name was Rory."

"I like Mary better."

"Well I like Rory better. Girls are smarter than boys. Surprised you didn't know that."

"So back to the original topic." He said running a hand through his blonde spiky hair.

"I've never done acting before, why start now?"

"You may like it. Come next week to the club and try one of the games. See if you like it." He said shrugging.

"I can do that." She nodded.

"Good. Now let's go, or we'll be late for Geometry." He said as they walked faster towards the Science Building.

I'm convinced this chapter sucks. I didn't know what to write so this is my third attempt at it. I personally found this one the best of the three. Anyways, please review! Thanks, Kiki.

POLL RESULTS!

Laws Of The Less Traveled Road (this story) and From War To Family.

I'll try and go back and forth between the two stories. That means next story updated is From War To Family. :0)

p.s. jackie, the update of the chapter you fized wouldn't upload, so i had to just post this one :0(