KarahBella; eternalgorithm – thank you both so much.
Nicole Katherine; :D; EEL0404 – thank you
mrmp – Thank you. No trory would be complete with out a little drama right?
LoVe23- Thank you, I've read other stories where Lorelei pulls an Emily about Rory being a teenage mom and not being open minded about Tristan. I always wondered what the show would have been like if Tristan was Rory's first boyfriend and Lorelei both gave them approval. This story is my way of expressing it.
anon- thank you for your opinion. I can see where Rory's parenting skills or lack there of could constitute not parenting at all. To some of my readers she could be, being neglectful, to others she could be doing the best she can, or to others it just might be a situation they actually are in.
Audrey Julianne – I'm truly honored that you are interested in my story. Hope this chapter keeps you intrigued.
Part IX
Logan fumed as he came barging into his apartment after unsuccessfully trying to find Rory. Despite what Tristan said about Rory still being on campus, Logan couldn't find her anywhere. He was more disappointed in himself then anything for listening to Tristan's crap back at Rory's dorm and being the last nerve for making her run off.
He sighed. He had no idea where she could be and that frightened him. He had called Lorelei and Christopher to see if they had heard anything thing from their daughter but all he received was a busy signal. He wanted to call Emily and Richard but he didn't have their phone number and he wasn't about to call his mother to get that little piece of information.
He had no choice he had to call his Aunt Sharon and get the Gilmores' phone number. He pulled his cell phone out of his back pocket, punched in a vaguely familiar phone number and pressed send. He waited patiently for the other end to pick up.
"Dugrey Residence, Henri speaking how can I help you," the voice on the other end greeted.
"Hello, Is Sharon DuGrey available please," he asked politely.
"May I ask who is calling," Henri asked.
"Her nephew Logan Huntzberger," he answered.
"One moment please," Henri asked then a pause.
Logan waited for a couple of minutes until the phone was picked up again.
"Logan, Darling, It's so good to hear from you," a woman said as Logan's wait was ending.
"Hello Aunt Sharon. I am terribly sorry for interrupting you. I'm sure you're probably having tea with friends right now."
"Oh nonsense Logan. You know I always have time for my family. What is it I can do for you?"
"Well, you see, I desperately need Richard and Emily Gilmore's telephone number and I don't want to ask Mom for it," Logan answered his Aunt.
"Why do you need their telephone number," Sharon asked.
"Well, I'm dating their granddaughter Rory and she's gone missing. I was hoping they would know where to find her."
There was a pause before Sharon spoke to her nephew again, "You are what? She is what?"
"Dating Rory Gilmore. She's missing."
"You are dating my granddaughter's mother and she's missing! What happened?"
Logan sighed. He knew this was going to be harder than he thought. His Aunt didn't really know anything about his personal life and he hadn't told her he had been dating Rory for almost two years. "Tristan is attending Yale. He and Rory are room mates. He found out we were dating and all three of us had a very intense argument."
"Oh no, He's back. Oh no! I'm sorry Logan. Emily and Richard Gilmore are here. They have no idea where Rory is. I'm very sorry Logan. We…none of us can help you." She didn't want to lie to her nephew. She knew as well as everyone else with in this mixed up family Tristan and Rory created, where Rory was.
"Well, Thank you Aunt Sharon. Do have a good afternoon with your friends. Tell Uncle Russell I say hello."
"I will Logan. Goodbye."
"Goodbye." He ended the telephone call and sighed. Something was up. He knew his Aunt had just lied to him. She knew where Rory was. Maybe Rory told everyone not to tell him where she was but that wouldn't be like her. At least he didn't think so. How could Rory's grandparents have heard what he said to his Aunt unless they were listening in on another line?
He decided to try and call her cell phone. After dialing her number all he was met with was her voicemail: Rory's Nut House. We're full at the moment. Put you're name on the waiting list and we'll call you when we have a vacancy left. He sighed. "Rory, It's me. I'm worried about you. Please call me and tell me where you are. Tell me if you're safe."
Derek and Gigi came storming into the Hayden home arguing about something they obviously couldn't agree on.
"You started it. Take it back" The five year old boy yelled at his older sister.
"Why should I? You started it first," The six year old girl yelled back at her younger brother. "Mom Dre's being stupid!" Gigi yelled through the house trying to get Lorelei.
"Dad! Gigi is using bad words!" Derek yelled trying to get Christopher's attention.
Christopher and Lorelei were sitting at the kitchen table getting a short reprieve from the whole Rory running away situation. They could hear Lani in her mother's old bedroom crying at the top of her lungs.
They looked at each other, took big gulps of coffee and sighed. They both walked into the living room to see their youngest children glaring at each other, pushing and shoving.
"Hey break it up," Christopher said in a loud firm tone while wedging himself between his children. "What's going on here?"
"Well, he pushed me one to the ground," was Gigi's response while Derek said at the same time, "Gigi threw blanky in the swan pond."
"Ya well he told everyone that I had a crush on Toddy Forester."
"Let me see if I have this straight," Lorelei began as her husband tried to keep the children from hurting each other. "Dre told everyone you had a crush on a boy. You threw his blanket in the evil Swan's pond and Dre pushed you into the ground because you threw his blanket in the pond."
The two children looked up at their mother with forlorn faces and nodded. Christopher and Lorelei wanted to yell at them for being childish. They wanted to say there were more serious things happening then losing a blanket and everyone knowing a secret crush.
Christopher looked at Derek, "Where did you hear that your sister had a crush on this Forester kid?"
Derek shrugged as if it were no big deal. "I hear her talking to Amy on the phone." He smiled proudly.
"What! You little rat." Gigi lunged for her brother. Christopher stopped his daughter.
"Where do you go off throwing a blanket into a pond knowing your brother can't get it, Georgina," Lorelei asked Gigi. "You know Dre doesn't know how to swim and you know Pop Luke gave that blanket to him."
Gigi looked down at her feet. "Well, he deserved it."
"How would you feel if he threw away piggy," Christopher asked his daughter. "You're grounded for throwing his most treasured possession into the pond." He told his daughter. "Dre go to the corner," he directed Derek to the time out chair. "Five minutes for telling your sister's secret."
Both children groaned.
"Don't even think about it. You're sister is missing and your niece won't get to see her mother," Lorelei stated. "You both should be lucky that we're not grounding you for a month."
Part X
Rory was rummaging through her Boston closet looking for a box she had stashed away. She had stashed it here because she didn't want the temptation of looking in it just after her break up with Tristan. This was her Tristan box. It was her mom's idea. Everything that reminded her of Tristan or that Tristan gave her went into the box. She had to fly out to all of the weekend houses to get everything to put into the box. It had taken her three months to finally have the box ready to be put into storage. She vowed never to open it again unless Tristan resurfaced.
Now since the blonde boy who was the first to steal her heart came back she needed to open it to confront her past and gain closure. Opening the box she found the last letter she had opened from him. She gingerly picked up the letter's envelope, reached in and took out the letter.
Mary,
You're probably wondering why I'm not at the Romeo and Juliet performance right now and Paris is probably ready to find me to do something unspeakable. Grandpa and Dad sent me off to Military School in North Carolina. I wanted to say good bye to you properly but I know you would probably run off to Boston to lock yourself away from the world. Then Paris would track you down and World War III's first battle would begin.
I want you to know that I do love you. I love you with all my heart. I don't have any excuses for hurting you the way I did. Giving into Summer was the worst mistake in my life. I can't imagine what you were feeling when you walked into my room and saw us. I just want you to know I am truly sorry.
Take care of our little one. I hope it's a girl, so you can keep your family tradition alive. The world needs more Lorelei's. As you can guess my family told me about you being pregnant. I am so happy to hear the news. I can't believe we're going to be parents.
I'm writing this in an airport waiting for my plane to board. I don't want to say good bye. I want so desperately to be in person, down on my knees begging for forgiveness. But we both know that I've been spiraling out of control with my behavior for awhile. You tried to warn me and I just shrugged your ideas away. You know me no respect for authority. Maybe Military school will do me some good. Hopefully when I get out, you and I can get together and talk out our problems. Our little one should be about two when we both graduate. I'll see you in Harvard. I just have a feeling that our families are going to keep me from seeing you.
Well my flight is being called for boarding. There's so much I want to say. Hopefully I can remember it all for the next time I see you.
All my love,
Bible Boy
Reading the letter again brought brimming tears to her eyes like the first time she read it. She wanted to go to him and say she forgave him but she also needed to stand her ground. He had cheated on her with his ex-girlfriend. Lord knew how many other girls he probably cheated on her with. She gingerly replaced the letter in its original encasing, placing it on the nightstand next to her bed.
The next item on the top was a picture of them and their friends at the Stars Hollow Winter Festival. They all had been skating on a rink Taylor had demanded be apart of the Festival that year.
Flashback
They had all decided that they wanted to see what Rory thought was so special about Stars Hollow's Annual Winter Festival, so Tristan rounded up Paris, Madelyn Lynd, Louise Grant, Carter Park and Steve Wu. They all bounded into Tristan's car and rode the half hour to Stars Hollow from Hartford.
Rory was strolling the town's village green where the Festival was held every year with her mother. They both held mugs of hot cocoa in their hands while talking about what the Festival had to offer.
Lorelei witnessed her daughter's best friends advancing towards them, but her daughter was too busy explaining which ride she was going to venture to first. It had been the first year that Taylor Doose; the town of Stars Hollow's self appointed town official for every important position in the town's political system; procured an array of rides from one of the bigger amusement ride companies in the country.
Tristan had tiptoed up to Rory and covered her eyes with his hands. The act caused Rory to jump and attempt to runaway from the assailant. Tristan chuckled, disguised his voice and say, "Guess who?"
Rory laughed at the gesture, she faked not knowing who it was and gave three names knowing they weren't right before saying his name. Tristan had let go when she had said his name. She turned around and wrapped her arms around his neck and buried her head under his chin.
"What are you doing her?" She asked smiling to him and the rest of their friends.
"We wanted to see what was so great about your Winter Festival?" Tristan answered as the group's spokesperson.
"Well you're just in time. Mom and I were debating about which rides we wanted to go on?"
"How about we all go Ice Skating?" Tristan suggested. "Then we'll figure out where to go next."
Paris, Louise, Madelyn, and Rory all grinned. Carter and Steve groaned. "What's the matter boys. You can play Hockey but not Figure skate with your girl friends?" Lorelei teased. "I see Luke over there. I'll catch you all later."
All the teens except Rory chuckled at Lorelei's antics. They all started towards the outdoor man made ice rink. Rory lingered behind staring at the back of her retreating mother. Her Mom and Luke Danes were becoming increasingly close lately and Rory wasn't too sure she liked that. She just guessed this was her Mom's way of getting even with her Dad for having an affair with that Philippine Woman.
She was pulled out of her thoughts by a hand being placed on her shoulder. She looked up to see Tristan smiling down at her. "Come on Mare let's go skating," he reminded her with a peck on her lips.
She allowed Tristan to lead her by the hand to the skate rental booth to pick out skates. "I can't believe you all want to skate. Don't you guys do that enough in Hartford," She asked.
"Afraid you might fall down Mary," Tristan teased his girlfriend. He ended up on a receiving end of a glare from her.
"Skating is a sport. Gilmores don't do sports," she muttered. She certainly was afraid she would fall down and with her luck end up with both her ankles broken.
Paris gave a very rare smile to her friend and an even more rare laugh, "You are afraid. Oh my god, you've never skated before," she announced.
Rory's face turned five shades of red. She buried her face in the crook of Tristan's neck. Tristan ended up glaring at Paris for embarrassing Rory. "I would never let anything happen to you," he whispered in Rory's ear. "You can cling on to me as tightly as you want." He meant that seriously but he couldn't help the double meaning lacing his voice.
Rory glared at her boyfriend and then nodded her head in understanding. She sat down and had Tristan fit the skate boots on to her feet. He then helped her walk over to the ice with the skates on.
Twenty minutes later Rory was laughing and smiling with the rest of her friends. She was being swirled around in the air by her boyfriend at the waist and actually able to move on the ice without a lot of help from Tristan. He had at one point came from behind her, swept her in his arms and started kissing her on the lips. Rory returned the kiss forgetting she was in Stars Hollow out on the ice in the middle of the village green.
Sookie saw the moment and had to take the picture. It was rare to see a Gilmore/Hayden Girl participating in a sport, let alone enjoying the experience. She was going to develop it and give a copy to Lorelei.
Flashback Ends
"I remember that day like it was just yesterday," a voice broke into her memorative trance. "We kept falling because you hadn't been on ice before. You claimed it was against the Gilmore Girl Code," the voice chuckled. "I miss those days were I witnessed you experiencing new things."
Rory broke out of her trance with a start and wiped her face to rid of tears, she just realized she was crying. "What are you doing here Tristan," she said not bothering to comment on his commemorative speech. She came to Boston to get away from him instead he chased after her as if they were still back in Chilton.
"I came to see how you were doing," he answered.
"Hmm, Let me see? How am I doing?" Rory asked herself pausing for a moment to think about his question. She flipped her hair over her shoulder and pushed her bangs out of her eyes with one finger looking up at her bedroom ceiling. The Tristan Box's contents forgotten and the picture floating down to rest on the top of the pile.
After the moment she looked him in the eyes with a pointed look, "I get into an argument with my boyfriend of two years and my ex-boyfriend of six years. I go somewhere to clear my head and my ex-boyfriend follows me. To make matters worse said ex-boyfriend throws an all night keg party which keeps me up all night. Then said ex-boyfriend comes into my house uninvited."
"Alicia thought you might have not clued me to that noise. I guess some things don't change and I was invited. Alicia invited me over." Tristan answered.
Rory glared at him. "This isn't a joke Tristan!!! I can't have you storm into my life just because you grew a conscious and want to atone for your past mistakes. It took me about two cups of coffee to realize where the party noise was coming from. I wasn't about to let Alicia caught on that I figured it out. Should have known she would let you in. You always were her favorite amongst my other boyfriends." She looked into his eyes and found herself speechless for a moment. "I'll have to talk to Alicia about meddling with my personal affairs," she muttered under her breath.
"Please don't she's only worried about you," he stated. He smirked knowing at least one person in Rory's "family" still favored him over others. "I didn't come here to fight Rory. I came because I know how you get when things get blown out of proportion. Last night got out of control and it all my fault, seeing you and Logan together got me seeing red and green. I know you didn't figure out who Logan was or how I was connected to him and I'm sorry. I should have introduced you to everyone in my family. I shouldn't be upset that you are finding happiness."
"Yes, you should and I don't blame you. If the situation was reversed, I think I probably would have reacted the same way Tristan. It's not your fault that Logan and I started dating and it's not your fault that I didn't know who he was. I found out about six months into the relationship who he really was at that point I didn't care. I actually started claiming up about past boyfriends, so he wouldn't figure out you and I use to date."
"I thought it would have been obvious he figured it out given Lani's last name," Tristan thought out loud.
Rory chuckled, "You would think so but no. Lani goes by Gilmore." She saw Tristan look hurt at her confession. "Tristan please don't. Lani is an heiress to three fortunes. It's bad enough that she has three of Hartford Society's most prominent last names. She's has all of our old teachers, who also have had our parents in their classes. They're still traumatized from yours and Dad's elementary school pranks," she laughed again. "It doesn't look like I'm an active parent but everything I've done so far with Lani has been protecting her."
Tristan sat down on the bed next to Rory and looked at her, "I bet she takes after you though," he stated breaking his moment of silence. He laughed hearing about Lani having his old teachers, "They must be shell shocked to see her not making any pranks."
"She does take after me and yes they were after the first couple of months of no incidents. Every year it's the same reaction. I don't know how I'm going to take her going to Chilton."
Tristan chuckled. It's true he finished his schooling in Military school but because his parents were on the Board of Trustees, he was also issued a Chilton diploma. "Why it's not like it'll be any of the same teachers. She's only six. Chilton's eight or nine years away."
"Max Medina will still be there and he has a grudge against the Gilmore's since Mom said she couldn't marry him because she already was married to Dad. He has a grudge against DuGrey's because of pranks being pulled by you and being given code of conduct probation by your parents. Then he has a grudge on Haydens because Dad beat the crap out of him for stalking Mom when the two broke up. All in all I'd say our daughter is in for one hell of tenure at Chilton when she gets there. That's if he's not named Headmaster."
Tristan smirked at her rambling and the way she called Lani 'our' daughter instead of her daughter. It was a little milestone and he'd take every little bonding time he could. "For all you know he was fired after you graduated, most of my family is on the Board, as well as your father and grandparents."
Rory laughed, "I hate Il Deuce. I hope he retired."
"You and your Mom still call Charleston Il Deuce," Tristan laughed.
"Hey what to you expect. He's mean and he doesn't give up. I almost expect him to not die either. I tell you if he's still Headmaster when Lani goes to Chilton, I'm sending her to Williamson Prep."
Tristan's eyes bulged at the statement. He knew serious Rory, sarcastic Rory and funny Rory. This was serious Rory. Williamson Prep was slightly newer school than Chilton but none of the "Old Money" families of Hartford ever sent their progeny there. It was considered taboo and its education was the equivalent of a public school system.
"Like hell you are. Both of our families have been going to Chilton since its founding. It's the best education in New England and I'll be damned that you ruin her education because you despise its Headmaster."
Rory sighed, "There you go. Tristan you've been back in my life for a total of forty-eight hours and already you're given input about Lani's future education?" She groaned, "We can't have a simply conversation without one of us going on the defensive. Besides like you said Chilton is eight or nine years away and Charleston should be retired by then. I'm just being irrational."
"I'm sorry for jumping the gun. I just want you to know that I really have changed since the last time we saw each other and I really want to be apart of Lani's life."
"Like I said in a previous conversation it'll have to take some time for you to be trusted."
Tristan nodded, "First step towards that is for me to tell you call Logan. I'm sure he is worried sick about you. I know I would have been back when we were dating. It took you five years to tell me that you went here to cool down and think. We've been friends our whole lives and I never knew."
Rory sighed, nodded her head and smiled, "I guess you're right. Lani must be as angry as ever too. I promised I would be coming home so she could see me at family dinner tonight."
Tristan stayed quiet for a moment. "It's not too late for you to head back home and keep that promise."
Rory rolled her eyes, "You have been gone way to long. Just because you were able to have a conversation with me which has resulted with neither of us storming out doesn't mean I'm ready to go home."
"Excuse me for believing that you were still more mature then me," Tristan spat. "I'll be leaving my parents have this obsession about me being home tonight." He lied. He wasn't about to say he was returning to the DuGrey Townhouse and planned on staying in the neighborhood to make sure she was alright.
"See you in the dorm when you get back," he then turned and walked out her bedroom. He saw Alicia standing out in the hall near the living room of the Hayden Townhouse smirking at him.
"You better not tail us too closely on the trip home," she murmured in his ear as he retreated to the front door.
"You know her safety is my number one concern Alicia," were his final words as he exited the front door.
Rory sighed. She was still sitting on her bed. Tristan had left over an hour ago. She was staring at her cell phone that she just turned on to find twenty new messages and all were from Logan. She grumbled not wanting to believe Tristan was right.
She had listened to all of Logan's messages and knew she had to call him. She highlighted his name on the phone's screen and pressed send, held the phone to her ear. She waited impatiently as the seconds ticked by.
"Hello," a female's voice answered the phone. She knew it wasn't Honor's voice or Stephanie's voice. "Who's there?"
"Where's Logan?" Rory spat.
"In the shower. Who's calling?"
"His fiancé. Who are you?"
There was a pause before she heard Logan's muffled voice growl angrily at the person who answered his phone. "Hello?"
"Funny how you leave twenty messages on my voicemail because you are so worried and then some skank answers your phone saying you're in the shower. What's going on Logan?"
"It's not what it seems."
Rory sighed, "Funny thing about having a woman answer your phone Logan. The situation is always what it seems."
"That was my cousin Autumn from my Dad's side of the family. She was passing my room when the phone rang," he said.
"It's funny how you never mentioned you had any cousin's on the Huntzberger Family side."
"I don't want to argue with you Rory. She's my cousin who rudely answered someone else's phone without permission and as soon as we're done talking I'm going to talk to her."
"I disappear and you run home, right? Because your cousin isn't in your own apartment, she'd have to be at Mitchum's place."
"Actually she's at my place. She's staying the weekend to look at Yale. She's a high school senior and Yale is the University my uncle is pressuring her to go."
Rory stopped the fight. She didn't want to fight right now. She just wanted to talk to her boyfriend and let him know she was fine. "Logan, I'm sorry for everything."
Logan chuckled. "Ace, you think I'd put up with you and your craziness if I didn't love you? Where are you? I've been scared shitless. Everyone I call either knows where you are and won't tell me or they have no clue completely."
Rory smiled knowing Logan knew he had just put one on her face. She paused to get her bearings straight before telling him where she was. "I'm in Boston at my Townhouse."
Logan stayed quiet for a few minutes. Tristan had gone to Boston too. Could his cousin have known Rory would have fled to Boston and used the keg party as a ploy to be near Rory? "Why Boston Rory? You were so angry that you have to travel five hundred miles to get away."
"First of all Boston isn't that far away it's less then four hundred miles and secondly you don't know the reason why I came here."
"You went there to think out the situation. You went there to try to solve out the problem Tristan created for us."
"It's not just that Logan," she paused to collect her thoughts. "I came because this is my safe haven. The one place I keep to myself or at least try to. You called everyone who knew about my hiding place and they all lied to you because they knew I would call you. They knew not to push me until I was ready to confront you."
"We've been able to talk through almost every trauma you've been through since we started dating. Why was this situation any different?"
"Tristan made it different. You know that. It wasn't about you two fighting. It was about me not ready to face my past and present at the same time."
"Did you always runaway when things got rough with Tristan," Logan asked. He didn't really want to know what her relationship with Tristan entailed but he wanted to know the truth to way she fled New Haven.
Rory laughed, "Yes, yes I did. Funny thing is. Tristan, Paris and I have known each other our whole lives. They just got use to it. I've always been a strategist. I would run, think, make lists, then decisions and comeback."
"I don't know why I haven't learned this about you before," Logan questioned. "I mean you taking off to Boston when things get rough."
"I've always compared my boyfriends to Tristan, Logan you have to understand that it took years for Tristan to figure out where I disappeared to. I didn't tell you about Boston because I wasn't ready. I would have told you eventually."
"Eventually? Like when we were married, got into an argument and disappeared for a couple days? Then I ask where've you been? Or eventually meaning Tristan pressured you to call me and tell me where you were?"
"How'd you know Tristan was in Boston," she asked shocked at this news.
"The cocky bastard said he was heading your way for a frat boy party. Now that I know you are in Boston, I know his alterative motives are."
"Jealousy doesn't suit you Logan."
"I can say the same for you with running away."
"I don't want to fight Logan."
"Well we can't always get what we want. I want my beautiful gorgeous girlfriend to be in her apartment in New Haven but she's in Boston. I want to have the hottest most passionate make-up sex we've ever had but you're in Boston. I wanted to take you somewhere special to celebrate our anniversary but you're…"
Rory smiled and rolled her eyes, "I know in Boston."
"When are you coming home," the seriousness shined through his voice and Rory desperately wanted to say 'tonight' but knew that wouldn't be true.
"Tomorrow night, Monday afternoon at the latest. I have a few things I need to sort out first," Rory explained.
"You know I'm always here for you Rory."
"I know you are. It's just I have to solve this problem on my own right now."
"You know your daughter is fuming right now? Don't you? I'm getting calls from her left and right. Something about you breaking a very important promise and not being able to see Uncle Finn."
Rory sighed. "If you're telling me I'm a horrible mother, then thank you. You're not the first one to point, that, out to me."
"I'm not saying anything like that. I'm just saying Lani is furious."
Part XI
Lorelei Lei-Lani Gilmore IV- Hayden II Dugrey was furious. She was sitting in her great grandparents home dressed neatly in a gown of their choosing and her mother was nowhere to be in sight. Her Aunt Gigi and Uncle Dre were fighting constantly getting the attention of both her grandparents.
Papa Dugrey and Mimi were sitting across from her staring sadly in her direction. Papa Janlan and Grandmamma Dugrey were sitting next to Papa Dugrey and Mimi glaring at the couple. Grandpa Richard was keeping Grandma Emily occupy with some senseless chatter. All she wanted to do was go home and wallow in her room.
"So Lani, how is school coming along for you," Papa (Russell) Dugrey asked his granddaughter. Lani didn't answer; she just sat quietly, using her fork to move her food around her plate.
"Lorelei Lei-Lani Dugrey, you answer Papa Dugrey," Grandma Emily scolded her.
Lani sighed. Nana usually tried to keep the conversation between her and Grandma Emily non-existent, at times like these when Nana was busy with her Aunt and Uncle Lani had to fend for herself, "Why does it matter? Mommy's not here and I don't feel like talking," she mumbled.
Nana took a moment away from trying to calm Aunt Gigi and Uncle Dre down to look at Lani, "We understand that you're upset doll face but you should at least answer your grandfather respectfully," she whispered in her ear.
Lani sighed again and looked at Papa Dugrey, "I'm sorry Papa. School is wonderful. I'm glad to be back and able to play with my friends."
Russell looked at his granddaughter. It seemed to him that she knew the reason to her mother's disappearance and suddenly became furious for his son's hastened return to Connecticut. "I accept darling. I'm sorry you're so upset about Mommy not being here for dinner tonight. I'm sure she'll be back before you know."
Lani rolled her eyes, "Not if Daddy stays around. She'll never come back." She finished eating her dinner, stood up, "Grams may I please be excused," she asked Grandma Emily.
Emily not one to allow rudeness to be awarded almost thought about not excusing Lani from the table. "Yes dear. Why don't you run along and play with your Aunt and Uncle. I think they are in the garden. Am I right Lorelei?"
"Yes, Mom you're right. Run along kiddo." Lorelei ordered.
The table full of the Haydens', Gilmores', Dugreys' elders sat in silence until they all thought for sure the youngest of their family was out of the house.
"How does she know about Tristan," Sharon asked distressed about the young heiress' knowledge.
"She heard Mom and I talking over the phone about why Rory wouldn't be hear tonight."
"I checked with the Board of Trustees at Yale at it seems Tristan has transferred there. It also seems that he is also Rory's dorm mate." Richard addressed the table.
"I checked with the Brigade and they said he also put in for a transfer to the Yale Charter," Russell added.
"All of our hard work down the drain," fumed Janlan. "I love that boy but still, he makes irrational decisions that complicates many lives. He doesn't understand about actions and consequences."
"Just yesterday while Richard and Emily were sitting with us for Tea, Logan called asking if I had any idea where Rory had gone after, of course, he had asked for Emily and Richard's phone number. He was certainly trying to cover all his bases. He knew Lorelei and Christopher wouldn't supply him anything. When I asked why then he told me that he was dating Rory. I was shocked to say the least."
"It's such a scandal now." Emily crowed. "I can't believe I didn't realize the similarities sooner or how I could have forgotten how the Huntzbergers were related to you. My great granddaughter's future step-father her own second cousin," She exclaimed.
Janlan agreed with Emily's sentiment. "Come to think of it. It was underhanded how Tristan decided to comeback He's without a doubt in Boston right now, just to be near Rory."
"I'm quite surprised it took him this long to defy us," Sherilyn Dugrey spoke of her grandson. "Those two were always inseparable when they were younger."
"Let's just hope he has a clear head on his shoulders and Rory comes to her senses. We can't have our grandchild and great grandchild's new father be her second cousin," Emily added.
Lorelei and Chris as well as Russell and Sharon stayed quiet through their parents' tangents. All were shaking their heads at the situation which had just risen by their own children. Please God help us all was the same collective thought of the four.
