Tyler got back to the mansion in record time after speaking with Will; he quickly made his way to his grandfather's study. He burst in. His grandfather jumped slightly at the abrupt intrusion. Tyler noticed a picture frame in his hand, and the dreamily look in his face, he wanted to question it but there were more pressing matters to be discussed.
"Have you seen the news?"
Tyler shot up on his bed when he heard his father laugh. His father never laughed. He made his way of his room and looked down to the foyer. His breath caught when he saw her. The girl the had ruined his life, deep down he knew it wasn't her fault, knew she didn't want this anymore than he did. But it didn't change the loathing he felt, and it had nothing to do with the company. But his father, the man he respected more than anything, the man that ignored him day in and day out was getting along with this girl, but couldn't formulate a sentence towards him.
He saw them retreat into the sitting room; he sat down on the stairs. Even from a story up he could see the happiness of is father, it radiated off of him, Tyler bet his eyes sparkled the way they did in pictures before. Before what, He had no idea.
Tyler had every intention of going down there and giving his father and the girl a piece of his mind, or at least eavesdropping, but couldn't get himself to do it. Instead he went down to the study and silently shut the door.
He sat down in the chair his grandfather had occupied. Something silver caught his eye, the frame is grandfather had been holding. He picked it up and stared at it, there was nothing dreamy about it, just a giant fake performance his mother had them put on. The vacant look in his father's eyes…a look he had seen all too often made him snap. The frame went flying into the air and landed with a shattering crash. He knew no one would hear it, and had hoped the violent act would make him feel better but it didn't. he sighed to himself and made his way over to it to clean up the mess.
He brought a trashcan over with him to pick up the shards of glass. He picked up the frame, considered throwing it all away, including the picture. But he thought back to the look in the great and powerful Mitchum's eye. If he had learned anything while living her it was that things are not always what they seem. But how could this not be what it is? Then he noticed the edge of a picture that lay behind. Hesitating ever so slightly for reasons he couldn't justify. He lifted the ruse of a picture off, and was met with a picture he couldn't describe. A happiness on his fathers features with a woman that was not his mother, but more than likely the mother of the girl sitting out there and spending time with his father.
Will never thought of his family as more than ordinary, in the sense of social rank that is. They made enough money to get by and were definitely happy. They lived in a small town outside of Hartford, where he went to Chilton prep. Yes, he is the son of Lorelai and Lucas Danes. Grandson of Emily and Richard Gilmore, who were paying his way through Chilton as they had done for his much older sister Rory. Will never planed on going to a prestigious school, or becoming friends with Tyler Huntzberger. It all just happened, one day he was attending Stars Hollow High the next he was standing in the halls of Chilton wearing a very uncomfortable uniform. He didn't even know his family had connections with the Huntzberger's, aside his friendship with Tyler, until this morning.
William Richard Danes went down to breakfast this morning like it had been any other day. Nothing felt special or different about this day until he reached the newspaper. He felt like the world had shifted, he looked up at his mother. Meeting her eyes instantly, her silence being all he needed to know it was the truth. Without a word he shot out of his house and made it to school where he restlessly waited for Tyler, Tyler who never turned on his stupid cell phone.
Tyler finally arrived in his normal fashion; he barely got out of his car when Will pounced on him.
"Have you seen the news this morning?"
