Surprise
by Angel Girl

Name: Angel Girl15
Email: sweet_death_29@hotmail.com
Title: Surprise
Spoilers: none
pairing': mostly R/T
Rating: Pg-13
Feedback: Plz email feedback to sweet_death_29@hotmail.com
Other notes: my first fanfic...i might continue it depending on feedback i get
Pairing: Rory/dean then Rory/tristin
Disclaimer: these dontt belong to me...blah, blah, blah u know it by now.

~*~*~*~*part 4~*~*~*~*~*~

Dam can it take you girls any longer to get changed. I must have been waiting here for at least 15 minutes" Tristin complained.

"Beauty takes time" Trish responded.

We walked out of the school laughing about how stupid we were to have a mud fight. When we got out the last game was about to start, so we hurried into the bleachers to watch. I ended up sitting between Trish and Tristin, both who do not know the meaning of personal space.

The game was pretty simple. Run through an obstacle course, and at the end was a climbing rope with envelopes on them. You had to grab any envelope and carry it back through the course where a judge would ask you the question in the envelope. If you got it right then the next person went and if you got it wrong you had to go again. The two team left were the Senior(grade 12) team and the Sophomore team (grade 10).

"So who should we go for?" Tristin asked.

"The team that makes the most fools of themselves" I said, watching the race start.

"And that team would be…"

"Wait for it…" I said.

The first question the Sophomore Team got was "Who wrote this famous line…

"Would a rose by any other name, smell so sweet…"

The guy immediately yelled out "ROMEO!!"

Everyone in the stands started screaming with laughter.

"Okay so we are going for the sophomore team" I said through my laughter.

The game went pretty quickly, with the Senior team winning.

"Dam, our guys didn't pull through" Trish said with sarcasm.

"I know. We'll cry all night long" I said with just as much sarcasm.

"You defiantly are an odd one, Rory. Lucky for you I like odd people. They make me feel more normal" Trish said.

"Thanks…I think."

We climbed off the bleachers and I watched Trish bound off to hang out with her friends.

"I thought she'd never leave…"Tristin commented.

"And I though you would never leave. And unfortunately you haven't."

"Ouch that hurt. Besides it didn't look like you wanted me to leave when you were lying on top of me."

"So what? You tackled me."

"So you could of landed anywhere but you decided on me."

"You know I think I get dumber every second I spend with you."

"Probably but you don't care."

It was so weird. I was having Dean style banter with Tristin. This was not right, but it was coming so easily.

"Hey Rory! You in there?" Tristin asked waving his hand in my face.

We walked into the school and followed the signs to the banquet.

"Tristin! Tristin!" a high pitched girls voice screamed out.

Asia and Carrie came running up to him and bumped me out of the way. I had an urge to say something but instead I just walked ahead into the room. I found Trish with a bunch of girls, giggling over something.

"Hey" I said to her.

"Hey. Guys this is Rory. That is Karen, Jen, Brandi, Jamie and Aimee" Trish said pointing around the circle.

"Hi" I said shyly.

"You were in my English class right?" Jen asked.

"yeah I think so."

"English is so dam hard. I mean why do there have to be all these rules and stuff. Why can't you just write and talk and just mix words together completely. Plus whats with all the ancient writing?"

"Well I guess its to teach us from the past."

"Rory, that outfit looks great on you! Don't you have those jeans, Trish?" Brandi asked.

"They are mine. I loaned them to her after our lovely mud fight."

"Ha, that was so dam funny. You guys were like the comedy act of the day."

"We'll be doing an encore later tonight" I said with sarcasm.

"So miss Gilmore, do you always just desert guys like that" Tristin asked draping his arm casually around my shoulder.

"Well considering you had those other two girls just DYING to get your attention I thought I'd give them a chance to talk to the amazing Tristin Dugray."

"Amazing is true…so, so true."

"Conceited, self absorbed also work."

"Not as well though."

He pulled me away from the group a bit and I could hear them whispering. He still had his arm around my shoulders and I made no move to remove it.

"So why do I deserve the honour of being graced in your presence alone" I asked.

"Oh well I have so much love to spread around and I just finally got started on the R's."

"I'll warn Trish then that she's coming up."

"Well actually I'm hoping not to leave the R's. Well the Rory stop anyways…"

I didn't really know how to respond to that so I just stupidly looked at the ground.

"What no witty come back?" he said.

"I'm working on one."

"Well, don't over exert that little brain of yours."

"I don't plan on wasting my precious brain cells thinking about you."

"And so precious those brain cells are since they seem to be disappearing so quickly."

I finally gathered up some courage and asked him "Do you wanna go somewhere else for some food? I don't really feel like waiting here forever."

"Sure" he said, trying to hold his happiness in.

"I'll meet you outside, I have to go tell Trish something."

"Hopefully its something good about me."

I tapped her on the shoulder and said "Can I borrow your clothes for a bit longer, and return them later? Tristin and I are going to go somewhere else."

"Oooh, lucky girl!! Tristin's a god if I ever saw one. I'll call you like tomorrow or something so I can get them, plus I'll want a few details…"

"Okay. I'll see you later."

I walked out, suddenly getting a scared feeling. What would happen? I mean I like him and all but he;s a lot more advanced then me at this whole thing. Dean at least waited for me but with Tristin I didn't know. I got outside and found Tristin waiting leaning on his car, staring into space. I never had really noticed how cute he was. He had always just seemeed like a snobby brat. He looked up and noticed me staring.

"So you going to move those feet or am I going to have to drag you from that spot."

"Well see I was just SO distracted by how good you looked that I was stuck" I said fillingmy voice with sarcasm.

"I feel so special" he said pretending to wipe a tear from his eye.

"So where we going to go? I don't really know all the eating places around here.

"You want something simple or fancy?"

I just stared at him and so he said "Okay a place with coffee."

"Good choice."

"So you going to get into the car or you going to walk."

"I have my moms car here."

"So? I'll drive to wherever we eat then we can come back and get your car."

I couldn't think of any reasonable excuse so I just nodded. He opened the door for me and I climbed in. While he walked around I glanced around the car and saw it was filled with high tech stuff. Then I noticed in the backseat a TV with N64 controllers.

"NO WAY! You have games in your car?" I squealed.

"Yeah" he said like it was no big deal.

"Oh screw sitting in the front seat" I said slipping through the seats and into the backseat where I put on my seatbelt and figured out how to turn the thing on.

"I guess I'm just so interesting you have to play games while with me."

"YEY!" I said ignoring him when I finally got it turned on.

"So I'll just find a place to eat then…" he said, his words falling on dead ears.

Tristin's POV:

I wanted to talk to her, but I didn't mind just watching her play the games with the rear-view window. I wasn't totally sure where to take her since I didn't know what she liked to eat or drink, well besides coffee. I had a little diner in mind that was about 10 minutes away.

"No!! Stupid car! Go the other way! AHH!!!…no, don't crash!! You suck!" she screamed at the TV, then leaned back and sighed.

"Not winning?" I said.

"No!" she pouted.

"Giving up?"

"Hell no!"

"No way! Rory Gilmore just swore. Innocent, virgin Rory."

"Ha ha" she said turning her attention back to the game.

I pulled into the diner, and since Rory was wrapped up in her game I just told her I'd be right back.

I walked into the place and up to the counter where an old lady handed me a menu. I looked it over and didn't really know what to get Rory so I decided I'd get 2 things.

"Can I get a large coffee to go, a large coke, 2 hamburgers with toppings on the side and…chocolate cake?"

"All that to go?" the lady asked.

"Yes please."

"It'll take about 5 minutes."

"Fine."

I sat down on the counter and just stared into space, thinking about Rory.

It had shocked me when she asked me if I wanted to leave the banquet. I didn't want to act like I was too excited though. When she said she and Dean broke up I was so happy. I wanted so bad just to grab her and kiss her but I wasn't sure if she just wanted a friend or more.

"Hey honey, your foods all ready" the waitress said.

"Thanks" I said passing her two twenties saying "Keep the change."

I balanced the food back out to the car and climbed into the back seat with Rory. Her eyes were intent on the screen.

"Where'd you go?"

"To get food."

"YEY! Is there coffee?"

"Course."

She paused the game and we opened the bag and sorted the food out. Normally I wouldn't want to eat in my car, its so, cheap but it seemed appropriate and fine with Rory.

"Race ya?" I asked after finishing my burger off.

She finished just as fast, and just grabbed the controller.

HOUR LATER

Rory's POV

"You're going down Dugrey!" I said cutting him off.

"No!! Beaten by a girl…I'm so ashamed" he joked.

"Dream on."

"Well you know I let you win…"

"Ha! You couldn't beat me even if I gave you a 10 second head start."

"Ahh, you're right."

We had already devoured the food and the drinks and we're still sitting in the parking lot.

I glanced at my watch.

"Oh we better get going. My mom's probably is going crazy."

"Okay" he said getting out of the backseat. A second later he reappeared in the front seat. I didn't even bother to get out, I just climbed into the front seat.

"You are such a lady" he said.

"And you love me for it."

"Well considering most of the girls I've gone out with have been not ladies I would think that would be different."

"Ah yes, your lovely history of sluts."

"They have not all been sluts…"

"Yeah, sure."

"Well, what can a guy do? I mean all these gorgeous girls falling all over me willing to do whatever I want?"

"Like Carrie and Asia?"

"What?"

"You know the 2 girls on our team? The ones that decided to practically remove me from your side when we got to the banquet?"

"Oh them. Yeah those are the kinds of girls I used to like…"

"Used to?"

"Well, see I've finally figured I want more than that."

"Am I seriously witnessing this? A change in Tristin?"

"Yep."

"And exactly what does that entail?"

"Not much, but just not going for the meaningless, sluts."

"Good for you."

We drove in silence for a couple minutes and into the school parking lot.

Tristin pulled his car right next to my jeep.

"Looks like the banquet's still going on…" I said surprised.

"Any Chilton event lasts awhile. They have to have at least one 30 minute speech."

"So glad we skipped out on that."

I climbed out of the car and Tristin followed.

"So I guess I'll see you when school starts?" I asked.

I saw his shoulders drop a bit, maybe from disappointment. "Yeah. If you ever wanna talk or go out and do something just get my number from the directory."

I looked up at him, and we just stared into one another's eyes for a moment until I heard a ringing coming from the Jeep. I unlocked the door and grabbed my cell phone that my grandma had given me.

"Hello?"

"Where are you?"

"I'm in the Chilton parking lot."

"Did you not forget your grandma and grandpa were coming over?"

"Oh my god!! I'm so sorry! I'll be there as soon as I can."

"You better…I'm in hell. They are torturing me. And pretty soon I think they are just going to strap me to a chair and tell me all that is wrong with this place."

"I'll be right there" I said hanging up the phone.

"Emergency?" Tristin asked, leaning on the open jeep door.

"Yeah my grandparents are torturing my mother. I'm usually the moderator but I forgot they were coming over."

"Sorry for keeping you…"

"No, I had fun. I got to go" I said reluctantly.

"Bye" he said closing the door.

I started the car and before I backed out I rolled down the window.

"Forget something?" he asked, leaning on the windowsill.

"Yeah…" I said kissing him on the lips. It only lasted a couple of seconds before I pulled away.

"I'll see you later" I said pulling out of the space.

I looked back and saw him just standing there with a smile on his face.