A/N: So here is chapter seven. I am busy as with college assessments and that is the reason I have not updated any of my stories lately, but this story was bubbling to come out, so I let it spill out of my fingers and dance hurriedly over the keypads. Hope you all like it! Much Love and appreciation! Rose! XX
When One Turns Into Two
Chapter Seven: Two Sides To The Coin
"Think it's time for you to go home now" Tristan encouraged Rory lightly, knowing from the way his mother use to act, when his father had been away from one of his 'long' business trip.
"Oh Tris. But the party has just begun…" Rory whined to the blond haired man.
"I think he is right" Logan put in, and she glared at him with daggers.
"Don't even say a word to me Huntzberger. Yeah you're right Tris…" she reluctantly agreed so that she didn't have to be in the same room as Logan.
"Paris grab her stuff please" Tristan asked her politely, which she already had in her arms and was following them out the pub.
"I've got it covered" Paris told him, and he nodded and they walked towards their dorm room.
"Ah what just happened?" Logan asked everybody, not really realising that he had said it out aloud.
"Looks like she's still not over the break up" Colin told him quietly, so only he could hear.
"Looks like it mate" Finn added in, having very good hearing, even though he was off his face.
"It'll be alright" Stephanie reassured him, not quite sure what the deal was with Tristan and Rory just yet.
"Okay this party has just turned lame. Let's go somewhere else!" Finn told the three, and everyone followed on and walked out of the pub.
"I don't wana be here Bible Boy" Rory drawled into his face, he nodded his head, as Paris went into her room and closed the door behind her, giving the two old friends some privacy, and also to call Doyle and tell her how it had all gone.
"Where do you want to go Mare?" he looked at her, his face so soft with concern for the girl he had been in love with for most of his life.
"Not sure. Can we just take a drive?" she asked him, and he nodded his head, knowing he couldn't say no to anything that she requested.
"Okay. Let's get you cleaned up first, and then we'll go okay?" he compromised with her, and walked her into her bathroom.
"I'm not that bad am i?" she asked him with shock, and let him guide her into the bathroom.
"Ah. Yeah you are Mare" he evened his voice out, remembering all the times he had done the same thing with his mother. Often feeling like the adult and cursing his father to damnation for making them go through this.
"Sorry about all this Tris… our reunion after all these years, and you get stuck seeing me in less better colours" she said with embarrassment, while she sat on the bath tub, and he cleaned her up with a face wash.
"It's okay Mare. I'm sure you would have done the same thing for me. Okay all clean" he grinned at her, and she smiled weakly, still reeling with embarrassment.
"Go to your room and throw some clothes on" he told her like a gentlemen, and guided her to her room, before closing the door behind him.
The old Tristan would have offered to help her change and would try something on her. But the grown up version of himself, knew all too well about heart break and longing, and always feeling like there was something missing from all the relationships he had had in the past. He had been missing Rory Gilmore.
Colin and Finn eyed their old friend and watched him interact with the girl that their other friend was also in love with, but let her go because he was just plain as stupid.
"So what do you think about this turn of events Matey?" Finn asked his friend with a smile, slightly more sober now that they saw the blond and brunette getting out of a silver car.
"Interesting dear friend, very interesting" Colin concurred with his friend, nodding his head in agreement.
"Don't think we should breath a word to Huntz" Finn looked over at a smiling Colin.
"Not a word. But Steph will be pissed" Colin told him with an ever growing smile.
They stood up and walked to where Logan and Stephanie were waiting for them. They had gone to get some more drinks.
"So how you feeling Logan?" Stephanie asked her blond hair friend, who just looked at her like he was seeing right through her. He shrugged his shoulders, not very good at opening up with things like this. They sat in silence.
"She hates me" he simply stated to her, looking out at the view before them.
"No she doesn't. She is just mad over the things that had not had a chance to take place" she told him evenly, not wanting to reveal what she truly felt about all this.
"Think so Steph?" he asked her earnestly, still not looking at her.
"Just let it play out how it is. Just ask her out for a friendly chat over lunch" she suggested to him, and he nodded and thought about where they could go to.
"Thanks Stephie" he told her, so vulnerable right now, and she hugged him to her and kissed his cheek.
In that moment the door the their apartment to reveal their two companions holding up drinks and condiments.
"Mowing my grass there Huntzberger" Colin said with amusement as the two broke free from their hug. Colin had always secretly been scared that Stephanie would see clearly and leave him for someone else. He always knew had Logan wanted her all those years ago, she would have chosen him instead. He was glad that he had only ever saw her like a sister.
"Hell yeah! Look at how gorgeous she is! Have no clue how you landed the lovely lady" he said to the brunette man, and winked at Stephanie who just giggled back at him, and went over to reassure her husband with a kiss.
"Never. Not with this old grunt!" she said with a laugh and hugged Colin with a laugh. "But maybe if Richard Abram made the offer… who knows" she looked at her husband who feigned hurt, and Stephanie brought him for another more passionate kiss. Finn and Logan began to make puking sounds, which made the other two kiss even deeper.
"You're just jealous Huntz!" Colin told his friend, who just laughed his head off and back to his old self again. He knew that he could always count on his friends to be there for him like they had always been.
"We got your back" Finn and Logan winked at the two of them laughing their heads off, while Logan and Finn tried to prise the couple apart, and push Colin to the door.
"So tell me how you know Logan and the others?" she looked at him curiously, sipping at the coffee that Tristan had bought for her in her hand.
"I grew up with them. We were practically all raised in the same crib. Logan and I were raised as brothers because our mothers were best friends, and we were together a lot, while their husbands were away on business trips" he spat the last of it out, and t" he spat the last of it out, and then regaining composure, and grinning at her, watching for her reaction.
Rory smiled at him, only ever seeing her own father whenever he felt like making an appearance in their lives. She saw Luke as her father figure, and she was proud he was the way he was. She couldn't ask for anyone else better than him.
"So how do you know them?" he asked the question back in return.
"We went to Yale together" she didn't want to rehash their past history. She wasn't ready to do that all over again.
"Ah okay. Should have known" he grinned at her and they just sat in a comfortable silence for a while, looking at the calm water ahead of them.
"How did you find this place Tris? It's so beautiful" she broke the silence, admiring the serenity and calm it brought through her.
"I use to come here a lot when I first started teaching at Yale. I came across it one time on one of my drives, and decided to take a swim, and having been coming here ever since" he shrugged his shoulders, and relaxing a bit more.
"We saw Tristan and Rory up at the lake" Colin told his wife quietly, making sure that Logan was nowhere in ears shot.
Surprise was strewn all over her face. "You sure?" she whispered with surprise, looking around for Logan.
"Yeah. They were looking pretty cosy too" he looked around the room again, and moving closer to his wife.
"Really? So what are we going to do about this?" she asked him, both not realising that Logan has heard everything they had said. He was just standing there wondering where it was going.
"Hey guys" Logan smiled at the pair, who pushed away their conversation. "What's going on? Wana go for a drive to the lake?"
The two tried to do their best to hide their reactions, knowing that he had heard everything they had said.
