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Chapter 9: WTF?
Rory didn't want to have anything to do with Tristan the next day in school.
"Come on, Mary," he said as he followed her down the hall. "You can't stay mad at me forever.."
She turned on him. "For one, my name's Rory. And for two, that's where you're wrong," she snapped. "I can stay mad at you forever and I should after what you pulled yesterday! That was stupid!" She twirled back around to storm off but he stopped her.
"Why?" he replied with just as much force as she did. "Why was that a stupid thing to do? Because your boyfriend was there? Big deal, I don't care about him!"
"Don't you get it?" she growled. "You could've ruined my relationship!"
"Good!" Tristan yelled. They were starting to draw the attention of many passing students.
"What?" Rory hissed, astounded at his comment. "Good?"
"Yeah," he replied surely. "Good. I want to ruin your relationship."
"God, you are so difficult!" she screamed. "Why do you want to ruin my relationship with Jess?"
"Because I want to be him!" Tristan admitted loudly. "I want to be the one dating you! I don't care about him or Dean, all I care about is you! And I don't want either one of them to get in my way!"
"Well, what I get in your way, huh? What if I say that I don't want what you want? Will that stop you?" she challenged him.
"Yes," he growled. "But can you really say that you'll be happier with him than with me?"
"Yes!" she snapped. "Yes, I can. Because the thing is you two are very different people. And, I'm sorry, but he's the one I want to be with. Get over it." She turned once again to leave but he asked, "Why not me?"
She stopped and looked back at him. "What?"
He sighed. "Why did you choose him and not me?"
Her energy dropped at that statement. "Tristan…"
"No," he said, plainly. "I want to know. I waited for a long time for you a long time, hoping that you and Dean would break up but you never did. Then I come back from military school to find out that you dumped Dean for some guy who'd been around since before I left. So after all that, I have just one question for you: Why not me? Why did you want him instead of me?"
She couldn't look at him. She wouldn't make eye contact as she said softly, "We are very different people, Tristan, just as you and Jess are very different. You are from a world that my mother gave up so that she could make a life of her own and you are from a world which I was thrown into because I wanted better education. I didn't really want the people in the world, just what I could learn from it. You are just…" She sighed. "You are, for lack of a better term, just not my type."
He stared at her and said, "Well, alright then…" And walked away.
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Rory met Jess outside of Chilton that day after school and greeted him with a big hug. "Rough day?" he asked.
She nodded. "A little." There was a pause before adding, "There's going to be no more problems with Tristan…"
Jess smiled at her. "Okay then."
AN: HELLO! Yes, I haven't updated in forever but I have now, haven't I? ANYWAYS, I debated about making this the final chapter but I think I'm going to do one more and then it will be done. So please, R&R!