Chapter 10

Song: "Beautiful Love" by The Afters

This past weekend had been amazing. Even though it was completely different from all of Rory's other weekends, it was still pretty amazing.

Normally, Rory's weekends consisted of studying…obviously. There is also a whole lot of reading going on. Eating a tremendous amount of junk food while watching classic movies with her mom is one of the things that she definitely does every weekend.

But this past weekend was different…very different.

Even though watching movies and eating junk food was taking place, Rory wasn't doing it with Lorelai. Instead, she was snuggling up to Tristan on his couch. Kissing was also going on, and a lot of it.

But now that the weekend was over and the couple had stepped out of the safety of their homes, things were a bit awkward…for Rory at least.

She stood in front of Tristan's Porsche with him by her side and she held on to the straps of her big yellow back bag, staring at the intimidating private school.

"So…um, are we going to go in?" Tristan hesitantly asked.

"No."

"No?" he smiled at her.

"Yes," she corrected herself.

"So let's go," he said grabbing her hand and trying to pull her to the building, but she didn't move.

"When I said yes, I didn't mean right at this very second," she looked at him as if he were stupid.

"What was I thinking?" he sarcastically said as he went back to leaning against his car, "I mean we only have about four minutes before we're late for class, but if you want to stay out here and admire Chilton's architectural structure…" Tristan trailed off as he watched her absentmindedly walk towards the school. Catching up to her he added kindly, "Relax, Ror, its going to be fine."

"How can you be sure?" she asked looking up at him.

"What we have is real," was all he said to her.

Far away, I feel your beating heart
All alone, beneath the crystal stars
and staring into space, what a lonely face
I'll try to find my place with you

What a beautiful smile
Can It stay for a while
On this beautiful night
We'll make everything right
My beautiful love
My beautiful love

It's as if those were the only words that she needed to hear because she felt at ease.

Besides the staring and the whispering, the day was pretty much uneventful. After second period, Rory had grown accustomed to the jealous girls and the horny boys. She overheard a few people talking. There was this one girl who said that she gave her and Tristan two weeks before he dumps Rory and moves on to something better. Then there was this guy that said he couldn't wait to get with Rory; he was glad that Tristan would deMary her so that by the time he got with her, she would already have some experience on what to do in bed.

"How was your day?" Tristan asked his girlfriend as he sneaked up from behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist while she was spinning the combination to her locker.

"Not bad," she smiled as she melted into his arms, "But I've had better."

Tristan pouted, "Me being your boyfriend should give you the best days of your life."

Rory smirked and turned and faced him as his arms remained around her waist, "My boyfriend?"

He looked confused.

"You said that you're my boyfriend," she couldn't help but smile.

Larger then the moon, my love for you
World's collide, as heaven pulls us through
The secret of the world is written in the stars
I'm carrying your heart in mine

What a beautiful smile
Can It stay for a while
On this beautiful night
We'll make everything right
My beautiful love

"You are so immature," he said with a roll of his eyes as he leaned down and gave her a kiss.

"Am not!" she argued like a little girl.

"No, of course not," he chuckled.

At this point they had let go of each other so that Rory can get the books that she needed from her locker. Seconds after shutting her locker, Summer had joined the two.

"Hey Trissy," she purred.

"Summer."

"Give me a ride home?" she batted her eyelashes and licked her lips.

"Nope."

At that Summer started laughing out loud, realizing that he wasn't laughing she stopped. Feeling uncomfortable she said, "you're serious?'

"Yeah," he turned away from her and looked at Rory, "you ready to go?"

"Tristan, you cannot be serious," Summer said annoyed, before Rory had the chance to respond.

"I'm seriously not giving you a ride, so, call your daddy or have fun waiting for the bus," he told her.

"You seriously can't be wasting your time with her," she said give Rory a look over.

"And what's that suppose to mean?" Rory asked stepping up to her.

"No offense, but Tristan deserves someone with a little more experience," she said with a fake smile.

"You mean Tristan deserves a slut?" Rory asked, she then turned her attention to Tristan, "Do you hear what she's saying about you?"

Tristan played along, "I'm hearing it, I just can't believe it," he said shaking his head.

"I--" Summer began to talk, but Rory cut her off.

"So, if Tristan deserves a slut, then that means that he deserves you, but that can't be right because he doesn't want you," Rory reasoned out loud.

"You guys will never make it, you're from two different worlds," Summer seethed.

"Then I guess we'll make a whole new world," Rory replied.

"Aladdin?" Tristan asked.

"Yup," she confirmed with a smile.

Summer scoffed, "I'm leaving."

"Bye," Rory waved at her with a smile.

Rory let out a content sigh and looked at her boyfriend, "Ready to go?" he gave her a nod and the two were on their way out the school and to the parking lot.

"Jeez Mary," Tristan laughed as he wrapped his arm around her shoulders, "You need a crash course in polite conversation."

"Shut up," she rolled her eyes as a blush crept up to her face.

A few seconds went by before Rory heard Tristan singing, "A dazzling place I never knew, but when I'm up here it's crystal clear…"

"Oh my God," Rory laughed.

Tristan continued as he dramatically flung his arms out wide and sang out loud, "That now I'm in a whole new world with you," he slowly lowered his arms and stood in front of Rory, inching closer and closer to her face, "now I'm in a whole new world with you," he ended the song with a tender kiss on her waiting lips.

Maybe a greater thing will happen
Maybe all will see
Maybe our love will catch like fire
As it burns through me

What a beautiful smile
Can It stay for a while
On this beautiful night
We'll make everything right

AN: Please read and review!

Okay so I just wanted to let all the readers know that the next chapter will jump ahead to their junior year. What happened in between will be explained with flashbacks. I don't believe that it will be confusing, but if you guys have any questioned don't be afraid to ask them!