AN: this is the next chapter, it starts out with the letter they wrote to everyone. Review! It's not the best chapter but i thought you needed it!!
CH 11
We have decided that we will be spending the summer together and without all of you. We refuse to be pawns in your life and have to control everything. This is our lives and we will do what we please. You want us to get married, we want this. No contact for the next three months. We need to find ourselves alone without interference. We need to find the reason we wanted to be together before and grow from there. You can't push us to be together when we barely know one another anymore. We will move to New York for school and plan the wedding we want in February and not August. That is too soon for the both of us. These months will give us what we need, privacy to be together. The chance to fall in love again and be in love when we marry one another, can you deny us of that? There is so much we need to get passed together and being with you all that can't happen. We will send you all a copy of the prenuptial agreement that we want and not what is beneficial for the companies. You will not change it, or we will elope and there will no agreement. Is that what you want? Know that we love you all and have to do this. We'll see you August—Love Rory and Tristan
"I can't believe her" I state rereading the letter that was delivered. "What the hell is she doing? Wait until I see her" I state pacing the bedroom.
"What is it" Luke question.
"They ran away" I laugh. "My child, the smart one that doesn't go out in thunderstorms, the one that won't drive in the snow, and the one that got into 5 of the best colleges in the nation ran away" I state.
"Who, you don't mean Rory and Tristan do you. She wouldn't do that would she" he says taking the letter.
"Yeah I do" I say still not believing it. "She dropped out of Yale, Luke. This is nothing compared to that" I state heading to the kitchen. "Do you think they know yet" I question after pouring a cup of coffee as the phone goes off.
"I think so" Luke says as I answer it.
"What the hell has your daughter done? She can't just take off like this Lorelai. This is your entire fault Lorelai and you will fix it and now. Get to the house now" Mom yells and hangs up.
"They know and Mom isn't happy. I'm summoned to the house" I state heading upstairs to get dressed.
45 minutes later, I'm pulling up to see Chris waiting outside. "I guess you know about the disappearance act our daughter did" I laugh as he holds up a letter.
"I knew they hated this but this is extreme even for Rory" he says.
"But not the old Rory; she's still angry that I called them in the first place" I say realizing that the daughter I knew for the last four years is converting back to her old self and that scares me.
"You did what you thought was right. Dad made sure that there was no loopholes Lor, I hate him and them from doing this to her. But you were acting as a concern parent trying to protect her. I just wished there was more we could do to help them" Chris says and I nod. We head to the door as it opens.
"Good you're finally here" Mom scolds us. We enter the parlor to see the Dugrays already there and Francine. "Where are they" Derek demands of me.
"I'm just as clueless as the rest of you" I state pulling out my letter.
"Impossible. She tells you everything Lorelai" Mom states shaking her head at me.
"Not since I called them, which I'm regretting now" I state.
"Lorelai are you sure you don't have any idea where they went" Dad questions.
"I wish I did, did you try their cells" I state and Rachel places Rory's and what I assume is Tristan's cell phones on the table.
"The maid found them in the pool house this morning when she went to tell them breakfast was served" she says.
"They don't want to be found" Chris says.
"I say we leave them be" Janlan says and everyone looks at him.
"You don't believe that do you Dad? They are being irresponsible" Derek questions his father.
"They have been through more than most for their age. They have to figure out what they need to be happy. The only way for that to happen, is to leave them be" he answers and I agree. "They looked in love last night, I don't see why they did this" Mom says.
"That's exactly what they wanted you and those snotty friends of yours to think" I state.
"You make it sound like it's all entirely my fault Lorelai" she states.
"Let's see, having them at the graduation party without her knowing, than you pushed the engagement party up instead of having it in July and publishing the announcement the day after graduation" I say getting angry.
"You're the one who called Tristan and told him about the Logan proposing Lorelai so do not try to blame me for all this. You did your part too" she counters.
"And I regret that now since my daughter is god knows where with their son. We'll all be lucky if they return home at all" I state walking out.
"Lorelai wait" I hear dad say and I stop.
"Please if you do hear from her call me, we are just worried about her" he says.
"Dad, Rory is independent and more like me than you and Mom knows. She's with Tristan and the two of them are capable of running away without help from any of us. Let's just hope that she does call and comes home when they say or we might have lost them both forever" I state leaving the house.
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"Welcome to California Mare" Tristan says as we step off the plane.
"Why the hell would you take me here? This is the last place I want to be" I yell at him as we step into the terminal at LAX.
"Because you said that everyone runs away to California on you, your dad, Jess and now Logan. What you need is to face the past so that we can move on from it. Not to mention Kyle's house is here and we can crash at his place while he's in Europe" he smirks and I just follow him to baggage claim.
"Tristan, come on let's go to Europe, Thailand, Fiji anywhere but here" I plead with him as we walk further in the airport.
"Now, Mare I would think you didn't trust me" he smirks looking backwards at me.
"I don't know if I can yet" I state and he stops walking.
"What" he says with caution turning around.
"I don't know if I can trust you. You haven't done anything to prove that you deserve that trust again. Granted you did arrange all this and that's great, but trust is something else all together" I state and he looks up. He's trying to not yell.
"Sooner or later, you need learn that you can trust me. I want this and I refuse to ruin it again. All you need to do is stop being this shell of the person you became at Yale and be the Rory that I know. The Rory that you buried years ago and look in my eyes and see that I still love you and that you love me as well" he states walking away. I just stand there watching him leave. I really do hate people walking away from me. As people pass me I know I need to decide what I want. I could follow Tristan and spent the summer in sunny south California or get on another plane and leave him as well. But that wouldn't solve anything and we would be back at square one in August. I walk towards baggage claim and see that he already have our bags.
"I was beginning to think you deserted me" he smirks at me as I approach.
"No" I smile at him. He just laughs as I grab one of the suitcases and we head out into our summer together.