Thanks for the reviews and the ideas… I can't wait to experiment.
Luke's
Lorelei sat on her usual stool and looked down at the picture her daughter had produced from her purse. "So let me see if I've got all this. You and Tristan are hosting a Halloween party for the Chiltonites against your will, he bought you pizza, and the pizza man was Kirk, as in Stars Hollow's Kirk, silly, crazy Kirk."
"Yes. You've got it all. Except the ice cream, but that was hardly eventful compared to the pizza incident."
Luke walked over and placed their burgers in front of them. "What pizza incident?"
Lorelei chimed in with her mouth full of her first bite. "Kirk has been seeking out employment else where. He's the pizza slice at Lou's Pizza in Hartford. Rory saw him all dressed up today and almost bust a gut."
"Kirk does weird things everyday. What's different?" With that he walked into the back to prepare his next order.
After they finished Rory excused herself. The house was running dangerously low on coffee and if Lorelei woke up on Monday coffeeless someone, most likely Rory, would pay for it.
Doose's Market
Rory entered, quickly grabbed two cans to be safe, and proceeded to the check out. Dean was standing at the end where he grabbed the scanned items and placed them in a bag. "Hey Ror. How are you doing?" He smiled politely. The two had settled to a comfortable friendship where they could see each other and have to run in opposite directions.
"I'm good. How's school?"
"Chem sucks, but everything else is really good." She paid and he handed her the bag.
"Well if you need any help. You know where I am."
"I may take you up on that."
She turned and began to walk out the door. When she was completely outside a hand grabbed her shoulder and pulled her into the small alley by the store. Surprisingly, it was Dean. "Sorry about that. Taylor was coming out of the store."
"What's going on?" She looked up at him questioningly.
"I know you're seeing Tristan."
"What? Who told you that?"
"You really wanna know?"
"Well since it's not true, yeah."
He arched an eyebrow at her skeptically. "OK. So I was in the back room earlier looking for the flour and Taylor was talking to Miss Patty. Apparently, Kirk told Taylor that yesterday when he was delivering the new phonebook to Babette's he saw you with a "strange attractive young male." She laughed at the air quotes he used to emphasize the story. "Anyway, Kirk heard something about today at one and told Taylor, who set up camp in your bushes cause Miss Patty had a dance class and couldn't get there."
Rory by the time was laughing so hard she could barely stand up. Today just kept getting better and better. "I'm sorry. It's just so funny to think that my life is so interesting that Taylor would hide in my bushes."
Dean nodded. "Yeah I had a good laugh at the mental picture myself. I got to get back in there, but I just thought I'd let you know that you have a stalker."
"Thanks." They went their separate ways each laughing to themselves about how ridiculous the town could get.
Monday, Franklin Meeting.
"Good afternoon everyone. I'm pleased with the work everyone has been doing so far. This year has been great. I would also like to welcome back Matt." The Franklin Advisor stated. "I'll hand the meeting over to Paris from here."
Paris stood. "Getting strep throat mixed up with mono, Matt you really should look into getting a new doctor. Anyway, you'll be back on the soccer team and Rory, you can return to doing weekly features…"
Rory's heart dropped to her knees. Up until that moment she hadn't realized how much being a part of the team had meant to her. All the guys on the team had just begun helping her out. She sighed and listened to Paris drone. At the end, she grabbed her piece that she would be researching and ran to the bus stop completely forgetting her meeting with Gino.
Lane's
"So you're mad because they took you off a piece that was driving you crazy. I'm not seeing the bad part." Lane and Rory were laying on Lane's bed trying to figure out why exactly Rory was so upset.
"Maybe it's because it was like I was actually being accepted into something at the school. I don't know. It was just sad. I mean the piece does belong to Matt and he knows a lot more about soccer than I do. I mean he was on the team until he had to have knee surgery."
"Mono, but not mono, strep throat, knee surgery. Personally it sounds like the guy is falling apart." Rory laughed and turned over to face Lane.
"This was really stupid."
"We've done a lot worse in our life times. I mean remember that time in fourth grade when I liked Tom Sinclair and you tried to set us up at lunch. You had the chilled milk and a peanut butter and jelly for two. We ended up sharing the stuff cause Tom was sick. I mean that was stupid."
"You're right. We do get disappointed about the stupidest things."
"It's what makes us so special." The two girls hugged and proceeded to talk about the Halloween Party and how they would set up Henry and Lane there.
