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Chapter Twelve: Phone Calls

"Rory! Oh my god! You finally called! Thank god!"

"Tristan…"

"No! Please don't say anything yet… let me talk…"

Rory sighed, "Ok."

"I know this is hard for you, but Rory, we've been hanging out for a while now and I consider you one of my best friends, I care about you and it worries me that he does this to you."

"He doesn't do anything to me…"

"Do. Not. Lie. To. Me."

"I…"

"No Rory, I know what's going on, ok? He hits you and you can make as many excuses up for him as you want, I will not accept them... Not one of them... Nothing will ever excuse this for me."

"Please…"

"Rory, I care about you, you can't let him keep doing this to you."

Rory took a deep shuddering breath as she burst into silent tears "I'm sorry Tristan… I can't hang out with you anymore."

"Rory…"

She hung up before he could finish.

Rory stared down at her phone… the calls had become more frequent since she told him she couldn't hang out with him anymore. Sometimes he called up to 10 times a day. It had been a week since the phone call and she was miserable. She loved hanging out with Tristan, he had been an escape from all her problems with Dean, and now she couldn't see him she was even more miserable then she had been before he came into her life. Every time she saw it was him calling her heart clenched inside her chest, she wished he would just give up. It would be so much easier if he would just stop trying to get back into contact with her.

Tristan hung up in frustration, she was still avoiding him. He didn't know how much longer he could handle this. He was really worried about her, what was Dean doing to her? He wished she would just talk to him, other then to tell him that she wouldn't hang out with him anymore. He'd succeed only in pushing her further away. He didn't know what else to do, he couldn't go round there... What if Dean was home or came home and he hurt her worse then he already has? What the hell am I going to do?

Tristan was stretched out across his bed, just staring at the ceiling, trying not to think about Rory and the fact that it had been 10 days and she still hadn't answered any of his phone calls. He was really, really worried about her. He was getting to the point of desperation, Jason knew something was going on but he hadn't told him about the fact that Dean hit Rory. He knew he could trust Jason but it just wasn't his place to say anything and he knew Rory would hate him even more if she found that he had told Jason about it. Jason was down in Maine visiting his family for the weekend, he wasn't due back until late the next day. There was a knock on his door, it was a quiet knock and at first Tristan didn't think he had heard it at all, he turned his head to look at the door as another knock sounded, louder this time. Tristan went over to the door and opened it to reveal the tear stained face of Rory on the other side.

AN: OK…. So finally I post another chapter… I know, I know… and I am sooooooooooooooo sorry! Things have been really crazy in my life at the moment, I've had trial end of year exams, then my actual end of year exams, uni applications, finding out the results of said exams etc I've also been going through a bit of an erm… trying time in my life and I haven't had the inspiration to write at all. I would just like to say thank you to everyone who continued to review my stories even when I wasn't updating especially those of you who urged me to come back to my writing and especially to "my name isnt that, set up" whose review it was that finally sparked this chapter. Now... about the chapter… yes it is kind of short and I'm sorry about that but hopefully your just glad that I finally updated. I personally don't think this chapter was very good, but please... let me know what you think though reviews. Now on further updates... I will attempt to continue to update this and my other story Games of the heart, but please be patient, I'm trying my best. Anyways… Again thank you to all my loyal readers, I hope you enjoy the chapter and please review.