Sorry for the wait! I keep working on new stories that should be coming out soon. And the school year is finally over as of yesterday and the updates should be closer together now.
Rory walked back to the room, changed clothes, and then left to get breakfast for her and Tristan.
Tristan pretended to be asleep while she came in and changed.
He sat up and replayed her part of the conversation in his head, and came to the wrong conclusion that she was cheating on him. He didn't even register that it was something she would never do.
He stewed in bed for a while before getting up and going for a run. He was just too mad to think straight.
He ran past Logan's apartment and accidentally ran into Logan, who was on his way out.
"Watch it!" Logan spat.
"I don't have time for you!" Tristan ended the conversation as he kept on running.
Logan wondered to himself, "What's his problem?"
Tristan kept on running and ended up at the pub. It was a miracle that it was even open this early but he went in anyway.
He got himself a beer, and another one, just enough so that he felt the effects, but not enough to get him drunk.
After his two beers he left the pub and continued running back to the apartment.
When he got back Rory still wasn't back so he pulled out his gym bag and started pulling out clothes.
The front door opened.
"Tristan!" Rory called.
Rory heard noises from the room and walked in to see her boyfriend packing his stuff.
"What are you doing?" She asked with an edge in her voice, she could tell he wasn't going on a weekend trip.
"I'm packing." He said, with barely controlled anger.
"Are you drunk?" Rory asked coming closer to him.
"I can't believe you! After everything we went through, after everything I've done for you, after having to get you to trust me, you do this to me!" He yelled, finally unable to hold back.
"What are you talking about?" Rory asked, her voice sounding more panicked than angry.
"You should know exactly what I'm talking about, so you and Jase can go riding off into the sunset" Tristan said zipping up his bag.
"You're crazy you know that? And I can't believe that you think I'm cheating on you!" Rory yelled.
"I am crazy, and you are cheating on me" Tristan yelled at a higher volume.
"I am not!" Rory replied, more like screamed.
"I know what I heard Rory!" Tristan finished. "I'll get the rest of my stuff later"
And with that he walked out the door, and possibly, out of Rory's life.
Rory lay down on the bed and cried. Cried for herself. Cried for Tristan. And cried for how messed up her life had become.
Tristan carried his stuff back to his apartment. He was so happy that he didn't see Logan again. Not in his moment of misery.
Tristan dropped his stuff and landed on his bed, correction, Rory's bed. He hated that he had to switch back all the stuff. Yet, at the same time, he was absorbed in the scent of coffee and sugar that the bed was drenched it.
Maybe Rory was rubbing off on him, because he didn't feel like hooking up, or partying, like he used to. He felt like wallowing. So after laying on his bed until about 10, he went to the quick stop store on the corner, and he bought a bunch of stuff. He decided to also grab a 6 pack of beer too, since he already sobered up from his last two.
Tristan didn't consider himself a heavy drinker but today he really needed something alcoholic.
He got back to the apartment, laid out his food and cracked open a beer.
He turned on the TV, but instead of a chick flick he watched a football game.
Tristan sat three, drinking, eating, and yelling at the TV. After the game was over, he made some coffee to sober up some more. He brushed his teeth and then headed to class, Financial Planning. He grabbed another coffee for class and entered the room.
Rory on the other hand, had no classes so she stayed home and wallowed. Paris went to her classes but spent most of the day with Rory, on the couch.
Personally, she thought they were both boneheads. Tristan for thinking Rory was cheating on him. And Rory for not seeing where he was coming from, I mean if you heard that conversation, wouldn't you think your girlfriend (or boyfriend) was cheating on you, especially since they had only dated for a little while. And she knew Rory would have accused Tristan of the same thing. But being the feminist she was, she chose Rory's side.
She also knew that both of them were and would be miserable until they got back together, which she was sure would happen. Even if she had to do it herself.
"So tell me about this phone call." Paris questioned.
"It was to the private investigator that I hired to dig up stuff on the Huntzbergers." Rory said sniffling.
"So what have he dug up?" Paris asked curiously.
"I'm suppose to meet him…aw man! I have to go now, Paris do you want to come?" Rory asked, hopping up.
"I'll come" Paris said.
The girls quickly got ready and got into Rory's Prius and left.
The reached Jason's office and got out.
"Hey Jason!" Rory greeted as she came into his office.
"Hello Ms. Hayden." Jason nodded. "And who is this?" He said looking at Paris.
"Paris Gellar" She introduced herself.
"Nice to meet you, now enough of the pleasantries, let's get down to business." Jason suggested.
"Good idea." Rory said, taking a seat.
"Well there isn't much, but what I did find you'll probably find useful. Let's start with their personal lives. Well Mitchum and Shira married when he was 30 and she was 23, she was a waitress who he ended up getting pregnant. She said that she would go public if he didn't marry her. So since she was pretty at the time, he did. Fast. They claimed they had been childhood friends and got married within the month. It was a normal sized wedding, 120ish people." Jason informed the women.
"So she's the gold digging whore!" Rory muttered.
Jason kept on going, "Elias gave Mitchum the business and that's how they got where they are. They're business now though, well Mitchum and Shira have spent their fortune, and dipped into their business fund too, so basically their family is broke. Most of the expenses have come from separate trips to other countries, each for two. It's obvious they're cheating on each other."
"And the information I need comes out!" Rory smiled.
"So the corporation is trying to find a merger, there isn't much luck though, because no one is willing to merge with such an unreliable business. Also, if someone did want to merge with them, it would be more of a buyout than a merger. Lastly, no one wants to cross you, because it's become public knowledge that you have a big problem with the Huntzbergers." Jason finished.
"Thanks Jason." Rory nodded.
"If I may be so bold to ask…Why are you so interested in finding all this out?" Jason asked, folding his hands on his desk.
"Because I used to date Logan, his parents told me I wasn't good enough to marry into their family or be a journalist, and even though that was a big blow to my ego, it's not the main reason. I warned Logan not to cross my new boyfriend, well my now currently ex-boyfriend, and he did. So I'm just following through in my promise to make him pay." Rory explained.
"Why did you guys break up? I mean this morning you were together." Jason asked surprised by the turn of events.
"Well it's dumb…he thinks I'm cheating on him with you. He heard my end of the conversation this morning." Rory informed Jason very politely.
"Well I'm sorry and I hope it works out for you." He said sincerely. "I'll call you if I find anymore info."
"Thanks, bye!" Rory and Paris walked out the door.
"Well, what are you going to do with this new information?" Paris asked.
"Well I'm going to let it leak out, first the personal, and then the business, I want it to be known, go through the gossip mills." Rory commented. "Because that's how all scandals start!"
The girls headed back to Yale and crashed in the apartment. Continuing their wallowing. When Rory was finally able to get up and into her bed, she realized that that her furniture wasn't hers, it was Tristan's. She buried her head into her pillow, and then she realized, it wasn't hers either, it was Tristan's. But instead of lifting her head and pulling her own pillow under her face, she kept the one she had. She breathed in the scent, aftershave, a slight hint of coffee and something distinctly him…
Finished, I hope you liked this chapter. Sorry for the wait. I know I broke them up, but there is still slight Troriness and I will make sure they get back together…but you don't know when. Review please I'm starting to get discouraged because I thought I had my reader clientele made since I noticed my reviewers always the same people but now the reviews get lower and lower in count, bt anyways I'll keep writing no matter what. Check out my newest story, In The Moment.