I don't own Gilmore girls or anything. I'm just trying to avoid doing my homework



"I'd kiss you goodbye but your boyfriend's watching."

Those were the last words he said to me. That is, the last words he said to me until half an hour ago. Half an hour ago when I stepped on his foot getting on to the bus. The bus that I take everyday. To Hartford. To Chilton. To hell. I stepped onto the bus and he was there. Sitting in the back, his hair cut for Military School. I wanted to talk to him. But I didn't. I haven't seen him since that night he left. Almost a year and a half ago.

Tristan was mean to me from the minute I started at Chilton. Calling me Mary and insulting my boyfriend. Dean. My true love. I never thought I'd see him again. But there he was.

"Hey Mary." It wasn't arrogant. Not mean and self-centered. This was a different Tristan. I calmer Tristan. I didn't know this Tristan.

"Hi. I haven't seen you in ages. Back at Chilton?" I didn't really know what else to say. What else was there to say?

"Yea, my old man pulled me out of the Academy when I started getting good reports. Said I'd be right back in if I started up with my nonsense again. He's making me live here in Stars Hollow."

"Not in Hartford? Where are you staying?" I was genuinely concerned. If he was on the street.well, no one was on the street in Stars Hollow, but still.

"I'm staying with the grocer, Taylor.Doose?"

"Yup, he's the grocer alright. Is he making you work in the store?"

"Yea, I start today." Uh oh. Dean is still the box boy there.

"You aren't going to beat Dean up.are you?" Please say no, please say no.

"No." One syllable. That's all that came out. After that big hoopla right before he left, and at the Winter Formal? This really was a new Tristan.

We didn't talk for the rest of the ride. He wasn't in any of my classes, I didn't see him until the bus ride home. The initial shock that he was back had faded, but I realized when the market came into sight that I should probably warn Dean. Running off the bus as soon as it stopped I raced to meet Dean at Stars Hollow High.

"Hi!" He ran over to me and gave me a quick kiss. Before he said anything else I interrupted.

"Tristan is back." Please don't go crazy, please don't go crazy.

"Okay. It's not like I'm ever going to see hi-" he stopped when he saw me shaking my head. "What?"

"He's back and he's living with Taylor, and working with you." I waited for the yelling to start.it didn't.

"Okay. We can deal with this. We don't have to talk to him or anything. Well, I might have to, I'm going to be working with him. We can just avoid him at all costs." THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!

"I knew you'd understand." I gave Dean a quick kiss. "I promised I'd help Lane with her Trig homework, I'll meet you at Luke's at 8, right?"

"Yea, 8, I gotta go to work. I'll see you later."



Please don't flame, I don't take criticism very well. Lol