" He's back from that school?"
" Yeah."
" Where was it?"
" North Carolina."
" I bet his parents wish he wasn't back…"
" I know. I would too, having to send your only child to a military school…"
" Such a waste."
" And a DuGrey no less!"
" I bet he wish he never made that mistake."
" I know."
' He's home.' Rory Gilmore thought as she sat near two women in the country club.
" School just let out…"
" Top in her class…"
" And a Gilmore!"
" I know…"
" Have you see her lately?"
" No why?"
" She looked…looked sick."
" Really? Is she?"
" That the thing no one knows for sure."
" Maybe she's…"
" She is a Gilmore…"
"…seems nothing like her mother was back when she was sixteen."
" I don't think she could be…"
" Why?"
" She broke up with her boyfriend months ago…"
" You're right."
" Oh well..."
As the two ladies walked off into the night, Tristan Dugrey sank into a chair near him.
' She's home…but sick? What is going on?' he thought.