Disclaimer: My plot to take over the world has failed; consequently Gilmore Girls is still not mine. But don't worry I will preserve and when I succeed, goodbye Dean—hellooooo Tristan.

A/N: Aw you guys know how to make a coffee deprived girl smile. Thank you all for the reviews, they made me smile and some of them laugh. Those who offered me coffee, you are my new favorite people since my friends here try and hide it from me. And those who admitted to hearing the button, good to know it's not just me. Those who didn't hear, hehe, just keep reading my stories and I guarantee you'll start hearing inanimate objects talk, lol. Wait maybe that's not the best guarantee. Oh well I haven't had my coffee yet this morning. So enjoy the chapter and let me know what you think, I'll need something to smile about after taking my 2 tests today. Wonderful, now go read!

Chapter Ten

                        "Please Luke…" Lorelai begged, "I'll be your best friend." She added in her best little kid voice.

            "No." Luke said her without even looking up from the sandwich he was making.

            "I need coffee." She said stressing the words to convey her need.

            Luke finally looked up to the beautiful woman who was pleading with him, "No you don't need it. You want it. Big difference. Have some tea." He said gruffly.

            "Fine." Lorelai huffed as she took a step back. "You make me resort to drastic measures."

            Luke's eyes widened in a barely concealed fear, from anyone else this would have been an empty threat. But not from Lorelai.

            And sure enough 2 seconds later she started to sing at the top of her lungs "I want coffee! Da da dum da dum. I want coffee! Da da dum da dum."

            Rory began to laugh, "Isn't that 'I want Candy', mom?"

            "Shh don't quibble with me over petty words. This is about what I want, and I WANT COFFEE!" she proceeded to shake and shimmy around the diner to the imaginary beat.

            "Just be quiet and sit down." Luke muttered as he slid a mug filled with the after mentioned liquid to her.

            "Thank you sir." She said with a big smile.

            "You're insane, you know that right?" Rory said to her mother as she sat across from her.

            "Certifiably so."

            Rory's cell phone rang interrupting the conversation.

            "Hello." She answered.

            "Hello Princess." The voice greeted her.

            Rory bit her lower lip and smiled, she loved his voice. "Hey you." She said softly avoiding her mother's questioning gaze and Luke's glowering.

            Lorelai observed the look on her daughters face, the slight flush, the dreamy smile and faraway look in the eyes. Oh she knew this look, it was a boy induced look. Not a Dean one, so that left,

            "Hi Devil Boy!" she shouted towards her daughters phone.

            "Mom!" Rory yelled blushing and glaring, as she got up from the table and heading outside.

            "Yes that was my mother." She said into the phone and paused listening, "Fine I'll tell her." She turned to her mother "He says 'Hello'. I'm going outside now."

            Lorelai watched through the window as her daughter talked on the phone. She watched her laugh and smile occasionally blush and glare. Oh there was something going on all right, just friends? HA!

            Lorelai waited until they began their walk home to pounce, "So what did the Spawn of Satan want?"

            Rory shot Lorelai a glare, "His name is Tristan."

            "I thought I wasn't suppose to use that name cause of a certain somebody, lets call him…your boyfriend, who doesn't know about your other boyfriend."

            "He's not my boyfriend!"

            "Which one?"

            "Mom! You know Tris and I are just friends."

            "Right got it now. So what are you and your friend talking about now? I swear I have never seen you so attached to a phone, like you have been for the past week."

            "Nothing he just called to talk and ask me about maybe doing something sometime." Rory trailed off.

            "Uh huh." Lorelai said and left an awkward silence for about 5 minutes, which was just enough time for them to reach the house and Rory to retreat to her room.

            In her room Rory refrained from banging her head repeatedly against the wall like she wanted too. Everything had become so complicated. It's true since that first phone call a week ago her and Tristan had been talking—a lot. And she still hadn't gotten around to mentioning him to Dean meaning Tristan couldn't come to Stars Hallow. And as much as she loved her mom she just didn't know what to tell her. Usually she could tell her everything but at this point she didn't even know what was going on. Her mom was way too perceptive for her own good.

            A few hours later Lorelai burst into her daughter's room, collapsing dramatically against the door.

            "I'm bored." She announced, and then glared seeing that Rory was once again on the phone.

            Tristan laughed he could hear Lorelai's petulant voice through the phone; she had just echoed the words he said seconds before.

            "Looks like I'm not the only one who's bored Mary." He teased.

            "Shut up." Rory said.

            "Excuse me?" her mother asked.

            "Not you. Him." She explained.

            "Oh well, anyway come on I'm bored. Come play with me." Lorelai whined.

            Once again hearing, Tristan chuckled, "Wanna come play with me, Mary?"

            "Err call me that one more time DuGrey and I swear I'll tell everyone about the misunderstanding." She threatened.

            Tristan instantly became silent.

            "That's more like it." Rory boasted with a self-satisfied smile.

            "Rooooooooory! Pay attention to me! Entertain me!" her mother demanded while jumping up and down like a little kid who had to go to the bathroom really bad.

            "You both are like 2 year olds, you know that? I am not an entertainment system. Why don't you two just play with each other!" she said frustrated then paused, "that didn't come out right."

            Lorelai and Tristan were both smirking at this time.

            "I didn't know you wanted me to get to know your mother that well." He insinuated.

            "I could make flyers." she threatened again.

            "Shutting up now." He replied.

            "Good boy."

            Lorelai thought of an idea that would satisfy both her boredom and curiosity. "Why don't we have a movie night and you can invite your good friend Satan?" she suggested.

            Tristan heard the idea and perked up about the chance of finally seeing Rory again. Meanwhile Rory was frantically shaking her head no, and mouthed to her mother 'Dean'. There was an awkward silence and Tristan came to the conclusion about Dean.

            "You still haven't told him?" he asked trying not to sound angry.

            "No I just…there hasn't been…"

            "No problem. Forget about it." He cut her off.

            "I do really want to see Tris, I just don't think you coming here right now is the best idea." She responded.

            "Well why don't you just come here then?" he suggested. "We have a ton of videos and junk and that way we can hang out and not worry about anyone jumping to conclusions."

            "Your house?" she echoed surprised.

            Lorelai who had been observing saw her daughter floundering as she tried to think of the pros and cons of the situation, so Lorelai decided to take over. She leaned over and took the phone.

            "Hello, Devil boy. This is Lorelai."

            "Hi Lorelai. Is Rory ok?" he asked wondering what he had done now and if he was going to be yelled at.

            "She's just gone into shutdown, happens sometimes her brain overloads and she just stops for a few minutes. She'll be up and running soon. So what's this about change of location."

            "I suggested it might be less um, complicated to have a movie night at my house. Which you are of course invited to attend." He said politely

            Lorelai laughed, "You thought I'd give up the chance to meet he-who-has-kept-my-daughter-attached-to-the-phone, not a chance in hell. So tell me why I would want to come to your movie night? Make me some offers."

            "Well," he thought, "We have a huge video collection, every genre."

            "I will be picking the movie." Lorelai interrupted.

            "Understood." He acquiesced. "We are stocked with every kind of junk food imaginable. I have the best popcorn in Hartford. I will stop and get you coffee from Starbucks, cause I um, had dispute with the coffee maker, and it doesn't work anymore."

            She laughed and pushed down Rory who had recovered and was trying to take back the phone. "Sold! We'll be there 7:30ish. Looking forward to meeting you."

            "Sounds good. Bye Lorelai. Tell Rory I said bye."

            "I will." She said and hung up the phone. "He said 'goodbye' and you will see him in a bit."

            "I can't believe you did that." Rory said in shock.

            "You should have entertained me when asked. Suffer the consequences, this should be an interesting night." She said with an evil chuckle as she exited the room leaving a stunned Rory in her wake.

P.S. I'm going on Spring Break now but I'll try and get the next chapter out after that and it will be chock full of Trory action. Oh and thank you to the people who reviewed my other story "Breakable", the reviews meant a lot to me!

Look it's the button again, but don't worry it's not saying 'click me' this time, it's currently singing and shimmying to I Want Coffee, I mean Candy. To make the singing stop click and review. Otherwise, enjoy/suffer through it. What can I say Lorelai's a bad influence on the button…and yeah I'm a little caffeine deprived.

You don't hear the singing? Just give it time my child ;)