Summary: Rory finally agrees to go out on a date with Tristan. She falls
for the sweet Tristan that no one knows. He lets her see the real him. They
become a couple but at school he turns back into the "King of Chilton," the
jerk/player. And then when they're alone he's all sweet again.
Authors: Trory- addict4life and mysterygirl2000
Pairing: Trory
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I own nadda! Zip, Zilch! I wish CMM was mine though... but he's
not :( I want him back on GG or DC!!!!
A/N: I typed the normal i usually type it and it usually paraphases out... but i dunno what happened. i went to bed before it got updated so let's try it again.
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Rory stared at herself in the mirror. The dress was perfect and fit like a second skin at the top and flowed nicely to the ground. She turned around in a circle once again and admired the dress and the way she looked in it. She had to admit that her grandma had pretty good taste when it came to dresses.
"Rory!!!!!" Lorelai whined.
"In here mom."
Lorelai came rushing into the room.
"You've been in that thing since we came home an hour ago. Yes it's a nice dress, but if you don't get out of it, you'll end up wrinkling it, then my mom will have a hissy fit cuz you won't be able to wear it and ahh, the world will end!"
"Wow, I think that's a record mom. You said that all without taking a breath."
"Nah, that's not a new record. I think I broke the old one a couple hours ago when I was trying to get Luke to give me coffee."
"Speaking of Luke, it's about time you two got together!"
"I- I- gotta go to the bathroom."
"Oh, no you don't." Lorelai ran out of the room before Rory could catch her. With the dress still on she decided to change and wait for her mom in the living room before antagonizing her any further. Rory finished changing and went into the kitchen to make some popcorn. Seeing that her mom had already done so, she picked it up and went into the living room and got comfy on the couch. Lorelai came down the stairs next. She plopped down next to Rory and grabbed a handful of popcorn. Rory just sat there watching her.
"What?" Lorelai said with a mouthful of popcorn.
"You got some explaining to do missy! So spill!"
"Do I hafta? Can't we just watch Willy Wonka?"
"No, you have to tell me!!!"
"Fine.
** Flashback **
"Luke!!!! Give me one cup! That's all I'm asking for, one cup!"
"No Lorelai! You've probably had 6 pots today."
"No I haven't! It's more like 8."
"See! Too much!"
"Come on! I'll... sing until you give me some!"
"There's nothing you can do that will make me give you any. Nothing!"
"Are you sure? What if I kissed you?"
"Ha, that'd be the day." Luke said under his breath.
Lorelai reached over the counter and kissed Luke full on the lips. Much to Luke's surprise, the kiss didn't end after their lips met. Lorelai continued to kiss him and when Luke didn't respond, she put all she had into that kiss. Luke finally was knocked into his senses and started kissing her back. After what seemed like hours of kissing, they pulled back to catch their breath. Staring at each other, Luke stood there shocked. For once in her life, Lorelai was acting shy, as if she didn't know what to do or say next. She let out a small smile. Breaking the silence between them, Luke spoke.
"Wow!"
"You can say that again bucko."
"Wow!"
"I didn't actually mean it when I said 'you can say that again,' but OK."
"Well I didn't know what else to say."
"Tell me how you feel."
Luke chocked up at this remark. How was he supposed to tell her that he loved her; that he wanted her? *Come on Luke, you can do this. Just tell her straight out how you feel. But what if she doesn't feel the same way. You know she does or she wouldn't have kissed you like that.*
Lorelai was getting anxious and scared. Luke still hadn't said anything. *What the hell did I just do? I just screwed everything up! I don't even like Luke like that. Oh stop kidding yourself Lorelai; you love Luke. You're just scared.*
"I- I-"
"Luke?"
"I.... love you."
Lorelai smiled widely. "I love you too." With that she reached across the counter and kissed him again. Neither of them noticed the brown haired girl that had came down the stairs.
** End of Flashback **
"Awwww! He told you he loved you?"
"Yes..."
"And you said it back?"
"Yea..."
"Yay! Now you can marry him and we can get free stuff!"
"Planning my wedding already eh? I think my mom's starting to rub off on you. *shudders* On second thought, scratch that. The very thought of my mother rubbing off on you is just too scary."
"So Willy Wonka?"
"Not yet. I have some questions to ask you myself."
"Uh oh." Rory said with an amused look on her face.
"Oh, hush up. Has anything happened with the Evil One?"
Rory groaned. She didn't want to go over what had happened with Tristan with her mom right now. She also knew that her mom would stop at nothing until she answered. *I might as well tell her.*
"Well I told you how Tristan has been leaving me notes everywhere. Today I was at my locker and just as I was leaving he told me he loved me."
"WHAT?!?! He told you he loved you?"
"Yeah."
"And you said..."
"I asked him how many other girls he's said that to and walked away."
"Sweetie, did you ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe, he really does love you. I mean, look at how hard he's worked to try to get you to talk to him. The notes, the popping up everywhere you go, not to mention the flowers he sent."
"What flowers?"
"Oh, the flowers in the kitchen that I found when I came home."
Rory jumped up and ran to the kitchen. Sure enough there sat on the counter, a dozen long- stem red roses. She walked over and picked up the note that was inside.
Dear Rory, I know that what I said was horrible and wrong of me, and I'm sorry. I'm sorry for making you feel used, making you feel any shred of pain I've caused. I know I've been a jerk and all of the crap I've pulled is inexcusable. But I have tried. I've tried to be a better person when I'm around you, but somehow I get pulled back to the old me when I'm with my friends and say things that I know I shouldn't be saying.
This past week has been one of my worst. No matter what I did, you wouldn't give me a chance to explain. I tried leaving notes and when that didn't work, I tried passing them to you in class. I tried to stop you in the halls, but whenever you saw me, you would turn the other way. You sat as far away from me as you could in class. Even when I offered you coffee, you turned me away. I still can't get that stain out of my shirt from when you dumped it on me. -
"You dumped coffee on the poor boy?!?! What a waste."
"MOM! Can I please read this alone?"
"Oh, sorry." Rory resumed reading the note with her mom still reading over her shoulder.
So this is my last attempt; my last plea for your forgiveness. After tomorrow, I'll leave you alone. Just tell me to one more time and I will. I haven't asked anyone else to tomorrow night's dance in hope that you will forgive me and still go with me. I know it's a long shot, but hey, a guy can hope can't he? If not, I still hope to see you there.
Love Tristan
P.S. I meant what I said. I do love you. And to answer your question... only you.
Rory looked up from the letter with tears in her eyes.
"Sweetie, are you OK?"
"I- I- don't know."
"Are you going to call him?"
"No."
"I'm sorry to break it to you, but I think that's the best apology letter ever!"
"I know. I'm just not sure what I want to do yet."
"Are you going to go to the dance?"
"Yeah. I mean, I already asked Jess to be my date."
"You do realize that unless you talk to Tristan, he might take it the wrong way. You showing up with someone else would kind of hint that you don't want him, let alone forgive him."
"I know. I have an idea though." With that, Rory grabbed the phone, went to her room and closed to door after her. "Does this mean you forgive him?" Lorelai yelled after her. *She's gotta be stupid to not forgive the kid.*
Rory sat on her bed contemplating on what to say. Yes, her mom had been right when she said it was the best apology letter ever. She dialed his number and waited. The phone rang a couple of times before the answering machine picked up.
"Hi, you've reached Tristan. I'm probably out with some people so leave a message and if you're important enough I'll call you back. Kidding. *beep*"
* * *
Tristan had been out with his friends again. When he got home he went straight to his room. The night had been a total disaster. He went out to try and get Rory off his mind but failed miserably. Even his friends noticed he wasn't completely there. He went to his room and clicked his messages.
"You've got 10 new messages."
"Great." He let the messages play not paying much attention to them. They were all from girls who wanted to be his date for tomorrow nights dance. Finally the last messaged played. At first it was quiet. Tristan didn't think much of the message. But then something caught his attention. It was Rory's voice.
"Umm... hi Tristan, it's Rory. Thanks for the roses. They were nice. Listen, this in no way makes up for what you've done, but yes, I do forgive you. About the dance, I already asked my friend Jess to take me. Don't get the wrong idea, we're not dating or anything, so please don't start something tomorrow night. Well I'm gonna go. I'll see ya tomorrow. Bye."
Tristan laid down on his bed. This call had been half good and half bad. On the upside she forgave him. On the downside, she was going to the dance with someone else. *She said that they weren't dating. But she didn't say that she was giving you another chance. She said that she forgave you but "in no way did you make up for what you did."* Tristan groaned. He laid there for a while thinking about his possibilities and what he could do to make it up to her. Tomorrow was definitely going to be interesting.
*~ The Next Day ~*
"Rise and shine honey. Time to get up."
"Mom, I need my beauty sleep for tonight!"
"Says who? You're just going with Jess. Not like he hasn't seen you on a down day."
"Gee, thanks."
"Plus, I want breakfast!!"
"I knew there must of been another reason for you to be up this early on a saturday."
"Sweetie, it's 11. Time to get up."
"You just want to go see Luke. And it is not 11 or-" Rory looked at the clock. It read 11:04. She groaned.
"Ha! Told you it was late. Now get ready. I want to leave for Luke's in 10 minutes. Think you can get all pretty in 10 minutes?"
"Yeah yeah." Rory grumbled as she got out of bed. She went to the bathroom and brushed her teeth, washed her face and brushed her hair. She then went back to her room and got dressed. She was done with 2 minutes to spare.
"Let's get going missy! I want my coffee!"
*~ Luke's ~*
Rory and Lorelai walked into the diner. Immediately Luke looked up from what he was doing and smiled at Lorelai. The Gilmore's walked over to him.
"Hey Luke!"
"Luke."
"Rory. Lorelai. Two coffees and danishes?"
"But today's not danish day-"
"Hush child! The man's offering us danishes!" Lorelai said under her breath to Rory who in turn rolled her eyes at her mother. The Lorelai turned to Luke and said in an innocent voice, "Yes please kind sir, and make my coffee an extra large."
"Sure."
"Luke, is Jess upstairs?"
"Yup."
"Can I go see him please?"
"Yes."
"And we're back to being mono-tone Luke."
"Do you want your breakfast or not?"
"OK, I'll be quiet, but you know... I don't think you can deny me of anything anymore." With that Luke walked off. *You don't know how right you are*
*~ Luke's Apartment ~*
Rory walked in the apartment without knocking. She was met with the sight of Jess pulling his shirt on over his head. "Sorry. I didn't know you were changing."
"I'm not."
"OK. Anyways, about tonight, I was wondering if you were still coming with me and hadn't changed your mind."
"Nope. All's good."
"Well you remember Tristan right?"
"The little rich kid that made your life miserable at school, who you and your mom have given several nicknames to, who you went out with a couple times that turned out to be a major jerk and I wanna kill Tristan? Yup, what about him?"
"Well, he and I are on talking terms again so you don't have to kill him."
"Wow, you forgave him. What did he do to make you crack?"
"He gave met his." Rory pulled the letter out of her pocket and handed it to Jess. "Plus he left flowers. Nice ones too."
"Oh, sounds like a keeper."
"We're not even on good terms, just speaking."
"Hmm." Was all Jess said while he read the note.
"Either this guy's got it bad or he's one of the best bull- shitters I've ever met... or well going to meet. I am going to meet him right?"
"What are you talking about? And probably."
"I mean come on! 'This past week has been the worst?' No guy says that unless he's got it bad. Oh and what was the question you asked him?"
"Nothing. Anyways, we're going to take my mom's jeep tonight. Be at my house at around 7. It takes about 30 minutes to get to Hartford and my mom will probably want pictures or-"
"I don't do pictures!"
"Aww! Please Jess. Just this one time!"
"Fine..."
"Yay! OK, so after the pictures are done we'll go and the dance start's at 8, so we'll probably be there around then, with my mom and all, you can never be sure. Oh, we get dinner there so don't eat before, or eat, whatever."
"Rory, don't worry."
"OK, I'm gonna go downstairs now." "I'm coming with you. Luke wants me to work a bit before we go." They left the apartment and started down the stairs. Before they reached the bottom Rory turned to Jess.
"Oh, one last thing."
"What?"
"Don't start any trouble... with anyone! Especially Tristan."
"OK."
"Promise?"
"I promise."
"On our friendship?"
"Rory! I promise OK?"
She smiled widely at him. "OK!"
*~ That Evening ~*
Rory was standing in front of the mirror again looking at herself. Only this time she was all prettied up. She had on some light eye shadow and lip- gloss.
"AHHH!"
Lorelai came rushing into the room.
"What's wrong hunny?"
"I can't get my hair to look right."
"Is that all? Here let me help." Lorelai looked quickly at her hair. "Rory, this is so easy. I mean all you have to do is pin it up. You already have all the curls done." With that she grabbed a couple of bobby pins and pinned Rory's hair up elegantly.
"There we go."
"Thanks mom. It looks great."
Just then the doorbell rung. Both Lorelai and Rory looked at the clock. It read 7:00.
"Who comes on time?"
"Jess obviously does."
"Ahh, unless he brought me some goodies, he's gonna be in mu bad books."
"I thought he already was in your bad books."
"Well he was, then he got good because of the whole dance and wanting to kill Tristan."
The doorbell rung again.
"Mom, can you go get that, I'm not ready yet!"
"Yeah yeah I'm going."
Lorelai walked to the door and opened it. There stood Jess in a nice suit. He held in his hand a tray of coffees.
"Yay! You're still in my good books." Lorelai said as she took the tray from him.
"What? Since when?" He said as he entered the house.
"Since now."
"Doesn't take much now does it?"
"Watch it buster!"
"Yes..."
"Rory are you all pretty and done yet?"
"Almost." Came her reply. Minutes later she emerged from the hall.
"You look great."
"Thanks Jess. You clean up nicely."
"OK, picture time!"
"Oh no."
"Come on Jess! You said you would take them with me. It's not everyday you're in a suit!"
"I know. That's why I don't want them taken. You'd probably use them against me!"
"I wouldn't do that!"
"Oh, I know you wouldn't. I'm talking about Lorelai."
"Hey! I resent that!"
"Come on. Let's just get this over with."
"Yay! Oh, I gotta take two rolls. You're grandmother wants them too."
After about 20 minutes of different poses and two rolls of film Rory and Jess were on their way. "Jess, you drive. I can't really do anything but walk and look pretty in this dress and these shoes."
"Yeah yeah princess."
They got in the car and drove off to Hartford, where the dance... and Tristan... awaited their arrival.
A/N: I typed the normal i usually type it and it usually paraphases out... but i dunno what happened. i went to bed before it got updated so let's try it again.
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Rory stared at herself in the mirror. The dress was perfect and fit like a second skin at the top and flowed nicely to the ground. She turned around in a circle once again and admired the dress and the way she looked in it. She had to admit that her grandma had pretty good taste when it came to dresses.
"Rory!!!!!" Lorelai whined.
"In here mom."
Lorelai came rushing into the room.
"You've been in that thing since we came home an hour ago. Yes it's a nice dress, but if you don't get out of it, you'll end up wrinkling it, then my mom will have a hissy fit cuz you won't be able to wear it and ahh, the world will end!"
"Wow, I think that's a record mom. You said that all without taking a breath."
"Nah, that's not a new record. I think I broke the old one a couple hours ago when I was trying to get Luke to give me coffee."
"Speaking of Luke, it's about time you two got together!"
"I- I- gotta go to the bathroom."
"Oh, no you don't." Lorelai ran out of the room before Rory could catch her. With the dress still on she decided to change and wait for her mom in the living room before antagonizing her any further. Rory finished changing and went into the kitchen to make some popcorn. Seeing that her mom had already done so, she picked it up and went into the living room and got comfy on the couch. Lorelai came down the stairs next. She plopped down next to Rory and grabbed a handful of popcorn. Rory just sat there watching her.
"What?" Lorelai said with a mouthful of popcorn.
"You got some explaining to do missy! So spill!"
"Do I hafta? Can't we just watch Willy Wonka?"
"No, you have to tell me!!!"
"Fine.
** Flashback **
"Luke!!!! Give me one cup! That's all I'm asking for, one cup!"
"No Lorelai! You've probably had 6 pots today."
"No I haven't! It's more like 8."
"See! Too much!"
"Come on! I'll... sing until you give me some!"
"There's nothing you can do that will make me give you any. Nothing!"
"Are you sure? What if I kissed you?"
"Ha, that'd be the day." Luke said under his breath.
Lorelai reached over the counter and kissed Luke full on the lips. Much to Luke's surprise, the kiss didn't end after their lips met. Lorelai continued to kiss him and when Luke didn't respond, she put all she had into that kiss. Luke finally was knocked into his senses and started kissing her back. After what seemed like hours of kissing, they pulled back to catch their breath. Staring at each other, Luke stood there shocked. For once in her life, Lorelai was acting shy, as if she didn't know what to do or say next. She let out a small smile. Breaking the silence between them, Luke spoke.
"Wow!"
"You can say that again bucko."
"Wow!"
"I didn't actually mean it when I said 'you can say that again,' but OK."
"Well I didn't know what else to say."
"Tell me how you feel."
Luke chocked up at this remark. How was he supposed to tell her that he loved her; that he wanted her? *Come on Luke, you can do this. Just tell her straight out how you feel. But what if she doesn't feel the same way. You know she does or she wouldn't have kissed you like that.*
Lorelai was getting anxious and scared. Luke still hadn't said anything. *What the hell did I just do? I just screwed everything up! I don't even like Luke like that. Oh stop kidding yourself Lorelai; you love Luke. You're just scared.*
"I- I-"
"Luke?"
"I.... love you."
Lorelai smiled widely. "I love you too." With that she reached across the counter and kissed him again. Neither of them noticed the brown haired girl that had came down the stairs.
** End of Flashback **
"Awwww! He told you he loved you?"
"Yes..."
"And you said it back?"
"Yea..."
"Yay! Now you can marry him and we can get free stuff!"
"Planning my wedding already eh? I think my mom's starting to rub off on you. *shudders* On second thought, scratch that. The very thought of my mother rubbing off on you is just too scary."
"So Willy Wonka?"
"Not yet. I have some questions to ask you myself."
"Uh oh." Rory said with an amused look on her face.
"Oh, hush up. Has anything happened with the Evil One?"
Rory groaned. She didn't want to go over what had happened with Tristan with her mom right now. She also knew that her mom would stop at nothing until she answered. *I might as well tell her.*
"Well I told you how Tristan has been leaving me notes everywhere. Today I was at my locker and just as I was leaving he told me he loved me."
"WHAT?!?! He told you he loved you?"
"Yeah."
"And you said..."
"I asked him how many other girls he's said that to and walked away."
"Sweetie, did you ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe, he really does love you. I mean, look at how hard he's worked to try to get you to talk to him. The notes, the popping up everywhere you go, not to mention the flowers he sent."
"What flowers?"
"Oh, the flowers in the kitchen that I found when I came home."
Rory jumped up and ran to the kitchen. Sure enough there sat on the counter, a dozen long- stem red roses. She walked over and picked up the note that was inside.
Dear Rory, I know that what I said was horrible and wrong of me, and I'm sorry. I'm sorry for making you feel used, making you feel any shred of pain I've caused. I know I've been a jerk and all of the crap I've pulled is inexcusable. But I have tried. I've tried to be a better person when I'm around you, but somehow I get pulled back to the old me when I'm with my friends and say things that I know I shouldn't be saying.
This past week has been one of my worst. No matter what I did, you wouldn't give me a chance to explain. I tried leaving notes and when that didn't work, I tried passing them to you in class. I tried to stop you in the halls, but whenever you saw me, you would turn the other way. You sat as far away from me as you could in class. Even when I offered you coffee, you turned me away. I still can't get that stain out of my shirt from when you dumped it on me. -
"You dumped coffee on the poor boy?!?! What a waste."
"MOM! Can I please read this alone?"
"Oh, sorry." Rory resumed reading the note with her mom still reading over her shoulder.
So this is my last attempt; my last plea for your forgiveness. After tomorrow, I'll leave you alone. Just tell me to one more time and I will. I haven't asked anyone else to tomorrow night's dance in hope that you will forgive me and still go with me. I know it's a long shot, but hey, a guy can hope can't he? If not, I still hope to see you there.
Love Tristan
P.S. I meant what I said. I do love you. And to answer your question... only you.
Rory looked up from the letter with tears in her eyes.
"Sweetie, are you OK?"
"I- I- don't know."
"Are you going to call him?"
"No."
"I'm sorry to break it to you, but I think that's the best apology letter ever!"
"I know. I'm just not sure what I want to do yet."
"Are you going to go to the dance?"
"Yeah. I mean, I already asked Jess to be my date."
"You do realize that unless you talk to Tristan, he might take it the wrong way. You showing up with someone else would kind of hint that you don't want him, let alone forgive him."
"I know. I have an idea though." With that, Rory grabbed the phone, went to her room and closed to door after her. "Does this mean you forgive him?" Lorelai yelled after her. *She's gotta be stupid to not forgive the kid.*
Rory sat on her bed contemplating on what to say. Yes, her mom had been right when she said it was the best apology letter ever. She dialed his number and waited. The phone rang a couple of times before the answering machine picked up.
"Hi, you've reached Tristan. I'm probably out with some people so leave a message and if you're important enough I'll call you back. Kidding. *beep*"
* * *
Tristan had been out with his friends again. When he got home he went straight to his room. The night had been a total disaster. He went out to try and get Rory off his mind but failed miserably. Even his friends noticed he wasn't completely there. He went to his room and clicked his messages.
"You've got 10 new messages."
"Great." He let the messages play not paying much attention to them. They were all from girls who wanted to be his date for tomorrow nights dance. Finally the last messaged played. At first it was quiet. Tristan didn't think much of the message. But then something caught his attention. It was Rory's voice.
"Umm... hi Tristan, it's Rory. Thanks for the roses. They were nice. Listen, this in no way makes up for what you've done, but yes, I do forgive you. About the dance, I already asked my friend Jess to take me. Don't get the wrong idea, we're not dating or anything, so please don't start something tomorrow night. Well I'm gonna go. I'll see ya tomorrow. Bye."
Tristan laid down on his bed. This call had been half good and half bad. On the upside she forgave him. On the downside, she was going to the dance with someone else. *She said that they weren't dating. But she didn't say that she was giving you another chance. She said that she forgave you but "in no way did you make up for what you did."* Tristan groaned. He laid there for a while thinking about his possibilities and what he could do to make it up to her. Tomorrow was definitely going to be interesting.
*~ The Next Day ~*
"Rise and shine honey. Time to get up."
"Mom, I need my beauty sleep for tonight!"
"Says who? You're just going with Jess. Not like he hasn't seen you on a down day."
"Gee, thanks."
"Plus, I want breakfast!!"
"I knew there must of been another reason for you to be up this early on a saturday."
"Sweetie, it's 11. Time to get up."
"You just want to go see Luke. And it is not 11 or-" Rory looked at the clock. It read 11:04. She groaned.
"Ha! Told you it was late. Now get ready. I want to leave for Luke's in 10 minutes. Think you can get all pretty in 10 minutes?"
"Yeah yeah." Rory grumbled as she got out of bed. She went to the bathroom and brushed her teeth, washed her face and brushed her hair. She then went back to her room and got dressed. She was done with 2 minutes to spare.
"Let's get going missy! I want my coffee!"
*~ Luke's ~*
Rory and Lorelai walked into the diner. Immediately Luke looked up from what he was doing and smiled at Lorelai. The Gilmore's walked over to him.
"Hey Luke!"
"Luke."
"Rory. Lorelai. Two coffees and danishes?"
"But today's not danish day-"
"Hush child! The man's offering us danishes!" Lorelai said under her breath to Rory who in turn rolled her eyes at her mother. The Lorelai turned to Luke and said in an innocent voice, "Yes please kind sir, and make my coffee an extra large."
"Sure."
"Luke, is Jess upstairs?"
"Yup."
"Can I go see him please?"
"Yes."
"And we're back to being mono-tone Luke."
"Do you want your breakfast or not?"
"OK, I'll be quiet, but you know... I don't think you can deny me of anything anymore." With that Luke walked off. *You don't know how right you are*
*~ Luke's Apartment ~*
Rory walked in the apartment without knocking. She was met with the sight of Jess pulling his shirt on over his head. "Sorry. I didn't know you were changing."
"I'm not."
"OK. Anyways, about tonight, I was wondering if you were still coming with me and hadn't changed your mind."
"Nope. All's good."
"Well you remember Tristan right?"
"The little rich kid that made your life miserable at school, who you and your mom have given several nicknames to, who you went out with a couple times that turned out to be a major jerk and I wanna kill Tristan? Yup, what about him?"
"Well, he and I are on talking terms again so you don't have to kill him."
"Wow, you forgave him. What did he do to make you crack?"
"He gave met his." Rory pulled the letter out of her pocket and handed it to Jess. "Plus he left flowers. Nice ones too."
"Oh, sounds like a keeper."
"We're not even on good terms, just speaking."
"Hmm." Was all Jess said while he read the note.
"Either this guy's got it bad or he's one of the best bull- shitters I've ever met... or well going to meet. I am going to meet him right?"
"What are you talking about? And probably."
"I mean come on! 'This past week has been the worst?' No guy says that unless he's got it bad. Oh and what was the question you asked him?"
"Nothing. Anyways, we're going to take my mom's jeep tonight. Be at my house at around 7. It takes about 30 minutes to get to Hartford and my mom will probably want pictures or-"
"I don't do pictures!"
"Aww! Please Jess. Just this one time!"
"Fine..."
"Yay! OK, so after the pictures are done we'll go and the dance start's at 8, so we'll probably be there around then, with my mom and all, you can never be sure. Oh, we get dinner there so don't eat before, or eat, whatever."
"Rory, don't worry."
"OK, I'm gonna go downstairs now." "I'm coming with you. Luke wants me to work a bit before we go." They left the apartment and started down the stairs. Before they reached the bottom Rory turned to Jess.
"Oh, one last thing."
"What?"
"Don't start any trouble... with anyone! Especially Tristan."
"OK."
"Promise?"
"I promise."
"On our friendship?"
"Rory! I promise OK?"
She smiled widely at him. "OK!"
*~ That Evening ~*
Rory was standing in front of the mirror again looking at herself. Only this time she was all prettied up. She had on some light eye shadow and lip- gloss.
"AHHH!"
Lorelai came rushing into the room.
"What's wrong hunny?"
"I can't get my hair to look right."
"Is that all? Here let me help." Lorelai looked quickly at her hair. "Rory, this is so easy. I mean all you have to do is pin it up. You already have all the curls done." With that she grabbed a couple of bobby pins and pinned Rory's hair up elegantly.
"There we go."
"Thanks mom. It looks great."
Just then the doorbell rung. Both Lorelai and Rory looked at the clock. It read 7:00.
"Who comes on time?"
"Jess obviously does."
"Ahh, unless he brought me some goodies, he's gonna be in mu bad books."
"I thought he already was in your bad books."
"Well he was, then he got good because of the whole dance and wanting to kill Tristan."
The doorbell rung again.
"Mom, can you go get that, I'm not ready yet!"
"Yeah yeah I'm going."
Lorelai walked to the door and opened it. There stood Jess in a nice suit. He held in his hand a tray of coffees.
"Yay! You're still in my good books." Lorelai said as she took the tray from him.
"What? Since when?" He said as he entered the house.
"Since now."
"Doesn't take much now does it?"
"Watch it buster!"
"Yes..."
"Rory are you all pretty and done yet?"
"Almost." Came her reply. Minutes later she emerged from the hall.
"You look great."
"Thanks Jess. You clean up nicely."
"OK, picture time!"
"Oh no."
"Come on Jess! You said you would take them with me. It's not everyday you're in a suit!"
"I know. That's why I don't want them taken. You'd probably use them against me!"
"I wouldn't do that!"
"Oh, I know you wouldn't. I'm talking about Lorelai."
"Hey! I resent that!"
"Come on. Let's just get this over with."
"Yay! Oh, I gotta take two rolls. You're grandmother wants them too."
After about 20 minutes of different poses and two rolls of film Rory and Jess were on their way. "Jess, you drive. I can't really do anything but walk and look pretty in this dress and these shoes."
"Yeah yeah princess."
They got in the car and drove off to Hartford, where the dance... and Tristan... awaited their arrival.