Title - It Was Meant to Be (Part 2)
Author - bItTeRsWeEtPoOfZ
Contacts - bittersweetpoofz@hotmail.com
Pairing - Tristan/Rory with a tad bit of java junkiness
Rating - PG-13 - I say the word "bastard" a few times.
Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with "Gilmore Girls". All characters belong to Amy Sherman- Pallidino. If you sue me, you will get nothing because I have nothing. I'm just a poor a writer writing for non-profit purposes..
Author's Ramblings: I apologize for the shortness of these parts/chapters. They seem so long when I write them out in my spiral. But when I look at it online, it's so short!! Once again, I apologize. Now on with the story!
To my readers: Thank you so much for the supportive reviews I got!!! hugs You guys are SO great! sniff Yeah okay, I'm not THAT touched. Anyway to the person who wrote that anti-trory review: If you hate Troryness so much, why are you even reading my fanfic? And, I meant "constructive criticism" on my work, not my beliefs! And why didn't you sign your review, hunh? Were you too CHICKEN to stand up for your thoughts?? I thought that a person with such BOLD beliefs would at least take credit for their work!! hmph stupid people nowadays. Well anyway, to my NORMAL readers, thanks for reading and review if you have the time!!
*~Dean~*
Rory looked through the Dean box first. It only made sense since he was her first true love. Actually, no he wasn't. She didn't love him. She never had. She only said that she loved him because she knew it was the only way to get him back. She liked him a lot, yes, but she didn't love him.
flashback .summer after junior year.
Dean: "Rory I have to tell you something."
Rory: "Hmm?" Rory was deep into her newest Russian novel.
Dean sighed. He didn't know how to break this to her. She looked so sweet reading her book on a warm day in the park.
Dean: "Rory, can you stop reading for a moment?"
Rory carefully marked her spot and then set down her book. She could tell that this was something serious: "I'm all yours."
Dean: "Um. I don't know how to say this."
Rory: "Say what?"
Dean: "Okay, I'm just going to say it and get it over with: I have to go back to Chicago."
Rory (frantic): "What? When? Why?"
Dean: "In a month. My grandmother broke her hip and we need to go back to take care of her. My aunt and uncle are taking care of her now, but they need to go back to Los Angeles next month."
Rory: "When did you know about this?"
Dean (guiltily): "About a month ago."
Rory (starting to get angry): "And it never occurred to you to tell me?"
Dean: "I didn't mean - "
Rory: "You might as well have told me the day you left!"
Dean: "I'm sorry."
Rory: "Save it." She packed up and went home. How could he have not told her? Didn't he know that she wanted to spend some quality time with him before he left? What was wrong with him? She stalked home and sat with her arms crossed on the couch.
Lorelai: "Hey cheerful."
Rory: "Hi."
Lorelai: "What's wrong?"
Rory told Lorelai what Dean had just told her.
Lorelai: "Well, maybe you shouldn't have been so quick to judge."
Rory: "Why? HE DIDN"T TELL ME FOR GOD'S SAKE!"
Lorelai: "Did you look at it from his point of view."
Rory (sheepishly): "No."
Lorelai: "He probably didn't want to tell you because he didn't want to hurt you. He didn't want the news to affect the great relationship you guys have going."
Rory: "Maybe. but still! He should have told me!"
Lorelai: "He should have but he didn't. Don't you think you can forgive him?"
Rory: "Well. I guess I can see his point. But after I ran off like that, I can't go back. I'll look like an idiot."
Lorelai: "True. That's Gilmore Girl Rule #6: Never admit you're wrong."
Rory: "Exactly."
Lorelai: "So what are you going to do?"
Rory: "I guess the only thing left to do would be to wait for him to apologize and then I can forgive him."
Lorelai: "Well, that being solved, how 'bout a spontaneous movie night?"
Rory grinned.
A week later, Dean apologized and all was well. They decided to make the best of their relationship until Dean left. Their relationship was. different. Rory was always anticipating the day that Dean wouldn't be there.
Rory (as she walks into Luke's): "Hey mom."
Lorelai (pretending to be serious): "Greetings, daughter of my loins."
Rory: "Ew! Gross mom!"
Luke: "Hey Rory."
Rory: "Hi Luke!"
Luke: "So what do you want?"
Rory: "Just coffee please."
Luke: "That stuff will kill you one day."
Rory: "Then, I'll die happy."
Luke turned and walked away to get Rory her coffee.
Lorelai: "Anyway, what are you doing here? Don't you have a date with narcolepsy boy?"
Rory (sits down in a chair): "We DID have a date, but he said that he needed to baby-sit Clara because his parents had last minute plans. I mean, I offered to stay with him, but he said that Clara had the flu or something, which doesn't really make sense since it's not flu season. I think he's hiding something."
Lorelai: "Wow. That was one long babble. About 6.43 seconds. Of course, I can do better than that. Wanna see?" She didn't wait for a response and continued: "Let's see. what's agood topic I can babble about? OoOo! I know! The Osbournes! That family is so - "
Rory: "Mom."
Lorelai: "What?"
Rory: "Focus."
Lorelai: "Right. Dean, hiding."
Rory: "So what do you think about it?"
Lorelai: "Honey, he loves you remember? He would never do anything to hurt you."
Rory: " Do you really think so?"
Lorelai: "I mean, there must be SOME reasonable explanation for his shadiness. OoOo! Slim Shady! Eminem! Now there's a controversial topic I could babble about! Let's see - there was that Christina - "
Rory: "MOM! I'm trying to have a serious conversation with you here. How many cups of coffee did you have today? That's the second time you got sidetracked in about - " She looked at her watch. "3 minutes."
Lorelai: "Sorry. So, I was talking about.?"
Rory: "Explanation."
Lorelai: "Oh yeah. Like Clara."
Rory: "What about her?"
Lorelai: "Clara is probably scared of you. And Dean didn't want to hurt your feelings by telling you that Clara isn't too fond of you, so he made up a lie so you wouldn't get hurt."
Rory: "Why would Clara be afraid of me?"
Lorelai: "Um.. hello! If you were a seven year old and someone came up to YOU and started questioning you about your grammar mistakes, wouldn't you be scared?" Rory laughed: "I guess I would. But anyway, since I have nothing to do, I'll go home and read a book."
Lorelai: "Aw. that makes you sound so. unwanted."
Rory: "You're funny. now go to work before you're late!"
Lorelai looked at her watch. "You're right! I'd better go before Michele starts throwing a fit and scaring off the guests. Can you pay the bill for now? I promise I'll pay you back when I get home."
Rory: "Okay okay! Just go!"
Lorelai: "Bye sweets! Don't burn down the house!"
Rory: "GO!"
Lorelai: "Going!"
Rory finished up her cup of coffee and then went up to the counter.
Rory: "Hey Luke. What's the total?"
Luke: "um. $6.73"
Rory handed him a ten dollar bill.
Luke: "Here's your change, have a nice day."
Rory smiled: "You too Luke!"
Rory walked home and found her worn out copy of Pride and Prejudice. It was one of her favorite books and she wanted to re-read it. She looked out the window and saw the sunshine. The day wasn't too hot so she decided to go read in the park.
She packed a beach towel and a water bottle. Then she changed into a simple tank top and shorts and then slipped on some flip-flops. Then, satisfied with her outfit, she walked to the park.
When she got to the park, she walked along the path in search of a shady spot. But what she found was much more that a shady spot - she found the truth.
She saw a familiar face. It was Dean. and he wasn't alone. He was with a leggy blonde and they were heavily making out. Their hands were moving all over each other's bodies. Rory was shocked. She couldn't believe that Dean had fooled her all this time. Dean, loyal Dean was a two-timer! Disgusted, Rory ran away back towards her house.
Dean heard loud, quick footsteps so he looked towards the sounds and saw the back of Rory. He continued making out with Sharon. He didn't even like Rory anymore. She wouldn't try anything new because she "wasn't ready" and he got tired of waiter for her. So he started dating Sharon a few months ago. In fact, today was their 3-month anniversary. And Sharon was fine with going out in secret. So he let Rory go without running after her. It was better this way: now he and Sharon could go public.
Back at the Gilmore house, Rory was sitting on the couch. She wasn't crying. After a few minutes, she realized that she wasn't crying. After pondering about her lack of tears, she concluded that she didn't truly love Dean. Then, she realized that it didn't hurt so much anymore, She became tired and decided to take a nap on the couch so that she could hear her mother when she came home.
When Lorelai came home, she saw Rory sleeping peacefully on the couch. She didn't want to wake Rory until it was time for dinner.
Lorelai opened the freezer and took out a frozen pizza. She unwrapped it, set the temperature of the oven and then set the timer. She had done this so many times before that she didn't even have to read the label for the instructions.
Then, she opened the fridge and took out some cartons. She opened the lids and identified the food as chow mien, egg rolls, and some sort of chicken. The food was from over a week ago. Rory would have probably made her throw it away but "Oh well! What's the worse that could happen?" thought Lorelai.
After the pizza was ready and the Chinese food was reheated, Lorelai woke Rory up.
Lorelai: "Wake up, Sleeping Beauty."
Rory: "Oh hey mom. When'd you get home? I didn't hear you come in the door."
Lorelai: "About 45 minutes ago. I made some pizza and reheated Chinese. You up for it?"
Rory: "Add Mexican and we'll have multicultural food night!"
Lorelai: "Deal! I'll cook some mini-tacos and taquitos and they'll be done in about 15 minutes!"
Rory: "Okay. SO we'll eat pizza and Chinese while waiting right?"
Lorelai "Of course! It would be blasphemous if we didn't!"
Rory laughed.
An hour and lots of laughs later, the Gilmore girls finished off the food. They talked about mad movies for a while and the Lorelai went up to bed.
Rory had taken a nap earlier so she wasn't tired. So instead of sleeping, she lay in bed thinking about the day's events. She knew that running in flip-flops made loud noises and she also knew that Dean would have heard the noises. Yet he didn't stop her or even try to explain the situation - not that there was an acceptable explanation for the make-out fest. She came to the conclusion that she was going to ignore Dean and if he tried to make-up, she'd dump him. So much for 'quality time' she though bitterly.
Over the next few days, Rory went about her normal activities. She didn't try to avoid Dean since she didn't do anything wrong. On the fourth day, Lorelai finally noticed something wrong.
Lorelai: "Morning Mini-me"
Rory: "Hey mom."
Lorelai: "Isn't summer?"
Rory: "Yeah. so what?"
Lorelai: "So shouldn't you be hanging out with your FRIENDS instead of hanging out here and reading?"
Rory could see where this was heading: "I do hang out with Lane."
Lorelai: "I mean your OTHER friends."
Rory: "What do you mean? Lane's the only friend I hang out with." She was obviously trying to avoid the topic.
Lorelai: "I mean, the six foot two kind of friend."
Rory: "Do you want some pop tarts?"
Lorelai: "Rory."
Rory: "How about coffee? You always want coffee. I'll pour you a cup right now."
Lorelai: "Rory, you're much more important than coffee, even if it IS the elixir of life. So spill."
Rory told Lorelai the story and Lorelai's first reaction was: "That bastard!"
Rory: "Mom!"
Lorelai: "Well he is! The nerve of that boy! I will personally hunt him down, decapitate him, and then hang his head on a pole and stick it in our yard as a warning to anyone who tries to hurt my Rory."
Rory laughed. "No really Mom. I'm okay."
Lorelai: "Do you want to wallow?"
Rory groaned: "Not this again!"
Lorelai: "Seriously, I can take a few days off work to wallow with you."
Rory: "LISTEN! After I saw them, I didn't even cry or throw a tantrum or anything. I'm fine!"
Lorelai sat there: "Go on."
Rory: "I think it's because I don't love him. I mean, for a while now, I've felt like Dean was getting to be a habit or some kind of obligation. Our kisses had no more sparks anymore. I think it's either that I slowly stopped loving him or I never loved him from the start."
Lorelai: "Wow. someone had some divine revelations at night."
Rory: "Yeah. I think that I never loved him. At the beginning of last summer, I only said that I loved him because I thought it was the only way to get him back."
Lorelai: "So what are you going to do about?"
Rory: "Nothing. I'm just going to go on with life as if that 'bastard', and I'm only quoting you, never existed."
Lorelai: "You mean, you're not going to take revenge or anything?"
Rory: "Nope."
Lorelai: "No 'I hate you, you bitch!' to the blonde in front of everyone?"
Rory: "Nope."
Lorelai: "You are such an angel."
Rory: "Hahaha."
The next day, Lorelai casually told Babette about "the bastard" and what he did while borrowing sugar from Babette. Babette was so shocked that she didn't realize the Gilmores had no need for sugar since they never cooked. Lorelai, satisfied with completing her mission, went home and dumped a cup of sugar into the trashcan. She knew that Rory wouldn't approve but since Rory wasn't doing anything, she was going to do it for her.
Babette hurried over to Miss Patty's Dance Studio to tell the latest gossip. Miss Patty heard the news and gasped in shock: "That bastard!" Babette: "That's what Lorelai said when she first heard the story."
Miss Patty: "Poor thing."
Babette: "Yeah. I feel so sorry for her. She must feel terrible!"
Miss Patty: "Well, we have to do something!"
Babette: "Yeah!"
Miss Patty: "We should tell Taylor to fire that bastard!"
Babette nodded: "I don't want a dirty scumbag touching my groceries."
Miss Patty: "Let's go."
When Taylor heard the news, he was furious. He couldn't believe that when he hired Dean, he thought that Dean was a nice decent boy. He agreed to fire Dean the next day when he came in to work.
When Rory got home, she looked for Lorelai.
Rory: "Mom?"
Lorelai: "In the kitchen."
Rory: "Hi."
Lorelai: "Want some tater tots? Fresh out of the oven!"
Rory sat down, took a tater tot, dipped it into the ranch sauce and then popped it into her mouth. She took a sip of her mom's Pepsi One. (AN: just wanted to let you know that I am in no way affiliated with Pepsi. Don't sue me)
Rory: "So what did you do today?"
Lorelai: "Um. I slept in, went to Luke's, read Time and Newsweek and then made some tater tots while watching reruns of 'I Love Lucy' "
Rory: "Anything ELSE you might have done?"
Lorelai looked at Rory innocently. "No. why do you ask?"
Rory: "12 people asked how I was feeling, 5 gave me Kleenexes and 3 offered be their phone numbers for counseling."
Lorelai: "I MIGHT have mentioned something about you and what that bastard did."
Rory: "MOM!"
Lorelai: "Well, you weren't going to do anything about it so I did."
Rory; "Now the town will think that I'm immature and trying to get revenge by spreading rumors."
Lorelai: "Well, the town loves you and will always be on your side."
Rory crossed her arms: "Hmph!"
Dean couldn't handle the death glares he had been getting for cheating on Rory. Luckily for him, his family moved back to Chicago before Dean tipped over the brink into the world of insanity. end flashback
Rory looked back to that as kind of "learning from her mistakes." From then on, she never said 'I love you' unless she truly meant it, not out of obligation.
She closed up the Dean box and put it back in her closet, beneath a pile of old clothes that she never bothered to throw away. She knew she wouldn't be looking at the box again anytime soon. She looked at the next box. the Jess box.
END
AN: I know, I know. I treated Dean too nicely. I should have made him die a terrible death! Like being in a modern Nazi concentration camp or something even worse! But alas! (fake princess faint) I have a pure heart and decided to let Dean go without pain. Anyway, in the first draft of this part, I made it so that Rory just found out he cheated on her and then the whole time of Stars Hollow gave Dean death glares and Dean begged his family to move out of town. It was weird so I changed it. Thanks to pinkpuruu for the idea of the Chicago move so it didn't seem so sudden. Go read pinkpuruu's fanfics!
AN2: There might not be updates for a while because I have to study for midterms (yes. I'm one of those sad people who have classes in the summer.) In fact, I wasn't even supposed to be writing this, I was supposed to be studying! sigh I wish that I hadn't taken summer classes.
AN3: If you're going to e-mail me, put "fanfic" as the subject because I delete e-mails from people I don't know.
Author - bItTeRsWeEtPoOfZ
Contacts - bittersweetpoofz@hotmail.com
Pairing - Tristan/Rory with a tad bit of java junkiness
Rating - PG-13 - I say the word "bastard" a few times.
Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with "Gilmore Girls". All characters belong to Amy Sherman- Pallidino. If you sue me, you will get nothing because I have nothing. I'm just a poor a writer writing for non-profit purposes..
Author's Ramblings: I apologize for the shortness of these parts/chapters. They seem so long when I write them out in my spiral. But when I look at it online, it's so short!! Once again, I apologize. Now on with the story!
To my readers: Thank you so much for the supportive reviews I got!!! hugs You guys are SO great! sniff Yeah okay, I'm not THAT touched. Anyway to the person who wrote that anti-trory review: If you hate Troryness so much, why are you even reading my fanfic? And, I meant "constructive criticism" on my work, not my beliefs! And why didn't you sign your review, hunh? Were you too CHICKEN to stand up for your thoughts?? I thought that a person with such BOLD beliefs would at least take credit for their work!! hmph stupid people nowadays. Well anyway, to my NORMAL readers, thanks for reading and review if you have the time!!
*~Dean~*
Rory looked through the Dean box first. It only made sense since he was her first true love. Actually, no he wasn't. She didn't love him. She never had. She only said that she loved him because she knew it was the only way to get him back. She liked him a lot, yes, but she didn't love him.
flashback .summer after junior year.
Dean: "Rory I have to tell you something."
Rory: "Hmm?" Rory was deep into her newest Russian novel.
Dean sighed. He didn't know how to break this to her. She looked so sweet reading her book on a warm day in the park.
Dean: "Rory, can you stop reading for a moment?"
Rory carefully marked her spot and then set down her book. She could tell that this was something serious: "I'm all yours."
Dean: "Um. I don't know how to say this."
Rory: "Say what?"
Dean: "Okay, I'm just going to say it and get it over with: I have to go back to Chicago."
Rory (frantic): "What? When? Why?"
Dean: "In a month. My grandmother broke her hip and we need to go back to take care of her. My aunt and uncle are taking care of her now, but they need to go back to Los Angeles next month."
Rory: "When did you know about this?"
Dean (guiltily): "About a month ago."
Rory (starting to get angry): "And it never occurred to you to tell me?"
Dean: "I didn't mean - "
Rory: "You might as well have told me the day you left!"
Dean: "I'm sorry."
Rory: "Save it." She packed up and went home. How could he have not told her? Didn't he know that she wanted to spend some quality time with him before he left? What was wrong with him? She stalked home and sat with her arms crossed on the couch.
Lorelai: "Hey cheerful."
Rory: "Hi."
Lorelai: "What's wrong?"
Rory told Lorelai what Dean had just told her.
Lorelai: "Well, maybe you shouldn't have been so quick to judge."
Rory: "Why? HE DIDN"T TELL ME FOR GOD'S SAKE!"
Lorelai: "Did you look at it from his point of view."
Rory (sheepishly): "No."
Lorelai: "He probably didn't want to tell you because he didn't want to hurt you. He didn't want the news to affect the great relationship you guys have going."
Rory: "Maybe. but still! He should have told me!"
Lorelai: "He should have but he didn't. Don't you think you can forgive him?"
Rory: "Well. I guess I can see his point. But after I ran off like that, I can't go back. I'll look like an idiot."
Lorelai: "True. That's Gilmore Girl Rule #6: Never admit you're wrong."
Rory: "Exactly."
Lorelai: "So what are you going to do?"
Rory: "I guess the only thing left to do would be to wait for him to apologize and then I can forgive him."
Lorelai: "Well, that being solved, how 'bout a spontaneous movie night?"
Rory grinned.
A week later, Dean apologized and all was well. They decided to make the best of their relationship until Dean left. Their relationship was. different. Rory was always anticipating the day that Dean wouldn't be there.
Rory (as she walks into Luke's): "Hey mom."
Lorelai (pretending to be serious): "Greetings, daughter of my loins."
Rory: "Ew! Gross mom!"
Luke: "Hey Rory."
Rory: "Hi Luke!"
Luke: "So what do you want?"
Rory: "Just coffee please."
Luke: "That stuff will kill you one day."
Rory: "Then, I'll die happy."
Luke turned and walked away to get Rory her coffee.
Lorelai: "Anyway, what are you doing here? Don't you have a date with narcolepsy boy?"
Rory (sits down in a chair): "We DID have a date, but he said that he needed to baby-sit Clara because his parents had last minute plans. I mean, I offered to stay with him, but he said that Clara had the flu or something, which doesn't really make sense since it's not flu season. I think he's hiding something."
Lorelai: "Wow. That was one long babble. About 6.43 seconds. Of course, I can do better than that. Wanna see?" She didn't wait for a response and continued: "Let's see. what's agood topic I can babble about? OoOo! I know! The Osbournes! That family is so - "
Rory: "Mom."
Lorelai: "What?"
Rory: "Focus."
Lorelai: "Right. Dean, hiding."
Rory: "So what do you think about it?"
Lorelai: "Honey, he loves you remember? He would never do anything to hurt you."
Rory: " Do you really think so?"
Lorelai: "I mean, there must be SOME reasonable explanation for his shadiness. OoOo! Slim Shady! Eminem! Now there's a controversial topic I could babble about! Let's see - there was that Christina - "
Rory: "MOM! I'm trying to have a serious conversation with you here. How many cups of coffee did you have today? That's the second time you got sidetracked in about - " She looked at her watch. "3 minutes."
Lorelai: "Sorry. So, I was talking about.?"
Rory: "Explanation."
Lorelai: "Oh yeah. Like Clara."
Rory: "What about her?"
Lorelai: "Clara is probably scared of you. And Dean didn't want to hurt your feelings by telling you that Clara isn't too fond of you, so he made up a lie so you wouldn't get hurt."
Rory: "Why would Clara be afraid of me?"
Lorelai: "Um.. hello! If you were a seven year old and someone came up to YOU and started questioning you about your grammar mistakes, wouldn't you be scared?" Rory laughed: "I guess I would. But anyway, since I have nothing to do, I'll go home and read a book."
Lorelai: "Aw. that makes you sound so. unwanted."
Rory: "You're funny. now go to work before you're late!"
Lorelai looked at her watch. "You're right! I'd better go before Michele starts throwing a fit and scaring off the guests. Can you pay the bill for now? I promise I'll pay you back when I get home."
Rory: "Okay okay! Just go!"
Lorelai: "Bye sweets! Don't burn down the house!"
Rory: "GO!"
Lorelai: "Going!"
Rory finished up her cup of coffee and then went up to the counter.
Rory: "Hey Luke. What's the total?"
Luke: "um. $6.73"
Rory handed him a ten dollar bill.
Luke: "Here's your change, have a nice day."
Rory smiled: "You too Luke!"
Rory walked home and found her worn out copy of Pride and Prejudice. It was one of her favorite books and she wanted to re-read it. She looked out the window and saw the sunshine. The day wasn't too hot so she decided to go read in the park.
She packed a beach towel and a water bottle. Then she changed into a simple tank top and shorts and then slipped on some flip-flops. Then, satisfied with her outfit, she walked to the park.
When she got to the park, she walked along the path in search of a shady spot. But what she found was much more that a shady spot - she found the truth.
She saw a familiar face. It was Dean. and he wasn't alone. He was with a leggy blonde and they were heavily making out. Their hands were moving all over each other's bodies. Rory was shocked. She couldn't believe that Dean had fooled her all this time. Dean, loyal Dean was a two-timer! Disgusted, Rory ran away back towards her house.
Dean heard loud, quick footsteps so he looked towards the sounds and saw the back of Rory. He continued making out with Sharon. He didn't even like Rory anymore. She wouldn't try anything new because she "wasn't ready" and he got tired of waiter for her. So he started dating Sharon a few months ago. In fact, today was their 3-month anniversary. And Sharon was fine with going out in secret. So he let Rory go without running after her. It was better this way: now he and Sharon could go public.
Back at the Gilmore house, Rory was sitting on the couch. She wasn't crying. After a few minutes, she realized that she wasn't crying. After pondering about her lack of tears, she concluded that she didn't truly love Dean. Then, she realized that it didn't hurt so much anymore, She became tired and decided to take a nap on the couch so that she could hear her mother when she came home.
When Lorelai came home, she saw Rory sleeping peacefully on the couch. She didn't want to wake Rory until it was time for dinner.
Lorelai opened the freezer and took out a frozen pizza. She unwrapped it, set the temperature of the oven and then set the timer. She had done this so many times before that she didn't even have to read the label for the instructions.
Then, she opened the fridge and took out some cartons. She opened the lids and identified the food as chow mien, egg rolls, and some sort of chicken. The food was from over a week ago. Rory would have probably made her throw it away but "Oh well! What's the worse that could happen?" thought Lorelai.
After the pizza was ready and the Chinese food was reheated, Lorelai woke Rory up.
Lorelai: "Wake up, Sleeping Beauty."
Rory: "Oh hey mom. When'd you get home? I didn't hear you come in the door."
Lorelai: "About 45 minutes ago. I made some pizza and reheated Chinese. You up for it?"
Rory: "Add Mexican and we'll have multicultural food night!"
Lorelai: "Deal! I'll cook some mini-tacos and taquitos and they'll be done in about 15 minutes!"
Rory: "Okay. SO we'll eat pizza and Chinese while waiting right?"
Lorelai "Of course! It would be blasphemous if we didn't!"
Rory laughed.
An hour and lots of laughs later, the Gilmore girls finished off the food. They talked about mad movies for a while and the Lorelai went up to bed.
Rory had taken a nap earlier so she wasn't tired. So instead of sleeping, she lay in bed thinking about the day's events. She knew that running in flip-flops made loud noises and she also knew that Dean would have heard the noises. Yet he didn't stop her or even try to explain the situation - not that there was an acceptable explanation for the make-out fest. She came to the conclusion that she was going to ignore Dean and if he tried to make-up, she'd dump him. So much for 'quality time' she though bitterly.
Over the next few days, Rory went about her normal activities. She didn't try to avoid Dean since she didn't do anything wrong. On the fourth day, Lorelai finally noticed something wrong.
Lorelai: "Morning Mini-me"
Rory: "Hey mom."
Lorelai: "Isn't summer?"
Rory: "Yeah. so what?"
Lorelai: "So shouldn't you be hanging out with your FRIENDS instead of hanging out here and reading?"
Rory could see where this was heading: "I do hang out with Lane."
Lorelai: "I mean your OTHER friends."
Rory: "What do you mean? Lane's the only friend I hang out with." She was obviously trying to avoid the topic.
Lorelai: "I mean, the six foot two kind of friend."
Rory: "Do you want some pop tarts?"
Lorelai: "Rory."
Rory: "How about coffee? You always want coffee. I'll pour you a cup right now."
Lorelai: "Rory, you're much more important than coffee, even if it IS the elixir of life. So spill."
Rory told Lorelai the story and Lorelai's first reaction was: "That bastard!"
Rory: "Mom!"
Lorelai: "Well he is! The nerve of that boy! I will personally hunt him down, decapitate him, and then hang his head on a pole and stick it in our yard as a warning to anyone who tries to hurt my Rory."
Rory laughed. "No really Mom. I'm okay."
Lorelai: "Do you want to wallow?"
Rory groaned: "Not this again!"
Lorelai: "Seriously, I can take a few days off work to wallow with you."
Rory: "LISTEN! After I saw them, I didn't even cry or throw a tantrum or anything. I'm fine!"
Lorelai sat there: "Go on."
Rory: "I think it's because I don't love him. I mean, for a while now, I've felt like Dean was getting to be a habit or some kind of obligation. Our kisses had no more sparks anymore. I think it's either that I slowly stopped loving him or I never loved him from the start."
Lorelai: "Wow. someone had some divine revelations at night."
Rory: "Yeah. I think that I never loved him. At the beginning of last summer, I only said that I loved him because I thought it was the only way to get him back."
Lorelai: "So what are you going to do about?"
Rory: "Nothing. I'm just going to go on with life as if that 'bastard', and I'm only quoting you, never existed."
Lorelai: "You mean, you're not going to take revenge or anything?"
Rory: "Nope."
Lorelai: "No 'I hate you, you bitch!' to the blonde in front of everyone?"
Rory: "Nope."
Lorelai: "You are such an angel."
Rory: "Hahaha."
The next day, Lorelai casually told Babette about "the bastard" and what he did while borrowing sugar from Babette. Babette was so shocked that she didn't realize the Gilmores had no need for sugar since they never cooked. Lorelai, satisfied with completing her mission, went home and dumped a cup of sugar into the trashcan. She knew that Rory wouldn't approve but since Rory wasn't doing anything, she was going to do it for her.
Babette hurried over to Miss Patty's Dance Studio to tell the latest gossip. Miss Patty heard the news and gasped in shock: "That bastard!" Babette: "That's what Lorelai said when she first heard the story."
Miss Patty: "Poor thing."
Babette: "Yeah. I feel so sorry for her. She must feel terrible!"
Miss Patty: "Well, we have to do something!"
Babette: "Yeah!"
Miss Patty: "We should tell Taylor to fire that bastard!"
Babette nodded: "I don't want a dirty scumbag touching my groceries."
Miss Patty: "Let's go."
When Taylor heard the news, he was furious. He couldn't believe that when he hired Dean, he thought that Dean was a nice decent boy. He agreed to fire Dean the next day when he came in to work.
When Rory got home, she looked for Lorelai.
Rory: "Mom?"
Lorelai: "In the kitchen."
Rory: "Hi."
Lorelai: "Want some tater tots? Fresh out of the oven!"
Rory sat down, took a tater tot, dipped it into the ranch sauce and then popped it into her mouth. She took a sip of her mom's Pepsi One. (AN: just wanted to let you know that I am in no way affiliated with Pepsi. Don't sue me)
Rory: "So what did you do today?"
Lorelai: "Um. I slept in, went to Luke's, read Time and Newsweek and then made some tater tots while watching reruns of 'I Love Lucy' "
Rory: "Anything ELSE you might have done?"
Lorelai looked at Rory innocently. "No. why do you ask?"
Rory: "12 people asked how I was feeling, 5 gave me Kleenexes and 3 offered be their phone numbers for counseling."
Lorelai: "I MIGHT have mentioned something about you and what that bastard did."
Rory: "MOM!"
Lorelai: "Well, you weren't going to do anything about it so I did."
Rory; "Now the town will think that I'm immature and trying to get revenge by spreading rumors."
Lorelai: "Well, the town loves you and will always be on your side."
Rory crossed her arms: "Hmph!"
Dean couldn't handle the death glares he had been getting for cheating on Rory. Luckily for him, his family moved back to Chicago before Dean tipped over the brink into the world of insanity. end flashback
Rory looked back to that as kind of "learning from her mistakes." From then on, she never said 'I love you' unless she truly meant it, not out of obligation.
She closed up the Dean box and put it back in her closet, beneath a pile of old clothes that she never bothered to throw away. She knew she wouldn't be looking at the box again anytime soon. She looked at the next box. the Jess box.
END
AN: I know, I know. I treated Dean too nicely. I should have made him die a terrible death! Like being in a modern Nazi concentration camp or something even worse! But alas! (fake princess faint) I have a pure heart and decided to let Dean go without pain. Anyway, in the first draft of this part, I made it so that Rory just found out he cheated on her and then the whole time of Stars Hollow gave Dean death glares and Dean begged his family to move out of town. It was weird so I changed it. Thanks to pinkpuruu for the idea of the Chicago move so it didn't seem so sudden. Go read pinkpuruu's fanfics!
AN2: There might not be updates for a while because I have to study for midterms (yes. I'm one of those sad people who have classes in the summer.) In fact, I wasn't even supposed to be writing this, I was supposed to be studying! sigh I wish that I hadn't taken summer classes.
AN3: If you're going to e-mail me, put "fanfic" as the subject because I delete e-mails from people I don't know.