"Good morning Paris," Rory greeted when she saw Paris with Madeline and Louise at the entrance of Chilton, they turned to her and returned the cheerful greeting of Rory
"good morning Rory, I see you're in a happy mood. I'm glad to see no more moody Rory, what changed?" Paris smiled. It's been nearly a week when they have been trying to be civil with each other
"well, I realized I've been moody for so long so I need a change," Rory hesitated
"uhuh, I thought something bad happened to you during summer and made you moody Rory…" Paris said smirking
"you've been like that for two weeks, and you know it's senior year, we're supposed to have fun, fun, fun!" Louise grinned
Rory smiled, "I'm trying to have fun, by the way I have to go to my locker so I'll see you in class?"
The three girls nodded and Rory went to her locker and when she closed her locker, there was Tristan leaning against the locker beside hers.
"you miss me that much huh Tristan?"
"oh yea, very much since I left for North Carolina," Tristan grinned
"too bad I don't feel the same, and not even once," Rory smirked and strolled down the hallway
"ouch, you sure know how to break a guy's heart,"
"I'm glad," Rory said with a straight face and went to her class. Tristan groaned and caught after Rory before classes starts
"Rory, can we talk?" he asked, Rory didn't say anything, only she raised her eyebrows
"what?"
"did you actually say my name?" she said
"yes I did, Rory is your name, isn't it?"
Rory rolled her eyes, "I wondered why it took you so long to say my name properly. What do you want Tristan?"
"oh well-" he was interrupted when Mr. Medina arrived
"can you please take your seats," he ordered
"damn you Mr. Medina," he mumbled at his bad timing and decided that he could talk to Rory later so he took his seat few feet away from Rory
"Good afternoon to you class, we've been reading Greek mythology last week and now you have a new project. This is going to be a pair work and I've assigned all of you to work with your partner on this project. This is due in three weeks. What you're going to do is make a poster of family trees starting from the Principal Gods until the Royal House of Thebes and the Atreidae, and it must be complete." Mr. Medina said.
There were groans, knowing it's going to be a long work of research and Rory started rubbing her temple because of more stress and it's wearing her out.
"I'm going to call out your partners and here goes. Linda and John, Heidi and Lloyd, Paris and Henry, Tristan and Rory, Greg and Louise…" and the list goes on and the bell rang.
"I feel like I'm going to get a headache anytime now…" Rory groaned as she exited the room with Paris behind her
"because you're going to be working with Tristan for three weeks? Come on, it's not that bad and he can be nice…" she said, Rory stopped and leaned against the wall for support
"I doubt that. Too much stress is making me feel so weak," Rory shrugged
Paris frowned, "you're having so much stress already? It's like a month since we got back to school and you're not even working for the Franklin…oh yeah, how come you don't want to work for the Franklin anymore? I thought you love to write?"
"not anymore," she lied
"oh,"
"well, then I better go and talk to Henry about the project, see you Rory,"
"okay," Rory said and let out a sigh
"hey, you okay?" Rory turned to see Tristan approaching with a concern look on his face
"it's nothing," she shook it off, "so about the project Tristan, how do you want to do the project?"
"I don't know…it's up to you,"
"well, how about we'll divide the research and then we'll put it together afterwards?"
"oh well, if you want that then sure but we need to work together more on this after the divided research," he shrugged
"alright, we'll work at your place on Saturday afternoon, fine with you?"
Tristan nodded, "fine with me and Rory-"
"Tristan, would you excuse me? I need to go to the bathroom right now," Rory said, feeling uneasy
Tristan frowned, "uh sure…are you alright?"
"it's nothing Tristan," Rory said with hesitant and walked away
"sure…it's nothing," he mumbled as he watched her go and saw that she started coughing.
"Hey mini-me!" Lorelai greeted cheerfully when Rory came home
"mom…" Rory greeted back and coughed
Lorelai became worried, "hey, you okay dear?"
Rory continued coughing and Lorelai rubbed her back, "go take your pill," she said
Rory went to her room and Lorelai went to the kitchen to get a glass of water and went to Rory's room. Rory was sitting down on the bed and Lorelai handed her the glass of water
"thanks…" Rory took it and drank her pill
"feeling much better?"
Rory shrugged, Lorelai sat beside her on the bed and Rory laid her head on her mother's lap
"it is so hard…"
Lorelai started to sooth her hair, "I know dear…"
"it's really so hard mom…"
Lorelai's face saddened and nodded her head, "you don't have to tell me…"
Rory stayed that way and in a few minutes, the pill worked and it made her fell asleep. Lorelai gently put Rory's head down and covered her with a blanket. Lorelai left her room and headed for Luke's.
"No Taylor! I won't!"
"Come on Luke! For the kid's sake, why won't you want to decorate for Halloween?" Taylor begged
"because I don't want to and I hate Halloween!"
Lorelai entered the diner and saw Luke and Taylor arguing about decorating until Taylor gave up since Luke never gives in and left the diner
"You hate Halloween?"
"yes and don't ask," Luke said as he poured her a coffee in the mug
"did you just give me coffee Luke?" Lorelai's eyes widened, Luke rolled his eyes
"yes I did. Do you need glasses?" he said
"no…I mean, you just don't give me coffee that easily, and when it comes to this…now shoot," Lorelai raised her eyebrows
"shoot what?" Luke frowned
"what's in your mind. I know you don't give me coffee that easily ever since so Lukey…what's up?" Lorelai said
Luke sighed, "oh well,"
"well what Luke," Lorelai was being impatient
"you were not here yesterday,"
Lorelai frowned, "so?"
"uh…that's it,"
Lorelai tilted her head and laughed, "oh! You missed me? You poured me coffee because you missed me? Wow! Lukey missed me!"
"Lorelai!" Luke grunted, Lorelai stopped jumping and turned to him
"you missed me huh?" she smiled, Luke groaned in denial and went to serve the other costumers
"where's Rory? Isn't she supposed to be home by now?" Luke asked as he returned to the counter
"well she's at home, sleeping," Lorelai sighed and looked down on her coffee
Luke frowned, "what's the matter Lorelai?"
Lorelai looked up at him and shook her head, "nothing, why?"
"well, you seemed to be down…"
Lorelai smiled weakly, "in fact I am but it doesn't matter and I better go home and take care of Rory," she said getting up
"is she sick?"
Lorelai nodded, "yeah…"
"oh well, okay. I wish her to get well soon," Luke sighed. Lorelai nodded and gave another weak smile, "so you did miss me yesterday huh?"
Luke groaned, "get out,"
Lorelai chuckled and left the dinner.
*A/N: I promise that there will be more Trory actions in the next few chapters so be glad! Anyways to make me love you guys more, please review! :) ...or else....(hehe!)*