The sun was shining through Rory's window the next day and the birds were singing. Rory woke up with a headache and she flinched. She rubbed her forehead and glanced at the clock. She gasped.

"mom!!!"

"what?" Lorelai came into the room and saw a panicked expression on Rory's face

"I'm late for school Mom! Why didn't you wake me up? I have no time to get my things ready and everything…I'm late for school aaahhh!!"

"Rory! Calm down! You're not going to school today. You're sick and I called that you won't be in today so calm down and take a rest sweetie," Lorelai said

Rory shrugged and laid back down, "urg, I really envy you mom, a lot,"

"well I don't envy myself and I wish I'm in your shoes right now because tonight I don't want to have dinner with my mom…" Lorelai groaned

"oh, it's Friday I remembered," Rory sighed

"well, if you want, we'll tell my mom that we're not going to attend dinner tonight because you're sick," Lorelai grinned, Rory rolled her eyes

"in fact mom, I'm feeling much better right now and I would like to go to dinner-"

Lorelai gasped, "are you really my daughter?"

"and spend much time as possible with them…you know,"

"oh,"

"yes," Rory nodded

"well," Lorelai shrugged, "okay then we're going to dinner tonight…"

"thanks a lot and mom, can I borrow your laptop?"

"uh sure, why?" she asked

"I don't feel like sitting on a hard chair right now and I have to do some research for a project…it's going to take time and I have to go to Tristan's place to work on it-"

"You mean the hot and cutie Tristan?" Lorelai interrupted with a grin

"mom, don't start this again," Rory groaned

"so you mean you agree that he's hot and cute?"

"uh mom…"

"you hesitated! You just hesitated! You liked Tristan!" Lorelai cried

Rory grabbed her pillow and covered her head, "go away," a mumbled sound came from under the pillow

"no I'm not leaving missy, after knowing that you like Tristan," Lorelai grinned

Rory groaned and pulled out the pillow from her face and faced her mom

"mom, I don't like Tristan and I never will,"

"denial,"

"no I'm not,"

"sure you are,"

"no I'm not,"

"okay, okay if you say so…" Lorelai smirked

"hey! I do not like Tristan!"

"I didn't say anything,"

"your face says it, and mom please get the laptop so I can start now,"

Lorelai scoffed, "gees…my daughter is ordering me…yes your madam, I'll go and get the laptop now and then you'll be dreaming about how hot and cute Tristan is,"

"mom!" Lorelai laughed and went to get the lap top and came back finding Rory deep in thought

"hmmm…what do you have in your mind? Tristan isn't?" Lorelai teased as she placed the laptop beside Rory on the bed

Rory groaned, "why does he have to come back from Military school?!"

Lorelai smiled and left Rory alone with her thoughts. Glad she's beginning to admit it.

"Hello grandma,"

"hi mom," Lorelai and Rory greeted when Emily opened the door

"you're early," Emily stated

"like I said, I promise that we'll try to be on time or early," Lorelai said

Emily smiled, "well, I'm glad that you did come early. Richard has something for Rory, why don't you go and find him in the office?"

"I will," Rory smiled and went to find grandpa. Lorelai took off her jacket and hang it on the rack. Emily looked at her daughter and saw an expression that concerned her

"are you alright Lorelai?" Emily asked when they sat down in the living room

"uh yeah, why shouldn't I?"

"well I don't know, you seemed to be tired…and sad,"

"oh mom…" Lorelai sighed, "well, sure I can be tired because lot of things happened in the inn today but I'm not sad. I'm just tired, that's all,"

"if you say so,"

"hey mom, grandpa gave me money for Fez," Rory came to the living room with Richard, Richard smiled

"you gave Rory money for Fez?" Lorelai frowned

Richard nodded, "and for you also. Since I know that Rory wanted to go to Fez after she graduates from Chilton, right Rory?" he turned to his granddaughter

"uh, right grandpa, thanks," Rory smiled and hugged him

"anything for my granddaughter and daughter, they earn something after hard work,"

"thanks dad," Lorelai said, Richard nodded and turned to Emily, "is dinner ready?"

"oh yes, we were just waiting for you two, we shall begin," Emily said and they went to the dining room.

"Hey, coffee?" Lorelai asked as they left the Gilmore resident

"yes please, Starbucks?"

"sure thing," Lorelai sighed and they were in silence

"about Fez-" both of them said, and laughed

"great minds think alike, like mother, like daughter," Lorelai chuckled

Rory agreed, "I have been thinking about Fez since grandpa gave us money,"

"me too," Lorelai nodded and parked the jeep in front of Starbucks

"grab a seat and I'll order," Lorelai said and Rory nodded, found a seat by the corner and sat down. Rory looked around the place and saw a guy with tousled blonde hair like Tristan's and she thought it was Tristan. But then she saw the guy's face, it was Tristan.

*Ring, ring*

Rory answered her cellphone

"hello?"

"Rory! I'm so sorry! I didn't call you right away about what happened!" it was Lane

Rory chuckled, "it's okay, so I figured you liked him?"

"yes I like him but-"

"but what?" Rory frowned, she only kept looking at Tristan and saw that his companion was a girl

"you know this guy too…it was such a great coincidence,"

"oh really? Who is he?" Rory looked away from staring at Tristan and the brunette girl

"it's Henry Cho,"

"what?! Henry? As in Henry, the guy who asked you for a dance at Madeline's party?"

"yes, that Henry and I'm sorry for not calling right away. But guess what, my mom approved him and she likes his family. Then before he left after dinner with his parents, he asked me if we could go out on a date and I said yes…I really like him Rory,"

Rory chuckled and saw her mom approaching, "well, then I'm glad I pushed you into that meeting or you would have regret it,"

"I'm glad you did Rory and by the way I just called to fill you in," Lane said

"well then I'm glad now that you filled me in because other days I thought you forgot about your own bestfriend!"

"oh no, I won't ever forget a great bestfriend like you, oh uh…Mama is giving me weird looks so I better get off the phone now,"

"okay, I'll see you tomorrow, bye," Rory hang up and grinned at her mom

"Lane?" Lorelai asked, Rory nodded, "yep"

"oh, so what's new with Lane?" Lorelai asked with interest

"well, Mrs. Kim invited someone over for dinner few days ago and wanted Lane to meet their son, and Lane didn't want to meet him but I pushed her saying what if he's cute and nice, and then she decided to go for it so Lane updated today that the guy was Henry Cho, the guy who asked her for a dance when we went to Madeline's party,"

"ah," Lorelai nodded and sipped her coffee. And her eyes flew behind Rory's back

"hey, is that Tristan Dugrey?" she asked, Rory looked behind her and saw him laughing with the brunette

"yes and I think he's with his new flavor of the week," Rory said and turned back to her mom

"hmm," Lorelai raised her eyebrow. Is Rory jealous of the brunette?

Then Lorelai glanced at her watch, "well we better get home now and I have some work to do for the Inn,"

Rory nodded, "sure, let's go," Rory said, and finished her coffee.

*A/N: Reviews please and I shall love you forever! Oh yeah, I promised more Trory actions in the next few chapters...Oh yeah, since most of you readers don't want Rory to die...any idea how to change it because I had everything planned already and...no, I'm not going to tell you what kind of sickness unless you're guessing. :) Just tell me what I should do to prevent Rory from dying...if it's POSSIBLE. thankies! Mwah! Take Care!*