Chapter 8- Miss Cleo and Gone With The Wind
Hey you guys! I know Gone With The Wind is such a fabulous movie so I just had to incorporate it into one of my stories somehow and it is in this story! YAY! Okay so this is a fairly long chapter (I think) I don't own anything so don't sue me. I didn't get a really good response from the last chapter so you know maybe you guys could reciprocate a bit more, I mean here I am writing this story taking over an hour for each chapter and you guys don't write reviews. I like that you're reading it but I would also appreciate it if you tried to write a review. Even if it just says I like it, I love it, It's amazing or I hate it, its fine. I just would like some feedback. But I wanted to thank those that have reviewed so far because well you guys keep me motivated to keep writing this story! Thanks a trillion!
NOW FOR A SPECIAL THANKS! Tiz-nd-Az (I think that's your name but if I got it wrong I'm sorry): YOU HAVE MADE MY YEAR! You rock my world! You have no idea how happy I was to get your review! It wasn't really a review but that was just fabulous! I am not going to post it because I'll get angry people writing me but when it does happen I will write in BIG LETTERS 100 times on a chapter of this story, I TOLD YOU SO! Yes thank you so much! Again you rock my world! THANKS SO MUCH FOR THAT INFO! MWAZ!
There are other people I want to give a special thanks to but I'll give you one on the next chapter, cause I'm not online right now and I don't feel like going online to remember your name's! So ON WITH THE SHOW!
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The next morning was all too hurried for Rory Gilmore. She had thrown her alarm against the wall therefore breaking it and stopping the incredibly annoying noise it was making, giving her time to fall back to sleep. About half an hour later Loralei came tearing through the room when she didn't smell coffee brewing.
"Rory where's the coffee!" Loralei screamed. Loralei looked around the kitchen and didn't see any Rory, she cautiously opened Rory's bedroom door. And sure enough there was Rory asleep, "Rory you're going to miss the bus!"
Rory jumped out of bed, "What time is it?!"
"It's almost 7:20!"
"Oh my god!" Rory said as she dashed towards the bathroom. She jumped into the shower and took quite possibly the fastest shower ever taken, then she yanked on her uniform, not bothering to straighten her tie or tuck her shirt in. She then ran out of the door without breakfast, just a cup of coffee in a thermos.
Loralei shouted out the window to her, "You've missed the bus! Take the jeep!" Then she tossed the keys towards Rory who was about to start down the steps of the porch.
Rory caught the keys as she spun around, then she dashed for the car and drove out of the driveway. She arrived a Chilton five minutes before the bell rang. She was walking down the corridor towards her locker when she heard a group of Tristan's friends talking.
"So how long do you think Tristan's going to keep the game going with the Gilmore chick?" said an unfamiliar voice.
"I give it three days at the most. She hasn't put out with him as far as I'm aware so what use is she." Said another voice.
A third voice had input too, "Tristan's getting bored of her, and have you seen how Summer's being throwing herself at him lately, I'm surprised he's had the strength to throw her off, but I bet you today he'll give in and we won't be seeing the Gilmore chick anymore, she doesn't mean a thing to him, he just wants to get her in bed."
Rory stopped in her tracks; she was leaning against the side of a row of lockers hoping that they wouldn't see her. With every word they said more pain grew inside of her. This was what she had feared that Tristan still just found it a game, that she meant nothing. Tears started to well up in her eyes but then she tuned back into the conversation.
"I bet you I could get the Gilmore chick in bed in fifteen minutes flat, easy, I could easily turn her into a Summer," said the second voice.
Rory was so infuriated by that last comment that she stepped out and said coldly, "Are you sure of that cause I would like to see you try."
"Any day any day," said Ben, the voice that belonged to the second voice. The first voice was James and the third voice belonged to Rick.
"You wish," Rory responded.
"Ahh Gilmore are you just too upset that you really mean nothing to Tristan, I mean you must have thought you meant something if you got so worked over this. Now come on why don't you leave him and you and I can go have some fun," said Ben who was not going to stop until he got the results he wanted. He started to step towards Rory when all of a sudden a fist collided with his face. Rory swerved around and saw Tristan who was now holding Ben by his shirt.
"Don't you ever talk to her or step near her again Ben, if you do it'll be worse next time," said Tristan. Then he looked disgustedly at his other two "friends" and said, "And you two are just as low as he is, he may be just a little lower. Come on Rory." He slung his arm around her shoulder and started steering her away from his old friends.
"I was just getting to know your latest conquest Tristan, and I might I say she seems to be quite the feisty one, how is she in bed?" Ben called after them.
Tristan turned around and said angrily and barely audibly but loud enough for all four onlookers to hear, "Ben she is not just a conquest and you know that as well as I do now why don't you keep your mouth shut because we both know that would be best for you." Then he turned around with Rory again and they walked to their first class together.
Tristan ran his other hand through his hair and said, "You know what they said isn't true don't you Rory?"
Rory had believed them at first but then she had seen the way Tristan had reacted to them saying those things, he hadn't joined in or said anything that would make her upset, he had been there and had helped her, she in no way doubted Tristan, "No I don't believe them Tris, why would I, I love you."
"I love you too," he said right before they walked into their class.
Later that night Rory and Loralei were sauntering through the town, preparing for a movie night, after all it was a Friday.
"What movie should we see?" asked Loralei.
"Gone with the wind."
"Ahh a beautiful love story that isn't all that beautiful. But Scarlett O'Hara's dresses were to die for."
"They were gorgeous but I wouldn't want to be laced up like that."
"20 inches Ms. Scarlett---I want to be 18 inches again." Loralei said quoting that scene. (AN I don't know the whole scene even though I just saw the movie yesterday but hey it was a good scene)
"You'll never be 18 inches again Ms. Scarlett, not after having a baby."
Loralei pouted and said, "Well heavens Rory what shall I do, I won't fit into my green dress!"
Rory frowned and said, "That wasn't in the movie."
"Of course not, now lets go to Doose's!"
Rory hesitated outside the door and Loralei knew exactly why, "Oh come on hunny you can't avoid Doose's just because there are memories of him there."
"Who said there were memories?"
"Sweetie I know you were upset when Dean left."
"How did you know I was thinking of the memories?"
"I'm Miss Cleo I know all."
"You know Miss Cleo was arrested?"
"No!" Loralei gasped, "How could they arrest Miss Cleo?!?! Poor Miss Cleo! But she is Miss Cleo didn't she know she was going to be arrested and stop it."
"She was arrested for fraud."
"No! After all those phone calls I made to her! I always thought she was right!"
Rory laughed, "You made phone calls to Miss Cleo?"
"Yes and she never did put me in an ad! All that money a waste!"
"Come on lets go into Doose's."
"But I'm traumatized, Miss Cleo who would have thought!" Loralei continued to rant on about Miss Cleo as they walked through the store gathering junk food.
"Marshmallows, sour patch kids, chocolate, peanut butter, marshmallow fluff."
Loralei stopped her Miss Cleo ranting to say, "What are you on a marshmallow kick?"
"Well you're on a Miss Cleo kick."
"We've both stopped we're even."
"Hey I never agreed to that."
"You just did."
"Hurmpph," Rory said as they grabbed bag after bag of chips, dip and candy.
"Come on Mini me we have to pay!"
Rory carried the tremendously heavy bag over to the cashier, she plunked it down. They quickly paid and got out of the store.
"To Luke's for the elixir of life!" said Loralei.
"Amen!"
Loralei gave Rory a puzzled look and said, "Since when did you become all Christian on me?"
"It just seemed like a good thing to say."
"Gilmore intuition?"
"Of course."
Loralei flung the door open and said, "I am Ms. America, so Luke you are therefore obligated to bring me coffee!"
"Ms. America doesn't drink coffee because it's unhealthy, she drinks water."
"Well this Ms. America doesn't."
"Have this," Luke said placing a glass of orange juice in front of her.
"What is this?!?!?! It's orange not brown, last time I checked the elixir of life was brown!"
"It didn't feel brown anymore it felt orange."
"Uhh Luke that's orange juice," Rory said.
"Shh."
"You tried to get me to drink orange juice!" Loralei said jumping out of her seat and poking a finger at Luke.
"It's not polite to point!"
"I'm pointing! Pointing, pointing, pointing."
"Okay two cups of coffee!"
"Thank you Lukey!" Luke walked back behind the counter and Loralei decided to follow him, "Wait here oh guardian angel."
"Guardian angel?"
"You saved me from that orange liquid."
"Ahh logic."
Loralei got up and went over to Luke, "So since you love me so much how bout you give me two cups of coffee? Come on Rory'll never know."
"What would make you think I love you."
"Because you do."
"And you Loralei Gilmore are damn right."
Loralei looked at him shocked, was he kidding like the time he had asked her to marry him, or was he serious, she couldn't tell. She didn't know whether she wanted him to be serious or not.
Luke looked at her face and cracked up, "No extra cup for you."
Relief melted over Loralei's face as she realized he was joking, but then she felt like a dagger had just gone through her heart. She tried to brush the feeling away but it wouldn't leave, what was she feeling for Luke? She didn't know. "Fine," she said pouting and giving Luke a peck on the cheek before heading back to Rory, holding both cups of coffee.
"On ward ho Mini me! Gone With the wind awaits!"
"Aye aye captain!" Rory said saluting Loralei.
They walked in silence for a short while. Then Rory sighed.
"A penny for your thoughts."
"It's just see today when I got to school." And Rory launched into the whole story ending with, "And Mom I don't know what to do, even with Dean I didn't feel this way, I mean I never saw this side of Tristan before and I don't know I love him, I almost feel like I want to spend my life with him."
"You're in love sweetie that's what you're feeling, you were never in love with Dean like this, yeah you were in love with him but with Tristan it's different. And he's protecting you and loving you back. Maybe he is the one but you don't know for sure yet."
"Yeah I guess so." Rory said smiling. As they approached their house Rory made out a figure on the porch. She smiled when she realized who the figure was; she ran the extra length of the driveway and up the stairs and hugged Tristan.
"Hey what are you doing here?" she asked.
"Couldn't spend anymore time away from you."
Rory kissed him, "Ahh please not in front of the mother!" screamed Loralei as she saw her daughter kissing Tristan.
"Sorry Loralei," said Tristan.
"Don't be, I saw all, that was Mini-Me's doing."
Rory blushed in the dark, "Are you going to stay?" asked Rory.
"Only if you two want me."
"We're watching Gone With The Wind," Loralei warned.
Tristan nodded.
"If one word is spoken about it being bad, or cheesy or lame or anything. If you dare laugh in the wrong places. If you do not cry when Red leaves Scarlett, or when Melanie dies, if you do not appreciate Gone With The Wind, if you do not enjoy it and treasure it, if you do not."
Rory saw the nervous expression on Tristan's face and laughed and decided she was going to rescue him, "Mom I don't think Tristan will do any of that stuff, and now that you've warned him like that I'm almost positive he won't, right Tris?" she said squeezing his hand.
"No why would I do that Loralei?" he said squeezing Rory's hand back.
"I see hand squeezing, but that's permitted! Now if you don't mind, Scarlett O'Hara is calling me!" said Loralei. She opened the door and waltzed into the house, dumping all the junk food onto the floor, there were two boxes of pizza on the coffee table. "Oh Joe remembered it was movie night!"
"He always remembers mom!"
"I love Joe!"
"You should marry Joe! Then we would have an infinite supply of pizza."
"I should marry Joe!"
Tristan frowned and said "You would marry Joe just for pizza?"
"Of course she would!" said Rory.
"Maybe I should start making pizza." Tristan whispered to Rory.
"Don't think I didn't hear that Bible Boy! And I am not going to marry Joe after all." Said Loralei.
Then all three of them sat down and watched Gone With The Wind, all of them laughing and crying in the right spots, they only had to stop the movie a few times to get coffee and in the end they all ended up falling asleep on the floor, Rory's head lying on Tristan's chest, with Loralei lying at Rory's feet.
************************************************************************ I know people fall asleep a lot in my stories but it just turns out that way, it's totally not planned. I hope you liked this chapter!
Love, Peace, and Chicken Grease
-Anna
Hey you guys! I know Gone With The Wind is such a fabulous movie so I just had to incorporate it into one of my stories somehow and it is in this story! YAY! Okay so this is a fairly long chapter (I think) I don't own anything so don't sue me. I didn't get a really good response from the last chapter so you know maybe you guys could reciprocate a bit more, I mean here I am writing this story taking over an hour for each chapter and you guys don't write reviews. I like that you're reading it but I would also appreciate it if you tried to write a review. Even if it just says I like it, I love it, It's amazing or I hate it, its fine. I just would like some feedback. But I wanted to thank those that have reviewed so far because well you guys keep me motivated to keep writing this story! Thanks a trillion!
NOW FOR A SPECIAL THANKS! Tiz-nd-Az (I think that's your name but if I got it wrong I'm sorry): YOU HAVE MADE MY YEAR! You rock my world! You have no idea how happy I was to get your review! It wasn't really a review but that was just fabulous! I am not going to post it because I'll get angry people writing me but when it does happen I will write in BIG LETTERS 100 times on a chapter of this story, I TOLD YOU SO! Yes thank you so much! Again you rock my world! THANKS SO MUCH FOR THAT INFO! MWAZ!
There are other people I want to give a special thanks to but I'll give you one on the next chapter, cause I'm not online right now and I don't feel like going online to remember your name's! So ON WITH THE SHOW!
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The next morning was all too hurried for Rory Gilmore. She had thrown her alarm against the wall therefore breaking it and stopping the incredibly annoying noise it was making, giving her time to fall back to sleep. About half an hour later Loralei came tearing through the room when she didn't smell coffee brewing.
"Rory where's the coffee!" Loralei screamed. Loralei looked around the kitchen and didn't see any Rory, she cautiously opened Rory's bedroom door. And sure enough there was Rory asleep, "Rory you're going to miss the bus!"
Rory jumped out of bed, "What time is it?!"
"It's almost 7:20!"
"Oh my god!" Rory said as she dashed towards the bathroom. She jumped into the shower and took quite possibly the fastest shower ever taken, then she yanked on her uniform, not bothering to straighten her tie or tuck her shirt in. She then ran out of the door without breakfast, just a cup of coffee in a thermos.
Loralei shouted out the window to her, "You've missed the bus! Take the jeep!" Then she tossed the keys towards Rory who was about to start down the steps of the porch.
Rory caught the keys as she spun around, then she dashed for the car and drove out of the driveway. She arrived a Chilton five minutes before the bell rang. She was walking down the corridor towards her locker when she heard a group of Tristan's friends talking.
"So how long do you think Tristan's going to keep the game going with the Gilmore chick?" said an unfamiliar voice.
"I give it three days at the most. She hasn't put out with him as far as I'm aware so what use is she." Said another voice.
A third voice had input too, "Tristan's getting bored of her, and have you seen how Summer's being throwing herself at him lately, I'm surprised he's had the strength to throw her off, but I bet you today he'll give in and we won't be seeing the Gilmore chick anymore, she doesn't mean a thing to him, he just wants to get her in bed."
Rory stopped in her tracks; she was leaning against the side of a row of lockers hoping that they wouldn't see her. With every word they said more pain grew inside of her. This was what she had feared that Tristan still just found it a game, that she meant nothing. Tears started to well up in her eyes but then she tuned back into the conversation.
"I bet you I could get the Gilmore chick in bed in fifteen minutes flat, easy, I could easily turn her into a Summer," said the second voice.
Rory was so infuriated by that last comment that she stepped out and said coldly, "Are you sure of that cause I would like to see you try."
"Any day any day," said Ben, the voice that belonged to the second voice. The first voice was James and the third voice belonged to Rick.
"You wish," Rory responded.
"Ahh Gilmore are you just too upset that you really mean nothing to Tristan, I mean you must have thought you meant something if you got so worked over this. Now come on why don't you leave him and you and I can go have some fun," said Ben who was not going to stop until he got the results he wanted. He started to step towards Rory when all of a sudden a fist collided with his face. Rory swerved around and saw Tristan who was now holding Ben by his shirt.
"Don't you ever talk to her or step near her again Ben, if you do it'll be worse next time," said Tristan. Then he looked disgustedly at his other two "friends" and said, "And you two are just as low as he is, he may be just a little lower. Come on Rory." He slung his arm around her shoulder and started steering her away from his old friends.
"I was just getting to know your latest conquest Tristan, and I might I say she seems to be quite the feisty one, how is she in bed?" Ben called after them.
Tristan turned around and said angrily and barely audibly but loud enough for all four onlookers to hear, "Ben she is not just a conquest and you know that as well as I do now why don't you keep your mouth shut because we both know that would be best for you." Then he turned around with Rory again and they walked to their first class together.
Tristan ran his other hand through his hair and said, "You know what they said isn't true don't you Rory?"
Rory had believed them at first but then she had seen the way Tristan had reacted to them saying those things, he hadn't joined in or said anything that would make her upset, he had been there and had helped her, she in no way doubted Tristan, "No I don't believe them Tris, why would I, I love you."
"I love you too," he said right before they walked into their class.
Later that night Rory and Loralei were sauntering through the town, preparing for a movie night, after all it was a Friday.
"What movie should we see?" asked Loralei.
"Gone with the wind."
"Ahh a beautiful love story that isn't all that beautiful. But Scarlett O'Hara's dresses were to die for."
"They were gorgeous but I wouldn't want to be laced up like that."
"20 inches Ms. Scarlett---I want to be 18 inches again." Loralei said quoting that scene. (AN I don't know the whole scene even though I just saw the movie yesterday but hey it was a good scene)
"You'll never be 18 inches again Ms. Scarlett, not after having a baby."
Loralei pouted and said, "Well heavens Rory what shall I do, I won't fit into my green dress!"
Rory frowned and said, "That wasn't in the movie."
"Of course not, now lets go to Doose's!"
Rory hesitated outside the door and Loralei knew exactly why, "Oh come on hunny you can't avoid Doose's just because there are memories of him there."
"Who said there were memories?"
"Sweetie I know you were upset when Dean left."
"How did you know I was thinking of the memories?"
"I'm Miss Cleo I know all."
"You know Miss Cleo was arrested?"
"No!" Loralei gasped, "How could they arrest Miss Cleo?!?! Poor Miss Cleo! But she is Miss Cleo didn't she know she was going to be arrested and stop it."
"She was arrested for fraud."
"No! After all those phone calls I made to her! I always thought she was right!"
Rory laughed, "You made phone calls to Miss Cleo?"
"Yes and she never did put me in an ad! All that money a waste!"
"Come on lets go into Doose's."
"But I'm traumatized, Miss Cleo who would have thought!" Loralei continued to rant on about Miss Cleo as they walked through the store gathering junk food.
"Marshmallows, sour patch kids, chocolate, peanut butter, marshmallow fluff."
Loralei stopped her Miss Cleo ranting to say, "What are you on a marshmallow kick?"
"Well you're on a Miss Cleo kick."
"We've both stopped we're even."
"Hey I never agreed to that."
"You just did."
"Hurmpph," Rory said as they grabbed bag after bag of chips, dip and candy.
"Come on Mini me we have to pay!"
Rory carried the tremendously heavy bag over to the cashier, she plunked it down. They quickly paid and got out of the store.
"To Luke's for the elixir of life!" said Loralei.
"Amen!"
Loralei gave Rory a puzzled look and said, "Since when did you become all Christian on me?"
"It just seemed like a good thing to say."
"Gilmore intuition?"
"Of course."
Loralei flung the door open and said, "I am Ms. America, so Luke you are therefore obligated to bring me coffee!"
"Ms. America doesn't drink coffee because it's unhealthy, she drinks water."
"Well this Ms. America doesn't."
"Have this," Luke said placing a glass of orange juice in front of her.
"What is this?!?!?! It's orange not brown, last time I checked the elixir of life was brown!"
"It didn't feel brown anymore it felt orange."
"Uhh Luke that's orange juice," Rory said.
"Shh."
"You tried to get me to drink orange juice!" Loralei said jumping out of her seat and poking a finger at Luke.
"It's not polite to point!"
"I'm pointing! Pointing, pointing, pointing."
"Okay two cups of coffee!"
"Thank you Lukey!" Luke walked back behind the counter and Loralei decided to follow him, "Wait here oh guardian angel."
"Guardian angel?"
"You saved me from that orange liquid."
"Ahh logic."
Loralei got up and went over to Luke, "So since you love me so much how bout you give me two cups of coffee? Come on Rory'll never know."
"What would make you think I love you."
"Because you do."
"And you Loralei Gilmore are damn right."
Loralei looked at him shocked, was he kidding like the time he had asked her to marry him, or was he serious, she couldn't tell. She didn't know whether she wanted him to be serious or not.
Luke looked at her face and cracked up, "No extra cup for you."
Relief melted over Loralei's face as she realized he was joking, but then she felt like a dagger had just gone through her heart. She tried to brush the feeling away but it wouldn't leave, what was she feeling for Luke? She didn't know. "Fine," she said pouting and giving Luke a peck on the cheek before heading back to Rory, holding both cups of coffee.
"On ward ho Mini me! Gone With the wind awaits!"
"Aye aye captain!" Rory said saluting Loralei.
They walked in silence for a short while. Then Rory sighed.
"A penny for your thoughts."
"It's just see today when I got to school." And Rory launched into the whole story ending with, "And Mom I don't know what to do, even with Dean I didn't feel this way, I mean I never saw this side of Tristan before and I don't know I love him, I almost feel like I want to spend my life with him."
"You're in love sweetie that's what you're feeling, you were never in love with Dean like this, yeah you were in love with him but with Tristan it's different. And he's protecting you and loving you back. Maybe he is the one but you don't know for sure yet."
"Yeah I guess so." Rory said smiling. As they approached their house Rory made out a figure on the porch. She smiled when she realized who the figure was; she ran the extra length of the driveway and up the stairs and hugged Tristan.
"Hey what are you doing here?" she asked.
"Couldn't spend anymore time away from you."
Rory kissed him, "Ahh please not in front of the mother!" screamed Loralei as she saw her daughter kissing Tristan.
"Sorry Loralei," said Tristan.
"Don't be, I saw all, that was Mini-Me's doing."
Rory blushed in the dark, "Are you going to stay?" asked Rory.
"Only if you two want me."
"We're watching Gone With The Wind," Loralei warned.
Tristan nodded.
"If one word is spoken about it being bad, or cheesy or lame or anything. If you dare laugh in the wrong places. If you do not cry when Red leaves Scarlett, or when Melanie dies, if you do not appreciate Gone With The Wind, if you do not enjoy it and treasure it, if you do not."
Rory saw the nervous expression on Tristan's face and laughed and decided she was going to rescue him, "Mom I don't think Tristan will do any of that stuff, and now that you've warned him like that I'm almost positive he won't, right Tris?" she said squeezing his hand.
"No why would I do that Loralei?" he said squeezing Rory's hand back.
"I see hand squeezing, but that's permitted! Now if you don't mind, Scarlett O'Hara is calling me!" said Loralei. She opened the door and waltzed into the house, dumping all the junk food onto the floor, there were two boxes of pizza on the coffee table. "Oh Joe remembered it was movie night!"
"He always remembers mom!"
"I love Joe!"
"You should marry Joe! Then we would have an infinite supply of pizza."
"I should marry Joe!"
Tristan frowned and said "You would marry Joe just for pizza?"
"Of course she would!" said Rory.
"Maybe I should start making pizza." Tristan whispered to Rory.
"Don't think I didn't hear that Bible Boy! And I am not going to marry Joe after all." Said Loralei.
Then all three of them sat down and watched Gone With The Wind, all of them laughing and crying in the right spots, they only had to stop the movie a few times to get coffee and in the end they all ended up falling asleep on the floor, Rory's head lying on Tristan's chest, with Loralei lying at Rory's feet.
************************************************************************ I know people fall asleep a lot in my stories but it just turns out that way, it's totally not planned. I hope you liked this chapter!
Love, Peace, and Chicken Grease
-Anna