Chapter 4- Heart-wrenching Moments, and Discovering Someone's Last Name
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A week had past since Felicity had come to her 'startling' discovery that Rory was indeed the mystery girl that her brother obsessed over constantly. Currently she was talking to Tristan, trying to bring up Rory subtly but not let him know that she knew who the mystery girl was.
---Felicity/Tristan Intercut---
"How's military school?" Felicity asked but actually wanting to hear a reply.
"Oh should I say that we're all prancing around here in our tutu's with joy because after all this is such a joyous, kind place," replied Tristan sarcastically.
"Not so great I'm taking it?"
"And you guessed correctly."
"Are the guys okay at least?"
"They're fine, they're better then the people at Chilton that's for sure, Oliver is good and well Matt is just Matt."
"You know I really want to talk to Matt one day."
"I will try to see if one day you can, it would be interesting to hear the conversation that you two would have. But talking about this hell hole depresses me so how is Chilton?" he asked though he really wanted to ask 'How is Rory?'
"It's Chilton, the work is weighed by the pound basically, who would have known that a school could give so much homework."
"Well they somehow do."
"Yeah and one day my back is going to break out and then I'll have to be wheeled around in a wheel chair and hoisted up stairs."
"Heaven forbid!" Tristan said making fun of his twin sister.
"Tut, tut, tut, never mock a lady."
"Sorry didn't realize I was speaking to one."
Felicity faked a deep southern accent like the kind that Scarlett O'Hara uses in Gone With The Wind, "Why dear sir how dare you think such an appalling thing. I'm a lady, most definitely one, and might I remind you that I'm much closer to being a lady then you are to being a gentlemen."
Over the line Tristan laughed, "Sorry for the mistake."
"All's well that end's well."
"That really did not fit in anywhere."
"I know but I felt like saying it."
"I see."
"I've actually made a friend at Chilton you know?"
"Really who?"
Felicity grins evilly where she is sitting knowing that what she is going to say will torture her brother until eventually, probably not today or for a month or so, he will admit everything. "I think I told you she was over about a week ago, but anyway her name is Rory Gilmore. It's so odd that you didn't know her, are you sure you didn't?"
"Maybe I can't remember." Tristan lied.
"Well see she's so much nicer then all of the other people, I'm surprised you didn't talk about her more." Felicity said wickedly.
"I talk about her more then anyone else," Tristan muttered, not to Felicity but to himself, he was actually hoping that Felicity wouldn't hear what he had just said.
Felicity of course had heard every word but pretended that she hadn't, "What did you say Tris? I didn't hear you."
"Nothing."
"Oh, but Rory's great. She's lively, she's actually kind of funny, smart, and well you should hear her banter she just goes on and on about pointless things and you end up on the floor laughing because well it's just hilarious. She's really sweet and she's pretty also, I'm really surprised you never took any notice to her, are you sure you didn't?"
"Yes Felicity, I am sure that I never took any notice of Loralei Gilmore," Tristan said coldly now incredibly hurt trying to deal with his emotions alone. His heart was pounding and feeling as though it was about to burst. Every night he would wish upon a star that he would see Rory again, hear her banter with him once again, just be near her. And well his sister got to do that everyday and Felicity being oblivious as she was had no idea that Rory was the 'mystery girl' (or so he thought) and she was slowly torturing him with talking about Rory.
Felicity's grin spread even further when she heard Tristan call Rory Loralei. Tristan hadn't realized it but Felicity had never told him that Rory's real name was Loralei; he was just giving away the fact that he knew her. "Well Tris I have to go, I've got some work to do and well I told Rory I would call her, but I miss you and I'll get you out of there soon." She said this all being very sincere and not trying to tease Tristan at all, she truly did miss him and she was going to give it her all to get him out of Greenvale.
"Miss you too, and you better get me out of here, bye," Tristan said hurriedly before hanging up the phone so that he could go back to his room.
---End Intercut---
What Felicity had been saying had pained him a great deal, Rory was a first, maybe she wasn't quite a love, well actually she was, Tristan had admitted that she was and he couldn't turn away from that now because well he was in love with her, even after all this time. So there, she was a first love, a first real crush, sure she wasn't a first kiss and well Tristan didn't really have many more things that could be firsts but she was the first person he had ever felt emotion for.
Once inside his room he went straight away to the dark brown leather bound book that was his diary. He opened it and flipped through the pages, trying to find the different items he had been looking for. One after another they fell out, each had it's own separate page. On the bed, lying messily was a picture of Rory and him, it was the only picture he had of them together. This picture captured them, as they were everyday, bantering. His 'friend' had taken a picture of Rory and him, with him leaning against the locker in his usual way as she fidgeted (in the picture with her hair) and blushed. He had a bit of a cockiness air in it because after all he was at Chilton, where the real him rarely shined through. But there was a hint of it, in this picture he was smiling, not smirking, but actually smiling which he almost never did when he was at Chilton, in fact he never had truly smiled at Chilton until Rory came. His real smile was shining through and something about the way that Rory was looking up at him and their eyes were connecting, well it was almost as though she was saying that she knew everything. That she knew the act, that she knew him the real him. And because of that the picture scared him in a way that he still couldn't understand, the only person that knows him truly is Felicity and somehow he could tell by the way Rory was standing, the way she was looking at him, the expression her face took, she knew him also. And that was one of the things that he loved most about her.
He sat there staring at the picture for what seemed to him like seconds but was really half an hour, just sitting there staring at the picture, not taking his eyes away from it. Then unwillingly knowing that if he didn't take his eyes away now he never would, he turned to the two objects that he had fastened together that also had fluttered down from his diary. These weren't pictures; they were the type of objects that you had to know the story behind them in order to fully understand their meaning and value. He unhooked the rubber band that fastened the two PJ Harvey tickets together and felt them with his fingers softly. Their edges had started to wear down, once, shortly after the whole PJ Harvey incident he had cried while looking at these two tickets, and a few big teardrops had fallen down onto their smooth surface, therefore the ink was smeared in certain spaces but it was of course they were both still readable. He had never gotten the chance to go to PJ Harvey but he knew that if they had gone together that it would most likely have been the best experience he would ever have had, next to their kiss. He sighed and pulled the elastic rubber band back over the two tickets, putting them once again in his thick journal, in-between the two pages they were always placed between. Then he picked up the last thing that he had that was possibly the most sacred even though it wasn't a picture. It was the program from the night when he was supposed to play Romeo opposite Rory who was Juliet. He had never gotten the chance to play Romeo and that was one of the things that he regretted most in the world. To look at her and have to say (just in different words) that he was probably never going to see her again, to walk away, leaving her behind, out of his life. That was the hardest thing he had ever done, the hardest thing he would ever do and just thinking about it he let a few tears roll down his face. On the program it was neatly put
Tristan Dugrey as Romeo
-and-
Rory Gilmore as Juliet
He knew that it was cheesy, even thinking about it in his head it was cheesy, but he just wanted to tell someone how much he wanted to be her Romeo, not in the play but in real life, and how much he wanted her to be his Juliet. He sighed and looked next to her name where he had convinced her to sign her name in loopy delicate handwriting two days before the play. All she had written was Rory Gilmore, yet just seeing that writing, just knowing that she had written it, made his heart ache. He was broken from his trance when he heard a rap at the door. He hurriedly put the program back into its place and put the picture back as well.
Then he said, "Yea?"
The door flung open revealing Matt in well all his usual Mattdom (that was the only way to describe it), "Shall we go your highness?"
"What am I now royalty?"
"Well after looking through your yearbook and the hundreds of inscriptions from shall we say hundreds of girls all saying how gorgeous you are, yeah I'd say you're royalty."
Tristan laughed and said wearily (almost as an old man would), "Those girls don't mean a thing."
"See that's where you are wrong," Matt said brandishing the yearbook which he had had hidden behind his back. Tristan groaned knowing exactly what Matt was going to do, he was going to show him the only other picture he had of Rory and the short yet sweet inscription she had written next to it. Matt had found out about his feelings for Rory early on, just about during the first five minutes that Tristan had been there.
Sure enough Matt flipped through about two pages and then landed on the page he had wanted to be on and proudly showed it to Tristan. Of course Rory's picture radiated up towards him, making his heartache even more then it already was (AN which was a lot haha!). "See there's a girl that means something to you," Matt said pointing a finger at Rory. "Now shall I read what she wrote?" he asked Tristan but being Matt he didn't even wait for a reply and read what Rory had written anyway, "Tristan- There's not much to say, after all we aren't really friends, but we aren't really mortal enemies. Have a good summer, I'll miss the banter sessions-Rory Gilmore."
Tristan just put his head down into the pillow as some tears continued to roll down. Why had Matt chosen this time to come in and read what she had wrote, why after he was already a wreck over her.
Matt suddenly noticed that although this usually made him sad, it was particularly getting to him for some unknown reason today so he closed the book and put it down on the nightstand next to Tristan's bed, "Yo Tris, I didn't mean to hurt you or anything, just a friendly little conversation."
"I know," Tristan muffled through the pillow.
"Well for some reason it's really getting to you today so why don't you and I head off to town and talk about it?"
Tristan wiped his tears away and stood up, he couldn't let Matt see him cry, only a select few people got to see him cry, only Felicity got to see him cry, and well if the time came when he felt like crying around Rory, he would let the heavens go and let the tears flow freely. "Sure lets go," he said, swinging his jacket on and walking out the door with Matt following him.
After they were a little ways away from Greenvale, Matt decided to bring the subject of Rory up again and said, "Well I know I may never be serious, but now I am and would you like to let me know why when I mentioned Rory today you had a little heart on heart there?"
Tristan smirked (he didn't smile) knowing that this was Matt's way of asking what was wrong, it was the way his Chilton friends had asked him what was wrong whenever he let them know that something was wrong (which was rarely). Then he opened his mouth and told Matt the whole story.
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Rory was sitting by her desk trying very hard to write a letter back to Tristan, but the words she wanted to use, they just wouldn't come. She knew what she wanted to say; she just didn't know how to say it. She sighed, she had been sitting at her desk with a blank piece of paper in front of her and all she had managed to write during forty-five minutes was 'Dear Tristan-'
Loralei peeked her head through the door (AN she knows all about Tristan and what Rory feels for him and that Rory is writing the letter etc). "How is the letter going doll-face?" she said in a southern twang.
Rory threw her hands up, on the brim of losing her patience. Loralei walked over and read the two words that she had written.
"Well its very umm original, if you sent it just like that I'm sure Tristan would love it and appreciate it a lot," said Loralei.
"Funny Mom, funny."
"I know aren't I?"
Rory cast her a dirty look.
"Why don't you just tell him exactly what you feel, no fancy wording, no beating around the bush, say I want you Tristan, I miss you, I have dreams at night and all of them are about you, I need you, Come home."
"Yes mom that would be a really wise decision considering the fact that I haven't seen him in what two years now?" Rory said sarcastically.
"Someone's on a sarcastic kick. Hmm how bout this, you contemplate, ooo see I used a big word, you contemplate (she giggles) what you want to write while we are at Luke's getting the basis of all life!"
"Surely, I could use the basis of all life right now, and what exactly would that be?"
Loralei gasped and said, "Daughter, how dare you say such words, what is the basis of all life? Only what us Gilmore's strive on."
"Which would be?"
"Have I not taught you well yet? Lots of coffee, a cheeseburger and fries."
"Oh of course!"
Just then the phone rang.
"Rock paper scissors?" suggested Loralei.
"Your on."
"Rock, Paper, Scissors says shoot," they said in unison. Loralei held out paper and Rory held out rock.
"I am the champion, all hail me!" said Loralei as she ran around the room as though doing a victory lap.
Rory scowled and rummaged through the cushions on the couch, finally after the 7th ring she was able to locate the phone.
---Rory/Felicity Intercut---
"Why are you bothering us right now? We were going to get the basis of all life!" Rory said breathlessly.
"Oh sorry, I can call back later," said Felicity.
"Oh no it's okay, what's up?"
"I was just wondering if I could come over and maybe we could study."
"Sure, but right now my Mom and I are going to Luke's, you want to meet us there?"
"Where's Luke's?"
"It's in Stars Hollow of course, it's in what was a hardware store and it has a coffee shaped sign that says Luke's on it. It's like the place where god lives."
"Okay I'll be there in twenty-five minutes or so."
"Sure, see you then!"
---End Intercut---
"Who dared to call us when we were about to go to heaven?" asked Loralei.
"Luke's is heaven?"
"Avoiding the question mini me, but yes Luke's is heaven."
"Would the fact that Luke is there make it even more heavenly."
Loralei put her hands on her hips and said, "What would give you that thought?"
"No particular reason besides."
"Enough I don't want to hear it! Lalalala I can't hear you!"
"I'm not saying anything."
"Oh well then answer my question."
"Not until you answer mine."
Loralei put on the puppy dogface, pouty lips, droopy eyes and all.
"Oh fine, you don't have to answer! And it was Felicity and she's meeting us at Luke's in twenty minutes, so lets go!"
"Yay, no see was that so difficult?"
"Let's go."
Both girls pulled on their coats and ventured outside, walking at an extremely fast pace towards Luke's.
When they arrived at Luke's they flung open the door, making a grand entrance that caused the whole diner to look at them and since everyone knows Loralei and Rory they all clapped loudly. Loralei did a pretend curtsey murmuring "Thank you, thank you," as Rory rolled her eyes.
"Yes?" asked Luke who was obviously impatient today.
"Why Lukey darling I don't believe you said hello," said Loralei.
"Hello Rory, and you."
"Say Loralei."
"Not saying it."
"Come on Luke!"
"If I say that word will I lose the bet?"
"What bet?" Rory asked.
"Hush oh young Jedi." Said Loralei.
"Your mother made a bet with me that I can't say her name around her and she can't say Luke around me."
"But she said Luke," said Rory who was confused.
"No I said Lukey," said Loralei.
"Ahh you added a y."
"Of course it makes it cute!"
Luke's face twisted into a scowl.
"Ohh if only Lukey's face could be as cute as his new name right now!" said Loralei.
"What's the point of the bet?" asked Rory.
"So many questions! So little time!" said Loralei.
"If she says Luke around me then I get ten bucks and if I say her name around her then she gets ten bucks, it ends tomorrow," Luke said quickly obviously annoyed with the whole bet.
"Ahh Lukey we are both winning!" squealed Loralei, "Which means we both get ten dollars!"
Luke groaned and said, "What do you want you?"
"You, so that's my new name huh?"
"Rory would you like anything?"
"Yes please could I have to basis of all life," asked Rory.
"The what?"
"The basis of all life, a cheeseburger, two cups of coffee and fries. Can I have two actually?"
"It'll kill both of you."
"How did you know one of them was for me?" asked Loralei.
"Maybe I'll only make one for your mother."
"Ooo Lukey has good comebacks today!" said Loralei enthusiastically. (AN for those of you that are well no I will not insult you, but for those of you that didn't get it, Luke said it would kill you and then he said only one for Loralei so you know just a little comeback there!)
"Can I have one too please?!" asked Rory with a pout on her face.
"Fine both of you get one," Luke said as he huffed off and went to go serve other people.
Two seconds later Jess came rambling down the stairs surpisingly wearing flannel.
Loralei and Rory burst out laughing.
Jess shot them a dirty look and said, "What I'm guessing that this is the uniform right, I mean I've been out of uniform enough." He looked around the room and spotted a baseball cap so he slid it on backwards, "Is this better? Does that complete it?"
Both Loralei and Rory fell off of their chairs with uncontrollable laughter.
Then Luke walked over, "What are you wearing Jess?!"
"Oh sorry I thought this was proper attire."
"Take it off."
"Fine, but you're wearing it too," said Jess before depositing the hat and shirt with a wide grin.
"Gotta go, Ladies," said Jess.
"Oo so polite," Loralei said, she had started to actually like Jess now.
"I try," Jess said.
Rory was still just recovering from laughing and to the back of Jess's head just before he walked out of the door she screamed, "Luv ya Jess!" (AN, for this story luv is for friends, and love is well, when love comes around you'll know that it isn't just friendship!)
Jess was out the door but he smiled in at Rory and mouthed 'Luv ya too' through the glass. (AN I know totally un-Jess like but to the horror of my readers who know how anti-Jess I used to be, well Jess has sincerely grown on me, and god damn it is Milo Ventimiglia hott! Not as hott as Chad Michael Murray or Jared Padalecki, okay maybe he ties with Jared, but he is hott! And well I don't love Jess, but he's good enough so he is a good character!) Jess had only walked down about half a block when a girl with blonde hair and baby blue eyes that looked entirely out of place walked by him, looking up as she walked. Jess couldn't help but stare at her, she was the most gorgeous person he had ever seen next to Rory and well his infatuation with Rory was definetly over, now she was just one of his best friends. The girl though that was in front of him was stunning and seemed to be lost so he decided to speak up. "Are you lost?"
Felicity turned around startled that someone had talked to her, normally in other places no one would talk to you. She surveyed the person who had spoke, it was a guy with dark brown hair and brown eyes, and well he was gorgeous, almost like Oliver Hudson (AN another one of my obsessions!). She blushed realizing she had been looking him up and down, obviously checking him out. She looked down, shifting her feet and said, "Yea."
Jess smiled, she was nervous and had been checking him out, he wasn't going to gloat in it or anything but he found it rather amusing. "Well what are you looking for?"
"Luke's."
"Oh it's right there, I'm Jess by the way."
"I'm Felicity.and thanks."
"No problem."
Both of them took off in their separate directions, both thinking wow.
Felicity walked into Luke's moments later and Rory spotted her and immediately waved her over happily.
"Felicity this is my Mom, Mom this is Felicity," said Rory introducing them.
"Hi," Felicity said rather shyly.
"Hey," Loralei said waving her hand a little, "You can call me Loralei, and I'm sorry but I didn't catch your last name."
"That's cause I didn't say it," said Rory before Felicity said anything.
"Ahh well lets see what Felicities last name is, Felicity what pray lord is your last name?"
"Did you just say pray lord?" asked Rory.
"Yes I did."
"Why?"
"Because it fit, now please Mini-me quiet, you are very noisy today and I want to know Felicities last name."
Rory made the sign of zipping her lip and looked at Felicity expectantly, come to think of it she didn't know Felicities last name, that was fairly odd but what did it matter, a name was only a name.
"It's Dugrey, Felicity Dugrey," said Felicity, she looked at Rory, searching for a reaction; which she indeed got, in fact she got one from Loralei also.
Rory's face had immediately frozen and panic had melted onto her face almost instantly when she heard Felicity say Dugrey. No she must be wrong, Felicity could not be a Dugrey. And worse Felicity had a twin brother, who was at military school, Tristan, Felicity was related to Tristan. She, Rory Gilmore had been in Tristan Dugrey's house, Tristan Dugrey's room only a week ago. But Felicity couldn't possibly know that Rory knew Tristan otherwise she would have mentioned it. She couldn't let Felicity see her face so she quickly tried to wash away the expression on her face as best she could. She didn't know that she was already too late, that Felicity had seen it all.
Loralei had also reacted knowing all about Tristan. Her head immediately snapped to Rory when she heard Felicity say that she was Felicity Dugrey. Rory obviously didn't know this otherwise she would have mentioned something. Then she realized that neither she nor Rory was responding so she put it simply, "Oh, well nice to meet you Felicity Dugrey," with a smile.
"You too," Felicity said.
Rory quickly snapped out of her state and said rather fast, "We ordered some food do you want a cheeseburger or something?"
"Sure a cheeseburger sounds good."
Loralei slammed a hand down on the counter and screamed, "Another circle thingy and slap some cheese on it! Bring the curlies also!"
Rory shook her head.
"No I didn't get it?" asked Loralei.
"No I have a feeling that wasn't diner talk."
"No but it was creative."
"True."
Felicity watched the talk go back and forth between mother and daughter and couldn't help but long for that type of relationship with her mother, but she knew that type of relationship with Cynthia (Mrs. Dugrey) Dugrey was not possible to forge. So instead she sat there enjoying the babble between the two Gilmore Girls.
Luke poked his head out of the door and said to Loralei, "What did you want exactly?"
"Another circle thingy and slap some cheese on it and curlies!" said Loralei enthusiastically.
"Loralei what is---"
Loralei got up and started dancing around the diner, a happy dance of course. Then Luke realized what he had said, he had said Loralei. "I WON THE BET!" screamed Loralei, "Ten dollars Lukey!"
Luke grudgingly handed her ten dollars and said, "You know you don't have to call me Lukey now that the bet is off."
"That dear Lukey is where you are wrong, see that name will now stick with you forever."
"What did you want again?" asked Luke; secretly pleased that Loralei now had a nickname for him, this was a good nickname and not one like her previous one that hadn't meant anything which was flannel man.
"Diner talk."
"In English please?"
"A cheeseburger and fries for Felicity."
Luke just then noticed the girl who was now sitting next to Rory; he nodded her head towards her.
"Chop chop Lukey the flannel man!" said Loralei who was already hyper and on her fifth cup of coffee during just that period of lunch.
Luke shook his head and came back out of the kitchen ten minutes later putting down the food in front of the girls. They ate fairly quickly laughing and talking. Then they walked out the door but not before Loralei said, "Bye bye Lukey the Flannel Man! See you at dinner time!"
Once the three girls were outside they stood in a clump.
"I have to go back to the inn sweetie okay?" said Loralei.
"Sure, Felicity and I will just go around town, is that okay with you?"
"Definitely," said Felicity.
************************************************************************ Hey how did you like this chapter? I hope you enjoyed it, please review because it brightens up my day! Also I am considering a possible romance between Jess and Felicity, should I strike it up? Or no? I need opinions on this one because I am unsure whether people want it or not, if I did include it, it would be minor, very minor, so review about it please! I know it is so annoying when people ask for your opinion but I have no choice here, its just a minor decision so decide! THANKS!
Love, Peace, and Chicken Grease
-Anna
Wow thank you guys for all of the wonderful reviews! Here is the 4th chapter and I'm currently writing the fifth so it should be out uhh I dunno when but soon enough! Thanks again!
Now special thanks! (yay)
---MaryATroryFan- THANK YOU SO MUCH! Your review was great! It totally brightened my day and I'm glad you like the story and are 'addicted' to it. The same goes to the ANNOYMOUS reviewer who begged me to put out a new chapter (here it is) because she was obsessed with it. You two rock my world (And Tiz-nd-Az you do too!)! THANK YOU BOTH! ************************************************************************
A week had past since Felicity had come to her 'startling' discovery that Rory was indeed the mystery girl that her brother obsessed over constantly. Currently she was talking to Tristan, trying to bring up Rory subtly but not let him know that she knew who the mystery girl was.
---Felicity/Tristan Intercut---
"How's military school?" Felicity asked but actually wanting to hear a reply.
"Oh should I say that we're all prancing around here in our tutu's with joy because after all this is such a joyous, kind place," replied Tristan sarcastically.
"Not so great I'm taking it?"
"And you guessed correctly."
"Are the guys okay at least?"
"They're fine, they're better then the people at Chilton that's for sure, Oliver is good and well Matt is just Matt."
"You know I really want to talk to Matt one day."
"I will try to see if one day you can, it would be interesting to hear the conversation that you two would have. But talking about this hell hole depresses me so how is Chilton?" he asked though he really wanted to ask 'How is Rory?'
"It's Chilton, the work is weighed by the pound basically, who would have known that a school could give so much homework."
"Well they somehow do."
"Yeah and one day my back is going to break out and then I'll have to be wheeled around in a wheel chair and hoisted up stairs."
"Heaven forbid!" Tristan said making fun of his twin sister.
"Tut, tut, tut, never mock a lady."
"Sorry didn't realize I was speaking to one."
Felicity faked a deep southern accent like the kind that Scarlett O'Hara uses in Gone With The Wind, "Why dear sir how dare you think such an appalling thing. I'm a lady, most definitely one, and might I remind you that I'm much closer to being a lady then you are to being a gentlemen."
Over the line Tristan laughed, "Sorry for the mistake."
"All's well that end's well."
"That really did not fit in anywhere."
"I know but I felt like saying it."
"I see."
"I've actually made a friend at Chilton you know?"
"Really who?"
Felicity grins evilly where she is sitting knowing that what she is going to say will torture her brother until eventually, probably not today or for a month or so, he will admit everything. "I think I told you she was over about a week ago, but anyway her name is Rory Gilmore. It's so odd that you didn't know her, are you sure you didn't?"
"Maybe I can't remember." Tristan lied.
"Well see she's so much nicer then all of the other people, I'm surprised you didn't talk about her more." Felicity said wickedly.
"I talk about her more then anyone else," Tristan muttered, not to Felicity but to himself, he was actually hoping that Felicity wouldn't hear what he had just said.
Felicity of course had heard every word but pretended that she hadn't, "What did you say Tris? I didn't hear you."
"Nothing."
"Oh, but Rory's great. She's lively, she's actually kind of funny, smart, and well you should hear her banter she just goes on and on about pointless things and you end up on the floor laughing because well it's just hilarious. She's really sweet and she's pretty also, I'm really surprised you never took any notice to her, are you sure you didn't?"
"Yes Felicity, I am sure that I never took any notice of Loralei Gilmore," Tristan said coldly now incredibly hurt trying to deal with his emotions alone. His heart was pounding and feeling as though it was about to burst. Every night he would wish upon a star that he would see Rory again, hear her banter with him once again, just be near her. And well his sister got to do that everyday and Felicity being oblivious as she was had no idea that Rory was the 'mystery girl' (or so he thought) and she was slowly torturing him with talking about Rory.
Felicity's grin spread even further when she heard Tristan call Rory Loralei. Tristan hadn't realized it but Felicity had never told him that Rory's real name was Loralei; he was just giving away the fact that he knew her. "Well Tris I have to go, I've got some work to do and well I told Rory I would call her, but I miss you and I'll get you out of there soon." She said this all being very sincere and not trying to tease Tristan at all, she truly did miss him and she was going to give it her all to get him out of Greenvale.
"Miss you too, and you better get me out of here, bye," Tristan said hurriedly before hanging up the phone so that he could go back to his room.
---End Intercut---
What Felicity had been saying had pained him a great deal, Rory was a first, maybe she wasn't quite a love, well actually she was, Tristan had admitted that she was and he couldn't turn away from that now because well he was in love with her, even after all this time. So there, she was a first love, a first real crush, sure she wasn't a first kiss and well Tristan didn't really have many more things that could be firsts but she was the first person he had ever felt emotion for.
Once inside his room he went straight away to the dark brown leather bound book that was his diary. He opened it and flipped through the pages, trying to find the different items he had been looking for. One after another they fell out, each had it's own separate page. On the bed, lying messily was a picture of Rory and him, it was the only picture he had of them together. This picture captured them, as they were everyday, bantering. His 'friend' had taken a picture of Rory and him, with him leaning against the locker in his usual way as she fidgeted (in the picture with her hair) and blushed. He had a bit of a cockiness air in it because after all he was at Chilton, where the real him rarely shined through. But there was a hint of it, in this picture he was smiling, not smirking, but actually smiling which he almost never did when he was at Chilton, in fact he never had truly smiled at Chilton until Rory came. His real smile was shining through and something about the way that Rory was looking up at him and their eyes were connecting, well it was almost as though she was saying that she knew everything. That she knew the act, that she knew him the real him. And because of that the picture scared him in a way that he still couldn't understand, the only person that knows him truly is Felicity and somehow he could tell by the way Rory was standing, the way she was looking at him, the expression her face took, she knew him also. And that was one of the things that he loved most about her.
He sat there staring at the picture for what seemed to him like seconds but was really half an hour, just sitting there staring at the picture, not taking his eyes away from it. Then unwillingly knowing that if he didn't take his eyes away now he never would, he turned to the two objects that he had fastened together that also had fluttered down from his diary. These weren't pictures; they were the type of objects that you had to know the story behind them in order to fully understand their meaning and value. He unhooked the rubber band that fastened the two PJ Harvey tickets together and felt them with his fingers softly. Their edges had started to wear down, once, shortly after the whole PJ Harvey incident he had cried while looking at these two tickets, and a few big teardrops had fallen down onto their smooth surface, therefore the ink was smeared in certain spaces but it was of course they were both still readable. He had never gotten the chance to go to PJ Harvey but he knew that if they had gone together that it would most likely have been the best experience he would ever have had, next to their kiss. He sighed and pulled the elastic rubber band back over the two tickets, putting them once again in his thick journal, in-between the two pages they were always placed between. Then he picked up the last thing that he had that was possibly the most sacred even though it wasn't a picture. It was the program from the night when he was supposed to play Romeo opposite Rory who was Juliet. He had never gotten the chance to play Romeo and that was one of the things that he regretted most in the world. To look at her and have to say (just in different words) that he was probably never going to see her again, to walk away, leaving her behind, out of his life. That was the hardest thing he had ever done, the hardest thing he would ever do and just thinking about it he let a few tears roll down his face. On the program it was neatly put
Tristan Dugrey as Romeo
-and-
Rory Gilmore as Juliet
He knew that it was cheesy, even thinking about it in his head it was cheesy, but he just wanted to tell someone how much he wanted to be her Romeo, not in the play but in real life, and how much he wanted her to be his Juliet. He sighed and looked next to her name where he had convinced her to sign her name in loopy delicate handwriting two days before the play. All she had written was Rory Gilmore, yet just seeing that writing, just knowing that she had written it, made his heart ache. He was broken from his trance when he heard a rap at the door. He hurriedly put the program back into its place and put the picture back as well.
Then he said, "Yea?"
The door flung open revealing Matt in well all his usual Mattdom (that was the only way to describe it), "Shall we go your highness?"
"What am I now royalty?"
"Well after looking through your yearbook and the hundreds of inscriptions from shall we say hundreds of girls all saying how gorgeous you are, yeah I'd say you're royalty."
Tristan laughed and said wearily (almost as an old man would), "Those girls don't mean a thing."
"See that's where you are wrong," Matt said brandishing the yearbook which he had had hidden behind his back. Tristan groaned knowing exactly what Matt was going to do, he was going to show him the only other picture he had of Rory and the short yet sweet inscription she had written next to it. Matt had found out about his feelings for Rory early on, just about during the first five minutes that Tristan had been there.
Sure enough Matt flipped through about two pages and then landed on the page he had wanted to be on and proudly showed it to Tristan. Of course Rory's picture radiated up towards him, making his heartache even more then it already was (AN which was a lot haha!). "See there's a girl that means something to you," Matt said pointing a finger at Rory. "Now shall I read what she wrote?" he asked Tristan but being Matt he didn't even wait for a reply and read what Rory had written anyway, "Tristan- There's not much to say, after all we aren't really friends, but we aren't really mortal enemies. Have a good summer, I'll miss the banter sessions-Rory Gilmore."
Tristan just put his head down into the pillow as some tears continued to roll down. Why had Matt chosen this time to come in and read what she had wrote, why after he was already a wreck over her.
Matt suddenly noticed that although this usually made him sad, it was particularly getting to him for some unknown reason today so he closed the book and put it down on the nightstand next to Tristan's bed, "Yo Tris, I didn't mean to hurt you or anything, just a friendly little conversation."
"I know," Tristan muffled through the pillow.
"Well for some reason it's really getting to you today so why don't you and I head off to town and talk about it?"
Tristan wiped his tears away and stood up, he couldn't let Matt see him cry, only a select few people got to see him cry, only Felicity got to see him cry, and well if the time came when he felt like crying around Rory, he would let the heavens go and let the tears flow freely. "Sure lets go," he said, swinging his jacket on and walking out the door with Matt following him.
After they were a little ways away from Greenvale, Matt decided to bring the subject of Rory up again and said, "Well I know I may never be serious, but now I am and would you like to let me know why when I mentioned Rory today you had a little heart on heart there?"
Tristan smirked (he didn't smile) knowing that this was Matt's way of asking what was wrong, it was the way his Chilton friends had asked him what was wrong whenever he let them know that something was wrong (which was rarely). Then he opened his mouth and told Matt the whole story.
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Rory was sitting by her desk trying very hard to write a letter back to Tristan, but the words she wanted to use, they just wouldn't come. She knew what she wanted to say; she just didn't know how to say it. She sighed, she had been sitting at her desk with a blank piece of paper in front of her and all she had managed to write during forty-five minutes was 'Dear Tristan-'
Loralei peeked her head through the door (AN she knows all about Tristan and what Rory feels for him and that Rory is writing the letter etc). "How is the letter going doll-face?" she said in a southern twang.
Rory threw her hands up, on the brim of losing her patience. Loralei walked over and read the two words that she had written.
"Well its very umm original, if you sent it just like that I'm sure Tristan would love it and appreciate it a lot," said Loralei.
"Funny Mom, funny."
"I know aren't I?"
Rory cast her a dirty look.
"Why don't you just tell him exactly what you feel, no fancy wording, no beating around the bush, say I want you Tristan, I miss you, I have dreams at night and all of them are about you, I need you, Come home."
"Yes mom that would be a really wise decision considering the fact that I haven't seen him in what two years now?" Rory said sarcastically.
"Someone's on a sarcastic kick. Hmm how bout this, you contemplate, ooo see I used a big word, you contemplate (she giggles) what you want to write while we are at Luke's getting the basis of all life!"
"Surely, I could use the basis of all life right now, and what exactly would that be?"
Loralei gasped and said, "Daughter, how dare you say such words, what is the basis of all life? Only what us Gilmore's strive on."
"Which would be?"
"Have I not taught you well yet? Lots of coffee, a cheeseburger and fries."
"Oh of course!"
Just then the phone rang.
"Rock paper scissors?" suggested Loralei.
"Your on."
"Rock, Paper, Scissors says shoot," they said in unison. Loralei held out paper and Rory held out rock.
"I am the champion, all hail me!" said Loralei as she ran around the room as though doing a victory lap.
Rory scowled and rummaged through the cushions on the couch, finally after the 7th ring she was able to locate the phone.
---Rory/Felicity Intercut---
"Why are you bothering us right now? We were going to get the basis of all life!" Rory said breathlessly.
"Oh sorry, I can call back later," said Felicity.
"Oh no it's okay, what's up?"
"I was just wondering if I could come over and maybe we could study."
"Sure, but right now my Mom and I are going to Luke's, you want to meet us there?"
"Where's Luke's?"
"It's in Stars Hollow of course, it's in what was a hardware store and it has a coffee shaped sign that says Luke's on it. It's like the place where god lives."
"Okay I'll be there in twenty-five minutes or so."
"Sure, see you then!"
---End Intercut---
"Who dared to call us when we were about to go to heaven?" asked Loralei.
"Luke's is heaven?"
"Avoiding the question mini me, but yes Luke's is heaven."
"Would the fact that Luke is there make it even more heavenly."
Loralei put her hands on her hips and said, "What would give you that thought?"
"No particular reason besides."
"Enough I don't want to hear it! Lalalala I can't hear you!"
"I'm not saying anything."
"Oh well then answer my question."
"Not until you answer mine."
Loralei put on the puppy dogface, pouty lips, droopy eyes and all.
"Oh fine, you don't have to answer! And it was Felicity and she's meeting us at Luke's in twenty minutes, so lets go!"
"Yay, no see was that so difficult?"
"Let's go."
Both girls pulled on their coats and ventured outside, walking at an extremely fast pace towards Luke's.
When they arrived at Luke's they flung open the door, making a grand entrance that caused the whole diner to look at them and since everyone knows Loralei and Rory they all clapped loudly. Loralei did a pretend curtsey murmuring "Thank you, thank you," as Rory rolled her eyes.
"Yes?" asked Luke who was obviously impatient today.
"Why Lukey darling I don't believe you said hello," said Loralei.
"Hello Rory, and you."
"Say Loralei."
"Not saying it."
"Come on Luke!"
"If I say that word will I lose the bet?"
"What bet?" Rory asked.
"Hush oh young Jedi." Said Loralei.
"Your mother made a bet with me that I can't say her name around her and she can't say Luke around me."
"But she said Luke," said Rory who was confused.
"No I said Lukey," said Loralei.
"Ahh you added a y."
"Of course it makes it cute!"
Luke's face twisted into a scowl.
"Ohh if only Lukey's face could be as cute as his new name right now!" said Loralei.
"What's the point of the bet?" asked Rory.
"So many questions! So little time!" said Loralei.
"If she says Luke around me then I get ten bucks and if I say her name around her then she gets ten bucks, it ends tomorrow," Luke said quickly obviously annoyed with the whole bet.
"Ahh Lukey we are both winning!" squealed Loralei, "Which means we both get ten dollars!"
Luke groaned and said, "What do you want you?"
"You, so that's my new name huh?"
"Rory would you like anything?"
"Yes please could I have to basis of all life," asked Rory.
"The what?"
"The basis of all life, a cheeseburger, two cups of coffee and fries. Can I have two actually?"
"It'll kill both of you."
"How did you know one of them was for me?" asked Loralei.
"Maybe I'll only make one for your mother."
"Ooo Lukey has good comebacks today!" said Loralei enthusiastically. (AN for those of you that are well no I will not insult you, but for those of you that didn't get it, Luke said it would kill you and then he said only one for Loralei so you know just a little comeback there!)
"Can I have one too please?!" asked Rory with a pout on her face.
"Fine both of you get one," Luke said as he huffed off and went to go serve other people.
Two seconds later Jess came rambling down the stairs surpisingly wearing flannel.
Loralei and Rory burst out laughing.
Jess shot them a dirty look and said, "What I'm guessing that this is the uniform right, I mean I've been out of uniform enough." He looked around the room and spotted a baseball cap so he slid it on backwards, "Is this better? Does that complete it?"
Both Loralei and Rory fell off of their chairs with uncontrollable laughter.
Then Luke walked over, "What are you wearing Jess?!"
"Oh sorry I thought this was proper attire."
"Take it off."
"Fine, but you're wearing it too," said Jess before depositing the hat and shirt with a wide grin.
"Gotta go, Ladies," said Jess.
"Oo so polite," Loralei said, she had started to actually like Jess now.
"I try," Jess said.
Rory was still just recovering from laughing and to the back of Jess's head just before he walked out of the door she screamed, "Luv ya Jess!" (AN, for this story luv is for friends, and love is well, when love comes around you'll know that it isn't just friendship!)
Jess was out the door but he smiled in at Rory and mouthed 'Luv ya too' through the glass. (AN I know totally un-Jess like but to the horror of my readers who know how anti-Jess I used to be, well Jess has sincerely grown on me, and god damn it is Milo Ventimiglia hott! Not as hott as Chad Michael Murray or Jared Padalecki, okay maybe he ties with Jared, but he is hott! And well I don't love Jess, but he's good enough so he is a good character!) Jess had only walked down about half a block when a girl with blonde hair and baby blue eyes that looked entirely out of place walked by him, looking up as she walked. Jess couldn't help but stare at her, she was the most gorgeous person he had ever seen next to Rory and well his infatuation with Rory was definetly over, now she was just one of his best friends. The girl though that was in front of him was stunning and seemed to be lost so he decided to speak up. "Are you lost?"
Felicity turned around startled that someone had talked to her, normally in other places no one would talk to you. She surveyed the person who had spoke, it was a guy with dark brown hair and brown eyes, and well he was gorgeous, almost like Oliver Hudson (AN another one of my obsessions!). She blushed realizing she had been looking him up and down, obviously checking him out. She looked down, shifting her feet and said, "Yea."
Jess smiled, she was nervous and had been checking him out, he wasn't going to gloat in it or anything but he found it rather amusing. "Well what are you looking for?"
"Luke's."
"Oh it's right there, I'm Jess by the way."
"I'm Felicity.and thanks."
"No problem."
Both of them took off in their separate directions, both thinking wow.
Felicity walked into Luke's moments later and Rory spotted her and immediately waved her over happily.
"Felicity this is my Mom, Mom this is Felicity," said Rory introducing them.
"Hi," Felicity said rather shyly.
"Hey," Loralei said waving her hand a little, "You can call me Loralei, and I'm sorry but I didn't catch your last name."
"That's cause I didn't say it," said Rory before Felicity said anything.
"Ahh well lets see what Felicities last name is, Felicity what pray lord is your last name?"
"Did you just say pray lord?" asked Rory.
"Yes I did."
"Why?"
"Because it fit, now please Mini-me quiet, you are very noisy today and I want to know Felicities last name."
Rory made the sign of zipping her lip and looked at Felicity expectantly, come to think of it she didn't know Felicities last name, that was fairly odd but what did it matter, a name was only a name.
"It's Dugrey, Felicity Dugrey," said Felicity, she looked at Rory, searching for a reaction; which she indeed got, in fact she got one from Loralei also.
Rory's face had immediately frozen and panic had melted onto her face almost instantly when she heard Felicity say Dugrey. No she must be wrong, Felicity could not be a Dugrey. And worse Felicity had a twin brother, who was at military school, Tristan, Felicity was related to Tristan. She, Rory Gilmore had been in Tristan Dugrey's house, Tristan Dugrey's room only a week ago. But Felicity couldn't possibly know that Rory knew Tristan otherwise she would have mentioned it. She couldn't let Felicity see her face so she quickly tried to wash away the expression on her face as best she could. She didn't know that she was already too late, that Felicity had seen it all.
Loralei had also reacted knowing all about Tristan. Her head immediately snapped to Rory when she heard Felicity say that she was Felicity Dugrey. Rory obviously didn't know this otherwise she would have mentioned something. Then she realized that neither she nor Rory was responding so she put it simply, "Oh, well nice to meet you Felicity Dugrey," with a smile.
"You too," Felicity said.
Rory quickly snapped out of her state and said rather fast, "We ordered some food do you want a cheeseburger or something?"
"Sure a cheeseburger sounds good."
Loralei slammed a hand down on the counter and screamed, "Another circle thingy and slap some cheese on it! Bring the curlies also!"
Rory shook her head.
"No I didn't get it?" asked Loralei.
"No I have a feeling that wasn't diner talk."
"No but it was creative."
"True."
Felicity watched the talk go back and forth between mother and daughter and couldn't help but long for that type of relationship with her mother, but she knew that type of relationship with Cynthia (Mrs. Dugrey) Dugrey was not possible to forge. So instead she sat there enjoying the babble between the two Gilmore Girls.
Luke poked his head out of the door and said to Loralei, "What did you want exactly?"
"Another circle thingy and slap some cheese on it and curlies!" said Loralei enthusiastically.
"Loralei what is---"
Loralei got up and started dancing around the diner, a happy dance of course. Then Luke realized what he had said, he had said Loralei. "I WON THE BET!" screamed Loralei, "Ten dollars Lukey!"
Luke grudgingly handed her ten dollars and said, "You know you don't have to call me Lukey now that the bet is off."
"That dear Lukey is where you are wrong, see that name will now stick with you forever."
"What did you want again?" asked Luke; secretly pleased that Loralei now had a nickname for him, this was a good nickname and not one like her previous one that hadn't meant anything which was flannel man.
"Diner talk."
"In English please?"
"A cheeseburger and fries for Felicity."
Luke just then noticed the girl who was now sitting next to Rory; he nodded her head towards her.
"Chop chop Lukey the flannel man!" said Loralei who was already hyper and on her fifth cup of coffee during just that period of lunch.
Luke shook his head and came back out of the kitchen ten minutes later putting down the food in front of the girls. They ate fairly quickly laughing and talking. Then they walked out the door but not before Loralei said, "Bye bye Lukey the Flannel Man! See you at dinner time!"
Once the three girls were outside they stood in a clump.
"I have to go back to the inn sweetie okay?" said Loralei.
"Sure, Felicity and I will just go around town, is that okay with you?"
"Definitely," said Felicity.
************************************************************************ Hey how did you like this chapter? I hope you enjoyed it, please review because it brightens up my day! Also I am considering a possible romance between Jess and Felicity, should I strike it up? Or no? I need opinions on this one because I am unsure whether people want it or not, if I did include it, it would be minor, very minor, so review about it please! I know it is so annoying when people ask for your opinion but I have no choice here, its just a minor decision so decide! THANKS!
Love, Peace, and Chicken Grease
-Anna