5. When Feet Touch And The Phone Rings
Howdy ya'll-
I want to point out something quickly, of GREAT importance! Has anyone noticed that if Loralei went out with Luke and Rory went out with Jess that Rory would be going out with her cousin? So all of you Java AND Literari lovers take that! Actually I like Java just not Literari! But Jess is hott and he's growing on me! By the way I got a complaint that I make Tristan cry too much and its pathetic, yeah I know I kind of agree with you, but at the same time, I TOTALLY don't plan it, it just somehow happens, but I will try not to do it again. It will not happen in this chapter, but I can't make promises that it will not happen ever again, I will try my best to control my characters from crying and falling asleep. Oh by the way, I know you guys are getting impatient, so am I, I mean really shouldn't Tristan be back by now! Well duh guys he is going to come back, maybe not to where you think he is coming back to though, he will be back with Rory though eventually. In the meantime I hope you will just be satisfied with hearing their feelings for each other, but let me tell you that in this chapter THERE WILL be contact! YAY haha! Anyways now for the thanks and then ON TO THE SHOW!
Heavy Glow,Trory4ever, Carrie, Jayde, Sailor grape, Jasmine, Aquarius Angel, Sleepneeded911-Thank you guys for reviewing, you're all great! You guys are so supportive!
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To all anonymous reviewers, and those that I haven't thanked so far, THANK YOU! I'm sorry that I can't personally thank each and every one of you, if I could trust me I would, but thanks so much!
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Rory and Felicity had shortly departed from Luke's after saying goodbye to Loralei. They were now walking quietly together just around town.
Felicity couldn't help but let her mind be pulled away from talking with Rory, she actually had no idea what they were supposed to be talking about, she couldn't stop thinking about Jess.
Rory noticed her friend's silence and decided that something important must be on her mind.
"Someone's thinking about something, or someone special," said Rory teasingly.
Felicity blushed (exactly how Rory would when a guy was mentioned), "Do you know Jess?"
Rory stared at her, her eye's wide, "Of course I know Jess! Why?"
Felicity gave her a look that said you know why.
Rory laughed and said, "He's actually really sweet once you get to know him, he and I are just friends now."
"What do you mean now?" asked Felicity, a bit worried that first of all Jess could get in the way of her plan of getting Rory and Tristan together and second of all because she had found herself attracted to Jess, and she wasn't attracted to people all that often.
"I used to be attracted to him, but now he's just a best friend, kind of like a brother."
"I'm guessing there is a story behind this whole conversion into friendship. Care to share it?" asked Felicity, a wave of relief washing over her.
Rory took a deep breath before launching into the whole story about how she had kissed Jess at Sookie's wedding and everything. At the end of the story Felicity found herself more interested in what had happened to Dean, rather than in Jess.
"What happened to Dean?"
Rory immediately tensed up and said, "He dumped me. I felt so guilty after I kissed Jess and I wasn't in love with Dean anymore and I think he knew it so when I told him what had happened with Jess, he dumped me. We have a really awkward relationship now, we came to a mutual agreement to be friends, but I guess my mom was right when she said that those never work out. We run into each other and we're friendly enough, just in general we try to avoid each other."
"That's too bad, and not to sound mean or anything cause I'm guessing that even though you didn't love him, you still cared about him so this is a touchy subject, but well he sounds really sweet."
"He is, he's like the perfect boyfriend."
The two walked on in silence, contemplating what the other had just said.
Then Rory decided to bring up what she had been thinking about saying, "Do you want to meet him?"
Felicity jumped, surprised when she heard Rory's voice, "You mean meet Dean?"
"Yeah, sure, I think you would like each other."
"Okay, as long as you're comfortable with it."
"Of course I am, and well we have to go in there anyway to get candy for movie night."
"What happened to studying?"
Rory pulled a face that showed pure hatred towards the topic of studying.
"I'm guessing that that means not a chance in hell."
"You're learning very fast! Now come on, we gotta go to Doose's!"
The two walked into Doose's and of course Dean was right there packing groceries.
When Dean spotted Rory he immediately became incredibly self-conscious and turned away, trying as hard as he could to not sneak looks over at Rory. After all why should he still be infatuated with her? He was the one that dumped her because she was into Jess, he, Dean wasn't supposed to be interested in Rory anymore, Rory was supposed to be interested in him. He practically growled in frustration thinking about it, causing the elderly woman that he was packing groceries for to jump.
Rory and Felicity were going around grabbing the usual amount of junk food that one consumes in order to have a movie night. Both girls kept looking over at Dean.
"You told me he was sweet, but you didn't tell me he was that gorgeous," said Felicity who was still having a hard time taking Dean in, granted he wasn't as gorgeous as Jess and well she guessed her brother was gorgeous to the outside eye but well she hadn't expected Dean to look the way he did.
Rory giggled as though they were in sixth grade again, gossiping over the hottest guy in school, "Well I guess I forgot to add that detail."
"Big detail to leave out, big detail."
"I know."
Rory finished grabbing the finishing touches and said, "All done, now you can go meet him."
They walked up to the line that Dean was bagging groceries at. Dean showed visible signs of panicking but Rory didn't notice.
Rory smiled broadly over at Dean and said softly, "Hi."
Dean nervously responded, "Hey," then he noticed Felicity so he added, "Who are you?"
"I'm Felicity, I go to Chilton with Rory."
Rory blushed, obviously embarrassed from being rude enough to not introduce Felicity to Dean, after all this was what the whole thing was about.
"Oh so a nice person came to Chilton actually?" Dean asked Rory, loosening up a bit.
"Yeah someone did."
"Good."
Rory and Felicity grabbed their bags.
"Bye Dean!" Rory called.
"Nice meeting you!" said Felicity.
"Bye Rory. Felicity. Nice meeting you too," said Dean.
Dean breathed a sigh of relief as the two girls walked out the door. Then he went back to bagging the groceries.
Once the girls were outside Felicity decided to speak up, "Oh he was really nice, I can't see he was too open with me but he was polite."
"Yeah he is nice, just every time I see him I keep scolding myself. And that's just Dean, he's always polite."
"Don't scold yourself, you don't like him anymore do you?"
"No I don't, I'm kind of stuck on this guy that I haven't seen in well a while," Rory paused not knowing why she was letting Felicity know this, after all Rory was going to talk about Tristan, Felicities brother but decided to continue, "it's weird, he just wrote me recently and well I haven't seen him in two years. I really like him though."
Felicity grinned but decided to let Rory think that she didn't know whom it was, hoping that the person Rory was talking about was Tristan. "Oh really what happened to him?"
"He went to Chilton and then sophomore year he got sent away."
"Where?"
"To military school actually."
Felicity could hardly contain herself from doing a dance and jumping for joy, she then remembered that she couldn't sound too gleeful so she said, "Oh I'm sorry."
Rory almost breathed out a sigh of relief when she thought that Felicity didn't know who it was, but she was able to control herself and say, "It's nothing, I just hope I'll see him again one day."
"I'm sure you'll see him again soon, probably sooner than you think."
Rory smiled over a Felicity, truly grateful for having a friend like her. Rory drifted off into thoughts about Tristan, she thought about him for about two minutes when she reprimanded herself for ignoring Felicity.
"Come on, everything's ready for movie night, now we just have to call a few people and it'll be great!"
"What about a movie?"
Rory shook her head, shocked that she had forgotten the most important element of a movie night; she had never done such a thing before, "Duh! I totally forgot about that! What do you want to see?"
"Anything is fine with me."
"Oh come on that's not fair, it leaves everything on my shoulders."
Felicity laughed and said, "Good, that's the way I like it."
Rory groaned unhappily but willingly trudged into the video store first.
They browsed the shelves for a while, pulling out random movies once in a while, which the other would respond to by shaking her head.
Rory frowned then realizing that Felicity was doing what she said she wasn't going to do, "I thought you said that I got to pick the movie."
Felicity laughed, and said, "If I let you pick the movie we would be watching 'The Wizard Of Oz' or 'Charlie and The Chocolate Factory'."
Rory stuck out her bottom lip and furrowed her eyebrows, dramatizing it all so that she looked incredibly funny. This only caused Felicity to laugh and have to hold onto a rack of videos. Rory also started laughing and both girls leaned against the video rack trying to prevent themselves from falling. The video rack of course could not tolerate it and tipped over, both the girls and about fifty videos came crashing down with it.
Rory and Felicity immediately stopped laughing, shocked at what had just happened, they looked around them, while the whole video store was gawking at them and then they looked at each other and almost died laughing.
Rory stood up and offered Felicity her hand, "I can't believe that happened!" she managed to gasp out.
Felicity was doubled over from laughing so hard and said, "I know!"
Then the two girls saw the angry looks that the man who owned the video store was sending them, so they leaned down and started to pick up the videos, putting them back up on the rack.
As the girls were putting the videos back up on the rack, Felicity noticed Beauty and the Beast lying on the floor. She practically squealed with delight, "Ooo!" she said holding out the video for Rory to see.
Rory nodded enthusiastically and said, "It's one of my favorites!"
"Mine too! So then it's settled!"
"Definitely."
They finished stacking the videos back up, which took them a good fifteen minutes, while the whole time they were laughing and talking. Then they rented Beauty and The Beast and headed back home.
Rory opened the door to the house and Felicity looked up at her questionily, "It's not locked?" she asked.
"No we never lock the door, no one in Stars Hollow would ever contemplate stealing something."
"Wow."
"I know, we're a simple yet strange town."
"I have to agree with the strange part."
Rory laughed. Just then Loralei came running down the stairs with a towel wrapped around her head.
"The latest fashion mom?" asked Rory, her mother looked hilarious.
"Haha Mini-me, but no."
"Oh I bet I was close."
"You weren't!" said Loralei sticking her tongue out at Rory.
"I love the kindergarten tongue thing."
"Hey you do it too!"
"Yes but see I am closer to being a kindergartener than you are."
"No need to insult my age. And for your information the towel that is currently wrapped around my head is being used as a drying device, because oddly enough my hair got wet in the shower, who would have thought it possible, and so this is the way that according to movies people dry their hair."
"Oh yeah I think I've seen that in movies."
"This was a very pointless conversation so Felicity what movie did you guys get."
Felicity laughed and Rory stood there looking insulted before Rory said, "Excuse me mom but I can say what movie we got too!"
"Shush young one, I know you can but I want to hear Felicity speak, with the amount of talking you do the poor girl hasn't been able to get a word across."
Rory opened her mouth to speak but Loralei did the motion to zip the lip, Rory closed her mouth again before trying to open it again and Loralei again did the same motion, so Rory accepted her defeat and plunked herself down on the couch, happily eating popcorn out of a bowl that was placed on the cushion next to her.
Felicity smiled and said, "We got Beauty and the Beast."
Loralei clapped and squealed, "YAY!"
"Mom who should come over for this joyous occasion?" asked Rory.
"I already invited people."
"Who?"
"Jess, Luke and Sookie."
"Luke isn't coming."
"Got that right."
"Sookie has to make some extravagant feast for us first." "Bingo."
"And Jess protested before pretending to unwillingly agree, claim that you forced him to come but really he is just dying to come."
"Give the young lady a prize!"
"Thank you, thank you!" Rory said bowing.
Felicity laughed and said, "What about pizza?"
"You learn fast."
"Of course I do."
"But I'm quicker."
Felicity gave her a confused look, half getting it and half not. Loralei continued, "I already ordered pizza, with everything, it should be here any second, now you two girls go get ready and I'll set out all the marvelous food you brought! Yummy, I hope you don't mind if it's all gone."
The two girls retreated to Rory's room where Felicity shut the door and said as quietly and fast as she could, "Rory-I-look-horrible-and-Jess-is- coming-over."
Rory laughed and said pretending to be the type of lady that wore all pink and worked at the uptight salons, "Don't worry, we've got about ten minutes, you will look marvelous darling, simply marvelous by the time I am done with you."
Felicity giggled and let Rory work on her face and hair.
In the end, seven minutes later both girls were ready, Rory with no make up on and her hair up in her usual ponytail, and Felicity with a minimal amount of makeup on her hair down. They were both very comfortably dressed in pajama pants and shirt. Earlier the doorbell had rang signaling the arrival of the worshiped pizza.
Rory and Felicity went out into the living room and plopped down on the couch, immediately starting to pig out on food. They didn't notice Jess lip in. He placed the six cups of coffee at his feet and leaned against the wall watching the two girls pig out. He was especially fascinated by Felicity; something about her was just different.
A few minutes passed and the girls still hadn't noticed and were gossiping and eating away. Then Loralei came bounding into the room and nearly had a heart attack when she saw Jess.
"Jess you have to knock you know!" said Loralei as both girls swung their heads around.
Jess grinned and said, "I've never had to before."
"Well when you are planning on just standing there like a statue, you have to knock.Jesus you could have given me a heart attack."
"Don't use the lords name in vain," said Jess mockingly.
Loralei scowled and said, "Funny boy, like you really care how I use the lord's name." (AN sorry if I offend any of you by this, I am just not a very religious person!)
Rory decided to quickly introduce Felicity and Jess again, "Felicity, Jess, Jess, Felicity."
Jess's grin widened as he said, "We've already met." Then he winked at Felicity.
Felicity blushed a soft pink and nodded.
"Mom I need to see you in the kitchen," said Rory, deliberately.
Loralei nodded and the two went into the kitchen.
"Now listen mom, we've got a plan."
"Ooo I love having plans!"
"I know and this one is genius!"
"Even better! Bring on the roses!"
"They are gonna be adorable together, we just have to get them to talk."
Loralei nodded though in her head she was a bit unsure of the plan but she decided to go along with it anyway.
They both returned back to the living room carrying the three boxes of pizza, where Felicity and Jess were arguing about whether or not there was a symbol behind The Lovely Bones (AN: If you haven't read this book, read it, it is truly amazing, beautifully written but heart wrenching!).
Felicity and Jess were convinced to call a truce and get back to the subject at a later point in time because at the current moment Beauty and The Beast was calling them
All four of them settled down and watched it, with Felicity and Jess convientely taking up the couch, their feet touched once and Felicity jumped, which of course Jess noticed, but instead of making a comment he just smiled, Felicity rewarded him with a smile also and decided not to move her feet. Rory of course observed all of this and noticed every little detail at first, before focusing on Beauty and The Beast. Loralei however was intently alert to Beauty and The Beast and didn't care about was going on around her.
The only interruption that the group received was Sookie coming over and forcing them to eat what she called, "Decent and healthy food." They all managed to stomach down a few forkfuls before they had no choice but to resume watching the movie. Sookie of course settled down and watched the rest of the movie with them. Rory and Loralei knew every word to every song in the movie so they sang along to them, and for every line they knew they recited it.
Then the movie ended.
"What a great movie!" exclaimed Loralei.
"A classic love story!" responded Sookie, who was agreeing.
Rory nodded in agreement while Jess and Felicity only paid attention to each other, trying to figure out how to do so without the other noticing.
"Well babes I have to go," said Sookie.
"Bye Sookie!" said Loralei as she carried the empty pizza containers back into the kitchen. Sookie then left. Rory decided now would be the perfect opportunity to leave Felicity and Jess alone so she walked out of the room but close enough to the room so that she could hear every word that was exchanged.
"I should get going too." Said Jess.
Felicity nodded and only responded by saying, "Mmm."
Jess then got the nerve to do what he had been wanting to do all night and he leaned over and kissed her on the cheek, it only lasted for a second and did not display any passion, but it was what happens at the very beginning of a relationship.
"I'll call you," he said.
"Okay," said Felicity who was now overcome by shyness.
Rory took this as her cue and waltzed into the room.
"Bye Rory."
"Oh you're leaving?"
"Yeah I have to go, Luke'll kill me if I don't go."
"Okay!" she said cheerfully, gently hugging Jess goodbye before he left.
Loralei came back into the room a few minutes later and said to the girls, "I think I am going to retire now."
"You mean to a trailer park."
"No of course not, you don't think I'm old enough to do that yet do you?!?!?"
"Of course not, so where are you going to retire to exactly then?"
"My bed silly!"
"Okay, love you mom!"
"Love you too! Goodnight you guys!"
"Night!" the girls called up in unison.
"I think we should go to bed right about now too," said Rory after checking the clock.
"Sure."
"You know you have to tell me all about Jess."
"And you have to tell me something about the mystery guy."
Rory hesitated before saying, "I'll tell you a little."
The two girls went into Rory's bedroom where the curled up in sleeping bags and talked the night away, mostly talking about Jess and Chilton, and a little bit about Tristan, but Rory wouldn't let Felicity know that it was Tristan. Then eventually the two drifted off into sleep.
The next morning they woke up and the morning at the Gilmore house was quite hurried, actually it couldn't have been called the morning because it was the late afternoon. Felicity left around three and the Gilmore Girls continued what they usually did, going around town, talking, the usual.
At about eight fifteen the phone rang in the Dugrey residence. Felicity immediately picked up.
---Felicity/Tristan Intercut---
"Hello?" said Felicity who was tired already from her long night at Rory's.
"Hey Twin." Said Tristan cheerfully, hoping for news about Rory.
"Don't call me twin again, it sounds too sappy."
"How does that sound sappy?"
"It just does to my ear."
"Whatever you say, so how is it over there?"
"It's good, I've become really close friends with that girl Rory."
"Really?" Tristan asked trying not to sound too interested. He had decided that he wouldn't pity himself any longer for not being able to talk to Rory or see her, he would just think about her and basically live through his sister with information about her.
"Yeah, she is so sweet. You wouldn't imagine her town they are so quirky! I mean there is this guy who is just so sweet and hott, I mean you know me, I'm rarely attracted to people, but somehow instantly I was attracted to him."
"What's his name?" asked Tristan, thinking well the guy is good looking and supposedly sweet, it could be Dean.
"Jess."
"Oh," Tristan said, half happy that his sister didn't like bagboy and half upset that it was possible that Rory was still with Dean.
"And then there's the dance studio teacher, Ms. Patty, she's a crack up. And Luke, Jess's uncle who is grumpy but seems to be really nice somewhere deep down, he is also in love with Loralei, Rory's mom. There's Taylor who seems to be very strict and not like Luke all that much. And there is Dean." Felicity said, trailing off on Dean's name deliberately hoping that Tristan would further question her.
Tristan lived up to her hopes and asked, hoping to get some information out about Dean and Rory's relationship, "Who's Dean?"
"He's Rory's ex-boyfriend."
Tristan's face broke out into a huge grin and he could hardly contain himself from screaming happily.
"They're just friends now, but kind of awkward friends, he seems nice enough," continued Felicity.
"Oh that's pretty good though."
"Yeah."
The two continued their conversation on and on, talking about Rory, Chilton, Greenvale, friends, parents, etc.
Meanwhile Rory was at home in front of her laptop once again. The only lines that she still had down on the computer screen were 'Dear Tristan.' Loralei poked her head in and read over Rory's shoulder the two words and again lent her help.
"Sweetie I swear to god you just have to write what you feel."
"But what if he doesn't feel the same way."
"Then he doesn't, it won't kill you, it will hurt but it won't kill you. Plus I highly doubt he doesn't feel the same way considering how he kind of expressed the way he felt about you in his letter too you."
"True," Rory said realizing she hadn't considered this.
Loralei patted Rory's shoulder and said, "So come on get typing girl!" Then she left Rory's bedroom to leave Rory to the letter.
Rory immediately feverishly began typing, sentence after sentence forming itself onto the screen.
Half an hour later she stopped typing and contemplated how to end the letter, should it end with 'Sincerely, Rory," or just, "Rory," or "Love Rory," or possibly the best one of all, "Love Mary." She decided on none of those and instead finished it off by writing in her curly handwriting, "Love Rory (Your Mary)." She smiled and read the letter over once again.
'Dear Tristan-
I'm just going to let everything go and let you know exactly how I feel. I will admit that when I first got your letter I was shocked, after two years I had just about given up hope of you ever contacting me, and unfortunately I didn't know how to contact you. But I still had hope and I guess that it's a good thing I did because looked you pulled through and wrote me. I of course know how I reacted to your letter, and I think it will surprise you but it is incredibly hard for me to put down on paper, but I'll give it a go anyways.
When you walked away from me that night I was heartbroken, I wanted to run to you, forget about Dean and honestly just kiss you senseless. I know that sounds like a very un-Mary like thing to do but it's exactly how I felt. In those few moments I admitted to myself that it wasn't Dean I cared about, it was you, it was you I wanted. And it is you I still want. Every night I dream about you and pray that you will come back, but still I don't see you here, I just wish for you.
I know that it seems silly to be telling you all of this now, and I bet you're wondering why I never told you this when you were actually around to hear it come from my mouth. Well I was uncertain about everything then, you were so different, not half as safe as Dean is, I was scared. I wouldn't let myself acknowledge that it is you I want and need. But now I have and I just hope that it isn't too late.
I know that this is not an incredibly long letter but it is the best that I've got at the moment, please write back and I'll write more later, I'll write more even if you don't respond to this. Please Tristan, come back, I really want you to come back. And Tristan, I know I said I hate you, and I want to let you know, I don't hate you, it isn't possible for me to hate you, and I will never be able to bring myself to do so. I think Tristan, I think that the whole time we were at Chilton together I was falling in love with you, I'm not saying that I'm necessarily in love with you, in fact I still think I'm falling, but Tristan, you mean so much to me. I miss you.
Love Rory (Your Mary)'
She put it in the envelope that she had ready, address on it, stamped, everything. Then she sealed it up, turned off the light and went to sleep.
Shortly after Rory went to sleep Tristan and Felicity got off the phone. Tristan trudged back to his room thinking about Rory and what he would give to see her right now. All night he was restless contemplating a thought that had occurred to him. He had been given more phone privileges recently and he could call more than just family, should he? He couldn't decide, he kept rolling around, then at about three in the morning the answer came to him and the problem was solved. He drifted off into a quiet slumber.
The next morning Rory mailed the letter almost immediately, hoping that it would reach Tristan soon. She then continued on to Chilton, spent the day talking briefly with Felicity, being bored to death by teachers and taking notes. In the end she had to stay late after school, studying with Felicity in the library, until about 6.
Then she went home where she found a note from her mother saying that she would be back at 9:30 or so, Sookie had invited her over for dinner and there was Chinese food in the refrigerator. Rory stripped out of her uniform and put on comfy clothes, she grabbed a cup of coffee that she had been brewing and took the Chinese food out of the refrigerator, she was settling down on the couch when the phone rang, luckily it was right next to her on the table so she picked it up after the second right.
---Intercut--- (AN I know you know whose but still!)
"Hello?" said Rory before taking a sip of her coffee.
There was a second's silence as Tristan's face broke out into a grin before he said, "Hi Rory," then he contemplated about whether or not he should say the thing he would normally say but he went for it, ".Mary."
Rory's face broke out in to the biggest grin she had ever worn. She scrunched her legs up under her and said, "Hi Tristan, I miss you."
"I miss you too."
(The Conversation is to be continued in Chap. 6)
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Evil me, evil me! I know! But don't worry, the conversation will continue and it will be pretty good I think! So thanks for all the feedback, I hope you love this chapter as much as I loved writing it! Now I am off to the races, or rather bed, and I will continue writing the next fabulous chapter that is tremendously fun to write tomorrow, look for it soon! Please review, it brightens up my day and encourages me to continue! And again thanks!
Love, Peace, and Chicken Grease
-Anna
Howdy ya'll-
I want to point out something quickly, of GREAT importance! Has anyone noticed that if Loralei went out with Luke and Rory went out with Jess that Rory would be going out with her cousin? So all of you Java AND Literari lovers take that! Actually I like Java just not Literari! But Jess is hott and he's growing on me! By the way I got a complaint that I make Tristan cry too much and its pathetic, yeah I know I kind of agree with you, but at the same time, I TOTALLY don't plan it, it just somehow happens, but I will try not to do it again. It will not happen in this chapter, but I can't make promises that it will not happen ever again, I will try my best to control my characters from crying and falling asleep. Oh by the way, I know you guys are getting impatient, so am I, I mean really shouldn't Tristan be back by now! Well duh guys he is going to come back, maybe not to where you think he is coming back to though, he will be back with Rory though eventually. In the meantime I hope you will just be satisfied with hearing their feelings for each other, but let me tell you that in this chapter THERE WILL be contact! YAY haha! Anyways now for the thanks and then ON TO THE SHOW!
Heavy Glow,Trory4ever, Carrie, Jayde, Sailor grape, Jasmine, Aquarius Angel, Sleepneeded911-Thank you guys for reviewing, you're all great! You guys are so supportive!
Sarah V. (anonymous)- You are the nicest reviewer that a girl could have! Thank you so much! Your reviews brighten up my whole day! You rock my world sweetie!
Deena- OH MY GOD YOU ARE THE COOLEST REVIEWER EVER! Wow that was flattery that I think I didn't deserve, thanks so much though! I love that you love my writing! Thanks so much!!!!!!! That made me so happy!
To all anonymous reviewers, and those that I haven't thanked so far, THANK YOU! I'm sorry that I can't personally thank each and every one of you, if I could trust me I would, but thanks so much!
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Rory and Felicity had shortly departed from Luke's after saying goodbye to Loralei. They were now walking quietly together just around town.
Felicity couldn't help but let her mind be pulled away from talking with Rory, she actually had no idea what they were supposed to be talking about, she couldn't stop thinking about Jess.
Rory noticed her friend's silence and decided that something important must be on her mind.
"Someone's thinking about something, or someone special," said Rory teasingly.
Felicity blushed (exactly how Rory would when a guy was mentioned), "Do you know Jess?"
Rory stared at her, her eye's wide, "Of course I know Jess! Why?"
Felicity gave her a look that said you know why.
Rory laughed and said, "He's actually really sweet once you get to know him, he and I are just friends now."
"What do you mean now?" asked Felicity, a bit worried that first of all Jess could get in the way of her plan of getting Rory and Tristan together and second of all because she had found herself attracted to Jess, and she wasn't attracted to people all that often.
"I used to be attracted to him, but now he's just a best friend, kind of like a brother."
"I'm guessing there is a story behind this whole conversion into friendship. Care to share it?" asked Felicity, a wave of relief washing over her.
Rory took a deep breath before launching into the whole story about how she had kissed Jess at Sookie's wedding and everything. At the end of the story Felicity found herself more interested in what had happened to Dean, rather than in Jess.
"What happened to Dean?"
Rory immediately tensed up and said, "He dumped me. I felt so guilty after I kissed Jess and I wasn't in love with Dean anymore and I think he knew it so when I told him what had happened with Jess, he dumped me. We have a really awkward relationship now, we came to a mutual agreement to be friends, but I guess my mom was right when she said that those never work out. We run into each other and we're friendly enough, just in general we try to avoid each other."
"That's too bad, and not to sound mean or anything cause I'm guessing that even though you didn't love him, you still cared about him so this is a touchy subject, but well he sounds really sweet."
"He is, he's like the perfect boyfriend."
The two walked on in silence, contemplating what the other had just said.
Then Rory decided to bring up what she had been thinking about saying, "Do you want to meet him?"
Felicity jumped, surprised when she heard Rory's voice, "You mean meet Dean?"
"Yeah, sure, I think you would like each other."
"Okay, as long as you're comfortable with it."
"Of course I am, and well we have to go in there anyway to get candy for movie night."
"What happened to studying?"
Rory pulled a face that showed pure hatred towards the topic of studying.
"I'm guessing that that means not a chance in hell."
"You're learning very fast! Now come on, we gotta go to Doose's!"
The two walked into Doose's and of course Dean was right there packing groceries.
When Dean spotted Rory he immediately became incredibly self-conscious and turned away, trying as hard as he could to not sneak looks over at Rory. After all why should he still be infatuated with her? He was the one that dumped her because she was into Jess, he, Dean wasn't supposed to be interested in Rory anymore, Rory was supposed to be interested in him. He practically growled in frustration thinking about it, causing the elderly woman that he was packing groceries for to jump.
Rory and Felicity were going around grabbing the usual amount of junk food that one consumes in order to have a movie night. Both girls kept looking over at Dean.
"You told me he was sweet, but you didn't tell me he was that gorgeous," said Felicity who was still having a hard time taking Dean in, granted he wasn't as gorgeous as Jess and well she guessed her brother was gorgeous to the outside eye but well she hadn't expected Dean to look the way he did.
Rory giggled as though they were in sixth grade again, gossiping over the hottest guy in school, "Well I guess I forgot to add that detail."
"Big detail to leave out, big detail."
"I know."
Rory finished grabbing the finishing touches and said, "All done, now you can go meet him."
They walked up to the line that Dean was bagging groceries at. Dean showed visible signs of panicking but Rory didn't notice.
Rory smiled broadly over at Dean and said softly, "Hi."
Dean nervously responded, "Hey," then he noticed Felicity so he added, "Who are you?"
"I'm Felicity, I go to Chilton with Rory."
Rory blushed, obviously embarrassed from being rude enough to not introduce Felicity to Dean, after all this was what the whole thing was about.
"Oh so a nice person came to Chilton actually?" Dean asked Rory, loosening up a bit.
"Yeah someone did."
"Good."
Rory and Felicity grabbed their bags.
"Bye Dean!" Rory called.
"Nice meeting you!" said Felicity.
"Bye Rory. Felicity. Nice meeting you too," said Dean.
Dean breathed a sigh of relief as the two girls walked out the door. Then he went back to bagging the groceries.
Once the girls were outside Felicity decided to speak up, "Oh he was really nice, I can't see he was too open with me but he was polite."
"Yeah he is nice, just every time I see him I keep scolding myself. And that's just Dean, he's always polite."
"Don't scold yourself, you don't like him anymore do you?"
"No I don't, I'm kind of stuck on this guy that I haven't seen in well a while," Rory paused not knowing why she was letting Felicity know this, after all Rory was going to talk about Tristan, Felicities brother but decided to continue, "it's weird, he just wrote me recently and well I haven't seen him in two years. I really like him though."
Felicity grinned but decided to let Rory think that she didn't know whom it was, hoping that the person Rory was talking about was Tristan. "Oh really what happened to him?"
"He went to Chilton and then sophomore year he got sent away."
"Where?"
"To military school actually."
Felicity could hardly contain herself from doing a dance and jumping for joy, she then remembered that she couldn't sound too gleeful so she said, "Oh I'm sorry."
Rory almost breathed out a sigh of relief when she thought that Felicity didn't know who it was, but she was able to control herself and say, "It's nothing, I just hope I'll see him again one day."
"I'm sure you'll see him again soon, probably sooner than you think."
Rory smiled over a Felicity, truly grateful for having a friend like her. Rory drifted off into thoughts about Tristan, she thought about him for about two minutes when she reprimanded herself for ignoring Felicity.
"Come on, everything's ready for movie night, now we just have to call a few people and it'll be great!"
"What about a movie?"
Rory shook her head, shocked that she had forgotten the most important element of a movie night; she had never done such a thing before, "Duh! I totally forgot about that! What do you want to see?"
"Anything is fine with me."
"Oh come on that's not fair, it leaves everything on my shoulders."
Felicity laughed and said, "Good, that's the way I like it."
Rory groaned unhappily but willingly trudged into the video store first.
They browsed the shelves for a while, pulling out random movies once in a while, which the other would respond to by shaking her head.
Rory frowned then realizing that Felicity was doing what she said she wasn't going to do, "I thought you said that I got to pick the movie."
Felicity laughed, and said, "If I let you pick the movie we would be watching 'The Wizard Of Oz' or 'Charlie and The Chocolate Factory'."
Rory stuck out her bottom lip and furrowed her eyebrows, dramatizing it all so that she looked incredibly funny. This only caused Felicity to laugh and have to hold onto a rack of videos. Rory also started laughing and both girls leaned against the video rack trying to prevent themselves from falling. The video rack of course could not tolerate it and tipped over, both the girls and about fifty videos came crashing down with it.
Rory and Felicity immediately stopped laughing, shocked at what had just happened, they looked around them, while the whole video store was gawking at them and then they looked at each other and almost died laughing.
Rory stood up and offered Felicity her hand, "I can't believe that happened!" she managed to gasp out.
Felicity was doubled over from laughing so hard and said, "I know!"
Then the two girls saw the angry looks that the man who owned the video store was sending them, so they leaned down and started to pick up the videos, putting them back up on the rack.
As the girls were putting the videos back up on the rack, Felicity noticed Beauty and the Beast lying on the floor. She practically squealed with delight, "Ooo!" she said holding out the video for Rory to see.
Rory nodded enthusiastically and said, "It's one of my favorites!"
"Mine too! So then it's settled!"
"Definitely."
They finished stacking the videos back up, which took them a good fifteen minutes, while the whole time they were laughing and talking. Then they rented Beauty and The Beast and headed back home.
Rory opened the door to the house and Felicity looked up at her questionily, "It's not locked?" she asked.
"No we never lock the door, no one in Stars Hollow would ever contemplate stealing something."
"Wow."
"I know, we're a simple yet strange town."
"I have to agree with the strange part."
Rory laughed. Just then Loralei came running down the stairs with a towel wrapped around her head.
"The latest fashion mom?" asked Rory, her mother looked hilarious.
"Haha Mini-me, but no."
"Oh I bet I was close."
"You weren't!" said Loralei sticking her tongue out at Rory.
"I love the kindergarten tongue thing."
"Hey you do it too!"
"Yes but see I am closer to being a kindergartener than you are."
"No need to insult my age. And for your information the towel that is currently wrapped around my head is being used as a drying device, because oddly enough my hair got wet in the shower, who would have thought it possible, and so this is the way that according to movies people dry their hair."
"Oh yeah I think I've seen that in movies."
"This was a very pointless conversation so Felicity what movie did you guys get."
Felicity laughed and Rory stood there looking insulted before Rory said, "Excuse me mom but I can say what movie we got too!"
"Shush young one, I know you can but I want to hear Felicity speak, with the amount of talking you do the poor girl hasn't been able to get a word across."
Rory opened her mouth to speak but Loralei did the motion to zip the lip, Rory closed her mouth again before trying to open it again and Loralei again did the same motion, so Rory accepted her defeat and plunked herself down on the couch, happily eating popcorn out of a bowl that was placed on the cushion next to her.
Felicity smiled and said, "We got Beauty and the Beast."
Loralei clapped and squealed, "YAY!"
"Mom who should come over for this joyous occasion?" asked Rory.
"I already invited people."
"Who?"
"Jess, Luke and Sookie."
"Luke isn't coming."
"Got that right."
"Sookie has to make some extravagant feast for us first." "Bingo."
"And Jess protested before pretending to unwillingly agree, claim that you forced him to come but really he is just dying to come."
"Give the young lady a prize!"
"Thank you, thank you!" Rory said bowing.
Felicity laughed and said, "What about pizza?"
"You learn fast."
"Of course I do."
"But I'm quicker."
Felicity gave her a confused look, half getting it and half not. Loralei continued, "I already ordered pizza, with everything, it should be here any second, now you two girls go get ready and I'll set out all the marvelous food you brought! Yummy, I hope you don't mind if it's all gone."
The two girls retreated to Rory's room where Felicity shut the door and said as quietly and fast as she could, "Rory-I-look-horrible-and-Jess-is- coming-over."
Rory laughed and said pretending to be the type of lady that wore all pink and worked at the uptight salons, "Don't worry, we've got about ten minutes, you will look marvelous darling, simply marvelous by the time I am done with you."
Felicity giggled and let Rory work on her face and hair.
In the end, seven minutes later both girls were ready, Rory with no make up on and her hair up in her usual ponytail, and Felicity with a minimal amount of makeup on her hair down. They were both very comfortably dressed in pajama pants and shirt. Earlier the doorbell had rang signaling the arrival of the worshiped pizza.
Rory and Felicity went out into the living room and plopped down on the couch, immediately starting to pig out on food. They didn't notice Jess lip in. He placed the six cups of coffee at his feet and leaned against the wall watching the two girls pig out. He was especially fascinated by Felicity; something about her was just different.
A few minutes passed and the girls still hadn't noticed and were gossiping and eating away. Then Loralei came bounding into the room and nearly had a heart attack when she saw Jess.
"Jess you have to knock you know!" said Loralei as both girls swung their heads around.
Jess grinned and said, "I've never had to before."
"Well when you are planning on just standing there like a statue, you have to knock.Jesus you could have given me a heart attack."
"Don't use the lords name in vain," said Jess mockingly.
Loralei scowled and said, "Funny boy, like you really care how I use the lord's name." (AN sorry if I offend any of you by this, I am just not a very religious person!)
Rory decided to quickly introduce Felicity and Jess again, "Felicity, Jess, Jess, Felicity."
Jess's grin widened as he said, "We've already met." Then he winked at Felicity.
Felicity blushed a soft pink and nodded.
"Mom I need to see you in the kitchen," said Rory, deliberately.
Loralei nodded and the two went into the kitchen.
"Now listen mom, we've got a plan."
"Ooo I love having plans!"
"I know and this one is genius!"
"Even better! Bring on the roses!"
"They are gonna be adorable together, we just have to get them to talk."
Loralei nodded though in her head she was a bit unsure of the plan but she decided to go along with it anyway.
They both returned back to the living room carrying the three boxes of pizza, where Felicity and Jess were arguing about whether or not there was a symbol behind The Lovely Bones (AN: If you haven't read this book, read it, it is truly amazing, beautifully written but heart wrenching!).
Felicity and Jess were convinced to call a truce and get back to the subject at a later point in time because at the current moment Beauty and The Beast was calling them
All four of them settled down and watched it, with Felicity and Jess convientely taking up the couch, their feet touched once and Felicity jumped, which of course Jess noticed, but instead of making a comment he just smiled, Felicity rewarded him with a smile also and decided not to move her feet. Rory of course observed all of this and noticed every little detail at first, before focusing on Beauty and The Beast. Loralei however was intently alert to Beauty and The Beast and didn't care about was going on around her.
The only interruption that the group received was Sookie coming over and forcing them to eat what she called, "Decent and healthy food." They all managed to stomach down a few forkfuls before they had no choice but to resume watching the movie. Sookie of course settled down and watched the rest of the movie with them. Rory and Loralei knew every word to every song in the movie so they sang along to them, and for every line they knew they recited it.
Then the movie ended.
"What a great movie!" exclaimed Loralei.
"A classic love story!" responded Sookie, who was agreeing.
Rory nodded in agreement while Jess and Felicity only paid attention to each other, trying to figure out how to do so without the other noticing.
"Well babes I have to go," said Sookie.
"Bye Sookie!" said Loralei as she carried the empty pizza containers back into the kitchen. Sookie then left. Rory decided now would be the perfect opportunity to leave Felicity and Jess alone so she walked out of the room but close enough to the room so that she could hear every word that was exchanged.
"I should get going too." Said Jess.
Felicity nodded and only responded by saying, "Mmm."
Jess then got the nerve to do what he had been wanting to do all night and he leaned over and kissed her on the cheek, it only lasted for a second and did not display any passion, but it was what happens at the very beginning of a relationship.
"I'll call you," he said.
"Okay," said Felicity who was now overcome by shyness.
Rory took this as her cue and waltzed into the room.
"Bye Rory."
"Oh you're leaving?"
"Yeah I have to go, Luke'll kill me if I don't go."
"Okay!" she said cheerfully, gently hugging Jess goodbye before he left.
Loralei came back into the room a few minutes later and said to the girls, "I think I am going to retire now."
"You mean to a trailer park."
"No of course not, you don't think I'm old enough to do that yet do you?!?!?"
"Of course not, so where are you going to retire to exactly then?"
"My bed silly!"
"Okay, love you mom!"
"Love you too! Goodnight you guys!"
"Night!" the girls called up in unison.
"I think we should go to bed right about now too," said Rory after checking the clock.
"Sure."
"You know you have to tell me all about Jess."
"And you have to tell me something about the mystery guy."
Rory hesitated before saying, "I'll tell you a little."
The two girls went into Rory's bedroom where the curled up in sleeping bags and talked the night away, mostly talking about Jess and Chilton, and a little bit about Tristan, but Rory wouldn't let Felicity know that it was Tristan. Then eventually the two drifted off into sleep.
The next morning they woke up and the morning at the Gilmore house was quite hurried, actually it couldn't have been called the morning because it was the late afternoon. Felicity left around three and the Gilmore Girls continued what they usually did, going around town, talking, the usual.
At about eight fifteen the phone rang in the Dugrey residence. Felicity immediately picked up.
---Felicity/Tristan Intercut---
"Hello?" said Felicity who was tired already from her long night at Rory's.
"Hey Twin." Said Tristan cheerfully, hoping for news about Rory.
"Don't call me twin again, it sounds too sappy."
"How does that sound sappy?"
"It just does to my ear."
"Whatever you say, so how is it over there?"
"It's good, I've become really close friends with that girl Rory."
"Really?" Tristan asked trying not to sound too interested. He had decided that he wouldn't pity himself any longer for not being able to talk to Rory or see her, he would just think about her and basically live through his sister with information about her.
"Yeah, she is so sweet. You wouldn't imagine her town they are so quirky! I mean there is this guy who is just so sweet and hott, I mean you know me, I'm rarely attracted to people, but somehow instantly I was attracted to him."
"What's his name?" asked Tristan, thinking well the guy is good looking and supposedly sweet, it could be Dean.
"Jess."
"Oh," Tristan said, half happy that his sister didn't like bagboy and half upset that it was possible that Rory was still with Dean.
"And then there's the dance studio teacher, Ms. Patty, she's a crack up. And Luke, Jess's uncle who is grumpy but seems to be really nice somewhere deep down, he is also in love with Loralei, Rory's mom. There's Taylor who seems to be very strict and not like Luke all that much. And there is Dean." Felicity said, trailing off on Dean's name deliberately hoping that Tristan would further question her.
Tristan lived up to her hopes and asked, hoping to get some information out about Dean and Rory's relationship, "Who's Dean?"
"He's Rory's ex-boyfriend."
Tristan's face broke out into a huge grin and he could hardly contain himself from screaming happily.
"They're just friends now, but kind of awkward friends, he seems nice enough," continued Felicity.
"Oh that's pretty good though."
"Yeah."
The two continued their conversation on and on, talking about Rory, Chilton, Greenvale, friends, parents, etc.
Meanwhile Rory was at home in front of her laptop once again. The only lines that she still had down on the computer screen were 'Dear Tristan.' Loralei poked her head in and read over Rory's shoulder the two words and again lent her help.
"Sweetie I swear to god you just have to write what you feel."
"But what if he doesn't feel the same way."
"Then he doesn't, it won't kill you, it will hurt but it won't kill you. Plus I highly doubt he doesn't feel the same way considering how he kind of expressed the way he felt about you in his letter too you."
"True," Rory said realizing she hadn't considered this.
Loralei patted Rory's shoulder and said, "So come on get typing girl!" Then she left Rory's bedroom to leave Rory to the letter.
Rory immediately feverishly began typing, sentence after sentence forming itself onto the screen.
Half an hour later she stopped typing and contemplated how to end the letter, should it end with 'Sincerely, Rory," or just, "Rory," or "Love Rory," or possibly the best one of all, "Love Mary." She decided on none of those and instead finished it off by writing in her curly handwriting, "Love Rory (Your Mary)." She smiled and read the letter over once again.
'Dear Tristan-
I'm just going to let everything go and let you know exactly how I feel. I will admit that when I first got your letter I was shocked, after two years I had just about given up hope of you ever contacting me, and unfortunately I didn't know how to contact you. But I still had hope and I guess that it's a good thing I did because looked you pulled through and wrote me. I of course know how I reacted to your letter, and I think it will surprise you but it is incredibly hard for me to put down on paper, but I'll give it a go anyways.
When you walked away from me that night I was heartbroken, I wanted to run to you, forget about Dean and honestly just kiss you senseless. I know that sounds like a very un-Mary like thing to do but it's exactly how I felt. In those few moments I admitted to myself that it wasn't Dean I cared about, it was you, it was you I wanted. And it is you I still want. Every night I dream about you and pray that you will come back, but still I don't see you here, I just wish for you.
I know that it seems silly to be telling you all of this now, and I bet you're wondering why I never told you this when you were actually around to hear it come from my mouth. Well I was uncertain about everything then, you were so different, not half as safe as Dean is, I was scared. I wouldn't let myself acknowledge that it is you I want and need. But now I have and I just hope that it isn't too late.
I know that this is not an incredibly long letter but it is the best that I've got at the moment, please write back and I'll write more later, I'll write more even if you don't respond to this. Please Tristan, come back, I really want you to come back. And Tristan, I know I said I hate you, and I want to let you know, I don't hate you, it isn't possible for me to hate you, and I will never be able to bring myself to do so. I think Tristan, I think that the whole time we were at Chilton together I was falling in love with you, I'm not saying that I'm necessarily in love with you, in fact I still think I'm falling, but Tristan, you mean so much to me. I miss you.
Love Rory (Your Mary)'
She put it in the envelope that she had ready, address on it, stamped, everything. Then she sealed it up, turned off the light and went to sleep.
Shortly after Rory went to sleep Tristan and Felicity got off the phone. Tristan trudged back to his room thinking about Rory and what he would give to see her right now. All night he was restless contemplating a thought that had occurred to him. He had been given more phone privileges recently and he could call more than just family, should he? He couldn't decide, he kept rolling around, then at about three in the morning the answer came to him and the problem was solved. He drifted off into a quiet slumber.
The next morning Rory mailed the letter almost immediately, hoping that it would reach Tristan soon. She then continued on to Chilton, spent the day talking briefly with Felicity, being bored to death by teachers and taking notes. In the end she had to stay late after school, studying with Felicity in the library, until about 6.
Then she went home where she found a note from her mother saying that she would be back at 9:30 or so, Sookie had invited her over for dinner and there was Chinese food in the refrigerator. Rory stripped out of her uniform and put on comfy clothes, she grabbed a cup of coffee that she had been brewing and took the Chinese food out of the refrigerator, she was settling down on the couch when the phone rang, luckily it was right next to her on the table so she picked it up after the second right.
---Intercut--- (AN I know you know whose but still!)
"Hello?" said Rory before taking a sip of her coffee.
There was a second's silence as Tristan's face broke out into a grin before he said, "Hi Rory," then he contemplated about whether or not he should say the thing he would normally say but he went for it, ".Mary."
Rory's face broke out in to the biggest grin she had ever worn. She scrunched her legs up under her and said, "Hi Tristan, I miss you."
"I miss you too."
(The Conversation is to be continued in Chap. 6)
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Evil me, evil me! I know! But don't worry, the conversation will continue and it will be pretty good I think! So thanks for all the feedback, I hope you love this chapter as much as I loved writing it! Now I am off to the races, or rather bed, and I will continue writing the next fabulous chapter that is tremendously fun to write tomorrow, look for it soon! Please review, it brightens up my day and encourages me to continue! And again thanks!
Love, Peace, and Chicken Grease
-Anna