Chapter 6- Attraction And Hope
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(Continuation of the Conversation)
There was a brief hesitation between the two, during which both were thinking about the other. It was not an awkward moment, more of a symbolic moment, one that showed both still thought of the other.
Tristan then remembered that he was actually on the phone with Rory, after two years he was actually hearing her voice again and well now he was just doing what he did every day which was fantasize about her. 'Wow' he thought to himself, 'how stupider could you get.'
He chuckled softly and then continued what had been barely ten words of conversation from them, "Did you get my letter."
Rory was all of a sudden overcome with a surge of shyness, she had no idea what to say or what to do, and finally she managed to say a meek, "Yes."
There was another silence. Tristan sighed inwardly, this was not going very smoothly so far, maybe they just weren't meant to be. Come to think of it he hadn't gotten a reply from her, maybe she didn't feel the same way, maybe she would much rather not be talking to him right now.
"Look if you don't want to talk to me I completely understand. I mean I was a jerk to you back at Chilton, then I didn't talk to you for two years, then I write you expressing feelings that I'm guessing you don't return and well here I am calling you, so I'm really sorry Rory, I didn't want to this to be awkward, I just wanted to talk to you. But it's fine I'll go, maybe one day we'll see each other again."
Tristan felt the words come out of his mouth before he realized what he was doing, he wasn't saying it sharply or coolly, actually he was saying it quite understandingly and kindly, but still he could have just given up his only chance to talk to her the rest of his life.
Rory's eyes widened as soon as she heard this and immediately said as fast as she possibly could, "No don't hang up, I want to talk to you too."
Relief washed over Tristan's body with those simple words, "Good."
"And it was an annoyance to hear from you after two years, I was actually hoping all this time that you've been away that maybe you would write to me, that maybe it was possible that I might pass your mind once in awhile."
"Don't worry you do pass my mind." he said then realizing he had to add something so that it didn't sound too sappy, ".once in a while."
"Yeah you pass my mind once in a while too. I wrote you back you know, actually I just finished writing you a letter yesterday."
"Really?"
"Yup just mailed and everything."
"Should I feel extremely honored?"
"Yes you should, only important people, like the President, Barbara Streisand, Elvis, and other such famous weird people, receive letters from me. You however are an exception."
"What a privilege I have received from the great Rory Gilmore!" said Tristan sarcastically.
"What no Mary?"
"Don't think I have forgotten now."
"I wouldn't count on you to have not forgotten."
"Why Mary are you saying that my memory is horrible?"
Rory relished inside when hearing him call her Mary, how she had longed to hear that for well so long. "Why Tristan Dugrey I was not aware that you had a memory."
Tristan faked a gasp and said, "Mary how dare you say such a thing!"
"Easily Dugrey, easily."
There was yet another silence, a very comfortable one as both replayed the conversation so far quickly over in their head, smiling and occasionally making giggling type noises to themselves.
"So Mar' what is going on in the world of the Great Rory Gilmore?"
"Nothing that wouldn't normally be going on, except ahh I do remember a certain guy that used to call me Mary, yeah he isn't here anymore to torment me."
"But you miss him dearly of course."
"For sure. You know he always loved to compliment himself whenever he could, he was very cocky."
"Was he really? Well I bet you he has changed, he probably still has that side but he probably has sides that you've never seen before."
"I've seen sides of him that he doesn't even know I've seen."
"Really and just when have you seen them?"
Rory paused not sure how to answer this question, should she mention the kiss, the brief yet meaningful kiss that the two had shared before her feet had betrayed her and made her run, the kiss that haunted her dreams and thoughts everyday. No she decided, she shouldn't, she carefully picked out words that would sort of describe the situation, "In unexpected situations."
Even though Rory had tried to hide what she was talking about Tristan picked up on it right away and knew she was talking about that night at the piano and the kiss. "Well he has many other sides you haven't seen I bet."
"I bet he does."
"Now Mary though honestly, I leave you for two years and every form of happiness is washed from your life. I didn't know you would miss me quite that much, I mean nothing happens in your life now that I am gone, I should come back, my poor Mary's life is not going on while I am away."
"Don't flatter yourself too much there Dugrey. Stuff has occurred in my life while you were gone and yes I can be happy."
"You know Rory maybe one side of this guy that you haven't seen is the side that loves to know details."
"Oh right. Well I don't know if you knew but my mom broke it off with Mr. Medina, not a very good thing, he has that evil eye type of thing that he gives me everyday now when I see him. I became vice president along side Paris."
Tristan laughed there and said, "You actually joined together with Paris and you two haven't killed each other yet?"
"Well now that you're gone it's much easier for her to concentrate, plus I assured her that my only goal in life was not to beat her at becoming Chilton valedictorian, though I wouldn't mind becoming it."
"I'm sure you will, and the look on Paris's face would priceless if that happened."
"Yeah it really would."
"Now Mary you've only told me a little bit come on I need more."
"Wow you really like gossip don't you."
"Not gossip, information about you, think of it as catching up with you."
"Right then. Well yeah Chilton is Chilton, there is one nice new girl that came this year, maybe she's a family member of yours, I think her last name is Dugrey."
Tristan smirked at that one, she did not know how to be subtle, "Yeah maybe I don't know."
"You do so Tristan! Now come on do you have a sister at Chilton or not."
"Wow straight to the point after trying to attempt such subtleness, you are not good at holding back."
"Yeah it's not in the genes so come on!"
"Yes that is my sister Felicity but don't tell her I told you or she'll torture me for life."
At that Rory was very confused, after all why would Felicity torture Tristan? "Why would she do that?"
"Because of reasons that I cannot explain to you," said Tristan but really inside he was thinking because then Felicity would know who the mystery girl was.
"So back to my life."
"About ten minutes ago you were very reluctant to tell me anything whatsoever about your life."
"Well now I am very unreluctant to tell you stuff about my life."
"I don't think unreluctant is a word."
"Well it is now, it means I'm willing to tell you stuff about my life."
"Ahh see you should have said that."
"No see with normal intelligent people I wouldn't have to say that, I could just say unreluctant and they would understand. But you my friend are slow."
"I'm your friend?" Tristan asked hopefully.
What was Rory going to say? She wasn't sure, she and Tristan had tried the friend thing before and well just about anyone could agree that it was unsuccessful, but yeah in her heart she considered them friends, they had a weird friendship but it was a friendship. "Yes we have a friendship."
"So you don't hate me then?"
"Listen about that day."
"No its okay you don't have to do any explaining, it's the past, it hurt, but it doesn't really matter anymore, what matters is that you are my friend now."
"Good," Rory said grinning.
"So your life."
"That's right my life. Well yes Chilton is the same, we've got your friends and all of your ex-girlfriends, yes I don't think one out of the hundreds has left yet."
"Funny, funny girl."
"In fact I think they sometimes miss their king, I mean really now that they've all gone out with you they've kind of bonded and they have pictures of you that they worship, as a sign of their diligence. Yes but then there are those that are anti-Tristan, Tristan broke my heart, Tristan broke my car, actually no, there are no Tristan broke my car ones but I put it in for full affect, however there is the I love and want to Tristan to come back club, and then there is the I hate Tristan and hope he gets killed club."
"Now which club do you belong to Mary?"
"See these clubs are for ex-girlfriends exclusively, so basically the majority of the females on campus belong to it, except for me and select other few who had the extremely good will power to hold up against your seductive ways."
"I must say I was impressed."
"You were, weren't you."
"Yes, but that didn't stop me."
"Stop you from what?"
"Stop me from." Tristan caught himself before he said something stupid like stop me from loving you, that would not go over well this early in their friendship, plus she hadn't mentioned anything about the letter so he wasn't going to push it, so he continued by saying, "oh never mind."
"Okay then but we both know I'll find out eventually, now back to my life."
"I think we've said that a lot tonight."
"I would have to agree with you Triscuit."
"Triscuit?"
"Just testing nicknames, its cute but doesn't suit you. I mean you're not a low fat cracker that women on diets like to have."
"I don't know about being a low fat cracker but I know that women like to have me."
"Cocky."
"I'm wounded Mary."
"You say that a lot you know."
"I speak the truth."
"You overuse the words therefore I don't care. Now back to my life."
"Again."
"No more comments from the peanut gallery!"
"Fine shutting up now and listening."
"Good, but be a good boy and make the proper comments at the proper places, like you know the ohhs and oos and the awws and the ahhs and the."
"Yes Mary I will."
"Okay good. So school is the same, Paris is still being fairly uptight towards me but she has loosened up a bit. We had to go to Washington D.C. over the summer you know, she had a date."
"Paris had a date?"
"Proper comment, yes she did."
"What was it like?"
"Well I wasn't there babysitting so I'm not quite sure but I believe that she enjoyed it because she came back with that glowy look."
"Ahh the glowy look."
"You're pretty good at this commenting thing."
"What can I say."
"Okay I'll continue. Well see yeah so Paris and I get along rather well. You know Franci?"
"The puff?"
"Yeah."
"Well she's been threatening me and saying I have to make Paris pass every rule that she wants her to."
"Franci is stupid and she can't do that much to you, well she can do some but not a lot. You're not bowing into her are you?"
"Of course not!"
"Good."
"On with the story."
"You're very pushy when it comes to your life."
"Don't forget we still have your life."
"I won't forget, continue as you will."
"Well in Stars Hollow nothing else has really happened, my mom and Luke, the source of all food, are attracted to each other, well I think Luke is in love with her and neither of them admit it."
"Denial?"
"Exactly. And well they keep going on and on at their regular routine. Luke and Taylor keep arguing about stuff that goes on in the town, oo we are getting an old fashioned soda shop in our town."
"That I would love to see."
"Maybe you will."
"Maybe I will."
"Yes Tristan no need to repeat."
"Geez you're harsh now Mary, now need to get ancy."
"Hurmpph. On with my life though. Well I guess there are two key things that have happened since you have been gone."
"Really and what are those?"
"Let me get them out Dugrey, patience, patience! Well Jess came to Stars Hollow."
"Oh lovely, Jess came to Stars Hollow, cause I know exactly who Jess is."
"You said lovely, guys don't say lovely."
"Well I just did so I guess you have to change your rule."
"I guess I do."
"So are you going to tell me anything about Jess?"
"Jess is Luke's nephew from New York. I guess you could say he is kind of considered the bad boy around here, he kicks gnomes."
"He kicks gnomes?"
"Oh wait no that was someone else, but he does steal them?"
"NO! He's a gnome stealer!?" said Tristan mocking shock and dismay.
"No need to be sarcastic. And yes he stole a gnome but then he returned it. And he drew an outline of a body outside of Doose's so that caused a huge commotion and well he crashed the car Dean made for me. And."
"Whoa back up, he crashed the car Dean made for you?"
"Yeah."
"Where?"
"In Stars Hollow."
"Were you with him."
"Yeah I was driving in the passengers seat and I was supposed to be helping him study. Then we just kind of crashed."
"Did you get hurt?" Tristan asked with real concern in his voice.
Rory laughed at how sweet and considerate he sounded and replied, "No not really, I broke my wrist but nothing more than that, I'm fine now."
"Oh good. Well continue on about Jess."
"Well there's nothing much more to say. I kind of found myself attracted to him, I'm not really all that sure why, I guess cause he was different and hott and well nice and he was really intelligent he just wouldn't let it on, and then he got sent back to New York because of the car accident. Then he came back on the day of my Mom's best friend Sookie's wedding to her produce guy, and well I saw him by the creek and I kiss him, it was kind of one of those just like non-thinking moments."
"You kissed him, were you still with bagboy?"
"Yes I was still with Dean."
"That's a very un-Mary like thing to do, well maybe not un-Mary like, but technically you cheated on Dean."
"Please don't remind me. And well after that I told Dean about the kiss."
"Ooo bagboy got hurt."
"His name is Dean and well actually no I didn't dump him, he dumped me when he found out about it and said he had been trying to ignore what I felt for Jess all along. Dean and I are now mutual friends, awkward friends, but mutual. Then once I was no longer with Dean I realized that it was just a minor puppy love type crush on Jess and well my attraction to him just kind of faded away over about a month, and now here I am with Jess as like one of my best friends."
"Interesting story, maybe should call Dawson's Creek and recommend it as a plot line."
"Funny Dugrey."
"I know aren't I?"
"Do you have something against Dawson's Creek?"
"No of course not."
"Good cause otherwise I would have hung up the phone on you right now."
"Hence pulling a Dawson's Creek move on me."
"Shut up."
"But then you'd be so upset."
"Actually it would give me an opportunity to do a happy dance."
"Why? Because you're talking to me?"
"No because you shut up."
"Rude Mary."
"Now on with the rest of my life."
"There's more?"
"Of course silly!"
"God I thought you said absolutely nothing had happened."
"Well stuff has but I'll make this quick. My dad came back the weekend before Sookie's wedding and he had broken up with his girlfriend and everything and well my mom and he kind of hit it back off. Then at Sookie's wedding they were kind of talking about the future when he got a call from his ex-girlfriend saying that she was pregnant. So now he has to marry Sherry, the annoying witch and well that's the end of that," Rory said surprising herself at how easily and freely she was telling Tristan this, and she didn't feel uncomfortable saying this at all.
"I'm so sorry."
"It's okay, I was really upset at first but now I'm a lot better. So what about your life?"
"My life hmmm.well I hate to say it but it's not half as eventful as yours."
"Of course it isn't."
"I'm going to choose to ignore that comment. Military school is well Chilton plus working out 24/7, its called Greenvale. The guys here are okay, better then Chilton and well I'm tight with some of them. However there are no girls."
"Much to your dismay."
"Well no not exactly, cause now I don't have bimbos all over and well I feel better about myself."
"That is quite a revelation coming from you."
"Yeah it is but it's the truth."
"So there are no girls in your life?"
"None that you don't already know about."
Rory couldn't figure that out for a second and then remembered the letter and said, "Oh.what about your parents?"
"I'm not really on great terms with them, and well I wasn't good with them before they sent me to military school so you can just imagine now that they have sent me."
"Yeah I'm sorry."
"It's fine and I still have Felicity anyway."
"Yeah, you know she reminds me a lot about you at certain times."
"Really?"
"Yeah, she's a sweet girl, she is actually becoming a very good friend of mine, and she's hitting it off with Jess."
"The famous Jess."
"Yup."
"Wow."
"Yeah."
There was a moment of silence, Rory had just about poured out her soul to Tristan and well Tristan had let Rory in on well the stuff that had happened in his life, which was absolutely nothing.
Rory couldn't stand it any longer and decided she had to mention it sometime so she said, "Did you really mean what you said in the letter?"
Tristan hesitated, contemplating what to say, "Every word of it."
"Oh."
"Yeah." Tristan said his heart sinking; 'oh' was not a good response.
"You know I feel the same way."
Tristan's heart leapt up with joy, Rory cared about him, "You do?"
"Well I mean I haven't seen you in two years but yeah I have to admit that I really was well attracted to you and I still am."
"So it wasn't a Jess attraction that left after a month."
"Far from it."
"I'm glad."
"So am I."
"So what are we going to do about this?"
"Is there anything we can do?"
"I don't know."
"I mean you're still at military school, and well I'm still here."
"I know."
"Maybe we should wait and when we see each other again maybe something will happen," Rory said just as Loralei came into the house and sat down on the sofa next to Rory. Rory cast her a scowl and motioned her away, Loralei stuck her bottom lip out and Rory shooed her away again.
Rory had not noticed Tristan's response so Tristan said again, "Rory?"
"Oh sorry, my Mom's just here that's all."
"Oh, well yeah I can't say I'm completely satisfied with that conclusion but I guess we'll have to do that."
"Yeah I guess we will, but listen Tristan, I really don't want to go but my mom just got home and well I do have to go."
"It's fine, but we will talk later right?"
"We definitely will, you have my number and you better use it now. You'll get my letter in a day or two I think, it says and kind of explains a lot."
"Okay, I miss you."
"I miss you too."
" 'Night sleeping beauty," said Tristan.
Rory grinned and said, " 'Night Tris."
Then Rory and Tristan both hung up the phone, both feeling so alive and happy.
---End Intercut---
Rory squealed with delight as she came rushing into the kitchen where her mom was busy making pop tarts.
"Wow you're happy? What happened?"
"Tristan called."
Loralei squealed for her daughter and said, "He called?! That was him!?"
"Yes he called," then Rory noticed her mom making pop tarts and commented, "Didn't you just have dinner at Sookie's?"
"Your point being?"
"You're going to get fat."
"Not a chance."
"Okay," Rory said grabbing a pop tart.
"So what did you two talk about?"
Rory told the whole story to her mom, about almost everything they had talked about, they talked the night away about Tristan, giggling and eating, being girls, being best friends.
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There am I still evil?!?!? Don't worry it will be TRORY! They finally had some form of communication! I hope you guys liked this chapter, and I realized I had to get you out of the conversation somehow and back to the present life of Rory, so I did just that, sorry that Felicity wasn't present in this chapter, she will be a major influence next chapter, in fact hmm never mind I'll let your imagination wander about just how important she will be!
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(Continuation of the Conversation)
There was a brief hesitation between the two, during which both were thinking about the other. It was not an awkward moment, more of a symbolic moment, one that showed both still thought of the other.
Tristan then remembered that he was actually on the phone with Rory, after two years he was actually hearing her voice again and well now he was just doing what he did every day which was fantasize about her. 'Wow' he thought to himself, 'how stupider could you get.'
He chuckled softly and then continued what had been barely ten words of conversation from them, "Did you get my letter."
Rory was all of a sudden overcome with a surge of shyness, she had no idea what to say or what to do, and finally she managed to say a meek, "Yes."
There was another silence. Tristan sighed inwardly, this was not going very smoothly so far, maybe they just weren't meant to be. Come to think of it he hadn't gotten a reply from her, maybe she didn't feel the same way, maybe she would much rather not be talking to him right now.
"Look if you don't want to talk to me I completely understand. I mean I was a jerk to you back at Chilton, then I didn't talk to you for two years, then I write you expressing feelings that I'm guessing you don't return and well here I am calling you, so I'm really sorry Rory, I didn't want to this to be awkward, I just wanted to talk to you. But it's fine I'll go, maybe one day we'll see each other again."
Tristan felt the words come out of his mouth before he realized what he was doing, he wasn't saying it sharply or coolly, actually he was saying it quite understandingly and kindly, but still he could have just given up his only chance to talk to her the rest of his life.
Rory's eyes widened as soon as she heard this and immediately said as fast as she possibly could, "No don't hang up, I want to talk to you too."
Relief washed over Tristan's body with those simple words, "Good."
"And it was an annoyance to hear from you after two years, I was actually hoping all this time that you've been away that maybe you would write to me, that maybe it was possible that I might pass your mind once in awhile."
"Don't worry you do pass my mind." he said then realizing he had to add something so that it didn't sound too sappy, ".once in a while."
"Yeah you pass my mind once in a while too. I wrote you back you know, actually I just finished writing you a letter yesterday."
"Really?"
"Yup just mailed and everything."
"Should I feel extremely honored?"
"Yes you should, only important people, like the President, Barbara Streisand, Elvis, and other such famous weird people, receive letters from me. You however are an exception."
"What a privilege I have received from the great Rory Gilmore!" said Tristan sarcastically.
"What no Mary?"
"Don't think I have forgotten now."
"I wouldn't count on you to have not forgotten."
"Why Mary are you saying that my memory is horrible?"
Rory relished inside when hearing him call her Mary, how she had longed to hear that for well so long. "Why Tristan Dugrey I was not aware that you had a memory."
Tristan faked a gasp and said, "Mary how dare you say such a thing!"
"Easily Dugrey, easily."
There was yet another silence, a very comfortable one as both replayed the conversation so far quickly over in their head, smiling and occasionally making giggling type noises to themselves.
"So Mar' what is going on in the world of the Great Rory Gilmore?"
"Nothing that wouldn't normally be going on, except ahh I do remember a certain guy that used to call me Mary, yeah he isn't here anymore to torment me."
"But you miss him dearly of course."
"For sure. You know he always loved to compliment himself whenever he could, he was very cocky."
"Was he really? Well I bet you he has changed, he probably still has that side but he probably has sides that you've never seen before."
"I've seen sides of him that he doesn't even know I've seen."
"Really and just when have you seen them?"
Rory paused not sure how to answer this question, should she mention the kiss, the brief yet meaningful kiss that the two had shared before her feet had betrayed her and made her run, the kiss that haunted her dreams and thoughts everyday. No she decided, she shouldn't, she carefully picked out words that would sort of describe the situation, "In unexpected situations."
Even though Rory had tried to hide what she was talking about Tristan picked up on it right away and knew she was talking about that night at the piano and the kiss. "Well he has many other sides you haven't seen I bet."
"I bet he does."
"Now Mary though honestly, I leave you for two years and every form of happiness is washed from your life. I didn't know you would miss me quite that much, I mean nothing happens in your life now that I am gone, I should come back, my poor Mary's life is not going on while I am away."
"Don't flatter yourself too much there Dugrey. Stuff has occurred in my life while you were gone and yes I can be happy."
"You know Rory maybe one side of this guy that you haven't seen is the side that loves to know details."
"Oh right. Well I don't know if you knew but my mom broke it off with Mr. Medina, not a very good thing, he has that evil eye type of thing that he gives me everyday now when I see him. I became vice president along side Paris."
Tristan laughed there and said, "You actually joined together with Paris and you two haven't killed each other yet?"
"Well now that you're gone it's much easier for her to concentrate, plus I assured her that my only goal in life was not to beat her at becoming Chilton valedictorian, though I wouldn't mind becoming it."
"I'm sure you will, and the look on Paris's face would priceless if that happened."
"Yeah it really would."
"Now Mary you've only told me a little bit come on I need more."
"Wow you really like gossip don't you."
"Not gossip, information about you, think of it as catching up with you."
"Right then. Well yeah Chilton is Chilton, there is one nice new girl that came this year, maybe she's a family member of yours, I think her last name is Dugrey."
Tristan smirked at that one, she did not know how to be subtle, "Yeah maybe I don't know."
"You do so Tristan! Now come on do you have a sister at Chilton or not."
"Wow straight to the point after trying to attempt such subtleness, you are not good at holding back."
"Yeah it's not in the genes so come on!"
"Yes that is my sister Felicity but don't tell her I told you or she'll torture me for life."
At that Rory was very confused, after all why would Felicity torture Tristan? "Why would she do that?"
"Because of reasons that I cannot explain to you," said Tristan but really inside he was thinking because then Felicity would know who the mystery girl was.
"So back to my life."
"About ten minutes ago you were very reluctant to tell me anything whatsoever about your life."
"Well now I am very unreluctant to tell you stuff about my life."
"I don't think unreluctant is a word."
"Well it is now, it means I'm willing to tell you stuff about my life."
"Ahh see you should have said that."
"No see with normal intelligent people I wouldn't have to say that, I could just say unreluctant and they would understand. But you my friend are slow."
"I'm your friend?" Tristan asked hopefully.
What was Rory going to say? She wasn't sure, she and Tristan had tried the friend thing before and well just about anyone could agree that it was unsuccessful, but yeah in her heart she considered them friends, they had a weird friendship but it was a friendship. "Yes we have a friendship."
"So you don't hate me then?"
"Listen about that day."
"No its okay you don't have to do any explaining, it's the past, it hurt, but it doesn't really matter anymore, what matters is that you are my friend now."
"Good," Rory said grinning.
"So your life."
"That's right my life. Well yes Chilton is the same, we've got your friends and all of your ex-girlfriends, yes I don't think one out of the hundreds has left yet."
"Funny, funny girl."
"In fact I think they sometimes miss their king, I mean really now that they've all gone out with you they've kind of bonded and they have pictures of you that they worship, as a sign of their diligence. Yes but then there are those that are anti-Tristan, Tristan broke my heart, Tristan broke my car, actually no, there are no Tristan broke my car ones but I put it in for full affect, however there is the I love and want to Tristan to come back club, and then there is the I hate Tristan and hope he gets killed club."
"Now which club do you belong to Mary?"
"See these clubs are for ex-girlfriends exclusively, so basically the majority of the females on campus belong to it, except for me and select other few who had the extremely good will power to hold up against your seductive ways."
"I must say I was impressed."
"You were, weren't you."
"Yes, but that didn't stop me."
"Stop you from what?"
"Stop me from." Tristan caught himself before he said something stupid like stop me from loving you, that would not go over well this early in their friendship, plus she hadn't mentioned anything about the letter so he wasn't going to push it, so he continued by saying, "oh never mind."
"Okay then but we both know I'll find out eventually, now back to my life."
"I think we've said that a lot tonight."
"I would have to agree with you Triscuit."
"Triscuit?"
"Just testing nicknames, its cute but doesn't suit you. I mean you're not a low fat cracker that women on diets like to have."
"I don't know about being a low fat cracker but I know that women like to have me."
"Cocky."
"I'm wounded Mary."
"You say that a lot you know."
"I speak the truth."
"You overuse the words therefore I don't care. Now back to my life."
"Again."
"No more comments from the peanut gallery!"
"Fine shutting up now and listening."
"Good, but be a good boy and make the proper comments at the proper places, like you know the ohhs and oos and the awws and the ahhs and the."
"Yes Mary I will."
"Okay good. So school is the same, Paris is still being fairly uptight towards me but she has loosened up a bit. We had to go to Washington D.C. over the summer you know, she had a date."
"Paris had a date?"
"Proper comment, yes she did."
"What was it like?"
"Well I wasn't there babysitting so I'm not quite sure but I believe that she enjoyed it because she came back with that glowy look."
"Ahh the glowy look."
"You're pretty good at this commenting thing."
"What can I say."
"Okay I'll continue. Well see yeah so Paris and I get along rather well. You know Franci?"
"The puff?"
"Yeah."
"Well she's been threatening me and saying I have to make Paris pass every rule that she wants her to."
"Franci is stupid and she can't do that much to you, well she can do some but not a lot. You're not bowing into her are you?"
"Of course not!"
"Good."
"On with the story."
"You're very pushy when it comes to your life."
"Don't forget we still have your life."
"I won't forget, continue as you will."
"Well in Stars Hollow nothing else has really happened, my mom and Luke, the source of all food, are attracted to each other, well I think Luke is in love with her and neither of them admit it."
"Denial?"
"Exactly. And well they keep going on and on at their regular routine. Luke and Taylor keep arguing about stuff that goes on in the town, oo we are getting an old fashioned soda shop in our town."
"That I would love to see."
"Maybe you will."
"Maybe I will."
"Yes Tristan no need to repeat."
"Geez you're harsh now Mary, now need to get ancy."
"Hurmpph. On with my life though. Well I guess there are two key things that have happened since you have been gone."
"Really and what are those?"
"Let me get them out Dugrey, patience, patience! Well Jess came to Stars Hollow."
"Oh lovely, Jess came to Stars Hollow, cause I know exactly who Jess is."
"You said lovely, guys don't say lovely."
"Well I just did so I guess you have to change your rule."
"I guess I do."
"So are you going to tell me anything about Jess?"
"Jess is Luke's nephew from New York. I guess you could say he is kind of considered the bad boy around here, he kicks gnomes."
"He kicks gnomes?"
"Oh wait no that was someone else, but he does steal them?"
"NO! He's a gnome stealer!?" said Tristan mocking shock and dismay.
"No need to be sarcastic. And yes he stole a gnome but then he returned it. And he drew an outline of a body outside of Doose's so that caused a huge commotion and well he crashed the car Dean made for me. And."
"Whoa back up, he crashed the car Dean made for you?"
"Yeah."
"Where?"
"In Stars Hollow."
"Were you with him."
"Yeah I was driving in the passengers seat and I was supposed to be helping him study. Then we just kind of crashed."
"Did you get hurt?" Tristan asked with real concern in his voice.
Rory laughed at how sweet and considerate he sounded and replied, "No not really, I broke my wrist but nothing more than that, I'm fine now."
"Oh good. Well continue on about Jess."
"Well there's nothing much more to say. I kind of found myself attracted to him, I'm not really all that sure why, I guess cause he was different and hott and well nice and he was really intelligent he just wouldn't let it on, and then he got sent back to New York because of the car accident. Then he came back on the day of my Mom's best friend Sookie's wedding to her produce guy, and well I saw him by the creek and I kiss him, it was kind of one of those just like non-thinking moments."
"You kissed him, were you still with bagboy?"
"Yes I was still with Dean."
"That's a very un-Mary like thing to do, well maybe not un-Mary like, but technically you cheated on Dean."
"Please don't remind me. And well after that I told Dean about the kiss."
"Ooo bagboy got hurt."
"His name is Dean and well actually no I didn't dump him, he dumped me when he found out about it and said he had been trying to ignore what I felt for Jess all along. Dean and I are now mutual friends, awkward friends, but mutual. Then once I was no longer with Dean I realized that it was just a minor puppy love type crush on Jess and well my attraction to him just kind of faded away over about a month, and now here I am with Jess as like one of my best friends."
"Interesting story, maybe should call Dawson's Creek and recommend it as a plot line."
"Funny Dugrey."
"I know aren't I?"
"Do you have something against Dawson's Creek?"
"No of course not."
"Good cause otherwise I would have hung up the phone on you right now."
"Hence pulling a Dawson's Creek move on me."
"Shut up."
"But then you'd be so upset."
"Actually it would give me an opportunity to do a happy dance."
"Why? Because you're talking to me?"
"No because you shut up."
"Rude Mary."
"Now on with the rest of my life."
"There's more?"
"Of course silly!"
"God I thought you said absolutely nothing had happened."
"Well stuff has but I'll make this quick. My dad came back the weekend before Sookie's wedding and he had broken up with his girlfriend and everything and well my mom and he kind of hit it back off. Then at Sookie's wedding they were kind of talking about the future when he got a call from his ex-girlfriend saying that she was pregnant. So now he has to marry Sherry, the annoying witch and well that's the end of that," Rory said surprising herself at how easily and freely she was telling Tristan this, and she didn't feel uncomfortable saying this at all.
"I'm so sorry."
"It's okay, I was really upset at first but now I'm a lot better. So what about your life?"
"My life hmmm.well I hate to say it but it's not half as eventful as yours."
"Of course it isn't."
"I'm going to choose to ignore that comment. Military school is well Chilton plus working out 24/7, its called Greenvale. The guys here are okay, better then Chilton and well I'm tight with some of them. However there are no girls."
"Much to your dismay."
"Well no not exactly, cause now I don't have bimbos all over and well I feel better about myself."
"That is quite a revelation coming from you."
"Yeah it is but it's the truth."
"So there are no girls in your life?"
"None that you don't already know about."
Rory couldn't figure that out for a second and then remembered the letter and said, "Oh.what about your parents?"
"I'm not really on great terms with them, and well I wasn't good with them before they sent me to military school so you can just imagine now that they have sent me."
"Yeah I'm sorry."
"It's fine and I still have Felicity anyway."
"Yeah, you know she reminds me a lot about you at certain times."
"Really?"
"Yeah, she's a sweet girl, she is actually becoming a very good friend of mine, and she's hitting it off with Jess."
"The famous Jess."
"Yup."
"Wow."
"Yeah."
There was a moment of silence, Rory had just about poured out her soul to Tristan and well Tristan had let Rory in on well the stuff that had happened in his life, which was absolutely nothing.
Rory couldn't stand it any longer and decided she had to mention it sometime so she said, "Did you really mean what you said in the letter?"
Tristan hesitated, contemplating what to say, "Every word of it."
"Oh."
"Yeah." Tristan said his heart sinking; 'oh' was not a good response.
"You know I feel the same way."
Tristan's heart leapt up with joy, Rory cared about him, "You do?"
"Well I mean I haven't seen you in two years but yeah I have to admit that I really was well attracted to you and I still am."
"So it wasn't a Jess attraction that left after a month."
"Far from it."
"I'm glad."
"So am I."
"So what are we going to do about this?"
"Is there anything we can do?"
"I don't know."
"I mean you're still at military school, and well I'm still here."
"I know."
"Maybe we should wait and when we see each other again maybe something will happen," Rory said just as Loralei came into the house and sat down on the sofa next to Rory. Rory cast her a scowl and motioned her away, Loralei stuck her bottom lip out and Rory shooed her away again.
Rory had not noticed Tristan's response so Tristan said again, "Rory?"
"Oh sorry, my Mom's just here that's all."
"Oh, well yeah I can't say I'm completely satisfied with that conclusion but I guess we'll have to do that."
"Yeah I guess we will, but listen Tristan, I really don't want to go but my mom just got home and well I do have to go."
"It's fine, but we will talk later right?"
"We definitely will, you have my number and you better use it now. You'll get my letter in a day or two I think, it says and kind of explains a lot."
"Okay, I miss you."
"I miss you too."
" 'Night sleeping beauty," said Tristan.
Rory grinned and said, " 'Night Tris."
Then Rory and Tristan both hung up the phone, both feeling so alive and happy.
---End Intercut---
Rory squealed with delight as she came rushing into the kitchen where her mom was busy making pop tarts.
"Wow you're happy? What happened?"
"Tristan called."
Loralei squealed for her daughter and said, "He called?! That was him!?"
"Yes he called," then Rory noticed her mom making pop tarts and commented, "Didn't you just have dinner at Sookie's?"
"Your point being?"
"You're going to get fat."
"Not a chance."
"Okay," Rory said grabbing a pop tart.
"So what did you two talk about?"
Rory told the whole story to her mom, about almost everything they had talked about, they talked the night away about Tristan, giggling and eating, being girls, being best friends.
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There am I still evil?!?!? Don't worry it will be TRORY! They finally had some form of communication! I hope you guys liked this chapter, and I realized I had to get you out of the conversation somehow and back to the present life of Rory, so I did just that, sorry that Felicity wasn't present in this chapter, she will be a major influence next chapter, in fact hmm never mind I'll let your imagination wander about just how important she will be!
Love, Peace, and Chicken Grease
-Anna