Love can be a pain in the butt-Chapter 7
Gilmore house (8:30 ish)
As Rory entered the kitchen, she found her mom and Lane at the table eating what seemed like last Thursday's pizza.
"Rory! There are lots of questions that need to be answered my child. Where should I start?" She paused for a few seconds. "When did Tristan come back? How did you become friends with him? And also why were you so upset about Madeline's party that you had to make me leave mom's Friday night dinner?" Lorelai asked all in one go.
"Hey! I saved you from grandma and I remember telling you about Tristan while I was wallowing!"
"Yeah you did. Now back to the other questions. How did…"
"…Is Luke a great dancer? And why were you so happy this afternoon that you had to run out outside and scare me and Tristan a quarter to death?" Rory interrupted.
"Luke isn't bad if he has the right partner!" Lorelai smiles to herself. "And Sookie and I bought the Independence Inn from Mia! By the way, since your grandpa and grandma have gone to Europe to ride roller coasters, no Friday night dinner's for a month! "
"Mom that's great! About the whole inn thing." Rory hugged her mom. "And roller coasters?"
"Don't ask me, I'm just saying what mom told me." Lorelai shrugged. "I told you what you wanted to know now lets go back to our other subject. Did you think that you successfully outsmarted me?"
"I wanna know what happened too!" Lane chimed in.
"OK! OK!" Rory sat down. And began to spill.
Ten minutes later…
Lorelai and Lane looked at each other and nodded in agreement.
"I know that you know that Lane and I know you really like Tristan!" Lorelai accused.
"Mom! What makes you think that?" Rory asked after finally figuring out what she said.
"You complain about him non stop and you were all smiley smiley when you were telling us about what happened these past weeks. Plus you did not tell us he was a hottie!" Lane finished.
"Yeah! If I were sixteen I'd…"
Rory cut her mom short "Mom? Don't finish that."
There was a long pause.
"I'm tired, I think I'm going to go to bed." Rory stood up.
"Lane, denial." Lorelai commented. Lane nodded in agreement.
"How can that be denial? I was simply stating that I was tired and that I am going to sleep."
"You are avoiding what I told you."
"And exactly what did you tell me?"
"Do you like Tristan?"
"Yes. He's my friend. To be eligible to be my friend I need to at least like the person."
"OK. Do you really like Tristan? As in do you want to be more then friends? To love and to hold and cherish one another."
"Mom, I'm tired." Rory heads to her room.
"You didn't answer my question. That is usually another way of saying yes!" Lorelai followed Rory but was stopped when Rory's bedroom door closed in her face.
"Oh well, she is stubborn. And she's dense." Lorelai concluded shaking her head.
"I give her a week." Lane challenged.
"I say a month!" Lorelai holds out a fifty dollar bill.
"Why so long?" Lane asks.
"You have to remember that Rory likes to assess things really hard. Don't forget the very stubborn and dense factor." Lorelai replied.
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Rory collapsed onto her bed and closed her eyes.
'I can't believe it. I've only been friends with him for…' she looked at her watch, 'less than six hours. I don't like Tristan *that* way. Can't a guy and girl simply just be friends? Jess and I are and have been for a long time, why aren't they accusing me of liking him too? Oh, forget about Paris, bad example.' Rory sighed. 'Those typical 'guy/girl friendships that turn into couples' movies are a bad influence on people. Those things only happen in movies… not in real life… someone should tell people that.'
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Next day (Thursday) – Afternoon
Stars Hollow
Rory and Tristan entered the house. School was the usual that consisted of new assignments and surprise tests, to sum it all up in one word…hell!
"Hey, someone catch!" Lorelai called from upstairs. When the two looked up, Lorelai dropped her cardigan. It fell to the floor. Lorelai gasped and quickly ran downstairs.
"Hey, that was cashmere!"
"And?" Tristan asked.
"You owe me a new cashmere cardigan!"
"Why?"
"That cardigan has now suffered major psychological damage!"
Tristan tried to suppress a laugh.
"And I need to replace it with a new one… plus you need to pay work compensation for that cardigan and it excludes therapy costs." Lorelai pointed out.
"Work compensation?"
"What type of employer would wear a psychological damaged cardigan?"
"Um, a psychological disturbed person like you?"
"Exactly!"
"Lorelai, I think you just contradicted yourself."
"I haven't had coffee!"
Tristan shakes his head. Lorelai turned to Rory.
"I like him" Lorelai stated. "Anyway, have business class and I need to pass by Lukes and then Starbucks in less then an hour. Gotta go now!"
She kisses Rory on the cheek and waves to Tristan.
"I should be back by ten." Lorelai ran out the door.
"Your mom is seriously one of a kind." Tristan commented.
"I agree with you too. Let's hit the books!" Rory suggests and they head into the living room.
A/N: Do you want me to do a chapter of their tutoring/studying session? Or do you want me to skip that bit? Tell me what you would like.
Maria