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AN: I noticed how short the second chapter was. So this one is longer. Hope this makes up for it. Enjoy.
Too Together
The Arrangement
Rory's POV
Rory's ride in coach had sucked. Damn her stubborn mother for insisting that she pay for Rory's ticket. If Lorelai had just given in she could have been riding in the luxury of a first class seat. Too bad her mother and grandmother had gotten in a big fight right before the purchase of the ticket, and was still going on. Rory hoped it would be resolved by the time she got back. She didn't particularly enjoy running interference. But she put all that behind her when she was finally let off the plane. She had gone and gotten her bags and caught a cab to her hotel. Now she was at the check in desk.br
"Hello," she said to the lady behind the desk, " My name is Rory Gilmore there should be a reservation for me."br
"All right, this should take just one moment," the clerk said and began hitting keys on the keyboard, while Rory waited patiently.br
"Um…I'm sorry miss but we have no reservation under the name of Rory Gilmore," she said after the moment was up.br
"Oh, well could you try Lorelai Gilmore?" she said getting a little worried. She was sure her mom had made the reservation. She had told her and written it done on the calendar beside the monkey lamp. br
"I'm sorry, but there's none under that name either."br
Cut Scene: Back at the Gilmore Householdbr
"All right time to check the little old calendar-ooney, and make sure I've done everything." Said Lorelai, grabbing the calendar of the table. She flips back to January, when she gets to February she stops.br
"Oh my God, I forgot to make Rory's reservation. I'm terrible. How could I do that?" she says as she reaches for the phone, which starts to ring. She grabs it and pushes the talk button.br
"Hello."br
"Mom, you forgot to make the reservation," Rory said in a flat but irritated voice.br
"I know, honey, I'm so sorry." Lorelai replied.br
"Mom, what am I gonna do. The lady at the desk has already called a bunch of other close hotels but they're booked." Rory said with a defeated tone.br
"Rory, I'm so sorry. I've ruined your vacation. All I can think of is that you'll have to come home," Lorelai said.br
"Yeah, I figured you'd say that. I'll call you again once I've gotten the ticket. Bye," Rory said.br
"Bye, sweety. Again I'm so sorry.," Lorelai said.br
"I know, mom. No coffee for you for the rest of the week."br
"Ooh, you're cruel. But I deserve it. Bye, now."br
"Bye," Rory said and hung up the phone. br
*I can't believe I did that. I'm horrible.*br
End of Cut Scene
A defeated Rory, took a seat on one of the available couches. She felt pretty bad, but she knew her mom felt worse. She had her head down, and wasn't paying attention to what was going one around her, so she didn't hear the approaching footsteps. Then she heard her name called and her head flew up. She looked into the intense grey eyes of one of her Chilton classmates, Tristan DuGrey. br
"Tristan. What are you doing here?" Rory asked.br
"I'm on vacation. What are you doing here?" Tristan replied feeling nervous, just because he was in this close a proximity to her.br
"Well, I was on vacation. But now I have no place to go. So I have to go back home." Rory answered her voice wavering with slight sadness and a little something else.br
"Oh…well, Mary that's too bad. Of course I could help you out," Tristan replied reverting to his arrogant act to cover the nervousness.br
Rory looked back up at Tristan with hope in her eyes. Then she saw the little smirk on his face and the hope fluttered away.br
"Oh, that's mean. How could you joke like that? What's wrong with you?" she got up and started walking past Tristan headed out of the lobby, but then she felt Tristan's hand go around her arm. The force and speed of this action brought her back around facing Tristan, in a rather close position. She could feel the heat emanating from his body rise a little when this happened. She took a step back.br
"Hey, I'm not joking. Don't overreact, Mary. There's an extra room in the room I have at this hotel," Tristan said.br
"Uh?"br
"Come on, Mary. I thought you were smarter than this. I'm offering you the room," Tristan said seizing onto this grand opportunity.br
"Wow," Rory said excitedly, "really." Then a thought occurred to her.br
"What's the catch?"br
"Oh, whatever you think is appropriate."br
"How about a humongous Thank You?"br
"It'll have to do…for now."br
"Let's go check into our room" Tristan said reaching down and grabbing Rory's bags.bbr
"Let's" she said and headed towards to desk.