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The Trouble With Kids
Chapter 6: Sean Haley and Louis makes a reappearance…
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[Hayden Penthouse, 6:00 am]
Rory paced around her room
fully dressed. Her blue eyes complemented her blue sandblasted jeans and white
long-sleeved tee. To keep warm she threw on a sand colored corduroy jacket
lined with sherpa wool. She
kept pacing in her room, before she grabbed her keys and hesitantly opened the
door. She stepped out before yelling "Argh!"
and stepping back into the room plopping on her bed her brown hair flying over
the place. Rory stood up again surveyed herself in the mirror, tied her hair
into a messy bun and left her room. As she was pulling her shoes on Drew
stepped out of his room.
"Mom?"
"Yes Andrew?" Rory asked
exasperatedly she had been up since 5:30 debating about meeting
Tristan.
"Are you going somewhere? And
at 6:10 in the morning?" he
asked incredulously.
"I'm meeting someone for
coffee at Starbucks. I'll be back before Juliette wakes up and then I'll take
you out to Al's for breakfast. You go back to sleep now, sonny!" Rory said and
quickly hopped out the door before Drew could say anything.
Drew stood there dumbfounded
and said 'Women' before rubbing his
eyes and returning to bed.
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[Starbucks Coffee]
Rory sat at a table nervously
wringing her napkin. She was already on her second cup of coffee. It was 6:30 and he wasn't here. God,
I'm so stupid I would have to be crazy to think Tristan actually wanted to talk
to me. Rory thought to her self but her thoughts were interrupted by a deep
masculine voice.
"Is this seat taken?" he
asked. He had dirty blonde hair and bright green eyes. She didn't even know who
'he' was.
"Uh, I'm waiting for someone…"
Rory said nervously.
"Don't worry I won't bite,
I'll leave as soon as your boyfriend arrives. By the way I'm Sean Haley." Sean
said to Rory as he pulled out a chair and said down.
"He's not my boyfriend!" Rory sputtered.
"Mhmm…so what's a pretty thing
like you doing in this big city all alone Ms. Gilmore?" Sean asked leaning on
his hands looking directly at Rory's face.
"How'd you know who I was?"
Rory asked angry, this guy was cocky and self- conceited and he acted like he
knew everything.
"Your
on TV aren't you? Ha, I was right, 'cause I'm always
right… I see you're quite affected by me Lorelai, I know I can have that affect
on some people." Sean said leaning even closer to Rory's face.
"Well how could they avoid
that sexy body…" Rory said leaning close too, before
she promptly slapped him across the face. "Never call me a pretty thing, you
arrogant bastard."
"Nice left hook, I like a
woman who can make my cheek sore." Sean said rubbing his cheek. Rory couldn't
help smiling.
"There ya go! Smiling wasn't
that hard was it?" Sean said.
"Well with cocky men like you
I rarely smile." Rory said the grin never leaving her face.
"Well, since I'm so cocky you
wouldn't think I was wrong if I asked you to lunch? Let's say Tavern on the
Green at oneish?" Sean ventured.
"Yeah I think I'd actually like that…" Rory said. The
moment was broken when the bell rung and a man stepped through the door.
"Tristan…" Rory said inaudibly.
"Rory? What are you doing with him?" Tristan said eyeing Sean
suspiciously.
"DuGrey I have no idea who the
hell Rory is, but me and Lorelai were having a nice
little chat here so why don't you and your ugly face scram?" Sean said his
green eyes darkening.
"Lorelai?
Wow Ror, I didn't know you still went by that…" Tristan said chuckling
slightly.
"Huh? On TV it always says
Lorelai Gilmore, not Rory." asked Sean looking dumbfounded.
"Lorelai is my given name, but
Rory's a nickname given to me by my mom. And professionally I do go by Lorelai,
Tristan. And where do you guys know each other from?" Rory said looking at both
of them who were engaged in a staring contest.
"Well first of all I watch NBC
I always thought Brokaw had more brains than Jennings. Secondly, this
jackass is the District Attorney." Tristan replied.
"And don't you wish you had my
job DuGrey. By the way how is the Johnson case going? You do know you will
never win, I have everything under control. And I know your partnership status
is being questioned DuGrey, tsk tsk." Sean said smirking.
"My partnership is fully
intact. Your ways of control, are way too shady for my liking Haley and if you
don't mind I'd actually like to talk to the mother of my children, privately."
Tristan said a full grin on his face after seeing Sean's stunned expression.
"You have kids? With him?" Sean
sputtered.
"Two lovely 13 year old twins,
sorry that was a minor detail. But, him and me are
divorced." Rory said a blush starting to make her pale face pink.
"Whoa…" Sean leaned back in his chair and sat there contemplating.
As he stood up he turned around and looked at Tristan and Rory.
"We're still on for lunch,
right Lorelai?" Sean said smirking his eyes on Tristan
who looked at Rory.
"Yeah we are. See you later
Sean." Rory said.
"You're meeting Haley for
lunch?" Tristan asked incredulously.
"And what are you going to do about it?" she asked
angrily.
"It's just that, Ror, he…"
Tristan started.
"He what?
He asked me to lunch I said yes.
Just because you have a problem with
him it doesn't mean I have to!" Rory yelled.
"Never mind Ror, it's your
life. I didn't want to fight with you, and if Haley's going to make us do that
let's just get him off our minds. Sounds good?" Tristan said noticing her bad
mood.
"Just peachy Tristan, but anyway why did you invite me for coffee? And
inviting me to coffee was pretty sneaky you know I can't pass up an opportunity
for coffee." Rory pouted.
"I just thought we should at
least be on good terms. After the 'incident'
yesterday I felt horrible, and anyways Ror seven years is way too long to
ignore each other. No matter what happened between us, Juliette and Drew are
always first, and I think it might be better for them at least if we didn't
bite each others heads off." Tristan replied coolly.
"Yeah…" Rory whispered lost in her own world staring at Tristan who
she had avoided for seven years, just because of this moment; the moment where
he would ask if they could be friends.
"I guess, what I'm saying Rory
is that could we at least try being friends?" Tristan asked sincerely.
Rory wanted to scream 'NO! You hurt me and I hurt you back! All of
that stuff that I buried is going to come back! There is no way I'm letting you
hurt me again…or hurting you again.' But Rory ignored the last part.
Instead of screaming she said,
"Louis I think this is a
beginning of a wonderful friendship."
"Who the hell is Louis?"
Tristan said and they both walked out of Starbucks drinking coffee and laughing
reminiscing about the good old Chilton days.
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