Will History Repeat Itself? Part 2:
Author: Ice
Everything else, look at the last chapter
Disclaimer: What is owning? I own nothing. Well except Liv and Chris, but even those names were made up by someone else (Thank you Hadar) So I own nothing!!! HAHAHAHAHA!
Liv put her books back into her locker, proud of herself of only making a few witty quips at teachers, but not getting into real trouble the first day of school. Lauren walked up to her locker.
"Hey Liv." Lauren said as she opened her locker.
"Hey."
"You don't like me do you."
"I'm sorry, what made you think that?" Liv turned towards her now annoying neighbor.
" I don't know, you ignore me, you're rude…" Liv looked at Lauren with disbelief.
" Oh thank you for telling me this. I was so lost without your revelation." Liv turned back to her locker. Chris walked up.
"Oh. Hey Lauren. How was your first day at hell?" He smiled.
"Eh. It was okay, for a first day. Most everybody was nice to me." She looked at Liv. Chris looked between his sister and Lauren.
"Yeah, well not everyone is as nice as me." He smiled a charming smile. Lauren smiled back. Chris felt a flutter inside of him.
"I hate to break up this little party here, but we've got a bus to catch. Come on Christopher." Liv started walking down the hall. Chris looked after her.
"I guess I'd better get going." Chris said. Lauren nodded. Chris bowed, "M'lady." He turned and walked down the hall after his sister.
Luke watched his great niece and nephew walk into the diner.
"What's wrong with her?" Chris exclaimed at Liv who had a glare on her face.
"She's stuck-up! Come on Chris you should know better. We grew up around the rich and snobby. You should be able to tell apart the real and the fake." She sat at the counter, "coffee please." Luke poured her a cup. Chris sat down next to her and Luke got him a soda.
"Is Dad here, Luke?"
"Jess!" Jess comes out from the back.
"Uncle Luke, you really should get an intercom system or something. I mean yelling throughout a restaurant is not very consumer friendly." Jess said sarcastically, then he saw the scowl on his daughter's face.
"So what prank went wrong today?"
"None. There's a new girl at school."
"Trying to take your crown as troublemaker of Chilton."
"There's nothing wrong with Lauren, Dad. She just called Liv on being a bitch so Liv doesn't like her." Liv glared at her brother. Jess looked between his kids and shook his head. He got Liv another cup of coffee and got Rory a first cup, as she came into the diner.
"Jess. I love you so much thank you!" Rory took the cup of coffee out of Jess's hands.
"Hard day?" He said kissing his wife as soon as she put the empty coffee cup on the table. She nodded pitifully. Jess came around the counter and hugged her and kissed her again.
"Get a room." Liv said, there was still anger in her voice. Rory and Jess pulled apart. Rory looked at Liv.
"And who got you in such a mood missy?"
"New girl." Jess answered for her.
"Ah…" Liv got up and went out the door.
"Chris explain." Rory sat down next to her son while went back behind the counter. He worked there when he wasn't on assignment.
"There's a new girl in school. Lauren, something, I can't remember. She has the locker next to Liv. Today after school Lauren just came out and asked why Liv didn't like her." Jess and Rory looked at each other. Their son liked this girl. They could tell in his voice.
"And you like her." Rory commented.
"And I like her." Chris said hesitantly. Rory smiled at her son. He was like she was, shy around the people he liked, a babbler. But also he had a lot of Jess in him too. Very wary of whom he likes. He makes sure she's the right person for him, at the time.
"So if your friends with her, or getting to be friends with her, invite her over one day. I'll be around so I'll try to keep Liv busy or something. Ok?" Chris nodded. Then he said goodbye turned and went out the door of the diner. Jess came back around the counter to where Rory was sitting. He put his arms around her. "How about we go take Liv's suggestion?" Rory giggled.
Liv stormed out of the diner. She didn't like this Lauren Dugrey. She saw the way her brother looked at her. He thought she was wonderful. Liv slowed down her pace as she got closer to the Mariano house. This girl, annoying as she may be, is going to be around her all year because of the locker thing. And she had to give Lauren props for stating right out that Liv didn't like her. Everyone at school, the snobby rich kids she and Chris had gone to school with all their lives, had not once called her on that. They were all a little afraid of what she'd do next. No one except Chris and his friend Marco understood her. They passed the wrong judgment on her. But this girl was trying to be nice. She walked up to the door of her house and pulled out a key. If Chris got his way they'll be seeing a lot more of each other. Liv sighed and went into the house still trying to figure out what to do next. She pressed the button on the answering machine.
"Hey we're the Mariano's. Leave a message." Beep!
"Rory please, please, please convince Jess to change that message! Anyway I called to say that my mother called and said she was having a dinner party and wants us all to be there. That means me, you, Jess, Liv, and Chris. I might convince your father to come but if not, Jess I expect you and Liv and Chris to keep me entertained. I mean this woman is 81 you'd think she'd give up on the dinner parties by now but nnnooo." Liv laughed at her grandmother's craziness, "So call me back. Ok? Bye you princes of Hartford, you Kings of New England!" Liv put her bag down by the door and went into the kitchen to get a soda.
"Hello? Rory? You must get a more proper phone message. Anyway, I'm calling to invite you and your family to a dinner party on Saturday night. Cocktails are at 6:30 and I expect you all to be there. And Rory, please make sure your mother and Liv wear something respectable," Liv smiled already thinking of the perfect outfit that would shock her great grandmother, "Anyway please call me back if you can't make it. Goodbye." Liv went down the stairs to the bottom section of the split-level house to where she and Chris had their rooms and all their video games and such. She went into her room and flopped on the bed. She turned on her CD player and sounds from her Dad's old Radiohead album came blaring out of the speakers. She grabbed a book she was reading, the Virgin Suicides, from her nightstand and went into the literary world.
A little while later Chris came in through the private entrance that the twins had, and went straight to his room. He knew by the sounds coming out of his sister's closed door that she was home but he didn't want to deal with another lecture about Lauren right now.
By 6:00 Rory and Jess had gotten home and Rory was going down the stairs to get Chris and Liv for dinner. She went to Liv's room first.
"Hey." Liv turned off the music.
"Hey. Dinner's ready." Rory sat on the bed next to her daughter. She and Liv were close, not as close as Lorelai and Rory, but Liv also had to share Rory with Chris and Jess. "Are you okay Liv?" she nodded.
"I don't know. Maybe it is because this Lauren girl called me on my bitchiness. I mean, she's nice and all I just…I don't know."
"You're worried Chris is gonna get hurt. Trust me. It's gonna be hard if they do start going out, but you'll deal. Just try to get along with her okay? I mean she's gonna have the locker next to you for this and next year. You gotta get used to her." Liv shrugged and got off her bed to go upstairs. Chris was next. Rory turned to his room and knocked on the door.
"Come in!" Rory opened the door to see Chris at his computer typing, most likely for story ideas for the Franklin. "Dinner's ready." Rory told him.
"I'll be up in a minute Mom." Rory smiled and closed the door again. She headed upstairs.
The Mariano's sat at the dinner table; meatloaf and mashed potatoes were being served onto plates. Once everyone had gotten a helping, the conversation started.
"Mom, Grandma and Grams both called. Grandma Emily is having a dinner party on Saturday and Grams was complaining about going." Rory sighed knowingly while Jess groaned. Rory would have to convince both Lorelai and Jess that they wanted to go.
"Ok I'll call Grams after dinner." The rest of the meal was pretty quiet. Mostly small talk about school and jobs. They cleared the table and the twins went back downstairs to get started on their first day of school homework. Chilton was truly hell for making them have homework on the first day.
~~That Friday at Chilton~~
Liv stood at her locker waiting for Lauren to walk up. She was going to make peace today. She and Lauren had basically ignored each other for most of the week, but Liv could see the like that was sparking between Lauren and Chris so she had to make peace or something.
Lauren came up and opened her locker. Liv closed hers and turned.
"Lauren."
"Hmm?"
"Look I'm sorry about how I greeted you the first day and all. I mean I think we should start over because we're going to see each other. Either at Hartford functions or if you become better friends with my brother. So what'd you say?" Liv could tell Lauren was thinking about it.
"Okay. Let's start over. Hi I'm Lauren Dugrey."
Hi. Liv Mariano. Where are you from?"
"New York actually. Lived there all my life. But my Dad's business moved me and him back to Hartford where he's originally from. He actually went to Chilton before he broke into a safe and Grandpa sent him to Military school."
"Really? My mom went here. I wonder if they knew each other." Liv smiled, maybe this girl wasn't so bad. If her roots were a father breaking into a safe she couldn't be all bad. They walked down the hall and then split up at their respective homerooms. Liv sat down in her seat and thought, 'I could be friends with this girl.'
