Title: Will History Repeat Itself?: Part 7

Author: Ice

Disclaimer and all the rest: Read the past chapters

A/N: Do you guys think I should change the title? Let me know!

                                    "I can't believe that you've never read anything by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes." Liv exclaimed, taking a bite of her spaghetti. She and Colin were at her favorite Italian place in Hartford after going to the music and bookstore.

                                    "I'm not really into fantasy. Realistic fiction's more my taste. I don't read that much though."

            Liv stopped mid-bite and said, "What is much?"   Colin laughed.

                                    "I'm more of a musician. I play in a band at school and I want to be a music engineer and producer."

                                    "Really?"

                                    "Yeah. My mom's not to happy about it though. My dad's a musician too while he was in school and even now he plays a little. But my mom doesn't feel it's a safe job. We don't get along very well. Never have. Even when I was little my mom would try to get me to help her organize or take me to work with her. But I never wanted to. I wanted to be with my dad and in the music room playing guitar. When my great-grandpa died, Tristan got half and my dad got half. They never got along with their parents. Tristan got sent to military school and Dad got sent to boarding school. They made trouble. Great-grandpa made their lives livable while they were home. Dad learned from that, so did Tristan, but my mom was raised by nannies and boarding school, with no real love. If it wasn't for Dad, I think I would've gone nuts. I'm just glad that Tristan and Lauren moved here, that way I can get away from school for a while without going home."

            Liv took a drink and stared at him. She was amazed, he had had such a hard time from his mom, yet, although a little arrogant at times, he was so, well rounded. Colin took a bite of his lasagna and smiled at Liv again.

                                    "Okay what about you? Any ideas what you wanna do when you get to school?" Liv swallowed her drink.

                                    "The long version or the short version?"

                                    "Long." They smiled at each other again. The type of smile that they're still glad the other liked them.

                                    "My parents met in Stars Hollow, which you'll see later. My mom was dating this guy named Dean at the time. Mom and Dad liked each other but she was unavailable…" Liv told the Colin the story of Rory and Jess.

                                    "Then after they graduated from college, started dating seriously. A few years later they were engaged, then married, and along came me and Chris. Chris was named for my grandfather and I was named for Oliver Twist. The first book that my dad stole from my mom. She still calls him Dodger. I'm not yet sure what I want to do yet. Maybe a book editor. I get a writing in thing from my father. Luckily my parents really don't care what we do as long as we're careful, don't get hurt, don't hurt anyone else, and are having a good time. I think both of my parents learned what putting locks on the doors, so to speak, can do from their own lives."

                                    "Yeah that is lucky. I wouldn't leave the dorm, except for classes of course, if my Mom had her way. So, you wanna go home? We can watch a movie or something at your house."

                                    "Yeah, sure." Liv nodded. Colin paid the check, took Liv's hand and walked out of the restaurant. They passed two girls Liv recognized from Chilton on the sidewalk. The girls looked at each other and called after her.

                                    "Liv! Hey Liv!"

                                    "Oh great. Maybe if we ignore them, they'll go away." She whispered. Colin laughed but kept walking.

                                    "Olivia!" Liv's face contorted. No one calls her that, unless she's in big trouble. She turned and faced the two oncoming girls, a scowl on her Rory looking face. 

                                    "What?"

                                    "Hey Liv. We saw you and thought we'd say hi. So hi."

                                    "Okay good. Do you feel complete now?" The girls ignored her.

                                    "Hi we're friends of Liv's from school."

            Colin forced a smile, part of his training by his social elite mother. "Hello. I'm Colin, Liv's boyfriend."

                                    "Really hmm…Do you go to school around here?"

                                    "He goes to Yale. Now run along. Go on, shoo." Liv told them. The girls pouted and walked the way they were going.

            Colin pulled Liv into a hug.

                                    "Huh."

                                    "What?"

                                    "You're my boyfriend?"

                                    "If you want me to be." They kiss.

                                    "I'll think about it." She said, then pulled away and walked to the car leaving Colin dumbfounded. He shook his head and followed her to the car.