~~Monday after Colin and Liv's first Date~~

                                    Liv and Chris walked into Chilton Monday morning greeted by the stares of their classmates. Chris looked around and gave his sister a puzzled look. Liv shrugged and walked to her locker where Lauren already was.

                                    "What's with everyone?" Chris asked Lauren as Liv opened her locker to get her books.

                                    "Some girls saw Liv and Colin together and there are rumor's flying everywhere." Liv looked up with interest.

                                    "Oh really?"

                                    "Yeah, like Liv only likes Colin for his money, or that he's just going out with her to get to your dad's connections."

                                    "Does they realize that he's your cousin?"

                                    "Yeah, and I'm being asked all kinds of questions." A girl comes up to them.

                                    "You're Liv Mariano right?" Liv looked at her with disgust.

                                    "Yeah. So?"

                                    "Is it true your going out with a Yale professor?" Liv smirked.

                                    "Who the hell told you that?"

                                    "Strawberry Garcia."

                                    "Tell Berry that no. I am not dating a Yale professor, her precious boyfriends are safe." Lauren chuckled and Chris stared at his sister. They were so different. He would have been so embarrassed. But not Liv, just like their father, she'd turn everything around and have a quick comeback. The girl left. Liv turned to Lauren and Chris. "Where do people come up with these things?" She turned and walked down the hall to her homeroom. Chris waited while Lauren got her things and they started to walk towards his locker.

                                    "Liv's taking this so well. I hate that people are talking about her though." Chris said as he opened his locker.

                                    "She'll be okay. This'll all blow over as soon as they hear something about one of the teachers dating one of the student's parents or something." Lauren put her arms around Chris.

                                    "I know, and it's not like she hasn't had rumors about her before, with all the trouble she causes. Once she got the flu for a week and everyone thought she had gone to jail. I just don't like it." Lauren looked at him and gave him a soft kiss on the lips.

                                    "You're so sweet. You'd never know there was some Jess Mariano in you. Chris got a mischievous look in his dark brown eyes.                              "Oh really?" He pulled Lauren towards him and kissed and dipped her. When he broke the kiss and stood Lauren back up her face was flushed.            

                                    "I take it back." Chris closed his locker, put an arm around her waist and walked her to class.

            ~~After School~~

                                    "Liv, Lauren and I are gonna go into Hartford for a little while. Tell Mom and Dad I'll be back for dinner."

                                    "Dinner's at Lorelai's tonight Chris."  He looked frustrated. That meant his Dad wouldn't be home for dinner. It wasn't as if Jess was an absentee dad. Far from it. He and Rory had made a deal never to spend more than 2 nights apart each month. So he was only gone two days a month for his job. Chris didn't want to miss a fun night at Lorelai's, but being the only guy with three crazy women, all of which he was related to, wasn't much fun, he was usually the butt of his grandmother and sister's jokes. The three walked out of the building to Lauren's car.  "Okay."  They say goodbye and Lauren and Chris get into the car. Liv started walking to the bus stop and Chris and Lauren were about to pull away when a car blocked them both. A Dark blue Mazda Protégé. Liv saw who was driving and smiled. The driver got out of the car, blocking traffic, and went over to greet Liv.

                                    "Need a ride?" he smiled.

                                    "Maybe." They kissed hello as Lauren shouted out her car window, "Colin, could you please move?"

                                    "No, I want to take all four of us out to dinner. I don't have class on Tuesdays, so I thought we could make a night of it. Dinner, clubs, a movie. Something." By now there were cars lined up behind the Mazda waiting for the car to move. Some were honking, some were taking in the man that had kissed the resident bad ass of Chilton.

                                    "Move your car and we'll figure it out." Colin shook his head at his cousin.

                                    "Nope now." Colin's arm was around Liv's waist and she was smiling like a maniac.

                                    "Fine. We're going into Hartford. We'll meet you at Chili's. Okay?" Colin seemed satisfied with that and went back to his car and opened the car door for Liv. Then he went over to the driver's side of the car, bowed to the car and got in. Liv burst out laughing as he pulled out onto the driveway of the school.

                                    "Nice show. What are you doing here?"

                                    "I wanted to go out to dinner with you and I figured that people at your school would be talking about us after seeing those girls on Saturday, so I thought I'd come pick you up. Then I saw Lauren and Chris and figured what the hey, I'll pay for all four of us. Anyway to see you."  Liv blushed.

                                    "Colin. I gotta use your phone and let my mom know that we won't be home tonight for dinner." Colin handed her his cell and she dialed the number to her grandmother's inn, knowing that her mother would still be at school.

                                    "Dragonfly Inn, Lorelai speaking."

                                    "Hey Grams."

                                    "Livi! Are you out of school already? When are you coming home? I rented Gangs of New York, Titantic, and Catch Me if you Can, it's a Leo night and I wanna do Mystery Science Theater! It'll be so much fun!"

                        "Sounds like it Grams, but Colin picked me up from school and is treating me, Lauren, and Chris to dinner, so I wanted to call and see if it's ok that we miss tonight."

                                    "Livi! You and Christopher would rather go and be with your respective others than your grandmother and mother? I'm offended." Liv could picture her grandmother with mock hurt on her face.

                                    "So can we stay out?"

                                    "I don't know. I'd say okay, but this is your mom we're talking about, usually I don't think she'd have a problem, but it's a school night. Why don't you ask them if they wanna come here for Chinese, junk and movies?"

                        Liv took her mouth from the phone, "My grandma says it might be a problem since we do have school tomorrow. But she invited you and Lauren to Chinese and movie night tonight."

                        Colin thought about it. "Okay. But I'm paying for dinner and whatever junk food you guys want." Liv turned back to the phone.

                                    "Oh Liv I hear that. Tell him I love him. Do you have a pen and paper? I'll tell you what junk to get." Liv laughed and turned to Colin shaking her head. He didn't know how much this was gonna cost him. Liv grabbed a piece of paper from her backpack and started writing all the junk that Lorelai wanted.

                                    "Oh and add Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, 3 bags of chocolate chips, M&M's, Pringles, and ummm….Coffee ice cream. You got all that?"

                                    "Yeah Grams. You order the food we'll be at your house in about two hours."

                                    "Bye Livi." Liv pressed end.

                                    "She wants all that food? How many people are going to be there?"

                                    "Just us, my mom and grandma. You haven't seen the Gilmore's eat." She smirked. Colin shook his head and pulled into the Chili's parking lot. Chris and Lauren were just getting out of Lauren's car.

                                    "Change of plans guys. We're gonna go eat with Mom and Grams. Grams got movies already and said Mom probably wouldn't let us out till who knows when on a school night. So Colin and I are gonna go get junk food and we'll meet you back at the house."

                                    "Sounds good. See you later." The four got back into they're respective cars and drove to Stars' Hollow.