Title: Spring Fling

Author: lannah

Summary: Rory, Lorelai, Emily and Richard head out to the Dominican Republic for spring break. Guess whom Rory meets?

Pairing: R/T of course!

Disclaimer: Sadly, I own zippidy-doo-daa of Gilmore Girls. If I did, then Chad Michael Murray would still be on the show and he would be mine (and even if they have nothing to do with Gilmore Girls, J-Boog from B2K and Orlando Bloom would be mine too! Heehee!). Anywayz, all the characters and all that fun stuff belong to the GG crew; the only thing that is mine is the plot (which will most likely turn out to be pretty retarded, so I give you fair warning)!

A.N: As usual, thank you very much to those who did review that slightly crappy last chapter!! haha Kara -I was actually playing with the pool idea but I can't think of anything good to write. Maybe if the inspiration strikes, I'll save it for later!

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"Aah...sun, sand and incredibly good looking specimens," Lorelai said, the next day, pushing her sunglasses up on her nose.

"I couldn't agree more," Tatum added.

Rory laughed at the two of them who were blatantly checking out every, single "hot" guy that had walked by. She was also having a great time down in the Dominican (even if they had only been there for a day). She was in the mood to go swimming but neither Lorelai nor Tatum wanted to, saying they hadn't brought their bathing suits, to which Rory had asked, what was the point of coming down to the beach if they weren't going to go swimming?

Lorelai was lounging around on a - what else- lounge chair in a pair of denim shorts and a baby-tee; Tatum was sitting cross-legged on the sand, in a sleeveless tank and a pair of blue, Hawaiian print surfer, capri pants (A.N. or whatever they're called, I forget...) and Rory was looking very un-Rory-like, in a halter bathing suit top and board shorts.

"You know I really don't think I want you coming down to the beach in a bathing suit anymore," Lorelai said, turning to Rory. "There are way too many guys looking over here, and I don't think it's because of the fact that there is an incredibly gorgeous twenty-five year old woman here."

At that last comment both Rory and Tatum started to snicker.

"What? I could pass for twenty-five," Lorelai protested.

"That you can," Tatum answered.

"Are you making fun of me?" Lorelai asked, suspiciously.

"Of course not!" Tatum answered, not being able to help the smile spreading across her face. "Why would I do something like that?"

"I'll choose to believe you. But only because I want your mom to give me free clothes 'cause she makes some nice stuff."

Tatum glanced over at Rory and smirked. "Who are you looking for? Loverboy?"

Rory immediately snapped out of her thoughts and focused her eyes back on Lorelai and Tatum, a blush creeping across her cheeks.

"No!" She exclaimed quickly.

A little to quickly, which betrayed her answer. She was in fact, "glancing" around the beach, wondering if Tristan was here, somewhere.

"Who's Loverboy?" Lorelai asked suspiciously, then snapped her fingers. "Are you talking about Hot Tristan? Did you meet him? Don't you think he's hot?"

Tatum laughed. "Yes, yes and yes!"

"Rory thinks he's hot too," Lorelai said.

"What? I never said that!" Rory exclaimed.

"Come on! How can you not think that he is? I mean, have you looked at that kid?" Tatum asked.

"My thoughts exactly," Lorelai added.

"I don't think he's..." Rory groaned. "Ok fine! I think Tristan's hotter than hot...but that doesn't mean anything!"

Tatum started to whoop as Lorelai whistled, drawing quite a few stares from nearby beach-goers.

"Whoa Mary, didn't know you thought so highly of me. Thank you."

Rory whipped around upon hearing that unmistakable voice and immediately reddened upon seeing Tristan - a very shirtless, very built Tristan - holding a surfboard and wearing his trademark smirk.

"Um...I..." Rory stuttered, helplessly and shot a glare at both Lorelai and Tatum who were practically rolling in the sand, cracking up in silent laughter.

"Shut up," she grumbled.

"Hey Lorelai, Tatum," Tristan added.

"Prep boy surfs?" Tatum half-whispered to Rory.

"Hey, I am not preppy," Tristan protested.

"Honey, you go to a private school where you wear a suit-blazer thingy and a tie. That's preppy enough for me," Tatum answered.

"Didn't you say you go to a private school too?" Rory asked.

"No...," Tatum answered. "L.A. doesn't have private schools...."

Rory couldn't help but laugh at her completely ridiculous answer. She turned to Tristan. "So, surfing?"

He grinned. "Yup. Any of you ever tried?"

"Um..." Rory stammered.

"Hell no," Lorelai added.

"I don't do surfing," Tatum piped up. "Although, I did kind of want to learn for a brief moment after I saw Blue Crush."

"Wanna try?" Tristan asked.

"Um...." Rory answered.

"I repeat - hell no!"

"I don't do surfing."

"And I should really get going anyway because I promised my psycho parents I would um...help them...with some stuff," Lorelai added.

"Since when?" Rory asked.

"Since they said 'Lorelai, help us out with this...stuff'."

"Liar!"

Lorelai fake gasped. "I am not!"

"Yeah...and I promised my parents I'd have lunch with them," Tatum said, looking at her watch, "so I should get going too."

"It's ten-o-clock," Tristan said.

"So? I get hungry fast," Tatum answered.

"So we'll see you two later," Lorelai said getting up and dragging Tatum along with her. "Rory, have fun learning how to surf."

With that the two of them hurried away.

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"So, since my daughter decided to ditch me - "

"More like you decided to ditch your daughter," Tatum cut in.

"Well, I was getting to that," Lorelai answered. "Anyway, you get to keep me company!"

"I thought you had to help with 'stuff'" Tatum asked, grinning.

"And I thought you had to have lunch at ten-o-clock in the morning?"

"Well...I am actually kind of hungry," Tatum said.

"You ate twenty minutes ago," Lorelai pointed out.

"So that was then. This is now. It's been twenty minutes since my stomach has not had any food in it to digest."

"Now you're talking my language. I could eat again," Lorelai answered, laughing. She glanced back in Rory and Tristan's direction. "Twenty bucks says those two hook up by the time this vacation is over."

Tatum looked at the two thoughtfully. "I don't know...from what I've seen, Rory's kind of in denial. She know she likes him but, she won't admit it. I think it'll take a little longer than that."

"Twenty bucks says they hook up by the end of this vacation," Lorelai repeated.

"You're on!"

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Okie, I would have continued with the whole surfing thing but I'm kinda getting tired of typing, so...next chapter!