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Life's Endeavours
Chapter 2: Chilton Fiasco
By: Mystic Roses
"So why are we going to Stars Hollow again?" questioned Rory, paying close attention to the time. "You know it's already eight o'clock and I do have to go to Chilton tomorrow."
"But eight o'clock isn't even late," argued Lorelai.
"Well, knowing you we'd probably be back home early tomorrow morning."
"Will not!"
"Will to!"
"Will not!"
"Why didn't you take Liz? She'd love to have this excuse for being late to school."
Lorelai took her eyes off the road to give Rory a blank look, "Do you even have to ask?"
"Point taken."
Silence fell upon them, which Rory immediately broke by saying, "You never answered my question."
"Oh right, Luke's birthday is coming up and Stars Hollow is holding another one of their famous birthday bashes," said Lorelai, complete with a cheerful expression.
"And you couldn't tell me this before because...?"
"Well I thought you'd be up for any excuse to see Lane."
"Yeah, I guess you're right."
They reached Stars Hollow and went their separate ways- Lorelai to the town party meeting and Rory to Lane's house.
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Two Hours Later
"Do you think the town meeting would be over by now?" Rory asked, getting up off a comfy cushion is Lane's hidden room.
Realising Lane couldn't hear her, she gently removed Lane's earphones and repeated her question.
Lane answered, "Yeah, I think it would've been over half an hour ago."
"Damn, I think I better find my mom. I blame it all on you and your infectious eighties music."
"Well, what can I say?"
With that, they said their goodbyes and Rory headed off to the town hall. Arriving to an empty building, she sighed.
If I were Lorelai, where would I be right now?
An imaginary light bulb shone on Rory's head and she instinctively headed for Luke's diner.
On her way to Luke's, she took in the beautiful surroundings. Any other time she was at Stars Hollow, she would usually go to her special place, the town gazebo and get comfy reading her favorite book. But not today! Her mission was to find her mom, get back home and at least get four hours sleep.
A few metres from Luke's diner, she could see her mom begging for another cup of coffee and she could already see Luke giving in to her advances but was stopped in his tracks when Lorelai accidentally bumped a plate off the table. Luke immediately ran to the other side to pick up the pieces but Lorelai was already there. They looked into each other's eyes for a brief moment which seemed like forever but Lorelai averted her eyes to the broken plate pieces, pretending nothing happened. But it was too late, a blush was already creeping up her cheeks. Luke looked out the diner window and spotted Rory.
She took that as her cue to come in.
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Hayden Car
"So how was the town meeting?" asked a half-asleep Rory.
"Oh the usual. Taylor and Kirk had another of their infamous fights that seemed to last half the meeting. Though, mind you, if Luke was involved..." Lorelai smiled at the thought of him. "...it would've lasted the whole meeting."
Rory tried to smile but she didn't have the strength to, but somehow she had the strength to ask one last question.
"Mom, were you ever involved with Luke?"
It came out as a whisper but it was audible enough for Lorelai to hear. She then took her eyes off the road for a look at her daughter and whispered, "Just sleep, Rory... Just sleep."
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7:45am Monday Morning
Rory lay innocently in bed when Eleanor suddenly opened the her bedroom window, letting the sun abruptly wake Rory up.
"Get up Rory. You have to get ready for school."
Rory slowly opened her eyes and lethargically asked, "Eleanor, what's the time?"
"It's nearly eight, Rory. You better hurry up, your mother is nearly ready to drop you off."
With that, Rory's eyes shot open, fully awake and hurriedly changed into her neatly pressed Chilton uniform. She ran down the stairs, grabbed a pop tart from the kitchen table and sprinted to her car to find her mom applying some make up and Liz chewing on some bubblegum in the backseat, obviously pissed off.
Rory hastily got in the car and, out of breath, she cried, "Go! Go! Go! We're going to be late!"
"Aye, aye sir," joked Lorelai and started up the car.
"It took you a while," said Liz in a pissed off voice.
"Well, if somebody bothered to wake me up, we'd be there already."
Lorelai interjected, saying, "Enough girls, you're either going to be polite to each other or not say anything at all."
"Who are you and what have you done with my mother?" Rory asked, baffled.
"Sorry but I'm playing the strict mother card today."
"I liked you better before," Liz mumbled to herself.
Lorelai seemingly took the wrong route and Liz whined, "Hello? Mom, this isn't the way to Chilton."
"We're taking a slight detour, my child."
Lorelai pulled up at the Starbucks nearby Chilton and quickly ordered.
"Two coffees to go please."
Liz coughed purposely.
"Oh and a lite vanilla latte."
They then headed off to Chilton at full speed.
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Chilton
Getting out of the car, Liz closed the door behind her and looked at her reflection through the car window. Satisfied, she walked off by herself but it wasn't too long till she was surrounded by her cronies. That left Lorelai and Rory staring in awe at the humungous school; their coffees in hand. Rory snapped out of it, strategically placed her coffee in her bag (to avoid significant damage if any spillage was to occur) and followed her mother to the administration office, where they were met with a staunch looking woman in a gray outfit that matched her hair.
"Hi I'm Lorelai Hayden and this is my daughter Lorelai Hayden, you can call her Rory. She's new to this school."
"You wouldn't happen to be Liz Hayden's sister would you?"
Rory smiled, thinking it was good thing, and replied, "Yes I am."
The administration lady gave her a frown which left Rory to think: What sort of reputation does Liz have here anyway?
Cutting Rory from her thoughts the lady said, "Ok. Here's your locker number, your timetable, the Chilton Code and Rory you'll have to fill in these papers."
Lorelai kissed Rory on the forehead and said, "Go get 'em kiddo."
"I'll try."
Lorelai left, leaving Rory to fill in half a dozen papers but finished them early so she got out her copy of Pride and Prejudice. The staunch looking woman, which Rory now knows coincidentally as Mrs. Gray, took her papers and told her to go to second period.
Rory walked to her class, one hand holding the book and the other holding her now cold coffee. She turned the corner about to take a sip from her coffee, when suddenly a Chiltonite came out from nowhere and collided with Rory's coffee, which splattered all over his navy blue blazer. Rory was shocked and reflexively, she started to wipe the guy's blazer with the pages of her book.
"Rats! I'm so sorry. I'm really sorry. I didn't see you--"
Rory looked up to his face and noticed how hot he was with his tousled blonde hair and ocean blue eyes, but that soon changed when words were uttered from his mouth.
"Look at what you've done to my shirt!" he cried.
"I said I was sorry. It wasn't only my fault you know."
"Oh really, if you watched where you were going this could've been avoided."
"Don't worry, I'm sure daddy can buy you a new shirt."
"You know what? Just stay away from me!"
With that, the guy headed towards the opposite direction while Rory was left standing in her original spot, unable to comprehend that she had just made an enemy in her first few hours in Chilton.
She quickly recollected herself and headed towards her class. Then she realised she didn't know where she was going and got her timetable out of her bag. She walked around aimlessly when she bumped into a petite student with long sandy blonde hair.
"Who are you?" asked the student standoffishly.
"Oh I'm sorry. I'm Rory. Who are you?
When she didn't reply another blonde behind her said, "I'm Louise, you must be the new girl."
A brunette butted in and chirpily said, "I'm Madeline."
Rory smiled at them and asked the long haired girl again, "So who are you?"
"Someone who you're going to have to look out for."
The girl then turned on her heel, with Louise close in toe. Rory's eyes followed their departure not realizing that Madeline was still in front of her.
"Her name is Paris and don't mind her, she's like that with everyone."
"Oh..." Rory said, unable to think of anything else.
"...really?" she added to herself, aware Madeline was already gone.
Rory then went to her Modern History class that just happened to be the same room the others went in. When she got in class, she could feel Paris' eyes glaring at her. She grimaced at thought that she would be in the same class as her for the rest of the year.
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Rory left her history class relieved and walked calmly to her locker when another potential collision was about to occur between her and the 'pissy' guy. Luckily she looked up in time to prevent it from happening.
"Not you again," said Mr. Pissy.
"Like I'd try to bump into you."
"Well thanks for the kind words but I need to get to my locker."
"Ha ha funny, Mr. Pissy has a sense of humor."
They then stamped off in the same direction when Rory suddenly noticed he was walking right next to her.
"What are you doing? Are you following me or something?" she asked crossly.
"Don't flatter yourself."
"Then what the hell are you doing?"
"I'm heading to my locker."
"Well so am I!" Rory added.
"Like I asked."
"OK…Well I'm here."
"So am I."
"You've got to be kidding me."
"Guess not neighbour."
"Ugh! Let's make a deal. I'll keep out of your way if you'll keep out of mine," proposed Rory, irritated immensely by the stranger.
The guy let his hand out to seal the deal but Rory snapped, "As if I'll touch that."
"Fine then, have it your way. You just lost your only chance to touch me."
Ignoring the comment, Rory tried to open her locker but it was stuck.
"Oh great!"
"I'd like to stay and help but I gotta go. See you around Mary."
She scrunched up her face in confusion.
"Mary?"
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End of Fourth Period
Rory exited her fourth period classroom more angered than before.
How can so many bad things happen in just one day?
She walked down the hallway when, for the first time that day, she saw her older sister, and what do you know, Liz was pushed up against the locker by her boyfriend, the elusive Tristan DuGrey. Elizabeth took a breath from what was clearly a long make out session and spotted Rory looking at them in disbelief.
"Hey Rory," Liz said in between her boyfriend's neck kisses.
"Tristan, stop it! Meet my sister."
Tristan eager to get the pleasantries over and done with to continue making out with his girlfriend, turned around slowly and smirked, about to put on his DuGrey charm.
"Hey--" Tristan cut himself off when he finally realized who Liz's sister was.
Tristan and Rory were speechless until they both said simultaneously with anger and confusion in their voices,
"You!"
--chapter finis
Author's Note: Don't expect Tristan and Rory to be in the same classes. Remember that Tristan is a senior which Rory is a still sophomore. Well anyway, we hope you enjoyed the Trory action we added. And if you have time, we'd appreciate constructive feedback.
Author's Note (Last time we swear!): We're sorry to all the anonymous reviewers out there who couldn't review and give us their opinion. We didn't notice anything until we checked our settings again. Sorry again guys...
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