a/n this is my first fanfic. Hope you enjoy, I'm not sure what year the second session just ended in but go along with me here. Sorry for any spelling errors or such I'm not very good with them. ~~disclaimer-I don't own Gilmore girls.they belong to the WB and such..although I do wish I owned Jess or Dean.anyway you know the drill~~

Rory walked through the halls of Chilton for the last year, this was the first day back, and it was her senior year. When all the hard work she put into the school will pay off and she'll get to go to Harvard, but something wasn't right, a strange unsetteling feeling told her something about this year was different, although she couldn't quiet put her finger on it. She walked up to her locker, and she saw exactly what was so different about this year, Tristan was back. All hail the king of Chilton, and worse of all his locker was next to hers, again.

"Hey Mary" he said with a small smile, he missed her he knew that he did but he couldn't let anyone see that.

"They let you out of military school already?" she said with a heavy sigh, could things get anymore complicated in her life. She was already confused about the whole Dean, Jess situation, she didn't need Tristan to add on to the load she was caring.

"Sir, yes sir" he replied still grinning, "miss me?"

"As much as I miss the spice girls!" she replied coolie, it was starting already, but just 8 more months and she was free of him, of the unsetteling guilty feeling that was always with her, like no matter what she did she was doing something wrong. "Just one little hint for you, this year if I can't get to my locker because your making out on it I WILL attack you and your date, with my books, and maybe spill some coffee on the two of you." She walked off to first period, as he stood there for a few seconds recovering from her verbal attack. When he relized what just happened he ran after her.

"Hey Mary, still seeing bag boy are you?" he asked anxious, although he knew the answer he prayed it had changed over the past year."

"Yes I am, now you better get to first period before you get sent back to military school." She said and walked into the room. Tristan looked after her, dumbfounded for a few seconds, then he made up his mind, he would get Rory Gilmore this year, if it was the last thing he'd do!

What am I gunna do now? Rory sighed to herself when she sat down in her chair for homeroom. I can't have him back in my life now! I have enough to deal with, without him here, should I tell dean about the kiss, should I pretend it never happened? Do I still love Dean? Am I just comfortable with him? So many questions that I just can't answer now. WHAT am I thinking? Yes, you love him Rory, he's your boyfriend. I know I love him, and I always will, but am I in love with him, to put it that way.I guess I'm not. But what about Jess, and Tristan? I don't know which I want, or if I want one of them at all, why is this so damn hard? The hardest part will be breaking up with Dean, I mean he knows me so well and I don't want to lose him as a friend, but I don't know if I still want him as a boyfriend. Well what if he thinks I'm leaving him for Jess, which I'm not, or am I, oh he doesn't like either of them, why must this be so difficult?

The classes seem to go by in a blur with out knowing it was lunch time, as she pulled up a chair at her table she began to read, when all of a sudden she felt a tap on her shoulder. "May I sit down, or is this a private party?"

"What is it Tristan?" Rory snapped back, she wasn't in the mood to put up with his teases.

"Just wanted to chill with you, since when was that illegal?" he replied pulling up a chair and making himself comfortable.

"Since you never just chill you always have a scam in the making, and I'm just not in the mood for one of those on the first day back." She retorted

"What??" he asked in fake shock, "I'm hurt by your mistrust in me, don't you think military school changed me? Don't I look like a different person who's out to conquer the world?" He said sitting straight out and sticking out his chest as if giving a speech to a large group of very important people. At the look on her face he knew she thought the same of him as she had before. "OK, Ok, I brought a peace offering." He said less cocky this time, as he pulled out a large cup of starbucks coffee.

Rory's jaw droped, "For me?" she asked eyeing the coffee suspisously.

"Yes its for you." he replied grinning.

"What did you do to it?" she questioned, dying to take her first sip, but was coffee worth death?

"ME? Nothing, its been untouched by me, other then the cup.aw come on Rory, am I that untrustworthy?" Rory just knoded her head in answer the busy drinking her coffee to notice, she hadn't had a cup since breakfast and was dying to have some. "that hurts Rory, it hit right here" he said tapping his the left side of his chest, in attempt to point to his heart.

She felt a little better after the caffine boost and replied "OH, so you actually have a heart hmm?" He looked her over sitting there, staring back at him, with a slight grin on her face, one hand still holding the cup of coffee, she looked so cute waiting for his sharp and witty reply, but just then he couldn't think of anything other then how blue her eyes were, and how much better she looked in a Chilton uniform then any of the other girls that tried to make it look as slutty as possible.

"I guess so," he mumbled back. All he wanted to do right then was just to kiss her, a sweet innocent little kiss, he knew it was wrong and there were people everywhere but what were the chances of them staring at him and Rory right at this moment. He couldn't help it, it wasn't so much a game as it had been during their softmore year, now he needed her, and knew she needed him, even if she hadn't relized it yet. Slowly he leaned in and his lips touched hers softly almost unnoticeably.

What is going on here? Rory thought to herself, this isn't supposed to be happening you don't even like him! As the kiss swept through her body she knew it was right, it was perfect, she felt the sparks, the ones she knew had been missing from her and Deans kisses for sometime now, and how knew she'd find them in Tristan Dugray? She pulled back and looked in his eyes, she knew it was pure, not a contest or a game, but it came from his heart and he ment it, not like the frivioluse makeout sessions that had happened on her locker 2 years before this was true. She smiled a little, back to the wide grin that spread over his face.

"How was that for trust, Mary?" he wisperd.

"Nice, but if you ever want a replay of that, you'll never call me Mary again." She shoot back, even though every fiber of her body wanted a replay she knew that if she just gave into everything Tristan wanted she'd loose him faster then she could drink a cup of coffee.

"So there's a chance for a replay?" he asked anxiously, that kiss was like a dream something out of the ordinary. He had probably kissed almost all the girls in Chilton, but not a single kiss had amounted to this one.