Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls *snif*

A/N: Thank You so much to everyone that has read my story and reviewed it.  One special review brought something to my attention.  I should've told you that English is not my first language, so forgive me if I make mistakes with the verbs and stuff, but I am going to try my best to make as little mistakes as possible, so you can enjoy (Thanks Rory Potter, I appreciate it). Oh! And I will explain why Tristan is acting so not Tristan-Like along the way.  Oh! Paris went to Harvard; Jess is going to NYU; Lane, to Sarah Lawrence; Dean moved back to Chicago.  She keeps in touch with everyone but Dean.  Tristan and Drew graduated early from Florence, Italy.

Pairing: Still Rory / Tristan ;o)

Everytime There's a Concert

Chapter 3: Chance Encounters

"It is very nice meeting you Janine" Drew said as he stretched his hand to Janine, but then he just chuckled when he realized that she couldn't shake his hand.

"Likewise Drew" she said back.

"So are you here alone? I mean with no guys, considering that you are the one buying the drinks," he asked.

"Well, I don't know if you've heard the news, but girls can buy drinks too" she said, and he tried to take it back, when she said, "I'm kidding.  I guess that if you don't know me you cannot possibly know that I am, so answering your question: Yes, I am here with my friend who happens to be not a guy"

"Really!"

"Yeah.  So how ´bout you? Are you here with a girl? From your previous comment I guess that you are the kind of guy that buys the drinks"

"No I am here with a friend, who happens to be a guy as a matter of fact. . .   So do you think we could join you?" 

"I don't want to sound rude, but. . ." But Drew interrupted Janine.

"Girls night out, huh?" Drew asked her, knowing that the answer was going to be yes.

"Yeah, so I guess that I should go and deliver these drinks, so. . ."

"Hey, its OK, but do you think that I could call you sometime so we could go out and do something, movie, dinner, coffee, whatever you would like. . . please?"

"Sure, that sounds great. Write this down" and she waited for him to reach for a napkin and pull out his pen, "Janine Peterson: 555-1273"

"Great Janine Peterson, expect my phone call soon.  And, again, it was great meeting you"

She smiled back to him and walked away as he said those last words.  She was ecstatic.  She had gotten along with him, and thought that he was really cute and polite.  When she reached the table where Rory was, Rory asked her:

"What took you so long? I was starting to get worried".

"Did I take that long?" Janine asked concerned.

"Well, no.  But I was starting to get bored, playing 1,2,3 he's yours all by yourself is not fun.  I was getting all the guys" she joked, "So what happened?"

"I met a guy" she said, with this sparkle in her eye that Rory knew that she had really liked him.

"So, tell me about him, is he cute?" Rory asked, taking a sip out of her drink.

"Yeah, he is.  He's tall, dark and handsome" they both laughed at the clichèd phrase, "No, seriously now.  He is over 6 feet at least, green eyes, dark hair, and really nice, he rescued me, you know?"

"Really?" Rory asked.

"Yeah, I stumbled with the foot of one of the chairs, and he grabbed me and stopped me from falling and spilling both our drinks" she told Rory.

The night went on with the two girls talking about everything and anything, and Janine had to ask:

"Rory, I'm curious about something"

"This wouldn't have to do anything with Tristan, would it?"

"Well yeah!  We've been friends for almost 3 years, and not once you mentioned him, why is that?"

"Many things: first of all, he wasn't that important in my life, if anything he made it difficult. . . he had a good side, that I am almost sure of, but he never did show it, except for the time that he offered me his notes my first day at Chilton but his intentions were not honorable to say the least, and that one time that we kissed. . ."

"You kissed him?  Now you have to tell me the whole story" she cut Rory off from her story, because that did shock her a bit.

"OK, but its kinda late, would you mind if I told it to you on our way home?"

So both girls got of from the table and went on their way home.  As promised, Rory told Janine the whole story about Tristan.  How he used to call her Mary at the beginning, then the birthday party that her grandparents threw for her, then the time that he fought with Dean, and then about when she had broken up with Dean and kissed him over at Madeline´s Party, when they almost started a friendship but couldn't. 

". . . And then it was the whole PJ Harvey thing that I told you before.  Then he left for North Carolina.  And that was the last time I saw him."

"Almost unbelievable" Janine said.

"What is?" Rory asked not understanding her friends statement.

"And you never noticed that he was in love with you"

"Janine, he wasn't in love with me. . .  he was just trying to prove a point" Rory answered back.

"Really? And what point would that be?"

"That he could go out with anyone. . . and that included me, it was nothing more than that" Rory answered a little exasperated at the comment, not only by the comment alone, but because Janine hadn't been the first one to tell her that.

"Really" Janine said back "because for a guy that would go out with whoever you set him up with, just to TRY to be on your good side. . . let me tell you something sweetie, a guy that is not in love with someone doesn't put up with that kind of stuff.  I can tell that you are upset and I know that you get upset because you know that I am telling you the truth".

"OK, maybe. . ." but she got cut off by Janine.

"No, Rory, not maybe; he was in love with you, and not ´Maybe´, I am telling you the truth".

"OK, yes, yes, all right!! You are telling me the truth, OK, I accept it.  But there isn't much we can do with my accepting that fact because he is gone Janine, gone!! And my accepting it is not going to bring him back, besides HE was the one that was in love with me and not the other way around so this conversation has no point, in my opinion" and with that she started walking faster and leaving Janine behind.

"Rory wait. . ." Janine said, "Rory, wait, please!!" She said a little louder now, because Rory wasn't slowing down, and she tried to catch up and when she did, she told Rory, "I'm sorry!! I know I shouldn't meddle in your life, and you are right. . . if he is gone there is no point on reminding you of stuff that is obviously hurtful to you", she said sincerely.

"Oookay! I'm sorry I snapped at you, you didn't deserve that, you know, carry my denial, ´cause it's not fair"

And as they were talking, a car drove by and Drew poked his head out of the window "Have a great night Janine!" as they slowed down a bit while he said that and then drove away as Janine answered back "Thanks, Drew!"

-* Inside the car*-

"Man, did you get a chance to check out Janine's friend; she is totally your type."

"Well, no I didn't get a chance to see her, you see when you are driving there's little time to get distracted, that's why I have you here, to check out what I can't . . so, my type, you said?"

"Yeah, she was tall, dark hair, fair skin, I couldn't tell which color her eyes are, but so far so good. . . what do you say?"

"Yeah, so far so good" Tristan answered doubtfully.

"No, I mean how about a double date" Drew asked.

"I don't do double dates, I pick my own girls"

"Come on, I've done it for you several times"

"Yeah, but. . ." Tristan got interrupted

"And, I am not asking you to go out with someone that is not your type, because apparently she is. . ."

"So, you are seriously going to call this girl, aren't you?"  Tristan asked.

"Of course I am, I told you I would.  I just cannot figure where she went, I looked for her all over the place and couldn't find her."

"Really, I didn't notice"

"Of course you didn't with all those girls hanging around you, it was hard to pay attention to anything else, wasn't it?"

"Well yeah, but none of them strike my fancy, to phrased it down some way, I mean don't get me wrong you know I think all women are beautiful, but not one of the girls caught my eye"

"Tristan, bro, really you cannot keep looking for her in every girl you meet, you won't find her"

"Of course I won't, she is one of a kind, I am not trying to find her anywhere"  Tristan answered a little bitter.

"Really? You are not? Then tell me, why the pattern? Tristan, man, I've known you for God knows how long and you have been going out with girls that you cannot make apart one from the other, same dark hair, same fair skin, same blue eyes, sometime green (there is a slight variation there), but still you cannot keep a steady relationship for over two weeks"

"I've never lasted longer than two weeks, ever" Tristan answered matter-of-factly.

"You know what? Lets let this matter rest, ´cause we won't get anywhere with this conversation, and who knows, maybe you will find HER, eventually."

"Maybe, but finding Rory, I think getting to the moon could be a little easier. . . you know what, you are right let's just let it go.  So, we call it a night?"

"Yeah, I'll see you tomorrow to get started on our work plan, OK? A company just won't get started by itself" Drew said, he was always so much more responsible than Tristan, but Tristan was the one with the great ideas, that's why they made such a great team.

"Yeah, but lets get together around 12. . . it's a Sunday"

"12 sharp.  The world of Graphic Design waits for no one".

"OK man, see you tomorrow then" they arrived at Tristan´s apartment building, did the whole manly hand shake thing that they usually do (do they teach them that when we are not watching, or something?), and with that Drew got into his car and Tristan went into his building.

-* And back to where we left the Girls *-

"So that was Drew, huh? He seemed cute" Rory asked, putting behind the small fight they had a few moments ago before the eager young man drove by.

"Yeah" Janine answered, and you could almost see the small stars in her eyes.

"My, my ,my, what a hero can do! Oh the vapors" Rory joked, saying those last words with a southern accent.

"Oh, stop it, Rory!" Janine answered playfully.

"OK, come on babe, it's late".

And with that both friends walked together to their apartment.

-*-    -*-   -*-

Sunday went by, with no special event on any of our friends, that is until late afternoon.  The guys did their work plan.  And the girls, they hung out, watched TV, and did pretty much nothing.  But then:

-* At Drew´s Apartment *-

"Hey man, we've been working our buts off with this thing, how about a coffee break.  It will help us clear our minds" Tristan asked, apparently he learned, from watching a certain girl drink coffee, to enjoy such a drink almost as much as she did.  At first he did it to have things in common, but then he just understood why she liked it so much and got hooked on it.

"That is not such a bad idea, come on lets go, my treat this time" Drew said

"I won't argue with that kind of logic" and both guys walked out of the apartment and to the street because the coffee place was in walking distance from where they where.

-* At Rory´s and Janine´s *-

"You know what?" Rory asked her friend, and not waiting for an answer she continued "I am in the mood for a good cup of coffee, like one from the coffee house you know.  We have great coffee here, don't get me wrong, but I think we should take this time to go out and. . ."

But Janine cut her off saying "Ok, Ok, Ok, stop marketing this thing, lets go", and both girls got their coats and walked out of their apartment to go to the coffeehouse, which was a few steps away, which was very convenient.

-* At the Coffee House *-

Both girls were standing in line when the guys came in.  Drew stayed in the line and Tristan went to the bathroom for a minute, and then came the encounter.  As the girls grabbed their cups of coffee and started to walk out of the line in direction to a table, they came across Drew.

"Janine?!" He exclaimed doubtfully.

"Drew? Hey, nice running into you here, I've never seen you around."

"Apparently we never came in at the same time, because I am sure that I would definitely remember seeing someone like you here" Drew said.

And as Janine was starting to say "Drew this is my friend . . ." Someone came to Drew and said

"Hey man, got our coffee yet"

"TRISTAN!" a surprised Rory said.

"RORY!" Tristan said almost inaudibly.

"He's Tristan?" Janine said

"She's THE Rory?" Drew asked even more surprised than Janine.