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Every Time There's a Concert

Chapter 11: The First Fight

"Could I interest you in some dessert? Coffee? Anything else I could get for you?" The waiter said as he cleared their main course plates.

"Rory, dessert?" Tristan asked, knowing that if Rory didn't was definitely going for coffee.

"Sure. . . um" she said as she looked up at the dessert list "um. . . I would like to have a. . . Mousse Frangelico?!" Rory finally answered. "Oh! And Coffee."

"Make that two of each please" Tristan asked.

"May I say that is a fine choice.  That is one very smooth dessert.  I'll be right back with that" the waiter said and turned to get what he had been asked for.

"So, how are you enjoying everything so far?" Tristan asked as he intertwined his fingers with hers.

"Oh! Everything was amazing. . . I really liked this place" Rory answered as she looked him in the eye, in that special way that only a person in love can.

"So, would you like to do anything else? Anything you want" Tristan stated.

At this moment, their waiter brought the coffee over to the table.  Rory was extremely thankful for the fast service. . . at least for coffee.  But in a Gilmore World, that was the only thing that required a 'speedy' service.

"How about Bungee Jumping" Rory answered back, "You did say anything I wanted"

"Sure thing. . ." he said, and then he looked at his watch "Oh, but you know what?"

"What?"

"The Bungee Jumping place is closed by now. . . I mean, it is after all really late" He said, jokingly.

"Oh! Darn!!! And I was sooo looking forward to finally Bungee Jumping. . . I guess we will have to do that some other time"

"Yeah, I guess so. . . so sorry to disappoint!"

"Well it's not your fault that there are no Bungee Jumping places that are open 24-hours, for those spur of the moment types.  I guess they haven't covered all the possible markets, huh?"

"Guess not. . . So really, is there anything you would like to do?" Tristan asked leaving the joke aside.

"No, we could always go back to my apartment and. . ." but Rory stopped mid-sentence.

"Miss Gilmore, are you proposing something indecent to me, 'cause I can tell you right now that I don't do that kind of thing. . ." but as Tristan was saying this he saw the expression on her face and just followed to where she was looking.

"Um. . . Dean! Hi!" Rory said a little uncomfortable.  It was the first time that she saw him, after they broke up, because of Jess.  Rory heard that Dean moved to Chicago again and finished school there.

"Great" Tristan mumbled under his breath and rolled his eyes.

"Rory! Hey!!" Dean answered with the same awkwardness.

"It's nice seeing you. . . um. . . would you like to seat with us." Rory said and knew at the moment those words came out that she had done something that she shouldn't have, and looking over at Tristan, who was notoriously upset, knew that she was right.

"Only if your date. . ." but he stopped mid-sentence too, when he noticed who was accompanying Rory "doesn't mind. . . You are dating Tristan. . . um. . . Hey Man, how are you?" Dean asked trying to be polite.

"Peach-y" Tristan answered sarcastically, and Rory pressed his hand a little at his reaction.

"Good for you. . . No Rory, but thanks, I really should be going.  I have to go back.  I have an early flight tomorrow, I just came to visit my girlfriend, who happens to go to Yale. . . But it was nice seeing you again.  Say hello to Lorelai for me, would you?"

"Sure thing. . . have a nice flight" Rory said

"Have a good night. . . both of you" Dean finished and walked away.  But that small encounter had revived many painful memories in Tristan.  Mainly the one that, that guy had prevented him from getting the girl the first time around.  He was aware that it was so much better this time, but still. . . man's pride.

At this moment, the waiter arrived at the table with their desserts.

"Hey man, would you mind wrapping those to go for us and get us the check as soon as you can, please" Tristan asked.

"Right away, sir" and the waiter turn around and went back to wrap up the desserts.

"So. . . I know I shouldn't ask, but. . . would you mind telling me, why are we leaving?" Rory asked, but knew what the answer was going to be.

"You shouldn't ask then" and at that moment the waiter came back with the check for them, Tristan placed the cash on the tray, helped Rory out of the chair.  Got her coat.  Grabbed the desserts and started walking towards the door.

"Thank you so much, everything was wonderful!" Rory said with a straight face to the waiter, who was extremely confused.

"Have a good night. . ." he didn't get a chance to finish because Rory was walking towards the door to catch up with Tristan. "m'am".

Outside The Restaurant

"Tristan wait. . . please!" Rory said as she came out of the restaurant.

"Out of all the gin joints, in all the places, he had to come to the one we were celebrating our anniversary to.  Talk about the ironies in life.  His girlfriend attends Yale." Tristan was extremely upset.

"I'm sorry. . ." Rory started to apologize.

"And what exactly are you apologizing for?" Tristan inquired.

"Well for. . . um. . . you being upset"

"Do you even know why I am upset?"

"No, but you can tell me" Rory said, filling every word with concern.

"Of course I can tell you. . . We were celebrating our anniversary Rory, and you invite your ex-boyfriend to sit with us. . . and not just any ex-boyfriend, I mean I could handle Bradley, even Jess, but to invite Dean to sit with us. . . I mean, DEAN, Rory!"

"So it was Dean, so what?" She was getting really upset.

"So what? I can believe you just said that!!!"

"Well, what's wrong with Dean?  You know I had a life before you came into it the first time, and I had a life before you came into it the second time. . . I never hid anything from you"

"Of course you had a life. . . Hell! I had a life too.  But do you remember that particular feeling you felt in your gut when you saw me with Chiara at the Coffee House, THREE months ago."

And now Rory was catching up, and it showed in the expression on her face.  But then she got even more upset.

"Yeah, that feeling exactly.  But I never invited Chiara to sit with us at OUR table, I mean, I even met. . . MET. . . with her when we were not even dating" he said as he lifted his hands in the air.

"Your point on Dean being, what exactly?" Rory said matching his anger now.  They were arguing in the middle of the sidewalk.  A full-blown fight.

"Dean was the one person standing in between you and me the first time around!!!!"

"There was no you and me and No First Time around Tristan, I didn't like you that way back then.  It wasn't his fault that I didn't like you then."

"But if he hadn't been in the picture things would have been different between you and me then"

"NO, they wouldn't have been different then.  I didn't like the guy you were then."

"You wouldn't understand right now, and I don't think I have the energy to explain to you"

"No, you started this and now you finish it. . . I don't know where you will find that 'energy' but you are explaining to me right now what the problem is."

"How could you invite him to sit with US, today, out of all days.  God Rory!! I mean, you loved the guy, or at least you claim you did. . ."

"I claimed. . ." Rory said even angrier now.

"Yeah, you claimed, because if you had loved him, you wouldn't have kissed me that night at Madeline's Party. ."

"That's a low blow, even for the old Tristan. . . I guess it was true, you changed but you didn't forget who you were."

"No, I changed.  Believe me, I changed.  But the person that I hold the dearest, that I would give my life for, just invited her ex-boyfriend to sit with us at OUR table on OUR anniversary.  If you want to talk about low blows we can start with that one.  I changed Rory, but I am still a man that has feelings, and I have always been a jealous man, you know that, you've known that forever."

"You know what? I cannot believe that the man I love the most is behaving that way, so call me when you calm down. . . I'm taking a cab to my apartment?"  And like that she let it slip.  She loved him.

When Tristan heard 'the man I love the most' felt like a thousand bricks fell on top of him at that moment.  Did she even notice what she said? She loved him.  So many feelings ran through him at that moment that he didn't know what to do.  To kiss her, to hold her.  The first thing he had to do was stop her from getting into the cab.

When Rory finished the sentence, she knew what she had done.  She let it slip.  She never intended on things to turn out that way.  She had everything planned.  How she was going to tell him that she loved him, on his birthday, surrounded by candles, at the park, she would set everything up with Janine's help.  And now everything was ruined.  But maybe not, he was so upset that maybe he didn't notice what she had said.  But when she turned around and saw the look on his face, she knew that those words had not passed by that way.  Goes to prove he's a good listener.

"I wasn't supposed to tell you like this" she said when she looked at him "I had everything planned out perfectly.  Those words don't come. . ." but for the second time that night she stopped mid sentence.

When she turned around and started talking, he closed the gap between them fast, walked towards her, and kissed her softly.

". . . easy for me" she said as he let go of her lips.

"I love you soooo much. . . years, years I waited for you to say those words to me. . . I don't care how you said them, but that you said them" and he kissed her again and again, right there in the middle of the sidewalk, for everyone to see.

"Yeah, but it was supposed to be perfect" she said.

"And it was. . . I am so sorry for how I reacted, I know I was a jerk"

"That, you were DuGrey. . ."

"I shouldn't have said that Rory. . . that one kiss held me forever and would have lasted even more if I hadn't come across you again."

"I love you Tristan. . . I honestly do. . . The real thing. . . not a crush, not 'I love you' like a teeny bopper. . . I love you like in the big leagues" she said as she smiled at him and her eyes beamed.   Not as much as his, though.

"And how do they love in the big leagues, Gilmore?" he said as he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her closer.

"Oh! I don't know. . . you know all those hurdles they have to go through, and all the training, and the scouts, and all those things. . . well we went through all that to get to this point"

"Got it!" he said as he placed a tiny kiss on her nose.

"Really?!?" Rory asked confused.

"Nope, but it sounded like a good attempt to explain something with sports when you totally lack any knowledge on that subject"

"You could tell, huh?"

"Hardly, you covered it well. ."  He lied.

"Great. . ." and they started walking to the car, like that scene and that first fight never happened.

"You know. . .?" he started.

"Yeah. . ."

"If you already had everything planned on how you where going to tell me that you love me, I guess I can pretend for a couple of minutes that I don't know that you love me, and you can go along with what you had planned. . ." he said as he opened the door to the car for her.

They reached Rory's building and he walked her to her apartment.

"So. . . are we okay?" Rory asked, still worried.

"Yeah, we're fine."

"I'm sorry for upsetting you. . . I knew I shouldn't have done it bu. . ." and he kissed her again, over and over.

"You've made me the happiest man on earth. . ."

"I'm glad. . . it's a way to pay back that you've made me the happiest woman on earth all this time. . ." she said and she kissed him this time  "I should go in know, we both have long days ahead of us tomorrow"

"Yeah, I should get going"

"OK, have a great night. . . I love you" she said and it was as if he couldn't let go of her, he came back and kissed her again, and again, and again. . .

"I should go, if I stay another minute here I might never leave again. . . I love you too" and he finally left. . . and she watched as he left, until he got on the elevator and waved good-bye.

Inside the Apartment

Rory closed the door and leaned against it.

"Hey Gilmore!! You look love-struck"

"Janine!!!! God, you scared me!!! I didn't see you there"

"With those little hearts you have in your eyes, I would believe it is extremely difficult to see anything. . . So dinner was good, I take it"

"Not at all. . ." Rory said as she left her coat on the hanger at the entrance and walked towards Janine at the couch.

"Care to elaborate on that. . . 'cause if after a bad night you come back looking like that, I would really like to see how you would come home after a good night"

"Well we started dinner and we were talking, and laughing, and everything. . . and then it was time for dessert"

"What happened?"

"Dean happened"

"Oh!!! Enough said!!"

"Believe me, there's more. . ."

"OK!" Janine placed a bookmark on the book she was reading "you have my undivided attention."

"Well, we were talking and all of a sudden Dean is standing behind Tristan, but Tristan doesn't know who is behind him, and Dean doesn't know who I am having dinner with"

"And they both hated each other soooo much"

"And they still do. . . so you can imagine.  And 'my stupid mouth, it got me in trouble' because I asked Dean to sit with us. . ."

"Uuuuuh, bad move!!" Janine stated and winced at the thought.

"And I knew that. . . yet I still asked him to sit"

"Describe expressions. . ."

"So, Dean doesn't know who I am sitting with, but Tristan already knew who I was talking to, so I got his expression first. . . and then Dean's when he saw it was Tristan. . . and all of a sudden I felt right back at the school dance so many years ago, they had those exact same faces."

"Yeah, but the rolls where different. . . this time Tristan was the boyfriend"

"So, Dean left a minute after that, and Tristan asked for the check and all that. . . by the way, here's dessert, enjoy. . . and paid and we left, and then we had this major fight. . ." and so Rory gave Janine all the details of the fight and how she had told Tristan that she loved him.

"So are you still going to do what we had plan"

"Yeah! I mean, it was part of his birthday gift, right? So I am still going to do it"

"Great, then we have to start looking for everything."

"Although, there might be some change in plans"

And Rory proceeded to tell Janine the small changes that she was planning to do.  Janine was all for it.

"So. . . have you told Drew that you love him? Or has he?"

"Yep. . . actually he said it first"

"You didn't tell me about this. . ."  Rory said really excited

"Well, you see, it was on thanksgiving break. . ." but Janine got interrupted by Rory's squeal.

"THANKSGIVING!! And you are telling me this now. . ."

~*~ ~*~ ~*~ Flashback~*~ ~*~ ~*~

Drew's house.  Hartford.

"Janine. . . would you like to play tag with us outside?" 5-year-old Emma asked, as she saw Janine sitting on the porch.

"Sure, Emma. . ." and got up and started to play with all of Drew's nieces and nephews.  They were 7 in between the ages of 5 and 8, sons and daughters to Drew's 2 sisters and 2 brothers, and the youngest who was little Daniella, who was 3. 

"I want to play too. . ." Daniella said as she saw that everyone was going to play.

"No, Daniella, you can't play because you are too young and this is only for big boys and girls" Jeremy, her 6-year-old brother, told her.

"Janine, I wanna play too. . ." Daniella said as she saw that Janine was approaching her.

"Make you a deal. . ." Janine said to the kids. "What if I carry Daniella, so she won't get hurt, and we can all play…"

"Yeyyy!! Yez, pleez" Daniella said.

"Is that OK, with you guys. . .?" and the answers were affirmative from all of them.

And they started to play, and run around all over the porch and the front yard, and everywhere they could run to.  At this moment, Drew came out of the house to see his girlfriend running around the place, and hiding and, basically acting like a kid.  A few minutes later, one of his sisters and his sister-in-law came out of the house and saw the same scene.

"Those kids love that girl. . . she is so patient with every one of them. . . you have a great girl right there, don't let her get away" His sister said to him.

"I don't intend too. . ." and with that he ran to where Janine was and grabbed Daniella from her and they all started playing.

When the kids finally got tired, they walked to the house, and Janine and Drew where laughing at Daniella, who started to run as if she was one of the big kids, but the 'big kids' forgot she was coming and left her behind.

Right then Janine tagged Drew "you're it" and she started running to no avail because he caught up with her really fast, and as he picked her up from the waist and turned her around they fell on the ground and started laughing so hard.  When they finally realized where they were they stopped laughing. . . and Drew stared at her.

"God you are so great!. . . no wonder I love you so much" and he kissed her as they were lying on the ground.  She was shocked but when he released her from the kiss, she said "I love you, too.