*Thanks for all the reviews! Keep them coming!
*It is Friday, the first day that the project was handed out, and Tristan is going to see a little of Rory's life.
Tristan and Rory were just hanging out in her room, listening to music and talking about nothing in particular. Pretty soon, her mom came back from Luke's, and it was time to get ready for dinner. Lorelai whined the whole way upstairs of how it wasn't fair to go, making both the teenagers to laugh. Rory then showed Tristan where the bathroom was so he could go change. Twenty minutes later, because of Lorelai, they were ready to go.
Once they got to the Gilmore mansion, they just sat in the car, preparing them for tonight's dinner. After about a minute, they all made it to the front porch.
'You ring the bell' 'Mom! I rang it last week, and the week before it, now it's your turn to ring the bell.' 'But I don't want to ring the bell, and since I'm not going to, we should all just leave!' said Lorelai, hoping that her plan would work. Ding Dong. 'Tristan! How could you ring it! My plan was not to ring it, go home, and hopefully my parents would forget about dinner tonight!' 'Ugh…I'm sorry?' stuttered Tristan, but fully knowing that she was joking. 'Evil bible boy' muttered Lorelai. 'What is this about an 'evil bible boy'?' 'Mom! What are you doing there? Where is your maid of the week?' 'Now don't be foolish Lorelai…what are we even doing still standing here, come on now, lets go in.'
'I hope you do realize Lorelai, that I do not go through maids once a week!' 'Yes you do Emily.' 'Hey grandpa!' said Rory hugging her grandfather. 'Why hello Rory, and who is this young man with you?' 'O I'm sorry, this is Tristan DuGrey, and he is my partner for…' 'Rory dinner is ready, we will talk about this over food.'
Once everyone sat down, Emily and Richard on the ends, Lorelai on one side, and Tristan and Rory on the other side. After dinner was placed in front of them, Rory told her grandparents all about the project, and why Tristan was here. Tristan surprised Rory a lot by acting like a gentleman. The whole banter with Lorelai and her parents' disagreement went on throughout dinner. Soon it was time to leave, and see Rory' 'home life'.
At the Gilmore house, now inside
'Hey sweets' 'Yea mom?' 'I'm going over to Luke's for some coffee and to talk, umm be home about eleven? Ok bye!' 'Bye mom' 'Bye Lorelai.' Once she left the house, the two teens stood in an uncomfortable silence. 'Ok, well do you want to go over to Lane's now, or do you need to be home?' 'We can go to Lanes, that's fine. My parents are out of the country until the end of the month, so yea.' 'Ok, well go get your clothes to change into, and I'll be right back.'
While Rory went to her room to change, she didn't shut the door all the way. And Tristan just came back in, and was heading to the bathroom, when he saw a reflection of Rory in her mirror. He knew he shouldn't be looking, but he was a guy after all, and she was stripping her clothes off. He knew it gone to far when she was only in her bra, and about to take off her skirt. Tristan had to restrain himself so he wouldn't go after her, so he went to go change. Five minutes later, he came out in his dark denim jeans and striped tight polo shirt, all from Abercrombie & Fitch. Rory soon came out wearing tight jeans and a light blue spaghetti strap top that hugged her nicely, and left some midriff showing. All Tristan could do was to breath deeply, but luckily for him, Rory didn't notice.
'You look nice Tristan. Where did you get your clothes at?' 'O I bought them at Abercrombie & Fitch. Thanks, so do you.' Rory just smiled and lead the way to Lane's house.
At Lane's house, both the girls had to sneak Tristan up the stairs to her room, and thank god that Mrs. Kim was in the back. 'So would you two like to tell me what that was all about?' 'O my momma is very strict, no boys aloud. Yup that's momma alright.' 'Lane this is Tristan DuGrey, my partner for the next two weeks, and Tristan, this is my best friend, Lane Kim.' 'Nice to meet you Lane' 'You two' 'Oh Rory, you have to hear this new band that I found, it's like a mixture of Nirvana, Godsmack, and Blink 182. It's the best yet!' Lane then lifted up her 'heavy metal band floorboard, and put it in the cd player, inside her closet of course! So they squeezed the three of them into Lane's closet to listen to the music. Tristan watched how the two girls got along with each other, and how different their style of friendship was so different from the kids at Chilton. Pretty soon it was time to go back because of Lane's ten o'clock curfew. So Tristan and Rory snuck out down the tree from Lane's window because of Mrs. Kim.
Since they had an hour left, and Tristan didn't want to leave just yet, they went to the bridge and had a deep conversation.
After a few peaceful minutes of sitting side by side, Rory was curious about Tristan's personalities. 'Tristan can I ask you something?' 'Sure' 'I know we only hung out tonight, but you seem so different of the way you acted around my mom, grandparents, and Lane. At school you're this prep guy who seems like you don't if you make anyone feel bad, but you were the complete opposite tonight. Why is that?' Tristan who wasn't sure of how to answer this, thought for a while. 'Well to tell you the truth, I really don't have an answer. All I can say is that the Hartford society shapes you into the rich snobby person that they want you to be. It's all an act Rory; nobody is truly friends with anyone there like you and Lane are. That's just how my life is. I can't say that I like it, well except for the money, but that doesn't buy everything. What you have with your mom, I could never have with my parents in a million years.' Said a whispering Tristan. 'I'm sorry Tristan, I had no idea.' 'It's not your fault.'
'So let me ask you something then Rory. What is up with you and bag boy? I mean, wouldn't he be jealous if he knew that I was with you right now?' 'O, well umm, were not together anymore. We broke up five weeks ago today actually.' Tristan was smiling inside, but didn't want to gloat in front of Rory about it. 'Can I ask why he would dump you, or was it that you dumped him?' 'No it's fine. It was on our three-month anniversary date, he took me to this nice restaurant, and after we ate our foods, he told me. It turned out that he and his friend Matt, seemed to like each other as more then friends.' 'So your telling me that bagboy is gay?' laughed Tristan. 'Yes he is gay, and no, I did not turn him gay. He told me that he had to make sure he was…kind of like Jack and Joey on Dawson's Creek.' 'But why would he date you for three months? That's kind of sick.' 'I'm not really sure, I guess he was afraid of people rejecting him, I don't know.' And so the two of the sat there together in silence. This was the start of a beautiful friendship.
A/N-thanks for all the reviews!
Next chapter will start Monday at Chilton; wait until everyone finds out their friendship!
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