Disclaimer: I own nothing. Except the idea and the inspiration for that idea came from a song so.

A/N: Thank you so much for the reviews. When I saw them there
was a happy dance involved.

Thanks especially to Nat1, KITTY74, readergurl87, ilove2bcrazy,
michelle22, Courtney, katia, not4me and a huge thank you to
Lindsay and smile1.
Thanks to everyone else who reviewed also, it means a lot coz
this is the first story I've published here and it's the first
time I've ever written for a lot of the characters.

The day slipped by in a blur of classes, folders of notes and assignments. Rory was pleased to find she had all of her classes with at least one of the girls, all of whom were being friendly; she liked Louise and Madeline, even if their whole world revolved around boys. Paris was a bit harder to work out. She took everything seriously but was nice enough and had offered to help Rory catch up in any classes they had together. She wasn't too behind but she had missed the last month of school in LA so she did have some gaps in her notes.
She only had three classes with Tristan which was a relief. She had already decided that aside from his looks, there wasn't much else she liked about him. He was arrogant as hell, not to mention a player and every single thing he said had some sort of double meaning. Basically the kind of guy she wanted nothing to do with. Not after LA. Lunch came and she was greeted at her locker by Paris. 'Hey Rory, come have lunch with us. We can get to know you.' 'Sure. Let's go.'
Paris led Rory to the cafeteria where they took a seat at the main table, at the very top of the room. Throughout the day, Rory had learned enough about her new friends to know that she was sitting at the in-crowd table. It was her first day and already she had been accepted by the most popular people in school. If only her friends in LA could see her now. 'So Rory,' Madeline asked, 'what was with that no boyfriend comment in English Lit.?' 'Yeah,' Louise added 'what was with that?' 'Let's just say things with my boyfriend in LA didn't end too well.' 'What happened?' 'We were at a party, all my friends and I. One of my friends took something, she started to act really weird, she collapsed and we called an ambulance. I went looking for Dean, that was my boyfriend, I found him upstairs in bed with my best friend.' 'Omigod.' Paris said, 'What happened to your friend?' 'She got her stomach pumped; you'd think that she'd learned her lesson. She's still using as far as I know. I don't really talk to any of them anymore. It turns out a lot of them knew about Dean and Teri.' 'Jerk.' Madeline said, disgusted. 'Loser.' Louise agreed. 'Who are you talking about?' Tristan asked as he and the boys came up to the table. 'You of course.' Rory replied as if it was obvious. 'No seriously, who?' Brad asked. 'There's nobody giving you a hard time is there Rory?' Alex asked, looking as if he was about to get mad. All the guys, even Tristan seemed concerned; it turned out no one messed with friend of the guys' 'Mary, if someone is giving you a hard time tell us, we'll sort it out.' Tristan said in all seriousness. 'Thanks Tristan, I'm sure you'd do your best, but really I think I can handle it.' Rory said rolling her eyes. She thought it was sweet that they wanted to protect her but she didn't condone violence. 'We were just talking about her ex.' Madeline explained. 'Oh, what did he do?' Mike asked. 'He cheated on her with her best friend.' Paris filled in. 'Guys!' Rory said in protest. 'Sorry Rory but there is no secrets among friends.' 'Yeah Ror.' Brad smiled. 'What did you do about it?' Alex asked. 'Nothing, I moved two weeks later.'
Tristan, noticing Rory's discomfort, sat on the seat next to her, having previously been on the table. Rory was looking at her hands, trying to not listen to the guys fight over who was more at fault, the boyfriend or the friend. 'Hey Mary.' 'Hey Bible Boy.' 'Excuse me?' 'Y'know you are making religious references, therefore you are Bible Boy.' Tristan looked at Rory blankly. 'C'mon Tristan. Mary, as in the Virgin Mary? Do you honestly think I'm that stupid?' 'I have no idea what you are talking about.' Tristan said while leaning in so all he had to do was whisper. 'But if you're uncomfortable being the Virgin Mary, you and I can get working on adding Magdalene to it.' Rory blushed and shivered. Tristan was so close she could feel his breath on her neck. She could tell he was smirking but a second later he pulled away and said to the guys who were still arguing with the girls. 'Come on, we'll be late for soccer practice.' They said their goodbyes to the girls and as they were walking past the table, Tristan winked at Rory who looked away.