INTERIOR - NIGHT - FRAT HOUSE

Cut to a slice of pizza. It is RORY picking it up. The house is incredibly crowded. The music is loud. And RORY is utterly alone by the food table in a very cliche wallflower kind of way. She looks around uncomfortably and munches on her pizza, more to have something to do than out of hunger. We see Lane talking to two guys to the left of the table. RORY walks over to rejoin them.

LANE
The set's starting to come together, but the amps still sound dirty to me.

DUDE 1
What are you using? 50 Or 120?

DUDE 2
You should be using a 50. And Blue Voodoo is only good if you like a distort.

LANE
I hear the amp Jets to Brazil use is the Johnson Mil.

RORY
(Attempting to join the conversation that she does not understand)
Jets to Brazil is an emo band, isn't it?

DUDE 1
Technically, no.Its more post-emo indie rock. I think Hound dog is the best amp out there.

DUDE 2
No way. Definitely Redbone.

LANE
Yeah, it is totally rocking. I hear...

And the conversation fades out as....RORY walks away, back towards the table to grab more food or a drink.

RORY
(To herself)
Yeah, I thought so too...

Rory obviously has no idea what they are talking about. At the table covered with snacky goodness, she meets up with PARIS.

PARIS
Man, I just saw Andrew Holman from ACLU, and you will not believe what happened to him over the summer.

RORY
From ACLU?

PARIS
American Civil Liberties Union. I've been attending meetings over the summer.

RORY
You've already been to meetings?

PARIS
Well, it wasn't an official meeting. It was a leadership meeting, but I thought, hey, it won't be long until I am officially leadership, so I might as well get started right away. Get myself in there to start fixing things, before the school year begins and someone else messes them up. It's like Professor Walton was saying at the orientation last week, you need to seize opportunities before-

RORY
An orientation? You went to an orientation already?

PARIS
Freshman orientation. I meet the coordinator at the Young Democrats' tea. (proudly) I even got to ride her horse.

RORY
Man, I haven't been to any meetings yet, or gone to any orientations, or watched any classes, or attended any teas, or ridden any horses, or-

PARIS
You have signed up for classes already, right?

RORY
(in disbelief that she is so behind, left out and lost)
Signed up for classes?

PARIS
Yeah. Over the internet.

RORY
(her disbelief and panic is increasing)
Over the internet?

PARIS
All the good stuff gets taken by the upperclassmen, but you might get lucky if someone dropped a class. You should try to get into the same Journalism period as me. When we get back, I'll give you the course code of my-

She is interrupted by Tony, a handsome older guy, dressed as one would expect a respectable young Yale man to be dressed - like a Backstreet Boy.

TONY
Yo! Paris!

PARIS
Hey Tony! Rory, this is Tony. Tony, this is Rory. He's is the president of the ACLU.

RORY
Nice to meet you.

They shake hands.

TONY
(turns back to PARIS)
So I was thinking about that proposal you made at the meeting last week.

PARIS
Yeah?

TONY
Yeah, actually a bunch of us were talking about it at the coffee house last week. We called you, but you were out.

The conversation continues, but the camera focuses on Rory. She is now not only bored, but also a bit panicked.

PARIS
Saturday night?

TONY
Yeah.

PARIS
I was at Andrews'.

TONY
Working on the Muller situation.

They both break out into laughter. Rory doesn't get it.

PARIS
Did you get anywhere with that?

Fades to...