A/N: hi! Sorry sorry sorry I am so bad its been over two weeks but in my defence, my Mam has been in and out of hospital and I've been pretty sick myself so anyway, I'm back and I'm still sick but well enough to be able to sit at the computer so on with the show but first a little recap of the last chapter to catch people up (I had to read it myself)

Rory talked to Lorelai about her feelings on the lust situation that she and Tristan are stuck in. She can't remember if they were careful when they had sex in the closet. Tristan visits her that night and she says she wants to put a ban on sex, something which Tristan does not take well and he storms out, leaving Rory crying being comforted by Lorelai.

The next few days were some of the longest Rory had ever experienced at Chilton. She couldn't concentrate in class and she wasn't sleeping at night. Nobody but Paris noticed anything, well nobody that mattered anyway. The one person she wanted to talk to, who could solve some of her worries anyway, didn't seem to want to talk to her. They had several classes together but Tristan always made damn sure he was last in the classroom and first out. At lunch he could be seen sitting with his friends or down on the basketball courts, normally he was alone when he was down there but Rory didn't dare approach him. When they passed in the corridors, neither looked at the other, each seemed to find the tiles fascinating whenever they happened across each other.

Finally fed up with Rory's weird behaviour, Paris tried to talk to her one lunch time.

'Rory what's going on with you and Tristan?'

'Nothing.'

'Look Rory, you might want to lie to the whole school, I can respect that but I know there is something going on and now you're not paying attention in class, I had to rewrite your Franklin article and you were practically asleep in our student council meeting yesterday.'

'I've just had a lot on my mind.'

'Like Tristan and why you two are avoiding each other like the plague?'

'Look Paris I appreciate it and everything but I can't talk to you about Tristan, it's too weird.'

'Rory I'm with Jamie now, I like Jamie, don't for a second think I have any feelings for Tristan beyond the platonic.'

'It's just complicated, my mom knows what's going on but I haven't even told her all the details.'

'Well it might help if you tell someone and I'm willing to listen, you listen about Jamie, the least I can do is return the favour.'

'We were seeing each other and then we had this huge fight and now we're avoiding each other. That's pretty much the cliff notes version.'

'And what are the bits you're not telling your mom?'

'I think I might be pregnant.'

'What but you and he, I mean we've been back for a week are you sure, have you done a test?'

'We've been together for longer than a week but it was just this one time that we weren't careful. My mom knows about the sex but she doesn't know about the unprotected sex.'

'Does Tristan know?'

'How can he? We had a fight later that day and we haven't spoken since. And anyway I don't think I can tell him.'

'Rory you have to, what did you guys fight about anyway?'

'Sex. I told him I wanted to slow things down and he didn't.'

'Asshole.'

'Yeah. Paris what am I going to do?'

'Get a test, we can still make it to the pharmacy, we have a half hour left.'

'Thanks Paris.'

'No problem, come on.'

The girls walked away from the bench where they had been sitting and took Paris' car, speeding off in search of a pharmacy where no one would recognise them. By the time they got back to school the bell was about to go so they didn't have time to do the test.

'Do you want to keep this or will I?' Paris asked.

'Can you? Tristan has a habit of breaking into my locker.'

'Okay, meet me back here at the end of the day.'

'Thanks again.'

'What are friends for?'

'This is above and beyond, it really is.'

Rory walked to class while Paris went to her locker which just happened to be beside Tristan's. He was there when she got to hers which made the job of getting the pregnancy test into her locker a hard one. She slipped it between two books and put the books in her locked but the test fell out as she was shoving them in.

'Paris you dropped something.' Tristan said bending down to pick it up. Paris tried to get there first but Tristan was too quick. His eyes widened when he saw what he was picking up.

'Paris-'

'It's not mine you idiot.'

'Yeah, then whose is it?'

'A very good friend of yours who you're currently avoiding.'

Tristan's face blanched.

'Are you saying that this is?'

'Yes but swear you won't say anything, I wasn't supposed to tell you but yes, it's you.'

'But how I mean we were careful.'

'She said that there was one time you weren't.'

'Why didn't she tell me?'

'She said you two had a fight later that day.'

'Omigod! In the janitors closet? No she can't I mean, she's on the pill.'

'The janitors' closet? That's disgusting but hello oh smart one, the pill takes a month to come into effect. Everyone knows that.'

'Well apparently I didn't. Paris what am I going to do? I can't be a dad, I'm too young. I don't know the first thing about looking after someone else.'

'You really are so self centred do you realise that? If you're scared think about Rory and what's she's going through. She's been carrying this around for days, not being able to tell anyone, especially you because you were mad at her for wanting to slow things down.'

'I didn't-'

'Shut up, I'm not done with you yet. You have this public persona, the player, I mean you're stringing that girl in England along, you've got Rory over here who needs you and you try to act like the big tough man but really you're just a scared little boy, too afraid to break up with a girl because Daddy wants you to stay with her. Well guess what? If this test is positive, you don't get to be a scared little boy anymore because Rory is going to need you, you'll get to be daddy then. How does that sound?'

'Terrifying and accurate.' Tristan admitted honestly.

'So what are you going to do about it?'

'Talk to Rory?' Tristan said as if he was asking.

'Bingo. Be here straight after school, that's where Rory will be.'

'Yeah, okay, thanks Paris.'

'I'm hearing that a lot today.'

'Not surprising. Is she okay?'

'No, not really. I mean come on Tristan; you get mad because she wants to slow things down. Contrary to what you think, I do know you and you're not a jerk so what's with that?'

'I got scared. I mean we've been whatever it is we are to each other since before I left for England and now I get to be with her again and she starts to pull away, I was scared.'

'So was she.' Paris said simply before shutting her locker and leaving Tristan on the deserted corridor, still holding the pregnancy test. He looked at it for a second before shoving t into his locker and slamming the door. If Rory was pregnant, he was a dead man. And that was just Lorelai, his parents would kill whatever was left of him after that and then there was the disappointment his grandfather would feel. The bell rang and he shook his head, trying to empty his head of all these thoughts, he was having a hard enough time concentrating as it was.

The afternoon seemed to fly by for Rory and before she knew it or wanted it, it was time to meet Paris and take the pregnancy test. She figured the best place to do it would be school, it was a Friday afternoon which meant there would be no one around and she didn't like the idea of doing it at home. When she got to Paris' locker, she found Tristan and Paris talking and then it hit her, Tristan knew. That's why he had been staring at her all afternoon. Paris had told him.

'Paris, I can't believe you told him! I trusted you.'

'It was an accident Rory.' She told her, looking guilty all the same.

'Oh, so you just happened to meet him and you were under some magical spell that made you tell him?'

'She dropped the test when she was trying to hide it and put it in her locker.' Tristan told her.

'Quiet you.' Rory said pointing at him.

'No, you're going to have to listen to me whether you like it or not so get used to it.'

'I don't have to listen to a word you say, not after you walked out.'

'You might be pregnant, with my kid, you damn well will listen to what I have to say.'

'Who says that even if I am pregnant I'll want you involved?'

'Don't be stupid.' Tristan told her, scoffing.

'I'm not being stupid; for once I'm being smart. The only stupid thing I did was sleep with you in the first place.'

'You don't mean that.' Tristan said, looking hurt.

'You don't know what I mean now shut up and give me the test whoever has it.'

Wordlessly, Tristan handed over the box and Rory stalked into the bathroom opposite the lockers. She was close to tears and right now she wanted Tristan to hold her and tell her everything was going to be okay but he was part of the problem. When Rory came out of the bathroom, Paris and Tristan were waiting outside for her. He eyes were red and puffy and Tristan knew that he at least was partly to blame. He felt really bad but at the same time, she had hurt him pretty badly herself and no matter how much he wanted to hold her, he couldn't forget her words 'the only stupid thing I did was sleep with you in the first place'. That had stung and he didn't mind admitting it. All thoughts were driven from his head however when Paris asked.

'Well, are you pregnant?'

A/N: HAHAHAHA I'm evil aren't I? Hehe, I'll try have a quick update, I'm on holidays now so crossing my fingers. I would just like to point out that IF Rory is pregnant, it will not be one of those typical Rory gets pregnant stories but then again, she might not be pregnant so it might not matter. My personal favourite Rory gets pregnant story is The More Things Change by Surya so everyone should go read that!