Jess's Girl

Usual Disclaimers Apply

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::::Monday::::

Rory fought with her locker to open it and when she did, the pictures made her want to go insane. She pulled them all out, ripped Tristan out of all of them, and threw them on the ground. Jess told her that Tristan seemed like he did not care at all about what happened and that went through Rory like a knife. She heard the sound of expensive shoes walking down the hall;
she didn't even have to see the girls too know who they were.

"Summer, Jolene, and Brittney, I'm actually surprised it took you so long
to come and talk to me."

She said and shut her locker; she turned to look at them.

"Look you little scum of the earth we have had it up to here with you..."

Rory looked at them and crossed her arms.

"What, you think Tristan can't handle me himself so you think you have to
protect him?"

"Well...no...we just...Oh god Gilmore your such a bitch."

They turned and walked away, Rory just turned back to her locker and let
her head drop into it.

"Such a beautiful day..."

She said and picked up her bag, she walked towards her next class, on the
way she walked past Tristan, he was surrounded by his friends and had a
girl on his arm, he stared at her but she just looked down.

:::Class:::

The teacher was going on and on about something, Rory wasn't paying
attention. Her eyes drifted over to the windows and saw Lane, Dave, and Jess standing outside the window waving and trying to get her attention,
they motioned for her to come out side, she turned back to the teacher.

"Mrs. Morris, can I please be excused, I'm not feeling well."

The teacher arched her eyebrow.

"Okay Mrs. Gilmore. Go to the office."

Rory stood up and walked out, she smiled and ran out to the stairs of the
school.

"What in the heck are ya'll doing here?"

Lane looked and smiled at her.

"Well, we figured you needed a day off."

"Uh, why?"

"Because, everything that's going on."

Jess said as he wrapped his arms around her.

"My mom would kill me."

They laughed.

"It was partly her idea..."

Rory smiled.

"Okay, where we going?"

"Have you ever heard of Argosy?"

Jess asked with an arched eyebrow.

:::New York::

Rory stood in front of the massive book store....now this was great..

:::: 4 days later:::

Rory walked out of her last class late, the teacher wanted to talk to her about something, she asked her about what happened on Monday with her not
coming to her class.

She thought the school was empty, she crossed her arms and looked down as she walked, not looking where she was going she ran right into someone. She
looked up, of course, Tristan.

"I'm sorry I wasn't looking where I was going."

Rory tried to sound as cold as possible, but it wasn't working.

"I'm sorry..."

He said looking down to her.

"You have nothing to apologize for."

She said as she walked past him.

"How are you gonna get home?"

She stopped at that point.

"Ah shit the bus!"

She sprinted outside just in time to see the bus drive by.

"Need a ride?"

She turned to Tristan holding up his keys with his other hand in his
pocket. She glared.

"I'd rather walk..."

Tristan put his hand to his side and smirked.

"You know Tristan, maybe I will forgive you, but not for what you did the
other night...."

His smirk faded, a frown took its place.

"Yes, I'm talking about 3 years ago, we were both 14, you were in Stars Hallow with three of your friends, Jess wasn't with ya'll he was in the diner so ya'll decided
to have some fun and wait for him. I remember it perfectly; you were wearing a white t-shirt with a pair of blue jeans. Your hair wasn't as long then and your eyes didn't seem so innocent. I was walking down the street
with a friend from Stars Hallow High, ya'll decide it would be fun to follow us and make crude comments. So ya'll did, I remember one you yelled was something like 'Hey stupid bitc what are you doing out here this time of night' If I remember right. You did that until we got back to my house, we ran inside and my mom threatened ya'll so ya'll ran. You see Tristan, I
don't forget things easily."

Rory said crossing her arms feeling like she needed to protect herself.
Tristan to a step closer and Rory stepped back.

"Rory you know I didn't know who you were then."

Rory threw her hands in the air in anger.

'God Tristan do you not get what we've been fighting about the last few days? Well here, let me fill you in. You treat me well because I date your
best friend!"

"No I don't!"

"Yes you do!"

"No I don't!"

"Then why do you?"

"Because....I just do..."

"That's what I thought"

She turned and started walking towards the road. She pulled out her cell
phone and dialed her mom's number.

"Hey Mom can you come pick me up please? Yea at School, I kinda missed the
bus."

Rory hung up her phone and put it in her bag again. Tristan walked up
behind her and started to put his hand on her shoulder.

"Don't touch me Tristan."

He sighed.

"If you're so mad about what happened 3 years ago, then why didn't you tell
Jess?"

"Because, I hoped maybe you would apologize, but you never did, and by the
time I had figured you wouldn't I cared about you too much...."

"You what?"

She turned to face him.

"You were my best friend for a while then you started to seem like I was just an option, and not someone you would really want to hang out with. So
I just forgot about it and left it alone, hoping it would go away."

"I'm sorry...."

Rory looked up at him.

"It's a little to late..."

Just as she said that her mom drove up in the jeep and she turned and got
in.