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The next morning, Tristan cornered Rory outside of homeroom.

"So, when do you want to us to meet, to study?" Tristan asked her.

"Never" Rory thought.

"Well, you'll have to come over to my house to work." Rory answered.

"That's cool. But why your house?" Tristan asked her.

"Because, you have a car and I don't. Now, I have to get to homeroom." Rory said.

"Okay. I'll catch you at lunch, to finish working out the details" Tristan said. After quickly patting her arm, he left.

"Remember, this is for Harvard" Rory thought to herself, as she walked into her homeroom.

After Rory had gotten her lunch tray, she headed into the dining hall.

Tristan was watching for her. When he saw her, he got up and walked over to her.

"Hey. I'm sitting over here."

Before Rory could say a word, Tristan had taken her tray and headed for the table where he had been sitting at, and eating his own lunch.

Wordlessly, she followed him.

But after she had sat down, Rory noticed people looking at them and whispering to each other.

To late, she realized what Tristan taking her tray, and then them sitting together looked like.

"Tristan, you shouldn't have taken my tray," she hissed.

Tristan looked up at her, with a totally confused look on his face. "Why not? I was only trying to be a gentlemen."

"Forget it" Rory told him.

"Let's get down to business. How bad are you doing in History?" Rory asked him.

Tristan winced. "I'm pretty much failing."

"Okay. So, we should probably meet about twice a week. What days work best for you?" Rory asked.

"I'm open to pretty much anytime. Whatever works best for you" Tristan replied.

"Um, how about Saturdays, and Mondays after school?" Rory asked him.

"That's works fine for me. But don't you think your boyfriend will want you to spend Saturdays with him?"

Rory shifted uncomfortably. "I'm, uh, not with Dean anymore."

"Oh. Well, I'm sorry. Do you have another boyfriend?" Tristan asked her.

"No, I don't" Rory answered.

"Okay, well then Saturday, and Monday after school, it is" Tristan told her.

After Rory had finished her lunch, she wrote out directions to her house for Tristan.

"See you on Saturday" Rory called over her shoulder as she walked out of the dining hall.

Rory got up fairly early for a Saturday morning, so she was very surprised to see Tristan standing at her door an hour after she had rolled out of bed.

"Oh, hi. I didn't expect to see you this early" Rory said.

For just a minute, she wondered how she looked.

"I've barely looked in a mirror," Rory thought to herself.

Before she could continue this train of thought, Tristan spoke. "Sorry. Am I to early?"

"I guess it's okay. But let's work on the porch. My mom's still not awake," Rory told him.

"That's fine" Tristan answered.

"I'll be right back," Rory said.

Tristan shrugged and went to sit down on the porch steps.

Suddenly, Rory poked her head back out the door. "I forgot to ask. Do you like coffee?"

"Yeah, actually I do" Tristan replied.

"Okay" Rory said, and shut the door again.

Hurrying into the kitchen, she prepped the coffee maker and then flipped it on.

Taking a piece of paper, she wrote Lorelai a note, telling her that she and Tristan were outside on the porch studying.

Rory left the note on the counter.

Grabbing two coffee mugs, Rory made them some coffee and headed outside.

"Here" she said as she handed Tristan his coffee cup.

"I didn't know what you liked in your coffee, so it's just black."

Tristan smiled at her. 'Black is fine. Thanks."

"You're welcome. Now, did you bring your history book?" Rory asked.

"Yeah, here it is" Tristan said.

He opened it to the place where he was supposed to be.

"Okay" Rory began as she and Tristan bent their heads together over the book.

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