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A/N: Sorry for the long hiatus but here is a new update. I'm pretty busy now a days, so bear with me.

"What do you mean?" Rory asked Lorelai curiously.

"You just look kind of dreamy." Lorelai told her.

"Dreamy about what?" Rory asked.

Lorelai cocked her head in the direction of the trail of gravel smoke still left from Tristan's exit.

"About Tristan?" Rory squealed.

"Yeah. You were all smiley and just generally dreamy looking." Lorelai teased.

"Please. I'm happy that he was nice. He actually studied. I think he's going to pass this test. And if he passes History it will look really great…"

"On your application to Harvard." Lorelai finished for her.

Rory gave her a look and walked passed her. "I thought you wanted me to go to Harvard."

"That's not the question or the issue here." Lorelai argued.

"What issue? It's not that big a deal. I had a good time with Tristan. He made me laugh and it made me happy that he actually studied. Plus, he likes coffee." Rory said.

"Ah ha!" Lorelai exclaimed.

"Ah ha, what?" Rory asked as she set the coffee mugs in the sink and walked into her room.

"You never point out if a guy likes coffee unless you like him. You know that I might like him if he likes coffee so you brought that little tid-bit up so that I might view him in a more favorable light. So…HA!" Lorelai exclaimed triumphantly.

Rory heaved a deep sigh. "Please, can we stop talking about this? I like Tristan…"

"I knew it!" Lorelai crowed in satisfaction.

"As I was saying. I like Tristan as a friend…note the friend part." Rory said pointedly.

"Fine. But we'll see who's right in the end. I'm gonna win." Lorelai jabbed.

Rory sighed again and plopped on her un-made bed, letting the sunshine soak her in its warmth.

"Did you know that you have highlights in your hair?" Lorelai asked abruptly.

Rory lifted her head a little bit and looked at Lorelai. "I do? I didn't put any in."

"No. I mean natural highlights. You can see them when the sun shines on your hair. It makes it look all shiny and like you have red highlights. It's really pretty."

Rory jumped up, grabbed a hand mirror, and brought it over to the window. "I don't see it."

Lorelai walked over and re-positioned the mirror. "See?"

"Cool! It does look like I have high lights."

"You do. It's just natural highlights. My little gorgeous girl." Lorelai crooned.

Rory laughed and grabbing a pillow off of her bed, smacked Lorelai with it, laughing the whole time.

Lorelai crowed indignantly and pounced upon Rory's other pillow and came up swinging.

Rory ran out of the room with Lorelai hot on her heels. "Come back here, missy!"

"Eat my dust!" Rory yelled back barely getting the sentence out she was laughing so hard.

They circled the couch each one trying to get a pillow smack in on the other one but neither one succeeding.

Rory suddenly bolted through the door and out onto the front yard.

Lorelai gaped and followed quickly after her. "I'm going to win! Say I win!"

"NO!" Rory bellowed and smacked her with her pillow when Lorelai got to close.

"That was cold!"

"So not! I'm winning!" Rory squealed.

Lorelai took advantage of Rory's distraction to get a good smack in.

Rory fell over and took Lorelai with her, so that they were lying in the grass, half-heartedly popping each other with their pillows and giggling helplessly.

Babette who had come out to retrieve Apricot just looked at them and shaking her head she scooped Apricot up and walked back inside.

A/N: Well there's an update. It may not be that long, but it is an update. Remember to REVIEW! Please keep all reviews clean and G rated. Thanks.