The Twists and Turns of Life
A/N: Does no one read these little notes I give at the beginning of each chapter? Because if certain people had read the author's note for the last chapter, you would already know the answer to a question, or statement, rather, of where this is going. ;-) I'm glad everyone is reading, though. Thank you all for the reviews. I'm one happy girl!
Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls.
Chapter 10: Summer's Attempt
"Hello?"
"Hey, mom," Rory said happily into the phone.
"Babe! How is everything down there?"
"Great. I helped Maggie plant some flowers in the backyard."
"Really?"
"Yep. Of course, she did most of the work, but I put some seeds into the ground."
"Aww…my own little gardener…"
Both shared a laugh. "So…anything interesting going on there?"
Lorelai paused, unsure of whether or not to tell Rory about her little conversation with Tristan. "Um…Tristan came by the other day."
Rory frowned when she heard the name. "Oh? What did he say?"
"Something interesting, in fact. He told me that you wrote in a letter to him that you were planning on moving there."
Rory froze, trying to think of what to say. "I," she paused again, "I was just upset and confused when I wrote that letter and it was mostly just a bunch of nonsense. I don't even remember half the stuff I wrote in it."
"Okay, 'cause you know that you could never leave mommy and daddy, right? We'd never let you leave," Lorelai joked, not picking up on Rory's discomfort.
"Yeah," she whispered into the phone.
"So?" Lorelai's perky voice broke Rory out of her state.
"So, what?"
"Meet anyone?"
Rory suddenly smiled. "Yeah. There are these girls, Beth, Faith, and Amy, that I became friends with the first day here. And I also met this guy-"
"A guy?" Lorelai interrupted, remembering Tristan's love declaration for her daughter.
"Yeah. His name is Jess and he is so funny and fun to hang around with…"
Rory's voice faded as Lorelai sat sadly. She couldn't help but think of how Tristan would react when he found out that there was a new guy in Rory's life.
* * *
"Hey, Tristan."
Tristan rolled his eyes at the girl. "Hey, Summer," he greeted blandly.
"So…" she started to circle him, skimming her fingers along his chest, "what are you up to tonight?"
He sighed. "Nothing."
"Oh…well, I thought that we could…get together…maybe study or something."
He rolled his eyes again. The fact that Summer even knew of the word 'study' was a miracle in itself. "No, thanks."
She frowned, but put on a smile anyway. "Don't you want any company?" She looked at him with sad eyes. He wanted to laugh at her stupid attempt to 'spend time with him'.
He paused for a minute, appearing to think over the idea. "Fine, but I'll come over to your house."
Her face broke out into a grin. "Great, I'll see you tonight." She gave him a kiss on the cheek and walked off.
He groaned and ran a hand over his face. What am I doing?
* * *
Rory looked at Jess with adoring eyes as he told a story from his childhood. He was so great to be around and she never had a down moment when he was around.
"-so then she pushed me to the ground and smudged the ice cream all over my face!" He paused to see her watching him. She had been doing that a lot lately and he loved that he had that kind of attention from her.
She laughed softly and shook her head. "Who thought that Jess Mariano would be tackled by a girl?"
"Hey!" he mock protested. "We were six!"
"Sure."
"We were. And I wasn't about to tackle a girl."
"Uh huh."
"Come on, Rory," he pouted.
She rolled her eyes. "Fine. Jess is the strongest guy I know and the nicest in the world."
"How come I'm not the strongest guy in the world?"
"What?"
"You said 'strongest guy I know', not 'strongest guy in the world'."
She paused to try to recall if she did say that, then she shrugged. "I wouldn't go as far as saying that."
He glared at her playfully. "That's it." He grabbed a nearby pillow and started to hit her with it.
They both laughed as she reciprocated the action.
* * *
There he stood, in front of Summer's house. It was ridiculous, really, trying to get over Rory by supposedly screwing the first thing that came his way. It wouldn't even work; he thought about her every breathing moment there was.
He sighed; this was, is, not a good idea. He turned and started to head back towards his car when he heard Summer's voice.
"There you are! I was wondering when you were going to get here." She came to his side and took his hand, pulling him into her house.
He said nothing as she urged him up into her room, nor did he say anything when she started to strip herself of half of her clothes. She started to kiss him hungrily and work on his shirt and pants. She pushed him down onto the bed, that's when the situation came full blast to him. He pushed her off of him and hastily put his shirt back on and buttoned his pants.
"What are you doing?" she asked sweetly, too sweetly; it didn't fit her at all.
"I have to go," he mumbled before walking out of the room and getting in his car.
* * *
"So, are we going to do something later today?" Jess asked her while they were standing next to each other in a classroom.
"Sure, why not…" she paused and shut her eyes, "…and now my head hurts from earlier," she said while rubbing her forehead.
He laughed, amusement apparent in his eyes. "Well, what did you expect to happen from banging your head against the locker 23 times?"
"Hey, that Carrie chick was practically bitching me out, so that seemed like a good idea at the time and it was 28 times, not 23." Upon seeing the look on Jess' face, she shut her eyes and shook her head slightly. "I don't know why I corrected that."
He chuckled pulled her to him, placing a soft kiss on her forehead. "Is that better?" he asked as if speaking to a baby.
She smiled, then put on a pout. "A wittle bit, but I got a headache."
"Aww…poor baby…how about I get you some coffee later?"
Her face broke into a huge smile. "You know me all too well." She pulled away from him and sat in her seat as the teacher came into the now full classroom.
"That I do," he whispered to himself before turning his full attention to the lesson.