A/N: Hi, I decided that I wasn't really happy with the last chapter,so I
rewrote it.It seemed rushed to me and well I didn't like it. The storyline
is slightly changed. Up to a certain point it's the same, but I decided to
down play the parts of some minor characters./ Please Read and review, it
tickles my heart. (Don't ask.)
Chapter 14
*********
"I'm an idiot!", Rory announced storming into Paris' office.
"We really don't have time for your rantings right now.", Paris said not even looking up from the stack of paperwork in front of her. Rory sighed and slumped into a chair.
"Okay so what should be this weeks headline?", she asked absently.
"I agreed to go out with Tristan.", Rory blurted out.
"Not as snappy as I had expected, but hey that's just me."
"Par-is."
"What?"
"Say something, forbid me to go. Something! I can't do this.", Rory babbled. Paris had become a very good friend over the years and was now subjected to such pleas as this one.
"You expect me to control every aspect of your life?"
"No, I want you to snap me out of this nightmare. I want to go back to Kansas, Toto."
"What am I supposed to tell you? Either way you'll continue whining, so let's just get back to work."
"Not the tiniest insult saying how stupid I am? Nothing? Okay this is so unlike you it's scary."
"Well I've been know to scare people."
"I won't disagree with that.", she stood up
"That's the only thing you won't disagree with. Come on, let's get back to work. Oh yea, Ror I almost forgot someone called yesterday to take something out of the paper."
"Ugh. What was it?"
"Just a wedding announcement.", Paris replied with a mischievous grin, and pointed to a paper on the desk. Rory picked it up and stared at it.
"That ought to be a conversation starter for tonight.", Paris comment while Rory stood silently.
"Alex wait up!", a voice called from behind him. Alex stopped walking and turned around tiredly.
"Yes Natalie?", Alex replied shortly. Natalie was the yearbook editor, student body president, and a complete air head.
"I came to see if what people are saying is true.", she smiled reluctantly, with a look of pity and uneasiness on her face.
"I'm probably going to regret asking this, but what are people saying?", he sighed, knowing this was the only way to get rid of her.
"Well it's just that we all thought that well...", she stuttered, trying not to be completely rude.
"Natalie, spit it out.", he demanded impatiently.
"The thing is you and Lana were in the running for cutest couple and you can't be cutest couple if you..." Alex was in complete disbelief.
"What are you talking about? Lana and I were never a couple, not that it's any your business.", Alex walked swiftly to his next class, leaving Natalie to stand there dumbfounded.
"What am I going to do Em.", Lana asked slamming her head down on the lunch table.
"Lorelai Ann, we have been through this already.", Emma replied sternly. Lana glared at her.
"Oh yes I'm sorry that's Alex's name for you.", she teased.
"Em-ma.", she whined.
"Stop whining, go over there and talk to him. No more avoiding eye contact.", Emma reprimanded.
With a sigh Lana picked herself up off the table and started to walk toward Alex. However fate, cruel as it was, had something else in mind.
"Lana!", Travis jumped up from a table were he was surrounded by practically every girl in the student body, all of them now shooting daggers at Lana. He wasn't going to let her get through to talk to Alex.
"Oh, hi Travis. I see you're...Uh fitting in nicely here.", Lana greeted, indicating the throng of followers he had picked up.
"We have one more seat, if you would like to join us.", he smile broadly towards the tables.
"I'd...um...", Lana hesitated looking over at Alex. Seeing the two together Alex got up and walked away shaking his head.
"You know what, I'd better not, I'm probably already getting death threats for just talking to you.", she laughed.
"No, no, no.", Emma sighed exhaustedly while watching the scene unfold.
What the hell was wrong with them. Lana and Alex are so blind to it all, it's pathetic.
"I tried Em!", Lana exclaimed walking back to her original table. Emma at Lana disapprovingly.
"Fine."
"Fine?"
"Yeah. If you want to don't want to see what is right in front of I can't make you."
"Not you too.", Lana sighed.
"Next time you talk to him, actually listen to what he says and how he says it. You'll see.", Emma smiled faintly. She wished she had something like they did, even if those two didn't want to admit it.
"I've got to go.", Lana said hurridly trying to escape the conversation.
'It always happens that way,' she thought, 'I think I've got everything figured out and than someone says something like that.'
With nowhere else to go she found herself heading towards the library. 'At least no one will bother me here.'
She spoke too soon.
"Hey."
"Hi Alex."
Sitting in his office working on case after case had failed to keep his mind from wandering away. Strangely enough his thoughts fell to one place. Okay so maybe it wasn't that strange. Why couldn't he enjoy life as bachelor, huh? Hell he had gone so far as to almost marry a women his father picked out. Fact was he wanted what he had before, with the person he had before.
Tristan sighed. Finally, after all this time, he was going to get the chance to make amends. This time he wouldn't screw it all up.
"Michelle?", he called through the intercom.
"Yes Mr. Dugrey?", Michelle, his assistant, answered.
"Will you please confirm my dinner reservations at Angelo's?"
"Yes Mr. Dugrey."
"So...", Alex started.
"We should talk.", Lana stated quietly.
"I've already said what I have say, although everytime I was talking to a machine."
"SHHH!", hissed the school librarian.
"Since we can't really talk here, meet me on the bridge tonight at seven. Okay?"
"Maybe."
"Alex.", she pleaded.
"Fine seven.", he huffed and walked out the door. Only Alex could get Lana as mad as she had been and vis versa. Lana grabbed her cell phone and ducked behind a bookcase.
'Hello?'
'Daddy?', Lana asked hopefully into the receiver.
'Yes Lana?'
'I'm going to Stars Hollow for the night. Mom said she'll be out so I'll stay with Grandma.', Lana said trying to get a reaction out of him.
'Oh. Okay is that all?'
'I just wanted to make sure you weren't lonely in the house all alone.', Lana continued to bait him.
'Actually I won't be here either.', he replied uneasily.
'Really?'
'I have to go sweetie, Bye.'
'Bye Dad.', Lana smiled. Both her parents avoided that topic in the same way. It was sort funny.
Lana felt a sudden tap on her back and jumped up, nearly screaming.
"Calm down it's just me."
"Of course it is. So uh what did you want?"
"Other than seeing that no one made good on those threats?", Travis responded sarcastically. Lana rolled her eyes.
"I need a ride home.", he submitted.
"Oh...well I uh have to go to Stars Hollow today, so I really can't.", Lana told him. She felt bad, but he would get over it.
"It's okay. I'm sure I'll find another way home."
"Well, you did pick up quite a following today.", Lana laughed slightly and said goodbye.
'Damn it.', he silently cursed himself.
Chapter 14
*********
"I'm an idiot!", Rory announced storming into Paris' office.
"We really don't have time for your rantings right now.", Paris said not even looking up from the stack of paperwork in front of her. Rory sighed and slumped into a chair.
"Okay so what should be this weeks headline?", she asked absently.
"I agreed to go out with Tristan.", Rory blurted out.
"Not as snappy as I had expected, but hey that's just me."
"Par-is."
"What?"
"Say something, forbid me to go. Something! I can't do this.", Rory babbled. Paris had become a very good friend over the years and was now subjected to such pleas as this one.
"You expect me to control every aspect of your life?"
"No, I want you to snap me out of this nightmare. I want to go back to Kansas, Toto."
"What am I supposed to tell you? Either way you'll continue whining, so let's just get back to work."
"Not the tiniest insult saying how stupid I am? Nothing? Okay this is so unlike you it's scary."
"Well I've been know to scare people."
"I won't disagree with that.", she stood up
"That's the only thing you won't disagree with. Come on, let's get back to work. Oh yea, Ror I almost forgot someone called yesterday to take something out of the paper."
"Ugh. What was it?"
"Just a wedding announcement.", Paris replied with a mischievous grin, and pointed to a paper on the desk. Rory picked it up and stared at it.
"That ought to be a conversation starter for tonight.", Paris comment while Rory stood silently.
"Alex wait up!", a voice called from behind him. Alex stopped walking and turned around tiredly.
"Yes Natalie?", Alex replied shortly. Natalie was the yearbook editor, student body president, and a complete air head.
"I came to see if what people are saying is true.", she smiled reluctantly, with a look of pity and uneasiness on her face.
"I'm probably going to regret asking this, but what are people saying?", he sighed, knowing this was the only way to get rid of her.
"Well it's just that we all thought that well...", she stuttered, trying not to be completely rude.
"Natalie, spit it out.", he demanded impatiently.
"The thing is you and Lana were in the running for cutest couple and you can't be cutest couple if you..." Alex was in complete disbelief.
"What are you talking about? Lana and I were never a couple, not that it's any your business.", Alex walked swiftly to his next class, leaving Natalie to stand there dumbfounded.
"What am I going to do Em.", Lana asked slamming her head down on the lunch table.
"Lorelai Ann, we have been through this already.", Emma replied sternly. Lana glared at her.
"Oh yes I'm sorry that's Alex's name for you.", she teased.
"Em-ma.", she whined.
"Stop whining, go over there and talk to him. No more avoiding eye contact.", Emma reprimanded.
With a sigh Lana picked herself up off the table and started to walk toward Alex. However fate, cruel as it was, had something else in mind.
"Lana!", Travis jumped up from a table were he was surrounded by practically every girl in the student body, all of them now shooting daggers at Lana. He wasn't going to let her get through to talk to Alex.
"Oh, hi Travis. I see you're...Uh fitting in nicely here.", Lana greeted, indicating the throng of followers he had picked up.
"We have one more seat, if you would like to join us.", he smile broadly towards the tables.
"I'd...um...", Lana hesitated looking over at Alex. Seeing the two together Alex got up and walked away shaking his head.
"You know what, I'd better not, I'm probably already getting death threats for just talking to you.", she laughed.
"No, no, no.", Emma sighed exhaustedly while watching the scene unfold.
What the hell was wrong with them. Lana and Alex are so blind to it all, it's pathetic.
"I tried Em!", Lana exclaimed walking back to her original table. Emma at Lana disapprovingly.
"Fine."
"Fine?"
"Yeah. If you want to don't want to see what is right in front of I can't make you."
"Not you too.", Lana sighed.
"Next time you talk to him, actually listen to what he says and how he says it. You'll see.", Emma smiled faintly. She wished she had something like they did, even if those two didn't want to admit it.
"I've got to go.", Lana said hurridly trying to escape the conversation.
'It always happens that way,' she thought, 'I think I've got everything figured out and than someone says something like that.'
With nowhere else to go she found herself heading towards the library. 'At least no one will bother me here.'
She spoke too soon.
"Hey."
"Hi Alex."
Sitting in his office working on case after case had failed to keep his mind from wandering away. Strangely enough his thoughts fell to one place. Okay so maybe it wasn't that strange. Why couldn't he enjoy life as bachelor, huh? Hell he had gone so far as to almost marry a women his father picked out. Fact was he wanted what he had before, with the person he had before.
Tristan sighed. Finally, after all this time, he was going to get the chance to make amends. This time he wouldn't screw it all up.
"Michelle?", he called through the intercom.
"Yes Mr. Dugrey?", Michelle, his assistant, answered.
"Will you please confirm my dinner reservations at Angelo's?"
"Yes Mr. Dugrey."
"So...", Alex started.
"We should talk.", Lana stated quietly.
"I've already said what I have say, although everytime I was talking to a machine."
"SHHH!", hissed the school librarian.
"Since we can't really talk here, meet me on the bridge tonight at seven. Okay?"
"Maybe."
"Alex.", she pleaded.
"Fine seven.", he huffed and walked out the door. Only Alex could get Lana as mad as she had been and vis versa. Lana grabbed her cell phone and ducked behind a bookcase.
'Hello?'
'Daddy?', Lana asked hopefully into the receiver.
'Yes Lana?'
'I'm going to Stars Hollow for the night. Mom said she'll be out so I'll stay with Grandma.', Lana said trying to get a reaction out of him.
'Oh. Okay is that all?'
'I just wanted to make sure you weren't lonely in the house all alone.', Lana continued to bait him.
'Actually I won't be here either.', he replied uneasily.
'Really?'
'I have to go sweetie, Bye.'
'Bye Dad.', Lana smiled. Both her parents avoided that topic in the same way. It was sort funny.
Lana felt a sudden tap on her back and jumped up, nearly screaming.
"Calm down it's just me."
"Of course it is. So uh what did you want?"
"Other than seeing that no one made good on those threats?", Travis responded sarcastically. Lana rolled her eyes.
"I need a ride home.", he submitted.
"Oh...well I uh have to go to Stars Hollow today, so I really can't.", Lana told him. She felt bad, but he would get over it.
"It's okay. I'm sure I'll find another way home."
"Well, you did pick up quite a following today.", Lana laughed slightly and said goodbye.
'Damn it.', he silently cursed himself.