Category: Gilmore girls

Title: A Little Indulgence

Author: carleymarie

Disclaimer: I don't own the show, the characters, and pretty much everything else. However, we all knew that didn't we? Oh yeah, for this chapter I don't own Post-It notes when I mention them.

Rating: P.G. to P.G.-13

Date Started: August 18, 2003.

Pairing: Tristin/Rory

Author's Note: Hey! Less than 3 weeks for an update. Do I rock, or what? Thanks for the support everyone. On a side note: Does Logan remind anyone of Tristin? That's what I think. I'm already "in love" with Matt Czuchry's character. Anyway, enjoy!

Reviews: Greatly appreciated.

Thanks to: mar0506, Red Rose, TiCkLeDpInK22, amanda, kiki, queenmischa, romik, Jayne, and OTHlover04 for reviewing. Also, thanks to smile1 and Manzano for the ideas. I thought they were very good. Truthfully, I don't know what is going to happen from one chapter to the next, so I'm sure I can incorporate those ideas sometime along the way.

Chapter Six: Lies, Post-It's, and Making up?

Rory walked away from Tristin, and went to locate her mom. She has to remove the sad look off her face and pretend to be happy, because she thought that what Lorelai tried to do was very nice, and she really didn't want to talk about how sad she was. . .

Rory found her mother very quickly through all the people in the airport. "Hey mom. Are you ready to go home?" Rory asked very happily.

"Uh. . . sure Rory, but where's Tristin?" Lorelai started saying. "Are you sure you don't want to hang out with him for a bit, 'cause I can go home and start organizing all our presents from everyone and. . ."

"Actually mom, I'm just really tired from the flight and all, and would just really like to sleep. Tristin agrees with the whole me getting rest thing. We can always hang out in the next few days, if he's not busy," she interrupted. "Not busy" had a sarcastic twist to it, but Rory was sure that Lorelai didn't catch onto what was going on, and that's the way she wanted to leave it.

At least for tonight.

NEXT DAY

Rory woke up the next morning, not that she really slept or anything. She couldn't get the thoughts of Tristin, the girl, Tristin with the girl out of her head. It was an evening for tossing and turning.

She felt something on her forehead that shielded the light away. She pulled what happened to be a post-it note off of her:

"Went to start giving out the presents, and ran into Tristin on my way out. I'm guessing he's somewhere in the house now. Love you tons - your wonderful, fabulous mother!"

'Like I really want to talk to Tristin right now. I thought I could just ignore him, and he's just go away. Apparently not,' Rory thought to herself. 'I guess I should face the music, or at the least, get some coffee then lock myself in my room,' Rory thought as she got up out of bed and walked out of her room.

Rory went to the coffee maker and poured herself a cup of coffee and sat down at the kitchen table right across from where she found Tristin sitting.

'I'm not compromising my daily routine because he's here. I'll just ignore him,' Rory thought to herself. Better in theory than in action.

They sat in silence for a few minutes. The whole time Rory could feel Tristin's eyes on her.

She looked up every once in a while to see Tristin struggling to say something.

Finally Rory couldn't stand the silence anymore, and she slammed her cup of coffee onto the table and practically yelled: "Gosh Tristin! We've been sitting here for the past ten minutes and you've said nothing, what did you just want to stare at me? Say something or just get out of my house!"

Tristin stared in shock for a few moments before calmly saying: "Ror, I know you're a bit mad at me, but to tell you the truth I don't think you have any reason to."

Then Rory's second wind kicked in: "I call you at an ungodly hour in the morning only to have another girl answer your phone -"

"My sister Rory. My sister answered the phone. She was annoying the heck out of me because she wanted to tell me about the date she went out on with this guy. I told her I was going to take a shower, because I wanted to do anything but listen to her," Tristin said.

Rory was taken aback by his comment. She blushed and immediately felt like a complete idiot for jumping to conclusions: "Your sister? I didn't know you had a sister. . . I guess I don't really know a lot about you. We just sort of jumped into our relationship."

Tristin smirked at the fact that she basically said "jumped him."

They sat for a few more moments before Rory spoke again. She casted her glance down to her coffee mug and very softly said, "I'm sorry."

Tristin reached over the table and took one of her hands of her coffee cup and said, "It's fine. We'll be fine. I mean I really haven't given you any reason to believe that I can be in a steady relationship." He then continued by saying: "Maybe we should take some time to get to know each other, and you can meet the rest of my family, you can show me around your town."

Rory's eyebrows were scrunched together in deep thought trying to figure something out.

"Ror, look at me," Tristin said softly, "We'll be fine, it's okay."

"Yeah fine," Rory said smiling.

Yet was it a genuine smile? Or was Rory thinking something else?

END CHAPTER SIX

Author's Note Number 2: I didn't want to make the relationship go back to being all "sun shines and lollipops." It's gotta be a bit rocky for more than a chapter.

Yes, ya'll were very convincing to make Tristin not be cheating on Rory, that's why he wasn't!!

Manzano: I think the family thing will come up in the next couple of chapters. Thanks again for the idea!

'Till later,

Carley-Marie : )