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Chapter Eighteen: I Missed You

"Where the hell is he?" Rory muttered.

"I'm sure he'll be here any minute now" Lorelai reassured her.

"We're going to be late."

Rory looked out the window for the fourth time in the past ten minutes. Tristan was at least fifteen minutes late to picking her up and she was worried that they would be late for school. Just as she sat down on the couch with a sigh she heard the beep of a horn from outside. She jumped and rushed out the door calling goodbye to her mother as she went. She opened the door of his jag and slid inside ready to reprimand him about being later when he held out a large cup of coffee, "sorry I'm late I stopped at Luke's to get you a cup of coffee and it was really packed in their this morning."

Rory beamed a smile at him, "you're forgiven."

She took a large gulp of the delicious beverage and gave a sigh of contentment. By the time she had finished savoring the taste of her coffee they were pulling up in front of Chilton. Rory gazed at him suspiciously, "were you speeding?"

"Why would you say that" he replied, the picture of innocence.

"Well were here the tiniest bit earlier then we normally are and you were late picking me up and that only leads to one conclusion, you were speeding weren't you?"

"Only a little I swear you didn't want to be late did you?" he said opening his door and stepping out of the car.

Rory followed suit and they met in front of the jag, Tristan's lips were on hers in a second in a bone melting kiss. "I missed you" he said as he pulled away from her.

"Tristan DuGrey if I didn't know any better I'd think you were going soft."

"Me... never"

Tristan took her hand in his as they walked towards the school building. He paused at the entrance and smiled at her, "Here goes nothing."

She smiled back and dropped his hand as they went their separate ways.

Rory was sitting at a table by herself reading a book when Tristan sat down next to her, "You know you don't have to sit over here all alone? You could come and sit with me and my friends."

"No thanks."

"Why not? They're not as bad as you think they are besides you're my girlfriend and we don't even eat lunch together."

Rory gave in, "ok, but if I don't like them I'm back over here tomorrow."

"Deal!"

Tristan lead Rory over to the table full of his friends, "hey guys this is Rory."

Rory mumbled a hello, Tristan made one of his friends get out of the chair he was sitting in so that she could sit next to him; she thanked the guy and sat down feeling mighty uncomfortable. She picked at the lunch on her tray, one of the few days that she had decided to buy her lunch while trying not to meet the eyes of any of his friends, "so Rory your like really smart, huh?" one of his friends whose name she thought to be Michael.

"I guess." Rory replied.

And that was where the conversation ended; Tristan took her hand under the table and smiled at her encouragingly.

Rory was just leaving a toilet cubicle when she saw Angela watching her; she ignored her and went to the sink to wash her hands, "you know it won't last?"

"Excuse me?"

"You and Tristan, you won't last, he's already come crawling to me for a real woman once it's only a matter of time."

Rory winced at the memory of finding Tristan in the hallway kissing Angela, "that was a misunderstanding."

"Keep telling yourself that when he dumps you for me."

"That's not going to happen."

"God you don't even fit in with his friends and you never will, you might as well give it up."

Rory ignored her comment and left the bathroom trying not to think about the uncomfortable lunch she had just spent with Tristan and his friends. She wasn't going to let Angela to get to her, she was smart and independent and Tristan loved her and that was all that mattered.

AN: Hey everyone! Here's another chapter at last, sorry about the long wait, we got a new computer and the old one was so riddled with viruses I had to hand type all of the old documents into the new computer. It was a nightmare! But please review and tell me what you think! And check out my story: Escaping it's another Trory. Thanks!