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Chapter Twenty Two: Birthday Discussions

Rory slammed her locker door shut and slung her bag over her shoulder. She made her way towards Tristan's locker where she found him waiting for her. "So..." Tristan began as they started walking out of school.

"Yeah?"

"Well I do believe that someone has a birthday coming up."

Rory looked up at him in surprise, "I can't believe you remembered when my birthday was."

"How could I forget?"

"Well we weren't going out when I had my last birthday" Rory laughed, "we weren't even friends."

"That doesn't matter, I take note of these kinds of things" he said tapping the side of his head.

Rory smiled, "well good for you."

"So... seventeen is a big year"

"That it is."

"What are we doing?"

Rory smiled, "well my mum is planning a birthday party, she always does, and almost the whole town will be there."

"That sounds fun... but I meant what are we doing?"

Rory furrowed her brow, "well I didn't have anything planned."

"Nothing planned on your seventeenth birthday with your loving boyfriend."

"Well... what did you want to do?"

"I want to take you out and lavish you with gifts."

"Lavish me with gifts? No matter how nice that sounds... no"

"But..."

"No buts. I do believe we have discussed something along these lines before."

"Yes we have, but I thought seeing how it's your birthday and all that maybe..."

"No."

Tristan laughed, "Ok, ok but I'm going to take you out anyway."

"I can live with that, what are we going to do?"

"I think it might just have to be a surprise."

"A surprise?"

"Yep... come September 23rd you'd better be ready Ms Gilmore."

"I'll try my best."

AN: If anyone has any complaints about the date I used for Rory's birthday please let me know, because I have no idea whether they mentioned it in the show or not. I know this chapter is really, really short. But the next chapter will either be the last or the second last and will be a lot longer then this. I was also kind of downhearted by the number of reviews I received. I beat the 4 of last time by only 1 review. Come on people I know you can do better then that, lol. Thank you to the five people who did review.