Author: Chubs
Author's notes: I wrote a story like this, but decided it was too complicated and to dramatic for my liking, so I decided to re-write it in to something better! Hopefully!
Disclaimer: I own no one but the people you haven't heard of. I think they are Lorelai III (Ellie), Pat, Emma, and Christian.
Spoilers: No spoiler's of the likes.
Description: Rory meets up unexpectedly with her past when her daughter starts at Chilton Prep, and event all to familiar to Rory. Eventually Trory.
Chapter 6 –
Ellie woke on Wednesday morning with butterflies in her stomach, nervous and anxious about her first date with the hunky Michael Thompson. The two had spoken during the week at school and on the phone, and he had done the 'proper duties as a boyfriend' by dropping her off and picking her up. He was genuine and sweet, most of the time; Ellie prayed to her dad each night hoping that Michael wasn't playing with her feelings.
'Come on Ella,' yelled Pat from the kitchen.
'Coming!' Ellie yelled, fixing her hair, before running down the stairs and into the car. 'Let's go, what are you waiting for!'
'So the big date tonight?' asked Pat as they drove out of Stars Hollow at an extremely fast rate, thanking Patty that she had yet again convinced Taylor not to install a speeding trap or red light camera in the town's centre.
'Yeah, seeing an old movie and getting a bite to eat,' she replied staring out the window, thinking of what she was going to wear. Mattie said I should wear a skirt, easy access; stupid slutt. Ellie didn't know why she sat with Mattie and her groupies; she guessed it was just a place to be accepted. She just didn't want to be a loner; it would be her worst nightmare, being a loner, how shallow? Thought Ellie, how Lorelai, thought Rory.
Finally the two teenagers arrived at school, on time for once, 'is pretty boy giving you a lift home this arvo?' asked Pat.
'Nah, can I get a lift with you?'
'Sure meet me at the shagging wagon,' he said walking off to his locker.
'Classy vehicle name butch,' she called after him.
'So when are you going to hook me up with your brother?' asked Mattie coming up to Ellie after Pat was gone. Mattie had become extremely obsessed with Pat and Ellie once she found out that the two were brother and sister.
'Never,' she said slamming her locker shut.
'Why?' she asked angry.
'Because he is my brother, and you are my friend. Those two worlds never mix, ever.'
'But-'
'No, it's never going to happen, you either do it your self or just stop being my friend.'
'Consider yourself a loner,' she said stalking off.
'Bitch,' she mumbled under her breath cursing herself for getting out of bed this morning.
'Hey baby,' said Michael coming up to her a couple of minutes later, realising that she was a bit tense.
'Hey Michael,' she said hugging him liking the idea of having someone to hug you when you were sad and angry at the world.
'What's wrong?' he asked looking at her like she was a little girl.
'Apparently I can consider myself a loser,' she said angrily wanting to slam her fist into her locker, she had tried so hard not to be that little emotional girl that she use to be.
'What?' he asked confused.
'Mattie is a fucking hoe that's all,' she stated angrily.
'Yes and?' he asked confused.
'That's it, and she got pissy cause I wouldn't hook her up with my brother.'
'And the problem is?' he asked.
'I'm friendless,' she said sadly, this is what it feels like when you have no friends, why couldn't I just set her up with Pat and let her realise that she wasn't Pat's type. She's too slutty to be Pat's type. To dirty for him. Thought Ellie angrily, why couldn't she see that herself?
'Hello what am I?' he asked offended.
'Boyfriend, right - friend, don't worry just I wanted a girlfriend, some one I could chum with.'
'You can chum with me,' he said grabbing Ellie's books and walking her to class; another one of his boyfriend duties.
'And tell you all the girly stuff?'
'Just depends what girly stuff,' he said winking.
'Bastard,' she said slapping his shoulder.
'Come on, you'll make friends, but in the mean time, I've got to go to class, and pass,' he said kissing her forehead tenderly.
'Hey that rhymed,' she said laughing.
'Your entertained easily aren't you?'
'Don't worry, I'm smarter than I look,' she said laughing at her insulting attitude towards herself.
Gilmore girls were always smarter than the normal, never having to try as hard as everyone else, unless they actually wanted to be the best, and if they did choose to be the best then they just had to work as hard as everyone else. Did that make sense? Ellie found most of her classes easy, breezing through the activities and assignments assigned to them.
'Hey Ella,' said Pat sitting down next to Ellie at lunch, 'what are you doing here? Why aren't you sitting with the resident slutts?'
'Mattie said I could consider myself a loner because I wouldn't hook her up with you,' she said putting down her current reading book.
'Well did you tell her that I wasn't interested, and I didn't want any of her germs?' he asked taking a bite of her hamburger.
'No, because I didn't know this, I just didn't want her to spoil gods gift to women.'
'How sweet of you, next time just be a bitch,' he said getting up and taking her bag and tray. 'Come on, come and sit with the boys.'
'Ok,' she agreed, not wanting to have an argument with Pat, grabbed her book and followed Pat over to his table, plopping down next to Michael. 'Hi boys.'
'What's happening Ellie?' asked a few boys grabbing at her fries.
'Nothing much, Pat thought it'd be cool to make me anorexic by letting me eat at your table,' she said trying to save her lunch. The boys were like scavengers and found it entertaining to grab as much of Ellie's food possible until she snapped.
'Nice burger,' said Sam, one of Pat's friends, eyeing off her lunch.
She growled at him and his hand quickly backed off her burger. 'Thank you.'
She felt someone touch her hand and snapped her head towards the offender, Michael. 'Hey baby.'
'Michael,' she said taking a sip of her water and a bite of her burger, 'you want to go for a walk?'
He nodded and grabbed her bag; she followed him as they walked out to their "spot", the bench by the tree in the courtyard, just yesterday they had engraved there names into the arm of the frame, 'M.T. 4 E.G'. (Eleanor Gilmore)
'What's wrong?' asked Michael as the two teenagers sat down, worried. Although she was just another game to him, he was falling in love. He was falling in love with her oddness, her uniqueness and hated the fact that one day when they broke up that he would break her heart and would get his ass kicked by Pat.
'Nothing I just didn't want to be in there I wanted to sit and read,' she said flashing him a million dollar smile and dragged her book out of her bag, and placed her head phones on and started listening to Dashboard Confessional. A classic rock band of the 20th Century.
'And you need me here because?' he asked raising an eyebrow.
'I thought you wanted to read as well,' she said pulling out 'How to Kill A Mockingbird'.
'How thoughtful,' he said grabbing the book and turning to a page in the middle, starting to read from there. As she read her book she could help but keep from looking up and noticing Michael reading, he seemed so intense, and peaceful. He was a good guy and she felt so much passion when she was around him. She wanted to do things that she wouldn't be able to say aloud when she around him. Dirty things that would make her mother squirm, and Lorelai giggle like a schoolgirl.
The bell went twenty minutes later and Michael and Ellie disappeared off to classes. The last one of the day being English Lit.
'Hey baby,' Michael said sitting down beside me.
'Hey Michael,' she said pulling out her books, as the teacher walked in and started class.
'Class, today we are starting a project,' said Mr Cowley. 'For this project you are to research a famous play write and write a 2000 word essay on his life and experiences and accomplishments and a 5 minute oral you are to research in pairs. I have already chosen your partners. The oral must be split 2 minutes 30 for each person, you can entwine your orals together. Any questions? Yes Sydney.'
'How much of this assignment goes towards our overall grade?'
'15. Any more questions? Yes Sydney.'
'Will our partners get the same marks as each other? Or will we get marked according to our own work?'
'Well it's a joint effort so you'll both get the same mark. Any more? All right, let's get to work,' he said getting up and passing out the assignment sheets, ignoring Sydney's hand in the air.
Mr Cowley went around passing out the criteria sheets and Ellie found out her partner was the infamous Christian Dugrey, that she had heard Pat talk about earlier.
'Who did you get?' asked Michael looking at my sheet of paper, 'Dugrey,' Michael managed to spit out.
'Who is he?' Ellie asked looking around that room stopping at a boy who winked at her and smirked at her. 'He wouldn't perhaps be over there?' she asked Michael pointing to a boy with blonde hair, and gleaming blue eyes, with a cocky smirk still plastered all of his face. Sure this boy was good looking but he was so self-assured, and she didn't even know him, but then again she new his type.
'Yeah that's him,' he said as Christian started to walk over.
'Lorelai McKinnon?' Christian asked coming over.
'Ellie Gilmore, and you are?'
'I'm Christian Dugrey, who's Lorelai McKinnon then?' he asked confused, 'I was told you were her.'
'No, I'm Lorelai McKinnon just I'm referred to as Ellie Gilmore.'
'Huh, confusing.'
'Confusing as hell man,' said Michael.
'What you doing here Thomo?' asked Christian pulling out a chair. 'Aren't you suppose to be with some slutt making out in the janitor's closet or something?'
Michael looked like he was about to burst a blood vessel, 'dude, I'd watch your mouth.'
'Dude, I don't care,' said Christian pulling out a pen and sticking it behind his ear turning his attention back to me, 'we should get together and work on this assignment.'
Yeah like that will ever happen. 'Yeah we should,' she replied in a fake voice, a voice she had mastered over the last couple of years, if you wanted to survive in society that was the one thing you needed. Michael got up mouthing jerk and went off to Kathleen Grady his partner. She was a goody-goody, and even though Michael and Ellie had just started going out, she felt like they had been going out for much longer, and they just kind of slipt into a routine that felt 'normal' and she felt like she could trust him utterly and completely.
'So when do you want to get together? How does tonight sound?' asked Christian, 'we could go to my place.'
'Ah, well tonight's not good for me, I've got a date.'
'You should cancel it, this is more important than some date with some guy,' he said sounding slightly jealous, 'who probably just wants to get into your pants.'
'I'm not going to cancel my plans that I have had for the whole week because you want to work on an assignment that isn't due for another two weeks,' she spat angrily. What was with this guy demanding things when she didn't even know him?
'Look I think we got off on the wrong foot, can we please start again?'
'I think that's a good idea,' realising that maybe this boy wasn't all bad, first impressions aren't always the best impressions are they after all?
'Hi, I'm Christian Dugrey,' he said putting his hand out for her to shake.
'Hey, I'm Lorelai McKinnon, but I'm called Ellie Gilmore, nice to meet you Chris,' she said shaking his hand.
'Chris?' asked Christian suspiciously.
'Yeah, aren't you called Chris?' she asked surprised. Wouldn't that be normal for someone with that name to be called Chris?
'Nah I'm Christian,' he said as the conversation lapsed into silence. 'Are you from around here?'
'A small town called Stars Hollow about half an hour away, or if you have my brother as a driver 20 minutes,' she said smiling.
'I think I've been there before,' he said, looking off into a distance. 'Yeah, you have like a Luke's diner, and a soda shop?'
'Yeah, Taylor's Ole Fashion Soda Shoppe,' she said as memories of 'her' town, and the stories Rory had told her and Pat when they were little of the opening of Taylor's store.
'Cool, we could go to your place if you want,' he said trying to sound polite but Ellie knew he didn't really want to, big city kid in a small town? Like Paris Hilton at a 2 star hotel, uncomfortable and complaints the whole time. That was the last thing Ellie ever wanted.
'That's ok, but I'm still not doing it tonight,' she said looking into his eyes.
'How about tomorrow night?' he asked raising his eyebrow, and smirking.
'How about I call you and I'll tell you when cause I need to check that I don't have anything on tomorrow,' she said as the bell went, that lesson they didn't get anything done, so they were already behind everyone else. Stupid Boy.
'Sounds good,' he said grabbing his books and bag.
'Hey babe,' said Michael coming over to Christian and Ellie, 'I'll pick you up tonight at around 6.30?'
'Sounds good,' she said as Michael kissed her on the forehead. 'Bye Michael,' she said as Michael grabbed his bag and left.
'You know he's just using you,' said Christian.
'What?' she asked slightly surprised, not like she would actually believe anything that came out of Christian's mouth.
'Yeah there's a bet going on to see how long it takes for him to bed you,' he said putting a hand on her shoulder, 'this must sting.'
'Shut up Dugrey,' she said angrily, as memories last Friday's English Lit. Lesson, when Michael, Christian, and Mark were talking about "bedding" her, she didn't think that Michael would do this to her, now she understood why he was still after her, after Saturday night. 'It's just a joke.'
'Yeah if that's what you need to tell your self to get to sleep at night,' he said, 'I'm telling you because I realise that you're a nice girl and I like you, and I don't want you to get hurt by Thomo and he's groupies.'
'Thanks for looking out for me, but I'm a big girl and I don't need your protection,' she said grabbing her bag and storming out of the room towards her locker.
God, what an egotistical jerk!