Everything

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Summary: When Rory Hayden comes back to Chilton, she still sees Tristan Dugrey as her brother's annoying friend that won't seem to leave her alone. But when opinions change, friendships can form, and maybe, it could become something more.

Good to know: Rory went to school in England for a year, then comes back to Chilton for her senior year. She hangs out with her old friends. Lorelai and Christopher are married and they live in Hartford. Dean and Jess don't exist; she's not friends with Paris.

Rating: PG13

A/N: This is a repost... just deleted a part. Necessary though.

Chapter 13

"Look, Ror, we were planning on telling you, really." April said as the girls sat in the school library.

Rory lifted her head from her book, "I know."

"You do?" Chelsea questioned.

"Well you guys did say you had something to tell me right? You just kept on putting it off, that's all."

"Yea, I know, but you and Tristan seemed so happy, we didn't want to drop the bombshell on you." Amber said.

"Yea..."

The four girls looked at Rory, who had focused her attention back to her book. Other than her still slightly bruised cheek, she seemed perfectly fine. But there was no way she could be acting like everything was normal after Nick had come back to town and hit her; they weren't buying it.

Rory could feel them staring at her. She ignored them hoping they'd leave it alone, but she knew that they were suspicious about her behavior, little did they know that it wasn't much of an act, or so she kept telling herself at least.

She sighed and finally looked up at them, "What?"

"He's not going to be around for much longer you know. The guys are taking care of it." Amber said.

"No they're not."

"Huh? Of course they are."

"No they're not. They're going to leave it alone. He's not worth the trouble."

"Rory, stop."

"Stop what?"

"You're acting like everything's fine."

"Everything is fine."

"No, everything's not fine."

Why couldn't they just believe her? Did they not realize that that jerk was not someone that she should get upset over? Like Tristan said, she wasn't going to let him get to her.

"Is too."

"Is not."

"Is too."

"Is not."

"Is too."

"Is not." The four girls stated in unison, causing a few people to give them dirty looks for disturbing the quiet. "Rory, listen-"

"No, you listen," Rory demanded, they were a bit taken a back by her boldness that they remained silent, "he's an idiotic, selfish, cheating, moronic jerk that I am not going to get worked up over, especially since everything is going so great right now for me. Is it so completely and utterly hard to believe that I don't want anything to do with him what so ever?"

"No, we jus-"

"Excuse me," the librarian said sternly, coming up to their table, "if you do not keep your voices down I am going to have to ask you to take your personal matters outside. You are disturbing other's around you."

"Sorry." they five girls mumbled.

"So..." Kelly began after the librarian had left, "you're really okay then?"

"Yes." Rory confirmed in a softer tone.

They weren't convinced; Rory was bothered by it whether she would admit it to herself or not, but if she kept on telling herself that everything was fine, she might be able to convince herself sooner or later, so they decided to drop it for now.

Amber forced a smile, "Good."

"So what're we doing this weekend?" Rory asked Tristan, laying her head on his chest as the pair sat in the living room.

"Well it's just gunna be you and me. I have yet to take you out on a date."

"We've gone out before."

"Not just the two of us, no."

"Well then what does the mighty Tristan Dugrey have up his sleeve?"

"Now that's a surprise."

"But I hate surprises."

"You hate not knowing what the surprise is, but you love the actual surprise itself."

"You seem pretty confident that I'm gunna like what you've got planned."

"That's because I am."

"You can never be too sure..."

"Yes I can." he said, kissing her lightly.

She let out a content sigh, letting herself get wrapped up in him.

And then there it was again. The feeling of happiness and security, but there was also the feeling of something else, something she didn't like. She tried to push the thought to the back of her head; Tristan's kisses were definitely helping with that.

Too bad it would always make its way back though.

"I'm serious Danny, she's acting freakishly weird." Amber said, pacing back and forth in her room.

"How is she acting freakishly weird?" Danny asked.

"She's acting normal."

He raised his eyebrows at her.

"Isn't she supposed to be acting normal?"

"No, she's supposed to be freaking out about either Nick or Tristan."

"Okay, I get Nick, but Tristan? Why would she be freaking out about Tristan? "

"Danny, Rory was completely commitment phobic after what Nick did, so now that he's back, she's gunna get all psycho on Tristan."

"Ummmm, translation..."

Amber stopped and looked at him, "She's scared, she may not realize it, but she is."

"And how did you figure that out?"

She threw her hands in the air dramatically, "Guys know absolutely nothing about relationships what so ever!"

"Yea, so, you mind filling in your clueless boyfriend then?"

"Nick cheated on her, yes, she's over it and she did finally manage to overcome her commitment phobia with Tristan, but seeing him made that fear come back."

"So what you're trying to say is that she's scared that Tristan's gunna cheat on her."

"Give the guy a prize."

"How can you be so sure?"

"'Cause I know Rory, she's my best friend. So what if you're her brother, you're still a guy, you wouldn't understand."

"But he won't, because if he did, we'd all kick his ass."

"I know that, he knows that, we all know that, except Rory."

"Amber, can you really be one-hundred percent certain about what's going through Rory's head?"

"Yes. You know, you're being awfully calm about all this."

"Look, Rory's happy right now, or she appears to be at least, so just, don't go looking for trouble that might not even happen."

She sighed, "Too late, it already has."

Rory lay awake in her bed that night, she couldn't sleep; she was excited about tomorrow. It was her and Tristan's first official date. The thought of him made her smile. Out of all the guys she had dated, none of them ranked anywhere near Tristan. He was definitely special. She knew she was falling for him, and falling hard.

That's what scared her the most.

A/N: I know I didn't exactly change anything, I just deleted the part about the guys, but I didn't like where I planned on taking the story, so I had to take that part out, and now I have a pretty good idea on where this story is going.