A/N: Thanks to all of the reviewers! The last chapter was supposed to be more spaced out. Like more "enter"s so yeah, that is the way this chapter is going to be.

Sooty7sweep: thanks! You are such a motivator in all my stories, and I love to read your reviews!

Summary: Rory has a new boyfriend. Tristan sees abuse. How will it work out in the end?

Takes Place: Season 1, after Rory and Dean broke up the 1st time, they never got together again. The kiss at Madeline's party did happen, although, the stuff after didn't.

Disclaimer: I take it you get tired after reading these all the time, huh?

Chapter 2. Breathing

He goes up behind her in the cafeteria. She was reading a book. He wraps his arms around her, and kisses her neck forcefully.

Rory moves away and he sits next to her.

Ron: "What's you're problem?" he sounded powerful.

Rory: "Nothing." Rory was still looking down at her book.

Ron: grabs her chin and moves it so she was looking at him. "You look at me when I'm talking to you." He ordered her around all the time.

Rory: "Sorry." She tried to get out of his grasp, but he had a tough hold.

Him: "Is that attitude?" He still had a harsh clasp.

Rory: "No-"

He slapped her, she just breathed hard, in and out. To keep the tears from falling.

Then Ron looked around to see if anyone saw. No one did.

---Except one. The one he didn't see. The one that had been watching them since he started to find cuts and bruises.

He hurt every time he saw Rory hurt. And it tore a little piece of his heart when he saw him doing it so out in the open.

He wanted to kill him. He wanted to pick off his flesh piece by piece. He didn't know why he felt this way at all.

They had only kissed once. And she ran away crying. Then a week later, she had a new fellow. He didn't know what he would do to her. If he knew, then he would have jumped in and took her off in his arms. But he never did. And he screamed at himself for it.

---Rory tried to look at anyone but him.

She found someone looking right back to her. Tristan DuGrey. The one person she had hated ever since she came to this damned school.

She found him intoxicating. She stared right back at him.

Eyes: "Help." They had whispered it. Didn't want to have Ron hear it.

But Tristan didn't help her. He just leaned back in his cheap, plastic chair and watched her every move.

He didn't show any sign of movement, or guilt, or help. She pleaded, and he spat her back out.

Oh, here come the tears.

She gets up and starts to gather her stuff.

Ron: "Hey," he grabbed the same wrist he bruised. "What do you think you're doing?"

Rory: She sniffed her nose. "I need to go to the bathroom."

Ron: "Like hell you do."

Rory: "I do!"

Ron got up and started to walk with her.

Once they got out the door, he shoved her into the lockers.

Rory: "What are you doing-?"

Ron: He punches her in the face. "Bitch." He punches her in the stomach and she falls on the ground.

She screams at him to stop, in tears.

---He walks out in the hallways, with a few people, after the bell rang. The first thing he sees is Rory on the ground, and Ron standing over her.

All the group stops and just stares at them. More people come out and joins the crowd.

Ron: "She fell."

And he helps her up.

She has blood dripping from her lip, and what looks like a black eye.

Ron: to Rory "You should go to the nurse and clean that up."

Then the crowd goes on their ways, completely ignoring the scene that they had just witnessed.

A/N: how did you like it? I think it was a bit melo-dramatic. Review. Damn. The spacing didn't work. I'll work on it and the next chapter will be longer. Thanks for reading!

Paige