Title: When People Change

Author: Tristanluvr

Disclaimer: This is entirely my own work- no need to sue me. All characters belong to Amy Sherman Palladino except the ones I put into the plot.

Rating: PG-13

Summary: When Tristan goes off to military school all he can think about is the evasive girl he could never get a date with...Rory Gilmore. So when he gets a call from her he takes his chance at reconciliation

A/N: Hey everyone thanks for reviewing I just wanted to tell you guys that everyone who reviews is appreciated well beyond what you think you are. So I hope you like this chapter I am putting in part of the reason to why Rory has changed so much.

Chapter 3

Tristan got out of his viper and shut the door behind him. He looked around the Chilton parking lot and sighed tiredly. Back to the droning teachers, fake personalities and double-crossing students.

The only thing in this school that he was really looking forward was in seeing Rory. He had missed her and it had only a week since he had last seen her. He was really looking forward to seeing where that kiss was going to lead to. He hadn't been able to stop thinking about it since he had last seen her.

He started to walk towards the school when Bowman came up to him and slapped his back and rested his hand on Tristans shoulder. "Hey man what's up? Its good to see that they didn't tear you apart down there. Hey you know what we should do something tonight there is going to be a party at the Hayden/Gilmore place we should go. Its gonna be wild."

Tristan looked at Bowman with a blank expression and brushed the hand off his shoulder and said coldly. "Look Bowman I don't think we should hang out anymore. Personally I think you're an ass and I don't know why I ever hung out with you in the first place." With that he walked away leaving a stunned and thoroughly pissed off Bowman behind.

Tristan walked through the front doors of Chilton Prep and immediately walked towards where Rory's locker was located. He turned a corner in the hallway and saw her, she reached into her locker and pulled out some books and then leaned over to put them into her bag. When she leaned over her brown locks fell aver her face like a curtain blocking her beautiful face from his view.

Tristan started to walk forward to say hi when a guy walked between him and Rory. He looked up at the guys face to tell him to get out of his way when he saw the guys eyes. Those eyes did not belong to that face those eyes belonged to Rory . He stared at the guy for a total of a half a second and then decided that there was no way in hell that this guy could be related to Rory. He slapped on his infamous smirk and said, "Uh I have no clue who you are and I don't remember you being here when I left, but you had better get out of my way." The guy just continued to look at him steadily before replying.

"Well there's something we don't have in common because I know who you are. My name is Jon Hayden and I think that you should just walk right past Rory Gilmore." He gazed at him with an amused look, as Tristan seemed baffled that anyone especially at Chilton would tell him what to do.

Tristan recovered quickly and replied, "Well I don't see how you have the authority to tell me who I can talk to." He replied curtly with a raised eyebrow.

"I think that you should think twice before messing with my sister. I know your reputation I am not stupid and if you think that you are going to have my sister as a trophy you are seriously mistaken." Jon said with a note of finality in his tone.

"You seem to think that you are the king of Chilton telling people what to do like you are. Well news flash buddy, even if you are the king of Chilton you aren't anymore because I am back and you are out. So if I were you I would just walk away." Jon looked pissed and it was at that point that he took a swing at Tristan.

It was in that second that Jon's fist contacted with Tristans cheek and he stumbled back that a voice yelled, "Jonathan Christopher Hayden you stop right this moment." And if the punch hadn't drawn a crowd Rory shouting had.

"Rory come on he's being an ass." Jon said as Rory stalked over to the two 16 year olds and started yelling at Jon.

"How could you be so stupid, oh I am so telling mom and dad that you went off on someone for no reason so if I were you I would just go and call them yourself before I do." She looked really mad and by the look on her face she was serious, and Jon was scared of her for a second.

Tristan slowly got up and said, "Hey tough guy you wanna try that again?" Tristan looked at Jon with what seemed like fire flying out of his crystal blue ocean eyes.

Jon lunged at Tristan and Rory held out her hands between the two of them and said, "Jon just go, NOW!" She demanded forcefully. She looked at him angrily and he backed down and walked away. "What are you looking at, mind your own business." Rory said tersely to the crowd that had gathered and they quickly dispersed.

Rory looked back at Tristan who was staring at her with an odd look in his eyes that told her that she puzzled him somewhat. She saw a bruise starting to form on his cheek and sighed, "Sorry about that sometimes Jon gets a little temper mental when it comes to me, you guys were talking about me right." She looked at him questioningly.

"Just so that you know not everyone talks about you, but yes we were talking about you. Didn't know that you had a brother," he said.

"Neither did I up until about a couple weeks after you left." She hesitated and then a concerned look washed over her face and she put two fingers under his chin and turned his face from side to side and said, "Your cheek is bruising you really should get an ice pack or something for that." She pointed out.

Tristan took hold of her wrist and slowly pulled it away from his face and said, "You know I think I'll live a little bruise won't kill me."

His fingers started to tickle her palm lightly and she pulled her hand away and replied, "I think we should be getting to class about now so I guess I'll see you later."

"What do you have for a class I mean? I have English." He looked at her hopefully.

"Sorry I have Algebra, meet me for lunch though and we'll eat together ok?" She asked looked at him happily.

"Yea sure I'll meet you for lunch. See you later and maybe you could tell me what's going on with you having a twin brother and everything." With that he turned around and she watched him walk to his next class occasionally waving to someone or saying hi to someone he knew.

A/N: Hey everyone hope you like the twist I added with Rory having a twin, I will explain about how Rory ended up having a in the next chapter. Read and Review!