A/n: Your reviews were few and far between- but no matter, I updated mostly for my die hard fan, as well as my muse- Jaydiegirl!!!
Not In This Lifetime
The morning was frosty and Rory couldn't help but shiver. She was lying in bed and was looking at the ceiling. She had never noticed the smudge of brown there before- she'd have to tell someone tall, they'd clean it for her. With a heavy sigh she darted from the warmth of her bed and dashed into the bathroom, turning on the hot water quickly to ward off the cool morning chill.
As she stood under the burning water she thought of the past month- it was barely two weeks ago that she and Scott had made out on Brian's bed and were damn close to going further. She had to stop, afraid of what was to come if she actually took that step with Scott. He was a few years older- more experienced, and she didn't want to rush anything.
Sure, she liked Scott being all over her- no girl would disagree, but there was just something deep inside stopping her, something she couldn't figure out about him. Turning off the water she prepared for the day and left her apartment almost fully energized- nothing a cup of coffee couldn't fix. She traveled down the short hall way and began to bang on Kimiko's door. She heard a rumble of footsteps and a crash sound before Kimiko finally answered the door.
"Hey," she said scratching her head and rubbing at her eyes.
"Are you okay? I mean it sounded like a train wreck from out here," Rory peered into the room, "and looks like one too!"
"Uh yeah, haven't cleaned it in awhile. Did you need something?" Kimiko asked as her friend stood at the door waiting.
"Yeah, coffee- wanna come with?" Rory asked cheerfully.
"Umm yeah, come in- I'll be like ten minutes," Kimiko opened the door and allowed her friend into the dust bunny's lair. Clothes were thrown recklessly across the room, empty pizza boxes strewn across the floor. It was safe to say that Kimiko probably hadn't cleaned the place the entire semester. Rory sighed heavily as the mountain of mess blocked her entry and began to dig her way through.
While waiting for Kimiko to finish readying herself for coffee, Rory decided to just tidy up a path that led from the door to the couch- provided she could figure out where the couch was. She began picking up random items of clothing and started to find pieces of furniture no more than twenty minutes later. She had found a laundry basket and stuffed Kimiko's clothing into it and all that remained were the empty take out boxes and cans of soda. Kimiko was taking way to long- no friend should have to clean p this kind of mess. Still this was Rory and Rory would do just about anything for her friends. Rory left the apartment and headed back to her own to grab a few- more like twenty- garbage bags to clean up the garbage dumb down the hall. As she approached the door Kimiko came tumbling out with a wide smile.
"You must be the cleaning fairy! I can actually see my floor because of you!" she embraced her friend tightly and took off down the hall. Rory stood stunned for a moment and quickly snapped out of it at the slamming of a door down the hall. Looking up, she met an icy pair of eyes.
"Hey Eiren," she said weakly and headed back to her apartment to dispose of the bags.
"Rory," he gave her a polite nod and walked down the hall stopping at a door not far from her own room. As he knocked, a bubbly blonde opened the door and cupped his face. He crashed his lips to the blonde's and then she pulled him into the apartment. Rory felt a pang of jealousy but quickly let it go as she noticed her cell phone buzzing at her side.
"Hello?" she answered quickly, exiting the building to look for Kimiko.
"Why hello gorgeous. What are you doing tonight?" a male voice asked her.
"Um, nothing that I know of Scott," she smiled as she saw her friend waving dramatically from a café table at Les Oiseux.
"Well you have plans now! You are coming to the city with Brian, Katie and I to see us perform!" he screamed into the phone. Rory winced at the ringing in her ear but smiled despite it.
"Of course- how could I not. When? Where?" she asked sitting down across from her friend who had purchased an extra large decafe latte and for Rory a double extra large black coffee.
"I'll pick you up tonight at 7, okay?" he asked.
"Yeah, I'll be waiting! See you then, bye" she clicked off her phone and threw it into her bag turning her attention to the coffee.
She took a long sip of the dark, hot liquid and let it fall down her throat. She paused before taking her next sip, breathing in the fresh aroma and just as she brought the cup to her lips, Kimiko interrupted her.
"Can you please finish your whole 'courtship of the coffee' and tell me what's new with you and Scott! I haven't seen you for like a whole week," Kimiko downed the remains of her drink and sat back in her chair.
"Not much to tell actually. We both saw him two weeks ago. I almost slept with him- that we already discussed; and last week we went to a movie," Rory sipped her coffee again savoring the perfect house blend.
"Oh come on, you can do better than that! I get more details from watching a show like The OC then I do from you!" Kimiko slapped her arms against the table nearly tipping over Rory's precious cup of coffee. She scooped it up quickly and held it close to her heart.
"Okay, so maybe the OC has a few more details, but that's because it's a show, not real life!"
"Art imitates life and The OC is art, therefore its real life my friend," Kimiko countered eyeing someone behind Rory.
"Where do you come up with this stuff?" she asked finishing off her coffee and preparing to buy another.
"I just do, stop changing the subject. Tell me the newest Scott and Rory gossip!" Kimiko replied excitedly, focusing her eyes back onto her friend.
"Oh, did I tell you the adventure we had going to the movies with Brian and Katie?" Rory asked with a sudden gasp of breath when Kimiko shook her head no.
"Do tell!" Kimiko commanded and rested her head on her hands as her elbows leaned onto the table.
"Okay, so I was at Brian's with Katie and Scott and we decided we wanted to go see a movie- Without a Paddle to be exact,"
"Oh, that's exciting," Kimiko said dully.
"Shut up, I've barely even begun. Okay so we go to the movies and we're the only ones there. Not to mention, this is the grungy old diseased theatre. Okay so Katie and I sit in the middle and Scott and Brian on opposite sides. So then the movie is just starting and Scott decided he wanted some Popcorn, so I'm like sure let's go and we walk out to the concession stand. As we get out there he decides he wants me to have sex in the washroom with him. So I'm like 'Hell no, this place is diseased!' and he's pissed off so I buy him popcorn. Now, we get back and Brian is fingering Katie in the diseased theatre seats which I will never sit in again!
"Wait! How the hell do you finger someone in the dirty old movie theatre? Beside your friends?" Kimiko interrupted.
"I don't know! Shut up, I'm telling a story here! Anyways, Scott wants to keep up to speed and tries to convince me to do the same and I don't because I'm not about to have Scott copy ugly boy just to win this testosterone battle of who gets more action. Anyways, long story short, we leave the theatre after the movie- Scott and I semi- awkward and we get back to Brian's. Katie and Brian make out- do whatever, well I ignore Scott completely. Then he's all 'She's not going to say goodbye' to Brian so I straddled the couch he was on and kissed him with as much passion as I could muster," Rory concluded her story with a big sigh.
"Nice, what did he do after you kissed him?"
"He was in complete shock. It was nice to leave him breathless this time!"
"Wow, I envy you! Not the whole offer to be fingered because your…your…Scott is copying his best friend, but being able to leave your guy breathless. Hey, that guy- is he checking us out?" Kimiko asked suddenly eyeing someone behind Rory.
"What guy?" Rory asked looking around wildly.
"Stop being so obvious. Oh God he's coming over here," Kimiko flashed a hand through her short-ish brown hair and put on a wide smile as the stranger approached. Rory left her seat and headed to the coffee stand whispering "I'll be back," into Kimiko's ear.
The boy stopped beside Rory's empty chair and flashed a wild grin at Kimiko, "Hi, I'm Jake, and you are?" the boy asked.
"Kimiko," she replied coolly and began to fidget with the rim of her empty cup.
"Cool name, you must not be from around here. What's your name from?" the boy asked.
"It's Japanese and I go here. But I'm from Canada," Kimiko replied with a short smile and turned her attention to looking for Rory.
"Were you waiting for someone, because I could wait with you? Or you could come with me and my friends," the boy offered.
"That's okay, my friend should be back any minute," she said as a new stranger approached them.
"You should hang with us, it would be totally fun," the new guy offered with a smile.
"Uh that's okay, like I said, I'm waiting for someone," she turned away from the boys rudely.
"Do you just want us to leave you alone?" Jake asked.
"Yeah, thanks," she said with a smile and the boys began to walk away.
Jake turned around and gave her a quick wink, "Maybe I'll see you around," and walked away.
Kimiko muttered back, "Not in this life time," and rolled her eyes as Rory reemerged from the coffee stand and took her seat again. Kimiko welcomed her with a nasty sneer and evil glare making Rory feel slightly uncomfortable.
"Someone looks unhappy for just being hit on!" Rory commented sipping her new coffee.
"Yeah well this someone doesn't like being ditched to have some weirdoes hit on her!" Kimiko sat back in her chair angrily, still glaring at Rory.
"Sorry, I had this great caffeine need and you know me and my addiction…" she trailed off as a familiar boy caught her eye. She smiled absently and glanced off in the distance.
Kimiko caught this and smiled slightly as she turned around to see another boy crossing the campus on a direct path to Rory. She grabbed her empty cup and purse from the table. "I'll leave you two alone, and I want details about tonight," Kimiko winked and quickly walked away towards the dorms again.
The boy quickly grabbed Rory and swept her into a passionate kiss in the middle of the courtyard. She pulled away breathlessly and smirked, "It's nice to see you too Scott," and crashed her lips to his in an effort to regain control.
"This place is so nasty!" Katie commented as they walked into the dingiest bar in the entire city.
"It's not so bad," Brian said as he dragged his guitar case into the place.
"Sure if you think STD's and hepatitis are just a party waiting to happen," Rory quipped.
"Scott, tell your girlfriend to shut up. She's belittling our talent!" Brian yelled at his friend. The look on Scott's face was one that confused Rory. He looked like he was going to deny their relationship but kept his mouth shut.
"When do we go on?" he asked instead, happy to change the subject.
"In like half an hour, I'm so pumped!" Brian said excitedly with a girlish squeal.
Rory looked at him and broke out in laughter- since when did boys squeal? Scott gave her the 'shut-up-before-I-start-laughing' look and she stifled the remainder of her giggles.
Brian gave her a dirty look and was about to say something he would most likely regret, but Katie had grabbed his face and kissed him hard and square. She turned back to Rory who gave her an appreciate smile, and then grabbed Brian's hand as they walked towards the stage.
Scott began to laugh now, his own giggles unstoppable and the two almost end up on the dirty floor laughing so hard. Finally stopping, he smiled at Rory and kissed her lips softly. She smiled back and asked, "What was that for?"
"For looking cute and coming with me tonight," he blushed suddenly- something very odd coming from Scott- the loveless monster, but hey, always expect the unexpected!
"It's not a problem! Now get going and make some rock music!" she swatted his ass and he gave her an evil smirk as he made his way across the half empty floor.
The band took the stage not long after they got up there and rocked the house. It seemed to fill up within twenty minutes of their hour long set. Scott even managed to add in the removal of his shirt to the many screaming girls in the crowd. The set ended just as quickly as it had started and they were outside in the parking lot not long after. They set to the road but in a sudden bout of hunger, stopped off at the Wendy's on the highway. As they got out of the car Scott began to jump around the parking spots. They had arrived in different cars and Rory was just getting out of the one she was in.
"Rory!" Scott screamed still full of energy.
Scott took a run at Rory and the next thing she knew, Scott had completely tackled her to the ground and she was lying there with a ripped shirt and in a fit of giggles.
"Ouch, what the fuck Scott!" Rory giggled.
"I thought you'd catch me," he said, still on top of her.
"Yes because I have eyes in the back of my head!" she smiled. "Crap you ripped my shirt," Rory noticed trapped under Scott's body.
"Aw, well you can have mine," Scott offered. "And you're hurt," he bent down and kissed her deeply. She kissed him back full force, but being on the uncomfortable ground and remembering where they were, she pushed him off gently. "Let me get you that shirt and then I'll buy you some chocolate milk," he gave her a wink and led her back to the car and took of his shirt.
"Thanks, I so didn't expect you to give me the shirt off your back," she smiled and he grabbed a new shirt of his own. Pulling it on, they walked into the Wendy's for some good old burgers and fries.
And so the two lovers are at a happy peak. All is good with them, but will it remain or crash and burn in their faces. Will there be new love interests- including a hot Elliot the Moose look a like, or will they be happy forever. Nothing last forever, but let's see if our two favourite lovers can. Until then, stay tuned!