More than friends by Belle-Baby
Chapter 6: School and College
Recap:
"GET OUT! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" Lorelai screamed at Tristan.
"Mom! Stop it!"
"No Rory, say goodbye to Tristan, cause you are not going to be seeing him anymore." Lorelai said deadly calm and serious.
"What?" Rory practically whispered.
"You guys are going to break up and he is never coming in this house again." She answered.
"You can't do this mom. You can't tell me what to do!" Rory said, louder now.
"I most certainly can! I'm your mother! And as your mother, I forbid you to see him again."
"Come on Tristan." Rory said, full of anger now. How dare her mother say those things. She pulled Tristan with her, up the stairs, and to her room.
"Where are you going Rory?" Lorelai followed them.
"I'm getting some stuff."
"Why?"
"Because I'm going with Tristan." Rory said pulling a suitcase out of her walk-in closet and threw some clothes and other necessary stuff in it.
"You're not going anywhere Rory!"
"Watch me." With that Rory pulled Tristan with her out of her room, down the stairs and through the front door, slamming it, with Lorelai screaming after her.
On with the story:
Tristan knew it was wrong. Rory was putting her clothes in his closet and when she was done, she walked over to him.
"This is good right? Now we can be together and have our baby." She asked him.
"No… Rory- You know as well as I do that this is wrong. You can't turn away from Lorelai. You need her; she's one of your best friends plus your mother." He said slowly. Rory looked up at him with a confused and hurt look on her face.
"What are you saying? I'm not going to her if she's acting like that."
"Rory-"
"-No Tristan! I've chosen you! Don't tell me now that you don't want me! You could of said that when Lorelai was screaming and safe us all from that!"
"Rory that's not what I'm saying. I want you, you know that."
"Then what are you saying Tristan?" She asked, sounding tired.
"Just that, perhaps we should have handled it differently. Maybe… We shouldn't have stormed of like that. Maybe we should of stayed there and try to work things out. You can't lose your mom, Rory."
"I know that. She just needs to cool off. In a couple of days she will be calling me and apologising and then we can work things out… Okay?"
"If that's what you want, then yeah, okay."
"Good. Now, can we please go to bed? I'm tired."
"All right."
A week and a half later, Wednesday afternoon.
Lorelai couldn't handle it anymore. She hadn't spoken to her daughter for more than a week… That was longer than ever and she missed Rory so much… She knew she had reacted wrong and selfish. She knew what she should've done, she should've been the supportive mother, the supportive best friend. How could she have reacted like that? She had been through it herself and all she wanted back then was the support of her parents, especially her mother, even though she seriously disliked Emily back then. Here she lay on the couch, staring at the phone and being a hypocrite. She knows she should call Rory, she knows that, but she's too afraid. Imagine that, afraid to call her own daughter who was pregnant. She still had her pride, but Rory was much more important than that, Tristan was more important than that. After gathering her courage she picked up the phone and called Tristan's house.
"Andrew Dugrey." Tristan's father picked up.
"Andrew, it's Lorelai. Is Rory there?"
"Yes she is. When is she going to leave?" Andrew said, angry at the girl for staying in his house for so long. Lorelai figured they didn't tell Andrew and Elisabeth, Tristan's mom, yet so she bit back her original reply.
"Soon, Ed. Can I speak to her please?" Lorelai said, on purpose saying 'Ed', knowing that he hated it.
"Of course, she's your daughter, she should be at your house." He said in a tight voice. After a while she heard Rory picking up the phone.
"Hello?"
"Rory?"
"Mom?"
"Yeah…"
"Uhm… Why are you calling?" Rory decided to play stupid.
"I'm calling to apologise Rory.. I'm sorry."
"For what?"
"Rory-" Lorelai warned.
"I'm sorry too mom." Rory dropped her game.
"Please come back home so that we can talk and work this thing out."
"Okay… What about Tristan?"
"Tell him I'm sorry for the things I said, I know I was wrong. I think it would be best if he came along."
"All right. We'll be there in a couple of minutes."
"Okay."
"Okay."
"Rory?"
"Yes mom?"
"I love you."
"I love you too." And they both hung up.
Saturday
The Saturday after making up with her mom (and dad), Rory and Tristan had gone to his house to tell his parents. His mother had been shocked, but his father had been so calm. He told them in a dead serious voice that after graduation, Tristan would still be going to college and after that, he would come work for him. He didn't care about Rory and the baby, they would not ruin Tristan's life. They had gone up to his room, realizing that nothing would change Edward's mind, and Rory had burst out in tears.
"Baby, it will be all right."
"No it won't! You'll go to college and you'll meet girls and I will sit at home taking care of our baby."
"Listen to me, Rory, we'll pull a few strings at school so you can take summer classes and go to your senior year. I'll go to college, yes, but I'm not going to be dating other girls, all right? Then when you graduate, you can decide if you want to go to college right away or wait for a year or how long you want. We'll buy an apartment close to college where we'll live in. If you'll go to college straight away, the baby will stay here, with Lorelai, if not, he or she can come with us. That is going to be the way we'll do it, okay?" Rory silently nodded and leaned into him for a kiss.
A couple of days later
It was about 1 am when Rory's door opened and Lorelai sneaked in. She pulled the covers back slightly and crawled in next to Rory, so that they were face to face. Rory opened her eyes and stared into her mother's.
"Mom? What's wrong?"
"Nothing… I just…"
"Yes?"
"I just realised you're going to have a baby."
"Good job mom." Rory said sarcastically.
"No, that's not what I mean… You're going to have a baby, a child. Someone to carry the coffee addiction on." Rory got Lorelai's meaning and smiled. Lorelai giggled.
"It's going to be so much fun!"
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Pff.. That was really hard to write! I was thinking about getting Tristan kicked out, but that would be too much drama, I think.
So.. The next chapter should be out soon, I'm thinking off a time jump… But I'm not sure yet.
Thank you to:
princetongirlThank you for your review! Yeah, I think everyone is a little stunned about that. :) Hope you liked the new chapter!
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Gilmoregirl & Kylie1403Yeah.. I know.. When I was typing it, I was a bit surprised myself but it just came out so… Thank you! for Gilmoregirl: I never thought that I would be on someone's favorite's list. :) Thank you for reviewing again, they are really fun to read, I hope you liked the new chapter and please keep reviewing! Thank you!
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Kisses, BelleBaby
