P- Thanks for the compliments. I can't make any promises on hurt levels though, a lot of people are going to get pretty hurt in this story.
Tickle582- I'm sorry that Tristan is being kind of mean, I just have to do it to work with the plot.
KeitaWolf- Yeah, Tristan is less attractive when being mean, we'll just have to fix that won't we? Glad you liked the last chapter though.
jessy4569- Thank you, I'm glad you like it.
LoVe23- Yeah, it is kinda sad right now, but I promise that it will get happier eventually.
KarahBella- Thank you, I hope you like this chapter too
Disclaimer: I don't get why we even have to do disclaimers do you? I mean it's not like anybody's ACTUALLY gonna sue anybody for not explaining that the original characters aren't theres ya know?
Sorry it's taken me so long to post another chapter everyone, I know it's bad. But I have been soooo busy this summer, I have a job and I've been going to a bunch of local band concerts (which if you live in the MD area, I highly suggest you check out Burning Rosewood, All Time Low, Haza, and Boy Crazy...they should have purevolumes and Myspaces. Oh and if anyone has a myspace, mine is http/ feel free to add me). Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this chapter, you've surely waited long enough for it.
Rory and Jess walk into the Gilmore house around 7 after having stopped at a used book store. After Rory closes the door she walks into the living room and looks around.
RORY: mom!
She yelled a little confused, there was no answer. She sent a questioning look to Jess but he just shrugged, not knowing anymore than her. So she walked over to the stairs and yelled up them.
RORY: mom!
She waited a moment but there was still no answer so she walked over to where Jess was standing and looked around once more, as though she thought in the few seconds she had been walking her mom might have suddenly appeared.
RORY: that's strange, she's usually home by now
As Rory is still glancing around Jess grabs her around the waist, pulling her closer. Rory laughs, forgetting about what she had been doing, and they walk into the kitchen. Rory sits down at the table and picks up a note that had been sitting there, reading it aloud.
"hey Ror,
I heard about your little 'escape' from school today but I'm sure you had your reasons.
Besides, you brought a hott guy with you, or so miss patty said, you better be ready to explain
yourself with that missy. Well anyway I'm at a party with Luke right now, of course I had to
drag him so I shouldn't be that late. There's food on the counter for you since Luke was nice
and decided you shouldn't starve or have to make an attempt at cooking. Oh and if Jess is
there, which I'm sure he is, there's food for him too but you two better be good.
luv ya lots,
mom"
JESS: well I guess we have the house to ourselves
RORY: I guess we do
JESS: so what should we do?
RORY: movie!
She yelled without a moments hesitation. Jess shook his head, laughing a little bit at Rory's quick yet suspected response. He then began walking towards the take-out boxes which contained their means of warding off starvation for the time being.
JESS: fine I'll grab the food
RORY: and I'll grab the candy
Rory reached into a cabinet as she spoke and pulled out licorice, m&ms, starbursts, sweedish fish, and an assortment of candy bars. Jess, then holding the food, started towards the living room to settle in for the night.
JESS: what movie?
RORY: I don't know, pick one
JESS: do you really want to leave it up to me?
RORY: good point
Rory laughed and sent Jess a smile, showing that she was teasing him. Jess smiled back, setting the food down, and grabbed Rory around the waist, pulling her onto the couch with him. Right then the phone rings, Rory rolls her eyes and Jess lets out an aggravated sigh.
JESS: great, time to search
They both start running around the house looking for the seemingly always misplaced phone. After about three minutes or so of searching Jess finally gives up and walks over to the tv to put the movie in, finding the phone setting on top.
JESS: got it!
He yells to Rory who had made her way into the kitchen in search of the phone. Rory walks back into the living room as Jess turns it on.
JESS: hello?
PARIS: hey Jess, can you put Rory on?
JESS: yeah sure
Jess sends Rory a curious glance and hands her the phone. Rory looks at Jess questioningly as she takes the phone from him and cautiously puts it up to her ear.
RORY: hello?
PARIS: I need your help
RORY: oh, hey, your back, what do ya need my help with?
PARIS: well someone thought it would be funny to throw a party at my house, there's people everywhere
RORY: wow, where are you?
PARIS: in my room, the only room that hasn't been taken over yet
RORY: ok, we'll be right there
PARIS: thanks
RORY: yeah, see you in a few
Rory has a somewhat disbelieving look upon her face as she hangs up the cordless. Jess looks at her curiously waiting for some sort of explaination but she just stands there shaking her head. When Jess notices this he decides to just ask.
JESS: be right where?
RORY: there's a party going on at Paris's
JESS: it's about time that girl had some fun
RORY: paris didn't throw it
JESS: oh
RORY: yeah, lets go
They get into the car and drive to Hartford, Rory gets out of the car and runs into the house with Jess following closely behind. Rory starts to head towards Paris's room but is cut off by someone.
MADELINE: Rory! Hey
RORY: hey
MADELINE: I didn't expect to see you here
She had a look of pleasurable surprise upon her face. Rory had a feeling that Madeline wasn't the one who threw the party, she may be somewhat of a slutty gossip but she was still pretty nice and harmless. However, Rory needed to get to Paris before she freaked out any more than she already had.
RORY: well I wasn't expecting to be here
MADELINE: oh, so where's Jess?
She asked looking around, right then Jess had caught up to Rory and heard the question. He wrapped his arms around Rory's waist and answered the question for himself.
JESS: right here
MADELINE: oh hey there, Rory can i steal your boyfriend just for one dance?
Madeline had that flirtatious look upon her face now and was posed waiting to grab Jess's arm. Rory laughed and nodded, she really didn't mind Madeline.
RORY: yeah go ahead, steal him for a few
JESS: what?
RORY: it's a party, have fun
JESS: but what about you?
Jess was still trying to get over the fact that his girlfriend had just given him up to another girl. He had such a betrayed look on his face that Rory almost started laughing again but stopped herself and just casually pushed him towards the dance floor.
RORY: I'm just going to find Paris and talk to her for a bit, go dance
JESS: fine but be careful
RORY: yes sir
Not being able to stop from laughing any longer, Rory walks away to go find Paris. She finally gets to her bedroom door and knocks loud so that it could be heard over the blarring music coming from the living room stero.
PARIS: go away!
RORY: Paris it's me
The door flies open, a hand grabs Rory, pulling her into the room, and then the door slams again and quickly locks. Rory stumbled into the room, almost falling from the force of the pull, and looks somewhat startled by her friends reaction.
PARIS: finally, help! There's a party in my house!
RORY: yeah because I didn't notice that when I walked through the door..so where's your parents?
PARIS: at some country club thing but even if they were here they would like the party, they think I need to get out more
Rory's sarcasm had failed to have any impact what-so-ever on Paris. She was worse off than Rory had thought, she was kind of starting to freak her out and thought it would be best to try to lighten her up and get her to make the best of the situation.
RORY: ok well as long as the party's here let's go have some fun
PARIS: fun! You expect me to have fun at one of these party's!
RORY: yes I do, and who knows, you might even find a guy
They both walk out of the bedroom, well . . . more like Rory dragging Paris but same difference, and into the main room where everyone's dancing and having a good time.
JUSTIN: it's about time you got out here Geller! This is your party after all!
TRAVIS: hey Paris, wanna dance?
The look of pure shock that overtook Paris would have alone made the trip worth it to Rory. Paris had been so surprised by the question that it took her longer than it should have to answer, in fact Rory had to jab her in the ribs to remind her that Travis was still waiting for his answer.
PARIS: where's your girlfriend?
TRAVIS: I don't have one at the moment
PARIS: umm...sure
They walk, hand-in-hand, onto the dance floor leaving Rory standing alone with Justin and Tristan. After everyone was done watching Travis and Paris together Rory had been about to strike up a conversation with Justin but apparently not quickly enough.
JUSTIN: well I've got to get my girlfriend back, Brian's coming over though
Justin turns and walks away as another guy walks over, someone that Rory had seen from around school but didn't know at all. However, not knowing each other didn't stop Brian from flirting.
BRIAN: hey
RORY: hey
BRIAN: why's a beatutiful girl like you standing all alone?
RORY: just don't feel like dancing
BRIAN: oh, well then, do you wanna dump this place and go somewhere?
Ok now that wasn't Rory's kind of flirting, so she politely declined while subconsiously starting to look around for Jess.
RORY: no thanks
BRIAN: ok then do you just want to find some place to sit and talk?
RORY: that sounds ok
Well maybe it wouldn't be so bad after all, Jess was off dancing with Madeline so she mine as well talk to somebody while she was waiting for him to get back.
BRIAN: great, the rooms are this way
RORY: what?
BRAIN: the rooms, they're this way
RORY: actually I'm fine right here
BRAIN: come on...your at a party, have some fun
RORY: it's plently fun right here
BRAIN: but not AS fun
RORY: really, I'm good right here
BRAIN: oh come on
Rory began backing away as she spoke but after his last remark Brian grabs her arm to keep her from backing up any further. Rory tried to yank her arm away just as quickly as Brian had grabbed it but didn't succeed, he was too strong for her.
RORY: get off of me
BRIAN: just a little fun
RORY: I have a boyfriend
BRAIN: so?
TRISTAN: that means she's not interested
Tristan had been getting more and more angry as their conversation went on but when Brian grabbed Rory that was that, he was putting a stop to this.
BRIAN: Tristan man, it's all good
TRISTAN: let her go
He spoke with such anger in his voice that it somewhat startled Brian.
BRIAN: what?
RORY: Thanks but i can handle this
Rory spoke so coldly that Tristan could almost feel the temperature drop. Brian however, wasn't stupid and knew better than to mess with Tristan so he took one last look at Rory and walked away.
TRISTAN: I was helping you
RORY: I don't want your help
TRISTAN: he would have dragged you back there no matter what you said
RORY: why do you care?
Tristan didn't like the way this conversation was going at all, he had just been trying to help Rory and now he's going to get the third degree about it? He was exasperated and somewhat hurt by her bold accusations and questions.
TRISTAN: because that's not right
RORY: so? You don't care about me
Tristan looks at her hopelessly and precedes to close his eyes and stand there silently until Jess runs over. Jess looks from one to the other and then glances around for the guy he had just seen grab Rory but he was nowhere to be found.
JESS: what's going on?
RORY: nothing, let's just dance
JESS: ok
Jess looks confused but wasn't about to argue, if Rory wanted to talk about it then she would. A moment after Jess and Rory walked onto the dance floor, Paris and Travis make their way over to Tristan.
PARIS: what was that all about?
TRISTAN: just Brian being himself
Tristan kept his voice even, displaying no emotion about the subject other than an air of nonchalance. Paris knew that Tristan was upset but as the same time was concerned about her friend.
PARIS: did he try something with Rory?
TRISTAN: it's fine now, she's with her boyfriend
Paris looked up at Tristan sadly, she knew that he was trying to make it sound like he couldn't care less and it was no big deal but on the last comment she could hear the sadness
When the party ended the only people left were Paris, Rory, Jess, Travis, Tristan, and Summer. It was already after 1 in the morning. Paris and Travis were still on the dance floor, Rory and Jess were talking and Summer was flirting with Tristan. Finally the song ended and Paris and Travis realized that they were the only ones left dancing, they walked over to Rory and Jess looking embarrassed.
PARIS: how long has everyone else been gone?
RORY: ummm...I'd say about an hour or so
Paris blushed crimson while Rory and Jess just laughed, Travis didn't seem to be embarrassed at all, he just kept looking at Paris. Meanwhile, Tristan was trying, unsuccessfully, to get it through Summer's thick skull that he wasn't interested in her, but she just wouldn't listen.
SUMMER: do you wanna go out tomorrow?
TRISTAN: we've got school and then I've gotta do my homework
Tristan was almost surprised at himself that he had used homework as an excuse, that was something he had never tried before. Summer looked like she was about to burst out laughing, knowing Tristan better than that.
SUMMER: yeah...homework, that'll be the day, so pick me up at say 6?
TRISTAN: no Summer, I'm not going out with you
Summer finally realized that no matter what she said Tristan wasn't going to go out with her and that made her furious, she threw him a look to kill and stalked out of the house. Tristan shook his head, glad that the conversation was finally over, and walked over to the others, they were talking about school.
TRISTAN: not to be the bummer or anything but it's kind of 2 in the morning
Rory and Paris both glanced at Tristan and then at their watches and a look of shock feel upon both of their faces. Travis just raised his eyebrows at the news and Jess shrugged.
JESS: I don't think that it's even worth going to bed at this point
Travis nodded his agreement, putting his arm around Paris and glancing around the small group trying to figure out their opinion on the matter.
TRAVIS: yeah, I agree with Jess, do you all wanna just hang out here for the rest of the night?