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Author's note: Thanks for the reviews, I seriously appreciate them so much. If you didn't review, I wouldn't blame you, cause it was a sucky chapter. Anyways, thanks for reading this far.
"So, what are we going to do tonight?" Kristina asked Rory, Tristan, Jake, Lane and Dave. They were all sitting inside Luke's eating some unhealthy dinner. The six of them agreed to hang out that night because the rest of the week would most likely be taken up by Emily Gilmore's preparations for the engagement party.
"Movie?"
"Go to Hartford?"
"Shopping?"
"No!" The three guys answered right away.
"Geez, sensitive to the 's' word, aren't you?" Kristina asked, shaking her head.
"How about we just hang out here, see a movie and then go out for some ice cream afterwards?" Rory rationalized. The four people from New Haven were dead tired and the other two were even more tired because of having to deal with Mama Kim.
The idea was something the other five could handle. They weren't really in the mood for clubbing or anything. The movie they saw wasn't that great, they didn't even remember the title. It was an independent film that hadn't got a lot of ratings, but they saw it because no one could settle on just one movie to see.
"So Jakey-poo," Kristina teased her boyfriend, "when are you going to ask me to marry you like Tristan asked Rory?"
All of the color in Jake's face drained when Kristina asked the question. To be honest, he wasn't really thinking of marriage right now and he knew how girls got when they passed the certain point in a relationship. The wedding bells started to play and bridal magazines were bought to find the perfect gown. It was starting to scare him. So, Jake just shrugged and smiled, hoping the non-answer would satisfy her.
Tristan and Rory noticed this and silently agreed to talk to their respective friends after they got back. Dave and Lane didn't notice this interaction because they were too busy smiling and staring at each other. They started dating a very long time ago, but anyone who walked by them on the street would think they had just started dating.
"So, what was the pale face for back there?" Tristan approached the subject after the girls had left to go back to the Gilmore abode, and Dave and Lane had gone home. He and Jake were driving towards the Inn in Tristan's car.
Jake turned to his friend. Tristan never really missed anything. He had the best observation skills anyone could ask for. "I don't know if Kristina is the one I want to marry." He looked down and furrowed his eyebrows together. "She's great to date right now, but I don't really see anything happening, I don't know." His friend was pouring deepest thoughts out to him and Tristan was feeling bad for Kristina.
"I can totally see us like ten years in the future we're still together." Kristina told her best friend. "I can see it."
Rory just nodded, accepting Kristina's point of view. However, the look on Jake's face earlier told a different story about him. After several moments of not saying anything, Rory decided to speak. "Well, there's the thing about guys. It occurred with Tristan in our relationship after we got serious. Sure, they love you, and they love to be with you. But guys' minds are different from ours. We pass this time in a relationship and we think that the guy we're with is the one. I mean, the one." Rory paused, almost hesitating to say the next sentence. "As for the guys, they start to get a little scared because for the first time they realize how serious the relationship is."
"So you think he wants to dump me." Before Rory could comment, Kristina spoke again, this time a little louder. "You do! You know what's going to happen." With that, she got up and calmly walked out of the Crap Shack with tears running down her face.
Rory got up and ran after her, but it was too late, Kristina was gone. "I hope I didn't permanently screw things up." She prayed to herself quietly. The party was a week or less away and if her best friend and maid of honor wasn't there, Rory wasn't sure if she could put up with the party. And that was saying a lot because Tristan and her mom were also going to be there.
Tristan walked through the front door of the Gilmore home and ran to Rory. She was just sitting there in the middle of the hallway curled into a ball. She had a lone tear running down her left cheek and it didn't go unnoticed by her fiancé. "Rory? Hun, what's the matter?" He asked, using a voice so soft it was as if he were afraid to break the silence. And in truth, he was.
"She left. I ruined it." Rory spat out two short sentences, not leaving much for Tristan to go on.
"Who? Lorelai?" Rory shook her head. "Lane? Was it Kristina?" As Kristina's name came out, Rory let out a small sob. So that's what was bothering her. "Hey babe, don't beat yourself up about it. I had a talk with Jake." He wrapped his arms around Rory, giving her a hug.
Rory's voice was muffled be Tristan's chest, but he heard it all the same. "But I had a talk with Kristy too, and she thought I knew something about Jake that she didn't. She thinks they're going to break up." She laughed to herself quietly. She was beginning to realize that it wasn't her problem. It was between Jake and Kristina. "They're going to be fine. It's just a little tiff." She saw Tristan's face stay the same. "Right?" She asked, her voice wavering.
"Uh, yeah." Tristan furrowed his eyebrows, trying to remember every detail of the conversation he had had with his best man. "Umm, about the party, what are you going to wear because I don't want to wear something that will 'like totally clash with your style.'" He imitated a valley girl accent, just trying to get Rory's mind off of the other couple.
The rest of the week for Tristan was spent between the Gilmore's and Jake. The Gilmore's were trying to plan the party, and Jake was trying to figure out things between him and Kristina. Kristina and Rory had gotten over their one-sided fight, realizing that their relationships should be kept separate, and Kristina realizing that if she made Rory unhappy then her party would be ruined. Kind of cheesy, I know.
"So, I think we should have the finest of everything, and guests should have little nameplates by their chairs." Emily Gilmore droned on, on Wednesday around two in the afternoon.
"Great, whatever is fine." Tristan just mechanically nodded when he felt Emily's gaze on him.
Lorelai let out a relieved yell the second she set foot out of the Gilmore mansion. She stopped short when she heard her mother's voice. "Quiet Lorelai, the neighbors will hear you." Emily closed the front door.
"That's Emily for ya." Tristan smiled and took out the keys to his car. "Umm, Rory do you mind riding with Lorelai, I've got something I need to take care of." He smiled reassuringly and drove off before Rory could answer.
"What was that about?" Lorelai asked Rory, as her daughter got into the car.
Rory looked down at her left ring finger and gently touched the diamond that rested there. "I don't know." She had noticed Tristan become a little preoccupied lately.
As that conversation was going on, Tristan was having a conversation of his own. "Hey, can you meet me at Applebees? You know, the one by the highway? Great, I'll see you later." He hung up his cell phone and drove the restaurant he had mentioned.
"Thanks for coming," Tristan greeted his best friend ten minutes later, at Applebees. "Okay, so you've worked everything out alright?" He was referring to Kristina.
Jake nodded. "Yeah, I'm going to take her out to dinner tonight." He smiled. "Thanks for all of your help, man. Kristina would have never given me the time of day after our sort of fight if it hadn't been for you."
Tristan shrugged. "It's no big deal." He looked around. It seemed like the place was filled with women. He sighed. "Just think, in a month I'll be married, and I won't be able to flirt with anyone else anymore."
"How are you and Rory doing anyways?" Jake asked.
"We're okay. But ever since we graduated it's been all about that party." Tristan smiled. "Not that I don't mind, it's just that I want to see my fiancé once in a while without having other people there."
"Then go out tonight." Jake said it as if it were the simplest thing in the world.
Tristan's face brightened at the suggestion. "You're right!" He had a few ideas in his head now; ways to make Rory fall in love with him all over again. He smiled at a few, just thinking about them. Then he thought of a few that would even make him blush; definitely ones that would be not used.
Author's note: Thanks for the reviews, I seriously appreciate them so much. If you didn't review, I wouldn't blame you, cause it was a sucky chapter. Anyways, thanks for reading this far.
"So, what are we going to do tonight?" Kristina asked Rory, Tristan, Jake, Lane and Dave. They were all sitting inside Luke's eating some unhealthy dinner. The six of them agreed to hang out that night because the rest of the week would most likely be taken up by Emily Gilmore's preparations for the engagement party.
"Movie?"
"Go to Hartford?"
"Shopping?"
"No!" The three guys answered right away.
"Geez, sensitive to the 's' word, aren't you?" Kristina asked, shaking her head.
"How about we just hang out here, see a movie and then go out for some ice cream afterwards?" Rory rationalized. The four people from New Haven were dead tired and the other two were even more tired because of having to deal with Mama Kim.
The idea was something the other five could handle. They weren't really in the mood for clubbing or anything. The movie they saw wasn't that great, they didn't even remember the title. It was an independent film that hadn't got a lot of ratings, but they saw it because no one could settle on just one movie to see.
"So Jakey-poo," Kristina teased her boyfriend, "when are you going to ask me to marry you like Tristan asked Rory?"
All of the color in Jake's face drained when Kristina asked the question. To be honest, he wasn't really thinking of marriage right now and he knew how girls got when they passed the certain point in a relationship. The wedding bells started to play and bridal magazines were bought to find the perfect gown. It was starting to scare him. So, Jake just shrugged and smiled, hoping the non-answer would satisfy her.
Tristan and Rory noticed this and silently agreed to talk to their respective friends after they got back. Dave and Lane didn't notice this interaction because they were too busy smiling and staring at each other. They started dating a very long time ago, but anyone who walked by them on the street would think they had just started dating.
"So, what was the pale face for back there?" Tristan approached the subject after the girls had left to go back to the Gilmore abode, and Dave and Lane had gone home. He and Jake were driving towards the Inn in Tristan's car.
Jake turned to his friend. Tristan never really missed anything. He had the best observation skills anyone could ask for. "I don't know if Kristina is the one I want to marry." He looked down and furrowed his eyebrows together. "She's great to date right now, but I don't really see anything happening, I don't know." His friend was pouring deepest thoughts out to him and Tristan was feeling bad for Kristina.
"I can totally see us like ten years in the future we're still together." Kristina told her best friend. "I can see it."
Rory just nodded, accepting Kristina's point of view. However, the look on Jake's face earlier told a different story about him. After several moments of not saying anything, Rory decided to speak. "Well, there's the thing about guys. It occurred with Tristan in our relationship after we got serious. Sure, they love you, and they love to be with you. But guys' minds are different from ours. We pass this time in a relationship and we think that the guy we're with is the one. I mean, the one." Rory paused, almost hesitating to say the next sentence. "As for the guys, they start to get a little scared because for the first time they realize how serious the relationship is."
"So you think he wants to dump me." Before Rory could comment, Kristina spoke again, this time a little louder. "You do! You know what's going to happen." With that, she got up and calmly walked out of the Crap Shack with tears running down her face.
Rory got up and ran after her, but it was too late, Kristina was gone. "I hope I didn't permanently screw things up." She prayed to herself quietly. The party was a week or less away and if her best friend and maid of honor wasn't there, Rory wasn't sure if she could put up with the party. And that was saying a lot because Tristan and her mom were also going to be there.
Tristan walked through the front door of the Gilmore home and ran to Rory. She was just sitting there in the middle of the hallway curled into a ball. She had a lone tear running down her left cheek and it didn't go unnoticed by her fiancé. "Rory? Hun, what's the matter?" He asked, using a voice so soft it was as if he were afraid to break the silence. And in truth, he was.
"She left. I ruined it." Rory spat out two short sentences, not leaving much for Tristan to go on.
"Who? Lorelai?" Rory shook her head. "Lane? Was it Kristina?" As Kristina's name came out, Rory let out a small sob. So that's what was bothering her. "Hey babe, don't beat yourself up about it. I had a talk with Jake." He wrapped his arms around Rory, giving her a hug.
Rory's voice was muffled be Tristan's chest, but he heard it all the same. "But I had a talk with Kristy too, and she thought I knew something about Jake that she didn't. She thinks they're going to break up." She laughed to herself quietly. She was beginning to realize that it wasn't her problem. It was between Jake and Kristina. "They're going to be fine. It's just a little tiff." She saw Tristan's face stay the same. "Right?" She asked, her voice wavering.
"Uh, yeah." Tristan furrowed his eyebrows, trying to remember every detail of the conversation he had had with his best man. "Umm, about the party, what are you going to wear because I don't want to wear something that will 'like totally clash with your style.'" He imitated a valley girl accent, just trying to get Rory's mind off of the other couple.
The rest of the week for Tristan was spent between the Gilmore's and Jake. The Gilmore's were trying to plan the party, and Jake was trying to figure out things between him and Kristina. Kristina and Rory had gotten over their one-sided fight, realizing that their relationships should be kept separate, and Kristina realizing that if she made Rory unhappy then her party would be ruined. Kind of cheesy, I know.
"So, I think we should have the finest of everything, and guests should have little nameplates by their chairs." Emily Gilmore droned on, on Wednesday around two in the afternoon.
"Great, whatever is fine." Tristan just mechanically nodded when he felt Emily's gaze on him.
Lorelai let out a relieved yell the second she set foot out of the Gilmore mansion. She stopped short when she heard her mother's voice. "Quiet Lorelai, the neighbors will hear you." Emily closed the front door.
"That's Emily for ya." Tristan smiled and took out the keys to his car. "Umm, Rory do you mind riding with Lorelai, I've got something I need to take care of." He smiled reassuringly and drove off before Rory could answer.
"What was that about?" Lorelai asked Rory, as her daughter got into the car.
Rory looked down at her left ring finger and gently touched the diamond that rested there. "I don't know." She had noticed Tristan become a little preoccupied lately.
As that conversation was going on, Tristan was having a conversation of his own. "Hey, can you meet me at Applebees? You know, the one by the highway? Great, I'll see you later." He hung up his cell phone and drove the restaurant he had mentioned.
"Thanks for coming," Tristan greeted his best friend ten minutes later, at Applebees. "Okay, so you've worked everything out alright?" He was referring to Kristina.
Jake nodded. "Yeah, I'm going to take her out to dinner tonight." He smiled. "Thanks for all of your help, man. Kristina would have never given me the time of day after our sort of fight if it hadn't been for you."
Tristan shrugged. "It's no big deal." He looked around. It seemed like the place was filled with women. He sighed. "Just think, in a month I'll be married, and I won't be able to flirt with anyone else anymore."
"How are you and Rory doing anyways?" Jake asked.
"We're okay. But ever since we graduated it's been all about that party." Tristan smiled. "Not that I don't mind, it's just that I want to see my fiancé once in a while without having other people there."
"Then go out tonight." Jake said it as if it were the simplest thing in the world.
Tristan's face brightened at the suggestion. "You're right!" He had a few ideas in his head now; ways to make Rory fall in love with him all over again. He smiled at a few, just thinking about them. Then he thought of a few that would even make him blush; definitely ones that would be not used.