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Set after The Breakup Part 2

Previously on Gilmore Girls:

"Hi, is this Rory?"

"yeah, who's this?"

"Tristan..."

Chapter 2

When she heard that name uttered a million thoughts swirled through her head the first of which was Why the hell is he calling? Usually guys get discouraged when a girl runs away crying. She had to force herself to breath, wondering what she was going to say to him. How could she explain her behavior from last night? Was he even calling about last night? Maybe he was calling to get homework? No he doesn't do homework. She wracked her brain and couldn't come up with any possible solutions. Her musings were interrupted.

"Uhh Rory?" Tristan hesitantly asked "Rory are you there?"

Shit, I forgot to say anything. "Hi Tristan," she finally managed to spit out. "What's up?" Oh yeah Gilmore that's real smooth.

"Well actually I was calling to see if you were okay. You ran out of there pretty fast last night. You looked kind of upset." Tristan responded.

Wow, Rory pondered, that was actually pretty considerate. I can't believe he's not weirded out by the fact that I cried when he kissed me.

"and to apologize." He continued, "I mean I probably shouldn't have..."

"I'm sorry I cried" Rory blurted out, interrupting his sentence.

"No problem," he responded dejectedly.

"I swear it had nothing to do with the kiss."

"I kissed you, you cried. That had to have something do to with the kiss."

" I cried because I was confused. Because I hadn't cried. I didn't cry because of the kiss. It was a nice kiss." Rory protested adamantly.

"Yeah?" Tristan responded, hope peaking into his voice.

"Very nice. Not at all crying material."

"Well," Tristan started, "it was nice. But I'm still sorry. It was too soon. You had just broken up and I had just broken up. So, it was really nice?"

"Absolutely."

"Well when you're feeling better, wanna try it again?" Tristan joked.

Rory laughed in return of the jest, feeling better by the minute. Who knew Tristan could actually be nice? However, Rory found herself once again in the position of not knowing what to say. She didn't really want to continue talking about the kiss. Tristan broke the silence.

"I think I'm gonna swear off girls" This comment earned a snort from Rory. "What?"

"Uh, sorry, nothing. You said you were going to swear off girls - it's funny."

"You don't think I can?"

"No I think you can, I just think it would be hard for you. It'd probably involve some kind of lock up facility, one of those Hannibal Lector masks." Rory suggested in jest...sort of.

"Ok yes, it would be hard but not impossible." Tristan asserted.

"Alright, I'm sure it would be possible. Maybe I should swear off guys for a while too. Not that it would be that hard since I've only had one boyfriend in 16 years, but you know it has been a while since I've been on my own. Guys cause trouble. No more for me." Rory rambled barely taking time to breath.

"Okay, so you're swearing off guys and I'm swearing off girls, maybe we should start a program or something. You know so if one of us starts to go into withdrawal we can call the other person who'll you know talk us down off the ledge?" Tristan suggested, half in jest, half dead serious. At least it would mean continuing to spend time with Rory he thought.

"Alright, you got yourself a deal. But I'm sure this whole swearing off girls thing will go out the window by tomorrow." Rory predicted "Or at least by this weekend you'll have a date."

"Oh yeah, don't be so sure" Tristan teased. "In fact, to ensure that I don't have a date this weekend, how about you and I go to dinner and a movie next Saturday. You know in honor of our swearing off dating and all. This way neither of us will be tempted to make other plans."

"Sounds good," Rory agreed "But I get to choose where we eat...and the movie."

"Alright" Tristan consented, "It's a not date."

The conversation continued, filled with jokes and laughter, both happy to have someone to talk to, to take their minds of the breakup. Rory just could not believe that Tristan was the one making her laugh, instead of making her want to hit something. Lorelai wandered into the living room at the sound of Rory's laughter. She was happy that her daughter was laughing like that again. When she heard Rory say, "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a wonderful friendship. Oh come on Tristan, just think." Lorelai decided Tristan couldn't be all that bad if he was able to make Rory laugh like that. Maybe, she thought, everything had turned out for the better.

A/N- some of the dialogue I borrowed from The Third Lorelai.

and I'm sorry it's so short. I wanted to update but I didn't have a whole lot of time. But tomorrow I'm on spring break so I'll have more time.

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