a/n : This idea popped into my head when I was watching 'When Harry met Sally'.
Some things you probably would wanna know: It's summer holiday (is that an actual word?) right after first year of college.
Everything so far has happened, except for the Rory-Dean thing.

Enjoy... (hopefully)

Disclaimer. I'm sure everybody knows but I'm gonna say it anyway: I do not own Gilmore Girls, just my fantasies

Love, maybe – Chapter 5- Amazingly Gross Food

They were standing in front of the building that supposed to be the diner that was a part of the motel. And just like Rory's and Tristan's room, it looked a little bit filthy.

'I'm not gonna go in there.' Tristan looked disgusted.

But Rory was already in and practically pulled Tristan in through the doors 'Don't be such a whine Tris, I mean, it does look a little bit unhygienic, but food is food and I'm hungry'

'I think you're a little bit too eager to get me in there. Do you want me killed? Whoa, stupid question, I guess you would take every opportunity to do that'

'Don't mess with me when I'm hungry, now get in here, or else I'll make you sleep in the car.' Rory said mad, but changed to a whispery one. 'And make it quick, everyone in here is looking at us.'

'Fine, at your service Miss Gilmore' he saluted, but didn't put much effort in it. 'But if I get food poisoning, I'm holding you responsible.'

They walked into the diner, Tristan pouting because he was 'scared' of eating there, Rory pouting, because she was getting pretty hungry.
They found themselves a table near the clearest window.

'Well let's see what they've got.' Rory said eagerly. She pulled the menu off the sticky table, now also pretty disgusted. 'Well, they have hamburgers so, that's a plus'

'Yeah, sure, I bet they give it to you raw' Tristan's face was looking more horrified with every second.

'Don't be such a whiner.'

'I'm not whining, I'm just stating the obvious…'

'Yeah right, you just wait till we get our food, complain then, stop now. Please…?

They were interrupted by the second Irish voice that night. 'Hello there, how can I help you?'

And again, for the second time that night, Rory and Tristan looked into a wide smiling face, much alike the old man, but not quite as old, and this one was female in her 40s.

'Yes please help us were starving' Rory looked at the woman if she was God or something.

Tristan was also pretty thankful 'Yes please, release me from this psycho' Rory threw him a death glare.

'Well then, what can I get you pretty guys?' Tristan and Rory glanced at each other and tried to hold their laughs.

'Two burgers and two large fries and one coffee, please.' Rory answered.

'All right' the waitress said in her 'prettiest' smile. 'Will that be all?'

'Yeah that'll be all, thanks.' Tristan said.

The waitress was about to walk away but Rory called her back. "Wait a minute,' she turned back to Tristan 'don't you want anything?'

'What do you mean, you just ordered two burgers and two fries, so you ordered for the two of us, which by the way,' he winked at her 'Mare, I never expected from you'.

'You moron, that was all for me, so if you want anything you'll just have to order now'

Tristan looked at her amazed. 'All for you, alright, should've know that…' he now turned to the waitress '…I'll have two cheeseburgers and two large fries and a coke, please.'

'Will that be all' the waitress asked

'Yeah that'll be all, thank you.' Rory answered. She turned back to Tristan.
'Pretty ambitious'

Tristan looked confused 'What is ambitious?'

'Trying to take me on.'

'Take you on, what are you talking about?'

'Oh come on bucko, you ordered the doubles, you so are trying to take me on. Nobody else ever dares to.'

Tristan smirked 'No I'm not trying to take you on. I'm just hungry. I always eat that much.'

'I don't believe you.' Rory said cocky. 'I think you don't want to lose from a girl. And by the way, I thought you didn't dare eating the food.'

'I never said that, I just said if I get food poisoned I hold you…' he pointed a fry at her '…responsible. And you just wait and see missy, if I'm able to eat this all.'

'Okay, so you're willing to make this a competition.'

'Yes' He said solemnly 'I'm willing to take you on'

Rory laughed 'Yeah, let the games begin'

Tristan and Rory looked at each other for a moment and then both attacked their burgers, but they spat it right back out.

Rory looked disgusted, for the billionth time that night. 'Oh my God, this is horrible, this is the nastiest burger I've ever had.'

'Oh yeah…' Tristan agreed '…this is nasty'

'So, what are we going to do? I don't want to eat this.' Rory looked terrified.

'Me either.' Tristan put some money on the table 'Let's get out of here. That Irishman told us there was a town nearby, we should be able to find some decent food there. Oh, and by the way, if we do that, we have to walk, cause I lost your car keys somewhere in our room.'

'But then we'd have to walk.' Rory complained not thinking about the fact that the keys he lost were the keys to her car.

'You can't have it all, Mare. It's this stinking food, no food at all, or walking.'

Rory stamped her foot like a 4 year old 'If we have to… I guess we could walk.'

Tristan noticed that they must have caused a pretty amusing scene, because the whole place was looking at them. 'Alright then, let's go before we draw more attention to ourselves'

'Tristan' Rory whined 'My feet hurt'
To point that out she stopped walking exactly where she stood.

'Rory, you've been complaining for the last 20 minutes.' Tristan was getting pretty annoyed 'Could you please get off my back.'

'That's totally your own fault. If your ego wasn't so big and you would've let me help you navigate we wouldn't be lost right now.'

Tristan now stopped and turned to face Rory. 'And if you weren't bugging me about pain, and being tired and Tristan-are-you-sure-this-is-the-right-way, we wouldn't be lost in the first place.'

'And if you didn't lose MY car keys, we could've driven to that stupid town, and I wouldn't be complaining. And by the way, if you do not find my keys, you're going to be in a LOT of trouble.'

He smirked 'Is that supposed to scare me' but he quickly took his smirk down when he saw Rory's face. 'Don't worry I'll find your keys, I promise! But we need to quit our little blame-game here, because if we keep doing this we'll never get to the stupid village.'

Rory opened her mouth to respond but closed it again. She knew he was right. If they kept standing there she would never get something to eat and rest her feet.

She looked at him and crossed her arms 'Fine…' she started walking again '… but I am really hungry and tired.'

Tristan smirked again, she had to have the last word in this. 'Yeah, sure you are.'

A few moments of silence passed by before someone spoke again.

'When did you lose my keys anyway?' Rory asked

'When we were in the room. I threw my keys on the bed, but then you marked it as you territory with your bag and I couldn't find them anymore'

'Oh.' Rory whispered 'I'm sorry.'

'There's nothing to be sorry for. I'll search for them tomorrow when we have some decent light. I'll promise you we'll be able to leave again tomorrow.'

Rory, being very relieved, let her breath escape 'I was getting a little scared that we had to stay in this dump even longer'

'Of course not…' Tristan looked her straight in her eyes '…I would never do that to you, or me for that matter.'

Rory noticed she was holding her breath again, but not for the same reason as before. She ran after Tristan who was walking again. She didn't know what that was. When he looked straight into her eyes… But her thoughts were interrupted by Tristan's voice

'Mare…' His eyes were filled with triumph and relief '… we made it. There's the stupid town.'

a/n: I hope you guys enjoyed... and you will review... please... pretty please with sugar on top.
xxX Hanneke
And Heather - Thanks for the grammar-check