Chapter 2: The party

Rory yawned, finally opening her eyes to reveal the bright sun shining throw her window. She thought about going back to sleep 'til she glanced over at the clock that said it was 1:48pm! "SHIT!" She yelled as she frantically jumped out of bed and ran to the shower. She had to be inside her grandparent's house by 3 for this stupid party her grandma was dragging her to.

An hour later Rory was walking inside her grandparent's house and up the stairs to her mother's old bedroom to put on her dress and accessories. Once she got the dress on, she only got just a second to admire the dress on her when her grandma came bursting in the room with two ladies, the hair stylist and the make up artist. Rory looked over to her grandma who was giving orders to the two women, and sighed. 'This is going to be a long night…'

At the party…

Rory stepped into the room where everyone was for the party, and stopped and made polite conversation with a couple her grandparents knew. She let her eyes wander around the room, looking for anything entertaining when she felt her breath catch in her throat. 'Tristan Dugrey? What's he doing here? I haven't seen him in so long and wow does he look good. Oh God he's coming over here ok Rory come on close your mouth and stop drooling and put on a smile.'

"Well, well, Mary, isn't this a surprise?" Tristan said as he came to a stop in front of her.

To his surprise, instead of glaring at him and telling him to go away, she smiled and said, "Hello Tristan, how have you been? It's been awhile."

"Good, finished military school, and now I just finished my second year at Princeton. So I've been doing real good. What about you?" Tristan smiled back at her as they talked.

"Oh, me, um, well, I also just finished my second year at Yale. Graduated as valedictorian at Chilton, not to mention Vice President. I became friends with Paris, and she's actually been my roommate the past two years at Yale." Rory said it all so fast you'd think she wasn't telling him the whole truth, but who was he to make her tell her whole story.

"Ah, you and Paris, friends? Weird concept. So, how's bag boy?" Tristan gave her one of his famous smirks after that question, and she just had to laugh at his weak attempt to see if she was single or not.

"Actually, I wouldn't know I try to keep my distance from him these days. We don't go out anymore, I'm actually dating Logan Huntzberger." Rory was kind of hesitant to tell Tristan she had a boyfriend for some reason, and she felt even worse when she saw the flicker of disappointment in his eyes, but he quickly recovered.

"Logan Huntzberger?" Rory nodded and he went on, "You know Rory, I see him at these parties all the time, and you've never been the girl by his side." The look of concern on his face was so cute she almost wanted to kiss him.

"Well me and Logan didn't become serious until just about a month ago, we were pretty casual up until then, so he was still free to see other people really." Rory spit out, knowing it sounded like a stupid thing for her to do.

"Ok, well, Rory, you're a good person, always have been, that could never change I know that, and you don't deserve to be lied to." She gave him a questioning look and he went on, "Logan is still apparently keeping it pretty casual, I was just at a party 2 weeks ago and he came with some blonde that was all over him. I'm sorry to say it, but I just really think you should know what kind of boyfriend you have, and if you want to see for yourself, look to your left." Tristan finished pointing to her left.

She followed where he was pointing and was dumbfounded to find Logan with some girl on the dance floor making out like no body else was around. She wasn't sure what she felt. Was she hurt because this was her boyfriend cheating on her? Was she mad? Or was she relieved that finally she had an easy way out of this relationship? I mean they had been fighting a lot the past couple weeks and he never seemed like he cared, so maybe it was a good thing, they needed to break up anyway.

She made her way over to the dance floor where Logan was dancing, without another word to Tristan, so Tristan followed behind a little to make sure everything went ok and Rory didn't get hurt. She came to a halt at Logan and this girl, and tapped his shoulder and asked to cut in all while smiling.

He looked surprised, really surprised when she pushed the blonde out of her way and started to dance with him. He was for once at a loss for words. So she spoke instead, "Well, Logan, I see our arrangement to be exclusive isn't really working out now is it?"

"Ace, let me explain..." he was cut off however, by Rory.

"No, I saw what you were doing, and that's enough explanation for me. I thought you had actually changed, silly me, you fooled me, but don't worry it won't happen again, I'll be around some time tomorrow to get all my things from your dorm and bring anything you've left at my house. We'll be friends eventually, but right now I just can't really even look you in the eye without being disgusted that you would do that to me. So I'll drop your stuff off and pick my stuff up around 11:30am, see ya Logan." With that she left him standing there dumbfounded as she walked out of the room.