Rory and Lorelai were in the pool house packing up Rory's things when Emily burst in, madness written all over her face. "Rory! What has gotten into you? You just left that party last night with out so much as a word to your grandfather or me! Do you know what people thought! And what are you doing now? Since when are you even talking to your mother, but now you're moving all your stuff out with her? What is going on? Logan was looking for you all night last night at that party, it's a horrible thing to just ditch him like that, young lady!"
Lorelai went to intervene but Rory stopped her, she was going to do this on her own. "Grandma, I'm sorry that I left the party last night, but I needed to get out of there and I saw an old friend and I just left. As for Logan, I don't care who he was looking for all night long; he was there with another date grandma! Making out with her on the dance floor without a care in the world! My boyfriend cheated on me! That's why I left! So then Tristan took me to my mom's house because I needed her. No matter what she is my best friend and I couldn't stand to not talk to her anymore anyway. So we made up and yes, I am moving back home with her, and yes, I am starting Yale again next year. So that should answer all your questions."
"Well, I guess I have nothing else to say then. See you on Friday." And with that she walked out and left Rory and Lorelai to finish packing everything.
They finished packing, and were now on their way to Logan's to distribute his box of things they had found in the pool house as well.
As Rory got out of the car Lorelai stopped her, "Do you want me to do it instead? I know it might be hard to face him right now so soon after all this has happened. He can be a slick talker too, I don't want you to fall back into his world again babe."
"Don't worry mom, I have no intent on doing such a thing, I plan on having the maid come to the door, I will hand her the box and tell her to give it to Logan, and that will be that. I'll be right back."
Rory walked up to the door of the Huntzberger's mansion and rang the doorbell. When the door opened Rory looked up to see none other than Logan on the other side. Her smile faded when she saw it wasn't a maid.
"Ace, I'm glad you're here, I wanted to apologize for that other girl last night, I just got lonely because you would never come out with me. I don't wanna lose you Ace, you're a good person."
"Logan, you've already lost me, you should have thought about that before you did what you did. Someday maybe we can be friends again, because I do love hanging around Finn and Colin. Right now, I just can't. Now my mom is waiting, I just came to bring you the stuff you've left at the pool house."
"Your mom? What happened there?" Logan was confused.
"We made up last night, Tristan took me to her house because she's my best friend and after last night I needed my best friend. I'm moving back in with her and I decided to get a second opinion from another journalist, if I don't have what it takes still I'll find a new major, but none the less I'm still coming back to Yale next year. I'm not going to give up that easily. But I really need to go, see ya around Logan." With that Rory turned on a heel and ran back to her mom's jeep, leaving a dumbfounded Logan at his door.
Later that day at Luke's Diner…Rory and Lorelai were sitting at a table eating and laughing at how mad they were making Luke when Rory's cell phone rang. Rory motioned to her mom that she was going outside to take the call, and Lorelai went harassing Luke.
Rory walked outside and answered her phone. "Hello?"
"Hey Rory, it's Tristan, how'd things go with your mom?"
"Oh, it went good, we went and got all my stuff from my grandparent's house this morning and returned Logan's things to him, and now we're at Luke's eating some lunch."
"That's good, I knew everything would turn out okay. I'm glad things worked out for you."
"Yeah, well thank you for last night, talking to you about everything really put things into perspective for me and made me realize how stupid I was being. Anyway, I was gonna see if you wanted to come here and hang out with me and my mom tonight, we were gonna rent some movies and eat junk food all night, you wanna join?"
"Yeah, I'd like that, what time did you want me to come by?"
"Well, do you wanna come now? You can meet us at Luke's and we can go rent the movies and buy all the junk food, sound good?"
"Sure, I'll be there in about 25 minutes."
"Ok, see ya then Tristan."
And with that Rory hung up with a smile on her face. She didn't know how it happened, but she had actually fallen for Tristan. It was just last night that they saw each other for the first time in years but for some reason the second she saw him she had butterflies in her stomach. He just seems so different now, much more mature. I mean she was attracted to him back at Chilton, she denied the hell out of it back then, but she realized it later down the road, after he had left for military school of course. Now it's like a second chance to act on those feelings, and boy did they all come back the second she saw him. They actually got even stronger after they spent the night talking and getting to know each other better. She has never felt this way about any of her boyfriends, I mean that kiss, wow! It was just a short little peck even, but the power behind it was amazing! She was lucky she wasn't standing or she was sure she would have fallen from her knees being so weak.
Lorelai noticed the smile her daughter was wearing as she walked back in to Luke's. "So, who was that on the phone little missy?"
"Oh, it was Tristan, I invited him to come to our movie night so you can meet him and everything. He's on his way here right now so he can come with us to pick out the movies and stuff, figured it'd be a good way for you to see if he meets our Gilmore standards. The movies he suggests and everything will definitely show us if he's good enough to hang with us."
Lorelai laughed at this, "Oh, daughter of mine, you are a smart one, I knew there was a reason we sent you to the expensive schools!"
Half an hour later Lorelai, Rory, and Tristan were walking into the movie store to pick out that nights movies.
"So, Tristan, how about we rent Will Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?" Lorelai was testing him, this was their all time favorite movie and if he didn't like it she didn't know if he could make it up to them.
Tristan laughed, "You know, that's weird you say that, because I've loved that movie since I was a little kid, you know that little rich girl that gets all fat, she kinda reminded me of this girl back at my elementary school, I always kinda wished that would happen to her."
Lorelai gave Rory a surprised look. "Well then, the umpa lumpas it is!"
They grabbed a couple other movies and headed over to Doose's to get some junk food. They were walking down on of the aisles when they saw Dean.
Lorelai knew this would be an awkward moment, so she figured she'd be the first to say hi. "Hi Dean, how are you?"
"Um, I'm good. Hi Rory, I see you brought your accountant with you."
"Dean, is this really necessary? Do you really need to hold a grudge and be a jerk when you two had a problem with each other, what was it, 4, 5 years ago? I see you have no reason to be mad that I'm hanging out with him right now, and I also see that you obviously have not grown up yet, so I'll let you get back to that, mom, Tristan, lets go." Leaving a stunned Dean behind, the three made their way to the checkout and went on their way back to the house to start their movie night.
"Ooooh! Ooooooh! Can we ride in the pretty car that goes really fast on the way home instead of walking! Pleaaaaaase pleaseeeee pleeeeeeeaaaseeeee!" Lorelai begged as they walked out of Doose's.
"Mom, do you really feel the need to act like a 2 year old just because he has a nice car?"
"Yessssssss, pleeeeeeaseee I wanna ride in it!"
Tristan laughed at Lorelai's antics. "I have a better idea, how about I let you drive the car back to your house, then you can really see how fast it goes."
Lorelai got the biggest smile on her face and grabbed the keys he was holding out of his hand and took off towards the car before anybody got a chance to say anything else.
"You know we're not gonna go straight home now, right? You just gave her so much power, but at least now we know she's probably in love with you, so you don't have to worry about that!" Rory laughed as they walked to the already started car.
"Well, not many people can resist the charm of Tristan Dugrey." He gave her his trademark smirk after that comment.
"Ah, there's the Tristan I know so well, I was beginning to get worried with the nice, sweet, sensitive, caring guy I saw last night. At least now I know the ego is still here and as big as ever. No need to panic."
He just smiled at her and opened the car door for her and gestured for her to get in. Once they were both in, Lorelai said, "Buckle up, kiddies, we're goin' for a ride!" And with that she sped off down the street, excited to be driving such a speedy car, she always wanted to drive like she was part of Fast and the Furious.
