Summary: Rory is just starting Chilton for gr11. Her and Dean broke up 9 months ago because he was getting kind of stalkerish. She meets Tristan and they fall in love of course. Dean does some stuff but I'm not gonna say what, you'll have to read and find out!

Follow Through

Chapter 1:First Days

"Rory! Rory! Wake up!" Lorelai screamed at her daughter.

"Mom, What is it? Is everything all right?" Rory responded worriedly.

"It's your first day at Chilton!" Lorelai exclaimed, with as much excitement as a kid on Christmas morning.

"ARGH" Rory sighed and flopped back down on her bed. Lorelai then pulled off all her blankets and Rory rolled out of bed mumbling incoherently about sleeping and coffee, while making her way to the Gilmore's trusty coffee maker Steve.

Rory Gilmore is 17; she is starting her first day of gr11 at Chilton Preparatory Academy in Hartford CT.

"Rory were going to Luke's for breakfast, hurry up!" Lorelai shouted from the front door.

"I'm coming, I just need to find my other shoe."

"It's behind the couch."

"What is it doing there?"

"I dunno, what do I look like a shoe makers elf?" Lorelai said getting impatient, not that that took a lot of effort.

"OK I'm ready." Rory said standing up and fixing her skirt.

"Awww my baby's growing up so fast." Lorelai said wiping a tear from her eye.

"Oh mom, lets go get some delicious coffee." Rory said.

"You don't have to tell me twice." Said Lorelai rushing out the door dragging Rory behind her.

The two Gilmore Girls walked to their favourite eatery in silence. They were both thinking of what the day ahead and what it would bring them. Lorelai was thinking about Rory. When she was little, her first word, her first step, and her first day of school. It all felt like it was just yesterday. Rory on the other hand was thinking about her first day of private school, how different it was going to be, however the good thing is that she won't have to see her ex-boyfriend Dean everyday anymore. Rory and Dean dated when she was 15 he was her first boyfriend. It started out ok, but then he started to get controlling and he would get upset if he didn't know what she was doing at all times. Lorelai and Luke helped her get out of that relationship 9 months ago, nevertheless Dean would come around every once in a while. Luke and Lorelai would usually get him away from her.

The girls arrived at Luke's Diner and demanded some coffee.

"Oh Lucas, can we please have some of your wonderful coffee, the greatest gift on earth!" Lorelai sang as they waltzed through the diner's door.

"NO!" was all that came out of the back room.

A few seconds later a man with a blue baseball hat and a flannel shirt came out and said to Lorelai…

"Hey I set up this wonderful breakfast for the two of you with coffee and you don't even notice! I am ashamed, see if I do anything for you again." Luke stated with a large grin planted on his face.

Lorelai and Rory stood there speechless for a second before going over to the table to enjoy their chocolate chip pancakes and coffee.

A few moments later Luke walked over to give them refills on their coffee. Lorelai jumped out of her chair and planted a large kiss on Luke's mouth.

"Oh I love you coffee supplier! What would I do with out you? Lorelai questioned.

Luke just smirked at her and said she would starve to death, before walking away to give his customers more refills. Luke and Lorelai had been dating ever since Rory and Dean broke up. When they were trying to protect Rory from him they realized they were soul mates. Of course the whole town knew this before they did.

Rory got up and started to head towards the door of the diner. Lorelai noticed and put a stop to this right away.

"Where do you think your going missy? Hmm?" Lorelai questioned.

"To school." Rory replied with the most innocent smile plastered on her face.

"Well not without giving your fabulous mother a kiss first."

"Fine, Good-bye my lovely mother."

(They kiss on both cheeks)

"I will miss you terribly while I'm gone." Rory finished breaking into a fit of giggles, and then skipping off to her car to head to her new school.

Lorelai had wanted to drive her, but Rory insisted she wanted to do this alone, after her whole situation with Dean she wanted to feel independent about some things in her life.

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Rory arrived at Chilton and went to see the headmaster; she had already received her class schedule in the mail. Right now she had to get her locker number.

Rory's new locker was numbered 421, which was just located a few doors down from her first period class.

Her first period class was English with Mr. Medina. She arrived at the classroom took a deep breath and went in. A few students were already seated. She took a seat off to the side of the classroom. A second later the rest of the class arrived and the teacher welcomed them for another day of learning.

"Hello everyone, today we have a new student, Lorelai Gilmore." He said pointing to Rory.

"Lorelai would you like to stand up and tell us a little about where you transferred from." Mr. Medina continued.

"Um, sure. Actually you can call me Rory, everyone does." Rory replied

"Excellent, Rory where did you transfer from?"

"Well I transferred from Stars Hollow High, It's in Stars Hollow a small town about 30 minutes from Hartford."

"Oh yes I've driven through there once on my way into Hartford. Well Rory I would like to welcome you to our school, I hope you enjoy your time here very much. I have asked Paris Geller to take you on a tour of the school, Paris can you come up here please."

"Yes, Mr. Medina" Paris responded

"Paris. Please show Rory here all there is to know about Chilton." Mr. Medina said

Paris and Rory left the classroom and started their tour of the school.

"So" Rory said

"Yeah" Paris replied

"How long have you gone to Chilton?"

"Forever" was Paris' only response

"Do you like it here?"

"Oh you know, it's like heaven. Can we please cut the small talk?" Paris stated

Rory remained silent and just continued to follow Paris around. She pointed a few important spots out along the tour, but the conversation wasn't very friendly.

Once the two girls got back to class Mr. Medina informed the two girls that they would be working on their English project together. Along with two boys named Kyle and Tristan, who weren't in class this morning.

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The next few classes Rory had went by pretty fast considering she didn't have anybody to talk to. Soon Rory Gilmore found herself sitting at an empty table in the cafeteria.

As she was enjoying her lunch Paris came up to her with two boys in tow. As the three people were walking towards her Rory couldn't help but notice how cute the blonde one was. He was fairly tall, and he was built quite well, with a great smile that could make a girl weak in the knees, but what she couldn't stop starring at were his eyes. That was until Paris interrupted her daydreaming.

"Hello earth to Rory…" Paris was almost yelling

"What… Oh Paris, sorry I must've zoned out for a moment."

"Well zone back in, we've got some business to discuss, Rory I'd like you to meet Kyle and Tristan, our other partners for our English project."

"Oh it's nice to meet you." Rory said

"Nice to meet you to Rory." Kyle said

Tristan on the other hand walked over to her and picked up her hand and kissed the back of it.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Rory Gilmore." Tristan said with all the charm he could muster.

Rory just stared at him speechless. Thinking oh my God, he's so cute, but that bogus charm has to go.

Paris interrupted her thought process again.

"OK getting down to business, we will have a group meeting in two weeks. I would do it this weekend but I have to go out of town with my parents. We can meet on Saturday and discuss this assignment. OK good. I'll see you then and she walked off without another word. Kyle also walked away. It looked like Tristan was about to follow but as he was getting up he whispered into Rory's ear…

"I'll be looking forward to out next encounter, Mary." And with that said he walked away leaving a quite flustered Rory sitting at the table.

The Bell rang and Rory headed off to her next few classes. The day went by quickly, she saw Tristan in the halls a few times that afternoon and he just winked at her.

Rory drove back to Stars Hollow and walked into the Crap Shack with a smile on her face. Lorelai noticed this as well as the dreamy look in her eyes.

"Hey sweets, how was your first day at Chilton?" Lorelai questioned.

"Wonderful…" was all Rory could get out before flopping down on her bed and daydreaming some more.