A Mixed World 3

Kevin glanced at Rory from the driver's seat.

"Rory, what's up? What happened?" Kevin asked tentatively.

"I don't want to talk about it right now, I just…I need to think, I have a lot on my mind."

"Okay" Kevin paused "…Rory?"

"Yeah?"

"You know you can talk to me right?"

"Yeah Kevin, I know"

"Okay"

About an hour later Rory was sitting on her bed, trying to read, but she just couldn't concentrate. Then she heard a knock on the door.

"Come in" Rory called. Her brother peaked his head in.

"Hey Ror, you doing okay?" Kevin inquired quietly.

"Yeah, I am okay, come on in, I'll fill you in on what's happening"

As Rory told her brother a play by play of what happened he began to look more and more agitated. After she finished there was a long silent pause. Kevin didn't look happy.

"Rory, Tristan is one of my good friends, but as we know, the rich kid socialites don't have the best home life. Tristan hides behind a shield, his playboy, bad-ass; ego-inflated attitude thing is just his way of shoving the emotion and pain."

"Kevin I know..." Rory started, but she was cut off by Kevin

"No Rory, just listen. You're different than the girls he usually goes for; I think he sees something in you. Something pure, honest, constant, determined, maybe even naive, but strong. But you can't save him Rory, I hate to get all soap opera-y on you, but you can't fix him Rory. He doesn't know how to commit, Rory his parents are never home, he is an only child, most of his friends at school are disposable, and he is never with the same girl for more than a week. He doesn't know how to form relationships with people." There was a quick pause, "Rory I just don't want to see you get hurt"

Rory couldn't figure out why she was getting so mad at her brother, but his words angered her.

"Kevin this isn't like you, I don't see why you're getting so sappy and crap. This isn't a Shakespeare play, maybe he just likes me, MAYBE it's just that simple!

"Rory-"

"No Kevin, I don't want to hear it, please just leave"

"Fine" he glared at her, giving the door a good slam on his way out.

On Monday morning Kevin and Rory road to school in silence; Rory drove. As she got out of the car, at Chilton, Tristan walked up on and just leaned against the side of the car.

"Hey" he said simply

"Hey" she responded while grabbing her bag out of the car. She shut the car door and looked up at him. She smiled at him and grabbed his hand. He gave her a half smirk, half smile and they walked into school with their hands intertwined.

Kevin watched this scene from the passenger side of the car, he waited till they walked away, then shut the car door (with a little too much force) and leaned against the car, he took a deep breath and drudged onto the huge campus.

Rory and Tristan stood at their lockers, they had just finished getting their books, and now they just kind of stood there. Normally, Tristan would be making out with his girl of the week up against the lockers, but he knew that wasn't a "Rory" kind of activity. Finally Rory broke the silence.

"Ug, I am so tired, I didn't get any coffee this morning"

"No coffee?" he smirked/smiled "well I am surprised your even standing" Tristan pulled her toward him, leaning against the locker, she leaned into him, snuggling her head into his shoulder, and he wrapped his arms loosely around her waist. And they just stood like that , napping slightly, until the bell rang.

"hey Rory, come by my house tonight and we'll talk okay?"

Rory gave him a doubtful look

"I promise" Tristan said laughing "I just want to talk, that is, if you can keep your hands off me"

"oh I think I can handle it" she said smiling.

"we'll see"

Rory walked up to the door of the huge mansion that night, dressed in a black, low-cut, v-neck sweater over a black lacy camisole and light wash jeans. She looked up at the massive estate in front of her and took a deep breath, and rang the doorbell.

An hour later they were in Tristan's room, lying on his couch watching a movie. Rory was lying on her side against the back of the couch, and Tristan was lying on his back in front of her. They were squished together, so she was half on top of him, and his hand was in her back pocket.

"Tristan, we need to talk," Rory started, interrupting the movie. "about what we are"

"Well Rory we are human"

"Tristan!"

"Okay, okay, well you're my girlfriend, which means I get you all to myself" he said seductively as he pulled her in for a kiss. Rory gave him a little kiss, but he immediately deepened it. Several moments later Rory pulled away breathless.

"I think I am going to like this" she said while shifting herself into a sitting postion

"oh I think I am too" he said wiggling his eyebrows at her and smirked at the postion she was in. Rory had failed to notice that when she sat up, she had moved so that she was now straddling him, and she just realized the suggestiveness of this position. She blushed deeply and pulled him up into a deep kiss, he gently moved her backwards so she was lying on the couch with him straddling her. Once they were both breathless, they broke away smiling. Tristan sat up and pulled her into his lap and they continued watching the movie.

Rory quietly opened the front door of her house, and crept up the stairs. It was midnight on a school night. Not good. She tip toed past her parents door and sighed in relief when she made it to her own room. She jumped in surprise to find Kevin sitting in front of the television in her room.

"Kevin what are you doing in here?"

"Well, well Rory, how nice of you to finally come home. Rory it's past midnight! Rory sighed in exasperation

"Kevin just go to bed"

"Rory" he said in a parental tone

"Kevin I am a big girl and I don't need you to play "father" so please, I am tired and I would like to go to bed now.

Thank you all for reading, the next chapter should be up soon. Please review and be brutally honest!