I can't Stop Thinking about You

Chapter 4 – Back to School

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To my amazing Beta KylieX – Yes she really did say that and I have witnesses (my sister) and people really are up themselves I may just ue that phrase in the story if its ok with you

I haven't decided who she's going to end up with. I will take suggestions as to the final pairing. I've kinda started thinking that I don't want it to be a ROGAN if I get as far as 608, I might make it literati after he's published.

I'm gonna try to update every Saturday or so maybe sooner or maybe longer.

Oh my god I watched Gilmore Girls this week, and am suddenly hating Logan, and loving Jess. I love published Jess from Philly. He was sooo cute standing outside the gate. WE finally see the Emily that Lorelai was talking about all these years.

I know that this is progressing very slow there will be a big jump in the timeline soon.

Okay I know that in the show Rory got home on Friday. But for my purposes assume that she got home on Thursday. Also assume that Luke and Lorelai aren't fighting.

Here's a theory: Guys and girls can't be friends without one of them deciding that they like the other. It might not happen at the same time and but it will happen if its at the same time or if its just a crush then its fine but if only one of them likes the other more than they like them.

Where we left off last time

"I want a mature adult explanation for why the father of my granddaughter and her mother aren't together."

"His girlfriend's pregnant." Was Lorelai's response and with that she walked out of the house. Rory followed behind her stopping to say goodbye to her grandfather

The girls spent their weekend quite calmly, just the two of them. Monday morning came and Rory went off to Chilton in her car. The car that her grandmother had bought her not the car that Dean made her. Driving smoothly to Chilton she started to wonder why Dean had made her a car when she had the one that her grandmother had bought her. She realised that he had been weary of anything that tied her to Hartford society and the private school group. She remembered the day they had met she had been working as a pilgrim on the food bank drive he had walked over with a can of corn and 15 minutes later he was back with a can of peas and 15 minutes later it was a can of soup and he came back ever 15 minutes for two hours it was sweet. I should have known that, that was how the relationship was going to be from then on. She had asked him to a dance in sophomore year and he had been so jealous of her friendship with Jake (Jake is my invention, he's a darker version of Tristan (not evil dark colouring, and yes I spell colour with a "u") he has been one of Rory's good friends since they were young. Emily and his grandmother are on the DAR committee together. They had been friends since before they went to elementary school. They'd gone though the phases where Rory 'liked' Jake when they were in grade 4 and Jake had 'liked' Rory when they started junior high and she'd started to act and dress like a girl. She went through a real tomboy phase when she was younger. She started dressing up outside of school when they started the 7th grade.

Rory parked her car outside of Chilton and looked up at the building where she had spent so much of the past two years, she remembered the shock at the size of the building, her first day. When she walked into the school the walls were buzzing, everyone was moving around, looking for their classes, they were all talking at the same time, and one name kept coming up "Tristan". Rory was not paying any attention to the others around her, her nose in a book, her music on in her headphones, casually glancing up at the jostling crowd to avoid running into others. (This is possible I did it all the time in high school) When she got to her first class there were only two seats left all the other ones were taken. She settled herself onto the front seat and she opened her bag and took out her pens and opened her book. She loved the first day of school the new pens and notebooks, the fact that everyone still wanted to be there and they hadn't resigned themselves to the routine. The seat behind her was suddenly taken she didn't realise that someone had come up behind her until a voice whispered into her ear "Mary … Mary" in a singsong voice. She was leaning forward writing the date in her notebook. She turned around quickly and elbowed the person behind her in the nose. "Ouch!" the person behind her yelped. "My nose!"

She turned around and squealed "Tristan!"

"Yea and you broke my nose."

"What are you doing here?"

"I'm back." (Tristan came to school in my story around the same time that Rory went to Chilton in the show. He became popular quickly moving through the crowd of girls until he got to Rory the only one that ever said no to him. They had started a tentative friendship with him up until Love daises and troubadours happened, and then everything with run away little boy) "For good."

"Wow that's great."

"Thanks Mare. We should catch up after school today." The innuendo evident in his voice.

"Sure Tristan we'll get together later." She said seriously making fun of him.

"Well, well Mary how you have changed."

"Yea just add the Magdalene to my name." She said sarcastically

"So seriously, do you want to hang out later and catch up?"

"That's alright I've got to hang around and see my teachers and make sure I'm up to date in all my subjects."

"Okay. See you then just listen for the angry Paris."

"See you then."

"Okay." Rory said as the teacher came into the class and started

After her student counsel meeting Rory walked out of the building and over to a bench and opened a book. A few minutes late she was joined by . . . none other than Jake who sat down next to her and threw his arm over her shoulder, in a gesture that looked intimate and romantic to an outsider but was simply a mark of how comfortable the two were around each other. "Can you give me ride home?" He asked.

"Sorry, I can't. Where's your car?"

"It broke down."

"And the lovely he-man rich-boy can't fix it himself."

"Yes."

"Hey." Tristan said coming up behind them, thinking that he was interrupting something.

"Hey!" Rory said jumping up and hugging him. "Welcome back."

'What was that for' Tristan thought.

"Rory." Jake said bringing her mind back to him.

"Jake." Rory said "Tristan and I are going to hang out and catch up. Oh I know. Do you mind going to the Hollow instead of your house. You can hang out with Lane, the band's rehearsing in the garage." (OK I'm not sure when the band started and I'm too lazy to look it up so just assume that the band started mid-season 2) "Tristan and I'll go to Luke's for coffee."

"Fine." He said walking towards her car.

"That ok with you Tristan?" Rory asked

"Sure." He replied

Next Chapter Tristan in Stars Hollow. Logan is showing up in a bit, I'm not quite sure when. Also our favorite Australian may make an appearance also.

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