I Can't Stop Thinking About You
Ch. 5 – Tristan in Stars-Hollow
Ok I own nothing
Ok I was going to have this done sooner but I just finished a 2000 word history paper and I couldn't type anything for like a day I just couldn't bring myself to do it but here it is and it's the longest one yet. I spent the entire day on Friday with my foot in a chair at the hospital. I ran down a hill Thursday night and did a face plant kept going and screwed up my ankle. So I'm writing the last part of this story while on prescription strength pain medication.
Ok Jake does not have romantic type feelings for Rory they are just friends.
I still don't know who she's gonna end up with
Where we left off last time
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. 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
Rory threw her car keys to Jake so he could go straight to the Crap-Shack and she could give Tristan directions to Stars Hollow. Once they hit the highway she started rooting around in his CD collection.
"You do know that you're actually going to have to give me directions to this town of yours."
"Just keep going until you see a giant rooster. Oh my look what I found." She said holding up a copy of Justin Timberlake's JUSTAFIED.
"Where did that come from?" Tristan asked
"Your CD case silly." She said reverting back to third grade.
"But how did it get in there?"
"How should I know? It's your car."
"This is the first time I've been in this car since I got home from Military school."
"Really?"
"Yea my cousin's been down all summer and he was using this car."
"How old is this cousin?"
"He's in his freshman year at Yale." (Guess who his cousin is………)
"And why would he have this CD?"
"I don't know. Maybe it's a girl's and she left in here?"
"Ok like cousin like … well that didn't work."
"What's that?" Tristan said looking up ahead at a giant rooster.
"That's Monty."
"You were serious?"
"As a heart attack. We never joke about Monty the Magnificent."
The rest of the drive went by in a comfortable silence. Rory directed them into the town and to Luke's
"It says 'William's Hardware'" Tristan remarked, looking at the sign.
"Trust me." She said pulling him into the diner.
The diner is empty. Kirk is the only person there except for Jess who is working. Rory waves at him as she walks in and he smiles back and then sees Tristan and gives her a questioning look. 'Later' she mouths at him. Rory and Tristan go over to a table and sit down. Jess automatically walks over and places a giant mug in front of Rory. While he is pouring her coffee, she looks up at him and says. "Pie."
"Apple or Peach?"
"Or?"
"Got it. What about you?" he says turning to Tristan.
"Peach and a coke."
"Ok." Jess said walking away.
A few seconds later their pie was placed in front of them.
"Luke made me promise that I'd try." Jess said turning to Rory. "Please eat some vegetables. There done."
"I'm eating fruit."
"Well Ok." Jess said going back behind the counter getting his book out burring his nose in it.
Tristan who was feeling a little left out of the exchange noticing the closeness that the two seemed to share and the look in Jess's eyes as he looked at her. At that moment Tristan realised that Rory was oblivious to the feelings conveyed in the look. "So this is Stars Hollow."
"Yes. Wait until they realise that you brought me home. They're gonna want to know who the new blond guy is that's talking to the town princess."
"Princess?" He asked
"Yep. I'm beloved around here."
At that moment Rory realises that her coffee cup is empty. "Did you want another coke?" she asks Tristan as she gets up to go to the counter.
"No thanks."
"Jess." Rory says in a sing song voice as she waltzes up to the counter "more coffee please."
"No."
"Please. I've only had five so far today."
"Fine. So who's he?"
"That's Tristan. He goes to Chilton with me. Actually he just came back he's been away at school since," she pauses thinking how long it's been since he was gone, "while since you got here."
"Boarding school?"
"Nope military school."
"What ya reading?" he holds up The Fountainhead for her to see. "Good. Are the notes that I put in the margins helping?"
"Yea a bit."
"While I'm gonna go back over there see you later."
"Yea, later."
Tristan was observing Rory and Jess's interaction not quite sure of what he was seeing but feeling as if he was intruding on a private moment. At that moment he turned his head, looking out the window he saw a pair of older women walking quickly across the square towards the diner. They weren't stick figures to say the least one was wearing black and the other was dressed in the most outrageously coloured outfit that Tristan had ever seen outside of a circus, it was pink and purple and blue and green and a whole rainbow of colours that he couldn't begin to describe. At the same time Rory turned and saw Miss Patty and Babette walk across the square through the diner window, she quickly made her way back to Tristan and took his backpack and hers and placed them on the empty seats around the table.
"Get some homework out." Rory hissed at him digging into her backpack. "They won't sit down if they think that we're busy."
"Really Mary I could think of plenty of other was to be busy if that's all we need to do." He smirked.
"That's Miss Patty and Babette and if you're mean to me I'll let Miss Patty sneak up behind you."
"Why would that bother me?"
"She has a pinching habit and any other ways to occupy ourselves would just be seen as encouragement to her and the rest of the town to talk about you."
"I see why they would want to talk about me but why the rest of the town?"
"Have you ever heard of a small town grapevine? Those two are what Madeline and Louise aspire to be when they grow up."
"Oh."
During this discussion the two women had entered the diner and were trying to make it look as if they were just there for coffee by going up to the counter and flirting with Jess when he didn't say anything to encourage them they soon got bored and made their was towards Rory and Tristan.
"Rory who's your delicious friend?" Miss Patty asked.
"Miss Patty, this is Tristan. You've actually met him before."
Tristan held out his hand and Miss Patty grasped it between both of hers.
"Oh my, my, my, have I. Well then Tristan I'm sorry. I normally remember a cute face." (I'm not sure that Miss Patty and Tristan met when they were doing Romeo and Juliet but assume that they did.)
"He was in that play with me last year."
"Oh, yes with the annoying shrill girl. He was the dashing Romeo."
"We'll we've got studying to do. Tristan was away at school for a while and I'm helping him catch up."
"Alright, dear have fun. Tristan I hope to be seeing you around here a lot more."
"Well that was strange." Tristan said as Miss Patty took Babette and left the diner.
"That was Miss Patty and she was actually pretty tame for her. She didn't even try to sneak a peek at you butt."
"Tame? That was tame?"
"Yep."
"Scary."
They stayed at the diner all afternoon. Jake came in and sat down with them, followed shortly after by Lane, Dave, Brian and Zack. Lane and Dave were still pretending not to be dating for fear that they would tear the band apart but the attraction was obvious to any outsider, well any female outsider that is.
Tristan left right before supper time driving Jake home on his way to meet his cousin.
When Rory got back to the Crap Shack Lorelai was sitting in front of the TV the phone to her ear talking to Joe their friendly neighbourhood pizza boy. Motioning Rory over to the couch she said god bye to Joe and turned to Rory. "I hear you had a gentleman escort this afternoon."
"Yea I invited Tristan to Stars Hollow to talk about his life since I saw him last and to make sure he had covered all the material from the second half of last year. He was really behind in a few subjects so we didn't actually talk about him at all so he's gonna come hang out here over the weekend."
"Tristan? Bible boy? Called you Mary for a year and a half and you're willingly spending a day with him outside of hell?"
"Yep the one and only."
"Ok. So I was thinking John Cusack movie night."
"Sure, which movies?"
"I've got City Hall and High Fidelity."
Okay I know that I took a looooooooong time to get this update out but I hope you like it and I'm going to start Ch 6. right now.