Title: A Brand New Day...wasn't that a good thing?

Author: Gilmoregirl7878

Disclaimer: Get the hint

A/N: The last chapter was so sad! Haha. So, right now I'm writing this my brother's room, while he's in college in Boston. My bedroom is being redecorated right now and I can't be in there while they're painting it. I hate my brother's room. He likes to hunt so he has a deer head on the wall...it...is...CREEPING ME OUT! Haha.

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Rory stayed in bed the next day, all day. Lorelai let her skip a day. She cried a lot, and listened to their songs. She replayed things that had happened between them a thousand times. Then, the next day, she got up early, got dressed, and had breakfast with everyone. She looked fine on the outside, and anyone who didn't know her would've thought she was fine.

To Lorelai, Luke, Jess, and Mark...she didn't look fine at all.

She was shielding all her emotions from everyone. If they asked her how she was doing she answered with a very unbelieving 'I'm Fine'. They all worried that when the ship went down...

Did it take Rory with them?

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Around noon, Rory picked up her phone and dialed a number she had just looked up.

"Hello?"

"Hi, is John there?" Rory asked.

"Just a minute."

"Hello?" John picked up a moment later.

"Hi John, it's Rory."

"Oh, Hi Rory, I didn't think I would hear from you." He admitted.

"Yea, well, I was wondering if you wanted to get together, like for coffee...or something." Rory asked nervously.

"I would love that, how about I pick you up about..five and we go to dinner?"

"Okay, that would be great."

"See you then!"

"Bye." Rory hung up the phone and took a deep breath.

That part was over.

Now came the other part.

"Mom?" Rory called.

"Kitchen!" Lorelai yelled.

"Hey Mom...I'm going out tonight."

"Oh really? Did you and Tristan make up?" Lorelai asked excitedly.

She had seen this boy look at her daughter and she knew he absolutely adored her..actually, she was almost positive that Tristan loved Rory.

"No...I'm going out with John." Rory said hesitantly.

"JOHN? The same John from the cruise! RORY!"

"Yes! So what?"

"Rory are you out of your mind? HE TRIED TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU AND HE HIT YOU!"

"He didn't hit me...he just tried..." Rory protested weakly.

"Tried is too close! Why in a million years would you do this? I thought I raised you smarter than that!" Lorelai said collapsing in the kitchen chair confused.

"You raised me smarter? God, you're the one who is always telling me to stop studying and 'play with you'! I had to become what I did by myself!" Rory yelled.

"All by yourself! WHO WENT TO YOUR GRANDPARENTS? Who had to put up with Emily? I did! For you!" Lorelai screamed.

"Don't talk about Grandma." Rory said quietly.

"Why Rory? Why not? Because it hurts? It hurts me too! You're not the only one who feels that! So stop being so dramatic and a 'no one understands me!' Why did you break up with Tristan? Why are you seeing John n? Why are you acting like this?" Lorelai asked close to tears.

"I'm not seeing John...yet. And I broke up with Tristan because I never loved him, I love John." Rory said emotionlessly and left the room, going into her room and locking the door.

Leaving Lorelai alone to cry over her daughter.

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At five o' clock on the dot John knocked on the door to the Crap Shack, Lorelai answered it seeing as she always made her get the door for her dates.

"Hello Mrs. Gilmore, I'm John..I'm here to pick up Rory for our date." John said smiling in the rich socialite smile.

"Hold on she'll be here in a minute." Lorelai said walking into the other room to go get her.

While John was waiting in the door way, Jess and Mark came up from behind him, going to see Rory.

"Who the fuck are you?" Mark asked, looking him up and down.

"I'm John Sinclair."(I haven't said his last name yet, sorry!)

"John...why are you here?" Mark asked again.

"I'm here to pick Rory up for our date." John said cockily.

"Why are you fuckin' going out with Rory? She just broke up with Tristan! Wait...did you two meet on the cruise?" Jess asked realizing the name.

"Yea, did we speak on the phone?" John asked him smirking.

Jess was about to lunge at him when Rory appeared.

"John! You're here! Ready to go?" She said kissing his cheek and leading him out the door.

Jess and Mark were staring at Rory still. She was wearing a dress that was not her at all. It was the kind of dress that all the girls at Chilton wore. It was preppy and expensive looking. Rory had it from outings with her Grandparents.

"Sure, you look astounding." John said smirking at Jess and Mark as he closed the door, leaving Jess and Mark to stare at a tired Lorelai for answers.

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The next day, Rory did her homework and talked to John on the phone. They had what someone would call a 'good' date. At least, Rory pretended to say she did. At the end of the date he kissed her and asked her to be his Girlfriend. It was sudden, but John wasn't the person to hesitate.

That Monday, the next day, Rory entered the school as John Sinclair's Girlfriend. Every person seemed to already know.

But Rory only cared if One Person knew...

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Tristan DuGrey sighed before getting out of his car to go into Chilton. He had hibernated this weekend, not talking to anyone or taking any calls. Not even when Jess and Mark called him a couple times.

He had spent the days listening to mind numbing music trying to drown out his thoughts of her..

...Rory...

The first and only girl he loved more than anything. The first and only girl to take advantage and dump him, also.

But, today was a new day, and that was a good thing, wasn't it?

He had to pass Rory's locker to get to his, he was going to just look straight ahead and not stop, he thought when he reached the lockers.

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Rory was putting her books away when she felt a pair of arms wrap around her.

'Just like Tristan did last time. No, stop, don't think of him!' Rory thought before turning around to face John.

"I missed you." John said coming closer.

"I missed you, too." Rory lied through her teeth.

He smirked before kissing her. He wanted attention, he wanted everyone to look at him and see what was his.

And Rory was his.

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Tristan walked down the hallway to get to his locker, out of the corner of his eye, he went to see if Rory was at her locker. She was...

And she wasn't alone...

Tristan stopped short at what he saw. He didn't want to look at the woman he loved kissing the same guy he'd protected her from, but he couldn't help it.

People around him were staring at Rory, John and Tristan, who they all assumed, had just broken up with Rory.

Jess and Mark saw Tristan and lead him away from Rory and John and down the hallway. They went to their lockers, which were all close to each others.

"When did she...with him." Tristan asked darkly.

"Saturday, they went out." Jess answered.

"Are they...together now?" He asked.

"Yea, I think he asked her on their date." Mark answered.

"Why is she with him?" Tristan asked them and to himself also.

This time, they didn't have an answer for him.

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A/N: Poor, poor Tristan. I wish I could cheer him up...wink wink haha. Did you like the chapter?

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