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A/N: This is the result of a late Sunday night brainstorm. I hope you all enjoy it. By the way this chapter is, as you will notice, is a lot longer than my previous chapters this is my way of apologizing for the ridiculously short last chapter. Thanks too: Gilmoregirl7878, LoVe23, KarahBella, spinaround, princetongirl, GGluvr1987 – hope this isn't too much drabble, thshali – I'm flattered that you love my fic so much thankyou, cjg6, tickle582, peaje, photoboothromance. By the way I have disabled the 'only members can review' and I apologize for my ignorance but I had no idea that it even existed, oops!

Lost In You

Chapter 5: All That Was Lost

Rory had decided that it would be best if she didn't tell Tristan that she was going to dance with Logan. She didn't think that Tristan would care about Logan asking her; because of the fact that they didn't have a relationship so why would he care? Ultimately however she knew that he would be angry with her and that had been part of her plan she wanted Tristan to be jealous that she could go with somebody else even though every year since the start of school they had went to the winter formal together.

Rory arrived at school on Monday morning and parked in her usual car space, right next to Tristan's. Monday mornings were the worse, and she usually skipped class with Tristan but she had a feeling when she looked over at him in the car beside her, today wouldn't be so normal.

Rory smiled over at Tristan, like every morning and that was his cue to leave his car and enter hers. They never entered school on any daybefore the bell chimed, they sat in the car and talked everyone morning for 10 minutes, contemplating on whether to skip the first few classes or enter the school. It was their thing.

But this morning was different; Tristan slightly smiled back and exited his car. Just like every morning Rory was expecting him to enter her car but this morning he kept walking, something was definitely up. Rory opened her door and stepped out of the car.

"Tristan!" She called out.

He turned around not answering. She motioned for him to come back; she saw him roll his eyes and began walking back towards her car. Rory was becoming anxious, what had happened during the course of the weekend?

"Yeah?" He asked her rudely.

"Um, what's up?" She answered taken aback by his tone.

"Look you're not my girlfriend so stop acting like it," He replied abruptly, he then proceeded to walk off towards to Chilton doors once again.

Rory stood there silent for a few seconds, and then slowly sat back down in the driver's seat and closed the car door. On Friday they had been fine, they had sex! I mean that was a big deal right? What happened over the weekend that had made him so angry with her? Rory shook her head finally realizing why he was so mad with her, he had found out about Logan. Rory returned her keys back into the ignition and headed back towards home.

Rory knew that nobody but the hired help would be at home to ask her why she wasn't going to school. She pulled up in her driveway and stopped the car; she looked towards the front door, and decided against it, the last place she wanted to be after his outburst was in that room. So she again took off down the driveway and began driving aimlessly around Hartford.

Tristan walked into school and was greeted by Finn and his latest conquest, a junior by the name of Mindy.

"Hey mate, how was your weekend?" He smiled towards his friend.

Tristan grunted and made his way over to his locker. Once at his locker he turned back towards the doors, Rory hadn't come in yet. Of course, he cared that she wasn't in here, but of course he wouldn't act like he did.

Tristan was walking towards his first class, Biology when he turned and made his way down the hall and out the Chilton entrance. Her car was gone. He made his way over to his car and got in, he sat there for a few moments thinking about what he had said to her Look your not my girlfriend so stop acting like it, he slammed his hand on the steering wheel, started his car and made his way towards her house.

Rory had finally found a spot on the side of the road; before she had finally stopped she had made her way into Stars Hollow to pick up some much needed coffee. All Rory had in that car were her thoughts and coffee. Where did he get off talking to me like that? I wasn't acting like his girlfriend, well sort of…but we slept together I think I've earned the right to be a little inquisitive.

Rory's cell began ringing and she looked at the caller id: Tristan.

"Yeah?" She answered abruptly.

"Hello to you too, where are you?"

"Why do you care?"

"Rory, where are you?" He repeated the question, getting angrier.

Rory relayed her whereabouts and hung up the phone. He would always do this, they would have silly fights and then he would make it up to her by sweet-talking her that was what their friendship consisted of. But not this time.

Rory saw his car pull up behind hers, he got out and made his way over to her car, sitting down in the passenger seat.

"You had no right to say that," Rory spoke first, not looking at him.

"You should have told me," He replied.

"You're not my boyfriend," She turned her head smirking at him.

"No, thank god for that,"

She flinched that had hurt. He always became like this, the heartless cold Tristan that everyone saw when it came to girls. She felt degraded that she was now receiving the same treatment as all the girls before her.

"Well what are we then Tristan? Friends with benefits, just friends or…" She trailed off; he knew what the last category was.

"Well I wouldn't consider us friends so I guess that also exclude friends with benefits so I guess that leaves your last option," He looked at her with cold eyes.

Rory opened her mouth but nothing came out. She began aimlessly wringing her hands. Both knew that something had gone wrong, something had changed. If they got mad at each other due to their 'relationship' this wasn't supposed to happen, it was friends first they had agreed to just deal with whatever happened. They were just supposed to stop go back to being just friends, they hadn't intended on any of this happening. No feelings that was what they had agreed upon, it would have been so much easier if they had of stuck to that agreement.

Finally Rory uttered the words, "I guess that's it then,"

Tristan nodded and opened the door, preparing to exit. Rory leaned across and grabbed on his shirt slightly. He turned back and looked at her, his eyes had softened, finally, but it was too late.

"Why did you care that Logan asked me to the dance then? If it was just about the sex Tristan, then why did you care?" Tears came to her eyes as she looked down at her lap.

They were both silent for a few moments, until finally Tristan uttered the words.

"See you later Rory," He closed the car door and walked back towards his own car.

Rory shook her head and sighed, she couldn't believe she had fallen for him, especially after that. She drove off and refused to look back at him.

Tristan was seated his car as he watched her drive off. They'd have plenty of fights, what friends haven't? But this was big; they'd never left each other on such awful terms. He had never been so harsh, and she had never been so blunt. It had taken all his might to not lean forward and take her in his arms when he saw her crying and it took all that might to resurface again as he forced himself not to drive after her and apologize. He violently hit the steering wheel for the second time that day, and shook his head, he'd blown it. He was the one who had ended whatever he and Rory had once had.

A/N: So much for not updating due to exams but for some reason I'm having major brainstorms and the great reviews also help thanks everyone! More Christmas things will happen soon, I know it started off the story that way but I wanted the drama to unfold before Christmas and the dance arrived.