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Chapter 3: Anyone Who Has Never Made a Mistake Has Never Tried Anything New.

"So, Yale, how did that happen?"

"The pro-con list"

"What?"

"My mom and I use them to make important decisions."

"I see. So Yale had the most pros?"

"Yup"

"I could have made your decision so much easier. You wouldn't even have had to make the list."

"Really? And how would you have done that?"

"I would have told you I was going."

Rory nearly spit out the coffee she was drinking. "You are?"

"Yes sir-ee."

"What was the thought process behind that?"

"Well I wanted to go to Harvard," he paused, thinking about the real reason he had originally chosen there. "But, my father went to Yale and after that whole military school debacle I didn't have much of a choice."

"Why Harvard?"

"I could have asked you the same question years ago." She let it drop.

"What's your major?" she asked

"Honestly?"

"Of course"

"I don't know."

"You don't know?"

"I still have a month before registration."

"Well, what do you want to do? What are your interests? Life goals?"

He thought for a minute. "I would like to be an architect, but that will never fly with my father."

"Why not?"

"He wants me to become a lawyer and join his firm upon graduating."

"Want to know what I think?"

"Do I have a choice?"

"Not really"

"Then by all means…" he said leaning back in his chair

"I think you should do whatever you want. Don't follow in your father's footsteps if that's not what you want. As cheesy as it sounds, pursue your dreams. If you don't, you're not really living. Find out who you are if you don't know. Albert Einstein once said "Anyone who has never made a mistake…"

"Has never tried anything new."" He finished.

She sat back in awe before recovering and teasing "So that's how you got into Yale."

A couple hours later and after a horribly awful movie, Tristan was once again walking Rory to her door or at least attempting. They had been debating facts about the movie for the entire car ride home and could barely stand, let alone walk, due to all the laughter.

"Today was fun" Rory commented

"I completely agree, but the movie sucked."

"Yeah, but mocking it sure was fun." She giggled

"Definitely"

"I'm glad we reached a consensus." Tristan leaned in and awkwardly placed a kiss on her cheek.

"I'll talk to you soon?" he questioned more than stated

"Yeah, that would be nice."

"Bye…Mary" he added with a wink and a smirk

Instead of getting mad or irritated, Rory blushed slightly and smiled in response before entering her house to answer Lorelai's prying questions.

The following day Rory sat Indian style on her couch facing Tristan.

"Favorite book" he asked

"Just one? I can't narrow it down to one, although I am a big Jane Austen fan. You should read some of her stuff, it's great."

"I have"

"Really?" she asked skeptically "What?"

"Pride and Prejudice and Emma" Rory burst into a fit of giggles "What?" he asked defensively

"It's just an odd picture."

"What is?"

"You reading Emma"

"And why is that?" he pouted

"What about you?"

"You think you're so slick, changing question like that" she glared "Okay, I would have to say Charlottes Web."

"You're kidding me"

"That's funny too?"

"It's a kid's book"

"Your point?"

"Well you aren't a kid." She said flatly

"At heart" he commented, sucking the lightness out of the conversation. "First kiss"

"What?" she asked, to busy staring at his dazzling eyes.

"When, where, and with who, was your first kiss?"

"On to the deeper questions now huh?"

"Yup, I'm done playing nice" he winked

"Oy vey"

"Come on, I don't have all day"

"Actually you do…"

"Rory…"

"Okay, okay, you win." She held her hands up in surrender. "It was my sophomore year with Dean."

"Bagboy, of course"

"If you want me to continue our little game you are going to have to play nice."

"I thought I told you I was done playing nice? But please, continue, I'll try to control myself"

"Fine, so anyways, I went into Dose's, where he worked, and was pretending to shop."

"How cute"

"Tristan…" she said warningly

"Sorry"

"He saw me and came over and asked if I wanted a soda. He put two behind his back and told me to guess what was in each hand. Then he just kissed me."

"Aw, how sweet."

"Okay, enough mocking, your turn."

"You're going to have to start coming up with your own questions soon."

"Just tell your tale"

"Okay. I was at my friend Kyle's birthday party. It was in seventh grade. We were playing truth or dare and Tom, another guy there, dared me to kiss Stephanie, the girl Kyle liked. Now Tom knew Kyle liked her but he was made at him. I didn't know any of this so I went through with it and Kyle got so mad at me and stormed off. Romantic huh?"

"Completely"

"You ask the question now" he said

"Fine. Let's see…when and with whom did you loose your virginity?" she regretted the question as soon as it flew out of her mouth, knowing full well he was bound to reciprocate.

"Juicy questions now." He smirked "freshman year, Cindy Smith. She was a junior and she invited me over to her house to watch a movie. Let's just say I never really saw any of it. What about you Miss Mary? Given it up yet?"

"Could you be any cruder?"

"Yeah, have you—" she slammed her hand over his mouth to keep him from finishing his sentence. He licked her palm.

"Gross! You licked me!"

"That's what you get for sticking your hand there! Anyways, just answer the question"

"No, I haven't" Rory whispered, yet Tristan hear it loud and clear. Inside he was jumping for joy.

"If I could, I would take most of my firsts back. None of them were special." This was very true, but he also wanted to make her feel less embarrassed, even though there was nothing wrong with her admission.

No one new how it had happened, but it had. Tristan and Rory were the best of friends. Since the party they had spent most of that time joined at the hip, doing everything together. Rory couldn't remember her life before his return and it was as if he had always been there. Tristan, of course, was loving every moment he got to spend with her. They shared almost all, and by now knew the other like the back of their hand. They knew all the quirks and charms, all the good and all the bad. Lorelai had even bonded with Tristan, and now it was usually the three of them at movie nights.

AN: I know nothing monumental happened, but I need to establish their friendship, and I know you don't want to read chapters and chapters of this, it would get boring. So I needed to leap a bit forward. I hope this was still amusing and plus, I got it up quickly so that should count for something, right? Lol. Anyways please, please review, it's what got this chapter up so quickly hint, hint