Sorry about the long wait for this chapter.
I've been on holiday till yesterday, and I had to catch up on the schoolwork that I missed
Anyway...
Here it is!
Monday Morning
Rory woke up on the couch to a knock on the door. The first things she thought were 'I'm awake. I'm on the couch. Oh, the door!'
She jumped up and ran to answer it.
Rory opened the door, then looked down at her very rumpled clothes. She then looked up and said; "Hall-oh, it's you. Come in, Tristan." She smiled hesitantly as she said it, and a little stronger when he stepped over the threshold.
"Umm … Thanks, but shouldn't you be dressed by now? It's already 7 o clock." He told her slowly.
"Why would I be dressed at 7 o clock?" Rory asked, genuinely interested as to why ANYONE would be dressed at 7 o clock in the morning if they didn't have to. Then it dawned on her." Dammit. The assignment! Wait, why are you here?" She asked him.
"Well I called your home phone earlier, but no one picked it up. I thought that you had either already left, which I thought was almost 100 unlikely, or that you were still asleep, which I thought would be a lot more likely. Besides, I was going to giver you a ride there in my car so that you didn't have to go by bus to get there. And to make sure that you weren't late." Tristan explained
"Oh. OK. Well I'm going to get dressed into something a little more appropriate. You can go wait in the kitchen, if you still want to take me. My mum should be down in just a second." With that, she raced into Lorelai's room to wake her up, then continued into her own room to get dressed. Tristan was left gaping in the hall of the Gilmore home.
After he had processed her little speech, he proceeded into the kitchen to wait for one of the Gilmores.
About a minute later, Lorelai came down the stairs and into the kitchen. She turned on the coffee maker without even acknowledging Tristan presence. After the coffee machine had finished and she had taken a sip of the coffee that she had made, she finally spoke to him
"Hello evil one." She said deviously as she took another sip of her coffee.
"I see that you already know about me. Has Mary been talking about me?" Tristan asked with a smirk
"Only if you mean telling her that you were the most annoying person ever," Rory quickly interrupted from behind him. She was now fully dressed, in a pale blue T-shirt, with dark blue jeans. She had shrugged a black jacket over her shoulders and had her hair up in a messy bun.
To Tristan, she looked totally irresistible. Lorelai was looking at her daughter strangely, 'Why has she got all glammed up to go on an assignment. She must really like this boy.' Of course, however, she said none of this aloud.
Rory was unaware of any of this though, as she was too busy looking at the clock to notice. "Damn, it's already 7.20, we have got to get going now if we don't want to be late. Tristan, I don't suppose you could drop my mum and me off at Luke's diner for a minute, just so that we can go get some coffee. We can leave her there once we've got it, she has to get to the inn soon anyway."
"Yeah that's cool." Tristan said. "But if we're going we have to go NOW."
"My suitcase and my rucksack are just at the bottom of the stairs, would you take it while we get in the car?" Rory asked him, sweetly.
"Sure, just get in, it should be open." Tristan said. With that, he went to get the case while the girls went off to the car.
The two bags that Tristan had been sent to get were quickly in the boot, and the car was soon at Luke's. They all got out of the car and walked quickly into the diner.
Once inside, Tristan waited by the door while the other two went up to the counter. He watched as Lorelai and Rory appeared to be begging the man behind the counter for something. It seemed that the man had given up, and Tristan didn't blame him, as he soon turned around and put 4 to-go cups of coffee on the counter. Rory took two of them and quickly walked back to the car, handing one of the cups to Tristan for safe keeping so that she could wave goodbye to her mum. Once they were back in the car, Rory proceeded to take the other cup from Tristan, then settled down for the 25 minute car ride that awaited them.
Once again, once they were in the car on their own they had little to talk about, although they did share a few glances and small smiles. Instead of it being awkward this time however, it was perfectly comfortable.
When they got to the flats, with five minutes to spare thanks to the nice traffic lights that were always on green when they got to them, everyone was already there.
Tristan was surprised to see that Jess was already there, so once he had got out all of Rory's things, and his own, he went over into the shade of the flats to speak to the other boys.
" Well, I must say it was a surprise to see that you guys were here before me." Tristan said, impressed.
"The only reason we're all here is cause we didn't want our heads bitten off by Paris." Jess said, for all of the boys.
"That's understandable" Tristan agreed, smirking.
All of the boys grinned, sharing the joke.
MeanwhileRory picked up the bags that Tristan had put on the ground and walked over to where Paris was standing, away from all the guys.
"Hey Paris"
"You're late" Paris stated
"No I am really not late Paris. In fact, I am early. At this moment, it is exactly three minutes to, which means that I am not late." Rory said, looking at her watch to check the time.
"Whatever" Paris said, annoyed.
Madeline and Louise walked over to them from the railings that they had been sitting on, waiting to be allowed into the flats.
"Hey Ror'" Louise said, kindly.
"Yeah hey!" Madeline put in excitedly.
"Hi you two! How long have you been here?" Rory asked.
"Oh, we came about 10 minutes ago. Alex dropped me off here, before I broke up with him. Maddy got here just after me, Her mum insisted on her being dropped off by her chauffeur John." Louise told Rory and Paris.
Rory tried a small smile, but Paris didn't look too happy with either of the pair at the moment. Madeline obviously didn't notice as she told them what had happened with her mum in a lot more detail.
"She never took an interest before, it was kinda scary when she told me that I had to come in with John. I was kind of upset because me and John aren't exactly on speaking terms at the moment." Madeline said with a small smirk.
It was obvious to Rory what had happened between them, but she was spared the details by the fact that Mr Medina had just walked out of the front door of the flats.
"Right, will everyone follow me now. I will take you to your individual rooms, and then leave you to get set up."
They all followed Mr Medina, while they talked quietly among themselves. Madeline asked Rory, "Why did you come with DuGrey?" The other girls all listened in to see what Rory said, even Paris; although she looked quite shocked that she had done so.
"Well," Rory began hesitantly, "I kind of slept in this morning, and he came and picked me up, to take me here so that we would get here on time." She said with a small smile.
"Why would he do that?" Louise asked, confused.
"Don't ask me, I don't know." Rory whispered to her.
"Um, girls, I think Mr Medina's speaking to you." Tristan told them with a smirk the size of Spain.
"Thank you Tristan," Mr Medina told him.
"No problem, sir." Tristan answered with the same big grin.
"Now girls, I don't mind you talking, but I do mind when you do while I am speaking." Mr Medina scolded them.
"Sorry sir." The girls said together, with a bit of humour in their voices
"Very well." Mr Medina said. "Now then, as I call your name you will come here and get your room key, your time table and, of course, your work for today. Don't expect to get off that easy." He said, to the murmur of groans he had got from the teenagers in front of him.
"Okay. Tristan Dugrey." Mr Medina said.
Tristan walked up to him, and Mr Medina told him; "You will be in room 21, which is just down the hall on your right." Tristan collected his folder of homework, his timetable and his room key. He than walked away with his suitcase, a small wave of goodbye, and a smirk on his face.
Once Tristan had left, Mr Medina called out the next name: "Matt Elkins, in room 22." Matt walked up to collect his items, then followed after Tristan down the hall.
"Next is Paris Gellar, who is in room 25."
Paris walked up to collect her things from Mr Medina, where she gave a small smile to the others before slowly wondering down the hall with her suitcase.
And so it continued until finally, the rooms were all filled:
Tristan was in room 21
Matt was in room 22
Jess was in room 23
Tom was in room 24
Paris was in room 25
Rory was in room 26
Louise was in room 27
Maddy was in room 28
Well, there you go: my longest chapter yet!
Please review, as it will make my day, and it will make updates longer and quicker.
Big hugs to my best friend Emily, who is ill.
GET WELL SOON!
Jo