One Night's Mistake
By: RoxyRoo
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Summery: A story of how one night's mistake, can ruin the lives of two people.
AN: Thanks for all the reviews once again! For those waiting for the Logan confrontation, it'll be in the next chapter or two... haven't decided yet. Anyways hope you like this chapter, and please review! It makes me update quicker ;)
Chapter Four
Rory quietly opened the front door to her house, creeping in, and quietly shutting the door behind her. She was not sure how her mother would take this news. She knew that she could not keep anything from her mother, and would end up telling her the truth.
She looked into the living room, to see the back of her mother's dark head starring straight ahead at the television, which was not on.
"Ahh, the prodigal daughter returns," Lorelai said sarcastically, never once looking around.
"Mom, I can explain," Rory said softly.
Lorelai turned around to look at her. "Explain? Do you understand how it feels to receive a call from my mother early on a Sunday morning telling me that my daughter/best friend got married, and I was never even told. Did I mention it was a call from my mother? Worst of all, to some guy I do not even know! What happened to Logan? I thought you were through being little miss college girl?"
"Um, actually, you do know him," Rory said, picking an object behind her mother to stare at. "Tristan Dugrey, he went to Chilton with me." Lorelai starred at her blankly. "Bibleboy." Lorelai continued starring at her, making her more nervous. "But anyways, Logan and I had a big fight yesterday-"
"So you get married to get back at him?" Lorelai asked raising an eyebrow.
"No, I went out to a club with a friend, and I guess I had a little too much to drink," Rory said looking down. "Because next thing I know I wake up with Tristan. I don't even remember running into him last night, or anything that happened..."
"Rory," Lorelai said, looking at her. "This is something I would expect from myself to do to make my mother mad. But you? Level headed Rory?"
"I know," Rory said ashamed.
"Your grandmother was mad enough that you got married without telling her, can't wait to see her face when she finds out you're getting a divorce after just a day. Can I be there when you tell her?" Lorelai asked, with a big grin, as she got up to give Rory a hug.
"Uh, actually, here's the thing mom," Rory started as her mom back out of the hug. "We're not getting a divorce quite yet. As we didn't want to give any of our family members a heart attack first about getting married, then immediately getting a divorce, we decided that we will stay married for a few months."
"Rory," Lorelai started, but she could see that Rory had already made up her mind. She sighed, looking away. "What about Logan?"
"Logan said yesterday that he didn't want a 'girlfriend' to tie him down in his last year of college. He wanted to take advantage of partying and sleeping with a lot of women before his dad took over his life," Rory said softly.
Lorelai shook her head. "What happens if you two get back together? You two are always breaking off then getting back together. Remember when you first came home? That break up didn't last long."
"I think it's different this time," Rory said looking down. "You didn't see him yesterday. Plus if we do get back together, Tristan and I have already agreed that both of us can still date other people, we just have to take them out of Hartford. So if Logan does come back, which I doubt he will, we can be together."
Lorelai starred at Rory, hardly believing that she was going to go through with all of this. "So... What happens now?"
"Now, I go pack," Rory said heading to her room. "Tristan will be back in an hour to pick me up. I'm going to be staying in a guest room at his house. He's only about 20 minutes from Yale."
"You two are going to be living together?" Lorelai questioned, with a raised eyebrow.
"If we want this to be believable to everyone, we have to live together," Rory said, throwing some stuff into a box she found on her floor.
Lorelai watched her as a smirk came to her face. This could be bad or good. Either it'll be completely disastrous with their short marriage ending on bad terms. Or, she had seen the way this boy looked at her daughter in high school. If he still felt the same way, it was only a matter of time before Rory realized what was right in front of her.
"Rory, are you sure you want to do this," Lorelai asked worriedly.
Rory looked up at her. "Mom, I know I've screwed up a lot in the last year, I'm just trying to not cause any more trouble for anyone else."
Lorelai frowned as she watched her from the doorway as she threw stuff from her closet on her bed. She couldn't help but think what the price of her daughter's happiness would come at as she was busy trying to please everyone else. She only hoped that this marriage, no matter how short, or how long it might be did not end on bad terms.