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He'd be a fool not to…
Lorelai threw open the kitchen door stalked over to the coffee machine and poured herself a cup. She sat herself down on one of the stools facing the counter and started drumming her fingers impatiently on the stainless steal counter top.
"Oh Lorelai you're here!" Sookie exclaims, emerging from the large pantry on the other side of the kitchen.
"Yah, I'm here and you're here," she rambled, "we're all here…"
Sookie eyed her curiously before grabbing a tray of cookies and sitting on the stool beside Lorelai. "So what's wrong hon?"
Lorelai picked at a cookie, extracting all the chocolate chunks and popping them in her mouth. "It's Christopher…" she sighed dejectedly.
Sookies expression turned to worry once again and she tried to move her stool closer to Lorelai's. "Christopher? Isn't he in California?"
"Yah."
"Okay then…Do you want him here?" she guessed.
Lorelai's head shot up and she shook it strongly. "No! No of course not!"
Sookies hands went up into the air surrendering innocently. "Okay, okay. So, um, what's the problem then?"
"It's Rory…" she whispered.
Sookies eyes flooded with even more confusion. She thought they were talking about Chris… "Okay…How about some more coffee?" she motioned at the now empty cup Lorelai was holding.
"Rory wants to date this guy," Lorelai started, filling her cup with coffee.
"Is it that guy from Chilton because yummy!" Sookie exclaimed.
Lorelai shushed her. "Yes it's that guy and she can't date him Sookie!"
"Okay you lost me…"
Lorelai sighed and looked into Sookies friendly eyes. "He's Christopher."
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Lorelai parked the jeep in the driveway of the Crap Shack. She got out of the car and walked to the front door. She quietly opened the door and slipped through it. Pausing, she tried to hear anything that would tell her if Rory was home or not. She heard the faint sounds of The Bangles drifting from Rory's bedroom and Lorelai headed in that direction. Her talk with Sookie had helped her a lot. She'd stopped feeling as guilty as she'd been before. Now she was just determined to make Rory see that a relationship with Tristin would never work. Sookie hadn't been very supportive at first but Lorelai had won her over when she'd told her some of the stories that Rory had told her when she was in her 1st year at Chilton. Sookie had jumped in the band wagon and they had spent the rest of the time trying to come up with ways to make Rory understand why she can't date Tristin… no matter how happy he made her.
She paused outside the door to gather her thoughts and then pushed the door open. Rory was lying on her bed reading on of her Russian literature novels. She had spent most of the morning thinking about Tristin but she just kept going around in circles and was beginning to get a headache. So after three failed attempts at calling him she's decided to read something that didn't have even a trace of romance in it.
"Hey mom," Rory greeted her mom and sat up placing her book on her nightstand and patting the spot next to her.
Lorelai smiled at her daughter before coming to it beside her on the bed. They both sat there for a while in silence only the sounds of The Bangles were heard. Lorelai soon got restless and started to pace in front of the bed.
Rory smiled, very amused at her mother's behaviour.
"You can't date him!"
Her smile was gone in a second. "What?"
Lorelai stopped pacing and turned around to face Rory. "You're not going to date him," she declared in a very 'Emily Gilmore' kind of voice.
Rory already knew what she was talking about but she didn't want to believe it. "What are you talking about mom?"
"I'm talking about you and Tristin and the fact that you will not date him," Lorelai told her, her hands were on her hips and she had on her resolve face.
Rory didn't understand what had changed. Her mom had been so accepting of this before but now she'd done a complete 180 and was telling her it couldn't happen. "Mom you're not making any sense. It was your pushing that made me realize that I liked Tristin," Rory told her mom, her cheeks were turning red and it wasn't from embarrassment.
Lorelai seemed to calm down a bit. She sat herself back down beside Rory and placed a hand on her shoulder. "I know I did tell you to follow your heart and it was my advice that made you… do what you did last night. But now I'm giving you some more advice. Do not get involved with a guy like Tristin," she said this in a very soothing tone but it just angered Rory more.
Rory pulled away from her mom and looked at her with guarded eyes. "You were practically praising him before," she said in a hushed voice and jumped off the bed proclaiming in a now raised voice. "You were happy about it! You were proud of me!"
Lorelai got up to but didn't try to get closer to Rory. "I know but emotions can change," she said and when Rory stared to reply she quickly continued. "And I'm asking you to change yours. To look at this situation from a different point of view."
Rory looked down for a minute before stepping forward and said in a deathly calm voice. "Don't you think I have? I spent the whole morning looking at it from different perspectives."
"Then you should know that it isn't good idea," Lorelai said.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Rory said quietly almost cautiously.
"Yes you do. You came to the same conclusions as me. You know that he's only in this for one thing."
"No he's not," her voice was small and feeble.
"He just wants one thing from you Rory! And once he gets it he'll leave you like he's done to all the other girls," she still held her at Rory's tears knowing she had to hear this.
Rory didn't know what to do. Her mom was bringing up the one insecurity that Rory had when it came to Tristin. Could she trust him with her heart?
Lorelai got closer and enveloped Rory in a hug although Rory didn't return the gesture. "I know you think you can change him but you can't. He's a playboy and he will break your heart," she whispered into Rory's ear.
Rory pulled away as if burned. "So that's it? I don't get any decision? You're just playing the mom card and saying that I can't date him end of discussion!" she yelled angrily tears streaming down her cheeks.
"I am," Lorelai stated her tone final.
Rory gulped loudly and wiped the tears from her eyes. She walked towards her door and held it open. "I have to study," she said coldly not looking at Lorelai.
Lorelai nodded mutely and walked out the door which slammed behind her.
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The rest of the weekend was frigid at the Crap Shack. Lorelai had tried more then one time to try and make conversation with Rory but was met with either a stone wall or Rory's back as she walked away. Lorelai knew the only way to solve the problem was to apologize but she just couldn't bring herself to do it. Stupid stubbornness!
She still believed she was right but she was starting to doubt it if her decision was going to alienate daughter. She had observed Rory after she'd come out of her room Saturday after their fight. She'd changed into sweats and her hair was all messy and knotted, she eyes were bright red and her cheeks were stained with tears. Lorelai felt really badly about making her daughter, her best friend cry that hard but she also knew what she'd said had gotten through. Rory seemed to be lost in thought all weekend and she'd taken some Tylenol before bed so either she'd just cried to hard or she was thinking to hard. And knowing Rory it was probably the latter.
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It was Sunday night and Rory was curled up on her bed in the dark just like she'd been most of the weekend. She'd had a lot of time to think after her and her mom's big fight and she was split down the middle.
One part of her was happy that she'd gotten time to work out her thoughts. She'd looked at it from every single point of view she could think of.
On the other hand she hated the conclusions she found at the end of every thought. She hated that her mother had made her doubt Tristin. And that she now didn't know if she was right and if her mother was wrong.
She decided that she needed another opinion and quickly got dressed and went to her door. Then on second thought she locked it and climbed out her window. She really wasn't in the mood to talk to her mom right now. She snuck past the house and walked down the street towards the Kim house. Once she got there she opened the door and walked in.
"Lane!" she called.
Mrs. Kim walked up behind her. "Lane is studying!" she barked making Rory jump almost a foot off the ground.
Rory caught her breath and turned around. "I know but this is really important," she pleaded, smoothing out her hair. She hadn't looked in a mirror before she left and she was sure she looked like crap.
Mrs. Kim studied her for a moment before relenting and telling her she had ten minutes. Rory thanked her before rushing upstairs to Lane's room. She opened the door, closed it and through herself down on her friends bed. Lane gave her a weird look and quickly pushed Rory up and led her into her closet where they could talk without Lane's mom hearing.
"Okay so you wanna tell me what's wrong or should I guess?" Lane asked after placing a CD in her stereo and starting to pick at Rory's hair.
"Well you know how Tristin and I got a little…comfy with each other Friday night?"
"I'm pretty sure you were a lot more then comfy!" Lane laughed.
Rory blushed beat red and lowered her eyes remembering exactly how comfy she'd been wrapped in his arms. "Anyway," she stressed the word. "My mom was totally cool with it and everything Friday night and all the time before. And now she's totally freaking out!"
Lane looked shocked. Rory and Lorelai rarely fought. "You're kidding! She was so happy for you Friday night!" she exclaimed.
"I know and she was telling me how great it was and that she was proud to have moved it along. And then she went postal yesterday and told me that I couldn't date him!"
"Wow!" Lane didn't know what else to say. She was stunned that Lorelai had done that. She had always been the cool mom and been open to a lot of things.
They both sat there for a while. Each was caught up in their thoughts. Suddenly Lane thought of something. "So are you going to date him?"
Rory fell back. "Great the hard questions!" she exclaimed heavily.
Lane smiled and lay next to Rory. "Come on Rory, you've got to date him," she told her.
Rory turned to look at her. "But Lane my mom made me think and now I don't know if it's such a good idea," she murmured.
"Let me guess she told you that he was going to break your heart and that he was just using you for sex?" Rory nodded soberly. "Rory he's not going to do that. He can't…" she trailed off.
A flash of hope came into Rory's blue eyes. She wanted to believe that so much. "Why?" she asked sensibly.
Lane shook her head at Rory's obliviousness. "Because the guy's in love with you!" she told her.
Rory's eyes bugged out of her head. She couldn't think of that right now. It would just complicate things more. No, it would make things easier. He can't hurt you if he loves you! Her treacherous heart told her.
"Listen to me Ror. I'm like the relationship guru; I know my stuff. And I know that Tristin loves you, I that he knows it and I know you would know it if you weren't so naïve," she advised.
Rory decided to ignore that for the moment. "Lane I need you help. I'm in a rut. My mind keeps telling me to be sensible and break it off before it's too late, then my heart tells me to go for it…And my body..." she blushed scarlet and whispered very softly, "my body would jump in front of a moving train if he would just kiss me again."
Lane squealed and hugged her friend. "Oh my God Rory you can't say something like that and then say you're not going to date him!" she admonished Rory still smiling ear to ear from her declaration.
Rory couldn't help but smile. Lane always knew how to cheer her up and she was so grateful to have a friend like her. "I know. But I can't just date him, Lane."
Lane scrunched her eyes together and lifted an eyebrow questioningly. "Why not?"
"Because were total opposites!" Rory declared. "He's the king of Chilton, a playboy and everybody worships him."
Lane nodded following her point. "And you're just the new girl who likes to read."
Rory smiled at Lane's description of her. "And I'm the only girl who ever turned Tristin down."
"And that's when you go straight back into your insecurity that Tristin just wants you to further his reputation," she said.
Rory groaned and buried her face behind a pillow. Her head was starting to hurt again and it had gotten her nowhere. "This is so confusing Lane. Why did I have to start liking him?"
Lane laughed and lifted the pillow off Rory's face. "Because you guys are meant to be together," she said in a wistful voice.
I shot up at that. "What?"
She got up beside me. "Rory it's one of the biggest clichés in the world," she stated. "Cocky, player rich boy falls for smart, sweet innocent girl. They banter, they date, and they fall in love and live happily ever after!" she cried dramatically.
Rory just stared at her for a minute before bursting out in laughter and was soon joined by Lane. It felt so good to laugh that Rory kept on going until she was hiccupping. They both fell back against the wall and sighed.
"That's so not true," Rory told her but was smiling like a fool.
Lane got up and looked at Rory. "Of course it is." Then she got an idea. "And I can prove it."
"How?" Rory questioned curiosity shining in her eyes.
Lane pulled Rory up and after turning off her stereo she pulled Rory out of her closet. Closing the door tightly behind her she walked over to her wallet and took out two five dollar bills.
"You're going to prove it by buying something?" Rory asked confused.
"No. You've seen the movie Serendipity right?"
"Yah," Rory answered starting to understand what Lane was going to do.
"Well we're going to do what they do in the movie. We're going to let fate decide if you should date Tristin or not."
Rory laughed at the absurdity of that idea. She didn't believe in fate, she didn't believe that two people were destined to be together. "Lane that won't work."
"Yes it will you've just got to want it really bad," she explained and wrote something at the top of each bill.
Rory took the two bills and saw her name on one ad Tristin's on the other. "Lane you can't really think this can work?" she asked Lane.
"I do and you do to," she stated confidently.
Rory scoffed, "Oh I do?"
Lane put her shoes on and grabbed her jacket. "Remember how it felt to be pressed up against that locker?" she asked innocently as she left the room.
Rory instantly turned red. She could remember to clearly how good it had felt. "That was evil!" she called down the stairs.
The two girls walked over to the diner. They sat at the counter and waited for Luke to come by and get their orders. They ordered enough so that it would come to over five bucks and with big hopes they gave him the two bills. Both of them were anxious to see what would happen. Would they get the bills back or not?
"So if we don't get them back then it's still your decision to make, but if we do get them back you have to date him," Lane told her.
Rory blushed faintly at the order knowing it wouldn't be too hard to follow. She felt bad though because she would have to either to date him behind her mom's back or she would have to just make Lorelai madder at her then she already was.
"Do you think I should tell Lorelai if I decide to date him?" Rory asked hoping that Lane would give her good advice.
Lane thought about it for a good minute before nodding her head. "You've got to tell her. I mean sure it's just gonna get her even more pissed off but if you guys made up and then she realized you'd been dating him behind her back…"
"Total chaos would ensue, I get your point," Rory said.
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Rory and Lane ate their food and then they walked around town for a while. They were talking about nothing really important because they didn't want to jinx anything by talking about Tristin. They were sitting on the bridge when Rory remembered that she hadn't told her mom she'd left.
"Hey do you think we could swing by my place. I just want to make sure my mom doesn't start freaking out that I'm gone," Rory told Lane and they started to walk towards the Crap Shack.
When they got there they peeked in through the window and saw that Lorelai was watching TV in the living room. There wasn't anything panicky about her so they decided that she hadn't noticed Rory was gone. Quickly Rory got back into her room through her window and wrote a note that said she'd gone to hang with Lane. She left it on her bed and unlocked her door. As an afterthought she grabbed her wallet and climbed back out the window.
The girls walked towards the center of town again and sat in the gazebo. They just started to talk about going back to Luke's and getting coffee but Miss. Patty came up to them.
"Why hello girls," she purred.
"Hey Miss. Patty," Rory greeted her along with Lane.
"Have you gals heard the latest gossip?" she asked them secretively.
Both girls laughed and told her that they hadn't. Miss. Patty was sitting down next to them an instant later. She motioned for them to come closer and then whispered into their ears.
"You know Jerry Cutler's new wife right?" she asked them.
"Yah, umm, Annabel," Lane said.
Miss. Patty leaned in closer. "Well it seems that she lied about something…" Lane and Rory both looked very curious and urged her to continue. "Seems 25 years old now means 36 years old!" she whispered excitedly.
"No!" Rory exclaimed.
"It's true, Jerry found her birth certificate," Miss. Patty starting laughing. "Funny thing is he left his wife for her and she's a year older!" she told them getting up. "You gotta love the karma!"
"Bye Miss. Patty!" Both girls called after her.
They both got up ready to go back to Luke's when Lane noticed something on the ground. She bent down to pick it up and dropped it right away. "Oh my God!" she screamed and started jumping up and down in true Lane fashion.
Confused Rory started to jump with her. "What are we jumping for?" she asked.
Lane bent down again and showed her the bill. It was a normal five dollar bill but it had a name written in cursive right at the top. Rory took the bill right out of Lane's hand. She couldn't believe it.
"Lane this is one of the bills!" she cried.
Lane nodded her head energetically. They both stared at each other and then started to jump up and down again like crazy people both smiling like fools.
After they calmed down Rory once again looked down at the bill in her hand. She ran her finger over the name written ever so casually at the top. Rory Gilmore
"I told you, you guy's are meant to be together!" Lane said.
Rory and Lane started walking back towards the diner. "We still haven't gotten the second bill back okay; this could be just some weird coincidence."
Lane looked at her friend. "We're going to get it back, don't you worry your pretty little head." Rory was staring at the bill, hope was filling her eyes but Lane could tell she was still hearing evil little voices in her head telling her that it was a bad idea.
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"Oh hey," Rory replies distractedly. She shook her head trying to rid her thoughts and sat up on the couch. "I'm gonna go finish my homework," she told Lorelai. She still wasn't ready to talk to her.
"Oh…okay," Lorelai responded disappointed. "I just thought that maybe we could have a movie night tonight," she threw the idea out there hoping Rory would catch it.
"I have a ton of homework," she answered already standing up and making her way out of the living room. She really hated being this cold to her mom but she was still very angry.
Rory got up onto her bed and got out her homework. She quickly went to work on her math problems and was done almost all of them when the phone rang. She waited a second before answering it.
"Hello?"
"Hey I was just wondering if you'd gotten the other bill yet," Lane's voice came over the phone, a little worried because they only had one night to get it back.
Rory laughed a little. "No I haven't. I haven't gone anywhere since I got home," she told her.
"Rory it's not gonna work if you don't buy something!" Lane almost yelled at her. Then very quietly she added, "You do want it to work, right?"
Rory sighed once again, something she'd been doing a lot lately. She wasn't 100 sure she wanted the other bill back. Sure she'd been praying and hoping all day that she would get it back but she still had this nagging little voice in the back of her head that sounded a lot like her mother. Actually when she closed her eyes she could see her mom dancing around in circles screaming, 'I told you so! I told you so!' "I don't know Lane," Rory admitted.
She heard Lane groan. "Rory what did I tell you about Tristin?" And not even waiting for an answer she continued. "He won't hurt you! You have to trust him!"
And Rory finally let all her emotions go. "Lane you can't know that! Why? Because you don't know Tristin! You haven't gone to school with him, you haven't seen him make girls cry at lunch, you haven't seen the way he treats girls like they're property! You don't know that he won't do the same to me…" and for the millionth time that weekend Rory felt tears spring to her eyes.
Lane felt really bad. She truly didn't know all that stuff and she'd never actually met Tristin…never talked with him or anything. All she knew was the look in his eyes when he had Rory in his arms on Friday night. But she didn't know how to explain that to Rory. It was just her luck that Rory happened to be the most oblivious girl in the world.
"Lane I know you're only trying to help but…I just don't know if I can do it. I don't think I can trust him."
Lane had to try one more time though. "But Rory what about the bills? What about leaving it up to fate?" Lane asked taking one last stab at it.
"Lane do you honestly believe that I'm gonna get that second bill back before I leave for school tomorrow?" Rory asked. She was ready to give up, ready to take her mom's advice and let it go.
"I have to tell you that I'm praying and hoping that you get it back but Rory you've only got tonight," Lane told her sadly.
"Maybe we're really not meant to be…" Rory uttered. She felt her heart sag when she said that. Like a weight had been thrown on top and it was crushing her heart, slowly…ever so slowly.
"What do you think Rory?"
Rory thought about that for a moment before she answered her voice full of raw emotion. "If we aren't meant to be it shouldn't hurt this much…"
She was interrupted by a knock on her door and Lorelai's head popping past it and into her room, a cautious smile on her face. Lorelai had just phoned Sookie and she'd told her all about what had happened between her and Rory. They'd come to the decision that a guy wasn't worth losing Rory over so Lorelai had come prepared to gravel for her daughters affections again.
"Lane I'll call you back later, okay?" she said into the phone.
"Okay…and try not to be too sad."
Rory smiled. "I'll try. Bye," and after Lane said good-bye she hung up the phone and tossed it onto the end of her bed. She looked over at her mom, who was still hovering by the door. "Did you want something?" she asked.
Lorelai cringed at Rory's tone but she knew she deserved it. "How about your acceptance?" she asked timidly.
Rory narrowed her eyes, confused. "My acceptance of what?"
"My apology?" she asked and her hand shot out from behind her back, presenting a small present to Rory.
Rory was shocked. She couldn't believe her mom was actually apologizing and this soon! She was about to reject the offer when she took in the large mug of steaming coffee that had 'I'm sorry!' written on the side. She immediately softened at the peace offering and greedily took the coffee from Lorelai's hands.
"You know you can't get out of this with coffee!" Rory told her, gulping at the beverage until it was gone.
Lorelai nodded, but was smiling at the fact that at least Rory was talking to her again. "I know, and I'm up for graveling if it comes to it!" she promised earning her first real smile from Rory since the fight.
"I don't think you'll have to gravel but I'll keep it in mind," Rory joked.
The two girls didn't say much for a while, happy to have some of the tension gone between them. But Lorelai knew she'd have to get rid of the rest. "So, I guess we should talk about what happened yesterday, huh?" she asked, really not looking forward to the conversation.
Rory sighed. "You mean talk about how you did a complete 180 on me and turned into a huge, ugly Emily clone!"
Lorelai's mouth dropped open. "I was not an Emily clone!" she tried to defend herself but received a withering stare from Rory. "Okay so maybe I did put out a little Emily vibe," she admitted mad at herself. She's always promised herself that she'd never be her mother and when she'd actually done it she didn't even notice.
Rory smiled kindly and scooted closer to her mom. "It was scary," she admitted quietly.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry about a lot of things…"
"Okay, are you saying you're just sorry about how everything came out or are you saying that you take back what you said?" Rory asked.
Lorelai inwardly groaned and moved closer to sit cross-legged on the bed. "I'm saying I'm sorry for how everything came out and that I'm willing to give everything a chance."
Rory copied her mom's position, a huge smiled spreading over her face. "Mom, I was just really upset because for one; you jumped to conclusions…"
Lorelai interrupted her. "Hey I did not jump! I took a small step and there conclusions were!"
Rory gave her mom a look, asking her to be serious. "Second; you completely freaked and didn't even try to talk about it like we normally do and third…" Rory looked down and said in a small voice, "you really made me think about it."
Lorelai was shocked to hear that and took a minute before answering. "And that's a bad thing?"
Rory looked again. "Yes it's a bad thing! You made second guess the decision I'd already made and then I got so confused I was third guessing and kept going around in circles and my head started to hurt and that made it more difficult to think and…"
"Whoa, calm down Rory. Breath, breath," Lorelai told her, grabbing Rory's hands with hers.
After a few calming breaths Rory was able to talk again. "Listen mom, I just wanna know where you stand in all this."
Lorelai thought about that. She knew what she wanted to say and she knew what she knows she should say. "I guess, I'd tolerate you dating him," she said after a while and when she noticed Rory's face fall she quickly jumped back in. "What? I thought that's what you wanted?"
"What I want is to be able to talk to you about it. To be able to have the both of you in the same room and being nice and friendly to each other," Rory looked at her mom and smiled sadly. "I want to be able to tell you all the details and I want to pick out outfits with you and have you do my hair and…" she could see that what she was saying was really getting to her mom but she still had something to say and so with a breath she continued. "I want to be able to take your advice and I need…for you to be able to trust me."
Lorelai was overwhelmed. She was so happy to hear that Rory wanted her for all those things and that she needed her still. "Oh Rory of course I'll be there. I'll do all those things with you I promise. It's just I was really caught off guard by something the day before," she explained hugging her daughter.
"What caught you off guard?"
Lorelai laughed slightly and stood up and stopped in front of Rory's mirror. "Tristin reminds me of Chris. And I don't want the same thing that happened to me happen to you," she said staring at her reflection.
Rory jumped off the bed and rested her head on Lorelai's shoulder, meeting her mom eyes in the mirror. "I'm not gonna get pregnant mom," she promised and Lorelai could practically hear the Hollywood chorus start up in her head. She felt as if a thousand weights had been lifted off of her.
"That's good to hear," she said thankful to have such a great kid.
"So you're gonna be okay with what I said before? You know the whole talking about it and being at least civil?" Rory needed to be sure even though she was pretty sure she'd made her decision already.
"Yah I'll be okay with it. I don't think I love the idea that you're dating him but I do trust you're judgment so I know there's got to be something special about him!" she told Rory and was awarded with a hug and a smile.
"Thanks mom hat means a lot to me. Although I haven't yet decided for sure if I'm gonna date him. I'm still waiting on something," she replied vaguely.
"Right well why you're…waiting," Lorelai said before grabbing Rory's hand and pulling her into the kitchen and over to her purse. "I got something interesting form Sookie today."
"Oh yah what's that?" Rory asked taking a seat at the table.
Lorelai dug deep into the purse until she retrieved a very small something that she hid in her hand. She turned around for a second. "You know your little Romeo is rich right?" she asked.
Rory rolled her eyes at her mom's pet name for Tristin. "Yah he's pretty rich."
"I bet you didn't know he'd had his own five dollar bill!" she said s she turned around proudly presenting a crinkled five dollar bill with the name Tristin Dugrey written on the top.
Rory went completely still, she froze. She kept her eyes transfixed on the bill, a million thoughts swimming in her mind.
"Rory?" Lorelai asked. It looked like Rory had shut down or something. "Rory?" she asked again waving her hand in front of Rory's face and smacking her.
"Oh my God!" Rory exclaimed rather loud and grabbed the bill out of her mom's hands. She hadn't expected to get it back. She'd almost given up all hope and now here she was holding the second bill in her hand. She finally felt the chasm in her heart heal.
"Okay Rory why don't you let mommy know what's going on?" Lorelai asked.
"Okay I went to lanes today and she kept on telling me that Tristin and I were like destined to be together but I didn't believe her so then she decided we'd try the whole 'Serendipity' thing."
Lorelai caught on, having seen that movie a hundred times. "You wrote his name on a bill and…"
"We wrote his name and mine on two separate bills and we used them at Luke's," she finished her mom's sentence, still staring down at the bill with wonder.
Much to her daughters dismay Lorelai took the bill from her hand. "And now you have this one."
Rory ran into her room and grabbed the other bill off her nightstand and the phone then ran back to the kitchen. "I have both of them," she said handing the other bill to Lorelai.
"Wow, that's…wow!" Lorelai exclaimed. Unlike her daughter who'd only now started believing in fate, Lorelai had always believed that each person had a soul mate and were destined to be together.
"I'm gonna call Lane," she told her mom already dialling the Kim house and waiting until Lane answered. "Lane! Oh my God! I go the other bill back!" Rory yelled into the phone almost hysterical.
"You did? That's amazing! Now you know! You can totally date him because you guys are meant to be together!" Lane was so happy for her friend she was jumping up and down in her room.
Rory's smile grew and she looked over at her mom who had a huge smile plastered on her face as well. "Yah and my mom's okay with it!"
"You guys made up?" Lane asked.
"Yah," Rory told her happily.
"That's so great Rory," she said and then heard her mom call her back downstairs. "Hey I wish I could celebrate but I'm going to evening mass, sorry," Lane told her apologetically.
"That's okay. Meat us at Luke's tomorrow?" Rory asked quickly.
"Sure, bye."
"Bye," Rory said before hanging up and tossing the phone onto the dining room table.
Rory sat down at the table again beside her mom and grinned happily. The suddenly a thought sprang into her mind and her smile fell.
"What's wrong hon?" Lorelai asked.
"What am I going to do tomorrow when I see him?" Rory asked her mom panicked.
And Lorelai laughed before pulling Rory into the living room so they could talk more comfortably. She had to teach her daughter a couple of things and knowing Rory it might take a while.
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Sorry about the no trory action in this chapter! I was planning on having it in this one but then I decided that since this was taking place in season two I really needed to have Rory think about what could happen and not just jump right into it. I hope you guys still like this chapter…please read and review!
-Ella