I snickered a little as I flopped in my car. How predictable was that? Touche you bitter, jealous son of a...
I looked over at the house. I couldn't see anyone but I didn't doubt that somehow they were watching me. I sat up, the top rolled down. "Mary! I didn't do any of this. It's all a lie I swear. I didn't get kicked out of Redding, I didn't even like a single girl there. There was this guy who hates me, and he sent it. I can prove it with the envelope..."
It sounded lame, even to me.
"Mary, I'm not like that. I promise."
The two nutty neighbors were watching me through the windows. I finally sat back down and rolled up the top, deciding what to do.
I'm Tristan DuGrey...I can get out of anything! It was almost ironically amusing how my trying to prove my innocence this time was true. No lies were necessary this time, and I now I didn't know what to do.
I started the engine and drove away.
"It's not like he owes me anything." Rory muttered, stirring the bitter coffee she'd made for herself. It was almost amusing, her, the coffee queen, was so upset she couldn't get the coffee into the maker strait.
"He left some in the yard." Lorelai offered meekly.
"I don't want his coffee."
"Go get it Rory. Bad coffee does nothing to help your mood."
Grudgenly Rory went outside to retrieve the cup. Her walk was a shuffle of a girl torn apart inside. Tristan sure had his fun out there in military school. Got his kicks in with the girls' camp. She tried not to, but vivid pictures of his head thrown back in laughter and his eyes on another girl hurt.
The scene really shouldn't hurt so much, she thought. She barely knew him really.
An envelope was neatly fastened around the cup. She opened it while taking a long draught of the beverage inside.
Mar.
As soft as a petal
that falls from the tree,
the more I dry,
the wetter I'll be.
Female I remain,
as it works for the riddle,
Chilton's halls are my home
give it tat or tiddle.
-Tris
It was a riddle. She tried to ignore it and throw it into the lawn but it was too late. Her curiousity had been whet. She wanted to know. It won't hurt just to figure out the answer
"So it's soft...it dries but becomes wet as it dries?" She mumbled this to herself aloud. "It's a girl. Tat or Tiddle?"
The answer came to her suddenly. A towel! The more I dry, the wetter I'll be. That made sense. Chilton's halls? That means...Her brow knitted. That meant that it was a towel in the Chilton locker room. Female because it was the girls locker room, and Tat or Tiddle was the nicknames of the the tat (clean towels) and tiddle (used towels).
So that was the answer. Towel bin in the girl locker room. What's in the girl towel bin in the locker room?
Rory tried to push it all away and think about how horrible Tristan was...but it was too late.
She was hooked.
I parked the car outside Chilton. I had to go in and get the envelope I'd left there earlier. I should be here withMary. I leaned my head on the steering wheel.
I took in a deep breath and blew it out slowly.
Finally I got the strength to get out of the car and head into the school. I made my way slowly, biding my time...just like King had. I had to admit, it was pretty sly of him. King knew where to hit me where it hurt. And this one hurt like a son of a gun.
I walked into the halls and my shoes squeaked against the fine tile of the hall.
I turned into the towel rack in front of the girls' locker room and stopped short.
Mary sat there holding the next envelope all ready reading the next clue of the scavenger hunt I'd set up.
She looked up slowly. "Where does this one lead to?"
"It did lead to Miss Patty's at Stars Hollows." I said slowly, shock shooting through my body. "All the clues are places we've been together." I held up the stack of envelopes I'd been collected from where I'd methodically placed them to be found. "I all ready picked them up though."
She looked down at her hands. "Are those demerits real?"
I shook my head.
She nodded slowly. "I think I knew that."
I really don't remember the space between us till it was gone.
That's about when I kissed her.
Quick, short ending to a drawn out story. I hope you guys enjoyed it. If you read this later, please just send me a review to let me know if you liked it all right. If you want I was considering adding a follow up chapter having to do with King and revenge and stuff, just leave me a review if you want me too bribe, hehe So thank you so much to my loyal readers and stay chill y'all.
-Thought's Pen