Story Title: The Tables have turned Gilmore.

Author: Sancia Chislaine aka Angel Moon Princess

Rating: PG

Disclaimer: I don't own The Gilmore Girls series nor am I in anyway affiliated with the TV show or characters.This disclaimer is meant for the entire story.

Chapter Six:

Lorelai was sitting on the couch waiting for Rory to get home; she'd been sitting there for almost an hour.

"Lucy I'm home," Rory said as she plopped down on the couch next to Lorelai.

"Mini me! You've been crying," Lorelai looked so concerned that the arches on her brows had arches, "Oh my god. What did that boy do now? I tell you his first day back and he's already being an..."

"Mom!" Rory said angrily, "Listen to me first."

"Oh," Lorelai looked at Rory intently and waited for her to continue.

"Oh my god! Why is he doing this to me?" Rory looked so confused and began to cry again.

"Rory, calm down. Now breathe and tell me what happened and why you're crying. Go slowly. Ok?"

"OK, I can do that," Rory said in between her sobbing. She took a few deep breathes and then turned her head back to her mother, "So I get there this morning right and he wasn't at my locker and then Paris comes over and we walk to class and he ends up being in there but he didn't even bother to talk to me. I mean come on! Ok so then anyway the new teacher lady makes him sit behind me and he doesn't even try to talk to me and then he leaves the class without saying anything, not even a smirk or a comment. Nothing absolutely nothing," Rory looked confused as she replayed the story to Lorelai.

"Um… ok. And that not a good thing?" Lorelai asked.

Rory totally ignored her mother and continued with her story. "Ok so then I go to Chemistry and he's in there to and he still doesn't talk to me. You know he has every single one of my classes. It's torture I tell you."

"So he does start back with his old ways?" Lorelai asked.

"No. Nothing I tell you. He ignored me in every single class. And then today Paris said there was a Franklin meeting and he was there and..."

"Wow he's on the Franklin? I didn't know they let brainless people ..."

"Mom let me finish here!" Rory was becoming very irritated.

Lorelai shook her head and pretended to zip her lips together and throw away the key.

"Right then. So at the meeting he comes in late and Paris starts fuming at him but he just shrugs it off. Then there was this comment about this girl called Mary and I looked at him and he didn't even seem to care. Not even a flinch. It's like he doesn't even want to acknowledge the fact that I exist. Then I felt really hurt for some strange reason so I walked out the room and I sat on the bench outside and I cried for like five minutes until I felt like I wanted to go back in and then he just kept on ignoring me..."

Rory trailed off and her tears began to flow freely again. Lorelai was so confused she wasn't sure of what she was supposed to do so she slid over closer to Rory and embraced her. Rory grabbed on to her mother and sobbed into her shoulder.

"Rory is there something that you might have forgotten to tell me? I don't mean to sound like I wasn't listening or anything but I can't piece all of this together on my own," Lorelai said truthfully.

"Mommy I want Tristan to be like he was before. I want him to stand at my locker and make me angry and I want him to follow me around and say the things that he used to and I want him to whisper in my ear and make me want to slap him and I want him to be...Tristan."

"Mini me are you saying that you want things to go back to the way they were because if I remember correctly you were the one who said that you didn't want him to be within a two mile radius of you?"

Rory felt like her head was about to explode. Why didn't her mother understand her? She tore herself away and stalked over to her room. The door slammed and Lorelai looked more confused than ever.

"Is there something I'm missing here?" she asked herself quietly.

Rory lay on her bed and let the tears flow down her cheeks. She didn't know what she was feeling. Was it anger or was it something else? She sighed drearily as she walked over to her dresser and started to shred herself of her Chilton garments.

Her eyes glanced over at a picture of her and Dean but instead of seeing Dean's head she saw Tristan's. She blinked several times trying to regain her composure, "You can't be serious!" she yelled as she took the picture down.

Lorelai came bursting into the room when she heard all the racket.

"Are you ok?" she asked not sure if Rory wanted her there or not.

"Mom, I think I like him."

"Like who?"

"Him."

"Him who?"

"Tristan."

"Tristan who?"

"Tristan, Tristan."

"What? Bible Boy?"

"Yes."

"Wait a minute. What do you mean you think you like him?" Lorelai questioned.

"I mean I've known since we kissed," Rory confessed.

"You kissed? When did you kiss?" her mother asked in shock.

Rory's cheeks became heated as the memory flowed back into her head.

Flashback

Rory had been wondering around Madeline's step-dad's house, luckily for her it was like a hotel and every new hall seemed to lead to dozens of new fascinating rooms. Rory walked into what she hoped to be an empty room and politely sat down at a chair close to the tall wooden door. She was about to take out her latest book when she heard the plucking of piano notes, she looked up to see Tristan sitting at the grand piano in the center of the room hitting the keys sadly.

"I'm sorry," she said. "I thought the room was empty."

"No problem."

"I'm... sorry."

"About what?"

"About you and Summer."

He shook his head and looked down at the keys. "I don't want to talk about Summer."

"Ok," she took a few steps closer, "So how did you do on the Math test?"

"What?"

"The math test. It was hard, wasn't it?"

"Yeah," he said looking as confused as she had ever seen him, "It was hard."

"I got a B." She inched even closer and laid her bag and her book on the piano and took a seat next to him.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"I'm talking about the test," she replied.

"Why?"

"Because you didn't want to talk about Summer."

"I still don't."

"Okay so I moved on to Math. Did you want to talk about English?"

Tristan plainly thought that she was mocking him and replied, "You just loved it, didn't you?"

"Loved what?" Rory asked.

"Seeing her nail me like that. Must have been a great moment."

"Not really."

"Oh please. You loved it, she loved it, and everybody just loved it."

Rory had never heard or seen him like that before and she actually thought that he seemed, well... human. Like a real person with real feelings, "I didn't love it," she answered truthfully.

"I really liked her," he said.

"Yeah, I can see you did."

"So where's your boyfriend?" he said giving the word 'boyfriend' a slightly sarcastic twist.

She didn't think before she answered and actually told him the truth, "He's not my boyfriend anymore."

Tristan looked astonished, "What happened?" he asked.

Rory was in shock for a moment he actually seemed concerned, "He didn't want to be."

"Idiot."

"So is Summer," she replied.

They both sat there for a while before any of them even bothered to continue on.

"So... you think you might get back together?" Tristan asked curiously.

Rory stared down at her hands. "I don't know."

Tristan turned to her, "When did it happen?"

"Yesterday, our three month anniversary," she replied heartbrokenly.

"That sucks."

"Yeah it does. What about you and Summer?"

Tristan cringed at the mention of her name. "NO. No, no, no, no," he said shaking his head vigorously.

"So...no?" Rory smiled.

Tristan smiled for the first time since she had walked in. "No."

They sat there in silence once again lost in their own thoughts, neither sure of what to say to the other.

Tristan once again broke the silence, "I'm sorry for giving you such a hard time."

"Um... it's ok."

"It is?"

"Well no but you're sorry right now."

"Oh," he looked like he had wanted to say something more but Rory couldn't tell for sure.

"Great party huh?" she asked hoping to end the now deafening silence.

"I'm sure everyone's enjoying it."

"Well, yeah," Rory looked slightly flushed as she reached for her book, "It gave me some time to catch up on my reading."

"You are very odd. You know that?"

"Thank you," she smiled.

"You're welcome," he replied shortly.

They looked at each other both self-indulged in their pain; Tristan leaned forward and brushed his lips against Rory's. His soft, moist lips begged for Rory to respond and for a split second she did. She felt herself inch even closer to him, putting a void to the space between them. His tongue slid across her lower lip and her body shivered.

Rory jerked away before she even had time to respond to whatever else her body was telling her to do, a small stream of hot tears flowed down her now hot cheeks.

"I'm sorry," Tristan mumbled embarrassed, "What did I do? Did I bite your lip or something?"

In any other situation Rory would have found his last comment funny but it just didn't apply here, she eased her way off the seat and walked to the door.

End of flashback

"Wow so the kiss sounds a bit... um... different," Lorelai commented as she stared at Rory.

"Yeah... it was."

"So how come you didn't tell me before?"

"I didn't think it was important."

"You've only kissed one other boy, I mean that isn't Dean or Jess and you expect it to not be important?" Lorelai asked in astonishment.

Rory blushed; she had just noticed the fact that Tristan was the only other guy that she had ever kissed before the Jess phase. Even after being with Dean for two years and not being with him for the last two months Tristan was still the only other guy.

"You've never thought about it huh?" Lorelai asked upon seeing her daughter's new shade of crimson.

"No," Rory answered truthfully.

"I think that after Dean and everything that it's just natural that you would think that you have feelings for someone else, I never thought it would be Tristan though." Lorelai's admitted then to lighten the mood she added, "You know I always knew that you didn't fall so far from the apple tree."

"What?"

"The apple tree or the feelings for Tristan part?" Lorelai asked playfully.

"Um... the apple tree part?"

"Oh yeah. That's what happened with me and Chris. Your father pursued and I just flat out ignored him well until junior year anyway."

"You and dad?" Rory asked shock.

Lorelai nodded her head.

"A love hate relationship? I thought you guys were in love from the first moment you met. That's what dad told me anyway," Rory said in shock.

"Oh yeah your dad was in love, he was, believe me he was," Lorelai smirked as she stared at Rory.

"So I guess I missed the ball huh?"

"What?" Lorelai asked, "Now I'm confused."

A/N: This chapter along with every other before chapter 11 has been revised. If you have read this before nothing has changed except for the fact that I fixed most of the errors. Feel free to review and tell me if you hated it or loved it.