Chapter 5

Tristan's Dorm

Where could she be? Rory was supposed to meet me an hour ago. I've called her room every five minutes, I swear, Laura's getting pretty upset with me. She told me she'd let me know when Rory gets in. I've even started calling hospitals. Thank God that none of them hold a Lorelai or Rory Gilmore. Maybe I should call her mom.

ring ring ring ring

Come on, come on! Pick up the phone.

"Hello?"

"Lorelai? It's Tristan. Do you have any idea where Rory is?" I was frantic. If she wasn't at her mom's I don't know where she would have been.

"Oh, Tristan. How are you too? Yes Rory is here. She got here a couple of minutes ago and went straight to her room. Did you two have a fight?"

"That's the thing. I don't know what's wrong with her. She was supposed to meet me to go out and she never showed up. I'm pretty sure I didn't do anything wrong."

"Well when she comes out I'll tell her you called and I'll make sure she DOES call you back."

"Thanks Lorelai"

"Bye Bible Boy"

Rory's Room

What am I going to do? How about telling your family that you have a tumor? Hi to you too. Where have you been for a month? Oh, I've been here, just kept quiet that's all. You thought you were rid of me didn't you? Yes. What am I going to do? Tell your mom, tell Tristan and go get treatment.

knock knock

"Hey Rory, can I come in?"

"Sure"

"So Tristan called... why didn't you call him before you left? Did he do something?"

"No mom. I just... wasn't thinking. I wasn't even planning on coming here... I just did"

"What's going on? You're not very... you."

"That's a nice way to put it mom."

"Well I'm just a genius aren't I?" My mom tried to lighten the mood.

"Yeah mom, sure."

"So are you going to tell me what's wrong?"

"Well... I went to the doctor's a couple of days ago-"

"Are you pregnant?"

"What! Mom! NO! I'm not pregnant!"

"Then what!"

"I have cancer..." I burst into tears. The real reality just hit me. I had cancer and there's nothing I could do about it. It wasn't all a bad dream that I could wake up from.

"Oh hunny," She engulfed me in a hug "I'm sorry. When did you find out?"

"Today actually. Right before I was supposed to meet Tristan. I just got into the car and drove. Before I knew it, I was here."

"Well maybe you should call Tristan... he sounded really worried and upset. He thinks he did something wrong. On second thought, maybe we should keep letting him think that" she was trying to lighten the mood a bit. It kind of worked.

"Mom! That's just plain cruel. That's like you not being able to have coffee for the rest of your life while everyone around you is drinking it by the gallon!" I gave her a slight smile. "I'm gonna go call him."

"Oh fine! Party pooper." She just smiled at me.

Lorelai's POV

My baby has cancer. What am I going to do? I tried to make her smile, it sort of worked. That little crack about Tristan sure did the trick. I wonder how she's going to hold up through all this... how they'll hold up. I've never seen Rory this happy with someone. sniff I need to call Christopher. All I know is we're going to get through this... together.

Tristan's room

ring ringring ring

"Rory!"

"Hi Tristan..."

"Are you OK? Why didn't you call me before? Did I do something wrong?" What was going on with her?

"Haha" she just chuckle uneasily "Yes I'm OK, I didn't call you because I was upset and no, you didn't do anything wrong. Ummm, I need to tell you something."

"Wh- What?" I held my breath

"Can you come up this weekend? I'm going to skip the rest of my classes this week, but I don't want you to. So can you come up?"

"Sure... Are we OK? I mean us."

"Yes, we're great. I better go now. Mom's gonna take me to Luke's for some coffee. Love you Tris."

"I love you too Rory."

Click

What's so important that she couldn't tell over the phone. Well at least I know that things are OK between us. It was 10:30 by the time I was off the phone with Rory. So I decided to go to bed. This was going to be a long week.