Hi, this is SmilesAreAllINeed I just wanted to remind you that this story will probably only have 1 or 2 more chapters after this one. I need to wrap this story up, because I know exactly where to end it. There might be sequel. Maybe if I can think of a plot. Oh an d I want to give a HUGe thank you to my beta LoVe23. Well read on.
Everyone had gone home two hours later and Lorelei arrived a couple minutes after their departure.
"Children of mine, where are you!" She yelled as she came into the house.
"Ok first of all, only one of us is your child, the other three of us are nephews, and second, we're in Chris's room!" Jess yelled.
Lorelei walked through the kitchen to Chris's room. "Hello daughter!" She said smiling, before turning to the boys. "…and nephews." She said, playfully glaring at Jess.
He put his arms up and sheepishly mumbled a "Sorry!" Lorelei grinned happily.
"So what do you all want for dinner?" She said, clapping her hands together in delight.
"Chinese!" Rory and Chris yelled.
"Pizza!" Jess and Kyle yelled.
"Hmm…I guess it's Chinese and pizza for dinner then!"
She turned to look at Chris and Rory. "What section of the menu tonight?"
Then turning to Jess and Kyle she asked, "Cheese, right?" The two boys nodded in unison.
She turned back to Rory and Chris, awaiting their choices.
"Beef!" Chris told Lorelei.
"Chicken!" Rory told Lorelei.
"You know the drill guys." Lorelei told them.
They turned to each other, one hand behind their back, and the other held in front in a fist. "Rock, Paper, Scissors!" they said in unison. "Rock beats scissors!" Rory yelled, jumping up and down, while Chris scowled in defeat.
"I guess that means chicken tonight." Lorelei concluded, before she left the room to order the food.
When she finished making the orders, she came back and sat down on the bed next to Rory. Seeing the smug looks on the kids' faces, she asked, "What's going on? What's up?"
"You, my friend are now looking at the newest members to join Chilton royalty!" Kyle said, proudly.
"So that's what the scavenger hunt was for? Oh yah I remember now, I had to do the same thing, and I hosted it senior year." Lorelei said, gazing at nothing reminiscing on her high school days. She was broken of her reverie they continued to tell her their news.
"Well that's what we did. Today, we got our seats at the junior table." Jess, was the one who spoke up this time.
"Tristan's at the head of the table, Rory to his right. No one sits to his left. Louise, Madeline and Paris on Rory's side of the table, and then we sit on the other side, across from the girls." Chris told her.
"I sat right where Rory will be sitting, and Chris sat where Tristan now sits." Lorelei said, looking proudly at her daughter.
The doorbell rang and Lorelei got up to answer it. She took the pizza to the room and handed it to Jess. "Make sure to eat over the box." she told them, giving them a warning look.
She took the Chinese to the kitchen, grabbed three plates and took it all back to the room.
They sat around as Rory explained her day, and her homecoming plans.
"Mom will you make my dress?" Rory asked, while picking at her food.
"Of course! What color do you want?" Lorelei answered, trying to pick up a particularly slippery piece of chicken with her chopsticks.
Rory shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know. I was thinking something kind like a pale blue color. Somewhat like the dress Cinderella wore." She offered shyly. Lorelei smiled, knowing this was all somewhat new to her.
'My little girl is growing up!' she thought to herself, before answering. "Yeah, I think I saw some material that would be perfect! Did you want the dress to look like Cinderella's too?"
Rory nodded happily. "Yes! But not too poofy, k?"
"Got it! Cinderella without the poof! I'm on it! Ok moving on. Who are all of you taking?" Lorelei said, facing the boys.
"I'm going with Madeline." Jess told her, looking up from his pizza slice.
"I'm going with Paris!" Kyle announced, smiling goofily, while he took a bite out of his slice.
"I'm probably going to go with Louise." Chris said, before taking a bite of his sweet & sour chicken.
They all looked up at him with shocked faces. "Really?" They all asked. The look he gave them clearly said 'What?'
When they continued to stare, he shrugged. "Well her boyfriend broke up with her, and she's cute. I'm pretty sure we'll be going as friends though. I feel like a big brother towards her." He said, putting their curiosity to rest.
"Aw! That's so sweet!" Rory teased, as she reached over to pinch his cheek. Chris slapped her hand away.
"Get over it." he told her.
"Rory, who are you going with?" Lorelei asked.
"I don't know." She said noncommittally, shrugging her shoulders. "I'll figure that out after I get some offers."
"I bet five dollars, that three guys ask her this week." Kyle told them.
"I bet ten that five guys will ask her!" Jess challenged.
"I bet twenty that she'll get more than 7." Chris said, smiling.
"I'm not a gambling item, people!" She reminded them. They all shut up. Lorelei leaned over to Rory, "Whipped!" she whispered. Rory smiled and nodded. "They know it too!" she told her mom, as she smiled.
"Well it's about time I get going it's almost 10 o'clock. Don't stay up too late." Lorelei said before leaving the room.
They continued to discuss school for a couple more minutes and then the group dispersed to their own rooms.
Rory lay on her bed, staring at the ceiling, thinking. Thinking about how she felt about Tristan. Thinking about the letter she sent him. Thinking about everything that could or would happen in the future. She remembered everything that she had wrote in her letter.
Dear Tristan,
I wrote you this letter because I wanted to tell you something. I know I'm not the only one who wrote you a letter and if you decided not to read any of the letters including mine then you'll never know what I said. Well, I really don't know what to tell you, except the truth.
When you said you'd kiss me but my boyfriend was watching, I was disappointed. Because I realized that in the one kiss you gave me on the piano bench, I felt more then, than ever did with any of the kisses Dean gave me put together. I like you, I now know that now. Too bad I didn't figure it out sooner. And I don't hate you no matter what I said. I lied.
You're cute, and I know you are smirking at this very moment. You're smart, or so Paris tells me. You can hold your side of a conversation, and we have chemistry. So if you ever come back, look me up I'm pretty sure I'll still like you. Well until then, see ya.
Sincerely Yours, Mary
P.S. I know there is no return address.
She knew it by heart and while she was rereading it in her head, she drifted off to sleep.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
"Oh shit!" Rory yelled as she looked at her clock.
"7:05!"
"Guys wake up!"
She yelled, as she hopped out of bed and grabbed her uniform. She pulled on her skirt, then grabbed her shirt and pulled it on. She grabbed on of Chris's ties and her navy sandals and ran out to the kitchen.
"Guys up now!" She yelled, as she walked into Chris's room and dragged him out of bed, literally. Then proceeded to throw his clothes at him.
"You have 10 minutes." She told him.
Then she headed up stairs and went into Jess's and Kyle's room. She kneeled next to Jess ear and yelled loudly. "Get up you lousy piece of crap!" He shot up and fell off the bed. Rory giggled and went to the closet and grabbed two uniforms and threw them at the guys.
"You got 8 minutes!" She told them.
Exactly 8 minutes later they were all on the porch walking towards the car.
"WOW! I see I've taught you all well." She said, proudly. "Although it looks like Chris is the only one who can get his hair done in time." She stated as she hopped in the back.
Everyone followed suit by getting in the car.
Rory picked up the gel and started doing Jess's hair, than Kyle's and by the time she was done. They were at school.
Chris decided to break the speed limit for a while…meaning, all the way to Chilton.
Rory walked up to her locker with her friends in tow and put her things away. The guys separated and put away their things while Alex walked up to her.
"Got a date for homecoming?" He asked coolly.
"No." She replied easily.
"Well would you go with me?" He asked.
"Let me think about it." She said, then she shut her locker and walked to her first class.
She sat down at her desk and two guys walked up.
"Do you…" They started to ask.
"No." She said cutting them off.
"Would you…" They began before she cut them off again.
"Let me think about it." She said, and then opened her text book.
The guys walked in and sat down near Rory. The day dragged on. Throughout the day, Rory continued to get offers from more guys. By 6th period, eight guys had asked her to homecoming. Rory walked to her locker and saw everyone there.
"Hi everyone!" She said smiling, as she turned to her locker.
"Hi!" They each replied.
She turned to Kyle and Jess, "You both owe Chris money."
"How many?" they questioned.
"8" She told them.
"Who?" they asked.
"Alex, Daniel, Jimmy, Larry, Gary, Sam, Jordan, and Brad." She answered.
"HA!" Chris exclaimed, doing a little happy dance.
They each grabbed their money and handed him twenty each.
"Thank you boys! And thank you, Rory, for being hot!" Chris said, cheekily.
"You're welcome." She told him.
Tristan and the others watched in amusement, but were a little confused.
"What are you guys talking about?" He asked.
"They bet on how many guys would ask me to homecoming." Rory explained
"And I won!" Chris added, still smiling widely.
They all began to laugh at their antics, not that it made more sense to everyone.
"Well what are you guys doing tonight?" Louise asked.
"Nothing but homework." Kyle told them.
I got this Gala thing. Wish me luck!" Tristan groaned.
"Good luck!" The others chorused.
"Let's go to the cars." Paris suggested.
They started to walk off, but Rory wasn't moving, she was putting things away. They noticed and turned around. "You coming?" Paris asked.
"I'll be there in a sec." She called back.
They walked off leaving Rory at her locker.
She put her things away and shut it coming face to face with Billy. He was known as she schools biggest pervert.
"Who you going to the dance with?" He asked, looking Rory up and down.
"No one at the moment." Rory said, nervously, looking around to see if any of her friends were nearby.
"Will you go with me?" He asked cockily.
"Never!" she told him defiantly. He began to walk towards her and she backed away.
"I don't take no for an answer." He said as he kept walking towards her, till her back hit the lockers. She was trapped.
"Well I said no!" She said, trying not to let her nervousness show.
"Well, we'll have to fix that won't we? He said, leaning close to her.
"Leave me alone! I would never go to that dance with you!" She pressed on with an edge in her voice.
"You better!" He said, not backing down. He started to lean in more, before a familiar voice interrupted him.
"She said 'No' Billy, leave her alone." Tristan said from behind Billy.
Billy turned to see who the intruder was, but before he could see who it was, Tristan knocked him out.
Rory moved away from where Billy lay sprawled on the floor, and towards Tristan.
"Thanks! God! He's such a perv." She told him.
"I know." He said, staring down at the guy he just knocked out, trying to reign in his anger.
"You ok?" He said, when he finally turned to look at Rory.
She nodded with a smile.
They turned towards the school exit, and headed to the parking lot.
They saw that the boys were waiting for Rory in the car.
"Thanks again, for the help." She said, turning to Tristan, and giving him a hug.
He was surprised at first, but then quickly wrapped his arms around her to return the hug.
"Anytime Mare, anytime." He said sweetly, smiling down at her. She looked up at him and gave him a big smile.
When they separated, they got into their cars, and with a final wave, drove off in different directions. Even though each mile, took them further and further apart, each knew in their hearts they were closer than ever.
That's the chapter. There will be 1 more chapter. Well review.