Here we go. The next and last update.
They did very little at home. Homework, Eat, Sleep. They arrived back at school in what felt like a matter of seconds since they left. When in reality had been half a day. They arrived at Rory's locker like they always did. Every day was normal, the same, nothing new. It continued like this for the next two weeks. Tonight however, was the night of the Homecoming Dance.
Rory arrived at her locker like she always did and opened it to find a pleasant surprise. There was a venti Starbucks coffee sitting in her locker. She wondered who it was from but picked it up and started to gulp it down. She put away her books with the other hand as her friends crowded around her.
"Hey guys!" She told them happily.
"Why so perky?" They all asked.
"Someone gave me coffee!" she told them, holding up the cup for them to see.
The bell rang and they headed to their classes. Guys were still coming up to Rory asking her to homecoming. She had decided she would fly solo. The girls were coming over after school for hair and dress prep and the guys had been kicked out of the house, for the night and they were fine with that.
The day flew by, the halls abuzz with homecoming news. It was after school and the group had met up by Rory's locker once again for their goodbyes. Rory was standing in front of her locker, leaning against it.
With the guys on her left talking about cars, Rory had nothing to do but stare out into space.
"Earth to Rory?" they passed hands in front of her face and snapped fingers in her ears. She finally shook her head and looked at them.
"What?" she asked.
"Come on, let's go!" The girls told her and dragged her out to Louise's Mustang. Rory, Louise, and Madeline jumped in and Paris got into her BMW. The two cars drove off leaving the guys to get into the Viper and Tristan to get into his Porsche.
The girls headed towards Stars Hollow, and the guys to Tristan's house.
The girls arrived at 4 o'clock and walked into the house seeing Lorelei standing next a stool that was sitting in front of a vanity with a lighted mirror.
"Mom, where did you get the stool and the table?" Rory asked.
"Miss Patty had them, and I thought we were in need of a real prep! Now girls do you have your dresses?" Lorelei asked, excitedly.
"Yep They're in the cars." Louise told the woman who had become like a second mother to her.
"Well what are you standing here for? Go get 'em!" She said, ushering them out the doors.
The girls quickly did as they were told, and came back with dress bags and set them down on the couch. They each opened them up and took out the dresses.
Paris dress was dark green velvet and went down to her knees. It was fitted and had a black ribbon around where the skirt started. It had spaghetti straps and there was a black embroidered design around the top of the bodice. She had a pair of black strappy heels to go with the dress.
Madeline's dress was an A-line cut dress that was floor length and had spaghetti straps. It was a bright red satin dress with a black outline.
There were white rhinestones around the top of the bodice and the back was laced up with black satin straps. She also had black, strappy heels.
Louise's dress was a deep purple and a lot shorter then the other two.
It went to mid thigh and was a strapless baby doll dress. It was one solid color with a small black flower on the top of her bodice on the left side. She had black pumps.
Rory's dress was a light blue like, Cinderella's dress as her mom promised. It was A-line and strapless the only other color was a black ribbon that that went around the waist, just below the bodice. She had black heels that she planned to wear.
"Ok girls go get changed." Lorelei called out. They headed to the bathroom and changed one by one. Louise was the first to come out and sat on the stool. Lorelei had started to mess around with her hair, and after
15 minutes of choices she came to a simple bun with loose sections of hair near the front of her face.
As soon as Lorelei had decided how to fix Louise's hair, the other girls came out. Lorelei told them to put on their shoes and break them in.
Lorelei turned back to Louise's head and started to put it up. 10 minutes later she was done. She started with the make up next. Some light foundation clear lip-gloss and mascara was it.
Louise you're done. Louise looked in the mirror and she looked good.
She stood up and started walking around on her heels.
Madeline was next. Since her hair was short. Lorelei just clipped up the front part of her hair on the right side with 3 bobby pins with rhinestones on the end. She did her make up like she had Louise's and after
15 minutes she announced Madeline was done.
It was now 5 o'clock and they knew that the game started at 7 pm so the guys had told them to be ready by 6:15, even though they knew they wouldn't be there until 6:30.
Paris stepped up to the stool and sat down. Lorelei had decided before hand to flat iron Paris hair. She got started and 30 minutes later she was done. She then did all the makeup the same but used some blush on her cheeks.
Paris stepped down from the stool and spun around happily. Rory stepped
up smiling at her friends and her mom started in on Rory's straight hair. She decided to curl it so she put the loose hair into sections and started curling with the curling iron. 45 minutes later she was done with her and then lightly put some lip gloss on Rory's lips and applied some mascara. She stepped off the stools and then looked at herself in
the mirror.
The other girls joined her and they all looked wonderful.
Paris looked at the clock and saw that it was already 6:20.
"Where are the guys?" She asked worriedly.
"Gilmore Girl rule!" Lorelei started.
"Never be on time." Rory and Lorelei said in unison. As soon as they finished saying that, there was a knock at the door.
Rory opened it while standing behind the door to see 4 gorgeous guys in suits standing on the porch. "We've taught you well." She commented.
"Yes you have, but it took us forever to convince Tristan to be late."
Jess said, smirking.
Rory chuckled and let them in. They all stepped into the living room while Rory still stood behind the door.
The girls were lined up and Rory joined them passing by Tristan on the way to where the girls stood.
All the guys' mouths dropped open.
"You look great! All of you do!" Chris told them, in awe.
They smiled and said bye to Lorelei, as they headed out to the cars.
"Ok we have four cars. Who goes where?" Rory asked.
"Me and Chris will go in the Mustang!" Louise volunteered.
"Paris and I will go in her Beamer." Kyle announced.
"I'm riding solo in my Porsche." Tristan explained.
"That leaves Rory driving the Viper with Madeline and me in the back."
Jess figured.
"Great!" Rory told them and headed to the car.
They all got in their respective cars and headed towards Chilton. They go there 5 minutes to the game and they all went out to the field to watch the game.
The game passed quickly and soon it was time for the dance. They all went into the Chilton Gym which had been decorated. Rory was instructed to go to the right side of the stage, so she separated from her friends and headed toward the stage.
"Can I have everyone's attention! Ok! Our Junior Homecoming queen candidates are Summer Adams, Rory Gilmore, and Sally Susan." The announcer trailed off. You could hear the ripping of the envelope and then he announced brightly. "And our Junior homecoming queen is Rory Gilmore!"
Rory walked up to receive her crown and flowers, while everyone cheered and clapped for her. The announcer then held up his hand to quiet everyone down. Opening another envelope, he once again brightly announced, "And her king is Tristan Dugrey!"
Rory felt light headed she had forgotten that there would also be a homecoming king until just now. Tristan received his crown and Rory took his arm and walked down to the middle of the dance floor where they started to dance, along with Jordan and Julia, the senior queen and king.
They started dancing and when the song ended Tristan disappeared and
Rory walked back to the table. She sat down and looked through her purse for her cell phone to check the time and found a piece of paper. It read…
Follow the coffee items and find out who sent this.
She walked out into the hallway and saw a tall sized Starbucks cup filled with coffee. She picked it up and continued to walk until she saw a little box.
She opened it to find a slice of coffee cake. She walked around some more and saw a shiny card lying on the ground. She picked it up. It was a handmade gift card to Luke's.
She kept moving, and saw a large box. She ran up to it seeing that it was chocolate covered espresso beans.
She saw a path of ground coffee leading to the quad. She followed it around a corner and saw Tristan standing in the middle of the square. She walked up to him and before she had time to say anything, Tristan spoke up.
"Is that offer still valid?" He asked hopefully.
Knowing exactly what he was talking about, she smiled and walked over to him, putting her arms around his neck.
"Can I kiss you?" He asked, in a soft voice.
"Since when do you ever ask?" She answered in the same soft tone, and giggled, before getting on her toes and kissing him. When they broke apart, Tristan requested a dance.
Unknown to them, their friends were watching from around a corner. As they watched their two friends dance, they knew that there was much more ahead but for right now, everything was perfect.
There you go. The ending I had planned for. Well I want to give a shout out to my beta, LoVe23. And thank you to all my readers. And if any one could give me some ideas for a sequel. I'd be happy to write one. Oh and check out my other stories.