Title: Take a Chance for Me

Chapter 8

Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls.

Rory's POV

"Rory…why are you holding a pregnancy test?"

"Why else mom? I'm not sure and so I bought one a while back. I just never wanted to take it." I finally picked my head up and looked at my mother.

"I suppose you should go into the bathroom and let's find out. I won't be mad with the results honey, I promise."

I nodded and slowly got up and went into the bathroom. After I was done taking the test I set it on the counter and walked out. "We have three minutes for the result."

"Honey when did you first think you were?"

"Maybe two weeks ago…"

"You should have told me. I'm going to be here for you no matter what sweets." It was silent until the timer went off. "Alright who is going in to see what it says?"

"You should, I don't want to." My mother nodded and went into the bathroom. A moment later she came back out with the stick in hand. "Well…what does it say?'

Tears spilled over her face. "Oh I'm so sorry honey."

I could feel the warm soak of tears on my own cheeks now. "What mom? Is it positive or negative?"

"It's positive." I flew into her arms and hugged her tight. "You won't do this alone honey. And I'll talk to Jess and Luke about it."

I pulled away. "It might be Tristan's mom."

Her eyes widened. "When did this happen?"

"A while ago at that party I went to."

She looked a bit disappointed but shook it off. "We will figure that part out later. But you need to tell him there's a possibility it's his."

"I will. But now can we just go to bed? I'm exhausted from this stupid day." She said ok and we both went into our separate rooms.

--Next Morning—

I arrived at school in a nervous fit. Today I would find Tristan and tell him he would possibly be a father. 'Oh this will be a freaking riot!' Luckily Tristan found me first.

"Hello Mary, how has your morning been?"

I shrugged. "You want to ditch with me today? Go into Hartford for coffee maybe?'

"Mary aren't you the rebel today? What's this sudden interest in me?"

"Just yes or no Tristan."

"Ok I'll go. Come on my car is in the parking lot."

We found his car right away and we drove in silence. Finally I pointed out a coffee shop that I knew was good and he pulled into the parking lot. "This is the one you want right Rory?"

I nodded and followed him inside. We sat down and ordered, I had to get decaf from now on but oh well. "So… do you remember that party we were at a while back?"

He smirked. "How could I forget?"

"I might be pregnant Tristan."

His face fell immediately. "Oh…"

"I'm not sure if you're the father though. There's this other guy Jess that could be the father."

His hands trembled over his coffee mug. "When c-can you find out for sure?"

"In a couple months I suppose. Later on this week I have a doctor's appointment though. Then he'll tell me when I can do a paternity test during the pregnancy."

"So you are keeping the baby for sure?"

"Well of course, I'm totally against abortion."

"Oh yeah me too, don't get me wrong. I was just making sure." He cleared his throat a bit. "If the baby is mine, I'm not sure how much I can be there for the baby and you emotionally. But financially I can give you guys anything."

"I won't be asking you for any money Tristan, that's not why I'm telling you."

"I don't want to totally abandon you so I'll be willing to do whatever I can." There was somewhat of an awkward silence between us. "So do you want to go back to school or should I take you home?"

"I'll finish the day out at Chilton. Let's just get back before we miss too much school."

--- Later---

I got home form school feeling fine until I realized I had to go into Luke's to see mom. I peered through the window and saw Luke and Jess serving tables. Luckily Luke was taking care of mom's table.

I got the courage to walk in, but I kept my head down the whole time. "Hey honey how was school today?" She gave me that look that told me she was expecting full details of the talk I had with Tristan.

"Okay so I told him today."

"You don't seem depressed or hurt too bad. Did everything go okay?"

"He seemed…fine with it all. Offered money and said he's not sure how good he'd be with emotional support though." I shrugged it off. Here I am a junior in high school and pregnant. If this was going to happen I didn't want Tristan to be the father…did I?

"Whatcha thinking about?"

"Nothing…"

"They would both be good dads Rory. But it's just not up to you who is the real father."

I nodded and sipped some decaf from a huge mug Luke had brought over for me. A little later I headed home and went to bed. This week needed to pass by fast and painless.

---Two days later---

I woke up at nine this morning even though it was a weekday. I didn't have to go into school until after my doctor's appointment. "Rory are you up now?"

"Yeah mom I just woke up. When do we have to leave?" I got out of bed and stretched. "You know mom, I haven't had any morning sickness yet."

"Don't jinx yourself sweets. Anyway, hurry up we are leaving any minute!"

---Doctor's Office Hartford) ---

"Well Miss Gilmore I see you are here for your first pre natal check up, correct?" An old man checked over my chart.

"Yes that's why I'm here."

"First I'm going to take a blood sample and rush it through the lab while you are here. Then we'll do a basic check up with your vitals and what not." I sat still as he poked me with a needle and drew out a tube of blood. A nurse labeled it and slipped it into a tray. "Rush that through for a pregnancy test and vitamin levels."

The doctor checked my heartbeat and all my vitals then left the room after saying 'the nurse will be back with your lab results.'

"Well that was completely boring. I guess they don't make a big fuss over teen pregnancies anymore."

"What do you mean?" I asked my mother.

But before she could answer the nurse came in with papers in hand as promised. "Well Miss Gilmore you are very healthy and very NOT pregnant."

"What? That's impossible I took the at home pregnancy test last night." She must have read the results wrong.

"Yes, but those at home pregnancy test do not have a 100 percent accuracy as you should know. We get girls all the time who have had a false positive reading from a store bought test. I think that we are all done here for today. There won't be a need for a follow up appointment obviously."

My mom and I were in complete shock and then I started to cry. "Honey this is a good thing!" She reassured me.

"Oh I know, I'm very relieved but now I have to fix things with Jess. That is going to be very hard."

---Stars Hollow---

It was almost ten at night and I knew the diner was closed, which is why I was walking over there this late. Jess would hopefully be up reading some book and be willing to talk to me. I looked through and there was a light on in the main dining area. Jess was wiping the counters down and stools.

I knocked lightly and he looked up at me. I expected him to just look back and ignore me. Instead he dropped his rag on the counter and came to the door. "Hey." My voice was unsteady and quiet.

"You wanna come inside?" he opened the door a little wider for me to walk through.

"Listen, I'm here to say I'm sorry for throwing it in your face the baby was probably Tristan's. The truth is the baby was most likely yours and I was just mad at you for finding the test in the bathroom." Tears spilled and I tried to wipe them away fast.

"Rory its fine. We were both a little shaken up. The truth is that I would want to be the one there for you and even if this baby is Tristan's then I'll still be here for you."

My heart was pounding fast in my chest. "Well you don't need to worry about any of that now."

"Why is that?" He seemed confused.

"I went to the doctors today and it turns out the home pregnancy test was a false positive." For the first time in a while I felt like I could breath.

"So there is no baby?"

I shook my head and found him wrapping his arms around me. I responded and hugged him back. "So what now?"

"I want to make things better between us. I love you Rory and I don't want to stop these feelings inside that I have."

I smiled to myself. Things might turn out right after all…but then I thought of Tristan and how I need to tell him I'm not pregnant. "I'll be right back Jess."

I stepped outside and took out my cell phone and dialed Tristan's number. "Hello?"

"Tristan, it's me Rory."

"Oh hey Mary… something you need to talk about?"

"Yeah… I went to the doctors today. They did some blood tests and it turns out I'm not pregnant." The line was silent. "Tristan?"

"Oh, so that's a good thing right?"

"Yeah it is a very good thing. But hey I have to go now."

"Wait Rory."

"Yes Tristan?"

"I hope this doesn't mean you are going to stop talking to me now." His voice sounded…vulnerable.

"Um no it doesn't mean that at all. I'll see you later okay? Bye." We hung up the phone and I was now very confused. 'Did Tristan actually want to be around me?'

"Rory what's going on?" Jess walked out of the diner.

I snapped out of my thoughts of Tristan and focused on Jess. "Nothing's going on. Hey how about we go to the bridge… just for a while?" He nodded and grabbed my hand. "I love you Jess."

TBC

Chapter 8. Thank you for reading and sorry I took a bit longer on this chap. But thanks for the reviews.