Title: Life
Author: Callista Wolfwood
Rating: R
Chapter 2
Rory walked out of the classroom and onwards towards lunch with her head buzzing about today's events. She did it, she's pulling off the female version of Tristan since she arrived at school. The only exception and difference of Tristan is that she hasn't found some male to make out with on the lockers. Not that she really wanted to since the only male she wanted was Tristan and since he wasn't here there wasn't really a point to it.
What to do though if she ends up being popular and with the "fast" crowd shouldn't she keep up appearances and end up at least making out with some male or another? This popularity stuff can be confusing but then again she didn't really want to be popular she just wanted to be different completely different.. But shouldn't popularity count as a different thing? She wasn't popular and she was a Mary to the core but the goal was to change everything about her into a opposite... or at least appear opposite.
"Hey there sexy." She heard in the middle of her ponderings as she the walked by a group of guys, the popular group. She smiled softly slightly promising and continued by nodding at one of them slightly.
Nicholas Parker. He saved her from a offensive male named Kyle that tired to basically manhandle her into a locker make-out session and more after first period. Nicholas nearly pummeled him into dust. She was actually really surprised that anyone had come to her rescue since she pretty much asked for it dressed the way she was.
Nicholas or Nick to his friends was generally one of those good guys, new to the school a week or two before Tristan left. They instantly became friends, they were two sides of the same coin for lack of a better description. Opposites in many ways but still the same coin. Tristan was he light angel and Nick was the dark angel in looks, both good but opposites.
After Tristan left the title of King of Chilton was open and Nick filled his place. Well, no one can really fill Tristan's place but Nick was the closest thing to him. Not as crude or obvious as Tristan but that was Nick's way. For some reason she suspected that Nick and Tristan had some kind of deal concerning her.
After Tristan left no one really bothered her which was really odd. Especially since she was fresh meat when she first arrived and was harassed non stop. Then Tristan took an interest in her and all harassment stopped with the exception of Tristan. She was probably off limits as soon as he claimed her as his Mary.
She never noticed it before until Tristan had left and she finally realized her feelings. After that she started analyze everything that happened between them and asked her self why she never saw certain things before. She had a very large oblivious trait when it came to men that she received from her mother.
With the exception of the incident with Kyle no male had really tried anything with her, part of her thinks that it was due to Nick but another thinks it was more out of respect for Tristan and his memory. She still got the bed offers and according to Madeline they were a normal thing.
Every once in a while she would get a new tip from Madeline or Louise on how to act or respond to things. They seemed to understand bit by bit what exactly she was doing but they still didn't know why. Paris couldn't stop staring at her all though class in complete shock. She was still a rival to Paris in academics since she refused to dumb herself down. Today was a day of funny reactions, Nick just looked at her and mutter something that sounded like "wait till Tristan hears" and some other things that I didn't quite catch.
She had wanted to ask him what he meant by that comment but he was already out of earshot in the busy hallway. She had entered each of her classes in a Tristan like manner and showed up right as the late bell rang just in time for class.
No one really connected anything to Tristan as far as she could tell. Now that she was accepted by Madeline and Louise she was technically part of the popular crowd not to mention Nick saving her but that didn't really mean anything. He would do that to generally anyone...
"Come on Rory lets get some lunch. You're sitting with us right?" Madeline asked.
"Of course." She replied in a confident tone and walked into the lunch room with Madeline and Louise beside her.
They walked up to the table that was surrounded by the "popular crowd" they each looked Rory up and down each giving their own judgment. Summer was surrounded by a bunch of girls who most of which was giving Rory the evil eye but didn't say anything.
The guys on the other hand were giving different looks all ranging from lust and promising leering to slight confusion. Nick gave her a slight smile and nod of approval, approval of the King of Chilton. Summer continued to glare at her and she noticed that despite the fact that they are popular they are in fact not remotely equal. Now that she had the approval of the King of Chilton Summer glared but didn't say anything.
With the exception of one girl the one that was seated next to Nick, his girlfriend Rosalyn Shields, the acting Queen of Chilton. The Queen of Chilton is both a earned and given title, you can earn it by becoming the most popular girl in school or it can be given to you by who you date and for how long.
Nicholas Parker and Rosalyn Shields were the perfect dark pair that ruled Chilton fairly well. Nick the generally good guy sporting short black hair and midnight blue eyes, at the height of 6'2 and slightly tanned skin he could be a Greek god. Rosalyn who had long rich red hair that went down to mid-back and cat green eyes that made her seem a bit inhuman.
When Tristan was King of Chilton, there was no real Queen of Chilton since Tristan never dated a girl long enough to become Queen and no other female managed to earn the position. Rosalyn looked at her once and nodded, Madeline and Louise sat down at once and motioned slightly for Rory to sit down as well. She had been accepted into the popular crowd since no one will oppose the Queen and King of Chilton.
"Rory right?" Rosalyn asked.
"Yes that correct," she responded.
"Are you coming to Nick's back to school party on Friday?" Rosalyn asked continuing onwards.
"I'm not sure, I have family dinners with my grandparents on Friday... but I'm sure I can get out of it. Especially since it's a Chilton party but I don't know where Nick lives." Rory responded. She figured that if she was going to be popular that she might as well start with the parties.
"Oh that's no problem. You're Emily and Richard's granddaughter correct?" Nick asked as Rory nodded. "Yeah they live a few houses down from me, my father goes golfing with your grandfather all the time. I'm sure they wont mind you coming over for a get together."
"I think my mother won't mind me going to a party she keeps saying that I need to go out more. Now how to get out of the house dressed the way I want is the real question," Rory responded.
"I take it your mother doesn't know much about the "new" you right?" Madeline asked or stated. In which Rory just nodded in agreement not really wanting to explain why her mother didn't know about the new look.
"Well, you can come over to my house right after school and we can get dressed for the party and you might want to spend the night just in case," Rosalyn said.
"Oh, that sounds good then I won't have to change before coming home or something" Rory replied.
"Yeah, well I'll just have some of the other girls come as well and we'll have a slumber party of sorts. Louise and Madeline you should come also" Rosalyn told Rory, Madeline and Louise.
"That sounds good Rosalyn I can't wait." Rory said.
"Sure." Madeline responded eyes sparkling.
"No problem I'll be there," Louise replied in a neutral voice.
After lunch Rory headed towards her last few classes with Madeline and Louise in tow. They continued to talk about the upcoming party and the factor that the Queen of Chilton had invited them to sleep over. It was a slight big deal but all she saw it as was a ticket to not spending most of her life with her nose in a book.
She was only slightly worried over the factor that she had only been to one Chilton party and that was the one Madeline had in which she ended up kissing Tristan. She had no idea in which to act at the party or to dress for that matter. She missed Tristan... and wondered if he thought about her at all.
The last few periods went by pretty quick with the gossip mills going crazy in anticipation of Nick's up coming back to school party later that week. For some reason shit always seems to happen at his parties and it's news all over school. Hell, people still talk about shit that happened Freshmen year. It would be nice if what happens at a party stays at the party but no that is never the case.
Monday, the first day of school went by rather quickly managing to pull off Tristan well. Throughout the day she gained his confidence and his smirk the two things she loved about him. She's just going to have to get Jess's advice about the party and Rosalyn's the plans for the sleepover are already set.
She had many plans for her new image and where it's going to take her in the popular crowd. Alas she had no plans to become the Queen of Chilton, Rosalyn can have that job. She wouldn't become a lonely Queen without her King. All she really wanted was to have some fun and not be so fucking perfect all of the time.
In Stars Hollow she could do no wrong when Dean and her broke up they all assumed it was Deans fault and Luke nearly killed him. The second break up... the one over Jess was his fault but the town blamed Jess instead. Slowly bit by bit she planned to let her new image show so that the town can get use to the new Rory.
Tristan North Carolina Airport same day
Tristan DuGrey walked inside the airport that was to take him to the hell itself, Hartford. Due to recent events his parents or rather his father called him home from his so called punishment. Not that he would ever admit it to his father but military school was probably the best thing for him at the time. It taught him a few things about himself being sent to a place in which names don't mean anything helped him become more himself.
Now he's back to a place where your name and how big your bank account is only thing that matters. Being born into one of the richest families in Hartford has made him into quite the target for everything. He learned these things early on and became the player, the ultimate player and the King of Chilton.
Stringing them so that they think they have a chance then dump them. He was very happy with his life or so he thought... until she came along. Lorelei Gilmore III, Rory to her friends and Mary to him. She was the one girl who didn't fall at his feet. At first he admits that she was a target another conquest but when she didn't fall at his feet she became a challenge.
After a while he began to truly like her and since he's never been in this position before he had no idea how to act. He resorted to third grade tactics and everything in short of pulling her hair. The fight would become more like banters and he would look forward to them and the name Mary became more like a pet name or term of endearment. Not to mention the fact that if he didn't see her it was an automatic bad day, he didn't understand it and tried to fight it.
Originally she was also fresh meat to all in the halls of Chilton and since she didn't know how cruel Hartford society could be he took it upon himself to shield her. When he named her Mary the other males knew that they couldn't go near her. She was off limits and to the girls who saw her as a threat and target. He charmed his way to let him see his Mary as no threat and leave her be. She was his... and under the King of Chilton's protection meaning no one could touch her in any shape or form.
He never really saw it as a problem when homecoming came around and naturally he was going to ask her to the dance. That was until he saw her standing in line for tickets to the dance and that was when she informed him of Dean or as he liked to call him Bag Boy. When they showed up to the dance he felt something he never felt before; pain, right in his chest area. Out of jealously he ended up stupidly picking a fight with Bag Boy only to cause Rory to dislike him even more.
Then Madeline's party came along and he was dating Summer at a pathetic attempt at making Rory jealous. Only to publicly dumped in front of the entire party, and when he tried to find a quite place to at least gather his thoughts. She came in the room and started some strange conversation about a test. Also he learned that Bag Boy broke up with her as well on their one month anniversary. Next thing he knew he was leaning in, she was leaning in and we shared the most mind blowing kiss ever.
Now, he's kissed a lot of girls being the King of Chilton and hell he's had sex with a lot of girls but nothing and he meant nothing compared to this simple kiss that we shared. Amazing didn't cover how he felt during this simple kiss and he knew that he couldn't be the only one to have felt it. Until he saw her face, crying and at first he thought he had bit her or something which she reassured him that he didn't and preceded to run away.
Nothing compared to that moment he felt his heart breaking he couldn't believe what he was feeling, it was then that he realized that he was in fact in love with Rory Gilmore. When school started later that week he decided to attempt to become her friend and friendship seemed to be all she was offering as she asked him to not say anything about the kiss. Which he agreed to in hope of becoming her friend and eventually more.
Later she asked him to ask out Paris on a date, the conversation they had onto this point had been very amusing as she described the type of girl he should be dating. In which only described herself... then she dropped the bomb. Paris. Now don't get him wrong Paris is a nice girl that he's known since dippers and it didn't help that he was in love with Rory. Alas he agreed anyways to the date since for some unknown reason he couldn't refuse her of anything she asked.
As he originally thought the date with Paris only brought to the conclusion that he loved Rory even more and Paris was more like a friend. Paris didn't take it too well and basically despised Rory when she found out it was her idea in the first place. Granted that was his own fault being that he let it slip that it was Rory's idea. Paris gave Rory hell and it was his fault, after that terrible fiasco the idea of being just a friend of Rory died.
Then the was the P.J Harvey incident which drove them both over the edge since he was already on thin ice with her after the Paris fiasco. He never really asked her to the concert that he begged his father to get tickets for. In fact once it got around school that they would be going on a date she confronted him about it. Then repeatedly respond that she wouldn't go out with him and he snapped and resorted back to third grade tactics. He took her books from and told her that he would give her books back if she went to the concert with him.
As they walked out of Chilton arguing about the books Bag Boy showed up. Dean the ex-boyfriend. Apparently Bag Boy showed up to see if they could work things out until the idiot spotted her with him in a friendly banter. Bag Boy went ballistic and assumed that she had gotten over him so fast and was with him instead which was no where near the truth. Bag Boy also made the accusing that the reason she couldn't say the words I love you to him was because she like or even loved someone else.
Despite the fact that this was his own wishes and dreams that Rory really like him, those dreams were shot down when she said those three words. "I hate him." After that everything became a blur as he felt his heart be smashed in a million pieces and he walked away from them, from her. Later he found out from the gossip grapevine that Rory and Bag Boy got back together and were sucking face in front of Chilton for hours. This information only made the pain worse, it was like twisting the knife in a little deeper.
Then he started to hang out with Duncan and Bowman a big mistake. He started getting in to a bunch of trouble with Duncan and Bowman in tow and it was stupid and very sloppy. Rory as well pointed out that he was being stupid what he didn't understand was why did she care after all she hated him. One day in English they were starting a new project and being late as always he got to chose his group. The project was on Romeo and Juliet and which group did he pick?
Non other then the group Rory happen to be in with non other then Paris, Madeline, Louise and Brad. They instantly made him Romeo and guess who Juliet was? Non other then the girl he loved Rory Gilmore. His Mary. They had to act out a scene from Act III the death scene in which Romeo and Juliet share a good-bye kiss.
They were originally suppose to practice in Chilton but the rehearsal was moved to Stars Hollow. He guessed that once Bag Boy found out that he was to be his girlfriend's Romeo Bag Boy went ballistic. He couldn't help but rub in it a little when he went to pick up a pack of cigarettes at the market and found him there. As it would seem his dear Mary didn't exactly tell him that it was he to be her Romeo.
Since Bag Boy couldn't seem to leave us to practice in peace Paris went insane and told Mary to get him off of the set. It was then when he received the call from Bowman and Duncan and that they had a "wonderful" plan. I left them all in the dust ending practice early to meet up with Duncan and Bowman since he had the key to his dad's safe. Thus ended up getting caught and shipped off to Military school.
He still remembered saying goodbye to his lovely Mary and Paris' face when she found out that he wasn't going to perform. Paris looked like she was going to have a heart attack... or kill him. Mary look beautiful in her Juliet costume and he'll always remember his parting comment. "I'd kiss you goodbye if your boyfriend wasn't watching us." That was one of his major regrets that he never got to kiss her goodbye.
Military school was in fact hell for him during the last semester of sophomore year he couldn't stop thinking about her and why he gotten sent there in the first place. He couldn't believe how much he fucked up. He also understood why his lovely Mary had rejected him he was cocky, egotistical and immature. He was King of Chilton and abused the womanizing perks that came with the job but other then that he seemed to be rule fair enough.
By Junior year he pretty much got use to Military school and enjoyed it. He learned how to work for the things he wanted without the aid of his family name just his own sweat and blood. Quite literally in some cases and not in others. He understood that he wasn't worthy of his Mary but he worked to become the man that was worthy of her.
He wished he could make her more confidant especially since she's such a beauty that she hides. When they use to banter you could see the confidence and sprit but she would always hide behind a book. He knew she had dreams and he loved her for many of her quirky qualities but he only wished her confidence would show more often. We'll just have to see what his Mary has been upto since he's seen her last. Hell perhaps she even misses him.
And that is Chapter 2 so read and review tell me what you think and feel free to share any ideas...
