Here's the next chapter. I am pretty sure there will be only 3-5 chapters left. I think. Not absolutely sure though. So I hope you enjoyed this story so far and I hope you like this chapter.
Rory woke up suddenly. Her eyes were still moist, and the tracks of her tears still evident on her face. She looked at her clock…10:30.
She looked at her phone, flipped it open and frowned. No new messages.
She tried calling him again. Nothing.
"I guess I deserve this" she muttered to herself.
"No one does." Louise said coming into the room.
"Then why in the world is it happening to me!" Rory said looking up at her best friend, her eyes beginning to well up once more.
"We don't know." Madeline said, also coming into the room along with Paris.
"All we know is that we can fix this, somehow." Paris continued.
"HOW?" Rory screamed. "How do we fix this?"
"Do you trust him?" Louise asked.
"What does that have to do with anything?" Rory asked.
"It has to do with everything." Louise answered sagely, giving her a knowing look.
"Then yes. I…I trust him!" Rory said in a way that sounded like she was trying to convince herself.
"But do you really?" Madeline as, giving her a sad look.
"No…not really I guess. I mean I feel safe in his arms, and he's perfect, but after what Dylan did…I was never really able to trust anyone I ever dated. It's all his fault. I thought his power over me had faded, but it still stands there in the way." Rory rambled.
"And that's totally understandable!" Paris said, trying to sound reassuring.
"And somehow you have to learn to trust him! You don't want Dylan to ruin your life forever right?" Madeline stated.
"But Tristan won't even talk to me!" Rory yelled.
"But that's totally understandable too. I mean he can't ignore you forever, but he has a right to be mad. I mean Logan would go ballistic if I accused him of cheating on me!" Louise pointed out.
"So what do I do?" Rory asked, defeat evident in her voice. Her eyes darted around, looking from friend to friend, trying to find some answer in their eyes.
"We don't know." They said looking down.
"Only you do." Louise said looking up at her friend before getting up and leaving the room. Madeline and Paris trailed behind her.
Rory looked around the room and saw Amber wide-awake in her bed. Rory picked up her daughter looked at her frown.
"What's wrong Amber?" Rory asked.
Amber didn't do anything. She didn't move she didn't even cry. After a while she said "Twistin."
Rory nodded, knowing exactly what was wrong and walked down the stairs with Amber. She walked into the kitchen and saw everyone sitting there.
"Amber won't do anything. She won't move. The only thing she's done so far is say 'Twistin'." Rory ranted waving her free arm around in the air.
"I guess Amber can sense that something's wrong and she wants Tristan." Logan figured.
"That's what I thought too but what in the world can I do?" Rory questioned her friends, her eyes darting around the group.
"You'll figure it out." Louise said reassuringly, and with that Rory's friends paraded out of the kitchen and up the stairs.
Rory sat down at the table with Amber in her lap and thought about everything that had happened in the last three months. Tristan's face suddenly invaded her thoughts...there had been so many smiles, too many for her to count. Then there was the look on his face when he left, she cringed and shook her head trying to shake the feeling.
Rory looked up and spotted the phone and breaking out in a grin she got up picked up the phone and dialed her mother's cell phone. The phone rang several times and when Lorelei picked up, before she had a chance to speak Rory began speaking.
"Mom?" She asked weakly.
"What's wrong hun? Did something happen?" Lorelei questioned frantically, worry lacing her sentences.
"I made a huge mistake." Rory said.
"What huge mistake was this?" Lorelei asked confused.
"I accused Tristan of cheating on me!" Rory cried.
"Now that's big!" Lorelei said jokingly.
"Mom this is not a joking matter!" Rory scolded lightly, feeling the mood lighten just a bit.
"Fine, fine, well why did you accuse him?" Mom asked sounding like a shrink.
"Because I don't trust him…at least not completely." Rory said quietly.
"And why don't you trust him?" Lorelei asked. Rory could just picture her mother rubbing her chin like all shrinks do.
"Because of Dylan!" Rory said, her voice filled with anger.
"And how does that make you feel?" Lorelei said, struggling to keep from laughing.
"Like yelling at him!" Rory said snapping her fingers, "Thanks mom you're a genius."
"I know, but it's nice to be reminded!" Lorelei chuckled and hung up.
Rory looked down at Amber on her hip.
"Come on Amber we got some packing to do!" Rory walked up the stairs.
She stepped into her room and put Amber down. She spotted her suitcase in her closet and pulled it out, all the while dialing her dad's number.
"Hello?" Her dad said.
"Hey dad!" Rory greeted.
"What's up kiddo?" Chris asked.
"Not much! Umm…could you send the jet down here to Hartford? I have an urgent trip to make." Rory requested easily.
"No problem." Chris answered, not questioning Rory's plans, he knew that Rory had a brain and used it so after a while he just stopped questioning what she was doing.
"Thanks dad!" Rory finished, and clicked her phone off.
Rory rushed around her room, picking up various items. She wasn't going to be gone for more than a day so she didn't need much. She walked into the bathroom, pulled her toiletries off the counter and out of the cabinets and took them back to her room.
She packed a pair of jeans, a tee shirt for herself, a pair of sneakers and that was about it.
She pulled out Amber's mini backpack and packed some baby food, a change of clothes and a few other essentials.
She used her cell phone to make some other calls. She booked a room in Utah and rented a car. She opened up the phone book, and started to look for a listing for Christy Dugrey-Johnson. She found it pretty easily, and scrawled the address down on a post it and slid the tiny piece of paper into her wallet. She slid her wallet into her purse, shut her cell phone, then picked up the two small bags and walked out of her room.
"Guys!" She yelled, her voice ringing through the entire house.
The individuals walked out of their rooms immediately.
"I'm going to Utah!" She announced and walked down the stairs. She knew her friends were following her so she continued to talk.
"I booked a room, I'll be fine, and I'll be back Sunday probably around 12. You don't have to worry about Amber! She's spending the night at someone else's place." Rory rambled, giving out all needed information.
She reached the door and turned around. She hugged her friends who all looked confused and smiled. "I'll tell you what's going on when I get back ok?" They nodded mutely and she exited her home.
The door shut behind her and her friends looked at each other surprised.
"I guess she figured out what she had to do" Louise said, shrugging her shoulders.
"Yah, talk about a mood swing!" Colin laughed.
She got into her Porsche and drove into Hartford. If her timing were right the Hayden family jet would be arriving in Hartford in about 15 minutes. She had just enough time to do what she planned on doing.
She pulled into a spot in front of the apartment that happened to be directly behind Tristan's. This let her know he was obviously home. She walked up to the door, with Amber on her hip, and Amber's mini backpack on her shoulder. She entered the building, looked for Christy's apartment number on the mailboxes, and walked up the steps that Tristan himself walked up just the night before. She knocked on the apartment door, and then looked at her watch…12 o'clock on the dot.
The door opened and she found a tall brunette who looked like he had just woken up.
"I'm looking for Tristan." She said simply.
"Rory right?" Kevin asked.
Rory nodded.
"I'm not quite sure if he would be up to seeing you right now." Kevin said lamely.
"Well I really don't care if he would be up to 'seeing' me right now." Rory stated using air quotes. With that she pushed her way past Kevin and she walked into the living room.
Tristan was sitting on the couch watching TV when he looked up to see his ex-girlfriend and makeshift daughter.
"What are you doing here?" Tristan asked standing up, his voice angry.
Rory put her hand up knowing Tristan would probably start yelling soon.
"Don't." she instructed. "I have a plane to catch in about 10 minutes, and something's wrong with Amber. Somehow she knows that something happened between us and she won't do anything but say your name." At this point Amber spoke up, accentuating her point.
"Twistin." She said weakly.
"See, so I figured if I'm going to fly two-thirds of the way across the country, hey why not leave my daughter with the only thing she seems to want." With that she handed Amber off to Tristan and handed over the backpack.
"I'll be back tomorrow at about noon, until then see ya!" Rory ended the conversation and walked out of the apartment, leaving Tristan to stare, mouth agape after her as the door shut behind her.
"What was that about?" Kevin asked his eyes wide.
"I have no idea!" Tristan said shaking his head, then looking over to a smiling Amber. "Absolutely no idea."
There's the next chapter. Hope you liked it. I hope it also makes up for the last one being so short. Well review.