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Chapter 3

Rory and Jess were sat in English Lit together while their teacher, Mr Medina, was handing back their essays that they had written. When he got round to Rory, he handed her the essay and gave her a reassuring smile. "Look over my notes. They'll help for the next one." He said.

Rory looked down at her paper and saw a huge red D on the front of it. She glanced over at Jess who she could see had gotten a B. After the bell rang, signalling the end of the lesson, Rory got up quickly and rushed out the room.

"Rory, wait!" Jess called, running to catch up with her.

"I suck!" Rory exclaimed. "I've never gotten a D before! I suck!"

"You don't suck." Jess assured her. "It was the first essay. We started late. It was always going to take us a bit of time to catch up."

"Then why did you get a B?" She said.

Jess sighed. "Rory..."

Tristan then came up. "Hey Mary." He said.

"Leave me alone." Rory snapped.

"What's wrong with you? Bad grade?" He asked.

"Why don't you go bother someone else?" She retorted and stormed off.

Jess sighed. "Good going mate." He said to Tristan.

"What? How did I know she would get all upset and mad about a grade?" He defended himself.

"If there's one thing you need to know about Rory, it's that she takes school seriously. She wants to do well and get good grades and if she doesn't, she feels like she's failed." Jess said. "So wind it in a bit ok?" He said and went off in the direction Rory went.

Later that day, Jess was trying to find Rory to get the bus home with her but he couldn't. He then felt his phone vibrate and saw a message from her. My last lesson ended early so I left early to get some studying done, sorry.

He wasn't watching where he was going and bumped into someone.

"Hey, watch it!"

Jess looked up, recognising the voice and realised it was the girl from the wedding. "Could say the same to you." He smirked.

"You!" She scowled. "Well at least you don't have a tray of drinks this time."

Jess smirked. "Yeh sorry about that. Kate right?"

"Yeh. Jess?" Kate said.

Jess nodded. "I'm just heading to the bus so I promise next time, I will watch where I'm going." He said.

"You better." Kate said but Jess could have sworn he saw her trying not to smile.

"I guess I'll see you around." Jess said.

"Yeh whatever." She said and walked off.

"You're in there, mate." Tristan said coming up to him.

"Yeh sure I am." Jess rolled her eyes. "You know not everything is about getting with girls, you know."

Tristan smirked. "Isn't it?"

Jess just shook his head. "I'm heading home. I'm going to study with Rory for this test." He said.

"Want a lift?" Tristan asked.

"You have a car?" Jess asked.

"Yep. Got it for my birthday." He said.

"Lucky you." Jess said. He glanced over to the bus stop and saw a bus just pull off. He knew it would be ages til the next one. "Yeh ok. But this isn't a way to annoy Rory some more, got it?"

"Got it." He grinned.

"No Alice. I need that." Rory said taking the paper of notes from her. "Go and watch tv or something."

"But I want to play!" Alice whined.

"I need to study." Rory said. She then heard the door open.

"Rory?" Jess called.

"Kitchen!" She called back. She looked up and saw that Tristan was with him as well. "I need to study." She said.

"Look, I just gave Jess a lift back. I'm not here to stop you studying or anything." Tristan said. "I could always help if you want? I've brought my notes for the test." He said taking them out of his bag.

Rory looked up at him. "I'm fine." She said shortly.

"Ok." Tristan said.

Rory sighed. "Look, if you want to do something useful, entertain Alice for me."

"Ok." Tristan said. He smiled at Alice. "What do you like doing?"

"Playing with my plastic horses." Alice said. "Will you play with me?"

Jess chuckled and even Rory tried to hide her smirk.

"Yeh ok, let's play." Tristan said shooting Jess a look.

Meanwhile, Lorelai had headed to the school for Parents' day. She got there late and snuck in and took a seat while she listened to this man talk to them about some tests. When she started asking some questions, the other parents started to turn on her and brought up the scrunchie debate so the man called for a break.

Lorelai huffed and got up and went to the front.

"What were you going to do? Hit him?" Max joked.

"Maybe." Lorelai said.

"So you're Rory's mom right?" He asked.

"How did you know that?" She asked.

"Well I knew you were new and I knew Rory was new so I just guessed." He said.

"Oh right. Yeh I am. And Jess'." She smiled.

"Oh really?" Max said surprised.

"Yeh, well technically." Lorelai smiled.

Max couldn't help but feel attracted to her. "Well they're both great students."

"Thank you." Lorelai smiled.

"I hope Rory wasn't too upset about the D." He said.

"Wait, what? Rory got a D?" Lorelai asked.

"She didn't tell you?"

"No." Lorelai said. "Um I should go."

"Oh ok. Well maybe I'll see you around." He said hopefully.

"Yeh maybe." She said distracted and quickly left to drive home.

When she got home she came into the living to find a blonde haired boy playing horses with Alice. "Uh hi, random boy I don't know..." She said.

"Mommy!" Alice beamed and ran to her and hugged her. "Mommy, this is Tristan. He's playing horses with me!"

"I can see that..." Lorelai said.

Jess then came down the hallway from the kitchen. "Hey. Sorry, this is Tristan. He's a friend from school. Rory and I wanted to study a bit so he offered to distract Alice for us."

"Oh ok." Lorelai said. "Well it's nice to meet you Tristan." She smiled. "Well Luke should be back soon..." She said.

"Which is probably your cue to leave." Jess smirked at Tristan.

"Ok..." Tristan said confused. "See you tomorrow."

"Yeh see ya." Jess smiled. He then looked at Lorelai. "You know, don't you?"

"Know what?"

"Well I'm assuming you went to Parents' day." He said.

Lorelai sighed. "Why didn't she tell me? Why didn't you tell me?"

"She wanted to fix it by herself." Jess said. "We've got a test Friday morning. She wants to do well in it."

Lorelai sighed. "Did she think I'd be mad or something? I just want to help."

Jess shrugged. "Look, I'll take this one if you want to go talk to her." He said gesturing to Alice.

"Ok thanks." Lorelai said and headed to the kitchen.

That night and all the nights leading up to Friday, they all studied for the test. Both Luke and Lorelai took it in turns to test them and by the end of the week, they knew pretty much all of it.

Friday morning, Rory walked out of the classroom with a big smile on her face. "That was good, right?" She asked Jess. "I mean it was everything we studied."

"Yeh it wasn't bad." Jess said. "You feeling better?"

Rory nodded. "Thanks for putting up with me all week."

"What are brothers for?" He said.

Rory grinned.

Tristan then came up to them. "Someone's looking happier."

"Yep and even you can't bring my mood down." Rory said.

"Good to know." Tristan said.

"We're going to get some food now for our snack. You want to come with us?" Rory asked.

Tristan was surprised. "Really?"

"Well I do have photos of you playing with plastic horses." Rory smirked.

"You didn't?" Tristan said.

"Yep!" Rory grinned. "But seriously, I did appreciate you distracting Alice. It's always hard to study when it's just me and her."

"Oh it's nothing. I enjoyed it." Tristan shrugged.

"So you coming?" Rory asked.

"Sure I'll come." He smiled.

The three of them then headed off to the canteen together.

So what do you think? I know it's a bit teen focussed at the moment but the first few eps were. I promise there will be more Luke and Lorelai soon! :) Please review and let me know what you think! :) Thanks!