Chapter Seven
The twins walk shamefully down the stairs towards their father in the kitchen. When he sees his older girls he gets angry.
"How the fuck could you leave your little sister at a salon?" he yells at them. "You are supposed to be looking out for her, and instead, Rory and her family was nice enough to get her back to us!"
The twins blush in embarrassment and whisper, "We're sorry."
"Damn right your sorry. I'm taking away your credit cards for a month. Try living off what's in your bank account…" Tristan sneers. "You'll see you won't get very far."
"Maybe its time for you to get jobs."
The twins stare at him in horror. "But daddy…"
Rory watched the twins leave the room in shame. It is only then that she voices her opinion to Tristan. She walks over to him who was shaken up a bit. She touches his arm and says softly, "Don't you think you were a little harsh with them?"
Tristan whirls around and shouts at her, "They could have lost my little girl! Forgetting their sister to go shopping is not an excuse!"
Rory looks at him in shock. She is speechless and Tristan realizes that the person he is most angry at is himself. He is the one who let Aurora go to the spa with her two absent-minded sisters. He should have known better. But it is too late and in shock Rory runs from the house. On the way out she bumps into Nathan.
Nathan looks back at Rory and shakes his head. Wow, what a nut job, he thinks. If Avery is anything like her mother I want no part of her family. He walks into the kitchen where his father is staring into space still holding the expensive vanilla flavoured coffee.
"Dad?"
"Huh?" he asks.
"Are you okay?"
"What? Oh, yeah."
"What did you say to Avery's mom that made her run so fast?"
Tristan still looks out of it as he replies, "…just like the kiss…"
"What?"
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"Do you actually think he's going to take away our credit cards," Blair asks Arabella.
"I don't see why not."
"Do you think he would actually make us get jobs?" Arabella asks Blair as they both cringe in disgust.
"God, I hope not. That would be such a tragedy to our shopping skills."
Blair, since she was a tiny tot, wanted to be a lawyer. But now she thinks she has loftier ambitions; she is determined to be a personal shopper. She remembers telling Arabella that work would be all play and less work.
They look at each other when they hear their father's footsteps on the stairs.
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Rory drives home to Stars Hollow in record time. She supposes that her anger spurs her to drive faster than the speed limit. She is lucky that the police and Taylor aren't around at the time. Because that was all she would need; Taylor and his overly protective safety measures, plus the three-fifty she would be made to pay to his historical Stars Hollow society.
The boys were still with their father and her mother was sitting on the couch googling herself when Rory sweeps through the door.