It's been a loooong time since I've updated!!! (this chappie is unbetaed by the way. . )

I really am SO sorry about the wait, but I got this lone review the other day and I was like, dude, you gotta just like crank the next one out.

This chapter is kind of a filler, but you meet a really important OC in this and some of events that lead up to later drama start to happen. So filler or not this was needed. Let me know if you think there's too many OCs in this 'cause I can cut them down. . .

By the way, I laughed writing this entire chapter. I don't know what was wrong, but I'm sure Mr. Rogers could've helped me.

Disclaimer: Yesssshhhh I own Gilmore Girls, I am fabulously rich and my Daddy bought me the rights for me birthday pressie last May. . . . . NOT damn disclaimer, you RUIN my mood.

:) happy reading :)

Chapter number something.

Tristaaaaaaaaan

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Like A Long While Later Than The Last Chappie. (but no more than four months)

Lunch time at Yale. She hadn't gotten rid of Jess yet, but that didn't mean that she couldn't get him and Tristan to get along . . . right?

Rory definitely owed Lorelai a call, Lorelai might've had good intentions by messing with her love life, but she didn't want her mother having any contact with the boys she dated. Well, at least for a long time.

"Earth to Rory, Tristan is calling you. . Tristan, Tristaaaaaaan." Tristan was trying to connect to the reverie ridden Rory.

"Wait, what? Hey you called me Rory!!"

"Yeah so? Are we going to lunch, or are you going to stand there looking ten thousand miles away? Though I mean, you could always be fantasizing about me, but then again, I'm right here baby, maybe we should skip lunch" he raised his eyebrows provocatively.

"Nooo, Tristan, come on." She smiled at him and hooked her arm around his, and they walked to the cafeteria.

Lunch passed fast, them eating, amicably bantering as they always had. They were finishing up when Jonathan walked up to the table, a woman they didn't know on his arm.

Rory smiled. Tristan scowled at the interruption of their first 'date'

"Hi Johnny!" Rory elbowed Tristan and nodded hello. "Who's the lady?"

Jonathan grinned and almost shoved the woman in front of him. "This is Amanda Colton, she's thinking about transferring to Yale from Princeton. I'm showing her around."

Amanda was a light brunette, almost dirty blonde, with slanted cool green eyes. She was very pretty, and was looking rather intently at Tristan.

"Please," Amanda said, pale eyes still trained on Tristan. "Call me Mandy. Amanda is just much to. . . . ick."

"Alright Mandy! Nice to meet you. Why don't you and Johnny join us?" Rory motioned to the empty seat that surrounded the dark wooden table.

"Sure."

"So, Mandy, why are you transferring?"

"Oh! My Daddy just bought this hotel in Hartford, like The The. . . Palace. . .Castle? Something like that, anyhoo, I just couldn't stand New Jersey, its so boring you know, and so I'm transferring here!" She flipped her hair smiled falsely at Tristan. "Johnny boy, would you mind getting me a red bull? Thanks."

Jonathan looked startled but walked towards the counter in spite of her rudeness.

Rory looked up at him, smiled at Tristan, and excused herself for a moment.

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Jess was bored now. He given Rory time to go out with the new boyfriend Tristan, or whatever, and now it was Jess and Rory time.

Picking up his cell phone, he dialed in Rory's number.

Five minutes later, dinner was going to be at seven thirty at Butterfly. An upscale Chinese place in West Hartford.

But he had a few hours 'till he was to pick her up.

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Arrrrghh! Her dinner date was in less than thirty minutes, and she still couldn't find the right shoes! Desperately, she rummaged through the piles of clothing for her cell phone. Finding it, she quickly dialed her mother.

"Mom?" Rory sounded distressed. So terribly and utterly distressed.

"Yes, my spawn of me?" Lorelai drawled back.

"Mom have you seen my black strappy heely things? The ones that have that funky red tint thing; I'm eating fancy Chinese!"

Lorelai pursed her lips and thought for a few long moments, "Nooo, I can't seem to remember ever stealin- uh –you leaving those at home lately. And fancy Chinese? Where're you going? Oooh are you having something special with your blondie bo-oy to-oy?"

"No? Really, no? Where could they be, I mean, I couldn't have left them at. . .Wait noo! I'm actually going out to dinner with Jess as a matter of fact, and no, Jess and I are not in the that kind of relationship. You know I'm dating Tristan!"

"You're no fun tonight. Humph."

"Go play with Luke. Bye" And Rory hung up.

"ARRRRHG!!" Rory screamed at her phone. (which was a very unRory like thing to do) She plopped down on her bed and sat and thought for a while. Suddenly, and epiphany came to her!!

She furiously dialed in Tristan's phone number, all the while cursing that she hadn't put him on speed dial yet.

"Hey Tristan? Did I leave my black strappy heels at your place? I can't find them anywhere, and Mom says that she definitely doesn't have them." Rory was almost begging him to have them. The shoes.

"I'll check but you know that your Mom could have them anyway. She does tend to quote unquote 'borrow' your stuff." He sounded distracted, but he always was a bit.

Five seconds later:

"Yup, Rory the shoes are now sitting at the end of my bed, why do you leave your shoes here? I would appreciate it much more if you left , like, your panties."

"Yes but that would require for me to take them off, you horny bastard, now I am going to have to run over to your place and get them. I'll see you in five!"

Rory hastily pulled on some boots and a coat over her slightly casual, but still appropriate for the evening red dress. Her boots didn't match by the way, so she looked kind of silly.

She jogged through the beautiful campus of wintered Yale, and finally came upon Tristan's fair dorm.

"Hey guys!" She yelled as she ran through the common room, Logan, Finn, and Colin were sitting, and lounging away from the cold.

Think hot chocolate by the fireside, except with vodka and Ralph Lauren 'throw blankets'.

Pushing open the door into Tristan's shared suite, she called out "Where are the shoes?"

"Right here Mary, don't freak. Why are you so dressed up anyway?" Tristan was lying across the couch looking comfortable.

Rory stopped for a second, Tristan really didn't like Jess, and it would most likely cause an argument between them if she were to tell him she was going to dinner with Jess. "I'm going to my grandparents for some odd dinner thing with my mother. I secretly think that it's just to see if I've really gained that 'college weight' that everyone keeps talking about."

She sort of twitched a little, hoping that he wouldn't see that she was lying.

"Uh have fun, I'm glad I don't have to go, your grandparents are a nightmare, no offense." Tristan sat up and flipped the TV channel.

Rory sighed, "Tristan, they're not that bad! I mean Grandma can get a little scary sometimes, but Grandpa's very nice, if a little conservative."

"They're pushy." He commented.

"Yes they can be. But you know I really need those shoes so I'm going to grab them and go. Love!"

She was about to leave when Tristan stood and kissed her fully on the mouth, and grabbing hold of her elbows, whispered,

"I'll be waiting for you, just don't get home to late, alright?"

She grinned. "Alright."

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Standing on the front grey steps of her dorm, Rory waited for Jess to arrive. Less than two minutes later he pulled up in a taxi and opened the door.

"Hey Jess." She smiled softly.

"Hey," he said and kissed her cheek.

But dark eyes watched in confusion from the shadows as they drove away.

Okay maybe that was bad, but I really wanted to get it out. I'm sooo slow, and though it's short I hope it was worth it!!

Please review!

I added a poll, Who should the dark eyed person who watches them drive away be?

A: Finn

B: Colin

C: Logan

D: Jonathan (Tristan's roommate)

E: Other (be specific)

Please vote!