Rory had easily decided on waiting out front for Tristan at lunch, as soon as the bell went she scurried to the front of the school, swinging the door open, it collided with someone,
"Ow!"
"Sorry for banging you," she cringed as he rubbed his forehead,
"Jeez Mare, you know it's okay to want to bang me anytime you want, but I never picked you to be one to do it out the front of the school," he smirked slightly,
"I really need to learn to choose my words wisely around you," Rory rolled her eyes,
"Where's the fun in that?"
"I'm sure you could figure something out…now sorry to disappoint, but I'm not just here as the welcoming committee…I do believe it's about time you and I had a man to man chat,"
"But you're not a man,"
"That doesn't matter, I once went to a basketball game, don't men do that?" she asked somewhat cluelessly, he just laughed.
"Come for a ride?"
"But school?"
"Is almost over and I don't want to go in,"
"Why?"
"I've heard rumours about a party the other night and they're doing my head in,"
"Like?" she secretly hoped that everything she had heard in the bathroom were just rumours,
"Just a heap of crap," he sighed,
"Oh, you must have been one hell of a party animal that night," she tried to keep the topic flowing but he put an end to it,
"Wanna go for a drive or not?"
"When have I ever accepted a ride with you?"
"You haven't," he stated simply, "But you're going to now,"
"No I'm not!"
"Just come on," he grabbed her hand a dragged her along, she couldn't deny the splash of happiness the washed over her at the contact.
Sliding into the leather seat, her eyes drifted along the dashboard, she had to admit this car was awesome,
"Sweet ride," she winked playfully at him,
"I know," he shrugged cockily.
Moments of silence passed as they cruised along the highway, it should have been an uncomfortable silence, but it wasn't. They were both lost in thought until Rory spotted a Taco Bell approaching, she lightly tapped him on the shoulder, he knew what she wanted and rolled his eyes as he pulled into the drive-through.
"So you wanted to talk?" Tristan wiped some sauce off his upper lip with his napkin as he chewed. They had pulled over into a deserted car park to eat their meal. Rory nodded in answer to his question, "You gonna start any time soon?"
"Maybe," she said nonchalantly, she just wasn't sure how to go about bringing up her questions without sounding like a complete idiot, "Okay…so I just thought that we should…you know catch up, chit chat, gasbag, converse, talk about stuff…or something,"
"Okay…"
"Okay! This is becoming really awkward, here I'll break the ice, I have drank multiple buckets of coffee, had a shower, managed to finish reading Pride and Prejudice for the twenty-seventh time, watched six movies and had all my best friends move to Chilton since we last talked, how about you?" he looked at her bewildered for a moment, his look turned into admiration,
"You can talk really fast,"
"I know, that's another thing genetic, now tell me what you've been up to," she was getting a little bit impatient, digging subtly for the scoop wasn't really her thing, she was supposed to be a hard core reporter, but then again this wasn't an article either,
"Well, I went to a party, I also managed to shower, I've eaten food, listened to music, completed one of our homework sheets…and that's about it, oh did you say all your friends moved to Chilton?"
"Yes…but, that's it?"
"You saw me yesterday, we didn't talk, you seemed pissed for some reason, I never quite registered anything you said either, you were a blur just zoomed past…but you're friends are here, so your story is probably better that mine,"
"Of course it is, that's why we have to go through you first,"
"Well, there isn't much to say," 'you and Summer are back together…that is something you could tell me!' her mind was screaming,
"What happened at the party?"
"The usual, drinking leading to drunken embarrassment, music, pointless games, scandals here and there…oh and I got back together with Summer," he said casually but inside he was hoping, 'c'mon Mare, just tell me you want to be with me and she is out of here,'
"Oh…how did that happen?" she masked her emotions, she wasn't some girl who pleaded a guy to ditch their girlfriend for her, she deserved better than to fall at some guys feet and have to beg them to take her instead,
"Well at the party, we were just dancing, then making out and well you know…one thing led to another and next thing you know we had decided to get back together," he was hoping to get a reaction from her, but her pride controlled any willing outbursts,
"Huh…that's pretty funny,"
"Why?"
"Last time you guys broke up, I found you moping and asked if you would think about getting back together and then you said…" she shrugged,
"No, no, no and no?"
"That about sums it up,"
"Things change,"
"Obviously, look at us," his heart leapt a little, thinking she was referring to their relationship from Australia to now so they could talk about what they were doing with each other,
"Us?" he prompted,
"Yeah, I mean, last year we hardly had any civilised conversations, barring the one where we were both depressed, and then, well now we're…" she drifted off a little trying to think of an appropriate way to word it. She couldn't say they had a relationship, relationship, because he had a girlfriend, 'despite everything that happened between us, I told him so much stuff…idiot' she thought bitterly, there was only one word she could use, even though it didn't really settle well with either of them,
"…friends," she said, unable to hide the disappointment, but he didn't notice, he heard the word 'friends' and his heart dropped.
'awkward silence…still awkward silence…say something DuGray!' Tristan coaxed himself,
"Friends…great!"
"Yeah… so your story was boring, let's move on to mine, we'll leave the reason to why I was so upset for later but now… so anyway I went home early yesterday and whaddya know? There they all are…" Rory quickly leapt into the tale of her friends, their house, her mom travelling and her dropping the outcast act.
"School finished an hour ago, so I'm guessing I should take you home," Tristan announced, looking at his watch,
"Yep!" she jumped off the hood of his car, "You know… your car is really nice, like really, really awesome," Rory gushed, while batting her eyelashes at him,
"You want to drive my car?"
"I wouldn't pass up the chance if you offered," she hinted,
"Well you're driving then," he tossed her the keys and hopped into the passenger side while she slid into the drivers',
"Oh no…it's a stick," she squeaked,
"You can't drive a manual?"
"No…I can, just not very well and not since my drivers test,"
"I'm sure you'll do fine…I mean, you know how to do it right? You're not gonna total my car?"
"I'm pretty sure I can avoid totalling," she took a deep breath and turned the ignition on.
She was doing pretty well up until the point where they reached a big, busy round about,
"Uh oh… I don't think I can move the stick thing fast enough for this,"
"Don't worry about it Mare, just wait until you're ready to go, he lightly patted her leg,"
The car behind her started beeping annoyingly, just as Rory made her way around,
"Fruitcaking road rager," Rory mumbled as she drove down another road, the car still behind them, accelerating and breaking just before letting the cars connect, still beeping his horn.
Tristan removed his seat belt and wound down the window as the car sidled up next to theirs,
"What the fuck is your problem man?" Tristan yelled at the driver,
"You could of made it pass the round about like three times before you and your bitch went!" yelled the driver,
"Shut the fuck up, she'll go when she's comfortable to go!"
"If you're gonna take that long, move into the fucking left lane!"
"You can't go right from the left lane dickhead!" Rory yelled, still concentrating on the road,
"Whatever, you guys should just get off the fucking road! Bloody dumb shits!"
"Oh that's it, pull over; I'm kicking your ass!" Tristan yelled,
"Tristan!" Rory snapped, he ignored her, still glaring at the other guy, the guy sped up,
"Pussy," Tristan mumbled, the guy suddenly pulled over,
"Rory pull over," Tristan said eerily calm,
"No,"
"Rory, just pull over," he growled, she sighed and pulled over,
"Fine, but you're staying in the car," she quickly opened the door and stepped out, Tristan mad a move to the handle but the look Rory gave him made him stop in his tracks.
The other guy was already out and leaning against the side of his car, he smirked as he watched Rory march up to him,
"What's the matter? The guy too pussy? Gotta send his bitch out here?"
Tristan got out the car but didn't move towards the scene, but if anything would happen…he was ready,
"I was the driver; your argument is with me,"
"I'm not having a punch on with a girl," he shook his head firmly,
"Just state your argument," she said in a bored tone, rolling her eyes,
"Fine, I think you need to learn to drive, if you can't then what the fuck are you doing on the road?" he said mockingly,
"I'm sorry, I promise to never drive again," she sarcastically replied with a sweet smile,
"Good," he nodded unsurely, she turned to leave, "Stupid, dumb bitch," she heard him mumble,
"You have got to be kidding me, you're insulting my intelligence?"
"Eh… what if I am?" he shrugged, she grabbed him by his shirt collar and pushed him forcefully against the car,
"I have a 4.0 GPA, am top of my class at the most prestigious school in Connecticut, I have a bunch of Academic Excellence awards in my room…trust me I'm smart. You obviously aren't though, since I haven't had coffee for hours and when I don't get my coffee I get a tad angry, and when I'm a tad angry, I'm not a very friendly person. But since I'm only a tad angry because I understand that your stupidity is probably out of you control right now, I am going to give you ten seconds to get in your car and drive away before I let blondie kick your ass," her eyes were blazing with anger, the guy was stupid enough to not take her seriously, instead, her rolled his eyes and grabbed both her shoulders firmly with his hands to push her away,
"Don't touch me," she sneered, he laughed at her amused, he continued laughing until she snatched one of his hands and held it in a vice grip before sinking her teeth into him, Tristan started laughing as the guy struggled to get his hand back,
"Forgot to warn you she bites!" he called out, Rory let go of the man and glared at Tristan who looked innocently at the sky,
"One..." she started he countdown, "Two…" the guy quickly scrambled into his car and skidded off before she reached seven. She smiled proudly and skipped back to Tristan.
"Now that I saved you from having to kick that guy's ass, you have to get me heaps of Luke's coffee!" she smiled happily as they drove into Stars Hollow.
Rory and Tristan were sitting in the town gazebo…
"Why were you upset the other day?"
"I had a run-in with Summer that morning…not very pleasant, I know she's your girlfriend and all but I can't help but not like her,"
"Oh," how else was a guy in this situation supposed to answer to that,
"I hate sounding really mean, but none of the other girls like her or her friends either, everyone hates the way she acts like she's better than everyone else and puts others down. So me and the girls are going to take her down…somewhat…nothing personal…it's for nearly the entire student body,"
Tristan was about to reply when his phone went off, Rory peered at the caller ID…Summer, and rolled her eyes.
"Hey…umm, I can't, I'm actually kind of busy…no I'm not with her…I can't…yes….no…fine I'll see you soon babe," Tristan hung up with a frown,
"Gotta go?"
"Yeah…sorry, we'll talk soon yeah?"
"Oh course," she smiled, he gave her a quick peck on the cheek and hopped in his car.
Rory turned around and was about to head home,
"Rory! Rory! I see you with boy! You be bad influence on Lane! Lucky I send her to Korea! I see way boy get so and so with you!"
"But Mrs. Kim," Rory started innocently, her bambi eyes in action, "he was an evil boy, he touched his lips to my cheek without my permission, the spawn of Satan I tell you," Rory said passionately, Mrs. Kim patted her shoulder as an attempt of comfort,
"Poor girl, you probably too young to hear this but I think you need to, your mother obviously hasn't," Mrs. Kim frowned in disapproval, "but that is not your fault. Next time boy touch you like that, you hit hard in area between leg, that where his weapon hide, then you run!" Mrs. Kim nodded,
"Thankyou Mrs. Kim, I wouldn't know what to do if it happened again otherwise,"
"Be good girl," Mrs. Kim toddled back to her antique shop.
Sorry of this sucks, i just got my computer back, and its way past my bed time so i'm tired...i couldn't be bothered proof reading...i just had to update once...even if it's just a filler and im gonna update again within the next few days...promise!
