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Authors Note: Wholy! 25 chapters wow... I can't believe it! This chapter took longer than I expected to get out but I was away for a few days! My new fic should be out shortly and I mean like in the next few days so check it out! This chapter moved fairly quickly due to the fact that I really want to get it done and over with so I can start my new fic... hmm come to think of it, the new fic needs a title hmm. Don't worry though if the new fic is a hit I'll still update this one! I won't abandon you all I fully intend to complete this fic eventually. Keep in mind though that I intend to drag this fic out as long as possible. Being my first one and all. I already have an ending all ready to go for it but that's a long ways off. Since this was a crappy short chapter the next one will be longer and much better I promise!

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Recap:

Tristan didn't notice till he finished singing that Rory had begun to cry. "Oh my god!" She said as tears quickly streamed down her face. "You did all this, just for me?"

Tristan was confused by her tears. He didn't know what to say since he though he may have done something wrong, so he just nodded.

"Why would you do something like this, for me?" she asked in a soft voice, looking down as she wiped the tears from her eyes.

"Because…" he said, looking at her. He slowly stood up and walked towards her. He when he stood directly before her he bent down a little, and gently lifted her face up to look at him. He looked into her eyes, as he took her hands into his and pulled her to her feet, then finished what he was saying "…I love you."

He then slowly brought his face down to hers, stopping long enough to make sure it was ok, and gently placed a kiss on her lips. Her arms quickly wrapped around his neck as his wrapped around her waist, each trying to bring the other closer. The kiss soon escalated and became more heated, after a few minutes Rory pulled away.

"We need to talk Tristan" she gasped.

He rested his forehead on hers, trying to catch his breath, and replied "I know"

"Tell me why you were being such a jerk today"

Tristan sighed and sat down, pulling Rory onto his lap. She straddled him in order to fully face him. "I got scared Rory" he said with a pained expression on his face. "I was scared about how much I love you and I was worried that I was going to take that fear out on you. I guess I kind of did even though I really tried not to. I really do love you Rory. I'm new to all of this…but all it boils down to is that I'm scared." he finished looking into her eyes.

"Okay" Rory said, seeing the honesty in his eyes. "Its okay. I love you too."

"You're going to take me back!" he said sounding surprised, his eyes full of hope.

"Of course" Rory smiled, as she moved to kiss Tristan's neck "Who else would do all of this for me?"

"Dylan would" Tristan mumbled then quickly regretted it.

"No he wouldn't!" Rory replied laughing "Dylan would never be able to come up with this kind of thing, besides he can't sing and you my dear have a beautiful voice" she said before leaning in quickly to place a kiss on his lips. The couple kissed for a long time, only pulling apart when the need to breathe was apparent. As soon as they caught their breath, they quickly leaned towards each other for another kiss. Rory noticed that the sparks she was missing when she kissed Dylan, were definitely there now, kissing Tristan.

Finally after what seemed like hours Tristan pulled away again and said "Let's go eat"

"Okay" Rory agreed

-Two hours -

Tristan pulled into Rory's driveway. "That was fun" Rory said as Tristan parked the car.

"Yeah, I had a good time." he said smiling at his girlfriend.

"Well, I better go" Rory said leaning over to kiss Tristan "Thank you so much for everything" and their lips met again. Tristan pulled away suddenly and asked what had been on his mind since he picked her up.

"What about Dylan?"

"What about him?" Rory asked innocently fully knowing what Tristan meant

"Are you still going to see him? Tristan bluntly asked.

"Yes" she sighed.

"But why?" Tristan asked, clearly confused by what she just said. "You already know that you love me and I love you what's the problem?"

"Tristan" Rory said putting her hand on Tristan's arm, knowing this was hard for him. "I love you. Yes. But I love Dylan too. I know you're confused. I'm confused too. I don't know if I'm still "in love" with Dylan anymore. But I owe it to all of us to explore this relationship in order to find out how I truly feel about you both. I need to know for sure before I can let go of either of you." she said trying to put his mind at ease.

"Okay" Tristan replied "But you'll tell me, as soon as you know, right?" he finished trying not to sound too desperate.

"You'll be the first to know!" she promised.

"Okay" and with that, Tristan crushed his lips to hers yet again. Before Tristan could deepen the kiss Rory pulled away.

"I'm sorry" she said "But its getting late and we have school tomorrow"

"Yeah it is" Tristan agreed, though disappointed.

"Bye, Bible boy." Rory said smiling, as she climbed out of the car "thanks for everything."

"You're welcome." Tristan said "Bye Mary, love you."

"Love you too" and with that, Rory closed the car door and ran inside the house.

Meanwhile, Tristan banged his head on the steering wheel, the events that took place just moments ago, running through his mind. He sat up quickly and smirked. 'Let the games begin!' He thought. 'Cause Dylan, you are doing down!' He took one last look at Rory's window, and smiled. Then pulled out of her driveway to head home.

Chapter 25

Rory walked into the house feeling giddy. Smiling to herself, she ran upstairs to her room. 'I can't believe Tristan did that!' She thought, her smile growing wider, as she thought back to the events that had just occurred in the last few hours. 'No one has ever done anything like that for me ever.' The afternoon's events were replaying in her head as she lay down on her bed. 'It was just so sweet, so…' her thoughts were interrupted, as Lorelai burst through the door.

"Hey fruit of my loins!" she said in greeting as she hopped onto the bed, lying down beside her daughter. Seeing the smile on her offspring's face, she continued. "Sooo…what happened today?" She narrowed her eyes, wondering what happened to make her daughter so… happy.

Rory looked up at her mom, and again, her smile just got wider, (if it was even possible!) She then began to recant the day's events. From when Dylan arrived at Chilton, and the boys harassed him…to the arrangement the 3 teenagers reluctantly agreed to…all the way up to when Tristan dropped her off just a few minutes ago. When she was done, she sat there with an expectant look on her face.

"Wow!" was all Lorelai could say. She was having difficulty processing all this new information. her mind finally registered what it was her daughter was telling her, and her eyes widened in shock. "Oh my God! I can't believe it! You have two boyfriends! This isn't like you! You're leading two guys on!" she began ranting. Her voice rising progressively with each point she tried to emphasize. "The Rory I know wouldn't do that! If you don't want to be with Dylan, then be with Tristan. If you don't want to be with Tristan, be with Dylan. If you don't want to be with either, then don't. Just don't string them along." Seeing the look of despair in her daughter's eyes, she continued. "Oh babe! I know that I haven't been the biggest Tristan supporter, but no one should have to go through this. Tristan and Dylan both deserve better than that! You have to choose, sweetie"

"I know!" Rory burst out in frustration. "When I listened to what I was telling you, I realized what was wrong with it. I guess I just got caught up with everything that happened today, and at the time, it seemed like the rational thing to do. But now, after hearing myself say it, I realize it's wrong. I know that this isn't me, and I don't want it to be." she said falling into her mother's arms.

They sat there in silence, while Lorelai gently stroked Rory's hair, trying to calm her down. Finally, Lorelai spoke up. "I think you know what you need to do, hun." She said as she gently let go of Rory, and got up from the bed. She was getting ready to leave the room, when she said with a somewhat sad smile on her face "Just follow your heart." With that, she turned and walked out the door, leaving Rory to contemplate, 'What have I gotten myself into!'

-Later that night in Tristan's room-

Tristan couldn't sleep. Throughout the night, he tossed and turned. Unable to rid himself of the thoughts that began to plague him ever since he dropped Rory off at home. 'I can't believe this is happening' he thought to himself, as he unsuccessfully tried to get to sleep. 'This is all wrong. This isn't how it's supposed to happen. I can't believe I'm letting this happen. I can't believe I agreed to this! I'll be the laughing stock! This is going to ruin my reputation! I'm a Dugrey, for God's sake! I don't deserve this!' his selfish thoughts ran through his head, but quickly reprimanded himself and thought of Rory. 'What am I thinking! I can handle all the rumors, and the gossip. Rory, on the other hand... This will tear her apart. This just isn't like her.' he frowned. Then he began to think of Rory and the afternoon they spent together. A small smile playing on his lips. He then thought of how innocent and sweet natured she is. 'She doesn't deserve this. She shouldn't have to go through this.' he looked up at the ceiling and sighed as he finally acknowledged what he had to do. 'I have to let her go. No matter how much this hurts me, I have to do it. I can't let her hurt herself this way. I love her too much.' With that last thought, he finally fell into a fitful sleep.

-The next morning at school by Rory and Tristan's locker-

"Hey Rory…" Tristan said, his voice lacking its usual playfulness, as he quickly approached her. "We need to talk."

"Yes we do" she replied in a similar tone. As she pulled back from her locker, taking out her books and putting it into her bag, she looked over to him and continued "lets just wait for Dylan to get here, ok? I need to talk to both of you."

"Okay" he said, curious about what it was she wanted to talk about.

Rory continued to pull out what she needed from her locker as they waited for Dylan's arrival only seconds later.

"Hey Ror!" he greeted somewhat cheerfully. "Dugrey" he greeted with a more serious tone. Tristan nodded back in response.

"Hey Dylan." Rory responded, her eyes shifting nervously, looking anywhere but at the two boys. "Look, we have to talk" she finally said after a long pause.

"Okay…" Dylan replied, looking around. "Lets talk in there." Dylan began to walk to an empty classroom. He stopped briefly, before entering, to make sure they would follow.

Rory grabbed her bag and hastily dropped it. "Crap! That's heavy." she sighed.

Tristan raised his eyebrows, and chuckled lightly. He began to shake his head slowly, as he reached down to grab her bag and proceeded to go into the room that Dylan had just entered.

"Thanks" Rory called out after him as she followed, with a small smile on her face.

The teens stood in a sort of triangle. Rory was in the center, Tristan to her left, and Dylan to her right, all three facing each other. They just stood in the room all looking at each other for a few minutes before Rory spoke.

Tristan could see by all the emotions that played on her face that she struggled with what exactly she wanted to say and how she wanted to say it. "I can't do this anymore!" she finally blurted out.

"Do what?" Dylan questioned, clearly confused.

'What an idiot!' Tristan thought. 'God! I knew it! I knew she couldn't handle this. I knew this would be too hard for her. I just knew it.' he berated himself.

The self pity party in his head was interrupted as Rory continued. "I can't do this! Us! You and me AND me and Tristan! I can't have two boyfriends! I can barely deal with one!" Rory replied trying to keep the tears from falling down. "Besides, it's not fair to the both of you, and it's not fair to me. It's not who I am and I don't want to make it who I am!" she finished as one tear finally escaped and rolled down her cheek.

"Fine!" Dylan responded, leaving the room quickly, clearly upset.

"I'm sorry." She said so softly, looking at the ground as another tear got loose.

"Its okay Rory." Tristan replied slowly moving closer to her. "We never should have even entertained the idea." He stopped directly in front of her. He lifted her chin up to face him, wiping her tears away with his thumb. Looking into her eyes he said. "I knew you wouldn't be able to go through with it."

"You did?" Rory holding his gaze, trying to read his expression.

"Yeah I did" Tristan responded, not taking his eyes off hers. "I think you should go after him."

"What?" she said softly.

"Go after Dylan" Tristan said looking down. He spoke so softly that Rory wasn't sure she heard him right. Rather than interrupt him to repeat himself, she let him continue. He finally looked up at her and continued "I didn't get much sleep last night cause all I could think about was what we were doing. What you were doing. I didn't want you to get hurt, and that is exactly what's going to happen if we go through with this plan of yours. I had already made up my mind before finally falling asleep last night…or early this morning. But I digress. I know what I have to do." He paused for a moment, and just looked at her face. Memorizing each angle of her cheeks, the softness of her lips, the deep blue of her eyes, as if it was the last time he would look at her again. Then finally he looked once again into her eyes, took a deep breath and sighed "I have to let you go. As much as I love you, I know I have to let you go, because I know it's the right thing to do." Immediately, Rory began to protest. "Tristan…" But Tristan cut her off.

"Rory, as much as it'll hurt me to see you with him, I'll be fine as long as you're happy" he explained.

"Tris..." Rory started to say again, her voice thick with emotion, but Tristan held up his hand to interrupt her again. "Let me finish…Please" he pleaded, looking into her eyes, his voice just as thick. Rory just nodded. "There's this old saying if you love someone set them free and if they come back to you then it was meant to be. That's exactly what I'm doing, Ror. I'm letting you go, setting you free. If you come back to me, then I'll know we were meant to be together." He looked at her one last time, and placed a gentle kiss on her cheek.

With that said, Tristan quickly fled the room leaving Rory completely and utterly alone.

Okay that was short and crappy! I know! The next chapter will be better I promise! Don't kill me for making Rory and Tristan break up! I had planned that this would happen since day one! You all hated that little drama anyway as did I. At least Rory is acting like herself again! I didn't particularly like writing her that way. Well anyway that's it for now the next chapter should be out soon! I hated writing this chapter truly hated it that's probably why its so crappy.

Warning for the next chapter: A look at the lives of Rory and Tristan WITHOUT each other... how are they coping with the break up?

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