A/N Hey Guys! I am sooo sorry for my lack of updating! I have been like super busy lately and haven't had time to write. Well, like I promised some of you, it is out today. Happy Thanksgiving! Read and Review

Chapter 15: Go Yarvard Part 2

It was 6:45 pm and Rory was in the guest locker room, putting the finishing touches on her make-up, with the other cheerleaders. There were enormous butterflies fluttering about in her stomach. Even though most of her test was over, she still had to perform a very complicated dance that she had just learned that day. She paced back and forth while breathing slowly, trying to stay calm. She would be fine, she thought. It was not like there was anyone besides Steph, who swore not to tell a living soul apart from the LDB, to watch her make a fool of herself. Well, no one that knew her anyway. She sat down on a cool metal chair and shivered from the intense sensation that ran through her slim body. She felt as though she were going to be sick. Rory played with her hands, examining the maroon nail polish that Jenny, the captain, painted on her petite fingernails. The dark color stood out from her paper white skin and made her nails almost glow. She felt it made her look gothic in a way. Laughter filled her at the thought of going to her grandparent's mansion in gothic attire from head to toe. She wondered if her Grandmother would have a heart attack at the sight and if her mother would be there taking pictures of the scene.

Jenny's hand on Rory's shoulder shook her out of her thoughts and brought her back into her stressful reality.

"Its time to go out there and pump up the crowd for tonight's game." She cheered.

"But its only 7pm; doesn't the game start in 30 minutes?" Rory asked, slightly nervous.

"It does but the cheerleaders go out to the field a little earlier to get the Harvard fans excited for the game." Jenny explained helping Rory up from the chair.

As Rory followed the cheer captain down the long corridor, she remembered the events that took place nearly 2 hours ago.

Flashback

Sunday 4:50pm

Rory calmly walked into the cheer locker room, still hurting from cheer practice. She was determined never the less to switch the Harvard and Go Yale signs before anyone found out. She quickly dressed in her Harvard cheerleading costume, making sure that everything was on properly. Then she called Stephanie on the locker payphone, since she forgot hers on the bench with the other girls.

"Hey Steph, its Rory." She said in a small voice so that no one would hear her.

"Hey Ror, are you ready to make the switch?" Stephanie asked.

"Yes, ready when you are." Rory said.

"Ok, I just pulled up in the parking lot. I'm in the same place as before."

"I think there's a back door in the locker rooms. I'll meet you there, ok?"

"K, bye."

Rory hung up the pay phone and quietly hurried out the back door. When she was outside, she ran up to Stephanie's car and took out the box which was now in the front seat on the chair.

"Thanks. Wait here, I'll switch the signs and bring you the Harvard sign.

"Ok, I'll be here."

Rory snuck back into the locker room and closed the door. The question now was; where did they put the sign? Rory saw a locker with the number 1 on it and remembered Jenny telling her how the cheer captain always got the first locker. Rory figured that she would have the sign in her locker. She pulled the door of the locker, but it was locked.

"Shoot!" she muttered

Rory needed the combination, but how to get it? She knew that there usually was a list of all the combinations in the coach's office; she also knew that the office was located behind the Yale boy's locker room. But how to get there without the cheerleaders noticing? Rory took her box and put it in the locker that they gave her. At least she knew her combination. Just as she closed the door to her locker, a brunette cheerleader named Cheryl came in.

"Rory, are you done yet, cuz all of us are going out to eat an early dinner." She said.

"Um ya, I'm done, but I'm not really hungry so you can go without me. I'll stay here." Rory said, secretly overjoyed cause it gave her the chance to switch the signs undetected.

"Are you sure? You'll probably be hungry later and if you don't eat, you could get really bad hunger pains. Trust me those aren't fun to get." Cheryl warned.

"Um ya, but I guess you could pick me up something and I could eat it later." Rory said giving her a ten dollar bill.

"What do you want? We are going to a Chinese restaurant a couple blocks from here." Cheryl asked.

"I don't care, I'm not picky. I love Chinese." Rory said.

"Ok, see you in like an hour and a half." Cheryl chirped walking back out to the field.

"K." Rory said.

Once the cheerleaders were gone, Rory carefully checked the field to make sure that no one else was there. She then quietly walked across the field to the boy's locker room. Once inside, she tip toed to the Coach's office and made sure he wasn't there. Then when the coast was clear, she walked inside, closed the door behind her, and walked up to the coach's desk that was parallel to the door. The big wooden desk sat big and tall in the room. As Rory looked around the small office, she felt as though she had stopped time, everything looking frozen and peaceful. In a way, she felt as if she was disturbing the room from its quiet slumber. She decided to quickly get what she needed so she could finish her mission before the girls came back. She chose to check the filing cabinet since that was the most logical place to put important papers, such as locker combinations. Fortunately, the filing cabinet was unlocked which also meant that the coach had only briefly stepped out and that she didn't have long to look for the combination. She thumbed through the folders until she saw one labeled Lockers.

"Bingo." She whispered as she took out the folder. Inside, it was filled with old locker receipts and information about the conditions of all of the lockers. Finally Rory found a paper marked Combinations and took that paper out. The lockers were labeled by their rooms. The only problem was the 4 rooms were labeled with numbers, not named. One was room number 32, another was number 45, after that came number 71 and last was number 94. By room 32, there was a big pencil star. Rory, who didn't have any clue which room was which, had to make a guess and hope that she got it right. After a couple minutes of contemplating, she finally went with room 71 because she decided that if the rooms went in a clockwise order then it would be the 3rd smallest door. Also the pencil star was marked on the smallest door in a man type handwriting so it might be the coaches way of remembering which room was his boys' room. Rory then looked up locker 1 out of the 80 lockers listed under room 71 and wrote down the combination.

"12-8-19." She whispered out loud while writing it on her hand with one of the desks pens.

After she finished, she put everything away and left the room. Then she went back to her locker room and walked up to Jenny's locker. She inhaled a giant breath and slowly and carefully put in the combination. There was a click and the lock opened. Rory exhaled the breath she was holding and smiled. Then she opened the door and saw the Harvard sign sitting on top of Jenny's cheer bag. She took it out and went over to her locker and took out her sign. Next, she returned to Jenny's and put her sign where the Harvard one sat before. After making sure that her locker was fastened correctly, she picked the Harvard sign and brought it with her to Stephanie who was sitting patiently in her car, listening to Aqualung.

"Hey Girly, I did it." Rory said as she gave her the sign.

"Awesome Job, Ror. I knew you could pull it off." She said opening the box and taking out each of the cards that spelled Harvard. Then she put them neatly back in the box and looked up at Rory.

"Ok, what now?" Stephanie asked.

"Now we wait for the cheerleaders to return." Rory said getting in Stephanie's car and turning up the volume.

End of Flashback

Rory was awakened from her past by the sound of screaming fans and cheering girls. She and Jenny walked over to the other Harvard cheerleaders and Rory sat alone on a bench. All of a sudden, a woman with dark hair, good fashion sense and a quirky attitude approached her taking picture after picture. Rory looked up and nearly fainted when she realized who the picture crazy woman was.

"Mom? What are you doing here," She asked in horror.

"Hello daughter of mine. Is that the warm welcome that you give me for driving all this way on such short notice to see you cheer?" Lorelai said joining her on the bench.

"Um…well… mom I…"

"Wait, wait, let mommy finish what she has to say. I have been practicing for hours what I would say to you when I say you in that skirt." Lorelai said with an evil grin on her face.

There was about a ten second pause and finally Rory spoke.

"Um what did you want to say?"

"Darn, I forgot." Lorelai said with a scowl.

"Where's Luke? I would figure that you would to bring him. You love to mock with a crowd." Rory asked looking around.

"He couldn't come because Ceaser is out sick. He sends his love, though. And Luke here would hardly be a crowd. You would need like 5 more Luke's here to make it crowd worthy."

"So, it's only you?"

"Yep, just me and Fred." Lorelai said holding up her camera.

"Wow, you named Luke's camera. I wonder what he'll say when you tell him is a guy."

"Maybe he'll get all manly and jealous and slam Fred on the ground, breaking it into a million billon pieces and then make-out with me on a table."

"Hum, very detailed."

"I thought about it on the ride over here."

"Aah, That would explain it."

"Oh, I just remembered what I wanted to say. Why haven't you ever told me about your freaky obsession with everything Cheery? And when were you going to tell me that leading a bunch of angry sweating football fans is what you wanted to do with your life?" Lorelai asked with a hint of mockery in her voice.

"Um, it's just something that Steph, Finn and I always wanted to try." Rory said making sure to annunciate her 2 best friends's names in hope that her mother would realize that they had something to do with it.

"Since when? Well yes, I can believe that Finn would dress up in a cheer costume and make a mockery of himself in front of ten thousand fans but you and Stephanie are the sensible ones. You two mock it, not do it."

"True and I have never liked these outfits. I knew they looked uncomfortable."

"Hey Ror, one question. Why are you in a Harvard cheer outfit? Last time I checked, you went to Yale."

Um Ya, about that. Is it good enough to tell you that I have always wanted to be a part of Harvard, so this was a good way of doing so?"

"No, not really. I'm going to need more than that. Come on, spill. I know your hiding something juicy in those pom poms of yours."

"I can't exactly tell you what's up. I'm not really aloud to."

"Ok, what does that mean? Oh God Rory, don't tell me that you joined a cult. Ahh or did you join a fraternity and is this your initiation? I don't see anyone watching you. Ooh is it one of those where you have to go to another place with the head cheerleader's head in your hand?"

"Mom, first of all I can't join a fraternity because their only for guys. Second of all, I didn't join anything with a-i-t-y in the ending.

"Ah ha, then you did join a cult."

"I didn't join a cult. I don't even know how to get into one."

"Uh huh that's what you want me to think. I know how it works."

"Mom…"

"I don't know anything. Especially that my only daughter is in a cult." Lorelai said loudly so that the people she thought were watching Rory would "hear".

"Mom seriously, I didn't join a cult. I well kinda joined a um club."

"A club." Lorelai said not believing any of what Rory was saying.

"Yes, an international club. That's why I'm here."

"So, this doesn't have anything to do with that article that you wrote about the LDB thing, does it?"

"How did you know it was about that?"

"Oh come on, Rory. I know you well. So Limo boy, Finn, Steph and Colin are in on it aren't they?"

"Mom, I can't tell you! I definitely can't tell you how I am being initiated into the LDB if I pass 5 challenges."

"No way, how exciting! I want to play too!" Lorelai said sounding like a five year-old child.

All of a sudden, the announcer came on and announced the teams and the cheer leaders.

"Shoot I have to go. Bye Mom." Rory said turning to walk over to the other cheerleaders.

"Good Luck, Ror!" Lorelai called out.

"Thanks Mom." Rory yelled back as she ran out to join the rest of the squad who were getting in position

Then "Rock You" by Queen started to play and all of the girls started to do their routine. In the meantime, Lorelai went back to her seat and saw Stephanie sitting a few seats down from her. She looked back at Rory and saw how great she was doing. When Rory's routine was over, the girls got their sign and did their cheer. When they realized that they had the wrong sign, they put it on the sidelines and continued the performance. Meanwhile, all of the Yale fans cheered and the Harvard fans hissed. Laughing, Lorelai called Stephanie and they both went down together to congratulated her.

"OMG Ror, you were awesome in there!" Stephanie said running over to her.

"Ya Hun, who knew that someone with my genes could dance like that?" Lorelai said hugging her daughter.

"Thanks Mom!" Rory said

"And the sign thing was hilarious." Lorelai continued.

"Well, Steph picked it, I just did it."

"Did you see their faces? They looked like someone died." Lorelai said.

"Well, Football is a big thing to Harvard and Yale fans." Stephanie told them.

Smiling, Rory turned around to get her things and came in contact with the very last person that she expected.

"Jess?" Rory asked.

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