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Time line: A few weeks after Tristan leaves for Military school
Chapter one
Rory POV
I walk down the halls of Chilton. There’s just something wrong. I don’t know what it is though. I look over at my locker half expecting he would be would be there leaning on the locker next to mine with a cocky grin on his face. Why do I miss him? I mean it’s not like he misses me. I was just another girl, another conquest. I shudder. I was just a game. I keep telling myself. Right?
I didn’t realize how much he meant to me now that he’s gone.
I keep thinking things like what would have happened if he wasn’t shipped off to military school or what if I did accept to go to the PJ Harvey concert with him or even just going on a date with him.
Well, it’s to late to think of what would have happened. Even though it doesn’t matter, I was just a game to him. A stupid game.
Tristan POV
I am sitting here on my cot in Military school looking at the ceiling. God why was I so stupid? And I don’t mean just breaking into that safe. I admit that was really stupid, but why in the world would I think I had a chance with Rory Gilmore. She’s perfect that coffee brown hair, crystal blue eyes, her porcelain white skin and that wit that no other girl could match. I am actually glad she never accepted to go on a date with me as crazy as that seems I would just end up hurting her. She deserves the best. A guy that can love her, whom can support her not just financially but emotionally too and never hut her.
God I am so whipped.
When I was on the plane going to North Carolina I made a pack with myself I would change my life become a man that Rory would date. A good guy. God as my witness I will.
Rory POV
I finish my day at Chilton also known as hell with fluorescent lighting. I walk over to the bus stop to wait for my bus. Today actually wasn’t that bad, Paris was civil and everyone’s been kind of calm considering Christmas break is in two weeks.
So I am in a good mood, and the fact that were having our traditional Thursday movie night tonight. I decided I want to rent A Walk to Remember because it reminds me of Tristan and mine’s relationship. I am the sweet innocent Jamie and he’s the reckless, bad boy Landon.
Besides I feel like I need a good cry.
My cell phone rings the ring tone is the theme song of Friends Mom loves the song so she downloaded it on my cell phone. I roll my eyes of just the thought of it. I grab it out of my back pack. I read the screen: Grandma.
I sigh. That’s weird, why is she calling me? Maybe she wants to drag me to one of those socialite parties. I groan I hate those things. I debate on answering it. I decide to answer it because if I don’t she’ll keep calling or she’ll just tell me at tomorrow’s Friday night dinner.
Might as well get it over with.
I flip the phone open “Hello?”
“Rory dear. . . .” I hear my Grandmother’s shaky voice.
“Grandma, What’s wrong?” I ask.
“Honey . . . Your mom.” She pauses. I hear her sobbing. Now I am really worried. I panic. What’s going on? Then I hear those dreadful words that soon will haunt me for years to come.
“ Rory honey, there’s been an accident.”
Chapter 2
“Wh-What?” I stammer. I grip my cell phone tight.
“Honey there was a car accident. I’m at the hospital. Your Grandpa is on his way to pick you up from Chilton.”
I gulp. I can’t talk. I can’t move. I finally manage an “okay.”
I sit on the bench. I bring up my knees to my chin. I start to rock myself back and forth.
This can’t be happening, Mom’s fine I keep telling myself. Mom’s fine she’s at Luke’s begging for coffee and waiting for me to come home like usual.
I try to wish the tears way but they keep on coming until I was sobbing.
A silver BMW pulls up in front of me.
My grandpa gets out of the car. His eyes are red from crying. I don’t say a word and get into the car.
The cool leather seats feel so good on my hot and sweaty(from crying) skin.
He slips into the driver seat and starts to drive to the hospital.
“Is she going to be okay?” I finally ask.
He doesn’t answer me at first. Then he says without looking at me “I don’t know we just have to pray that she is.” A tear runs down his cheek.
I finally realize he’s hurting just like me and not to push it. I look at him. I mean really look at him. He’s not Richard Gilmore business tycoon, he’s a father scared of losing his little girl.
We arrive at the hospital. Grandpa gets out of the car.
I take a deep breath and I follow him. He leads me to an elevator, and we go to the third floor. We walk down the hallway. It’s so white and sterile. I shudder. I hate hospitals, but really who doesn’t?
I see my grandmother pacing. “Grandma?” I say.
She looks at me. Her eyes are all red and puffy. She cups my cheeks and hugs me so tight I think I cracked a rib.
We sit down on hard white plastic chairs. We sit in silence for a while.
My Grandpa breaks the silence “Rory would you like some coffee?”
Coffee, yes the elixir of life. I nod.
He gets up and goes to the cafeteria to get me some. I look at my grandma, but she’s avoiding my gaze. “Is she going to be okay?” I ask.
She looks at me. “Honey I don’t know . . . What I am I going to do if . . . if.” She doesn’t finish her sentence she doesn’t have to.
If she dies.
I lay my head on her shoulder. She runs her finger’s throw my hair. If someone told me all, this was going to happen a few months, hell a month ago I would have thought they were crazy.
I mean first me missing Tristan, second Mom being on her death bed and then Grandma being very emotional.
Grandpa comes back with a cup of coffee in his hand. He hands it to me. I take it and look up at him gratefully. I take a sip. It’s okay as hospital coffee goes. Not as nearly as good as Luke’s, though. Oh god what I wouldn’t give for all of this to be a nightmare. That I would wake up and everything would be okay.
Then a doctor comes up to us. My grandparents stand up and I follow their lead.
“I am Doctor Remanzel. Your daughter had severe head trauma.” He pauses. Oh god. “I am sorry we did everything that we could.” My Grandmothers starts to sob in my Grandfather’s arms. I slid against the wall and started to sob uncontrollably.
She’s gone.
Chapter 3
Rory POV
Few hours later we drove to Star Hallow. I just went to my room got in my pajamas and tried to get some rest.
I wipe off my tears on my cheeks with the sleeve of the oversized sweatshirt I am wearing. I hear my grandparents talking in the livingroom. Mom’s died. Oh god what I am I going to do?
God it hurts so much to think about it. And Dad, I love him but I don’t think it would be a good idea to live with him.
I guess that leaves my grandparents. I don’t think I could live with them. Mom hated that life, and she worked so hard to keep me out of it. Why would I walk right into it?
I hear ran outside. Why does it rain when horrible things happen? The night Tristan left it was raining and now it’s raining. I hear thunder know. I get out of my bed and take a hand full of aspirin. I look outside there’s a flash of lightning I see a woman’s figure.
By this time I think I am delirious from the pills or from being so tired and crying so much. I run out into the backyard.
Another stream of lightning of thunder hits the sky the thunder crashes down. I look over and I see the figure again.
“Mommy?” I say.
God it looks like Mom. I need to get a grip. Mom’s died. She’s gone.
I look down at my clothes their soaked and clinging to my body. I start to tremble from exhaustion and from all the aspirin I just took.
I collapse on the ground and sob into the ice cold grass.
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I wake up with a big crank in my neck. I open my eyes and realize I am in my bed. I get out of my bed. Yesterday’s events come back to me. My heads starts to hurt a lot. I lean on the door way for support. I close my eyes wishing all the pain away. I hear a noise. I open my eyes half way.
I see a man leaning over the sink in the kitchen. My eyes widen.
“Dad?”
He turns around “Hi honey.”
I run over to him “Daddy.”
He holds me tight. I start to babble. “Daddy. Mom she’s gone. She’s gone. She’s gone. There was an accident. And. . . . and”
Tears spring from my eyes. I start to sob uncontrollably in his arms. He tires to calm me down by saying soothing words and rubbing my back while holding me tight.
Finally after a few minutes which felt like years my tears subsided.
“Daddy, what am I going to do?”
He sighs. “Honey. Sit down.”
I sit down at the kitchen table. He pours me a cup of coffee and hands it to me. He sits down.
“Rory, I would love to have you move with me but . . . ”
“Dad, I want to finish Chilton. As much as I hate, it will help me get into Harvard.”
He sighs. “Rory I talked with your grandparents they want you to live with them.”
I gulp. I knew that was going to happen. I take a deep breath. I don’t know what to do. I am so confused.
“What do you think I should do?” I ask
“Rory it’s not what I-“
I cut him off. “Dads what do you think I should do?”
He sighs. “I think you should live with your grandparents to finish Chilton. I talked to them. And you can live here until we sell the house and then you could move in with them.”
I nod. I think it over. I guess it’s the best for me.
“And as long as you don’t burn the house down or through any wild parties.” He says.
“Dad I think one of the last things I am thinking is throwing a party.”
He nods.
I get up and grab some ice cream from the freezer and a spoon form the drawer.
“Ice cream for breakfast?” My Dad asks.
I just shrug and walk into the living room. I am just about to sit down when a notice my pajama pants are all dirty.
“Dad?” I ask.
“Yeah?” I hear him call from the kitchen.
“What happened last night?” I ask.
He walks into the living room. “What?”
I point to the dirt all over my pants.
“Ow I found you lying on the ground in the backyard. Want to tell me how you ended up there?”
I shack my head. “Honestly, I don’t know.”
I watch romantic comedies and eat ice cream for the rest of the day.
~~~~~~~ ~~
The next day was the funeral. I slip on a satin black dress that has sheer layers over it and stops an inch above my knees, I put on a button down a mini sweater over it. (A mini sweater is like a sweater that only ends half way down your stomach.)
I slid on a pair of black heels on and put I put my hair up in a bun and don’t even bother with make-up.
The whole funeral was a blur. I just remember there were a lot of people where there from Stars Hallow residents and to The Hartford Elite, most of the latter where there because of my grandparents society status and out of respect.
The wake at my Grandparents was a blur too.
People giving their condolences half of them, I have never met.
My dad drives me home.
I kiss his cheek and tell him good night. I go into my room. I fall asleep and wake up a few hours later. I look at the clock its 2:30 in the morning. I start to walk around the house.
I end up at my mother’s room. I walk in. It’s a mess like always. The bed is unmade and there’s clothes everywhere. I walk up to her Cd player its on pause. I push play. Ghost of You by Good Charlotte starts to play:
I will wait until the end
When the pendulum,
does the darker side of our hearts bleeding
And I will save this space next to me
like it’s a grave where I lay a place for us to sleep internally
together I have been searching for traces of what we were
A ghost of you Is all that I have left
It’s all I have left of you to hold I wake in the night to find there’s no one
there but me there’s nothing left of what we were at all
so here I am pacing around this house again with
pictures of us living in these walls
I see my breath in the cold of the air that
I breathe and I’m wondering of it’s you that
I feel I am looking for Anything but us
Anything but what we were And I’m not asking
for painted memories: I only want to know you’re here
Ow God the song hits me hard in so many ways. My mom and Tristan.
That’s it I need Tristan God I need him so much right now. If I could go back in time, I could change it all my relationship with Tristan, saving Mom.
But I can’t. I can’t go back in time. I can’t change the latter but I still have a chance with Tristan. There’s just one question: How am I going to change things?
Chapter 4
I hear voices from the living room. I creep down the stairs.
“You need to tell her, Christopher.” I hear a voice. I recognize it as my grandmothers.
“Emily, I don’t want to get her hopes up.” I hear my dad say.
“Isn’t the company doing well?” I hear my Grandmother say.
“Yes extremely well. But I just don’t wont to jinks anything.”
“Christopher Hayden.” I hear my Grandmothers voice turn very stern. “She is your daughter. She needs some stability in her life.”
He sighs. “All right. I’ll tell her.”
I decide to cut in now. “Tell me what?”
I walk down the rest of the stairs and into the living room.
“Rory, honey.” Dad says.
“Dad.” I say sternly.
“All right. Sit down.” He says.
“I rather stand.” I say.
He sighs. “All right. My company is doing well and well if all goes the way I planned well be expanding internationally which means I could work here in Connecticut.”
I half smile. “Really?”
“Yeah and you could come live with me. I would buy a house in Hartford or we could live in here in Stars Hallow. It’s really your choice. Or if you want to live with me or you could do as we planned and you could live with your grand-“ I cut him off by hugging him tight.
“So that means your moving back to Connecticut?” I ask trying not sound too hopefully.
“If all goes well, yeah.” I hug him tight.
Thank god something in my life is going right.
“So you want to live with me?” He asks.
“Yeah. I do.”
I look at my grandmother, and she smiles a little. My grandfather just has a solemn look on his face.
The next few hours were spent talking mid-less chit chat between Dad, Grandma, Grandpa and me.
After Grandma and Grandpa left, I said goodnight to Dad and went to my room.
I spent a few hours staring at the ceiling. I have decided to change my image, to shed the whole Mary image. I grab a piece of paper out of my desk. I write:
Things to do:
1. Get rid of Dean
2. Get and wear more make-up
3. new clothes
4. alter Chilton uniform
5. Become popular at school
6. New hair style
7. Get Tristan back to Hartford
I smile. Well it’s going to be a challenge but then again I am always up for a challenge.
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I wake up the next day still feeling like crap. I get up and go to the kitchen to make some coffee. I put some coffee on and stand there until it’s done. After I have a few sips, I see an envelope with my name on it on the kitchen table.
I open it
Rory,
I had to go to Boston for business. I’ll be back in a few days.
By then I hope you will decide where you want us to live.
I left some money for you to go shopping. There’s also a
present for you outside.
Love you,
Dad
I look in the envelope there’s his credit car and a wade of money.
Great, just great. I then think about. Surprise?
I walk outside there’s a silver 2005 Porsche Boxster. (For those who don’t know what it looks like it has two seats with big oval head lights. It’s a really awesome sports car.)
Oh god. Nice car. I run up to it.
There’s an envelope on the seat.
I open the door and pick it up.
Hey honey,
Like your surprise? I thought you would . Now you wouldn’t
have to ride the bus to go to school or anywhere else. If you
don’t like it we could bring it back to the
dealer and get you a different one.
Love,
Dad
I sigh. I should be mad that he’s trying to buy my love but I made a promise to myself I would change myself for the better and if Dad want’s to buy me an expensive car and give me tons of money to go shopping then I’ll take it and have fun with it.
I smile and go back in the house. I take a quick shower and get dressed. I put my hair up in a pony tail and put the little make-up that I have on.
I go outside and look at my car.
Ah I love it. I get all giddy just looking at it.
I get in and speed over to Luke’s.
I park in front of the diner. And get out. I feel the stares of everyone in town.
I walk into Lukes. Luke looks up at me from taking an order. “Rory.”
“Hi Luke.” I sit on a stool at the counter. “Can I have some coffee?”
He looks at me and nods. He walks behind the counter and pours me a cup of coffee.
“Thanks, Luke.”
“How are you holding up?” He asks me.
“Okay.” He looks over to the street and to my new car.
“Whose car is that?” He asks.
“Mine.” I say simply.
He raises his eyebrows. “My Dad bought it for me.” I shrug and finish my coffee.
“Thanks, Luke.”
I get up and leave the diner.
I walk over to Dossies. I see Dean unloading loafs of breads out of a box.
“Hey.” I say.
He looks at me and smiles. Ugh, that smile is so goofy but in a bad way I used to think it was cute but compared to Tristan’s cocky smirk it just doesn’t do anything for me.
“Hey.” He says. And tires to kiss me but I brush him off and he only gets my cheek.
“Can we talk?” I ask.
“Yeah.”
We walk outside. He looks over at my car. “Whose car?”
“Mine.” I say.
“Really?”
“Yeah my dad bought it for me.”
“So how have you been feeling? You know with your mom and all.” He says.
“Okay I guess Um, Dean I’ve been through a lot with . . . . well with my mom dying and all and well.. I think we should take a break. I just need to time to clear my head and all.” I am lying through my teeth but hey he doesn’t know that I have no intentions of ever getting back together with him.
He nods. “I respect that. But if you need anything-”
I cut him off “I know. Bye Dean.”
I walk over to my car and get in. I turn up the stereo and drive to Hartford’s Mall. I take out my list and cross off the first thing to do: Get rid of Dean
I park and walk into the mall. God I could really use a cup of coffee. I only had two cups today. I walk into Starbucks. It’s unusually crowed.
I get a cup of coffee and sit down.
“Rory?” I hear someone say.
I look up and see Lexi standing ind front of me. I go to Chilton with her. She usually hangs out with Summer and other popular girls.
“Yeah?” I ask.
“Can I sit here? There’s no other empty tables.” I look around. She’s right.
“Yeah, sure.”
She sits down across from me. “I heard about your mom. I am sorry.” She says.
I raise my eyebrows then realize she probably heard from the Hartford grapevines.
“Thanks.”
She takes a sip of her coffee then looks at me. “So your going shopping or are you just going to sit here and drink coffee all day?”
I chuckle “I was going to go shopping.”
“Alone?” she asks.
I nod. “Yeah.”
“Mind if I join you?” She asks. I am surprised to say the least. But I am glad that I am making a friend that goes to Chilton.
“Yeah.”
We walk around the mall and go to every store. We spent tons of money. I get to know Lexi and she’s nothing like Summer which is a good thing. I also told her about
Regular POV
“So what do you want to do know?” Lexi asks.
Rory shrugs “I don’t know.”
Lexi looks down at her chipped fake nail. “Want to go to the salon?” She asks.
Rory looks at her. “What?”
“Well I need to get new nails and new highlights in my hair.”
“Okay. I actually wanted to do something with my hair.” Rory says.
“Oh god I know what you would look so good as a blond.” Lexi says.
Rory looks uneasy. “I don’t know. I mean you look good as a blond but me . . . ”
Lexi gives her a look. “Rory you told me you wanted to change your whole look. That includes your hair. I was thinking if you cut your hair about two inches below your shoulders and really dark blonde hair maybe even a light brown with dark blonde highlights. It would look so good with your blue eyes.”
Rory thinks about it for a minute “Okay.”
They walk over to a salon called Eternity.
Lexi gets her hair re-highlighted with blonde dye over her already blonde hair. Rory got her hair died with really light brown dye and dark blonde highlights. She also got it cut so it was just a few inches below her shoulders. They both got manicures and pedicures.
They then had lunch at the food court and then said their good-byes.
Rory POV
I get in my car and look at the mirror. God I guess I am going to have to get used to my hair. But I love it.
I smile and get my list out I cross out get and wear more make-up, new clothes and new hair style.
I know my list is a little geeky and stupid but it’s helping me organize what I want to do to change my life and well that’s the most important thing isn’t it?
I sigh and drive back to Stars Hallow.
I park my car in front of Miss Patty’s. I start to walk around the town.
Ow, god everything in this town reminds me of mom. I need to get out of here. Ow, god I miss her so much! I need to talk to someone. Lane. That’s right Lane my best friend. I run to Lane’s house. I knock on her door no one’s home.
I run to my car and speed home. I turn on the radio really high trying to get out of mind how mush I miss Mom.
I arrive home and run into the house. I look around.
I couldn’t tell you
Why she felt that way
She felt it every day
And I couldn’t help her
I just watch her make
The same mistakes again
What’s wrong what’s wrong now
Too many too many problems
Don’t know where she belongs
Where she belongs
She wants to go home
But nobody’s home
I look around the house nobodies here. Mom’s died and Dad is off in Boston to finish up business.
I start to cry. I miss Mom so much. I collapse on the floor and start to sob into the carpet.
Song is Nobody’s home by Avril Lavigne
That’s where she lies
Broken inside
with no place to go
No place to go
To dry her eyes
Broken inside
Open your eyes
And look inside
Find the reasons why
You’ve been rejected
Now you can’t find
What you’ve left behind
Be strong be strong now
Too many problems
Don’t know where she belongs
Where she belongs
Her feelings she hides
Her dreams she can’t find
She’s losing her mind
She’s falling behind
She can’t find her place
She’s losing her faith
She’s falling from grace
She’s all over the place yeah
She’s lost inside lost inside
She’s lost inside lost inside
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I wake up from a knock on the door. Ugh my head hurts no scratch that my whole body hurts. Then I realize I fell asleep on the floor.
I get up to answer the door. I open it and there’s Miss Patty and Babette.
“Rory dear how are you feeling?” Babette asks me.
“Okay. You?”
“Fine, sugar” She says.
“We just want to make sure that your okay. ” Miss Patty says.
“I am fine.” I say getting a little annoyed. Where they also this annoying or is it just the lack of coffee?
“Alright honey.” Miss Patty says.
“Bye.” I say and close the door. I walk to my room and put on purple plaid pajamas pants and a purple spaghetti strap shirt. I walk into the kitchen and start make some coffee I watch so tv then I go to my room and to get my Chilton uniform.
I get the sewing machine out and start altering it. Good thing mom taught me how to use this stupid thing.
When I am satisfied hang the uniform on a hanger and put it back in my closet.
I walk into the kitchen and make some eggs for dinner.
~~~~~~~~
I wake up from loud music. I look over at my night table and realize it’s my alarm clock. Ugh I don’t want to go back to hell. Then I realize today is the day I get to show my new looks. I smirk a trait I think I got from Tristan.
I go and take a quick shower and get into my alternated uniform. The skirt is hiked up and the ends of my shirt are tied up so you can see me newly pierced belly button. I smile I’ll have to thank Lexi for talking me in to getting it pierced. I put on my blazer and roll up the sleeves.
I then put on eyeliner and blue eye shadow. Then I put on red lip liner and a dark red lipstick.
I then put loopy earrings on and studs in my second hole also thanks to Lexi.
I then put on a pari of new high heel designer shoes. And to finish it off a designer bag for my books.
I check my reflection one last time. I go out into my car and head to Luke’s for coffee then to school.
~~~~~~
I drive up to Chilton and park my car. I take a deep breath and get out.
I start to walk up to the school. I am getting evil glares from the girls and smirks from the guys.
I walk to my locker to get my morning classes books.
“Hey Rory.” I hear I turn around half way and see Lexi standing there.
“Hey Lexi.”
“What’s up?” She asks.
“Nothing.” I say.
“Yeah well Summer is going ballistic over your new look.”
“Really?” I say smirking.
“Yup.” She looks at her watch. “We better get to class.”
I nod and we walk to first period.
By the end of the day I got asked out by more then half of Chilton’s male population and become friends with most of Lexi’s friends who happened to be Summers friends too. So at the end of the day when I am packing up my books that I need to take home Summer walks up to me.
“Rory.”
I look up. “Summer.”
“Can we talk?” She asks.
“We are talking.” I say.
She gives me a look. “Okay.”
“Alright. I just wanted to say I .. I am sorry the way I acted before you know..being well a bitch to you and since well most of my friends are yours now too... that we could be civilized to each other maybe even friends.”
To say I am stunned by this revelation is the under statement of the year.
“Okay.” I say.
“Okay. I’ll guess I’ll see you later.” She smiles and walks off.
I sigh. Oh god this has been one hell of a day.
I walk over to my car and get in. I take my list out of my bag and cross out become popular at school. That only leaves one thing. Get Tristan back to Hartford.
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