rehearsals

REHEARSALS


"thus with a kiss i die" Tristan looked dead straight at dean as he bent over the teenager's girlfriend, taunting him. He bought his lips to rory's cheek and kissed it chastely then smiled delibrately at dean raising his eyebrows.

"um tristan" madeline interrupted them by waving her nail file in the air "this IS romeo and juliet...i think you're meant to kiss her on the lips...it IS like the biggest love story ever"

Tristan sighed at her and flatly replied "yes i know that but we're rehearsing" then turning to dean again "i didn't want to make things uncomfortable"

rory knew Tristan was toying with her boyfriend but at this moment she was actually grateful towards tristan. He could have kissed her and made it awkard or even worse he could have told her boyfriend about that kiss at the party.
All he had done was stir him a little at doosey's, but that was tristan..had to do something to annoy her. They wrapped up rehearsals and all went their separate ways with paris shouting out at them the rehearsal times for the next day.


It was dark when she heard the tap at her bedroom window. She wondered why Dean hadn't come to the door, after all he hadn't left long ago. Instead she saw blond hair and peeked out to see tristan standing there. She opened the wndow and looked at him questioningly. "tristan...what are you doing here?"

"Hey mary, thought i'd come and check out your place. Not much else to do in this town" he said quietly letting himself in through the window rory had opened.

"why didn't you knock at the door" rory asked confused

"oh...mary on a school night" said tristan with fake shock on his face " ... a boy coming around..what would your mother think"

"haha and she's not here anyway"

"well in that case we have the place to ourselves" he raised his eyebrows suggestively "can i at least be offered a drink?"

Rory led them both into the kitchen where tristan had insisted on drinking one of her mother's beers and she stood against the counter with a soda.

"actually...i'm here to kiss you" tristan said smiling

"excuse me?" rory nearly choked on her drink the fizz going up her nose

"for the play....we haven't practised it yet" he said matter of factly and took another swig of beer

"you know how to kiss tristan" rory said glaring at him

" mmmm....do i? last time i seemed to remember you running off crying" tristan said with a mock pout and a tilt of his head

"that wasn't because of that and you know it. I thought we talked about this. i thought we weren't going to mention it again"

"well i also recall you told me the kiss was fine...."

"it was"

"well what if i couldn't help myself and let it slip that we kissed and you enjoyed it..." tristan smiled

rory had just started to relax a little in tristan's company and now he had given her reason to be on igh alert again. she was angry and a little hurt

"why would you do that?"

"why not...grocery boy should know you have feelings for me"

"what? i don't tristan.I have made that very clear. I have dean and you know that he's my boyfriend"

"you made it clear by kissing me? mmmm... why did you dump him and then hit on me the next day at a party?"

"it wasn't like that and you know it" rory's voice was rising a little now

"won't seem that way to him though would it?"

Rory's mouth fell open in shock. She knew Tristan liked to get on her nerves but this was getting beyond that.

"unless of course you could prove it...?" tristan mused

"huh...?how?"

"kiss me" he said smiling and moving towards her

"no..i have a boyfriend"

"ahh..but we have to...you know for the play so technically it's not cheating..it's homework. Besides if you don't that just proves you're scarfed to because you don't trust yourself around me..."

"finee then" Rory grabbed tristan's face with two hands and kissed him fiercly, then stood back raising her own eyebrows and placed her hands on her hips.

Tristan smirked and licked his lips running his thumb across where she'd kissed him.

"mmm...much too aggressive for the play...this is romeo and juilet after all...should be romantic" he said smiling

he leaned in and placed one arm around her waist then softly kissed her lips gently licking them until she let him in and he entwined her tongue with his. He slowly and delibrately brought his free hand to her face and through her hair.
she moaned into him and he felt her give into the kiss.