Coffee at Luke's: An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest (Smart Pop Series) Read Online Free PDF

Rory’s help. Paris invited Rory to be her VP in the student council race so that Paris would get enough votes to win, and then became paranoid that Rory was going to take over. Hardly a surprise, considering that most of the other council members seemed to like Rory better than Paris. All of this must have come as an incredible blow to Paris, who put much more effort into these things than Rory. The worst part must have been Rory’s refusal to acknowledge that the two were even competing.
     
    This sort of upstaging didn’t stop at Chilton—Rory got into Harvard and decided not to go, while Paris didn’t even get in. Not surprisingly, the academic competition cooled a bit once they arrived at Yale. With Rory majoring in journalism and Paris in pre-med, it was unlikely they would have many classes together. But even there, Rory stole Paris’s thunder. When Paris was made editor of the Yale Daily News , her micro-managing determination to be the best only drove away the staff and, just like with the student council at Chilton, the students that remained turned to Rory. Everyone seemed to realize that Rory was the only person who could really get through to Paris—everyone except Rory, that is. Rory was reluctant to interfere, but when Paris finally snapped she had no other choice. Rory wasn’t angling to be the next editor, but she ended up with the job anyway.
     
    But in between these spurts of competition, Paris and Rory have managed to be amazingly supportive of each other. When Paris appeared as Rory’s roommate at Yale, it came as a complete shock to Rory, but she never suggested changing rooms and ended up living with Paris the year after, as well. Rory’s the one who showed up at the hospital for Paris when Asher Flemming collapsed, and she was the one who found Paris a job when Paris found out she was broke. Paris is equally supportive of Rory, in her own way. She covered for Rory when Dean found Jess at the Gilmores’, convincing Dean that Jess was only there because of Paris’s crush on him. She also pushed Rory at Chilton and attempted to convince her to come back to Yale when she decided to take some time off, something Rory eventually saw the wisdom of. When both girls found themselves suddenly dumped and single, they wound up sharing a sketchy apartment and wallowing together.
     

A Perfect Match
     
    Paris had more trouble allowing herself to become friends with Rory, but she has also ended up appreciating it more. For the most part, Rory just seems to tolerate Paris; she doesn’t seem to place as high a value on the relationship. After Chilton, Rory seemed content to forget about her. It was Paris (with the help of her life coach) who requested to be Rory’s roommate at Yale. While she considers Paris a friend, Rory isn’t the one seeking the relationship out; Paris is. Paris even admitted to Lorelai that she was lost without Rory. She was speaking academically, but her words hold true for more than that.
     
    In fact, friends doesn’t seem to be quite the right word to describe people wanting to strangle each other with the nearest rope-like object. But they aren’t enemies, either, and haven’t been since they set aside the animosity from their first months together at Chilton. They are roommates, on and off, but that term also doesn’t convey the extent of their relationship. If it weren’t for the lack of sex, I would say the best way to describe their relationship would be soul mates.
     
    Yes, soul mates.
     
    Although they are completely platonic (drunken spring break kisses notwithstanding), Paris and Rory’s friendship has all the elements of a great relationship. They are alike enough to get along, but different enough to challenge each other. Their relationship, from the awkward beginning to the series of misunderstandings, fights, and mishaps that followed, has all the makings of a classic romantic comedy.
     
    Paris and Rory have a lot to learn from each other. With Rory,