My favorite Mary

Chapter 2: Tristan's Life

Tristan's POV: 2002-2003

I was sent off to Military school because I acted stupid and broke into Bowman's dad's safe. I got shipped away and they didn't. 

I lost my chance with the only girl I have ever felt a connection with. I really did like her. She was my Mary. I am going to do my time here graduate and go to college and make something out of myself other than just being a Dugray one of the Hartford Elites. 

Once, I graduated and I was offered a job at the school. They recommended that I attend college and earn a degree in counseling since I had trouble as a teen. I can help troubled kids with their issues.

Every night I dream about my Mary. I can't even get a good night's rest all I can see is those blue eyes and the sad look on her face the last time I saw her. 

Those blue eyes haunt my dreams and even haunt me while I am awake. I think I am in love with her.  

2003-2007:

I attended NYU for a counseling degree. I graduated and went to work immediately back at Fishburne Military School in Virginia. 

I bought a house in Virginia and I signed a contract from May 2007 ending May 2016. 

I haven't even dated anyone seriously since I left Chilton. For some reason, I compare every girl to that of one Rory Gilmore or my Mary. I made a few friends at the academy that I stay in contact with. 

Bryan is one of my closest friends, Ray is another good friend who lives in the area, and Scott is as well. So I live a dull boring life we go out to dinner and maybe out to a bar a couple of times a week. 

I really grew up when I was sent to this Academy. The college years have been good except girls always try to get me to take them home. 

I have had a few one-night stands but that is the only thing they were. Because I simply kissed her once and she ran away crying. Then during our Romeo and Juliet death scene, we kissed but that was simply a school project and she was still with bagboy.

I am still haunted by those blue eyes. I need to find her. 

2016:

I have decided to not renew my contract and I am going back to college to get a Ph.D. in Physiology. I already have a Master's in counseling and now I can go back and further my degree. I am going to Columbia University back in New York.

I have already bought a nice three bedroom two bath loft near Central Park. My house in Virginia sold pretty quickly so I was able to move into this loft faster than planned and I was able to pay for it upfront.

I received my trust fund from my grandfather when he passed away three years ago. So, I had plenty to pay for the loft and furniture with that as well as my tuition. I still have most of my earnings from the academy so I will be set for a few years without the need to work. 

I also still have most of my trust fund left. Now, I can relax once I get everything from the move unpacked. 

I start school in a few weeks and I can get this degree finished. Then maybe one day find someone who will attract me as much as my Mary did. 

He went back to his thoughts of the first time he saw her sitting in class. She was so young and so pure. She is the one girl who never succumbed to my stupid flirting and yet she is the only girl I ever wanted. 

Even more so now that I am grown she is still the only woman I think about. I followed her articles when I was in college and while she was on the Obama Campaign after that I don't know what happened to her. 

I did see one article that was in The New Yorker but that was it. Now if I could just find her life would be great. I doubt that will ever happen. 

I did hear that her grandfather Richard passed away and I almost thought about flying in and attending the funeral but I knew Mary would not be interested in seeing me at such a horrible time in her life. 

Those blue eyes have haunted me for the last fourteen years. My luck she is happily married and has a family. 

I had received an invitation to the Chilton Mentor day but I wasn't sure if I should go or not. Would my Mary be there? Would she be happily married with a family? Could I handle it if she was? My dreams about her, and the hope of finding her is what keeps me striving to be better.  

He looked out the window and wondered if she was here in this same city with all these people. He shook his head to clear his thoughts.

A/N: Sorry this chapter is so short I just did the best I could for what his character has been up to since he left in season 2.