My first attempt at a Gilmore Girls fanfic. Its gonna be a short one because i have another one in mind that i have the perfect storyline, i just wanted to try this one out first. If i get good reviews i will continue it..so please Review!!

Chapter 1

A Return

A Change of Heart

(Rory is in college, but it's summer break so she is at home. She is 21.)

Rory sat there on her bed. She had been waiting for some kind of contact from Jess, but she hadn't gotten anything. Not a note, a call, or an email from him. She was heartbroken. For the first time in her life she really loved someone, other than her mom, and he left her. Although she said she loved Dean, it wasn't the same like it was with Jess.

Jess was different from Dean, from any other guy. Sure he was a troubled guy and acted like no one was important except him, but when he was with her he was a totally different guy. He treated her different than Dean. Dean was so clingy and always had to know what Rory was doing and where she was. She never got her personal space when she needed it. Jess, on the other hand, knew exactly when she needed to be alone and gave her enough space.

Now that Jess was gone, everything seemed to fall apart. EVERYTHING! Well, to Rory it seemed that way.

"Rory! Hey chica, are you listening to me?" Lorelai asked concerned. It wasn't like Rory to ignore her when she was talking. So something must be up.

"Oh, uh, sorry mom. What were you saying?"

"I was saying that Luke has been acting strange lately. He hasn't been talking to me as much and his coffee seems a bit off. What if he isn't Luke, but some kind of robot or zombie or something! Wouldn't that be weird.?!" Lorelai babbled on.

"Mom, I highly doubt Luke is a robot or zombie. Maybe he just has a lot on his mind."

"Oh you take the fun out of everything!"

"Sorry." Rory mumbled.

"Rory, something is bothering you. What is it?"

"It's just, it's just that ever since Jess left, it feels like I will never love again."

"Rory, don't say that. There will be another guy in your life, one that will be infinitely better than Jess." Lorelai comforted.

"No! There will never be anyone better than Jess. How could you say that? Jess was everything to me! I loved him mom, LOVED him! I want him to come back!" Rory started to tear up and Luke noticed the scene going on between the two of them.

"Rory, sweetie, you have to know that you can't live on the past. You need to move forward and know that Jess is not coming back." Lorelai sympathetically replied.

"No, no, NO!" Rory cried and ran off.

"Rory, Rory wait!" Lorelai called out to her daughter who ran out of the diner.

Lorelai sighed and sat down at one of the tables. Luke walked over to where Lorelai was sitting and sat down at the table.

"What's going on?" Luke asked reaching for Lorelai's hand.

"Rory really misses Jess and is convinced that she won't ever find another guy." Lorelai said shaking her head.

"Um, Lorelai. I have to tell you something." Luke said hesitantly.

"What?"

"Jess called today. He said he was coming back. According to him he put himself together. Is this alright with you, because if you don't want him to come back then I will tell him he can't stay here."

"No, it's ok. I think Rory would want him to come back, but I won't tell her. I think that Jess would have to be the one…so when he gets back, send him over."

Lorelai wasn't sure how great it was that Jess was coming back, but she knew it would do Rory some good. She looked up at Luke who had been silent for a few minutes.

"I think that's where he is heading now." Luke finally said.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, I just saw him walking that way."

"What?! He is here already?" Lorelai looked outside to see Jess carrying something and heading for her house. "I'm not even sure if Rory went back home"

"Well just let him find her then. Stay here and give them privacy."

Lorelai sighed and Luke watched Jess as he slowly made his way out of his view.

Rory had taken off to her house. Although she knew her mom would know that's where she was going, she went there anyway. She ran into her room and dove onto her bed and let the tears flow.

A few minutes later the phone began to ring. She thought it would be her mom, but got up and answered it anyways.

"Hello?" Rory answered.

"…." the person on the other line was silent.

"Hello?!" Rory asked again slightly annoyed.

"Rory." Jess finally responded.

"Jess!" Rory said shocked and breathless. She had been waiting for him to call, to contact her, she had been waiting to hear his voice for so long.

"Rory, I'm sorry I left you, I just had to clear my head."

"Jess…where are you?" Rory asked to excited to pay attention to his apology.

"Where are you?" Jess asked quickly to change the subject.

"I'm at my house, but you didn't answer my question. Where are you?"

"Look outside." Jess said and hung up.

Rory looked confused but ran to her window and looked out. There, across the street was Jess. Rory thought she was seeing things so she went to the door and opened it. Sure enough he was still there. In shock she stood there, when she finally snapped out of it she ran to him crying.

Jess dropped his bag and ran to her. When they met he wrapped his arms around her and she wept in his arms. She had missed him so much and didn't expect him to come back.

Jess held her tighter each time she sobbed, he couldn't forgive himself for just leaving her like that.

"Rory, I'm so sorry I left you, but I had to clear my head and I had to go do something productive with my life. I couldn't support you with the way I was living, but now I can."

Rory looked up at Jess with tears in her eyes. She placed her hand on his cheek and kissed him.

"Jess, you could have told me where you were going. I just needed to know that you would be back. I just needed to know that simple thing, but you didn't tell me. Why didn't you tell me?"

"I didn't tell you because I wanted to surprise you, I wanted to become something you could be proud of." At that he pulled something out of his back pocket and handed it to her.

Rory watched Jess curiously as he pulled something out of his back pocket. When he handed it to her she looked up at Jess curiously.

"A book?" She questioned.

"Yes, look at the author." Jess said.

"Jess Mariano…You wrote a book?!" Rory shrieked.

"Yeah, it's no big deal really. Just got lucky. I just wrote down some of my thoughts and a publisher got a hold of it and said he wanted to publish it. There weren't that many copies printed." Jess explained.

"But you wrote a book." Rory looked up to Jess and started smiling. She wrapped her arms around his neck and hugged him. "I'm so proud of you Jess!"

Jess returned the hug and said, "The surprise isn't over yet."

Rory pulled away and looked at Jess curiously. Jess reached into his jacket pocket and pulled a small black box out. Rory recognizing what it was, gasped.

Jess opened the box and got down on one knee.

"Rory, I know I hurt you when I left like that but I wanted to make sure that I could provide for you, support you. So now I ask, will you marry me?"

Rory began crying hysterically.

Jess in panic stood up and took Rory's hands. "Is that a yes or no?"

"That's a yes silly!" Rory said through tears wrapping her arms around him and kissing him.

"Well you scared me!" Jess said laughing and kissing her back.

Luke and Lorelai had walked to see where Jess went. They saw everything. When Jess pulled out the black box from his pocket and knelt down, Lorelai gasped.

"Is he doing what I think he's doing?" Luke whispered in shock.

"Yes he is doing what you think he's doing!" Lorelai shushed him.

"Well I never thought Jess as the committed type." Luke mumbled.

Lorelai watched Rory and knew that she said yes just by her actions. Seeing Rory get engaged made her realize that Rory was not a baby anymore, she was an adult who could make her own decisions.

Luke looked over to Lorelai and saw her crying. "What's wrong?" he asked reaching for her.

"It looks like my baby isn't a baby anymore. She is a young woman, and engaged woman." Lorelai said wiping tears from her eyes.

"Well should we go over there and greet them, or just head back to the diner?" Luke asked holding Lorelai's hand.

"I think we should let them tell us when they are ready. So don't make any kind of hint that we know of this until they tell us." Lorelai said walking off with Luke.

There you have it! Hope you enjoyed! review please! let me know what you thought, again first GG fanfic!