IN THIS STORY THE LAST TIME RORY HAS SEEN JESS WAS WHEN HE SHOWED UP AT HER GRANDPARENTS HOUSE TO CONVINCE HER TO GO BACK TO YALE. IT IS THE SUMMER BEFORE RORYS LAST YEAR AT YALE.
Rory Gilmore is standing anxiously in the elevator. It seems as if it is taking an eternity to reach her floor. Rory is anxious to see Logan, having just got back from a trip to Stars Hollow.
!DING!
The elevator comes to a halt and the door opens. "Finally!" Rory thinks to herself. Rory steps out and takes a deep breath. She walks anxiously towards the door. No wait, her door, their door. She and Logan had been living together for a couple months now. It was new, and sometimes felt kind of uncomfortable, but she felt that she would eventually get used to it.
Rory stands outside the door while rummaging through her purse to find her keys. "I really need to get some kind of locator or something. It would be annoying though having to carry the big remote in my purse."
"Found em," she exclaims
Rory slips the key into the slot, and with a jiggle and a push of the door, she's in.
"LOGAN!"
She hears nothing. Rory walks into the living room and hears a girlish; no wait let me rephrase that, not girlish, sluttish giggle. Rory suspiciously walks into the room that she and Logan have shared for a number of months and sees a leggy blonde straddling him.
" Logan?"
Logan pushed the blonde off of him and quickly jumps off the bed. He is obviously surprised to see Rory.
Rory stands there for a moment, staring at what she sees in front of her.
"Ok, its ok Rory. Maybe its not what it looks like. What am I saying? Of course its what it looks like. Some slut he probably picked up at a bar is all over him! No, Logan wouldn't do that to me. Not me."
After a couple minutes the shock wears off
" Oh my god, you're cheating on me!" Rory says quietly her words dripping with hurt.
" Rory let me explain"
Thoughts are racing through her mind she starts quickly to the door
" I have to get out of here"
Logan is walking steadily right behind her trying to explain himself.
While all of this is going on the blonde is getting dressed in their bedroom.
" Rory, wait it's not what it looks like"
She quickly and fiercely turns around
" Its not what it looks like? Its not what it looks like! You mean you aren't cheating on me with some bottle blonde bimbo"
Logan stutters and cant think of a lie fast enough.
" I'll be here tomorrow at three to pick up my stuff. DON'T be here"
With that she walks out slamming the door behind her.
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Rory walks down the hall with tears dripping down her face.
She gets into her car, tears streaming down her face. Rory rests her head on the steering wheel.
She has a thought, lifts her head up, and uses the palm of her hands to dry her eyes.
I'm not going to be sitting here crying, wasting my time on somebody who doesn't even have the decency to break up with me before they start sleeping with someone else! I'm going to be proactive! Yah! I'm going to do something so unlike me. I'm going to live on the edge. I'm going to do something exciting, the question is what.
Rory starts the car and heads off onto the highway looking for something liberating to do. She sees a hair salon and makes a rather dangerous turn into the parking lot.
Ahha! Just what I need a haircut! That is a good change, what girl doesn't like getting their hair done."
With that thought Rory got out of her car. Walking confidently to the shop.
Rory is sitting in the salon chair, feeling good about her decision to make the change.
The hairdresser, accompanied by scissors, approaches her.
" So sweetie what do you want done?" The New York bred hairdresser simply asks.
" Can you cut it about shoulder length" Rory replies meekly, but yet at the same time still sure of her decision.
" No problem sweet cakes"
Within 30 minutes the haircut is done. Rory turns around and for the first time since the cut, looks in the mirror. She likes it and is excited but she feels something is missing. She needs something more. She needs something to really get her adrenaline pumping.
Rory pays and walks out. She quickly jumps back into her car, and sets out on a mission to do something exciting. She is looking for something to set her free.
"There it is! I have found what I've been looking for"
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Rory strolls into the tattoo parlor like its something she does every day. Anybody who knows Rory Gilmore would laugh at that statement. She looks at the wall of tattoos, but decides that they are all ordinary. She needs something different. Something that not every other girl has.
Just then a woman with tattoos from head to toe approaches her. Startling her out of the thoughts.
"Is there anything I can help you with?"
" Um, yes actually I was thinking about getting a tattoo, but I don't think I want anything on the wall"
"Well lucky for you we have a tattoo artist. If you want to go into that room over there he can sketch up what you are interested in"
Rory gingerly walks into the room this whole thing being new to her. She is feeling awkward, shy, and out of place.
There is a man sitting there engrossed in his artwork.
" Um excuse me… The lady out there said you could help me"
" That I can. Why don't you tell me what you want and I will sketch it up for you."
" Well I want something small… Like a bird… I want it to represent new freedom"
"Well let's see what we can do"
2 hours later Rory is happily walking out of the tattoo parlor feeling complete. She pulls down her skirt a tad to reveal her new tattoo. Located on her hip. It is a sky colored bird flying upward towards the sky. It represents that she is starting new and is going to keep going up.
She gets into her car smiling.
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Rory decides she will head back towards Stars Hollow. She after all has nowhere else to go. Within 30 minutes Rory is pulling into the comforting driveway of the place that served as her home for 18 years.
She opens the door and walks in.
"MOM!"
"ARE YOU HOME?"
Lorelai runs down the stairs to greet her daughter.
"Back so soon, is something wrong? Or did you just miss mommy?" Lorelai says with a smile but still genuinely concerned.
" Well I will give you more details in the morning, but, to sum it up I walked in the apartment to find Logan with company. Blonde, lingerie clad, company"
" Oh sweetie I'm so sorry"
Lorelai wraps her arms around Rory and does the same.
They stay that way for a couple minutes.
" I think I'm just gonna go to bed, ok"
" Yah that's fine. You go rest I'll talk to you in the morning"
Rory walks into her room, shuts the door, and collapses onto her bed.
Rory lies there in her bed but cant sleep. Instead she cries and thinks, and thinks and cries, it is a vicious cycle. She thinks of all her past relationships and why they failed.
Dean and her just grew apart they were more like friends than lovers. They had little in common. Dean wasn't interested in the things she was. He never got her jokes and didn't read like she did. They were running out of things to talk about towards the end of their relationship. He was a good boyfriend but way to clingy. They just weren't meant to be.
Logan was arrogant and a lying son of a bitch and she is now kicking herself for having wasted almost 3 years on that jerk. "I wonder if this is how Lindsay felt?" Rory makes herself stop thinking about that. It is just way to painful.
Then she thinks of Jess. Instead of cry, she smiles. Jess and her had a rocky relationship. She really liked Jess though. They had the same taste in books and music. He really had never done anything wrong, except leave. Rory reminisces about their time together. She really does miss him.
"I think he may have been the only guy I have ever really loved."
With that last thought Rory falls asleep thinking of those chocolate eyes.