AN: When Jess asks Rory to come away with him, Rory says yes, but when the summer ends and Rory goes back to school again and is juggling less time with her boyfriend and a new boy… Logan. Jess isn't the guy to just let Rory go like Dean did. Logan coming later, I promise! Please give me any pointers or support in reviews... partly to remind me to keep writing!

"Come with me Rory!" Jess' voice was filled with desperation, "I want to be with you, but not here, not in Stars Hollow!"

"Okay." Rory surprised herself with her answer, but grabbed Jess by the hand. She was ready for whatever this summer was going to throw at them.

"No, don't get up, go back to sleep!" Jess grabbed Rory's wrist to stop her third attempt and getting up that morning.

"I've got school in three days Jess! I want to get up now!" She argued, her voice betraying any truth that may have come from that last sentence.

"You look too tired Rory! We can't have you tired! And you don't sound like you really want to get up either… maybe it's safer if you just stay here with me for a little while, rest a bit longer." He wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her towards him, placing kisses along her back.

"You know I don't want to go Jess… I mean, I have to pick up my stuff from my mothers! She hasn't spoken to me since I dropped my stuff off with her and told her that I was spending my summer with you. Not that I'm complaining, I've had a lot of… fun… but she didn't seem so happy when I told her. Hey! It's your fault I'm so tired anyway!! Now, thanks to you mister, I'm late! I have to get up now." She pulled herself from his grip and climbed off the mattress that lay on the motel floor, making her way over a box of clothes. She began to pull out various garments deciding what she was going to wear that day.

"First of all, it takes two to tango… and this is the first I've heard of your complaints! And secondly, you don't have to do anything, you're an Ivy League girl! The world's your oyster! Just ignore the fact that I used two cheesy clichés… see! It is too early, now come back to bed!" He was practically begging for an extra five minutes, but she was dressed now and using all her will power to stay vertical and not climb back onto the mattress.

"All valid points, but, if I want to continue to be an Ivy League girl then that would mean going to and Ivy League school which would mean having my stuff! So by staying in bed an extra five minutes with you I could completely destroy my entire future!" She finished dramatically.

"Fine then!" He said defeated, "But Rory," he waited for her to humph a reply, "I love you."

"I love you too." She said and smiled out the door, until she remembered where she was headed.

Rory knocked hesitantly at the door, it opened mere seconds later.

"Rory… is it true, can that be you?" Lorelai said is mock disbelief before embracing her daughter.

"Mom! You've known for months that I was com-" she was cut off.

"But it has been forever, a life time, not a word, a whisper, a sigh!" her mother went on dramatically.

"I left you five messages!" She was secretly overjoyed that her mother was doing this to her, a bit was always better than the silent treatment.

"I had the funeral planned, Kirk was going to give a speech…" Lorelai was clearly not finished and had some way to go. Rory walked into the house and made her way to her room, her mother following her with her monolog.

"The days I spent mourning, reading trash mags, eating ice-cream, watching late night television… was all for no reason as…" Rory started sorting through her stuff and putting it in boxes.

"And now, I have the task of telling Kirk… the human, that I no longer have a need to buy Kirk… the cat, because my prodigal son… or daughter has returned!" She finished dramatically half an hour later. Rory sighed a sigh of relief and hugged her mother.

"I missed you so much!" she squeezed into the hug. "Once I get these loaded into my car, can we go to Luke's… we have so much to talk about, I miss you so much! Have I said I'm sorry, because I'm so sorry! I mean, summer was great, I don't regret it, but the way I did it was so wrong… so how about Luke's then?"

"I'd love to!" Lorelai smiled at her daughter, all anger diminished in the joy of a reunion, "Speaking of Luke… while you were gone the most peculiar thing happened between us. It was the inns test run night, and Kirk was running around naked…"

So this is the end of the first chapter, Logan will come in later… I promise! This is more setting up the story and Rory's current situation of relationship bliss with Jess and now, her mother, Logan will come in soon for better or worse.