Authors note: It's set at the end of season 3 I guess, they're in their last week of school and got the summer holidays to spend their last weeks together. Fairly steady relationship, sleeping with each other, love each other. Both might seem out of character but this is how I'm writing it. I don't know if it's R material, what Americans think is R Australians totally don't. 8 Mile here was M which basically means a 5 year old could go see it if they wanted to. So if its R and I offending u by putting it PG, please tell me. Sorry if the 1st chapt is a bit short.
Summary: Road trip baby.
Disclaimer: Don't own nothing.
Let's go somewhere far together
Rory laid there on her bed and drew herself closer to Jess. She said to him quietly,
"I like this town; it seems so much cleaner than any other place I've been."
"But you've hardly been anywhere."
"But I'm going to travel and it will be dirtier than here."
"Where will you go?"
"Somewhere far."
"Yes. I want to go somewhere far."
"Do you like this town?"
"No."
"Then why are you still here?"
"I don't know. Why are you still here?"
"I don't know either."
"Let's go somewhere far together."
"Let's go as far as the stars."
"And we'll stay together for so long."
"And we'll live in a place so dirty."
"And we'll never come back."
"Yes. I'd like that."
Both the young people closed their eyes and dreamed of going so far.
It was the next day and she was tired. She walked into her empty house and took off her shoes and stockings. It was hot and her body felt dirty. Her uniform made her sweat all day. She went into her room and slid her skirt off her waist and pulled her shirt over her head. She let them drop to the floor and appreciated the few hours she had after school before her mum came home from work. She smelt her sweat and her face was shiny and she turned on her fan and laid down on her bed in exhaustion. She was in her pale pink bra and white cotton undies. Jess climbed through her window and sat on the bed beside her. He was not shocked to see her in her undies. He was used to her naked now. She did not turn to him and he kept his head to the floor, they did not look at each other. He laid his hand on her bum and talked softly.
"I still want to go far."
"Yes. Maybe we can drive away together."
"That would be nice. We could drive away from it all."
"And only when we ran out of petrol and money would we stop driving."
"And we would never drive back here."
"No."
They sat in silence but to her the silence seemed to say so much. She was still sweating. Her pillows and sheets started to smell like her sweat now. She stood up and went into the bathroom. He followed her and watched as she went got out of her undies and into the shower. He did not follow her into the shower but sat on the toilet seat. She did not shut the curtain shower. His eyes were to the ground and she knew he was dreaming. Of a place that was not here.
They had been together forever now. She could not remember when she got used to sleeping with him but she knew she liked it and could never go back. Her mother did not know and she wasn't going to tell her. It was their last weeks together now. The summer was a few days away and after that would be Harvard. And for him, Columbia. They weren't going to try to make it work. They knew they were going to leave. They weren't stupid. They were going to say goodbye and they were going to move on. Life wasn't Dawson's Creek.
She scrubbed the invisible dirt away from her body that she knew was there and turned to him through the steam of the shower. She stood in all her glory and did not feel embarrassed. She spoke over the drumming water.
"Let's really drive away together Jess."
"All my bags are packed."
"I'm ready to go."
"I'm standing here outside your door."
"I hate to wake you up to say good bye."
She hummed the tune and smiled at him. She turned off the shower and dried herself with a towel. She wrapped it around her and sat down on his lap. She put her arms around his neck and he smelt in her clean smell. Water dripped off her hair and it dripped down her skin and stuck to her lashes.
"I mean it Jess. Let's do a road trip together."
"For the summer."
"For the summer. Then we drive back here at the end."
"And we leave each other."
"Forever."
"And all the memories we will have left will be our road trip."
"And when I'm at Harvard, and people ask what I did for the summer, I'll say I went on the best road trip ever with my boyfriend."
"With your ex-boyfriend."
"With my ex-boyfriend."
"I don't want to be called that."
"But it will happen."
"Everything will eventually happen."
"Yes. Maybe if we met each other when we were older, we would've married each other."
"But we didn't."
"No."
"I want to go on a road trip with you Rory."
"Then we will go then."
"I wish we didn't have to drive back here though."
"Maybe we don't."
"No, we do. You can't drive away from reality."
"Thelma and Louise did."
She played with his hand and looked at their blurred reflection in the fogged up mirror. Just like them. Two confused kids who looked at the world and could not see through fog and understand it all. He sighed.
"Maybe that's not a bad way to end Ror."
She kissed him deeply. He looked scared.
"I don't want to go back to New York. I don't want to leave you."
"Lets just go on our road trip and forget about it all, just like our dream."
"But we have to come back."
"Let's just pretend that we don't Jess. Let's just pretend that we don't."
The fog and steam started to fade away and the heat in the bathroom started to drop temperature. She was cold now. But she did not move. She knew that Jess did not want to move. She knew he wanted to stay here holding here and thinking of driving far away and pretending they didn't have to return.