A/N- hi everybody! This is a story I made up after watching the episode where Jess comes back to Stars Hollow to fix his car and keeps on running into Rory. Kind of remember that one? Well, at the end he tells Rory that he loves her. What if he hadn't driven away? What if he had stayed? Would something have happened? Read on to find out!

PS: some of the words and actions you will recognize do come from the episode, but I've changed the words up a bit. Just wanted to let y'all know.

Disclaimer- ok it is a known fact that I don't own Gilmore girls, never did, never will, blah blah blah! But it is my favorite show, so shouldn't that count for something?

Chapter one

I love you

Rory Gilmore stood in line at the firelights festival. She tried to keep her mind focused on the festival, but it kept traveling back to Jess. What was he doing here? Why did he come back after almost a year? She had imagined a hundred different reasons he might have come back, a hundred different things he could have said to her. But when she kept running into Jess earlier in the day, he just left.

She turned to look around at the festival, to distract herself, but only found Jess standing by his car, looking at her. She couldn't watch him run away again.

"It's my town, so I'll run away!" she cried as she sped down the street.

"Rory wait," Jess called after her.

She didn't look back but kept in running.

"Rory!"

He flew down the street after her.

"No!' she yelled, picking up her pace.

"We have to talk."

"No we don't."

"Come on Rory, we look like idiots, stop running!" he called making circles around her as she tried to escape. She ran faster, but Jess so caught hold of her arm.

"Rory, we need to talk."

"What could we possibly need to talk about?"

"We…we just do."

"Look Jess, I've imagined a hundred ways you could come back and talk to me, a thousand things you could have said. But now it's been almost a year, and you just decide to come back? You didn't write to me, you didn't call me like you promised. You just left. And now you expect me to listen to what you ah veto say?"

"Yes." Jess's voice was quiet, but intense.

She stared at him blankly.

"What?"

"Just listen please Rory."

"Fine. You want to talk, talk. Say anything you want, it's your only chance."

"Could we at least sit down?"

"No. you wanted to talk to me, and I'm listening. What could you possibly have to say after all this time?"

Jess stared at her, emotions running deep in his eyes. He took a deep breath.

"I love you."

Rory stared at him in awe, unbelieving. This was impossible. He couldn't have possibly gone all this way to just to say that. But he did come and say it! He said it! He said he loved me!

While all this was registering in her brain, Jess took it as his cue to leave. He glanced one more time at her, thinking it would be his last for a long long time, maybe forever. He loved this girl, but he couldn't have her. He had made too many mistakes.

Jess turned on his heel, and walked away towards his car. He was just about to go in and drive off when something stopped him. He turned, and saw Rory calling to him.

"Jess wait."