This is my first Gilmore Girls Fic, please read and review. I do not own the characters of Jess, Rory, Lorelai, Luke, and others from the great Gilmore girls show. I do, however, own the characters of Raye Markson, her mother and others respectively. Reviews are always appreciated, and WARNING... there may be spoilers, so be careful what you read. There is a bit of language. Otherwise, enjoy!

Chapter 1- I Love you, Goodbye.

"So what are you going to do now Jess?" Luke asked. Jess just shrugged and drove off; he couldn't believe that Luke followed him all the way up to Boston. "You told her you loved her!" He yelled out at her.

"Yeah, well..." he mumbled to himself. This time he was headed to New York, there was nobody there to mess with him. No father, no mother, no Rory, and definitely no Luke. He rubbed his eyes of sleep as he pressed on through the night. "I don't want to listen to any more of your incessant bitching." He mumbled to himself as he thought about Rory. The music of Chevelle blasted in his car stereo as he listened to the local rock station. The rain poured down on him as he drove, he didn't know where he was going to end up, he just knew that the chapter of his life in Stars Hollow was now over.

Raye skulked at home, stuck again, reading 'pride and prejudice', because her mother decided that she wasn't going to be allowed to go out that night. She ran a hand through her shoulder length red hair and sighed. She put down her book and started to play some music from her favorite band, Serial Joe. She picked up the book again, and sighed a bit, taking her seat back up on the windowsill.

"You know, you could be a little more quiet over there." Her mom called over to the window where she sat.

" I could just leave." Raye mumbled under her breath.

"No, you're going to stay in." Her mother commanded. Raye knew that her mother had no direct control over her, her attempts to control her were futile, Raye always ended up running away somewhere for a while.

"I'm leaving." Raye stood up and grabbed her keys and jacket and left. She never looked back when she left, just forward to where she was going, to her car. Raye had earned enough money to buy herself a nice '95 eclipse that she could race. She didn't know where she was going tonight, she just headed south.

Raye always longed for freedom, and was so close to it. She had finished school up in Canada. Her mother had decided their fate by following her deadbeat boyfriend to New York, uprooting Raye in the process. She hated her mother for that, yet at the same time, cared about her mom, hoping that she'd be okay.