A/N: I suddenly just inspiration for this story last night, around midnight and immediately started to write it before I lost it. (Which I often do) So I'm typing it up now (no duh) and I really hope u like it. It isn't much, one shot so far, but might make it longer if need be.
Back round info for this fic: Lorelai and Luke got married end of season 6 when she asked him to, she never slept with Christopher. Soon after Lorelai got pregnant and gave birth to twins, a girl and boy. Rory broke up with Logan at graduation (that part's the same). 16 months ago Rory and Jess got back together for 2 months, but he left again. Rory found out later that she was pregnant, but never told Jess. She named the child Jessie, who is now 7 months old. And…I think that's it. Oh! Rory and Jessie live in Luke's old apartment, Luke and Lorelai put an addition on their house.
The Twenty-Second
Rory sipped her coffee as she wrote the last sentence of her article. She had wanted to finish before Jessie woke up from her afternoon nap.
As Lorelai often said, Jessie was the cutest baby in the entire world. Rory often agreed.
Jessie had her father's chocolaty brown eyes and unruly almost black hair. But her mother's porcelain skin and smile, one that Lorelai claimed all responsibility for.
Rory checked her watch. She still had about twenty minutes before she had to wake up Jessie. Rory decided to get it; she'd been planning on doing it all day, but was waiting for a quiet moment to actually do.
She got up and rummaged around in the back of her closet.
"I don't know how the hell Luke lived here for as log as he did," She muttered to herself. That reminded her that she had dinner with Lorelai tonight. Now that Rory didn't have to go to Emily's for Friday night dinner, Lorelai had them at the Crap Shack instead. Minus the Emily and Richard, of course.
Rory privately thought it was only because Lorelai couldn't remember what she used to do on Friday nights that she kept the dinners up, but kept that to herself.
She finally found the box she was looking for and placed it on her bed. It was a medium sized moving box, and even though she'd been living in Luke's old apartment for over a year, she wasn't planning on unpacking it any time soon.
It was her Jess box.
She hid it in her closet and every month on the twenty-second (that was their anniversary) he would open it up and look through everything. Jessie also happened to be born on the twenty-second. But that was pure coincidence.
No one knew about the box, or what she did every month. She didn't want them to think she was pining. Which she wasn't.
Was she?
'No', she told herself firmly. 'You're remembering. There's a difference. A huge difference.'
She carefully opened the worn box and started to remove things from it.
There was the shirt he let her borrow and she'd never returned. About two dozen books he had either written in or bought for her, and about thirty CDs that he gave her. The earplugs from the concert he had take her to; plus the t-shirt from the same concert. Her Bid-A-Basket, from when she was seventeen. The teddy bear from the winter carnival. And her bridesmaid dress from Sokkie's wedding...this one as her favorite though. Luke had made her a photo album of all the pictures of Rory and Jess. He had given it to her right after Jessie was born. There were pictures of them talking at the counter, reading at the bridge, watching movies, kissing, him taking her order at Luke's. Lorelai had taken those, she had been in a candid picture phase for a while.
Rory finished the album right as Jessie began to whimper. Rory slowly re-packed the box and shoved it into the back of her closet once again.
She quickly crossed the apartment and entered her daughter's room. Lane had helped decorate it, it had a music theme which Jessie seemed to love. She got something at least from both her parents.
"Shh," Roy whispered picking the infant up. "It's alright...shh...come on, mommy's here...shh," Finaly te baby quieted down and Rory gently tickled her, causing Jessie to giggle and drool.
Rory laughed and hugged her daughter closer to her.
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A/N: okay, i reposted this cuz i realized it didn't have a real ending so yeah. Hope you liked it, oh, and I'm def. gonna keep going w/ this story, butI'm not with And Then There Were Three, too much goning on. I start highschoolin a couple days so I'm gonna try posting as much as I can while I can. Now if you would press the pretty button I might update sooner...