A/N: This is my first Lit fic. It may be cliché, but it has its exceptional things just out of my twisted mind.

Dedication: To my lovely beta, Rave, I love you girl, you are just wonderful! To my girlfriends Lena (just because I found you) and Sassy (because we share our Milo love). And Heather my 2nd Beta.

Pairing: Literati

Spoilers: everything on the show until now, before season 5, happened; and a couple of things in Season 5...

Rating: R (just to free my imagination) but PG for now...

Disclaimer: I just can't own anything! I'm too far away from hollywood!

Feedback: yes please, let me tell you what do you think!

Summary: Because sharing your life makes it so much better. The difficult part is to learn how to share, and how to get there.

Always in my mind

Chapter 1.- The first day of the rest of her life:

Rory was graduating from Yale, her dream was so close to be true. She had landed a job as Junior writer at The Times, in New York. She felt proud. After four long years, of studying and writing, projects and extracurricular activities, she was finally starting to live her dream to become a journalist at first... a foreign correspondent in time. She was achieving one of her big goals in life, she was making it happen. What she always wanted, what she worked so hard for was at palm reach. Her life was hers.

The graduation ceremony was emotional but wonderful. Everybody who cared for her was there, her mom, Luke, her grandparents, Lane with Zack, Sookie, Jackson and their kids, her dad, and close to every single inhabitant of Stars Hollow.

She felt happy, complete, though in the back of her mind, she knew something was missing. Love, a companion, her Luke. Someone to share this big accomplishment with. Of course her mom was there, and she was proud. Lorelai was one of the big reasons of this diploma.

But Rory wanted more, in fact she always wanted more. When she had Dean, she wanted Jess, because Jess could challenge her, because she could shared most of her passions with him. Because Jess felt like a wake up call from the small town life with the boy next door boyfriend. Then, she wanted Dean back. He was secure, he loved her, and wouldn't leave her. Because, after Jess broke her heart by leaving without even saying goodbye, and then coming back just to leave again, and coming back again demanding her to give up her life for him when he never did anything for her, when he never was there for her. She wanted security, stability back, but it was a mistake, Dean was a mistake, Dean wasn't hers anymore, he was married. Their relationship wasn't pure and virginal anymore... it was tainted. She thought she wanted Logan next, it was a thrill just arguing with him, he was new and exciting and seemed not to want her. Logan was a conqueror, a challenge for her... but then it got boring.

She had yet to find one that had it all: the thrill, the intellect, the love, the caring and the bad boy attitude in one package. Today, at her graduation ceremony, she felt incomplete without it all, she wanted it all, she was determined to get it all, the whole package just like Lorelai did. Love in Luke, a family in Rory and the Gilmores in its twisted but loving and caring kind of way, and the job of her dreams in the Inn, friendship in Sookie and a home in Stars Hollow.

A week after Graduation, Rory was moving to New York, she was starting her new job the following week. Her grandparents, as a graduation present and because her grandma liked big gestures, gave her a two bedroom appartment in the city. The choice between accepting and not accepting it was a no-brainer Lorelai said, for two reasons, because Emily Gilmore would never take no for an answer and because, the apartment was gorgeous! It was spacious, full of light, with a beautiful balcony and a wonderful view of Central Park. It was far out of a junior writer's league but she fell in love with it almost inmediately so she took it. Between her mom and grandma, they decorated it with style but personality. The spare room became her study and library. And her room was white with wooden furniture. Clean and Simple. The living and dining room was spacious and had a big couch with her entertaining center from Yale, and a dining area. The kitchen was full of colours and the only three appliances were her cofee machine, the refrigerator and the microwave. She didn't know how to use anything else.

Moving day was hectic, Lane and Zack, Luke, her mom and her grandparents made a trip to the city to help her. Hundreds of books to place in the bookcases. Hundreds of boxes with everything that belonged to Rory, memories, notes from Chilton, Yale. The appartment was chaos, full of people helping, having fun and enjoying being there for Rory in this new stage of her life. Lane and Zack were in charge of music arrangements, and organizing Rory's CD collection. Lorelai beeing Lorelai leaving traces of her style everywhere, a monkey lamp in the studio, a hello kitty alarm clock in Rory's bedroom, and an entire Cosmo magazine collection in the coffe table. This made Emily furious and ended in a bickering battle between the two older Gilmore girls about style and manners. Richard was reading the paper as usual after helping Rory to organize her bookcase, and Luke decided to fix what didn't need to be fixed in the kitchen just to disappear but Rory stayed in the leaving room watching her mom and grandma argue and bicker about everything, because she was going to miss this.

After unpacking and settling everything the Gilmores, Luke and Lorelai, Lane and Zack left Rory alone to adapt in her own space. Her first appartment. Independence in walls and windows.

So Rory was alone for the first time in her life, because even at Yale she had Paris as a roommate, her suitemates, her friends. But she felt good and excited about this new experience. In New York everything was new and exciting, everything was hers to be discovered. So she decided to go out to explore her neighbourhood. To conquer the city. Besides she was getting hungry and she had nothing in her refrigerator and none take out menu yet.