Prologue

I've never had a girlfriend.

I mean, I've had friends that were girls, back home in New York. But not a girlfriend, the kind you give flowers to and hold hands with in the hallways of school. I didn't think I was missing anything. I mean, you meet a girl, ask her out, hold her hand and kiss her for a couple months, then she'll cheat on you and you'll break up. That is pretty much what I considered a relationship. Until I came to Stars Hollow, actually. When I saw Rory Gilmore, I remember thinking, Now she is a real potential girlfriend.

Then BagBoy Dean appeared in the picture and that was the end of that.

But once I saw BagBoy in action, I couldn't help but laugh. That is not who Rory should be with. He's about five levels below her, at least on the maturity scale. Always whining and keeping her away from me, like she's a little kid and needs to be protected. Rory doesn't need to be protected by Dean.

She needs to be protected by me.

And not in the suffocating you-can't-talk-to-any-other-guys-besides- me way. I wouldn't smother her the way he does. She can have guy friends if she wants. And if she wants to go to the library for ten hours, I would be more then happy to go with her. Hell, I would even go shopping with her if she asked.

Well, maybe.