Rating: K; However it may change as time progresses.
Summary: Completely AU. I'm positive this story has never been written before – so prepare yourself for something new. It is a Lit all the way, because honestly anything else is a waste of time.
Disclaimer: If I owned Gilmore Girls, the show would be called "Hey you watch this" and it would be an hour long episode of Milo Jess and I making out. Yes, every single episode. Luckily for you it's not, and unfortunately for me, that will never happen, so on with the story.
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2006
As Rory walked into the kitchen, she saw her mother grinning like an idiot, holding the mail.
"Do you know how idiotic you look right now?" Rory asked her mother in mock cruelness.
"Do you know what today is?" Lorelai decided to let the comment slide, due to her lack of will power to suppress the news for Rory.
"Tuesday?"
"Not just any Tuesday, Rory. It's the Tuesday."
"The Tues– Ohh! Oh my God, did it come? What's the news? Am I in? I cannot believe I forgot that it was the Tuesday! I've been thinking about this since I submitted my portfolio. Well?"
"Oh my god hon, take a breath will you?" Lorelai tried to make her smile, but Rory kept her eyes fixed on Lorelai, an infamous withering stare beginning to appear on her features.
"Fine, I'll let you open it jeez, next time remind me to wear my coat of armor before you burn lazers into my skin like that." Lorelai said, feigning annoyance.
Rory went ecstatically to the paper and ripped open the afore mentioned envelope without mercy. "I – I can't – will you just read it and let me down easy mom?"
Lorelai noticed the uneasiness in her daughter's voice and hesitantly took the envelope from her grips. She could once again feel Rory's burning eyes on her while she skimming the papers for their content. Slowly – almost too slow for Rory – emotion showed on the elder Gilmore's face.
Lorelai silently passed the papers to Rory, offering an encouraging smile. "You did it baby, you're in." Lorelai spoke softly, restraining the urge to tackle her daughter with sheer bliss.
However, her words found no response, as Rory had gone into her own world the second her hands received the papers.
"This is incredible – are you sure this is addressed to me, Mom?"
Lorelai couldn't help but smirk at the painful expression on her daughter's face. "Of course I'm sure, how many other Lorelai Gilmore's do you know hon?"
Rory swatted her mother on the shoulder lightly while putting forward a small smirk of her own. "It's just– "
Rory trailed off, but the small sentence was understood by Lorelai. "It's time we do some celebrating, let's hit Doose's and have a full on movie night, any theme you want."
Rory grinned, reached for her mother's hand, and ran out the door towards their destination.
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Seven hours, two large Pizzas, three quarts of Aunt Mollie's ice cream, and three movies later, the Gilmore Girls exhaustedly went to bed, both falling asleep with smiles on their faces.
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Jess browsed around his apartment, picking out an outfit. Normally he wouldn't care what he wore to a date, but his friends have been on his case about being a hermit, so he finally gave in and let them set him up.
The girl's name was Laura, and that was the only information Jess knew about her.
If you knew Jess, you knew he wasn't one for blind dates, and it took a year worth of haggling to get him to agree to let them set him up.
He sighed and finished slicking back his hair in a part. He put on his bracelet and a pair of black slacks, along with a dark grey button down shirt with a white wifebeater underneath.
As soon as Jess was going to go downstairs to pick Laura up, Jess's cell phone went off.
"Audrey" flashed across the screen and Jess sighed heavily. He pressed ignore and let the person go to the answering machine.
He waited about two minutes, and then, as always, "One New Voicemail" popped up on his screen.
He wasn't even sure why he continued to check them anymore, seeing as every message ended up being the same, but for some reason, he always checked his messages from Audrey with a smirk on his face.
"Jess, I know you're there, and I know you hate talking to me on the phone. I also know your mind has probably not changed since last month, but when have you known me to give up that easily?"
Jess chuckled at this, and listened to the rest of the message. "As you know, I am calling to remind you that the offer still stands, please think about it Jess, it could be amazing."
Jess wasn't really in the mood to go out on a date now, and he went to his dresser. On it was a crumpled up sticky note that read "Laura: 555-3820". He sighed, and slowly dialed the number on the bright green sticky note.
The perky voice that answered the phone made Jess feel even more miserable for canceling, because she seemed enthusiastic about answering.
"Hey Jess!"
When she got no response, Laura thought she'd spoken too soon.
"Oh, I'm sorry, is this not Jess?" But her only answer was more silence.
When she was about to hang up, she heard something. "I – I – I'm really sorry, Laura, but I cannot go out with you tonight."
"So it is Jess." Laura said, sounding extremely let down.
"I can't say I'm sorry enough, it's just, I've never really been one for blind dates. My friends set me up for this, and I'm not in the best of moods at the moment."
"Well, that's okay, how about we meet another time?" She sounded hopeful.
Jess was quiet for awhile before replying "I can't, I'm sorry, I just can't."
"But you don't even know me, you don't even know me! But you don't want to date me. How can you not want to date me if you don't even know me!" her voice was shaking.
"You don't know me either." Jess challenged. "For all you know, I could be an insane rapist who is going to kill you." He paused. "And because you don't know if that's the truth or not, why are you pressing this so much?" Jess didn't mean to get defensive, it just sort of happened.
"I'm one to take risks." It sounded as if Laura was trying to persuade him into dinner. After he just yelled at her! Jess didn't understand it.
"Yeah, well, I'm not – at least not when it comes to dating. This was supposed to be short and easy, but you proved me wrong, and I'm sorry I kept you this long, but I really need to go now."
"Yeah, uh, well, it was nice talking to you Jess. I hope you meet someone soon, then maybe you'll lighten up." Laura replied, trying to sound pleasant, but ended up being curt.
Jess didn't even bother to reply, and the sarcastic reply Laura was hoping for was the dreadful sound of a dial tone.
Jess took off his slacks and replaced them with flannel pajama pants. He then removed his button down shirt, and laid down in bed, still in his white tank.
He reached over to his nightstand and flipped open to a random page in The Sun Also Rises. He wasn't sure where he had last left off, but it didn't matter because he knew the book inside and out.
He read for about three hours before falling asleep – book in hand.
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Friday, June 17th, 2006
In anticipation for Rory's departure, Lorelai had spent every waking minute of the last week right by Rory's side. No one could ever call Lorelai upset, because she was overjoyed with happiness for her daughter. It was more of a bittersweet happiness though because it'd mean losing her daughter for an unknown amount of time to California, and she wasn't quite ready for that.
Much to her dismay, Rory awoke slightly after her mother downstairs. She glanced around, taking in what she called her room for so many years, realizing that this was really it, she was really leaving.
Rory sighed and climbed out of bed, moving to her dresser, and picking up a picture of her mother taken when they went backpacking through Europe. If anyone else would have seen her dresser, they'd think that Rory was Lorelai's mother – not the other way around – do to the endless amounts of picture of her. One thing those who saw her dresser did in fact point out was the lack of pictures of a boy on Rory's dresser.
She had only been in one real relationship – but everyone in town knew how that ended. Dean was nice, but became a bit too stalkerish for Rory's tastes. After what seemed as if an eternity, Rory ended up breaking it off with Dean, and had been single for two years now.
It wasn't as if Rory couldn't get a boyfriend to call her own – a beauty as rare as Rory didn't come along very often – yet she always turned down the hundreds of boys who would ask her. She wasn't quite sure if she was afraid of commitment, or if she was just longing for the perfect boy to sweep her off her feet. Whichever it was, she hoped she'd meet someone eventually. Being alone for two years can really affect a girl, and Rory was beginning to wonder if she'd ever meet anyone.
Shaking the thought out of her mind, Rory walked out into the kitchen to see her mother staring at her through glossy eyes, trying to forget this would be the last morning they'd spend together.
"Hey hon, you have a good night's rest?"
Rory smiled weakly at her mother and offered a small nod. "I just can't believe that it's my last one I'm going to have here in a while."
"I know what you mean, babe, believe me." Lorelai sighed.
"Hey," Rory felt a sudden wave of energy pass through her, "If this is my last day it's going to be a fun one, now let's paint the town!"
Lorelai smiled at her daughter's enthusiasm and replaced her sadness with optimism of her own. "Wouldn't miss it for the world, kid."
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A/N: You're all confused right? You were thinking this would be a huge love story of Rory and Jess, am I right?
Well don't fret, because the love story is in the works. As you know from reading this, Rory is leaving for California– for what, you ask? I am afraid I can't tell you just yet, you'll have to wait for the next chapter.
There will be more of Jess in the next chapter, I hope you liked this part, please read and review!