--I'll Never Forget About You, I Promise—
Summery: Rory & Jess meet when they are 10. Jess runs away to stay with Luke in Stars Hallow after him and his mom, Liz have a fight about one of her horrible boyfriends. While Jess is in Stars Hallow he meets Rory Gilmore and her mother, Lorelai Gilmore, along with the rest of the quirky town. After staying for almost a year Liz wants Jess to come back to New York because she has "cleaned up her act". Rory & Jess miss each other very much after Jess leaves and they never forget about eachother but they don't hear or talk to one another for 7 years. Liz sends Jess back to Stars Hallow when he is 17. What is going to happen, that's for me to know and you to find out.
DisclaimerI do not own anything in this story except the plot (I might add my own characters later if necessary though.) If I did I wish I owned Milo and made him go back on the show as Jess and he and Rory would have gotten back together but sadly, I don't.
---------------------
Prologue- Good Things Happen When It Snows
Ten year old Jess Mariano steps off the bus and sets foot in an unfamiliar town full of unfamiliar faces. It's almost the end of November and it's chilly in Stars Hallow, as a cold winds swipes through the town he pulls his jacket closer to him. He looks up at the sky and notices that maybe it will snow. He never really got to see snow that wasn't all muddy and everything like it was in New York. He stops thinking about snow and watches as a lady with bright red hair and colorful robes leans over and whispers something to a shorter lady with blonde hair. Jess looks away form the two and tries to find Luke's diner. That's where his uncle works, well actually he owns the diner. He spots it after a few minutes of looking and walks with his duffle bag to the diner. He opens the door and the minute he steps foot in the diner everyone stares at him. He finally spots his uncle in his usual flannel at the counter with a lady who is holding up a coffee cup begging for coffee. He goes and sits down a few stools down form the lady and puts his bag by his feet and waits for his uncle to notice him. After a few minutes Luke does and walks up to him.
"What can I get ya?" he asks without looking up from his ordering pad.
"Uncle Luke…"Jess asks.
Luke looks down at the kid, he has messy dark hair and mysterious dark eyes and soon Luke recognizes him as his nephew Jess Mariano.
"Jess?" Luke asks Jess. Jess nods and then Luke continues. "What are you doing here? Where is your mom?"
"She's…she's not here. I ran away." Jess tells his uncle.
Luke stares in disbelief at his nephew. The coffee lady who had been sitting at the counter staring at the coffee maker like if she stared at it enough the coffee would magically appear in her cup, walks over to Luke and Jess.
"Not now Lorelai!" Luke says as she starts to walk over.
Lorelai pouts and says, "Luke but the coffee."
"Not now." Luke growls. "Why?"
"What do you mean why; coffee is the elixir of life." Lorelai replies not realizing he was actually talking to Jess.
"Lorelai, I'm talking to him." Luke says pointing to Jess. "Why?"
"Huh?" Jess asks totally confused.
"Why did you come here?"
"I…she…her boyfriend…he, he, he's mean and he yells and he tries to hit us and…" Jess whispers only loud enough for Luke and Lorelai to hear.
"So you came here?" Luke asks.
"Yeah." Jess answers.
Luke nods and thinks a moment then replies with, "Well, you are welcome here for as long as you want. Go put your stuff upstairs and get settled and later we will call your mom and let her know that you are here and then we will go shopping for stuff."
"You…shopping?" Lorelai starts laughing hysterically.
"I don't have an extra bed. He needs a bed Lorelai." Luke says.
"Okay well I just can't picture you shopping." Lorelai laughs.
"Well if YOU'RE so good at it why don't you come with us." Luke challenges.
"Ooooh goodie! Shopping trip!" Lorelai says excitedly.
"Jess go ahead upstairs, just go up the stairs and go to the door that's at the top and open it. That's the apartment. For now we don't have an extra bed so you will have to stay on the couch. Is that okay?" Luke asks and Jess nods. "And, well, when you're done come back down." Luke instructs Jess. Jess nods and head up the stairs.
Lorelai sits back down at the counter. "So who's the kid?"
"My nephew." Luke explains.
"You have a nephew?" Lorelai asks surprised.
"Yes it's my sister's son." Luke answers.
"You have a SISTER?" Lorelai says even more surprised.
"Yes…" Luke says in an annoyed tone.
"Wow, its true you do learn something everyday."
"SO why is he here?" Lorelai asks.
"You heard him, he ran away from Liz." Luke tells her.
"Liz?"
"My sister, jeez Lorelai keep up!"
"Sorry, so he ran away from Liz because of her boyfriend problem or whatever."
"Exactly."
"Well are you going to call her and let her know her kid is alright? If Rory ever ran away I would be flipping out." Lorelai rambles.
"Liz isn't you but I guess I should call." Luke says moving towards the phone but Lorelai stops his quickly.
"Coffee!" Lorelai cries.
"Fine." Luke says and refills her cup and then moves to the phone and dials the number and talks to Liz for a while before finally hanging up and going back to Lorelai who is happily sipping her coffee.
"She said that she will ship his stuff on Friday." Luke says.
"It's Saturday."
"I know that Lorelai."
"I hope he brought enough to last him a week."
"Lorelai the kid isn't dumb I'm sure he brought enough and if not were going shopping today so I'm sure you will find plenty of stuff for him." Luke says.
"True." Lorelai stops and thinks. "He should meet Rory."
"Yeah, they are the same age aren't they."
"Well how old is Jess?"
"10, I think."
"Perfect. So is Rory." Lorelai says happily.
"Yeah." Luke replies just as Jess walks down the stairs with a book and his jacket around him.
"Luke is alright if I go outside for a while and read?" he asks his uncle.
"Sure Jess. Just be back before it gets to dark, its really cold here at night." Luke tells him. Jess nods and starts out the door once he is gone Lorelai says, "His names Jess?"
"Yea did I not mention that?"
"Nope."
"Oh well now I did."
"Yep…coffee." she demands and he obeys reluctantly. "That stuff will kill you." He says.
"We all have to go someday." Lorelai replies back with a large smile on her face. Luke watches her as she happily drinks her coffee, he would do anything for that woman. No matter what.
-xxx-
Jess is walks aimlessly around town for a while before his feet finally lead him to an old bridge a little ways away from the bustling town and away from all the staring people. He didn't know what it was about him but people sure liked to stare. He sits down at the end of the bridge above the frozen water and looks over the lake. After taking in his surroundings for a while he pulls out his copy of Howl and starts to read.
Little does he know he is being watched from a distance by 10-year-old, Rory Gilmore. After watching for a few minutes she finally gets the nerve to approach him and quietly makes her way to the end of the bridge where he appears to be lost in his book. A sudden gust of cold wind makes its way across the lake and hits the bridge full-force. Rory shivers and pulls her coat tighter around her and keeps walking towards him.
Its cold, almost the end of November and Jess is wishing her would have brought a better coat with him. As a gust of cold wind hits him he senses another presence. He turns his head to see a shy looking girl with caramel brown hair and bright blue eyes that is clutching a book in her hands walking towards him.
"Hi." she says as she quietly sits down beside him.
"Hi." he replies.
She smiles at him and looks at his book, "Howl? That's a good book. Actually one of my favorites." she says.
"Yeah mine too." Jess says quietly. "So what are you reading?"
She hands him the book and he smirks as he reads the title of the book.
"Oliver Twist." he reads out loud.
"Yeah it's good. Have you ever read it?"
"Hundreds of times. It's a favorite."
"Mine too." she says happily. "My names Rory."
"Jess." he replies.
"I haven't seen you before. Are you new?" Rory asks him.
"Kinda. My mom and I had an argument about her horrible boyfriend and I ran away and I came her to stay with my uncle."
"Who's that?"
"Well aren't we being nosey." he says.
"I…sorry…I didn't mean…" she says as a blush creeps up on her cheeks.
"It's fine. Actually it's Luke Danes."
"Coffee Man!" she says happily.
Jess gives her a look of utter confusion.
"Oh yea I'm a Gilmore and we Gilmore's are coffee addicts." Rory explains.
"Lorelai…" Jess starts.
"What about my mom?"
"That explains it." Jess says.
"Explains what?"
"I met your mom in the diner. She was begging for coffee and staring at the coffee making like if she concentrated hard enough it would magically appear in her cup."
"That's my mom." Rory smiles. "Your uncle makes the best coffee in the world."
"Huh." Jess says.
"He's the coffee god."
"Cool."
"I swear."
"Nice to know."
"I know."
Suddenly Rory feels a wetness on her cheek and looks up at the sky and sees snowflakes slowly falling down. She smiles and leans back on the frozen planks of the bridge. After a little bit Jess joins her by lying down on the bridge next to her. They sit on the bridge staring at one another lying shoulder to shoulder.
"What are you doing?" he finally asks after looking at her for a while, trying to memorize her.
"Watching the snow." she answers simply also staring back at him trying to memorize him.
"Why?"
Rory pauses a minute and then smiles and replies softly, "Good things happen when it snows."
First Jess looks at Rory like she is off her rocker and then Rory grins and Jess finds her smile contagious and grins back. They lay like that for a while longer before Jess finally realizes what Rory was getting at. She was implying that meeting him was a good thing and that they could be good friends. At that moment Rory leans her head on his shoulder and when she does Jess puts his arm around her back and they continue to just stare at the sky and eachother.
-xxx-
(Almost a year later- Beginning of August)
Jess and Rory have known eachother for a long time, almost a year and have become almost inseparable but Jess just got a phone call from his mother telling him that he had to come home and go back to school. His mother had supposable "cleaned up her act" and it was a good thing for him to come back to New York. The problem was that Jess didn't want to leave. He loved Rory, more that just a friend or a sister or anything. He realized he had a crush on her and was afraid if he left he would never see her again. He didn't know that Rory had the same exact feelings for him.
Its Jess's last day in Stars Hallow. He is getting ready to leave in an hour and he and Rory are sitting quietly on the bridge. Rory with her head on his shoulder and Jess holding his arms around her tight.
"Did you say goodbye to Lane?" Rory asks him.
"Yes." He answers.
"Mrs. Patty?"
"Unfortunately."
"Babette and Morey?"
"Yes."
"Taylor?"
"God no."
"Why not?"
"He will find out eventually. He might even throw a party."
"Well that's Taylor for you." Rory laughs. "My mom?"
"Yes but she will probably be at the diner when I got and get the rest of my stuff so I've got that covered."
"Kirk?"
"Why would I say bye to Kirk."
"I have no idea, just asking thought."
"Alright. Next?"
"Gipsy? Al? Joe?"
"Yes, yes and yes." Jess answers.
"I think that's everyone." Rory says.
"Yea I think so too."
"I don't want you to leave." Rory cries into his chest.
"I don't want to leave either Rory." Jess says as he burries his head in her hair with tears threatening to fall.
"What if a never see you again."
"You will."
"Promise?"
"I promise."
"And you won't forget me."
"I could never forget you Rory."
"I could never forget you either Jess."
"I love you Rory." Jess tells her after a few minutes of silence.
"I love you too Jess." Rory says.
Jess kisses Rory ontop of the head and moves to kiss her cheek but she moves her head and he kisses her on the lips.
Jess and Rory smile at eachother after they pull away.
"I'll miss you." Jess tells her.
"I'll miss you too." Rory cries, tears falling down her face again.
Jess smiles at her and wipes the tears off of her face and pulls two things out of his pocket and hands them to her.
Rory looks at the items and smiles, "It's your copy of Howl and your The Clash CD!"
"Keep them."
"Always."
"When you see them think about me."
"I will."
Jess hugs Rory one last time and then they say goodbye and Jess leaves to go to the diner to grab his stuff to get on the bus. Rory hugs the items her gave her close to her heard as she cries again.
"I love you Jess…" she says quietly.
She gets up off the bridge and slowly walks to her house with her items in hand. On the way it starts to rain. She walks around town for a while and after 15 minutes she finally decides to go home. She opens the front door and her mom is waiting for her on the couch. Rory drops the book and CD on the table by the door and runs into her mothers arms crying, "I love him, I love him so much. I don't want him to leave…"
"Shhh, I know sweets." Lorelai says comforting her daughter who is sobbing and shaking all over.
"What if I never see him again?"
"You will."
"That's what he said."
"He's right. It's not the end of the world. You will see eachother again."
"What if he forgets about me?!" Rory wails.
"He won't."
"Are you sure?"
"Positive."
"Okay."
"So…pizza and ice-cream?"
"Cheese and extra chocolate chip."
"On the pizza!?" Lorelai asks looking at her daughter like she has two heads.
Rory rolls her eyes and then replies, "No! Cheese for the pizza and extra chocolate chip ice-cream."
"Oh alright sweets."
Rory spends the rest of the night on the couch wondering about Jess. Little does she know that he is doing the same thing.
-xxx-
I hope you like it. It's my first FanFic, that I've actually posted and let the world see. Reviews would be great. Thanks!