This is the beginning of season eight.

Rory: Usually this would be my mother's voice explaining out life to you. The story goes as she was sixteen and got pregnant. She being so independent had to do it by herself. So she left the high society of Hartford and moved to the humble and very quirky small town of Stars Hollow. There she raised her brilliant but shy daughter, Rory, me by the way with a world of crazy but true characters. She taught me to be strong and to think. Without her I would have been lost, she is my everything. And at many times she has told me that is damn straight. I am her safe guard. Without me she would have fallen into the abyss, I am her guiding light because I know how to use a map. I don't know how she is now with Luke and his daughter at sea. My mom wanted to win Luke back so she re-did his little boat and dressed in a Sailor suit and professed her love for the sea and sailors. This may have been a mistake as she gets car sick easily, I can only imagine her with the sea.

That was are life and still is in ways but many things have changed since three months ago. I was a senior at Yale, the editor for the Yale Daily News, and the girl friend of a prominent young man named Logan. I liked my life. Then I graduated everything changed. I was excited I got the internship at the New York Times but what happens after that? I would like to mention when I made the above list I used the past tense adverb of "is." I was the girl friend of Logan till he asked me to marry him. I thought I wanted too but at that moment he looked so different, he wasn't the boy I fell in love with and he wasn't the man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. The truth is I feel out of love with him a while ago. But I stayed with him thinking it was normal not to feel the Goosebumps any more. It actually is quit normal to be with someone and not be in love with them. But usually when they ask you to marry them they can usually see growing old with them. My problem I think I is that I can't see myself growing old at all. I'm just not ready for the whole marriage deal. I mean my mom didn't tie the knot till she was at least thirty-seven; I've got plenty of time. I'm only twenty-two after all. I have to be honest I still miss Logan and I did love him. But I'm not ready for marriage..….

A man's voice begins to talk behind her back,

"So this is what you do in here." He said smiling at her.

Rory looked up at the young man and put down the notebook. "Do you like it? I have the Ramones poster over in that corner, a Yale Hand that my Grandfather got for me from a game, pictures of Europe, and a before picture of me and Lane and a post picture of Zach and Lane with the twins."

The young man looked at the picture for a while and then said, "I'm glad you didn't put a picture of Lane when she was pregnant, she was huge. She could have traveled with the Bailey brothers."

"Come on now, she was having twins," Rory said protesting.

"I know but she even scared the crows away." He said leaning in closer to her. "So there's one image I'm not seeing…where's your mom?"

" Ok, so I had nothing to do Sunday, without the whole studying thing, I feel a little lost. So I took all our pictures we had together and things we did and I made her face, look." She said pointing to a big image in her closet of her mothers face.

He looks and kinda stairs at it for a while. "Rory, I can't describe it, I think even Poe would be afraid. You don't have her heart buried in the wall boards?"

" No." She said while throwing a piece of paper at him. He helped her out of the small closet.

"So you have your own special place." He said looking at the very colorful and decorated closet.

"Yeah." She said smiling. "Staying with three boys with one bathroom...well, I mean I appreciate everything but it's defiantly nice to have my own special room. I now know what Lane felt like."

" Hey, I said at anytime I would give you my room." He began to protest.

"Jess, I couldn't put you out like that or any of your roommates. But thank you." Her eyes linger on his.

"Rory, I'm glad you've been staying here. How much longer till you go back to Stars Hollow?"

"Four weeks." She said looking at her wall.

"So what do you think of Luke and your mom with a teenager on a boat for the entire summer?" He said folding his arms.

"I think it will define if they can really be together or not. My mom hates the sea, she gets sea sick."

"How those two ever came together I will never know." He said smiling.

"I'm glad she has finally found the one." Rory begins to look off.

"He called again. Do you want me to tell him to shove off or go find his thumb up his ass? Or something?" Jess said now looking at her.

"NO! Jess please don't be rude to him." She begins to tear up.

"What happened with you two? You were so with him last time, well me and you.. and the well…What did he do to you?"

"He didn't do anything. I just don't want to talk about it ok." She said walking past him into the kitchen.

" Fine. Look me and the guys are heading to Canada for a business trip. We'll be gone for two weeks. The house is at your disposal. Just try not to have to loud of a party, my landlord is still mad at me for the last one."

"Down-low on parties got it. What's with Canada? Looking for some French imposters or looking to get yourself killed? better take a tazer." He looks at her. "So you're going for business?

"Looking at some art galleries and the Ramones are playing in concert."

"You groupie."

"What can I say." He said smiling at her.

Suddenly two young men burst through the door with bags.

"Hey, Hey, kids. I've got goodies." Jack said walking into the room.

"Oh good you finally got food." Rory said eyeing the bag.

"Boys keep her back; she will ravage you till nothings left." Jess said taking a bag from one of the guys.

"Rory we know your big secret." The other young man said handing her a pop tart.

"Is that so, Julian?" She said smiling at him.

"You're a big eater." Jack added.

"Yep, guys I eat. Amazing isn't it." She said walking towards her closet.

"I can I join you? And when I say can I join you I mean can we eat naked together?" Julian asked after her.

"I don't think so." She said shutting her door with a smile.

"Julian, she just broke up with her boyfriend like a month ago. Give her some room." Jess said putting some things away.

"Jess, are you still into her?" The other guy asked just asthe door flies open and a small blonde with black highlights enters. She has her hands full dropping things everywhere. "O bloody hell." She said with a British accent.

"Hey, Becky." Jack calls after her popping a chip in his mouth.

"I'll help you." Julian goes over and helps Becky pick up her items. " Thank you." She said picking up a painting brush.

Jess stands from across the room observing the scene. She begins to walk over to him with a smile on her face.

"Hey." She says and puts her arms around him.

"Hey." He says back and kisses her.

"hmm…that was lovely." She said letting him go and putting her things on the table.