Streetlights and Sunrises.
The streetlights outside of my window shine on the pages of the book. my eyes dart back and forth to comprehend the words on the pages, but I can't seem to concentrate. I look over to the bed in my small apartment where she is sleeping peacefully. Her pale face contrasted with the slight darkness around her.
I never thought I would get the girl. I had screwed up so much in my lifetime that I didn't deserve her. She didn't need me to screw up her life. And even after I left her and broke her heart she still chose me, after everything, all of the guys she could've had she chose me. Some days I still look back on when I came back to see her. I had only been gone for a few days and couldn't stand being away from her. So I showed up at her graduation.
Flashback:
I stood in the back of the crowd, watching as she made her way to the stage. I was so happy that she valedictorian, no one deserved it more. Her speech was incredible, hell it even had Luke in tears. Don't get me wrong I was pretty teary eyed too but I was on a mission. Suddenly she looked straight at me. The first time she noticed I was there and she just stopped. She took a breath and kept going. I didn't listen to the rest. Instead I went inside the school and sat down on the extremely large staircase.
Soon after it was over. I waited a tad bit longer and then she came into the school.
"Hey you made it." she said happily.
"Yeah, I uh, came back."
"Why?"
"As much as I hate Stars Hollow, California was MUCH worse."
"Really? I thought California was totally awesome dude."
"Yeah no."
"So are you going to retake your senior year?"
"During summer school. Then I am going to take courses at the Community College and switch over to a four year college somewhere down the line."
"Sounds like a plan."
"Yeah. You still going to Europe?"
"Yeah but not for too long. Only a few weeks. Grandma and Grandpa won't let us backpack so we are going on a cruise that goes to London, than to Italy and Greece. Then we'll fly home from Greece."
"Wow sounds fun."
"That it does."
We walked out of the school and into the parking lot. There really wasn;t anyone left. All of Rory's family had gone back to the Gilmore house for a town party celebrating her graduation. We got into her silver Prius and drove back to Stars Hollow.
Once we got to her house we sat in her car in the driveway.
"Hey Jess?" She asked.
"Yeah?"
"Do you think European coffee tastes good?"
End flashback.
Even now I still chuckle at her addiction. That day was only the beginning, sure we were together previous to that day but after that our relationship matured, and so had we. More problems were going to come our way but no matter what we were ready and were always going to be there for each other.