Hey you guys, this is my first English fanfic. I've written German ones before but writing them in a language that isn't your mother language is a very different thing.

So give this story a chance and read and review. And tell me if I need a beta reader and if yes, if there is anyone to volunteer.

Summary:

This story deals after episode 4.21, where Jess asks Rory to come with him to NY and share her life with him. But instead of saying no, Rory gets her stuff and comes with him, much to her mother's dismay. They live together in his small apartment for a few weeks, when Rory gets doubts for the first time. And there's someone other than Jess…ROGAN

Disclaimer:

Unfortunately I don't own Gilmore Girls. If I did, some things would have been much different…

Chapter 1: You Always Meet Twice In Life

When Rory woke up in Jess's arms this morning she knew something was different. She moved slightly to look into Jess's peaceful face which he had when he was asleep. She smiled and touched his cheek and then moved closer to him to feel his chest raise and fall under his breathing.

Rory felt comfortable in his arms, he gave her the feeling of being safe. She loved when his arms only wrapped around her more tightly when she moved, as if he didn't want to lose her again. It seemed as if he had learned from the last time he ran away and left her behind. And with that her thoughts went back to that Saturday evening when Dean had caught her up at this pub and brought her back to her dorm at Yale, when Jess had shown up. She'd asked Dean to leave and he reluctantly did, not wanting to leave her alone with Jess, since he hated him more than everything in the world.

At first Rory didn't know what to think when Jess asked her to come with him, share her life with him somewhere far away. But finally he'd convinced her and it wasn't as if she hadn't feelings for him anymore. There still was something deep in her heart which she couldn't deny. What she didn't want to deny anymore. There was Jess, standing in front of her, wanting her to come with him. And the first time in her life she decided something impulsively, not thinking of the consequences which her decision might bring with.

She got her stuff standing ready for leaving to Stars Hollow, but instead of heading home she headed to New York with Jess. Spontaneity's never been a big talent of hers; she loved having an agenda and a controlled life.

But she didn't felt bad or something, quite the reverse, she felt good, it felt like she'd done the right thing, a thing she should've done much earlier.

Of course, her mother wasn't that happy about that, also Luke, and when Rory had told her mother that she wasn't going to go back to Yale after the summer, Lorelai had had quite a freak out. They'd had a big fight, the biggest ever when Lorelai came down to NY to knock some sense in her daughter's head.

But stubborn as both of the Gilmore girls were, neither Rory nor Lorelai gave in and so the two of them separated in anger. Both, Luke and Jess had tried to calm the Gilmore girls down, but without success.

It was six weeks after the big fight and even if Rory wouldn't admit it to Jess she still was suffering under the situation not being able to talk to her mother who supposed to be her best friend.

But Rory was a grown up woman after all and she was able to make her own decisions, wasn't she? She didn't need someone to protect her, did she?

She let out a heavy sigh and closed her eyes in the attempt to fall asleep for another few hours since it was Sunday and neither of them had to go to work.

Rory found a job in a coffee shop. Not her dream job, but she needed it if she didn't want to die a horrible death of hunger. It was a hard job, but she didn't mind. She was okay with the situation and by the time things would get better.

With another sigh Rory opened her eyes again to see the reason that she wouldn't be able to sleep anymore. Jess was still sleeping like a dead though and Rory knew that nothing could awake him.

Carefully she moved herself out of her boyfriends embrace and winded one of the thin covers round her naked body. As quiet as possible she headed to the kitchen and brewed a pot of coffee before heading to the bathroom for having a quick shower and getting dressed.

Her timing was perfect. When she came back into the kitchen the coffee was finished. Eagerly she drank two full mugs of this elixir of life, then took another cup which she drank much slower while reading the newspaper.

Her glance went to the clock. Unbelieving she blinked and looked again on the clock.

Half past six. She couldn't believe it.

This was the first day she and Jess had off together and then she was up at half past six. Until now she hadn't even looked on a clock. She simply had forgotten it.

But now that she was up, it didn't matter.

She finished her third cup of coffee reaching for the fourth when she got an abstruse idea.

She decided to go for a walk around Washington Square Park which wasn't that far away from their apartment. She figured since it was Sunday morning there wouldn't be too many people down in the park, maybe a few insane characters that were dying to jog.

Rory wrote a small note for Jess on a piece of paper and placed it next to the coffee machine where Jess would find it in every case. Then she got her jacket, her purse and her keys and made her way to Washington Square Park.

It took no long time to get there. Traffic wasn't as terrible and it was quite quiet. Rory never had witnessed NY being so calm and quiet. Far away she heard the siren of the ambulance (which never was off) but with the time she entered the park everything around her was quiet. The wind went through the trees. The brawl made her feeling calmed and comfortable. It made her remembering Stars Hollow.

Rory had no idea why. But things felt so similar. The calm, the trees, the peacefulness of the park itself…

Lost in thoughts Rory walked a few minutes through the park until she came to that little lake in the middle of the park. She sat down on one of the many benches around the lake and watched the ducks and geese and swans. It was a peaceful picture how a mother-duck swam on the waterfront followed by her cute little young chicken.

Rory let out a satisfied sigh and leaned back on the bench, when she suddenly heard a male voice. She looked up and straight into the face of a handsome blonde man who didn't seem to be much older than Rory, maybe two or three years.

"Excuse me?" Rory asked slightly shocked. She hadn't expected to meet someone except the insane joggers she had seen before.

"Can I?" The young man motioned to the free place on her right side and smiled.

"Yeah, of course" she said quickly, but couldn't take her eyes off of the charming smirk and his warm hazel eyes. "Why not?"

"Thanks." The blonde sat down next to her. He grabbed a small stone and threw it into the lake, startling the cute duck-family. "Up that early?" he asked after a few minutes of silence, getting Rory out of her thoughts.

"Excuse me?" Rory asked again and the man laughed.

"Are you always that lost in thoughts?" He asked and took the chance to eye that young woman next to him up. She had amazing blue eyes and her shoulder-long hair bordered her face with the porcelain skin and that shy smile.

"No, I'm just…I'm…" What the hell am I doing here? Rory didn't know what to say. This good-looking man next to her was nothing as a stranger that sat down next to her on a public bench in a public park and that must be that bored that he had to scare a duck-family with throwing a stone into the lake. She was somewhat annoyed with his presence, but she would never ask him to leave. But why didn't she leave herself?

"You're…?" The man prompted her, not going to push this gorgeous girl to do anything she didn't want.

"Today I've off and I could've sleep until noon but I woke up at six and didn't realize it was six so I got showered and dressed and by the time I had my third cup of coffee I realized the time so I decided to go for a walk since I've never witnessed NY on Sundays at half past six." Why the hell am I telling him this? I don't even know him! She took a breath and looked in his amazing hazel eyes and recognized his amused look. God, this guy was so annoying! "What?"

"Nothing."

"Liar. Tell me."

"What shall I tell you?"

"Tell me what you're thinking" Rory demanded.

The man laughed. "Well, first you're that lost in thoughts that you don't even realize someone is standing next to you and in the next moment you're rambling off an entire rant without taking a breath."

"Why is that so unbelievable?" She asked harsher then she wanted.

"I've never met a girl like you before" the stranger explained sending her his most charming smirk.

"What is that supposed to mean?" She watched the guy standing up and turning around to go away.

"Good Bye, beautiful woman" he said turning around and going away without sending her another look.

Rory was speechless. For nearly the first time in her life Rory Gilmore was speechless. Never before she had met a guy like this, with an ego being enough for entire NY and a somewhat annoying presence she couldn't explain.

But his eyes…his eyes were matchless. She never before had seen such amazing eyes. They were warm and friendly and had nothing of the guy's annoying behaviour.

"Did you enjoy yourself in the park?" Jess asked when Rory entered the kitchen. The smell of fresh brewed coffee lay in the air and attracted her magically.

"I did" He gave her a cup of coffee. "Thanks."

"You're welcome." Jess sat down next to her at the kitchen table and watched her. Rory looked somewhat distracted, as if something had happened that wasn't going to leave her mind soon. "So, when did you wake up?"

"At six, maybe later" Rory said vaguely, "don't really know. I didn't look for the time till 6.30."

"Why have you been up that early?" Jess asked somewhat confused. "It's Sunday, we've off, you could've sleep the entire day if you'd wanted to."

"I know" Rory said defensively. "I just woke up and I couldn't sleep anymore. That's all."

Jess wanted to say something more, but decided against it. Rory was in a strange mood this morning. Not that it was so rare in these days. She often was in such a mood, especially when her thoughts circled around her mother. She wasn't over the big fight yet, but Jess had given up telling his girlfriend she should give Lorelai a second chance. She always when this topic came up ignored him until he gave up. And doubtless her tactic had worked.

He looked at the old clock at the kitchen wall seeing it was only half past nine. "It's still early" he said. "Is there anything special you want to do?"

Rory shrugged. "No, not really."

"How about a day in Washington Square Park?" he asked. "With picnicking and reading and relaxing? I know you've just been there but since it's such a nice day I figured it would be much better to be outside than staying inside the whole day."

Rory had barely paid attention to what Jess had said but agreed with his proposition. Maybe it really would be a nice day. She barely noticed Jess standing up and heading towards the bathroom. Her thoughts still circled around this handsome blonde young man with these amazing hazel eyes who had joined her at the lake this morning. She couldn't forget his smirk and truth be told she wasn't going to forget about it. But how were the chances to see him again? Slim to none. New York was a huge city. If you meet a person a second time it has to be really big coincidence. Rory had no hopes to see him again. Sighing she began to pack the picnic basket.

Logan Huntzberger sat together with his friends in a small coffee shop having a cup of coffee while thinking about this girl he met this morning.

He was unusually quiet, while the other three talked about something or other. He did not quite follow the conversation but throwing in a comment from time to time.

His friends of course noticed the change in his behaviour but decided silently not to say anything since they knew sooner or later Logan would talk to them.

"So when I went out of the store, my arms full of bags, that stupid thing began to peep", Steph, the only girl in the group, explained. "I was so shocked that I dropped the bags down, when this guy came over and…"

"Bet he noticed you're rich", Logan said sarcastically. That Steph had money she had shown them more than once: she was a real shopping-queen. But not only Steph had money. Logan, Colin and Finn also weren't that what you call poor. They all were heirs of their fathers who ran big companies and they were expected to take over the firms once they were old enough, means, when they're graduated. All of them did nearly everything to delay their graduation from college. Last year for example they took a yacht of Logan's father and made their way to Fiji – where they unfortunately sunk the boat. They would have stayed longer but realized they couldn't be there forever. Duty called and it still was two years till graduation. Plenty of time for having fun and enjoying the freedom they still had.

"Okay, that's enough", Steph said, being at the end of her patience. "What's gotten into you?"

"What?" Logan asked as if he didn't know what his friend was talking about. "What are you talking about?"

"Stop playing stupid, Huntzberger", Colin jumped in. "You were in really strange mood when you came back from your walk earlier. What happened while you were out, huh?"

"Yeah mate", Finn said, "Spill!"

"There's nothing to spill guys", Logan tried to convince them but without much success.

"Liar!" Steph pointed out.

"I bet it was a girl", Finn suggested.

"What?" Logan turned surprised to look into his friend's face. With that reaction he unfortunately proved Finn's suggestion.

"Oh my god", Steph said surprised. "I can't believe it's because of a girl!"

"Who says it was girl?" Logan manoeuvred himself way deeper into it than he would like to.

"Admit it, Huntz", Colin said smirking. "There's no way to get out of this."

Realizing that Colin was probably right he sighed and decided just to tell the story, figuring that was the fastest way to get out of this conversation. "Well, I walked down to Washington Square Park towards the lake when I saw this girl sitting on a bench at the lake. I decided to get nearer and figured she had to be somewhere around our age. I asked her if I might sit down but she didn't react so I asked again. She seemed so shocked as she saw me standing there next to her but said it was okay if I sat down. I again said something but she seemed so lost in her thoughts that she didn't hear me but then she looked at me and…" He stopped again thinking about her amazing blue eyes and couldn't help but smile.

"And?" Steph prompted, anxious for how this story might go on.

Logan was so deep in his thoughts that he didn't even realized that he went on telling the story. "I asked her why she was up that early, I mean it was 6:45 in the morning. She seemed upset how I even dared to ask her such a question but instead of being silent she told me what happened during her morning and I can say, the angry look on her face made her so incredible…hot."

His friends gasped regarding to his word-choice but either he didn't noticed it or he ignored them.

"And her eyes…I've never seen such amazing blue eyes." He paused before ending the story with saying, "I walked away a few minutes later without knowing her name."

The others remained silent. They felt a bit uncomfortably because they never had heard him talking about a girl in that way. Logan Huntzberger, being a playboy since freshman year in High School fell for a girl. A girl, he'd only met once by coincidence and didn't even know her name. A girl he'd probably never meet again. New York was big and they didn't even live here. They came here from Hartford the day before because of a stupid society event their parents forced them to attend and would leave tomorrow morning. There was no way he was going to meet her again.

But how to tell him this without getting him upset?

The day turned out to be very hot and while most of the people in Washington Square Park around noon began to move with the shadows the trees threw on the earth, Jess and Rory stayed where they had settled themselves in the morning, desperately trying to catch some sun since they hadn't much time for that because of work.

At some time or other Rory had taken off her clothes so that she now only wore a cute baby blue bikini with a single flower on bra and slip that matched her eyes perfectly.

Jess and Rory had fun while putting on the sun cream on each others backs, getting the attention from an elder couple who had watched them for a short time. Jess and Rory decided to give them kind of a show and began to kiss each other passionately. It took no long time until the elder women said to her husband, "Let's go, George. This is disgusting."

Rory glanced over Jess' shoulder and waited till the couple was out of earshot before bursting out in laughter.

"This was fun", she said and settled herself back on the blanket and grabbing her book.

"It was", Jess confirmed and lay down next to her. "So…"

Rory looked up and looked into his eyes. She could tell there was something he wanted to say but didn't know how. "So…?"

"Are you going to tell me what made you this way this morning?" he asked, figuring it would be better to get this over with.

"I just had an annoying meeting here in the park", Rory explained vaguely.

"Someone I've to beat up?" Jess asked, trying to light up the mood.

"No, no one", Rory said quickly. "I mean, it's New York, isn't it? Probably I won't see him ever again. It's over, so nothing to worry about."

"Are you sure?" Jess still was a bit sceptical but seeing her point he let the topic drop and searched for his own book.

"So, what are we doing with the rest of the day?" Steph asked looking from one guy to the other as the four of them walked down the street.

"I don't really care" Logan shrugged.

"Are you still thinking about this girl?" Colin asked unbelieving. The whole thing was so weird.

"Her picture is burnt into my head" Logan said and silently cursed himself for falling for a girl he won't probably see ever again.

"Man, that must be bad" Finn said grinning when Steph slapped him. "Hey! What was that for?" But Steph just shot him a look and Finn remained silent. That was much safer than being slapped a few more times.

"How about a relaxing day?" she asked then. "We did our shopping yesterday and…"

"You did your shopping yesterday", Colin corrected her. "How is daddy's blackcard?"

"The blackcard is well" Steph shot back. "I just bought a new dress for tonight."

"Of course" Colin mumbled, "this explains the bags you dropped in front of the store…" and then hid himself quickly behind Logan's back, just for the case.

"Will you two stop please?" Logan asked groaning. This hide and seek game between the two of them was sweet, at first, and it showed clearly how Colin and Steph felt for each other. But of course, none of them would admit this. At least they knew for whom each one had fallen…

Steph slipped her arm through Finn's. "So how about a relaxing day?" she repeated. "It's a wonderful day and it's without parents."

"And what do you suggest?" Logan wanted to know, becoming slightly impatient.

"Go to Washington Square Park and enjoy the sun" Steph rambled down.

When she mentioned Washington Square Park Logan's head shot up and he sent her a deathly look, but said nothing. The other two of course noticed Logan's reaction but remained silent, too. How big was the chance to meet this girl there? A million to one.

The foursome headed to their hotel to get the stuff they needed and then headed to the park to enjoy the day until they had to get ready for the evening.

The next time Rory looked up from her book she saw Jess was asleep. Quietly for not to wake him she took his book off of his chest and got some sun milk to put it on his body because she didn't want him to get a sunburn.

Jess didn't wake up during this procedure, he didn't even stir. But Rory knew how much and how hard her boyfriend worked and if he had to catch up the lack of sleep, then so be it.

Rory lay down again and held her book against the sun, when she noticed a few voices not far away. She didn't want to look who it was so stayed where she was but as a matter-of-fact her concentration was gone. She laid her book onto her stomach and closed her eyes while listening to the conversation not far away from her.

"I want into the sun!" she heard a female voice claim.

"You only will get a sunburn", a male voice pointed out.

"Have you ever seen me getting sunburn?" the girl said slightly annoyed and Rory grinned.

The male voice kept silent but instead another male voice with an Australian accent spoke up. "Yeah mate, listen to the lady."

"Oh god" the first boy groaned defeated.

"Yay!" the girl shouted with joy and Rory couldn't help but laugh. "Logan, roll over."

What this Logan character said Rory couldn't understand but then she heard him groaning and the girl laughed satisfied. "Good boy" she said and patted his back.

"You're crazy."

As she heard this voice Rory's eyes widened in shock and the next thing she knew was that her eyes were locked with a pair of familiar hazel eyes.

"Oh my god" she mumbled and could tell that the guy said the same thing without looking away.