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A/N: I haven't written anything in a while, and I'm honestly not sure where I want this to go, so any reviews or opinions or thoughts will be greatly appreciated and considered! And I function on reviews, so pleasssseeee. Leave something!

The unoriginal and uninspired title of Chapter 1

This wasn't why he'd come back. He had hoped that returning to Stars Hollow would give him closure, that seeing her would allow him to move on with his life. He had no idea that when he came back he would have his heart broken by the mere sight of her: his love—past, present, and forever. He stared at her for a moment, his eyes mirroring the sight that had simultaneously haunted and blessed him, had drove him crazy and yet had kept him sane all the long nights since he'd left. He knew it hadn't been fair of him, to have just come back and professed his love for her before taking off yet again. He hadn't cared; he hadn't realized that every night he would lie awake wondering what would have happened if he had never left.

Jess admired her from afar, half-hidden behind one of the trees in the center of town. As she turned, and his eyes met hers for the first time in what had seemed an eternity, it was if some unseen force was pummeling his heart. He had just decided that returning had been stupid, that he was never going to be able to get closure by seeing her, that every moment he stood there staring was another moment he fell more in love with her, when he heard a voice calling her name from the distance; just as quickly as he had turned away, he glanced back, to see the person to whom the voice calling his love's name belonged. He nearly ripped the tree from the ground when he saw Rory run in the general direction of the voice and throw herself into the infamous arms of the one person he never expected.

A/N: Sorry, it's short, and the ending's a bit abrupt, but…I wanted to end it at a cliffy. And I promise the chapters will get longer, I just wanted to set up part of the story. I really don't know exactly where I'm going with this, so any suggestions or ideas will be greatly appreciated! Also, I live and breathe for reviews of my work, so please! Leave me something, let me know what you thought!