Author :CafeConLeche(Lexy)
Title:A Lifetime
Disclamer: I own nothing.
A/N It's midnight and I can't sleep . So here I am at the computer . This
will be a series of events in the life of Jess and Rory . Love, tragedy,
milestones, heartbreak. The twists and turns their live took to get where
they are . This chapter is kind of short . Sort of a prologue . Read and
(hopefully you'll) enjoy!
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
12:00 A.M. I lay awake. Sleep eludes me . I turn and look at the beautiful woman laying beside me. A small smile graces her lips and I cannot help but wonder what put it there. It's moments like these I think back and rememeber that spring morning years ago . The beginning....
We spent the rest of that fall avoiding each other. She was with Dean , I was with Shane. We saw each other quite a bit . Luke's being her main source of food. We would exchange a civil hello , sometimes it led to a short literary debate then Shane or Dean came and it was back to square one.
Winter came and went along with Dean and Shane. And yet we still couldn't manage to get it together. Our relationship was defined by playing these games with one another . It had become second nature. We both wanted the other and yet we kept away.
"College application?"
"Yeah . Today's the day . Mom's making such a big deal out of it . She decorated the mailbox . Sookie's cooking. It's going to be a real event. "She rolled her eyes , but just looking at he could tell she was excited."What about you?Are you appiling anywhere?"
"Yeah."
"Care to clarify ?"
"Not particularly."
"Fine." Long pause."Jess?"
"You really want to know that badly ?"
" I'm just a naturaly curious person. "
"Connecticut State. Unniversity of Conn. Stuff like that."
"You don't want to go back to New York."
"I will but not right now."
"Oh." Another long pause."Well I better get going . I'll see you around." She walked to the door and just as she was about to leave she turned and looked at me with a meaningful glance.
As I sat on the bridge early the next morning . 12:00 AM to be exact , I heard soft footsteps .
"Hey Jess."
"Rory." She sat down next to me . "How was the application mailing ceromony. "
"Oh . It was good."She replied dully.
"Don't sound so enthusiastic."
"It's just ...I don't want to go to Harvard."
"I thought it was your dream."
"I thought so too.....I'm appling to Yale. "
"Proximity to home?"
"Partially."
"It's just now that I look back , all this Harvard stuff . I don't think it's ever what I really wanted ." She turns to me."It kind of makes me totally re evualate things."
I'm not quite sure , even to this day, how it happened but the next thing I remember is us kissing. The warmth of her fingertips . The cinnimon taste of her lips. The feel of her heart beating aganist mine.
We stayed out there for hours that night . Talking , laughing, kissing . Just being ...together. We watched to sun rise, breaking on the horizon. At that moment , the sky swirled with colors of prurple, blue and orange , with her in my arms, I knew ,it was only the beginning.
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
12:00 A.M. I lay awake. Sleep eludes me . I turn and look at the beautiful woman laying beside me. A small smile graces her lips and I cannot help but wonder what put it there. It's moments like these I think back and rememeber that spring morning years ago . The beginning....
We spent the rest of that fall avoiding each other. She was with Dean , I was with Shane. We saw each other quite a bit . Luke's being her main source of food. We would exchange a civil hello , sometimes it led to a short literary debate then Shane or Dean came and it was back to square one.
Winter came and went along with Dean and Shane. And yet we still couldn't manage to get it together. Our relationship was defined by playing these games with one another . It had become second nature. We both wanted the other and yet we kept away.
"College application?"
"Yeah . Today's the day . Mom's making such a big deal out of it . She decorated the mailbox . Sookie's cooking. It's going to be a real event. "She rolled her eyes , but just looking at he could tell she was excited."What about you?Are you appiling anywhere?"
"Yeah."
"Care to clarify ?"
"Not particularly."
"Fine." Long pause."Jess?"
"You really want to know that badly ?"
" I'm just a naturaly curious person. "
"Connecticut State. Unniversity of Conn. Stuff like that."
"You don't want to go back to New York."
"I will but not right now."
"Oh." Another long pause."Well I better get going . I'll see you around." She walked to the door and just as she was about to leave she turned and looked at me with a meaningful glance.
As I sat on the bridge early the next morning . 12:00 AM to be exact , I heard soft footsteps .
"Hey Jess."
"Rory." She sat down next to me . "How was the application mailing ceromony. "
"Oh . It was good."She replied dully.
"Don't sound so enthusiastic."
"It's just ...I don't want to go to Harvard."
"I thought it was your dream."
"I thought so too.....I'm appling to Yale. "
"Proximity to home?"
"Partially."
"It's just now that I look back , all this Harvard stuff . I don't think it's ever what I really wanted ." She turns to me."It kind of makes me totally re evualate things."
I'm not quite sure , even to this day, how it happened but the next thing I remember is us kissing. The warmth of her fingertips . The cinnimon taste of her lips. The feel of her heart beating aganist mine.
We stayed out there for hours that night . Talking , laughing, kissing . Just being ...together. We watched to sun rise, breaking on the horizon. At that moment , the sky swirled with colors of prurple, blue and orange , with her in my arms, I knew ,it was only the beginning.