Takes Place after Jess crashes Rory's car in Teach Me Tonight. Any opinion, share it.
"My boyfriend Jess is so great, he used to be so bad off, but he really cleaned up his act to be with me. You can't imagine how much I love and respect him for it." A perky cheerleader told me as she led me through the halls of Washington Square High School in New York. If you had told me I'd be here last year, last month, last week, I would have laughed.
My so called father had the courtesy of telling me one day after my seventeenth birthday, and three days after my mother's funeral, that I wouldn't be living with Luke or my grandparents, but instead moving in with him and his current girlfriend, in New York.
The panic attack I had was out of this world, it was an emotional upheaval and a half, but what other options did I have? As I prepared my bags I said goodbye to everyone and everything I loved, Luke, the man who really raised friends, my town, and my friends. The last placed I saw was our place. The bridge. Jess and I had spent time here and I treasured it. Even that last night, I remember perfectly.
He had ruined everything, the car, and my relationship with Dean, my mother's trust it was all gone. I had nothing to loose, but one thing. I even gave him that, we slept together that night. In the morning he woke me up gently and said the words that still rung through my head. "I'm not good enough Rory, but when I am, I'll come back. I screwed up, I need to fix it." With that he left town, to god knows where.
I stayed strong but quite. Going to school, being with my mom, and such. I wasn't really there though…and things only went down hill. My mom, my world, crashed along with a 1999 Jeep. Goodbye mother, she was killed instantly.
So there I was, a little different starting school. I had died my hair a white blonde, which with my porcelain skin and blue eyes made me seem like a ghost, and the dramatic weight lost, helped. I couldn't look at food, it reminded me of my mother. My father's money bought me designer clothes, I had completely changed. Well my looks did, the minute that dumb cheerleader said that one name, I thought of my Jess.