Changes

A/N: This is my first non-Dark Angel fan fiction. I hope this turns out okay. I got the idea shortly after the season finale. So, here goes nothing.

Disclaimer: This is the first and last time I'm saying this because I hate writing these. Gilmore Girls is not mine, never was, and never will be.

Ch 1 Wedding Bell Blues

Lorelai watched Sookie finally getting married to the love of her life. Yes, this was really a love story that she had watched unfold from the very beginning. She only wished that the same could happen to her, with Christopher. Now, he was gone and she had to worry about breaking it to Rory.

Rory contemplated whether she should tell her mother about the kiss she had 'shared' with Jess. She felt horrible guilty about the whole thing and had been acting on the spur of the moment. Like the time she went down to New York to see Jess. She was glad that Dean hadn't caught her, or he would never forgive her. Sometimes Rory thought Dean was too jealous and that he didn't trust her.

Sherry had chosen the perfect moment to become pregnant. Just when everything Lorelai had every hoped for was about to happen Sherry had to find out that she was pregnant. Every time they came close to being together fate just seemed to push them apart. It wasn't fair. She was so much in love with him and wanted to do nothing more than be with him.

The ceremony ended and Lorelai ran over to Sookie and Jackson congratulating them. "You're finally married!" Lorelai exclaimed.

"I know!" Sookie squealed in delight kissing Jackson.

"Mom," Rory joined them, "Where's dad? I looked all over for him." Lorelai pulled Rory aside.

"He had to go," Lorelai replied, "Sherry's pregnant."

"Sherry, the tiny woman dad was dating Sherry?" Rory asked.

"Was your dad dating any other Sherry?" Lorelai answered her daughter's question with another question.

"Good point," Rory stated, "What about you guys?"

"Well, he decided to play dad all through it this time," Lorelai sighed.

"So, they're going to get married?" Rory wondered.

"Your father married," Lorelai laughed, "That will be the day."

"Still, it'd be fun to see her pregnant," Rory pointed out.

"I said the same thing to your father," Lorelai told her, "Hey; we better get back to the party."

"Right, the party," Rory nodded slowly turning to go join Dean and Lane.

"Hey, what's up?" Lorelai grabbed her arm.

"Nothing. Why would you think anything was wrong?" Rory said quickly, too quickly.

"Well, only because you have the guilty face on," Lorelai responded.

"I didn't do it!" Rory exclaimed.

"Didn't do what exactly?" Lorelai inquired.

"Kiss Jess," Rory gulped.

"AH!" Lorelai covered her mouth in shock, "You did WHAT?"

"No, I didn't kiss Jess," Rory corrected her mother, "See, what I didn't do was kiss Jess. So, all you have to really worry about is what I did do."

"What..When..How?" was all Lorelai managed to get out.

"See there is no answers to those questions because I didn't kiss Jess," Rory put on her best innocent face.

"Jess is back?" Lorelai finally managed to say.

Rory nodded, "Yes."

"To stay?" Lorelai pondered.

"Affirmative," Rory replied.

"And you KISSED him?" requested Lorelai.

"That'd be another yes," Rory gave in, "So, get on with it."

"I told you so!" Lorelai exclaimed.

"That's all you have to say?" Rory was shocked.

"Yes," and with that Lorelai walked off. It's not like she was happy that her daughter was kissing the town menace, but she didn't feel like making her feel anymore guilty than she already was, at the moment. Later on would come the whole 'What were you thinking bit.' Right now though she had other things on her mind, things that just wouldn't go away, like Christopher and the wonderful night they had spent together and how everything seemed like a distant memory now that Sherry was pregnant and he was off back to Boston. She had thought that this was it that they'd finally have the chance that they've been waiting for to be a family for the first time, the whole mother, father and daughter enchilada. Well, she had certainly thought wrong. Maybe that day would never come, or maybe some day it would. That didn't really matter now anyway.

Rory made her way back over to Dean and Lane. They were discussing something or other, but she really wasn't paying any attention. It really bothered her that her mother hadn't had more of a reaction to her kissing Jess. Her mother hated Jess and wished he had never come here in the first place she even practically forbade her from ever seeing him. Now, she had kissed him and she had only said 'I told you so' as her big lecture. Another thing was that her father was gone. He had left. She had been looking forward to him being around more. Well, it was too late, but she was still going to be a big half sister to the child of Sherry and her father. "A penny for your thoughts," Dean snapped her back into the present. She had almost forgotten that she was still at Sookie's wedding with Dean and Lane and not thinking in her room.

"That's a dumb phrase," she pushed everything into the back of her mind and tried to act as normal as possible, "Who would pay a penny for someone's thoughts? They're worth more than that!"

"I don't know," Dean shrugged, "It's just a saying."

"Yeah, but it doesn't make much sense," Rory continued, "Think about it."

"Let's just get a bite to eat," Dean suggested.

"That's something else," Rory began, "You can't eat a bite therefore making that phrase wrong."

"Ror, just let it go," Lane laughed, "Or we'll be here all night!" Rory shrugged and followed them over to the table to get some food. It was somewhat easy to cover up emotions by just talking about something else, but then soon enough they would all come flooding back. As they did for Rory as she walked to the table. Washington was beginning to look more and more appealing to spend the summer. That way she'd be ably to avoid Jess and the topic of their kiss for a long time.