Disclaimer: I do not own Gilmore Girls or any of the characters

A/N: Okay so I got inspired by the recent reruns on ABC Family. This takes place in One's got Class and the Other One Dyes. It starts at the end of the scene where Luke and Jess are fighting in their apartment when Jess is saying that the girls he likes doesn't care about him and that Luke acts like a love sick puppy dog and all that good stuff.

I don't usually write multi-chapter stories and I'm still trying to decide if I want my latest story Always and Never to become one. But I'm going to try and update this as much as possible I promise!

I hope everyone enjoys it…. Read on!

"Get out of here!"

Jess opened the door and was about to slam it as he walked out when he collided with a certain blued eyed girl. She looked up startled quickly stuffing her hands into her jacket pockets then taking them out again.

"Hey." He tried to sound nonchalant, like he didn't give a care in the world that the one girl he was literally screaming about was right outside the door, maybe for the whole time.

"Hi. I can come back... if this isn't a good time." She looked so nervous. He really hoped she hadn't heard what they were saying.

"No, it's fine. Were you looking for Luke?"

"Um... no. You actually, but really its fine. It's okay if you're busy right now."

What did she want? What could she possibly want? He wanted to tell her to go away. He didn't want to talk to her. "Nah. I was just going to take a walk. You could come with...if you wanted."

He sighed. Yeah...that's really telling her off.

"Yeah. Okay"

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They started their way down the steps and out the diner doors. Both of them trying to ignore the stares and whispering remarks of the people of Stars Hollow.

"So.. Ah... Did you hear what Luke and I were fighting about?"

She stepped off the pavement to cross the street trying to think how to answer. "No. I just got to the top of the steps when the door had opened."

He looked relieved. She guessed she went with the right answer. They walked in silence until they were at the bridge. She didn't even have to ask him to know that that's where he was going in the first place.

"So what did you want to see me for? I mean we haven't exactly been on the friendliest of terms lately."

She looked down at her feet dangling near the water. She didn't want to answer his question. She had been hoping he wouldn't ask it.

"Before I answer that can I ask you something?"

He nodded that she could and she went on "When you and Luke were fighting, were you fighting about me?"

As soon as she said that his heart sank into his stomach, but his eyes denied any emotion at all.

"What do you mean?"

"When you said that the people you care about don't care about you. Were you talking about me?"

He swallowed hard. "I thought you said you didn't hear what we were saying Rory."

She was still looking down. She tried to search for the right words to say but found she couldn't find them.

Jess sighed and ran a hand through his already messy dark hair. "How much did you hear?"

"Everything. Jess I didn't mean to lie to you, but you just seemed like you really didn't want me to hear any of that so I thought it would be easier on both of us if I just said I didn't."

--

He was silent for a few seconds more and Rory was certain he was going to get up and leave when she heard his voice.

"Its not like it even matters anymore, but yeah I was talking about you."

He heard her take in a deep breath. When she spoke it was barely above a whisper.

"It matters to me"

"Rory-"

"Here."

Before he could even finish she cut him off by shoving a piece of paper into his face that looked like it had been folded 100 times in every way possible.

"What's this?"

He opened it and by the confusion on his face she could tell he didn't understand. It was blank except for the two words dear and Jess.

"It's your letter. Well my letter actually. It never really became yours because I never sent it because I didn't know what to say and I mean it took me three weeks alone to figure out if I wanted to say hey, or hi, or dear and I ever considered yo once or twice and-"

"Rory..."

She took a deep breath and tried again.

"I wanted to talk to you Jess. When I was in Washington. But I didn't know what I should say or how to explain what had happened because I didn't really understand why it happened or why I had did it and I knew I owed you an explanation. A lot of the nights I wasn't able to sleep, mostly because of Paris talking in her sleep, so I would try to put into words everything that was going on and what I was feeling but I didn't know what I was feeling and I'm still not sure what I'm feeling and I convinced myself that when I came back and saw you again I would just know and we would be able to talk about it. But then I saw you with Shane and going back to Dean and giving him my full attention seemed like the only possible thing to do."

He tried to take in everything she had just told him. Did she just admit her feelings for him? Or did she still not know?

"What do you want Rory?"

She looked up at him, for the first time looking him in the eyes. She seemed surprised at his question.

"I don't..."

"Answer me Rory. Don't give me some vague answer. I want to know what you want."

"Jess..."

Her eyes were begging him not to make her answer his question. She truly didn't know what to say. She was just as confused as she was in the beginning of the summer.

"Damn it Rory! You can't do this! You can't just tell me all of that and then silently take it back. Stop treating me like this! What do you want! Who do you want! Do you want Dean? If you do just tell me! I've been rejected before and I can handle it again but you can't have us both! You can't just say and do whatever you want with me when no ones around and then pretend to love Dean out in the open! You can't!"

--

She was shocked by his outburst. She's known Jess to scream before, but she had never seen him blow up the way he just had. She didn't realize he had felt that way, but he was right. He was absolutely right. It wasn't fair to him or Dean to keep going back and forth between them, even if she did it in the smallest most innocent ways possible.

But before she could respond, Jess started to stand up taking the piece of paper she called a letter with him.

"Jess...wait!" She started to stand up with him but he stopped her.

"I have to go."

"But we should talk about this."

He sighed. "Rory, do you have an answer for me?"

She looked away and then back at him. "No. I don't."

"Then I have to go and meet Shane."

And with that he walked off of the bridge leaving Rory sitting alone on the rotting wood to think about everything that just happened.

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