AN: Sorry for not updating. Finals are coming up and I swear my math teacher is purposely out to make me fail. He's doing a damn good job at it, too. Dirty bastard. Plus the fact that I didn't get as good reviews as I thought got me a tad bummed out. Hopefully they will get better.

Sorry for the links not working on the first chapter. If you go to my profile, click on homepage. That should bring you to my youtube profile, and you can find the videos there. I apologize for the inconvenience. Also, sorry for my tense problems. I have problems writing in present or past tense, I usually accidentally switch back and forth.

Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls or any of the characters.

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Rory's sitting in the bedroom watching television when Logan walks into the room.

"Hey." He says while taking off his shoes.

"Hey."

"Did you tell Angela to make dinner?" They have the same conversation every night.

"Nope." Rory could probably not even be there, and the conversation would still be had.

"Okay. I'm going out to dinner."

"Have fun." Rory never even has to look away from the TV. She hears Logan walk into the adjoining bathroom to take a quick shower. It will be about fifteen minutes long, then he'll get out, cough once, get dressed in a pair of nice slacks and a nice button-down shirt, spray on some cologne, tell Rory he won't be out too late, and leave.

Sure enough, fifteen minutes later the shower turns off, and he coughs once. Rory doesn't know why. Was it an indication that he wasn't in the shower anymore? Like she was too deaf to tell the water had been turned off? Her life was so routine. She hated routine. Rory leans back on the headboard, not seeing what's even on the TV anymore.

"Where are we going?" Rory asked, giggling as Jess pulled her along the New York streets.

"It's a surprise."

"It better be a damn good surprise. We've been walking forever." They cross a street.

"Close your eyes."

"What?" Rory asked, confused. Jess just sighed and put his hands over her eyes, guiding her to wherever he was planning on going. Rory had no idea where they were going. It wasn't something she did everyday. There were no surprises in the Gilmore home. Not unless it was being set up with another rich kid. The kid was a surprise, but the event was not. She liked the rush of getting a surprise.

"We're here." Jess whispered as he uncovered her eyes. Rory gasped, then laughed at how stupid she felt. They were at central park and there was an ice skating rink there. She should have known. She'd seen enough movies. "You said you'd never been ice skating before."

Rory turned around to Jess and jumped on him. "Thank you!" She squealed before jumping down, kissing Jess, and running off to rent skates. Jess just shook his head at how young she looked and acted. He was twenty-three, falling in love with a sixteen year old. She was still jail bait. But hey, there's no explaining attraction.

"Ace." Logan's voice interrupts the daydream she was having. No one called her Rory, except Jess. Her parents and everyone else called her Lorelai, Logan called her Ace. She didn't know why, but he just always had. Maybe soon he'd call her Bunny.

"Yeah?"

"I'm leaving."

"Okay. By the way, the mother wants us to come to dinner tomorrow. Six sharp." She refers to Emily as the mother.

"Okay. I'll be home by five-thirty." He turns his back to her as he puts on his watch, and Rory lips the words along with him.

"I won't be out too late, but don't wait up if you're tired." He turns back to Rory, and she erases the face she was making while making fun of him, to replace it with a listening face.

"Oh, I never do." She smiles, but he can tell it's forced and sarcastic. He kisses her on the cheek.

"Bye." He says, and quickly strides out of the room. Rory lets her smile drop and sighs. She gets up and walks to her closet. Opening it, she pushes all of the designer clothes to the side, bending down to the floor to a box that had been hidden there. She drags it out of the closet and sits on the floor to open it. Inside are all of her jeans, band t-shirts, jean skirts, converse. Normal clothes. Not the fancy skirts and dresses she was forced to wear daily.

"How do I look?" Rory asked as she twirled in front of Jess coming out of the dressing room. They had decided the day before that he was going to take her clothes shopping.

"Hot." Jess replied to the tight jeans and well-fitted pink and black The Clash t-shirt.

Every article of clothing she pulls out, holds a memory from that trip. Rory hadn't looked at that box since the night before her wedding. She had originally looked at it as a goodbye to all of those memories, but she realizes now that she can never forget those things.

A single tear starts to trickle down her face, but Rory quickly wipes it away, stuffing the box back into the closet. She stands up and leaves the room to go to the kitchen to get something to eat.

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