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A/N: So I definitely wasn't expecting such amazing feedback! Thank you so much everyone for reading and reviewing! Sorry for taking a little while to update, but here's chapter two! Thanks again, everyone!

Jess' fingers ghosted over the phone buttons. He still had her number memorized. Even if he never called as much as she would have liked him to, he still remembered it easily, years later. He wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to say once she answered. He knew he wanted to somehow let her know that he still loved her, but he wasn't sure how he could say that perfectly.

Slowly, he dialed her number, still not entirely sure what he was going to say. In a way, he was hoping it would just go to voice mail so he wouldn't turn into the stuttering, seemingly shy, teenage version of himself that Rory had, for reasons he wasn't sure of, deemed cute several years ago. She had always said that it was a good thing that he didn't talk too much, otherwise they would cancel each other out.

"Hello?" Her mom's voice answered. Somehow it hadn't occurred to him until now that the number he had held so dear for so many years was her childhood house phone number, not her cell phone. He really should have thought of that one long before he let her leave the coffee shop, so he could find a way to reach her without having to go through the woman whom he had once believed threw fiery darts at his picture.

"Um…is Rory there?" He asked, feeling more stupid than he would've liked to at the moment.

"No…she hasn't lived here in a very long while. May I ask who's calling?" Her mother replied. Jess sighed. There was no way he was getting out of this one.

"This is Jess." He replied softly. There was a very long silence on the other end of the phone and he could only imagine Lorelai's eyes growing large as she tried to think of some snappy, sarcastic, critiquing thing to say to him. She really had never liked him. But instead, he heard confusion.

"Jess? As in…Jess Jess? Her high school boyfriend Jess? My fiancé's nephew Jess? Or is this a new Jess that she has just recently met and for some reason gave him her mother's home telephone number? Because if that's the case, hello, I'm Lorelai." Classic Lorelai, really.

"No, um, it's Jess Mariano." He said, trying not to laugh at Lorelai's still immature behavior. There was another silence on her end of the conversation and he started getting images of mad Lorelai in his head. Mad Lorelai was never exactly a pleasant sight and he wasn't quite sure how Luke handled it all the time.

"Oh. Well like I said before, Rory doesn't really live here anymore, considering she's a college graduate and trailing the Obama campaign…so typically people try and reach her on her cell phone. But I'll just go ahead and assume you don't have that number, and that's why you called here?"

"Well…if I'm being honest, I did kind of forget she wouldn't be there. But would you be able to give me her cell phone number?" Jess asked, still feeling pretty uncomfortable about talking to Lorelai. Especially about Rory. The last time he had seen Lorelai was at his mother's wedding, four years ago, where she had actually seemed to be over the problems she had had with him before. But of course right after that he had gone to Yale to ask Rory to run away with him, which he was sure Lorelai had heard about. So her opinion of him still probably wasn't exactly the greatest.

"Um, sure, but...Jess? Is she expecting you to call? Because I really wouldn't want to give you her number only for her to be mad at me for doing so." Lorelai said.

"Yeah, she is." He said softly. He could hear Lorelai sigh quietly.

"It's 660-9874."

"Thanks, Lorelai."

"You're welcome. And Jess?"

"Yes?"

"Don't…don't hurt her, or confuse her, or repeat history poorly. I know she's twenty-four, and can handle herself….but I really don't want to see any more bad blood between you two. I think both of you had enough of that in high school." Lorelai said.

"I promise." Jess replied.

"Good."

With that, the two said goodbye and Jess stared down at the sheet of paper he had written the number on. He sighed and began dialing what he really hoped would really be Rory this time.

"Hello?" He sighed in relief as it really was her this time. But then suddenly, he remembered that he hadn't quite come up with anything to say yet.

"Hey, Rory, it's Jess."

"Oh, hi!"

"Hi!"

There was a long moment of silence before Rory interrupted it with another, "Yeah…um, hey."

"We never change, do we Gilmore?" He asked, smirking. He had secretly always liked the whole, 'Hi' 'Hi' 'Hi' 'Hi' thing and was almost glad it hadn't changed over time. But at the same time, he wasn't exactly happy that he still, at twenty-four years old couldn't think of anything better to say.

"Not in the slightest, dodger." She said, and he could tell from her voice that she was smiling. He had always loved her smile. No matter the reason she was smiling, whether it was when she was laughing over how bad kissing him would be with braces, or whether it was when he had accidentally let it slip that he had looked up how far away Yale was, it was still the beautiful smile that belonged to her.

"I accidentally called your mom." He said, laughing a little.

"I was wondering how you got my cell phone number. I was nearly distraught when I realized I hadn't given it to you." She said, laughing with him. "What did she say?"

"Well first she wanted to know if I was Jess Jess, and then she gave me the classic Lorelai 'don't hurt her' talk." Jess replied sarcastically.

"Oh, wow, I'm sorry." Rory laughed. The two laughed before falling into more silence. It had always been a pretty comfortable silence between them, but for some reason there seemed to be tension. Rory suddenly sighed as if she had noticed it, and said, "Hey Jess?"

"Hmm?"

"Are we…is this all supposed to mean…I mean are we, I guess…"

"Back together?" He finished her sentence for her.

"Yeah."

"I hope so." He said softly. He smiled to himself a little before panicking that she wasn't replying. "Rory?"

"I want to see you." She said quietly. "Can we meet up tomorrow?" His heart started racing a little. If he was being totally honest, he was a little afraid before he called that she would reject him again, and tell him that they hadn't worked out any other time, why would they now? But in his opinion, it was because they were supposed to be together. They kept not working out, but running into each other because they were supposed to. It was a relief to him that she was asking to see him.

"Yeah, we can. Meet at the coffee shop at say, two, tomorrow?" He asked her, hopeful.

"That would be nice." She said, and he could tell she was smiling again.

"Well, then, Rory, I'll see you tomorrow." He said, smiling.

"Bye, Jess."

A/N: Thanks for reading! I know this chapter was probably a little boring, him being on the phone the whole time, but the next chapter will have a lot more in person interaction between Lit! Thanks again for reading, and all the positive feedback I got on the last chapter! Please review and let me know what you think!