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Summary: Jess is about to spend his first Valentine's Day with Rory and is so confused that he has to go to Lorelai for help on deciding what to do...but then Rory gets mad...Great...

He did not want to do this. He really did not want to do this. No! He wouldn't do this! Wait……….yes. Yes, he would do this. It was for Rory. His Rory. The Rory that he considered himself so very lucky to have. Jess sighed as he turned the t.v. off and headed out of the small apartment he shared with Luke. He made his way downstairs and out of the diner, forcing his feet to move every step of the way. Jess hated Valentine's Day. He hated it with a passion. Why did they even make a holiday like this? To torture guy's who never knew what to do? Who never knew what to get for their girlfriends? To torture guys like him who despised the whole mushy-lovey-gooey crap? Jess honestly had no clue, which was why he was headed over to Lorelai Gilmore's house, Rory's mom, to ask her what Rory would like. Of course, he should know what Rory would like seeing as he knew her better than anyone but to be honest……he was as nervous as hell! This was his first Valentine's Day with Rory, and hopefully it would not be the last if he ceased to screw things up. Jess stopped at the Gilmore drive-way, where he saw Lorelai's jeep parked by the house. He had already made sure Rory would not be home by telling her she should go to her grandparent's for lunch after she complained to him when they had invited her. He took a deep breath and headed for the door. He wasn't too happy about having to go to Lorelai for this kind of stuff, but she was Rory's best friend. He assumed that Lorelai was okay about him and Rory dating, he just wasn't sure if she really liked the idea that much either. Jess hesitated before knocking on the door. He then heard quacks coming from inside the house and knew Lorelai was playing with her alarm clock. A few seconds later the door opened.

"Hi- oh, Jess, it's you!" Lorelai's huge smile faded just a little when she saw who her visitor was. "Sorry, I was expecting giant penguins to come by later or something and attack me…uh…come on in!"

Jess could tell Lorelai was fighting to be this friendly. He nodded a thank-you to her and stepped inside.

"So, Jess, what can I do for you?" Lorelai clapped her hands together almost impatiently.

"Um, actually," Jess gulped. "I kind of needed to ask you something."

Lorelai nodded.

"About Rory."

Lorelai frowned. Shit. Things were already going wrong. Jess willed himself to keep talking.

"It's about tomorrow. I'm having some trouble figuring out what I should get her or do for her or whatever and I thought I might ask you."

Lorelai's face relaxed just a bit but she still had her guard up. She was silent. Jess decided the stand there instead of saying anything else. He knew he was about to fall in quicksand as it was.

"Food." Lorelai finally stated. Jess raised an eye-brow which caused Lorelai to look at him like he was stupid.

"Food?" Jess replied. Lorelai rolled her eyes.

"Yes! Cook her something. Can you cook?" She said. Jess held back a laugh.

"No, but I will."

"Okay then, order everything from the take-out menu! Rory eats like a pig! If you give her food, she will love you forever."

Jess nodded, analyzing the thought of the take-out menu. Hmm, he thought, this woman was good. Or he was really bad. He cleared his head before speaking again.

"Okay, um, what about a gift? Does she like ear rings, sparkly stuff?" He questioned.

"Well, she likes jewelry but she's not that big on it." Lorelai winced. Jess exhaled heavily.

"What about a book?" He asked hopefully. Lorelai's eyes widened.

"Okay," She cleared her throat. "How often do you buy her books? Roughly six times a month?"

"Yeah, so?" Jess knew she had made a good point, but decided to play dumb anyways.

"No book mister! Why don't you buy her a poster? Ya know, one with a half-naked man squeezing his cheeks together, all muscular and-" Lorelai stopped when she saw the spastic look on Jess's face.

"Gosh, just kidding," She went on. "Hmm. Jess, I don't know. Rory will take anything, no matter how big or small or foul tasting it is. She's not hard to please. Maybe you should just rent a movie and order some pizza. I could ask Luke to go to dinner with me or something and you guys could have the apartment to yourselves or the house or whatever!"

Jess winced. He was confused. Lorelai suggesting them being alone together? On Valentine's Day? Alone? Lorelai? Jess figured he would take it. Nothing made sense anymore anyways.

"That's good. Any special touches? Candles? Specific movie?" Lorelai smiled her first genuine smile since their conversation started.

"Candles, and a scary movie. Spice it up a little bit. Hang a giant, naked cupid pinata from the ceiling or something."

"You really have a thing for naked guys, huh?"

"Yeah, I'm just so damn good at choosing the best ones! You wouldn't believe the male stripper I chose for Sookie's birthday party once- ah! I'm babbling, sorry. Okay, so do you have something in mind now?" Lorelai said.

"Uh, yeah, I think I do. Thanks." Jess turned around to leave but stopped in the doorway. "By the way, please don't tell Rory about this and you can trust me. I promise."

"Thanks, Jess." Lorelai smiled widely. "I'm glad to hear that. And this will be our secret, ok?"

Jess nodded before leaving the house. Well, he thought, you did good, Mariano! Jess replayed the conversation with Lorelai in his mind as he walked to the movie store. He walked in and found the scariest movie case he could find, which was Rest Stop, and was walking to check-out when he passed a rack displaying movies included in the Valentine's Day special that the store was holding. He looked through them for a bit before deciding on one. Hah, he thought, A Walk To Remember. She will hate it! Jess knew he would get a good laugh out of Rory for this one seeing as it was the cheesiest romance movie of all time. Next he stopped at a small decoration store near Dooses and picked out some poppers (Rory loved to pop), some weird looking cupid candy, streamers, some extremely messy confetti, some funky looking monkey balloons, a box of rainbow birthday candles, and a box of "special" Valentine's Day cupcake mix complete with vanilla icing. He had no idea why he was picking out all of these party favors but it was random like Rory. Plus, he had no idea what he was doing. Jess figured he had bought enough stuff for one day and started off to the diner when he passed a little bead and jewelry stand on the side walk. He let his eyes wander for a moment and stopped when he saw a small gold chain with a silver heart lined with pink rhinestones. Even though Rory wasn't a big jewelry person, something about this necklace screamed her name. It was simple but it was Rory. Jess checked the price tag on it. Eighty-five dollars and twenty -three cents. Shit. This girl was going to empty his pockets! Jess smiled, picked it up, and quickly paid for it, not even looking at the wad of money he handed to the stand owner. She placed it in a small black box before putting it in a bag and handing it to him. Jess sighed as he walked away, digging the last fifteen cents he had out of his pocket. Now he had to go back to the diner. Even though he had just spent almost one hundred and ten dollars on Rory, he knew she was every bit worth it. In fact, he couldn't wait to see her face when he threw her the weirdest and definitely the most unique Valentine's Day party ever held in Stars Hollow. Jess threw his bags down on his air mattress when he arrived at the apartment. He was just about to throw himself down on the mattress when look walked in.

"Hey Jess," Luke said. "What are ya doing?"

"Just thinking." Jess said. Luke raised an eye brow.

"Rory?" he asked. Jess nodded.

"Look kid, I know your nervous but you will do fine. Rory is not hard to impress. Plus….." Luke trailed off. This quickly caught Jess's attention.

"What?"

I-I think Rory……..I think she loves you."

Jess just stared at his uncle.

"What?"

"I think Rory loves you. That's all I'm going to say. Now, for some reason, unknown to God, Lorelai wants to have dinner with me tomorrow night. Personally, I think someone put something in her coffee but you never know with the woman, so if you and Rory want to hang out here for awhile feel free to do so. Plus I see the bags of pathetically random items on your bed so I'm guessing you have something planned." Luke grabbed his jacket, turned to walk out, then stopped. "But remember, no kissing, hugging, touching. Got it?"

Jess nodded as Luke left. All he could do was sit and stare at the wall. Rory loved him. Rory loves him. Rory Gilmore loves Jess Mariano. Jess loved the sound of that. He didn't believe it though. Something in him told him he wasn't good enough for the girl. He honestly thought she deserved so much more than him. Much, much more. Jess decided not to think on it anymore until he actually heard the word's from Rory's mouth. He then got up and began to decorate the apartment so he wouldn't have to do it later. Plus, he would need a good few hours to make the cupcakes. He wanted to be extremely careful so he didn't burn them like he knew he would anyways.

Jess smiled when he saw Rory coming up the steps to the gazebo. He had called her and told her to meet him there a little while ago. He couldn't help but be amazed by the girl. She didn't even try to look beautiful most of the time and yet she was. Today wasn't any different. She was wearing her hair back in a messy ponytail and (to Jess's surprise) was wearing his Clash t-shirt that he had given her to sleep in 3 weeks ago. She was also wearing a bit of mascara and some clear lip gloss but that was it. Jess couldn't help but find her gorgeous.

"Hey," He said as he took her hands and placed a soft kiss on her lips. "What's new?"

"The day," Rory smiled. "What was that for?"

"You."

Rory laughed as they each wrapped an arm around each other and started for the diner.

"Happy Valentine's Day." Jess placed a kiss on the top of Rory's head.

"Same to you honey-bunny." Rory said in a deep mushy voice. Jess groaned. "Ah, come on! Get into the spirit of things!"

"I'm as much into the spirit as I'm going to get." Jess smirked. Rory frowned.

"You mean Valentine's Day means nothing to you?"

"Pretty much."

"Jess!"

"Rory, I'm just not the hugs-and-kisses kind of guy. You know that."

"But everyone is celebrating! We should do something! Let's go see a movie."

"No. I have plans."

Rory pulled away from Jess.

"What is your problem?" She snapped. "It's not like I'm asking you to go jump off a bridge with me. I just want to do something with you! It's our day!"

Jess leaned in to kiss her but she put her hand on his chest to stop him.

"No," She continued. "Why should I hang around if you weren't planning on spending any time with me today? Today of all days! You know what? Go do whatever you have to do. I'll call you later."

Rory started to walk off when Jess grabbed her arm. She tried to pull away but instead was surprised when Jess picked her up and threw her over his shoulder. She beat on his back as hard as she could.

"Put me down Jess! I want to go home!"

"No, you don't."

"Do not even start that with me!"

"Just be quiet, will ya!"

"Ahh!"

Rory continued her beating as Jess carried her into the diner. Luke had closed early due to Lorelai so no one was there to see this little Kodak moment. Jess carried her upstairs and plopped her down on the couch. It took everything in him not to rub his throbbing back.

"What the hell do you think-" Rory stopped mid-sentence when she caught sight of the room she was in. Streamers were lining it along with monkey balloons and confetti littered the floor. Over on the table was a plate of what looked like half crushed cupcakes with lopsided birthday candles stuck in them surrounded by candy and two movies, one of which she would never consider watching if her life depended on it.

"Jess……" Rory was speechless. "Monkeys……."

"I told you I had plans." Jess smiled before walking up to Rory and placing a tender kiss on her lips.

Rory just stared at him. Jess stared back when he remembered the box in his pocket. He quickly pulled it out before taking Rory's hand and placing the small velvet container in it. Rory looked down but did not do anything else.

"It opens." Jess reminded her. Rory looked up at him before gasping at what was inside.

"Oh my God……I was so mean to you!"

Jess laughed as Rory threw herself into his arms. He held onto her as tight as he could, burying his face into her hair.

"All is forgiven."

Rory pulled away and turned around so Jess could put the necklace on her. He fastened it before placing a small kiss on the back of her neck. Rory turned around before taking Jess's head in her hands and kissing him. She slowly led him to the couch where Jess settled himself comfortably, half his body on Rory's. Jess pulled back slightly.

"I told you that you didn't want to go home." He said, their lips not even an inch apart. Rory kissed him again before they both got up and headed for the table.

"FOOD!!!" Rory yelped. "Scary looking food but food all the same."

Jess laughed as Rory picked up a cup-cake and took a bit out of it.

"You made these didn't you?" She gave him a bright smile. Jess nodded.

"Are they that bad?" He winced. Rory swallowed another bite before speaking.

"No! Here, try it." She ran her index finger through the icing and held it up to Jess's mouth. He licked the icing before nodding.

"See, your pretty good!"

Jess pulled Rory to him, kissing her lips before slowly making his way to her neck. Rory set the cupcake down and ran her hands through his hair.

"Thank you." She whispered.

An hour and a half later, Rory rested her head on Jess's chest as they both lay on the couch, the soft glow of the t.v. in the dark lighting their side of the room. Two empty pizza box's sat on the floor in front of them. Jess wrapped his arms tighter around Rory's small body. He looked down at her. She was asleep. She was beautiful. He smoothed her hair out before bending his head down to her ear.

"I love you, Rory Gilmore. I hope you love me to."

She didn't stir.

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