COLOUR ME CURIOUS

A/N- A new fanfic I just watched Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out. It gave me the idea for this, so I hope you like. Review please.

Chapter Three: Gilmore's make mistakes too

It had been a week since Rory had broken up with Logan, and she'd started a part time job at the Stamford press, and was preparing to go back to school, she'd contacted Paris and agreed that she would rent the extra room, although her friend had hidden it well, she was pleased that Rory was coming back to Yale. Currently Rory was living at home in stars hollow with her mum, making up for lost time. Jess had stuck around, and was going round Connecticut to small bookstores, trying to get his book into some of them, and in his spare time he was helping Luke out in the diner, in exchange for being allowed to stay in the apartment. It felt like old times, being back here and the two of them at the same time. Rory felt like she was seventeen again, she was back to her old self, though maybe a little more mature than she had been before. She had very little spare time, with school coming up and her job, and her mum, but whenever she could she'd meet Jess, they'd spent a lot of time catching up, and had managed to get back to a place in their relationship where they'd been before all the drama, they were back to being friends, who could talk about everything and nothing, it didn't matter to them if the time they spent together was just sat reading, the silence never felt awkward or unwanted, they both became comfortable around one another, without the nervousness they'd had on the last few occasions they'd seen each other. Lorelai watched on as her daughters friendship with Jess grew, only this time round she didn't fight it, she could see that there were feelings there, whether they were romantic or purely friendly she wasn't sure, but she was waiting patiently to find out.

It was a sunny day in early September, the day before Rory was returning to Yale, Jess had stayed here for three weeks now, and everyone was pretty sure it wasn't for the sake of his book, or to help in the diner. Rory and Jess had begun spending more time together, which is what they were doing now, sat down at the bridge in the sun, Jess reading as Rory was laying down with her head on his lap, watching the clouds float by overhead, her gaze shifted to Jess, watching as he read she sighed a little. Things were great between them at the moment and she was afraid that if she brought up wanting to be more than friends he may not feel the same. So she stayed silent, just watching him. He felt her gaze, put his hand on her arm gently and rested the book down.

'What are you thinking Gilmore?' He asked, he always had known what she was feeling, why should now be any different. It was usually his place to become evasive when important subjects were being brought up, but this time she was the one avoiding his eyes.

'I don't want to make any more mistakes.' She said cryptically, he looked back at her with amused confusion, he may know her well but she could be hard to understand at some times.

'Even Gilmore's make mistakes.' Jess said his fingers tickling her arm with their light strokes, as he traced circles on her wrists. 'You shouldn't be afraid to do things just because they might not go the way you want.'

'What if doing something or saying something might ruin something you don't think you could stand to loose again.' Rory asked her tone becoming more serious, Jess took a deep breath to steady his voice, he was pretty sure this was going to have something to do with them, he just wasn't sure which way it would go.

'I think you have to risk it, because you might just get the result you want.' Jess replied. Rory nodded slowly and sat up turning so she was facing him, her legs tucked up under her.

'Jess, shouldn't you be back at work by now? Why are you staying here so long?' Rory asked, unable to put her heart on the line blindly, she needed to know how he felt, even just a little bit and Jess sensed that, he took her hand and looked into her blue eyes, which were wide with innocence and fear. It was now or never.

'I'm here for you Rory, I always will be.' He replied sincerely. 'I do have to go back to work soon, but while you were here I wanted to stay.'

'Why would you stay for me?' Rory asked shyly, looking down at the wooden panels of the bridge. He lifted her chin up so he could look into her eyes again.

'If you don't know that by now…' He trailed off. 'Nothings changed for me Rory. They never will.'

The full impact of his words hit her and she leaned forward and kissed him, taking him by surprise, much like their first kiss many years ago, only this time she didn't run away. She pulled back with a huge smile on her face and tears in her eyes.

'I love you.' She said it, finally after feeling it for so long she'd said the words out loud. She was rewarded by a quick kiss, and a smile from him.

'I love you too.' He replied.

No, this time she didn't run away from him, instead she gave him her heart fully, knowing that it would be his forever.

A/N- Hope you like it. Please review. This will probably be the last part, unless I get a bunch of requests to continue. Though I never meant for it to be a long FanFic.