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"Rory! Is that you?" Jess asked shocked
Rory chewed on her lip looking up at Jess and a thousand thought flew through her mind, she didn't know what to say to him she opened her mouth and let out a shaky breath and said "Hey"
Jess could not believe it, the girl that he had been thinking about for the past three days now was Rory, HIS Rory. Everything made sense to him now, why he felt to connected to her, and why he got that feeling when he saw her, It was Rory his beautiful Rory.
"Hey" Jess smiled now and took a step closer to her
She looked beautiful with black hair, all he wanted to do was run his hands through her hair and kiss her breathless.
"Hey" Rory replied looking at him biting her lip she was not sure where to look.
"I ugh…guess I know why you wore that beanie" he joked
"Yeah, figured it was time for a change" she pushed a lock of hair behind her ear
"It's nice, I like it" he told her stepping a bit closer reaching out to touch a strand of it
"Jess!" Luke called out from the kitchen
He pulled his hand away "I should probably get to work" he stuffed his hand in his jeans pocket
"Yeah, I should get back to mom and Lane…so I guess I'll see you latter" she smiled turned and went back to the table where her mom and Lane were waiting for her.
Later on that night Rory spent the night tossing and turning. She seemed to be having a lot of trouble getting to sleep now a days. She sat up turned on her lap looked out her window then at the clock on her night stand, she shrugged and said "What the hell?" got out of bed slipped on a pair of shoes and grabbed a book from her bookshelf and climbed out her window.
A few blocks away Jess was also having trouble falling asleep he kept thinking about Rory. Something was different with her now, something was missing…that sparkle, that light that made her…well her. He just wished she would tell him what was the matter, he wanted to help her make her happy again. He got up out of bed and sat down at the windowsill with his book.
After a while Jess closed his book and took a look out the window he saw some one on the swing set he looked closer and saw that it was Rory. He quickly put on a shirt grabbed some shoes and quietly snuck out of the apartment. Once he was in the diner he slip them on and headed out to talk to Rory. She was sitting on one of the swing sets looking up into the sky, while she swung back and forth gently. Jess snuck up from behind her and gave her a gently push so she got a little more air this time. She jumped and stopped to look back to see who had pushed her.
"JESS!" she squeaked she began curing her self for not at least bringing a jacket with her. She was in her black boxer shorts and a hot pink tank top only.
"Hey," he smiled down at her and began pushing her
It stayed that way for a few minutes him just pushing Rory on the swings she looked back at him "What are you doing up?" she asked
He stopped pushing her and sat down on the swing nest to her. " I could ask you the same thing" he answered
"Wanna take a walk down to the bridge" he asked while she looked down at her shoes.
"Sure" they both got up and began walking
"So how've you been?" he asked really wanting to know
"ughm pretty good I guess, how about you?" she looked at him while they were walking
"Ok haven't have look yell at me or lecture me for a few days so I'm good" he looked back at her smiling
"That's good, but you do know that Luke really cares about you?" she continued on walking
He just shrugged "Yeah well, this is the only place that I have not been kicked out of yet so I guess it's ok…" he looked down
Rory laughed "You care about him too and you know it!" she looked at him
"Don't go and start telling people that!" he looked back at her
She giggled "My lips are sealed!"
En her tone changed "So how are things with you and ugh Shane?" he looked away from him and kept walking
Jess stopped and watched her, her mood changed when she brought up Shane…"could it be" he thought he snapped out of it and caught up with her
"Things are ok" he simply said not wanting to start anything with her. "What about you and Dean?" he asked knowing the answer already but he just wanted to hear it from her.
"I brook up with him" she told him once they reached the bridge
He pretended to be shocked "I'm sorry" he told her
"It's ok I mean things have been weird for a while, he wants things to stay the same, but it's not what I wanted" she sat down and looked up at the stars.
"It's really pretty out to night" she said out loud
Jess didn't give a damn about the night he was looking at her she looked incredible, all he wanted to do was hold her and kiss her but he knew he couldn't.
"Yeah really pretty" he said sitting down next to her.
After some time they had managed to scoot closer to each other.
"So yeah she finally found some to dance with her" Rory finished
"Why does she want to win so bad?" Jess asked
"Not sure, but all I know is she wants to beat Kirk and she thinks she is going to finally do it this year" she looked over at him, she had finally noticed how close they really were.
"It's getting late, I should get back home" she whispered her eyes never leaving his.
"Yeah" he breathed but neater of them moved, the continued to stare at each other
"I have school in the morning"
"So do I" he leaned in she meet him half way and kissed his. It was a soft gentle kiss.
Rory pulled back slowly and looked at him, he bit his bottom lip nervously wondering what was going thro her head.
'What the fuck!' she thought and went back to kiss him again, this time a little harder. Jess was surprised at first then kissed her back wrapping his arms around her. They started rolling around the ground making out , they didn't know how long they had been doing it but it felt like heaven to them.
Jess was placing butterfly kisses along her neck and collarbone, she had her hands in his hair holding him closer to her.
Rory's mind and body were buzzing she felt like she was on a high . Jess was an amazing kisser she had been wondering why they didn't do this sooner. Just then Jess slipped his hands under her tank top and began to caress her smooth skin.
'Oh god that feels so good' she thought to her self as his hand began to move up a bit more
Jess thought he had died and gone to heaven he decided to take a change and moved his hand a bit higher to her breast.
Rory arched into him she thought things could not get any better, but all of the sudden she pulled away and looked at Jess who was a bit surprised at the loss of contact. 'oh my god! I am a SLUT!' she thought to herself "Rory?" Jess reached for her but she moved away "I ughhh I have to go!" and with that's he ran off
"Rory!" Jess got up and chased after her but it was to late she was already gone. He kicked a tree near by
"FUCK!" he yelled out in frustration and pain he ran his fingers through his hair 'Why do things have to be so complicated with her' he thought sighing he shook his head and continued his way back home.
The Next morning Rory had just finished getting ready when Lorelai walked into her room "You ready?" she asked tossing in some things into her purse.
"Actually mom, I think I'm going to skip Luke's today, I have a lot of things I need to get done before I get to school" she told her picking up her school bag.
'Whaaaa? But we always go to Luke's! what would we do for coffee?" she whined
"I'm sorry mom, you can still go, I'll make some here and catch the bus" she explained running a brush trough her hair one last time
"Ok, but doesn't mean I'm happy about it! And don't make it a habit" she told her
Rory laughed " Just go mom, the lack of caffeine is making you moody" she kissed her on the cheek
"Alright" she picked up her keys and walked to the front door. "Oh before I forget" she turned around and looked Rory "I'm going to be late for dinner tonight, so just call Lane see if she wants to spend the night and you guys can order something"
Rory sighed mentally she was glad she didn't have to make up and excuse not to go to Luke's again. "Ok, no problem"
"Ok bye honey" she kissed her one lat time and left. Once Lorelai left she sighed in relief and quickly made her coffee.
After finishing her coffee she made a face and said out loud to no one " ewww ok no more Rory coffee.." with that she placed the mug into the sink picked up her things and headed out.
On her way to the bus stop she saw Lane, she ran to catch up to her to see if she wanted to stay the night. She agreed and they said they would meet at the park after school.
At 3:45 Rory stepped of the bus and groaned, she had had the day from hell, Paris had been on her case all day, she had two reports she needed to write, and Paris decided at the last minute to change a story she already finished for the paper. She really needed one good day of doing nothing, just relaxing and having fun.
Rory sat down on a bench and sighed, she could really go for some coffee right now but she knew Jess would be at Luke's. She pulled out her book and began to read while she waited for Lane to show up. After a while she saw Dean walking by. He saw her and frowned and kept walking.
"Dean!" she yelled so he would stop
She put her book down and walked over to him "Look Dean I'm sorry, really I am. I hate that things are weird between us"
He looked at her "yeah well you should have thought about that before you broke up with me" he barked
Right then she lost it "Look I'm sorry Dean I told you that already! But things were just not working for me anymore and I didn't see any point in avoiding the inevitable! I didn't want it to be any harder then it would be! So call me a bitch if you want but I was doing what I thought was right! And I'm sorry to think that we were ever friends!" she was about to walk away when he grabbed her arm
"I'm sorry Rory, I'm just a little upset but we are friends Rory and you still mean a lot to me" he told her letting his hands fall to his side.
Rory smiled "I'm sorry I hurt you Dean…" she put her hand on his cheek and asked "Do you think we could still be friends?"
"Yeah I would like that" he smiled and gave her a hug.
Jess had just walked out of the diner and saw Rory and Dean hugging . He felt his heart breaking at the sight of them. He clenched his fists tuned on his heel and walked away.
'Why do I even care!' he thought to himself as he kept walking in the other direction.
After promising to do something Dean went to the park to play football with his friends and Rory went back to her book.
15 minutes later Lane came running up to her "Sorry" she panted "mama made me do a few chores before but I'm ready" she held her bag out.
"Great, let go and pick up some snacks and shit for tonight" Rory suggested
"Cool, I could really go for some chocolate right now…" the looped arms and headed for the market.
And hour later Rory and Lane walked through the Gilmore house with their arms full goodies for the night.
"So what do you feel like having? Chinese, Pizza, Italian, or some burgers?" Rory asked as she put the movies and bags down.
"I dunno, I'm good with anything…" Lane answered
"Everything it is then!" she walked into the kitchen picked up the phone and ordered the food.
When she came back into the living room Lane was lounging on the sofa with a soda in her had.
"Food will be here in 45 minutes…or so they say" she laughed kicked off her shoes and threw her self on to the sofa resting her head in lanes lap.
"Gawwwwwwwd, today has been so shitty! I have so much word to do! And to top things off I had to deal with fucking attitude from Dean!" she sighed
Lane played with her hair "How are you and Dean?" she asked
"Better, I mean we decided to be friends, but I didn't appreciate his attitude, I mean I under stand but that does not give him the right to treat me like that"
"It's understandable, but you're right you did the right thing" she went on
"Thanks Lane you really are my best friend" she smiled and sat up un-tucking her shirt took it off and walked into her room to get more comfortable.
"Ok so what movie should we watch first?" Lane asked getting comfortable as well
"Hmmm, how about Cat On A Hot Tin Roof?" Rory suggested coming out of her room in a pair of black shorts she had rolled up and a black tank top.
"Liz Taylor? Hmmm sounds good" she agreed
"Ok, lets get started" she pulled out the dvd and popped it into the dvd player.
Just then the door bell rang "I'll get that" Lane said getting up from the sofa
"Thanks the money is on bulletin bored" she told her
A few minutes Lane walked back in with the Chinese food. "Ohhhh smells good! Lets get started" she picked up a box of chicken fried rice and dug in.
A few minutes later the doorbell rang again this time Rory got up to get it.
She opened the door "Hey" she said not looking up counting the money "Hey" she recognized the voice and looked up a bit startled, Jess stood there with the bags of food she ordered.
"Ughhh, where is Mike?" she asked suddenly feeling very uncomfortable standing there in her short shorts and tank top.
"He's sick so Luke has me doing deliveries" he explained
"Oh, okay" they just stood there looking at each other
Lane walked buy and shook her head "Hey Jess thanks for the food" she smiled and took the bags form him and nudged Rory so she can pay him "Bye" she went back into the living room.
"Oh yeah, sorry" she blushed and handed him the money
"It's cool" he smiled at her
She pushed her hair behind her ear and pulled it up real quick into a messy bun.
"I guess I'll see you later" she looked at him
"Yeah, I guess bye"
"Bye" he looked at her and turned away
Rory was just about to close the door when jess called out.
"Hey Rory!"
She opened the door again and stepped out on to the porch.
"I really Like your hair" he told her and walked away
Rory just stood there watching him walk away and looked up at her hair and smiled
"Rory! I'm going to start the movie with out you!" Lane yelled out!
"I'm coming!" she yelled back
Later on that night The girls decided that they wanted some ice-cream so they got dressed I some comfortable sweats and headed out.
"What are you going to have?" Lane asked as they walked over to the market to get some pints of ice cream.
"It's between Mocha Almond Fudge, Coffee, and Cappuccino you?" Rory looked at her
" I was thinking Butter Pecan" she answered
"Sounds good…I think I'll get the Mocha Almond Fudge" she nodded as the approached the store
Jess was walking over to the market to pick up a few things Luck has asked him for and he figured he would pick up a pack of cigarettes.
While he was walking into the store he saw Rory and Lane ahead of him he was about to go talk to them when Dean showed up behind her and cover her eyes. He growled and went to pick up what Luke needed.
'Are they back together?' he thought as he as he threw things into the basket
"They were hugging in the park earlier today' he looked over at where they were and he saw them laughing and picking out Pints of ice-cream.
Dean took both of the pints out of their hands and went of to pay for them. Jess saw stars he really hated that guy he was not right for Rory and one way or another he will make her see that.
Jess grabbed a few more things paid for them and stormed out of the store.
"So you think that Dean is finally ok with the break up?" Lane asked later on that night while they were in bed.
"I guess, I mean he is finally talked to me today white out any giving me a hurt or dirty look" she rolled over to her side.
Lane rolled over as well and looked at her "Hey Ror, can I ask you something with out you getting all defensive"
Rory tucked her hands under her chin, yawned and nodded.
"Are you in love with Jess?" she whispered
She didn't answer right away "Rory? Are you still awake?"
"Yeah, sorry I was just thinking"
"And?"
"Maybe…" she finally answered quietly
"Cool" was all she said yawned and closed her eyes.
Rory opened her eyes "Lane…you're ok with it? I mean not that we are dating or anything"
"Lane opened her eyes and looked at her "Rory I see something in your eyes when you look at him, and you tend to get all weird around him" she smiled
"Really?" she asked
"Yeah, you have feelings for him. I know how you feel, it's the same way I feel about Dave" she yawned
"Thanks Lane…you're the best"
"No problem, it's what I'm here for" she yawned
They laughed a little more then fell asleep.
The next day was uneventful for Rory she managed to avoid Jess and finish a lot of her homework. She was just about to finish her article for the school paper when her Lorelai walked in and took a seat next her at the kitchen table and pouted "I have no partner for tomorrow!"
Rory looked up from her work "What ? What happened I thought you said that you already did and he like had been a dancer for a while too?"
"Turns out he is married and is not comfortable with it, his wife is a little jealous"
"I'm sorry mom, maybe next year?" she offered
"Yeah…I guess"
Rory smiled and went back to her work.
"Oh" Lorelai said straightening up "I got and Idea!"
"What?" Rory put her pen down.
" You can be my partner!" she smiled
"What! No! I cant I have something to do with Paris!" she explained
"Please, Rory! Come on it could be fun!" she begged
"Mom, ok I'll call and see If I can get out of it but if I cant…"
"Yeah yeah just call!" she handed her the cordless phone
Rory smiled and shook her head and called Paris.
Well there ya go new chapter up! Sorry it would have been up a lot sooner but I just got really busy! So read and review! ENJOY!