---Present Date---

Jess was still sitting near the slightly opened window in his apartment. He felt the cool crisp air dry up his tears. He felt the pangs trying to think back. He remembered that one moment. That stupid moment that changed everything. Had he not gone to Rory Gilmore's house… Well, he swears that everything would be so different. Everyone would be happy.

---Eight months ago (continuation)---

"Jess! Come in." Rory told him. He sensed the extreme vivaciousness in her voice. He wondered why she would be so happy to see him, the miserable little bastard that broke her heart and never explained why he left.

He stepped inside her house and looked around. Nothing had really changed. It was all the same. Same couch, pictures, decorations.

"I'm so happy to see you." She said.
"Yeah, you know, I just came over to make amends…and stuff."

"Amends? For what?"

"Well you know, taking off like three years ago and things like that. I know, and I know that this is going to sound cheesy, that I hurt you and I know that I broke your heart. I just wanted to say that I was so stupid for doing that. I am so, so, so incredibly sorry."

"Jess…" Rory paused. "That was such a long time ago. It doesn't really matter anymore. I'm just glad that you're here now and now that you've apologized, that whole thing in the past is completely forgotten, okay?"

"Yeah. Okay" He smiled from ear to ear. He was so glad that it was that easy.

"So, I was just about to eat. You want to eat some left over Chinese food?" She laughed.

"Sure."

"Uh, you can just sit on the couch."

Jess sat down and watched her walk away. She was still the beautiful person she was many years ago. She still had the bluest of eyes he'd ever seen and her hair was still brown. But it was wavy now. It made her look mature.

Rory came back a few minutes later holding steaming Chinese food on plates. She sat down a couple of inches away from Jess and signed for him to start eating.

"So uh…" Before she started eating, "Uh, is there anything new in your life going on. You know, new job, new apartment, new people?"

New people? Subtle, she thought.

"No." He said lying, convincingly.

"Okay."

He knew what exactly she meant by new people.

"You wanna watch TV or something?" She asked.

"Yeah sure. What's on?"

"I'm not really sure. I'm not exactly home this time of the day."

"Where would you be then?" He asked as she turned on the TV.

"Well, at Luke's then you know, around."

"Around? Well, what does around exactly mean?"

"School."
"Right! So where exactly did Rory Gilmore go to?"
"Yale of course. Remember? Remember when you YAHOO-ed it?"

They both laughed. Then they stared at each other. They looked at each other like how they used to. Like little lovebirds or something.

He looked away and checked his watch.

"Oh! It's getting kind of late."

"Oh, it's only 3 o'clock."

"But uh, you know Luke, needs help at the diner, so I gotta go. I'll come back, maybe tomorrow.

"Sure." She said grinning.

He walked to the door and turned around.

"Tell Lorelai I said hi." He said. Then he gave her a big hug and left.

Jess started walking. He didn't hear the door of the house close. He felt her eyes watching him. He looked down and kicked the leaves up. He had a big smile on his face. He felt like he had a hanger in his mouth. He couldn't stop grinning. It was a good day for him. A damn good day.