Chapter 3
It was dark outside and Rory's stomach growled with hunger by the time she finished reading the book, she closed it finally with a small smile. It was even better then she remembered. She stretched her back then threw the book onto the coffee table in front of her. She was meeting her mother at Luke's for dinner and realised she was due there five minutes ago.
She leapt up and grabbed her coat running out of the apartment and all the way to the diner. Lorelai was sitting at their favourite table and Rory could see her teasing Luke who was grinning down at her.
Rory entered and Luke walked back behind the counter to fix the plentiful amount of food Lorelai had ordered for the two of them.
"7 minutes Rory, you kept me waiting 7 minutes." Lorelai said, tapping her watch.
"I'm gonna do it." Rory said, ignoring Lorelai. "I'm going to go to Philly tomorrow and see Jess and get his permission to run the story."
"See him? Can't you just call him for that?" Lorelai said, seeming startled at this news.
"There is a release form he has to sign." Rory said, before realizing there was coffee in front of her and taking a long sip.
"Ya heard of a fax machine?" Lorelai asked.
"Ya met Jess? He didn't even get a cell phone til he was 20. I just think a fax machine would be one step too far for him. It's no big deal. I'll drive there, then drive back that night. Bada-bing-bada-boom I'm out of there. You won't even know I'm gone." Rory said, patting her mothers arm reassuringly.
"Ok…bring me back a…what do they even have in Philly?" asked Lorelai.
"I'll just bring you a T-shirt." Rory told her.
"When are you gonna go?"
"Tomorrow. No point putting it off, it'll just mean I have less time to write the story. Maybe Jess will even give me an interview, that would be really handy." Rory said, feeling hopefully. They sat and ate their food mostly in silence, Lorelai felt nervous and Rory couldn't really think of anything to say to reassure her. In fact, it wasn't her job to reassure her, Lorelai should trust that she was mature enough to handle seeing Jess.
Later that night Rory lay in bed looking at the ceiling feeling more nervous then she had in years. What if Jess was angry, or hated her. Worse still, what if he had forgotten her all together.
Her phone started vibrating she had received a message, she opened it, it was from Logan.
"Hey Ace, I'm back finally. I miss talking to you. It's been too long, must catch up xox."
Rory looked at it for a long time. Logan had been in and out of her life since she finished college. His unexpected marriage proposal had seemed to spoil all hopes for them. But, they had shared some nights together since their breakup, and she did miss him a lot sometimes. She smiled to herself at Logan's timing and she slowly drifted off thinking about Logan and Jess and the story she was going to write.