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Chapter 4

"I..uh..I'm sorry..." Matt said.

"Sorry? You're sorry? Well that's ok then!" Jess spat. "What the hell was that?!"

"I...It just happened. I didn't mean to..." Matt said. "Please...I'm sorry..."

Jess shook his head. "I should have known. Your sort are all the same! You think you can have whoever you want even though they've made it clear they're straight." He said spitefully.

"My sort?" Matt said hurt.

"Yeah, your sort! I'm not a freak like you so I'd recommend you stay away from me from now on." He snapped.

"Please...It won't happen again, I promise. If we can just go back to being friends..." Matt begged.

"Friends? You think I'd want to be friends with you after that? You're deluded!" Jess shook his head. "I never want to see you again."

Matt blinked away some tears. "So much for you being fine with me being gay. Guess you're just the same as all the others." He said quietly before running off. He kept running until he got home. He rushed past his mom and Rory who were in the living room and ran to his room. He lay down on his bed and finally let the tears fall. He knew he'd screwed up. He shouldn't have done it. He hadn't planned it but he couldn't take it back now. And now Jess hated him. He was brought out of his thoughts when there was a knock on the door and his mom and Rory came in.

"Matt? Is everything ok?" Lorelai asked concerned.

Matt quickly wiped the tears away and sat up. "Fine." He said quietly.

"It doesn't look fine." Lorelai said.

"I said I'm fine ok!" Matt snapped.

"Whoa ok. I was only asking." Lorelai said putting her hands up.

Matt sighed. "I'm sorry. I just..I just had a stupid fight with Jess, that's all." He said.

"With Jess?" Lorelai frowned.

"Yeah, and before you say anything, it was my fault. Not his." Matt said.

"I wasn't going to say anything." She said.

"Sure you weren't." Matt said giving her a look.

Lorelai sighed. "Matt, you know I'm not Jess' biggest fan but I also know you enjoyed hanging out with him. I just want to make sure you're ok. You know you can talk to me right?" She said softly.

Matt gave her a small smile and nodded. "I know." He said quietly. "But I'll be ok. I promise." He said.

"Ok. Then I'll leave you alone then." She said. "I'm going to go order some pizzas for dinner. Up for a movie night?" She asked.

Matt sighed. He just wanted to sleep but he knew his mom was trying to cheer him up so he nodded. "Sure." He said.

"Great! I'll go order the food." She smiled before leaving.

Matt glanced at Rory who was still standing there. "What?" He said.

"This wasn't just some stupid fight with Jess. Want to tell me what's really going on?" She said.

"No." Matt mumbled.

Rory sighed and went to sit on his bed. "Matt, I promise I won't tell anyone. You know you can talk to me about anything right? There's no way you'd get this upset over some petty argument." She said softly. "Matt, you can talk to me."

"I kissed him." He admitted.

"What?" Rory said surprised.

"I kissed him even though I knew he's not gay and he freaked out and now he hates me." Matt said quietly.

"I'm sure he doesn't hate you..." Rory tried to reassure him.

"He called me a freak, Rory. He told me that he should have known my sort were all the same. He told me he never wanted to see me again." Matt said.

"Well that's going to be hard seeing as you live in the same town." Rory tried to joke.

"Gee thanks for your support." Matt said before lying back on his bed.

"I'm sorry." Rory sighed. "He really said all that to you?" She asked softly.

"Yep. I really screwed up." He said quietly.

"He had no right to say that to you. He was being a jerk, Matt." Rory frowned.

"I was the one who did something wrong. I kissed him, Rory! I knew he wasn't gay and I still kissed him!" Matt exclaimed. "Maybe I am a freak! Maybe I am deluded!"

"No you're not." She said softly. "You like him and you acted on it. Maybe you went about it the wrong way but everyone makes mistakes. I'm pretty sure Jess has made his fair share of mistakes." She pointed out.

"It's not the same." Matt mumbled.

Rory sighed and could see how much this had affected her brother. "Come on, mom's ordering pizzas and we're going to have a junk food movie marathon. Forget about Jess for tonight. And then see if you can talk to him at school or something tomorrow. He might be more open minded after a night's sleep." She encouraged. "Come on, you know what mom gets like when she has to wait to eat." She joked.

Matt smiled slightly. "Ok." He said quietly.

"It'll all work itself out, I'm sure of it." Rory assured him, getting up.

"Ror?" He said.

"Yeah?"

"Thanks." He smiled softly.

"What are sisters for eh?" She smiled.

Matt glanced over at Jess who was with a group of guys from school by the lockers. He took a deep breath before walking up to him. "Jess...uh...can I talk to you quickly?" He asked. Jess ignored him though. "Please? I really need to talk to you."

"Is he bothering you?" One of the guys asked Jess.

"Yes." Jess replied, glancing at Matt quickly.

"I'd recommend you leave him alone then. Freak." The guy told Matt. "Go kiss someone who's as gay as you are."

Matt looked at Jess. "You told them. I can't believe you did that." He said hurt.

Jess just shrugged.

"I'm not a freak." Matt stood up for himself. "I'm gay and proud of it."

"Gay, freak. Same thing in my books. Now get lost and don't try and spread your freakishness again or else we'll have to teach you a lesson." The guy threatened him.

Matt glanced at Jess who was avoiding his gaze. He frowned. "You know, I may have made a mistake. I shouldn't have done what I did but what you're doing now is even worse. I'll stop bothering you." He said before walking off. He blinked back tears when he heard Jess behind him.

"Good riddance." He said.

"I don't know what to do." Lorelai was telling Luke a few days later in the diner. "Matt's had arguments with friends before but it's never affected him like this before. He won't even talk to me about what it was about!" She said. "I swear if Jess has done something..."

"Hey, what makes you think it was Jess' fault?" Luke said.

Lorelai sighed. "Look, I don't want to fight. I just...Matt's upset and I want to know why. He's my kid, Luke."

Luke sighed. "Well Jess hasn't exactly said anything to me either. He just said him and Matt won't be hanging out anymore together." He said.

"I don't get it. They were as thick as thieves and now Matt won't even come in here anymore." She said.

"I know you want to help him. I do as well. But maybe this once, we need to leave it to them. Hopefully they'll sort it out themselves." He said.

"Maybe." Lorelai said doubtfully.

Meanwhile, Rory was walking along the street after getting back from Chilton when she saw Jess walking her way. Something in her just snapped. "How could you?" She demanded.

"What?" Jess said.

"How could you say those things to Matt?! You're a jerk! You know he's in bits because of you." Rory snapped.

"Well maybe he shouldn't have kissed me then." Jess retorted.

"He made a mistake!" Rory exclaimed. "Who hasn't made mistakes? He liked you ok? He liked you and he did a spur of the moment thing that he regrets now. Maybe he shouldn't have done it but what you're doing is worse! Spreading it around the school was just cruel! He's had to deal with homophobic jerks his whole life. And now he has to deal with another one. And what's worse is that he thought you were his friend!"

"Hey, I'm not homophobic!" He defended.

"Really? Then prove it!" Rory challenged. "Because how you're acting right now makes you just as bad as all the other homophobic people in this world." She snapped before storming off.

The following morning, Matt was getting books out of lockers when he heard sniggering behind him. He turned round and saw some guys that enjoyed picking on him. "Leave me alone." He snapped.

"Aw that's not very nice, is it guys?" One of the guys smirked. "I think this freak needs to be taught a lesson."

Matt looked at them. "Just leave me alone, please. I'm not bothering you so why do you have to keep bothering me?" He snapped.

"Because your existent bothers us!" He said.

"Leave him alone." A familiar voice said.

Matt was surprised to see Jess standing there. He watched as the guys looked just as surprised.

"I thought you would appreciate us doing you a favour." The guy said.

"Did you?" Jess said. "Well I don't and I think you should get lost and leave him alone."

The guy frowned. "You've changed your tune. Haven't you forgotten that he assaulted you?"

"I'm warning you. You hurt him, you'll have to deal with me." Jess said.

Matt watched the guys think for a moment before obviously thinking against it before turning and walking away, relieving him. He glanced at Jess. "Thanks." He said quietly. Jess just nodded. Matt sighed. "I better get to my lesson." He said, going to walk away.

"I want to know...I'm not like one of them. I'm not...I'm not homophobic." Jess said hesitantly. "I...I was caught off guard and I said stuff I shouldn't have."

"Ok." Matt said.

"I just...need some space." Jess said. "But...you don't need to avoid the diner because of me."

"Ok." Matt repeated. "Thanks."

Jess just nodded before walking off. Matt watched him go, smiling slightly. Maybe Rory was right. Maybe things will sort themselves out.

"You so enjoyed that second kiss with Tristan!" Matt teased his sister as they entered the diner after Rory's performance of Romeo and Juliet at Chilton.

"I think I preferred it when you was in a mood and refused to talk to us." Rory retorted but smirked to show him she was joking. It was nice to see him slightly back to his normal self.

"Yeah well...you might be right. Thing might be sorting themselves out." Matt smiled softly, glancing over at Jess who was at the counter who just nodded at him.

"Well good." Rory smiled. "I'm happy for you."

"I'll go get the food in." Lorelai smiled going over to the counter where Luke was stood.

"So how was it?" Matt grinned at Rory.

"Matt!" Rory groaned.

"What?" He laughed. "You looked like you enjoyed it!"

"Why do you care so much?" She said.

"Hey, I have no love life! I need to live through you!" Matt joked.

"Matt..." Rory said softly.

"I'm fine." Matt said.

"You know, once Jess gets his head round everything, maybe..." Rory tried.

"Can we not talk about it please?" He said quickly, glancing over at Jess. He didn't want to get his hopes up. Jess had been nicer to him since the incident at school but he didn't want to hope something could happen. He didn't want to be deluded and think that maybe one kiss could get someone to rethink their sexuality. It was crazy to think that. "So Tristan?" He prompted, wanting to think about something else.

Rory sighed. "Look, he annoys the hell out of me but then other times he can be...well, he can be quite sweet. It's like he has two sides to him." She said.

"Yeah but do you like him?" Matt grinned.

"I don't know, maybe ok? You happy now?" Rory said.

"Extremely!" Matt grinned but suddenly his grin faded.

"What?" Rory said noticing his change of expression.

Matt could only gesture towards the counter and Rory turned to see a girl walk up to Jess and suddenly Jess started kissing her. She glanced back to her brother who looked devastated. "Matt..." She said softly.

"Tell mom...tell mom I wasn't feeling good ok? I'll meet you at home." He said getting up.

"Matt wait!" Rory said concerned.

Matt ignored her and went to leave. He glanced back at Jess, who glanced up at him before going back to kissing the girl, before he opened the door and left the diner. How could he have been so stupid? How could he even think that things could possibly happen? He felt so silly now. He started walking home, furiously wiping away some tears that had started to fall down his face. How could he be so stupid?

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