Doesn't It Usually End With A Wedding? Chapter 3:
Disclaimer: All characters belong to Amy Sherman-Palladino3. The story was based on ASP's Gilmore Girls and I am just continuing.
AN
SOOO sorry guys! Its been about 2 weeks but, I haven't had internet access to publish it. I hope you like it and don't think I'm rushing the story too much! I'm going to stop naming the chapters because, I'm not really doing well with trying to come up with names. HERE WE GO!
—THE APARTMENT—
The kiss was soft and gentle. All the passion that has been building up ever since the day Jess left 4 years ago. When they finally came apart, Rory didn't know what to say. So, she said the only thing that came to mind.
"I'm sorry." Rory said, looking at him with sad eyes. "I didn't mean to. Well, I guess I did but, I didn't think it through. You should hate me and here I am kissing you. You don't want to kiss me. And-."
She was cut off by his lips on hers again. She was surprised at first but, quickly understood what was going on and kissed back.
They separated again and Jess looked down at Rory and said one simple word. "Hi." Smiling like an idiot.
—THE DINER 9:00 am NEXT DAY—
Lorelai sat down at the counter where Jess was reading a book with a smile on his face.
"What's with the smile? You did something bad, didn't you?" Lorelai asked looking at him with a suspicious look on her face.
Jess turned around grabbing a mug and coffee pot and set it in front of Lorelai. "Nothing bad. Just glad." He said not caring that he was rhyming and sounding like an idiot.
"Luke! Your nephew is scaring me!" She yelled into the kitchen while still looking at Jess's smile. "Where's Rory?" she said now directing her speaking to her soon-to-be nephew.
"She's upstairs. Still sleeping, I think." He said giving her a plate with pancakes and bacon on it. "Give it to her?" He said, referring to the food below them.
Lorelai stumbled on her words for a sec. "Uh- Um- Sure." She looked at his eyes trying to read him but all she saw was pure happiness. "You sure you are okay?"
"I'm fine, Aunt Lorelai. Now, don't you have a daughter upstairs?" Jess looked at the curtain then back at Lorelai.
"Yeah, so, okay. Be right back, I guess." And, with that, Lorelai rushed up the stairs.
—THE APARTMENT W/ LORELAI AND RORY—
Rory was at the table, reading a book when her mom barged into the room, clearly out of breathe from running up the stairs too fast.
"He- *wheeze* And- *wheeze* You-*wheeze*Food." Lorelai coughed up, bending over with her palm on her knee with the plate in her other hand.
"O-kay, we are going to get you to sit down, now." Rory said, getting up from her chair, grabbing Lorelai by the shoulders, and directing her to the pre-occupied seat.
After a couple minutes of wheezing, Lorelai finally said what she had been dying to say since she saw Jess's smile when she entered the diner.
"WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT?!" She practically yelled at Rory.
"With me, or you?" Rory questioned, still not comprehending what her mother was talking about.
"You! And- HIM!" She yelled again.
"Who, Jess? Nothing. Why?" Rory lied.
"HE'S SMILING THE RORY SMILE!" She, again, yelled inches away from Rory's face.
"The Rory smile?" She now, officially, thought her mother had gone crazy.
"Yes, the Rory smile. The smile that I have seen about once or twice that is very rare but always is shown when you do something 'amazing' to him."
Rory was now a bright color pink.
"Oohhhh! BLUSHING! Spill, now!"
"We kissed."
"KISSED?! AND YOU TELL ME NOW?!" Lorelai was now freaking out.
"Twice, actually but, thats it. We went to bed after that."
"How did it happen? EXACTLY." She pressed the last part.
"Well, he woke me up so I could change, he went into the bathroom to change while I did out here, and then I was over there" She said pointing to the pictures on his dresser "and he showed me this!" pushing 'The Fountainhead' over to her mother.
"Its a book. Whats so special about it?" Lorelai questioned.
"Its THE book, mom. The one he refused to read since the day at the bridge for the picnic. He read it. Open it!" Rory responded, excited.
Lorelai opened the book and leafed through the pages. "There is writing everywhere. Why?
"Their his notes! His thoughts! He's done them with almost all my books. But, this one is special. Look at the back."
Lorelai flipped to the last page and read what he wrote.
"What does it mean?"
"Mom, he's the one that got me back to Yale, the one that got us to talk to each other. He came and visited me and I don't even know but, its why he doesn't hate me now! HE is the reason that we are talking at the moment. Otherwise I would probably be at a DAR meeting right now!"
"What are you talking about? Just because he saw you, you came back to me?"
"He came out to dinner with Logan and I and Logan was being such a jackass to Jess and then Jess set me in place. He made me wake up."
"What?" Lorelai could't believe what she was hearing. The boy turned man that had broken Rory's heart, the town hoodlum, had woken Rory up from her dream. He was a person. A nice one.
—THE BRIDGE—
Jess sat, reading a book, at the edge of the bridge when he heard someone coming behind him.
"Hey." He said out loud.
"Hey." She replied.
"So, how you doing?"
"Pretty good."
"Well, thats good." There was an awkward silence.
"Why is it that whenever something big happens to us, is it always so awkward?" She questioned out loud.
"Well, I've thought about this, more when we were younger but I have lately too and, I think its because, although we are writers, to each other we don't have the best communication skills." He tried to explain.
"Oh. Well, that makes sense." She sat down next to him on the bridge, now looking into his eyes. "I think my mom likes you now."
—THE DINER—
"Good lunches my Lukey!" Lorelai said, coming into the diner. "And I would like some coffee with my cookie!"
"You are not having any of that stuff. No cookie, no coffee." Luke countered as Lorelai sat at the counter.
"Only coffee, please?" She flashed him the Gilmore Blues and he gave up.
"I hate you and your Gilmore eyes." He said giving in by grabbing a mug from behind.
"CORRECTION! You love me and my Gilmore eyes."
"Okay, you got me."
"Of course I did." She drank the rest of her coffee in 3 gulps. "Got to got back to the inn! We have a wedding in just a week!" She said, running out of the diner.
"Lorelai!" Luke yelled at her back.
"Hmm?" She turned around.
"1 week."
"Yeah, 1 week." She said back, then turned to walk fast (Because Gilmores don't run) back to the inn.