My attitude made Jess look around, trying to find the cause of it. His eyes met Anne's and they both smiled awkwardly.

I wanted to apologize to him. I wanted to apologize to her. I wanted a DeLorean with a flux capacitor. And, oddly enough, I wanted to go back with Logan. I know our relationship wasn't love-based and completely messed up, but at least it was usually him who messed up everything. Right that moment, I wasn't that different from him.

And I'm pretty sure my next movement – running away as soon as I realized Anne started to walk towards us – wasn't going to make things any better. I glanced at her when I passed her way; she looked confused, but didn't do anything to stop me, she probably wanted me far away from her life as soon as possible.

She could breathe relieved, then. This was exactly my plan when I finally stepped outside Truncheon Books and stood in the sidewalk, waiting for a cab. Apparently, this was the only street in the world where cabs didn't pass by.

I didn't have much time to find out, though.

"What are you doing?" a male voice asked on my back. My spine froze, as I knew exactly who it was.

"Waiting for a cab, what does it look like?" I replied.

"In here? This is probably the only street in the world where cabs don't pass by…" he observed.

If I wasn't more concerned about my broken heart and my cheating, I would've laughed about the fact that even after all this time we still were in perfect sync. Well, not so perfect sync, he did have a girlfriend with a baby.

"Rory, look at me, what's going on?" he continued, sounding impatient.

I turned to him, mostly because I couldn't believe he had seriously asked me this. He raised one eyebrow, still waiting for me to talk.

"Alright, Anne's going on," I said raising my eyebrows.

"What's wrong with Anne?" he frowned.

"Oh, nothing is wrong with her, right? She's funny, and sweet, and pretty, and flawless, and…"

"Rory, are you in love with Anne?" Jess cut me out.

Great, he found that amusing, at least someone was having a good time. I looked at him with a shocked expression and asked what he was talking about, my voice failed in a pathetic way.

"Because that's all I can think of," he explained.

"She's your girlfriend!" I shouted. Would it be possible that he didn't know the meaning of cheating? "She saw us cheating! Why aren't you freaking out about this?"

He frowned, and then he opened his mouth to say something. He closed his mouth. He raised his eyebrows, and finally he nodded in understanding.

"I guess because she's not my girlfriend," he replied.

Now I was the one frowning confused. Nothing made sense anymore, they kissed when I first got here, they kissed tonight, he was taking care of her daughter and he was the one who said she would kill us when we didn't go to the bar with her.

"We used to date, but it didn't work out, so we broke up," he explained. I couldn't think of anything to say.

"We both already had people in our lives we wanted to be with," he continued. "Look, I know Yale isn't in a break and I thought you coming here was because you still had hopes for us. I'm sorry I jumped into conclusions," he shrugged and went back to the bookstore.

I sighed. We never seemed to work out, there was always something that happened to screw everything up, I knew it was over when a cab finally stopped and I entered it. We always got there too late, either him when I was with Dean or when I was with Logan, or me, when I didn't know what to say when the moment was right.

The cab driver asked where he should drive to and I gave him the name of the hotel I was in. Time runs really slow when all you want to do is get emo and you prefer to do this in your hotel room, not in front of your cab driver. I paid the guy, probably not with the right amount of cash and slipped out of the vehicle.

I got the key of the hotel room and walked painfully to the elevator. I pressed the number of my floor and waited. I started to walk through the hall when something caught my attention.

A man right in front of my apartment, he stood up when he saw me coming. My heart started pounding against my chest and I couldn't help smiling.

"What are you doing here?" I asked, coming closer to him, trying not to get too enthusiastic in case it was just another misunderstanding.

"You didn't say goodbye," he replied smirking at me. I smiled back at him.

"And I won't," I said and I pressed my lips against his. He kissed me back, and before we could realize it, we were already inside the hotel room.

Because sometimes it's too late, but I'm glad this wasn't the case.


I finally finished it! I didn't use any beta reader this time, so I'm sorry if there are any mistakes, if you want to beta it for me just say here in a review and I'll give you my e-mail. I just wanted this finished, I had this written for a long time I just needed to type it to my computer, hope you guys liked it :)