Part 9

Lorelai and Luke were speechless. Did Jess just call Bianca his fiancée? He couldn't have. Jess loved Rory. Lorelai was sure she heard him wrong.

"You're what now? Jess?"

"I need to go find Bianca."

"Your fiancée?" asked Luke.

"Yea. It just happened; I was coming down to tell you." (Which Jess wasn't completely lying about.) "She told me to think about it and I did," Jess looks up at the window where Rory and Logan are standing. "And there really isn't any reason why I shouldn't do it."

"Well…congratulations Jess." said Lorelai.

Just then we hear the bells ring out above the door of the diner. Rory and Logan are coming inside and she hears her mothers' congratulations. Rory and Jess meet eyes and Jess is first to look away. He can't bear to see her right now. Not with him.

"Jess."

"Rory."

"How are you? How's Truncheon?"

"Truncheon's good. The guys are giving me hell to get my new book out. But they mean well. And I'm doing OK."

"Just OK? I heard mom congratulating you on something, what's that all about?"

"I did no such thing!" Lorelai said.

"I'm getting married Ror."

"Married?"

"Yes."

"Married? Married married? Like with the vows and the ring and the tux?"

"And don't forget the bride."

"Right, the bride… Bianca?"

Again we hear the bells ring above the door. Bianca is back and she is carrying 3 really heavy looking bags of groceries.

"Jess! Baby! HELP!"

Bianca was about to collapse underneath the weight of the bags. Rory instantly hated her. She crossed her arms and eyed the new girl up and down. Rory couldn't believe she had the nerve to call Jess "baby". That's what Rory would call him when ever she wanted Jess to do something for her. Like lending her the brand new book he bought for instance, worked every time. He had to remember and if he didn't, she was going to remind him.