Jess got off the plane and said goodbye to Dolores. She was going to meet her son-in-law and he had to find his host family. He looked around the airport but couldn't find anyone. He decided to sit down and wait until he saw them. He sat in he chair and waited. Finally about five minutes later, a guy about his age walked up to him and sat down on the bench next to him. The guy said nothing to Jess and in about a minute his phone rang.

"Hello." He said as he answered it. "So his plane definitely already landed. Twenty minutes ago. I told you we were going to be late. Well there was no one at the gate. Yeah I'll go check again." The boy hung up the phone, obviously frustrated.

"Hmm, waiting for someone who got off a plane 20 minutes ago. My plane landed about 20 minutes ago, maybe this is Dolores' son-in-law. Or maybe this is who I am staying with. Maybe I should say something before he leaves" Jess thought to himself and then out loud said "I think I just got off that plane who are you looking for?

"A foreign exchange student who is staying with us, I think he's from Connecticut." The guy replied.

"I think you might be looking for me." Jess said, then he remembered that he was supposed to be staying with a family that had a three year old daughter. "Shit, no that couldn't be right. The family that I am staying with has a three year old daughter, the Molino's I think was their name."

"Wait are you Jess?" The guy asked.

"Yeah." He replied.

"Then I think that you might be right, the family that you are talking about are my neighbors. You were supposed to be staying with them but last night Mrs. Molino got a call from her sister in France, apparently their mom had a pretty serious heart attack. She lives in France too. The family is going to be out of time for at least two weeks and rather than have you be sent to a different town, we offered to host you. My name is Derek by the way." Derek said as he shook Jess's hand.

"Hi." He said.

"Well we should probably go find my parents and let them know that you're here." Derek said.

Jess followed him and they walked to the baggage claim area. "Mom, Dad, this is Jess." Derek said.

"Hi Jess, I'm Mike Johnson and this is my wife Kelly." Mike said.

"Hi, how are you?" Jess said, trying to be polite.

"We are just great, and we're so glad to have you staying with us. Did Derek explain what happened with the Molino's?" Kelly Johnson asked.

"Yeah he did. I was looking forward to staying with them, but I'm actually really glad that I'll be staying with someone my age." Jess said.

"That's what we thought but seeing as we are Americans the exchange program was a little reluctant about having us as a host family." Mike said as he helped Jess carry one of his two suitcases.

"Uh hmm." Kelly interrupted. "You are American. I however am born and raised in Italy. And Derek is Italian as well." She said playfully.

Jess looked at the couple with a puzzled look on his face. "My wife was born and raised right here in Italy, Rome to be exact. Her father was in the army and they lived in Italy until she was sixteen. They moved to the states and we lived next door to each other. Then when we got married we honeymooned in Italy and fell in love with Pratola, which is where we live now. After the honeymoon was over, Kelly refused to leave" Mike explained with a laugh.

"Huh. Just like on Boy Meets World" Jess muttered under his breath. "Whoa, where the hell did that come from?"

Flashback

The night after the Rory Dean fiasco, Rory invited Jess over for a non-movie movie marathon, for lack of a better title.

"I don't get it, what exactly is the purpose of this night?" Jess asked as Rory opened the door and let him in the house. Her mom got called to the Inn, thus ditching Rory for their movie night.

"Well, see we're gonna watch things that are not movies" Rory said with an ever so slightly evil look creeping on her face.

"What do you mean by 'not exactly movies' because there are quite a few things that fall in that category and I have a feeling that I'm not gonna like what you picked" Jess said, dreading the impending night.

In the same voice that Jess had oh so often heard Lorelai use when trying to get Luke to give her more coffee Rory exclaimed, "It's gonna be a night of tv shows. You like television right?"

"What kind of television?" he said, realizing he had fallen into her non-movie movie marathon trick.

Slightly under her breath, Rory mutter "Boy Meets World".

Luckily for Jess, living in NYC for most of his life had given him impeccable hearing. "No way Rory. That show is so stupid".

With a pout on her face, Rory grabbed his arm and attempted to drag him away from the door while explaining that there was a marathon of the show on some obscure cable channel and she had been dying to watch it. Finally, Jess gave in. Obviously all the Dane's men were highly susceptible to the charms of the Gilmore Girls.

Settling on the couch, they were fairly close to one another. As the marathon progressed, they moved closer until Rory was leaning against his shoulder. About halfway through the marathon, Corey and Topanga's honeymoon episode came on and Rory jumped up, knocked her head on Jess's chin.

"Geeze Gilmore, that's it, I'm cutting of your sugar supply, you have way to much energy. You're like a freaking Mexican jumping bean" said Jess, trying to control his laughter.

"Oh my god I am soooo sorry Jess. Are you ok? Do you need ice? A band-aid? Towel? Are you bleeding? Does it hurt? Can I get you anything?" she said extremely quickly, a slight blush creeping into her cheeks. Upon seeing his laughter, she too began to laugh. When they calmed down, Rory explained why she got so excited. "See, this was always my favorite episode. I always thought they should have just stayed in paradise. They would have been so happy and it was so beautiful there. I can't wait for my honeymoon. Who knows, maybe I'll fall in love with the place and move there."

They continued to watch the show and eventually Rory fell asleep on Jess' shoulder. Upon realizing this, he got up and grabbed a blanket for her. They both fell asleep on the couch for a while. Eventually Jess woke up again. "This is comfortable. To bad if I stay here Lorelai will see and she will definitely kill me. We might be getting along better but I don't think she trusts me quite that much yet. Well, better get going before I fall asleep again." He got up, adjusted Rory so she looked a bit more comfortable, and began to walk out the door. As an afterthought, he backtracked to the couch and placed a light kiss on her cheek. "Seven hours of Boy Meets World was definitely worth this".

End Flashback

"Jess, you awake?" Mike said, waving his hand in front of the daydreaming boy's face. They had reached the car.

"Sorry, wasn't paying attention" Jess said as he lifted his suitcase into the trunk of the ve3ry small car.

Once they were all in the car, they began the trip home. "So Jess, now that you know about us, why don't you tell us about yourself. " Kelly said.

"Well I grew up in New York City with my mom. My dad left us when I was little. I have a half sister Briana, she is fifteen. We kind of took care of each other because my mom was always pretty busy. Well one day my mom decided that she couldn't deal with me, I had just gotten suspended from school. So she sent me to Star's Hollow in Connecticut to live with my Uncle Luke. At first I hated it there, but then I met someone who really changed my views and I started to work harder. I wasn't really doing so well in some of my classes so I went to summer school and was able to raise my grades enough to get accepted into the exchange program." Jess finished, hoping that he didn't scare this family off with his bad boy background.

"Wow." Derek said. "What did you do to get suspended?"

"Derek!" Exclaimed both Kelly and Mike.

"Oops, sorry about that." Derek said sheepishly.

"No problem, actually it wasn't really my fault. These guys were harassing my sister. Basically just calling her names. She didn't tell me about it, but then one guy tried to do more than just call her names, if you know what I mean. She told me finally and the next day I went up to them, they had surrounded her by her locker and were being asses. So I punched the one guy who was sort of their leader. Long story short, it turned into a pretty big fight. I broke a kids nose, but there were like three of them to one of me. I was pretty lucky to come out with just a lot of bruising. I got suspended for a week but the other kids got suspended for two weeks." Jess explained.

"Good for you Jess." Kelly said smiling at the teenager in the back seat. "So now I have another question, was this person who you said changed how you felt about Stars Hollow a girl by any chance? And was it possibly the subject of your earlier daydream?"

"And you guys yelled at me for being nosy?" Derek chimed in.

"Ignore Derek Jess, go on. That is of course if you think it is none of my business." Kelly said.

"Nah, it's ok, I can tell you. She was the reason I changed and earlier I was thinking about her." Jess said, with a far off look in his eyes.

"I figured." Kelly replied. Jess didn't continue and no one really felt that it was ok for them to pry anymore into his life so soon after their first meeting.

They talked until they reached Pratola. When they got to the Johnson's house Jess followed them in. "Jess you will be staying in the extra bedroom. Since the house isn't that big, there is only one bathroom. It's off the kitchen. You must be exhausted from the flight so Derek can help you get you stuff upstairs and then you can just relax." Kelly explained.

The two guys walked up the stairs and Derek showed Jess his room. Jess began to pull some things out of his bags and Derek just kind of hung around the room. Jess realized that he hadn't left and wondered what he needed to tell him.

"So are you two dating?" Derek asked.

"What?" Jess asked.

"You and that girl my mom asked you about, are you dating, or were you?" Derek explained.

"Uh, not really. She left for the exchange program the day before I did. She kissed me and basically told me she loved me but other than that we haven't really had more than a friend relationship." Jess explained.

"Wow man that sucks. Does she know you're here?"

"No, I didn't want to tell her. I didn't think that anything would come from it. Plus I didn't find out until basically the last minute." Jess answered.

Realizing that he didn't even know the girls name, Derek asked.

"Rory, Rory Gilmore" was Jess' response.

"So where did you say you were from?" Derek asked Jess all the while thinking that that girl's name sounded really familiar.

"Stars Hollow, Connecticut. It's just outside Hartford." Jess said. "You probably have never heard of it, its about the size of a New York City block."

"Yeah, your right." Derek said.

As he was walking out of the room, it hit him. Rory, the girl staying with the Lorenzo's. Her last name definitely started with a G and he was almost positive that it was Gilmore. Furthermore, he was pretty sure that she was from a town near Hartford. Jess had no idea that he was staying within twenty feet of the girl of his dreams. He quickly went down to the family room and signed online. Mary was on so he sent her an instant message.

SkIsTaR101: Hey!

DJ1564: Hey! Guess what, you'll never guess what I just found out

SkIsTaR101: what??? tell me

DJ1564: We have an exchange student here staying with us

SkIsTaR101: What?!?!?! How??

DJ1564: Last minute thing, but anyway his name is Jess and he is from Connecticut

DJ1564: Stars Hollow Connecticut to be exact

SkIsTaR101: oh, kool

SkIsTaR101: wait, like Rorys Stars Hollow??????

DJ1564: Yeah

SkIsTaR101: Maybe they know each other. Did u ask him?

DJ1564: not exactly

SkIsTaR101: well ask him

DJ1564: I don't need to. He already told me that he does.

SkIsTaR101: So does he know that she's here? Were they friends?

DJ1564: No she doesn't and he was kind of vague about whether or not they were friends

SkIsTaR101: oh

DJ1564: But he did say that they kissed, and that she wrote him a letter that said she loved him

SkIsTaR101: WHAT??????? OMG

DJ1564: I know, I know

SkIsTaR101: does he like her

DJ1564: yeah, he definitely does, when he talks about her he gets this look in his eyes

SkIsTaR101: We need to get them together and soon

DJ1564: How

SkIsTaR101: easy, I'll tell Rory that there is this really shy guy who saw her the other night and really liked her. Because he was so shy he asked me to ask her if she would go out with him. She is way to nice to say no.

DJ1564: Ok so then how do we get Jess to be there?

SkIsTaR101: Tell him that you are going to introduce him to all of your friends. When you get to where you are going to meet them, only Rory and me will be there.

DJ1564: Hopefully that will work. Wait, if Rory really does love Jess then she probably won't go out on a date with someone else.

SkIsTaR101: She might, and if she doesn't I'll give her the same excuse that you are giving Jess. But I'll tell her that Angela and Carli are back and want to meet her.

DJ1564: K, hope it works

SkIsTaR101: It will, my plans always work. You'll see, one day my plan to take over the world will be successful too.

DJ1564K: ok Brain, have a nice night then.

Meanwhile in Jess's room he lay in his bed thinking about Rory. He hoped that when they both returned to Stars Hollow their feelings would be the same. He knew his feelings wouldn't change but he was still unsure about Rory. He figured he had a long time to think about this and figure out where exactly they stood before he would have to confront her again. Little did he know how wrong he was.