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HERE'S ANOTHER CHAPTER!
A Different Way
Rory arrived back in New Haven around ten o'clock, with Will sleeping in the back seat. She called the person she was going to be staying with temporarily.
"John's Books. John speaking. How may I help you?" John said with several voices in the background.
"Hey. Its Me. I'm here."
"Oh okay. I'll see you when you get in here. Its kind of hellish right now."
"Yeah I can tell the only parking space I could find is a ways down from the bar next door." She told him.
"Yeah, well just come on in and I'll give you the key to the apartment upstairs and you can go ahead and make yourself comfortable."
"Okay. See you in a minute."
"Alright."
Rory hung up, got out of the car, woke Will and got him out of the car, along with a few of their things.
"The bookstore!" Will shouted as realized where they were.
"Yep. We're gonna be staying with Mr. John for a little bit." Rory explained as she took Will's hand and began walking across the cross walk.
Will bent down and grabbed something half way across the street. He showed it to his mother, "Look what I found Mommy!" He said showing it to her with pride.
"Oh wow. A ring." She said taking it. She recognized it as the one she had worn for two years. She checked the inner part of the band for confirmation, and she was sure; as it read To Rory My Love.
"Hey baby do you think Mommy could have this?" She asked.
"Okay Mommy. Can I get a book today?" He asked in return.
"Sure sweetie." Rory smiled, though she felt saddened by her son's discovery.
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Jess got out of bed at eight thirty. Went down to the diner, opened up and started taking orders. He expected Rory and Will in at about nine.
Nine o'clock had come and gone and still no Rory or Will, not even Lorelei or Luke. He tired to let it go, reason it away, they're probably running late, or Luke made them breakfast at home.
Even though there were perfectly good explanations Jess couldn't help but feel that there was something wrong. So he left Caesar in charge and went to the house.
When he got there he saw that Rory's car was gone. He walked to the front door to figure out why.
He knocked on the door and Lorelei answered. Before he could get anything out she was yelling at him.
"What the hell did you do!?" She screamed.
"Whoa! What the hell?" Jess asked confused.
"Don't you 'Whoa! What the hell?' me!" Lorelei fumed, "You did something and I know you did! There is no other reason she would just up and leave like that! Now tell me what did you do you son of a bitch!?"
"Wait she left?! Rory left?! Did she take Will?!" He asked obviously confused and upset.
"Of course she took Will! Do you think that she would abandon her son here?" Lorelei said putting extra emphasis on the word 'her'.
Jess just glared at her. "Do you know where she went?" He asked her unusually calm.
"No I don't."
He looked at her oddly, "You're lying. Rory wouldn't just leave without telling you where she was going."
She walked away from the door into the house and out of view, Jess stood there for a second before she came back and threw a piece of paper at him, "This is all I know."
Jess look at the note with the familiar writing on it, he read it out loud, "Mom, I'm sorry for leaving so suddenly and without warning, but I couldn't stay here in Stars Hollow anymore. I've made a huge mistake and I have no means of fixing it, so I'm starting over somewhere else."
He stopped and all he could think was that she thought going back to him was a mistake. There was nothing else it could be. And his heart broke.
He handed Lorelei the note silently, his head down. Lorelei saw how upset he was, and she for some reason felt sorry for him.
He turned around and started to leave, when the sound of Lorelei's voice stopped him, "Hey Jess."
He turned around, "Yeah?"
"Do you want to come inside?"
He saw her olive branch and took it without hesitation.
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Rory walked into the spare room in John's apartment, she set down her things and turned on some cartoons for Will on the small television on top of the dresser.
"Okay sweetie, once all the cars out there are gone," She said pointing to the window facing the street, "We can go down and pick out a book for you."
"Okay." Will said going to the window, watching when the cars would leave.
By one o'clock in the afternoon most of the cars were gone and Rory decided to take Will downstairs.
"Go ahead and pick something out honey, I'm gonna go talk to Mr. John."
Will ran off to the children's section with out a second thought.
Rory walked towards the front of the store where she found John finishing up with a customer. She waited till he was done then walked up to him.
"Hey John."
"Hey Rory." He smiled at her coming from around the counter, "So what happened?"
They walked slowly through the store as Rory explained the entire situation.
"… And then I found out that he slept with this old girlfriend and she's pregnant and I left and now I'm here." She finished.
"Wow… Well at least he slept with her before you got back together and not during."
"Yeah. I guess. It just kills me, you know, cause now he's connected to her for life, it cant ever be just him and me and Will and any of the other kids we could have, it would be all of us plus Shane and her… and her and Jess' kid. I cant handle that. I really cant. I want him just for me and Will." Rory was on the verge of tears.
"I'm sorry Rory."
"Its not your fault." She said suppressing her tears.
"Well didn't you say that he didn't want it either?"
"Yeah, but I don't think that matters."
"Well it might."
Rory nodded.
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"So where's Luke?" Jess asked, as Lorelei poured herself a cup of coffee.
"He's sick, upstairs, sleeping. Do you want anything to drink?" She asked.
"No. I'm okay."
"So what do you think its about?" Lorelei asked as she sat down across the table from Jess.
"That she thinks going back to me was a mistake."
"Yeah. But why?"
"I don't know." He answered head down.
"There is something isn't there?" She asked.
"Yeah, but I don't know how she would know about it, I just found out about it last night." He explained.
"Well what is it?"
He shook his head, "This girl thinks.. My ex…" He rethought his sudden decision to tell Lorelei, but continued anyways, "Shane's pregnant, and she thinks its mine. But I don't believe her she's a slut, it could be any guy in Connecticut, and we used a condom." He started explaining. "I don't want it to be mine, I want to be with Rory and Will, and I want to marry her and have a family with her, and I cant do that with Shane and this kid." He paused, "I'm scared." He said closing his eyes as tears slipped down his cheeks.
"I know." Lorelei said feeling heart broken for him.
Lorelei's cell phone rang. "Its Rory." She told Jess before answering.
"Hey sweetie. What happened?" She asked immediately.
"Last night I went to the diner and I over heard Shane telling Jess that she was pregnant. I left because I broke up with Tony to be with him and I cant be with him with Shane and her baby around. I just cant. So yeah, that's why I left."
"Oh wow." Lorelei said softly.
"Why are you not extremely pissed off at Jess? This isn't normal."
"I know. Well maybe you should talk to him."
"What? Mom are you okay?"
"Yeah, honey, just talk to him." She said before handing Jess the phone.
"Rory?" He asked his voice shaky.
"Jess…" She said before hanging up the phone.
He closed the phone and handed it back to Lorelei.
"Thanks for talking to me. Or thanks for listening. There are some things I have to take care of."
"Okay." Lorelei nodded, "Jess if you ever need to talk, I'm here. Okay?"
"Yeah." He said before leaving.
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"Shane I'm sorry but I really don't think that its mine. If you keep it, when it comes out we can get a blood test, but until you prove that its mine, its not."
As soon as Jess hung up the phone he started packing.
He bought a plane ticket and headed to California.
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