A/N- It has been a very long time and I'm sooo sorry! This story is gonna end in one of two ways I'm not sure which yet. It has at least five more chapters and possibly a sequel; the sequel won't happen until January or February though. Anyways I'm really sorry about the delay. Enjoy!
Rory's POV Friday
Jess and I were at the Inn mom had convinced us both to work from here today since it was our last day and we had dinner at the grandparents tonight. Thankfully it was only my grandpa since grandma had a DAR event. Jess was reading a manuscript that Truncheon was considering publishing and I was working on my next piece.
Jess sighed and looked up at me; we were sitting in the reception area near the front desk. "I don't feel so good." He stated.
"You felt fine last night." I commented glancing up and smirking at him.
"Dirty!" mom exclaimed from the desk.
"Really, I think I'm coming down with something." Jess said putting on a serious face.
"Well what's wrong?" I asked.
"Uh…I have a headache and I think I'm getting some kind of rash." He said.
"Oooh! I know what's wrong you have Gilmoreitits." Mom stated proudly.
"Well let's see the rash," I prompted ignoring my mom.
"Uh…" he started. "Fine! I don't wanna go to dinner!"
"To bad Dodger," I looked up to see him smile at the nickname.
Jess' POV Friday the Gilmore Mansion
"You ring it." Lorelai said nudging Rory.
"I don't wanna ring it you ring it." She replied nudging her back.
"No. Jess you ring it." Lorelai said nudging me.
"I'm definitely not ringing it." I told her.
"Alright I'm ringing it." Rory said stepping forward and ringing the doorbell. A minute later her grandfather came to the door.
"Rory!" he exclaimed wrapping her in a hug. "Hello Lorelai," he said once he had released Rory. "And you must be Jess." He said addressing me.
"Yes sir, it's nice to meet you." I said politely.
"You too. Alright everyone com in, come in it's humid out there." He said ushering us through the door. "What can I get you to drink?" he asked us as we walked to the living room.
"I'll have a martini Dad." Lorelai said as she took a seat in one of the chairs.
"I'll have soda Grandpa." Rory told him.
"Me too." I agreed sitting next to her on the couch.
He mad our drinks and brought them over to us. "So Lorelai where's Luke tonight?"
"April's flying in from New Mexico tonight and he went to pick her up. She's spending a week here before she goes to science camp." Lorelai told him taking a sip of her drink.
"Well that's good." He said drinking some of his own drink. He turned to look at me, "Tell me Jess what do you do?"
"I write, I wrote one book that was published by a small publishing company in Philadelphia. There wasn't any money in it and, they only printed like five hundred copies but, it was pretty amazing to see the finished book. I work there now we put out about five books a month." I told him.
"You wrote a book? I can't say I know many twenty-two year olds who can say that. Do you go to school?" he asked seeming truly interested.
"I dropped out of high school, but later I got my GED and took classes at a small college in Philadelphia, I got my bachelors last December." I answered.
"That's early isn't it?"
"Yes, the school allowed students to move along at whatever pace we wanted. I finished in about a year and a half."
"That's quite an accomplishment." He congratulated.
"Thank you."
"I assume with your line of work that you enjoy reading?" he asked.
"Very much."
"That's wonderful, what have you read?" he asked.
Lorelai jumped in, "I think the list of what he hasn't read would be shorter. You should have seen Luke's apartment when he lived there, it was more books than air."
"That wasn't even close to all my books." I told her smirking.
"Well then what kind of books do you read." Richard asked seemingly pleased.
"Classics. Hemmingway's my favorite." I told him hoping he didn't share the same opinion of Hemmingway as Rory.
"Really? I have a first edition in my office. Would you like to see it?" he asked.
"Yeah." I agreed and we both stood.
A/N- Okay I always thought that Richard would like Jess so in this story he does. I'm not gonna promise when the next update will be up but, probably within a week. Please review!
