A/N: Thank you so much for the reviews, I'm really happy to say that I have two very loyal reviewers, who reviewed throughout the whole story. Thank you so much watergurl123 and hollowgirl22, both of you are great, every time I read your reviews I can say a smile sneaks onto my face. And how can I forget every one else who reviewed. You are all amazing and I really appreciate it, even if I didn't mention your names, I apologize, but I don't have too much space. Thanks again, and I hope everyone enjoys this last chapter. I LOVE YOU ALL! (Lol).

Note: Ok, in chapter eight, I used a scene when Rory and Jess do this "jumping into a lake" thing. I didn't mention it before, but I used a somewhat copy of the one from the story "Homeboy" by smile1. Thank you so much, that chapter was for you.

And xo-Mezz-xo, I have to tell you, I couldn't of written this story without all of your amazing ideas, and all the work you help me put into it. It means a lot to me, and I hope you enjoy this chapter, I wouldn't of written it if it weren't for all of your encouragement.

Disclaimer: For the last time in this story, I do not and will never own anything related to Gilmore Girls, not even (sniff) Jess.

Chapter 13: The Best Sick Day Ever

Monday morning Rory awoke feeling sick. She had a stomach ache, and head ache, a runny nose and chapped lips. She felt like throwing up, so she ran to the bathroom, although she didn't.

She knew exactly why she was feeling like this. She knew that it wasn't anyone else's but her own self's fault.

She had spent the weekend pining over Jess. She was completely upset, she didn't know why but she decided it would be best to order in Japanese. Usually she loved it, but this time she had ordered in the newest selection on the menu, and to be brutally honest she hated it. She had food poisoning.

When she remembered the disgusting slimy and sticky stuff, she threw up, and it wasn't just a little she threw up a bowl of it.

Lorelai heard weird noises coming from the bathroom; she was a light sleeper after all. Then she remembered Rory's reaction from the food yesterday and ran downstairs. She found Rory over the toilette crying and throwing up. Lorelai ran up to her and grabbed her hair.

"Oh honey, your so sick." Lorelai said feeling her head. "Oh honey, your burning up, no school today." Rory's eyes grew and she attempted to shake her head, but that just made her feel worse. A few minutes later Lorelai helped Rory clean up and then took Rory to go back to bed.

"Mom, I can't miss school, I don't want to." Rory whined with a creaky voice.

"I know baby, but today you have to." Lorelai said kissing her head.

"How about you? Do you have to go to work?" Rory asked quietly.

"I'm going to try to get out of it."

"Isn't today the whole birthday party for that rich eight-year-old?"

"Yeah…" Lorelai said looking out into space.

"Go. Don't stay." Rory ordered.

"Sweety, how am I supposed to leave you home alone like this?"

"Mom, I am almost eighteen, I think I can survive." Rory said trying to smile, she didn't succeed though.

"Look, the party doesn't start until ten thirty, so I still have three hours. I'll think about it okay?" Lorelai said putting on a small smile.

"If you insist." Rory replied.

"I insist." Lorelai said nodding her head crazily.

"Alright stop, you're making me dizzy." Rory said the put her hand over her mouth instantly. "Oh my God." Rory yelled and ran into the bathroom.

"Oh no." Lorelai mumbled.

Rory had thrown up about three times every over. She was extremely sick, and Lorelai was a worried wreck. She was still thinking about leaving her, but how was she supposed to do that when Rory was this sick? But then again, Sookie and Michel were not to trust worthy, knowing them they would cause a huge racquet throughout the whole thing. Lorelai sighed out loud; this was a really hard choice.

"Mom, I'm fine. Go to the inn." Rory insisted at 9:45.

"Honey, you're really sick." Lorelai said giving her a worried look. "You threw up about nine times."

"Well now, I have absolutely nothing left inside of me, so if I am to throw up, nothing will come out." Rory said, she couldn't believe she was arguing with her mother over this subject, it was disgusting her.

"Hun…" Lorelai whined.

"Go!" Rory ordered. "Please, mom, you know you were looking forward to this forever. Don't upset yourself over me. Plus you will be worried about Sookie and Michel, we all know they don't get along."

"That's totally besides the point."

"No mom, please go and stop making me talk this much, my throat is hurting."

"Aha! Exactly my point!"

"Mom!"

"Ugh! Rory!" Lorelai mimicked her tone.

"I will call you if anything happens, I swear."

"Do you really want me to go?"

"No. But you want to go, and that's all that matters now get out of here."

"You have to call me if anything happens, and if you're to lazy to call, page me. Got it?" Lorelai asked making sure.

"Yes I know mom. Chill, go get dressed and leave me alone!"

"Ugh! Fine!" Lorelai said, although she wasn't to comfortable leaving Rory alone, but she had to, and it was for only four hours. "I'll be back around two thirty."

"You do realize that if you hurry you can make it to Luke's and grab a big, warm cup of coffee?" Rory asked, trying to push her mother out…mentally.

"Oh yeah, your right." Lorelai said and ran upstairs. A couple minutes later she was all cleaned up and ready. She went back into Rory's room to talk to her for a second again. "Ok honey, look, don't leave your bed unless you have to pee or something. And call me whenever, stalk me if you have to, but no leaving this bed. Comprenté?"

"Yes, yes. Now leave before I kick you." Rory warned smiling a little.

"Ok Hun, I love you." Lorelai said and kissed her cheek. "Be good." Lorelai said while running out of the house to Luke's.

When Lorelai got to Luke's, she jumped out of the car and checked her watch; she still had fifteen minutes before she had to be at the inn for the dumb birthday. Lorelai entered Luke's, but no one realized her presence except Luke, who was standing behind the counter. Lorelai walked up to him, a frown appearing on her face, as she got closer. She sat down at the counter and looked down.

"Hey." Luke said pouring her a cup of coffee.

Lorelai looked up, the frown still there. "Hi." Lorelai said glumly.

"Where's Rory? What's wrong?" Luke asked worriedly, leaning in over the counter and kissing her gently on the head.

"That's what's wrong Luke, she is sick, she has food poisoning and she is throwing up so much and I left her there cause I have this stupid crazy birthday party at the inn and I can't leave Sookie and Michel alone." Lorelai said glumly.

Luke put his hand on Lorelai's chin and tilted her head up and kissed her softly. The whole diner seemed to go quiet and everyone 'awed', Babette and Miss Patty were the two the break the silence whispering loudly.

"Luke, they all know now." Lorelai pointed out quietly.

"So?" He asked and kissed her again. When they pulled away he looked at her and smiled a bit. "They were going to find out sooner or later right?" Luke continued. "Tell me more about Rory." He said deciding to change the subject; he could tell Lorelai was uncomfortable with all the whispering.

"I don't know Luke, I just don't." Lorelai said looking down again, taking a big sip of her mug.

"What did she eat that made her this sick, that she had to miss school."

While Luke said that, Jess was descending the stairs, but stopped when he heard Luke ask Lorelai to 'tell him more about Rory', Jess knew something was wrong.

"Don't tell anyone," Lorelai said extremely quietly, so that no one in the diner could hear, but loud enough for Jess to hear. "But she had just dumped Dean on Friday and she wasn't upset about it, but then she remembered Jess was with the blond chick and she started crying, and pinning over him all weekend. Apparently she like likes him, and then she ate this Japanese disgusting stuff that made her sick today, and she has to miss school." Lorelai said still lowly and sadly.

When Jess overheard this he couldn't help but feel horrible, that's why she was acting so weird those past couple of days, she was jealous, she liked him. He didn't know what she saw in him, but if it caused her to leave Dean and pine over him, he wasn't going to let a chance like this slip away.

"Wow, Rory…likes Jess?" Luke said, whispering the last part.

"Yeah, but don't say one word." Lorelai warned and checked her watch. "Oh shoot, I have to go, bye Luke, talk to ya later." Lorelai said and kissed him, then left to work.

"Bye." Luke said smiling like a goof. Just as Lorelai exited the diner Jess came out from behind the curtain. He walked up to the coffee pot and filled three extremely large to-go cups of coffee, he took two doughnuts, and left saying, "I'm going to school," to Luke.

He walked quickly past the school and made his way to a near by pay phone, he dialed a known number as he deposed the stuff on the ground.

"Hello?" Answered an annoyed voice.

"Shane, it's Jess." Jess replied.

"Oh, hey." Shane said, less annoyed. "What's up?" she asked, sounding bored.

"Um, we have to talk…"

After a long conversation with a lot of yelling and swearing from Shane, Jess hung up and continued walking. He walked the short memorized distance, until he hit the front steps of the 'crap shack'. He didn't bother to knock and just searched inside the turtle lying beside the door. Finally he found the key stuffed in the head and opened the door slowly and quietly.

He entered the house and noticed that it was completely quiet and empty, he walked up to Rory's room and found the door open, he peeked inside and saw Rory asleep cuddled up to one of her pillows. She was paler then usual and her hair was slightly a mess. He smirked; she looked so innocent and little.

He looked around for a table, but only found her dresser and placed the stuff there, and then he sat down on her little chair, but not before grabbing a book from her stuffed bookshelf. He read quietly waiting for her to awake and notice his presence in the room.

Rory smelled a weird aroma, despite her runny nose. She opened her eyes and saw three cups of Luke's coffee and a Luke's bag, which she assumed held some food. She stirred and sat up. "Is it Christmas?" She asked no one in particular. That caused Jess to look up and smile at her, she was surprised by the food. Yet she hadn't yet acknowledged that she knew he was there.

Rory looked away and sat up and gasped when she saw who was sitting on her chair reading.

"J-Jess? What are you doing here?" she asked a small smile creeping upon her face.

"Good morning to you to." Jess said and got up. She followed his body with her eyes, as it made it's way to her dresser. He pulled a coffee out of the cup holder and handed it to her, she took it gratefully and smiled. "Do you want a doughnut?" Jess asked her.

"A doughnut? You brought me a doughnut?" she asked, amazed by his thoughtfulness.

"Two actually." He replied.

"Thank you."

"Is that a yes or a no."

"For what?" she asked.

"A doughnut."

"Oh, yeah. It's definitely a yes." She smiled.

"Good. So what kind do you want?"

"What kind is there?" she asked.

"Um, chocolate and Boston cream." He answered.

"Chocolate."

"As you wish." He said and handed her the doughnut.

She finished it in less then a minute then looked back at Jess. She gave him a puzzled look then asked, "Jess? What are you doing here? You should be in school."

"I don't go to school. You should know that."

"What? You have to go to school." Rory said sitting up more in her bed. Jess eyed her, and she blushed. "Sorry, I forgot you hated lectures."

"Yeah, change the subject."

"Alright." She pondered it for a minute. 'What is there to talk about? Maybe I should tell him about Dean. Um…hmm… Aw I might as well get it done with.' She thought, then said honestly, "Um, I broke up with Dean."

"Really?" He asked, in his normal voice, although it didn't sound like a question. "Huh. How did bagboy take it?" He added. One would think he didn't care, but inside his heart was doing back flips.

"Um…well…alright I guess."

"Huh." He said smirking. "So, what's wrong with you?" Jess asked playing dumb and trying to change the subject.

She got what he was doing, at least the changing the subject part, but she just let it slide. "I got food poisoning, I officially hate Japanese food, remind me never to order that stuff ever again." Rory said exaggerating.

"Whatever you say." Jess smirked. "So food poisoning huh?" he said chuckling a bit. " What encouraged you to eat Japanese, you could of just gone to Luke's? You didn't go all weekend."

"Um, well I told you Dean and I had broken up…so…um…" Rory trailed off.

"Pining over bagboy are we?" Jess asked her suspiciously.

"Actually…" 'Should I tell him the truth?' Rory thought. 'Oh what the hell.' Rory decided. "I wasn't pining over Dean."

Jess eyes grew; she was going to tell him the truth… 'Should I save her the embracement?' Jess thought. 'No way, let's see what she says.' He sighed. "What were you pining over?"

"Um, well let's just put it this way: I was pining over anything, yet over everything." Rory replied.

"That doesn't make to much sense you know." He smirked.

"Hey, watch it, I am sick you know!" she exclaimed.

"Whatever."

"Don't go all monosyllabic on me mister." She warned jokingly.

"You are really annoying when you're sick."

"You didn't have to come." She said seriously.

"I know, but…I wanted to." he said looking down.

She looked up and smiled. "Aw, Jesse had a soft side." Rory teased. He sighed and rolled his eyes, but he didn't reply. "Jess?" Rory asked him, trying to catch his eye, but he kept looking down. "Don't hide." She teased then coughed loudly. He looked up at her when he realized she turned red from coughing. It seemed as if she had choked on something. So he ran into the kitchen and filled a glass of water, and ran back and handed it to her.

She took it thankfully and gulped down the whole glass. He sat on the edge of the bed and just starred at her, she didn't mind his presence, but it felt kind of weird having an extremely good-looking teenaged boy sitting at the edge of her bed.

She looked up at him, and luckily this time he didn't look away. They locked eyes. "Thank you." She whispered, not wanting to talk too much more.

"Don't mention it." He said equally as quietly. "So?" He asked, he wanted to change the subject before she went back to his earlier comment.

"I…um…washed your shirt." She said still whispering. "Over the weekend, I was home…so why waste time?" she added.

"Right. So? Where is it?" he asked curiously raising an eyebrow.

"Oh yeah. It's in my top dresser drawer." She pointed to it, and he opened it and found his shirt folded and smelling like fresh apples.

"Oh, you used that apple stuff." He said trying to hide his disappointment, how was he supposed to wear it, smelling like that? He thought sighing mentally.

"Yeah, I ran out of the normal stuff, so I just assumed it would be alright to wash it with the-"

He didn't let her continue. "Nah, don't worry. It's no biggy." He lied.

"Oh alright." She agreed.

"Yeah."

"So how long are you going to stick around?"

"It depends."

"On?" she asked wanting him to elaborate more.

"It depends on how long you want me to stay." He continued.

"Oh."

"So, you call it."

"It doesn't matter to me, sleep here if you want." She said then blushed furiously when she realized what she had said. "I mean…not that way." She corrected herself.

He smirked at her but didn't say anything; instead he just nodded at her.

"So, how is it going with Shane." Rory asked curiously, the silence was killing her inside.

"Quite random don't you think?"

"Yeah, but I don't know, it seemed acceptable." She said, feeling him tense up.

"We broke up." Jess said not looking at her, just concentrating on the design on her carpet.

"Oh, Jess really, I'm so sorry, really." She said sympathetically.

"No, don't be, I left her." He said then paused, but then added, "Today."

"Today? When?"

"Sometime between the morning and the night." He replied sarcastically, he didn't want to talk about it.

"Oh." Rory said kind of disappointed. There was a long silence no one said anything. Finally Jess spoke out, but it wasn't what Rory hoped it would be.

"Excuse me a second, I have to go to the…I'll be right back." He said, and then ran off to the bathroom, but not because he had to go, but because the silence was killing him and he didn't want to say something weird.

He opened the door to the bathroom and walked in. He put the toilet seat down and sat over it. He sat there then put his head in his hands. He sighed, what the hell am I doing here? Jess thought to himself. 'So what, if she broke up with her boyfriend, and started pinning over me? It's not like I have feelings for her…just my best friend…right? … Damn, I do have feelings for her. Great. That's just fuckin' great!' Jess thought, slapping his head with the palm of his hand. He decided to go back, he didn't want to take long so Rory didn't think he was…well, you know.

He walked out of the bathroom and made his way to Rory's room. Jess walked in and saw Rory eating her other doughnut and sipping her coffee.

"Back. Sorry, nature called." He said.

Rory giggled and said, "Um, that's okay." He made his way back to the chair. A silence fell upon them again, yet it wasn't an awkward one. He spotted a book on Rory's dresser and looked at the title.

"You're reading The Fountainhead again?" Jess asks smirking and grabbed the book.

"Yeah, so?"

"So it's by Ayn Rand, the craziest political freak." Jess added.

"No way, she is the greatest writer." Rory defended.

"She is nothing compared to the great Ernest Hemmingway." Jess fought.

"I can't believe you actually read those books."

"Are you telling me you never read any of his books?"

"Yes I have."

"Really?"

"Uh-huh." Rory nodded.

"Which one?" He asked curiously.

"The old man on the sea."

"And what did you think of it?"

"I would rather eat my own foot, then read it again." She said pointing to her left foot.

"I don't believe that, you all know he hasn't but nice things to say about you." (A/N: I'm sorry, I had to use that. It's like my fave quote from the show…)

"Stop, your flattering me." Rory said jokingly in a high voice, while doing on of those 'fluff and flip' things with her hair. Jess just laughed at her, shaking his head.

"Your crazy."

"But you love me anyways." She said that as a joke but it didn't come out as intended. A silence fell and Rory and Jess were both sitting uncomfortably. Neither wanted to speak, they just sat in the tense silence each one looking in any direction but at eachother.

A few minutes went by, but for them it seemed like ages. They both turned their heads to look elsewhere, and then they locked eyes. Blue met brown, brown met blue, and it was as if everything around them disappeared.

Jess read Rory's eyes like a book. He could see everything, and know everything about her just by looking deeply into them. For Rory though it was the other way around. She couldn't read him. He knew how to shield every emotion, so that no one could read him.

They stayed like that until Rory couldn't take it anymore. "I didn't mean it that way." She clarified. "I just meant it in a figurative way." She added. He didn't reply. "Your not seriously going to stay silent the whole time are you?" she asked smiling sweetly at him.

He smirked but didn't reply, he say her grow annoyed.

"Will you wipe that annoying smirk off of your face? It's so annoying!" She whined.

His smirk grew, but still no answer.

"Jess! Stop it your bugging me."

Again his smirk grew, if it was even possible.

"Fine. I don't care, be that way." She said and crossed her arms. She looked away and out her window.

Jess still didn't stop smirking and didn't make a sound. He noticed Rory's twitching and he could see that every few seconds she would look at him through the corner of her eyes.

Finally she couldn't take it anymore. She unfolded her arms and jumped off her bed and headed straight for him, jumping on him and causing the chair to collapse on the floor. Rory lied on top of Jess as they both laughed hysterically.

Rory looked at Jess and they stopped laughing, just looking into each other's eyes. Rory arms were stretched out, each one on each side of Jess' head. Her knees were in the same position, except they were on each side of his body.

They kept their gaze a long time.

Jess felt the need to pull her down on him and kiss her with all the passion in him, and that's what he did. He put his hand on the back of her neck and pulled her face down. Seconds later their lips crashed and passion was flying through the air. She smiled through the kiss and so did he. Rory suddenly pulls away and looks at Jess intently. A worried look grew upon his face, did he do anything wrong?

"Jess, I'm going to get you sick." Rory said trying to get up.

Jess' worried look disappeared and he smiled. If that was all, he couldn't care less. "I don't care." He said then pulled her back down on him, so that she was lying flat on top of him. She smiled and kissed him, letting out all the feelings she had been feeling for him that weekend and everyday since he came back in that town.

Rory moaned a few times, then she pulled away desperate for air. After she caught her breath the only thing that she managed to say was, "Wow." She got up off of him and he followed. They both went on each end of the chair and pulled it up.

Rory looked at Jess and walked up to him. She put her mouth close to his ear. "I love you." She whispered. She looked back at him and noticed his shocked expression. He didn't say it back, and that caused her heart to sink. She looked down sadly.

Rory headed back for her bed and sat down, she didn't feel like sleeping anymore. Jess came and sat right beside her. She looked at him and he noticed then looked at her. He took her hand, and she didn't let go.

He smiled at her a real smile. "I love you too." He replied.

They smiled at eachother as they leaned in once more. This kiss wasn't as passionate as the previous two, but it was pretty long.

This time Jess pulled away, Rory didn't want to though. So she climbed onto his lap and gave him a soft kiss. She pulled away shortly after then smiled.

They stayed silent afterwards, Rory still sitting on Jess' lap and his hands safely wrapped around her. "What does this mean?" She asked breaking the comfortable silence.

"I don't know." He replied.

"I mean we are together…right?" She asked nervously.

"I think it would be better then just being friends with benefits. Don't you?" Jess asked smirking.

She smiled. "I am going to have to say so." She said giggling.

"Good." He said then kissed her.

The End.

A/N: Well that's it folks; I hope you enjoyed the show. That is obviously the last chapter. I am not quite too sure how it turned out, what did you think? Please leave me one last review that would be really appreciated.

Thanks again everyone who has reviewed in the past, and thank you to the one's who will review in the future. They are always accepted.

Love,

♥ Chrissy:') ♥