Author's note: I do know where I am eventually going with this story but if there's anything you guys want to see happen let me know! I don't want things to get really stale and boring to read because that's no fun for anyone (especially since it's all texting!).
New Text to Jess
5/28/06 12:14pm
Where are you?
New Text to Rory
5/28/06 12:18pm
I'm at home. Where are you?
New Text to Jess
5/28/06 12:19pm
Outside your bookstore. The door is locked or I would be waiting inside.
New Text to Rory
5/28/06 12:21pm
Everyone but me is gone this weekend so we just closed for the day.
New Text to Jess
5/28/06 12:23pm
Logical. So will you open it for me or am I just part of the general public?
New Text to Rory
5/28/06 12:25pm
I'm kind of in the middle of something. Why don't you go check out the neighborhood and come back in half an hour?
New Text to Jess
5/28/06 12:26pm
Check out the neighborhood in a city I've only been to once before? Sure, why not. You owe me a cheesesteak though.
New Text to Rory
5/28/06 12:28pm
I know a couple of places. Lunch at 1 then?
New Text to Jess
5/28/06 12:30pm
Sure. Can we go to Paddy's Pub too?
New Text to Rory
5/28/06 12:32pm
I don't know where that is, but we can find it.
New Text to Jess
5/28/06 12:33pm
It's from a TV show. I'll settle for cheesesteaks. See you soon, then.
New Text to Jess
5/28/06 12:49pm
So you were in the middle of something or someone?
New Text to Rory
5/28/06 12:53pm
What?
New Text to Jess
5/28/06 12:55pm
The blonde who just left the bookstore. Is the bookstore only open for tiny punk girls on Saturdays?
New Text to Rory
5/28/06 12:56pm
We were hanging out. I said I was in the middle of something. Now I'm not, so we can go to lunch.
New Text to Jess
5/28/06 12:57pm
Don't feel like you have to cancel your plans to hang out with me. I didn't even tell you I was coming down today so obviously she gets top priority.
New Text to Rory
5/28/06 12:59pm
We were just hanging out. I'll be down to unlock the door in a second and then we can go.
New Text to Jess
5/28/06 1:01pm
Great. Good. I'm glad.
New Text to Rory
5/28/06 1:03pm
That didn't sound so great and good.
New Text to Jess
5/28/06 1:05pm
I just didn't realize you had company.
New Text to Rory
5/28/06 1:07pm
Company, or a girl over? Where did you go, anyway? I can't see you.
New Text to Jess
5/28/06 1:09pm
It's hot out. I went to sit in my car. You never mentioned her before.
New Text to Rory
5/28/06 1:11pm
I just met her last night at an open mic thing down the street.
New Text to Jess
5/28/06 1:13pm
I see. Maybe I should just explore by myself today. Let you get back to what you were doing.
New Text to Rory
5/28/06 1:14pm
This is ridiculous. You can't have it both ways.
New Text to Jess
5/28/06 1:16pm
What do you mean?
New Text to Rory
5/28/06 1:17pm
Come on, Rory. You're jealous.
New Text to Jess
5/28/06 1:19pm
I am not. Why would I be jealous? I have Logan.
New Text to Rory
5/28/06 1:21pm
Yeah, you do. You've made that abundantly clear and yet you're still making a big deal out of me seeing someone else. What are you doing, Rory? You say we're friends and you get mad at me when I say I don't like Logan. It's the same thing here.
New Text to Jess
5/28/06 1:23pm
I don't not like that girl. I just figured if you were busy it would be rude to interrupt you.
New Text to Rory
5/28/06 1:24pm
You know that's not true. What are you even doing here, if Logan wouldn't like you hanging out with me?
New Text to Jess
5/28/06 1:25pm
You invited me to come visit and I wasn't doing anything this weekend.
New Text to Rory
5/28/06 1:27pm
That's really it?
New Text to Jess
5/28/06 1:28pm
Yep.
New Text to Rory
5/28/06 1:30pm
Okay then. Do you still want to get lunch?
New Text to Jess
5/28/06 1:31pm
Sure.
New Text to Rory
5/30/06 1:33pm
And you think that's actually a good idea?
New Text to Jess
5/30/06 1:34pm
Don't see why it wouldn't be.
New Text to Rory
5/30/06 1:35pm
I think we both know something you're not saying.
New Text to Jess
5/30/06 1:37pm
I think that's just you. I said I'm not jealous so anything else is just you inferring things that aren't there.
New Text to Rory
5/30/06 1:38pm
Right. I finally see your car. Thank you for telling me where it was, by the way.
New Text to Jess
5/30/06 1:39pm
I'm sorry. I didn't know you were looking for it. I'm ready to go. Cheesesteaks. Let's do this.
New Text to Rory
5/30/06 9:21pm
Sorry I couldn't offer you a place to stay. Someday I might actually be able to afford my own place.
New Text to Jess
5/30/06 9:24pm
That's okay. I was planning on heading out of town tonight anyway. I'm just grabbing some coffee before I take off.
New Text to Jess
5/30/06 9:25pm
I had a lot of fun today but I don't know if we should hang out so much anymore.
New Text to Rory
5/30/06 9:27pm
Yeah?
New Text to Jess
5/30/06 9:29pm
I like seeing you a lot but when we hang out it's just kind of hard.
New Text to Rory
5/30/06 9:31pm
Hard to hang out with me?
New Text to Rory
5/30/06 9:42pm
Did you leave already?
New Text to Jess
5/30/06 9:45pm
No. It's just hard to remember that my life now is different. I can't just take off and hang out with whoever I want. I need to consider how it affects the people in my life.
New Text to Rory
5/30/06 9:47pm
Sure you can. It's part of being an independent adult. I guess I don't want you getting in trouble with Logan though.
New Text to Jess
5/30/06 9:49pm
I am an adult. I'm not going to get in trouble with my boyfriend for hanging out with my friends. I just don't want to be doing things that I know are going to upset him. It's hard enough that he lives in London.
New Text to Rory
5/30/06 9:51pm
Right. Well drive home safely. And you can still come visit whenever you want. I'm allowing it.
New Text to Jess
5/30/06 9:53pm
Thank you. Hey, it's early enough for your new girlfriend to come back over.
New Text to Rory
5/30/06 9:55pm
Touché. Don't text and drive.
New Text to Jess
5/30/06 9:57pm
I won't. Have a good night.