A/N: This kind of relates to "Wasted Time On You," but just because of the whole idea that Jess did kind of (definitely) waited for her that summer.

Standard disclaimers apply.

And I keep my jealousy close,

'Cause it's all mine

And if you say this makes you happy,

Then I'm not the only one lying

- Fall Out Boy

You Look So Good In Blue

Jess is in Doose's (during Dean's absence, of course) when he sees Rory walking down the isle he's in.

"Doing a little shopping?" he inquires before internally berating himself. Really, Mariano, after two months of not talking, this is what you decide to say?

She looks pretty tonight; that shade of blue brings out her eyes too well.

"Yes," she retorts shortly, trying to walk past before he sets the can he was reading back on the shelf. Did she really mean to sound harsh?

"Excuse me," she says, not looking at him, still keeping the attitude.

"Why the cold shoulder?"

"No cold shoulder. I just have perishables here."

"Oh yeah. You want to get home before that Beefaroni goes bad," he says sarcastically.

She raises her eyebrows in response. "My mom's waiting for me." And she tries to breeze past him.

But he quickly trails after her, not quite willing to give up. "How was Washington?"

"Fine."

"Do anything interesting?"

"Nope."

"Okay."

There's a beat of silence before she practically demands, "What about you?"

"What about me?"

"Anything interesting happen? This summer, I mean."

Besides checking the mail everyday for a letter for you? Or sitting in the uncomfortable chair by the phone even when I didn't have to? "Nope."

"Really," she says, as if she's knows to the contrary.

"Really."

"So nothing happened this summer at all?"

Oh, does she want to know about Shane? Well, there's no way in hell he's going make this easy for her, so he thinks of something to say that he knows will frustrate her. "It was hot. Two weeks ago there was a run on snow cones. Machine broke; people went crazy. Taylor tried calling the National Guard but –"

She had started walking away from him when he went in depth on snow cones, but she turns around to say, "I'm not talking about snow cones."

"What are you talking about, then?" Come on, Gilmore; just spit it out.

"Nothing."

He nods, feeling like this conversation, on a pain scale, is about equivalent to pulling out teeth. She sighs in frustration, knowing this isn't going anywhere either.

"Her name's Shane," he admits, side glancing to see Rory's reaction.

"As in 'come back?'" she replies with a disgusted look on her face, and that kind of pisses him off. Alright, Shane isn't the most intelligent person, nor the most useful, but it's not like she had a choice in her name. Clearly her parents weren't into movies. Or were just disappointed that they got a girl and not a boy.

Maybe he's just defensive about this because he wished Liz could've picked a better name for himself.

"Yep."

"Well great. That's great. Really, it's great," she says, trying to be sarcastic, but it doesn't really work for her.

"So I've heard."

"Well it is."

"Are you upset about something?"

With wide eyes, she replies, "No," but he knows that's a lie. Whenever she does that with her eyes, it means she's hiding something.

"I mean, me and Shane…"

"What about you and Shane?" she tries to sound offhand, but he knows this is the problem.

"I don't know. It didn't exactly bring a smile to your face."

"Well I'm still freaked out about the snow cone machine."

"Okay."

"I could care less about you and Shane."

Which means she does care a lot about it already. "Good."

"It just surprised me, that's all," she confesses without really thinking about the consequences.

"Why?" he asks, confused about this whole situation. Why is she surprised?

"Because."

"Because why?" Don't try and play this game, Jess thinks, eyes narrowed a bit.

"Because of what happened at Sookie's wedding."

And there it is. It really happened, and they are acknowledging it. "Ah."

"So me coming back here and just seeing you with Shane just kind of threw me for a sec."

While Jess may really like Rory, he's really pissed off at the way she's acting. Why is she giving him attitude? It's not like he was cheating on her because they were never dating to begin with! Technically, she's the cheater; she was, and still is, going out with Dean.

And you know what, the sad thing is, Jess did wait. For seven weeks. How fucked up is that? He's more like Dean that he ever thought possible.

"I'm sorry. Did I hear from you at all this summer?" he starts in a low voice. "Did I just miss the thousands of phone calls you made to me? Or did the postman lose all those letters you wrote to me?" He knows none of these things are true because he was waiting most of the time for those calls. And as for the letters: come on. This isn't a romantic novel; stuff like that doesn't happen.

"You kiss me, you tell me not to say anything. Very flattering, by the way. You go off to Washington. Then nothing." He spits the last word out because he hasn't quite gotten over those bitter feelings yet. "Then you come back here, all put out because I didn't just sit around and wait for you like Dean would've done?" He just throws that in there because he wants to insist that he's not pathetic. "And, yeah, what about Dean? Are you still with him? Cuz last time I checked, you were. I haven't heard anything to the contrary. Plus the two of you walking around the other day like some damn Andy Hardy movie. Seemed to me like you're still pretty together. I half expected you to break into a barn and put on a show."

He's never ranted like that to anyone. But then again, he never really cared enough to get this pissed off about something.

"When did you see me with Dean?"

"At that stupid summer insanity plea the town put on," he answers dismissively, because that's not the point.

"Oh, I'm surprised you could see anything with Shane's head plastered to your face." Does Jess detect some bitterness there? Does Rory want to be the one whose face is plastered to Jess'?

"You didn't answer me," he says with a hint of seriousness. He kind of wants her to be that girl (and so much more).

"About what?"

"Did you call me at all."

"No."

"Did you send me a letter." He kind of hopes she'll say yes and that his life is really like a novel.

"No."

"Postcard?"

"No."

"Smoke signal."

"Stop."

"A nice fruit basket."

"Enough."

"Are you still with Dean?"

She hesitates, and that angers him.

"Come on, Rory: yes or no? Are you still with Dean?"

"Yes, I'm still with Dean. Yes."

"Glad to hear it."

"Glad to tell you."

"See you around."

"Whatever."

"Right back at you."

He's so disgusted and fed up with her, but he still wants her, and this combination of emotions pisses him off. He doesn't want to feel anything for her. Right then he wanted to strangle her, watch her skin change hues from peach to the color of her pretty shirt, force her to open her eyes at her own discontent. But at the same time, he wanted to throw her up against the shelves of produce and violate her mouth, eliciting reactions he knows Dean could never get out of her.

He'll just stay away from her. At least for now. Clearly she's upset with his hooking up with Shane, so he'll continue to do that, at least until Rory will finally realize…

A/N: Every time I see this episode, I always think of how pretty Rory looks in the market...and I remembered the line from a Fall Out Boy song that would strangely work (the title of this piece), so that's how this came to be.

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