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Two Weeks Later.
Rory sat on her bed holding a picture of Jess from high school, one that she kept in her purse since they had started going out her senior year of Chilton. She stared at it knowing what she had to do. A song played on the radio, a familiar one, just right for now. She stood up placing the worn picture on her night stand.
'Of all the things I've believed in I just want to get it over with Tears form behind my eyes But I do not cry Counting the days that pass me by'
She silently walked into Jessica's room, checking on her on her sleep. It was only 7:00, but Jessica was fast asleep, exhausted from their long day at the water park with Tristan. Rory smiled when she thought of Tristan, he was coming over tonight.
'I've been searching deep down in my soul Words that I'm hearing are starting to get old It feels like I'm starting all over again The last three years were just pretend And I said,'
She smoothed Jessica's hair back from her face and kissed her temple, "I love you." She whispered. She glanced at Jessica's dresser where a picture of Jess and Rory was framed when she was pregnant. In the picture Jess had a hand wrapped protectively around her large stomach, he was laughing in her ear. Rory smiled, she couldn't put every picture away.
'Goodbye to you Goodbye to everything I thought I knew You were the one I loved The one thing that I tried to hold on to'
Rory walked back to her room down the hall, she reached under her bed and pulled out a small box. She reached for the picture on the night stand.
'I still get lost in your eyes And it seems that I can't live a day without you Closing my eyes and you chase my thoughts away To a place where I am blinded by the light But it's not right'
She held the picture tightly and studied it. It was of Jess at the diner sitting in one of the booths, a wash cloth thrown over his shoulder, reading a book when he was supposed to be working. He wasn't looking at the camera, but he was smiling a secret that no one else knew about, a true reader. It was Rory's favorite picture of him because she thought it caught his softer side, his essence. Rory slowly placed the picture in the box. She brought her hands up to the back of her neck searching for a clasp.
'Goodbye to you Goodbye to everything I thought I knew You were the one I loved The one thing that I tried to hold on to'
Pulling her necklace through the rings Rory winced at the thought of being without them. She put them on her ring finger one last time, they felt so familiar yet foreign and cold at the same time. Rory gazed at the two rings on her finger for a moment and then slowly slid them off, she felt a sense of calming come over her as soon as she did. She was finally saying goodbye.
'And it hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time I want what's yours and I want what's mine I want you But I'm not giving in this time'
She slid the box onto a shelf in her closet, both rings and picture inside, 'I'm going to be ok.' She thought to herself with a sense of relief. Rory turned when she heard the doorbell ring and grinned, 'Tristan.'
'Goodbye to you Goodbye to everything I thought I knew You were the one I loved The one thing that I tried to hold on to The one thing that I tried to hold on to'
Throwing the door open Rory came to face with a smiling Tristan, his hair still wet from a shower. "Hey." He said closing the door and kissing her soundly on the mouth.
'And when the stars fall I will lie awake'
Rory embraced him tightly, "I love you." She said for the first time.
'You're my shooting star'
Rory sat on her bed holding a picture of Jess from high school, one that she kept in her purse since they had started going out her senior year of Chilton. She stared at it knowing what she had to do. A song played on the radio, a familiar one, just right for now. She stood up placing the worn picture on her night stand.
'Of all the things I've believed in I just want to get it over with Tears form behind my eyes But I do not cry Counting the days that pass me by'
She silently walked into Jessica's room, checking on her on her sleep. It was only 7:00, but Jessica was fast asleep, exhausted from their long day at the water park with Tristan. Rory smiled when she thought of Tristan, he was coming over tonight.
'I've been searching deep down in my soul Words that I'm hearing are starting to get old It feels like I'm starting all over again The last three years were just pretend And I said,'
She smoothed Jessica's hair back from her face and kissed her temple, "I love you." She whispered. She glanced at Jessica's dresser where a picture of Jess and Rory was framed when she was pregnant. In the picture Jess had a hand wrapped protectively around her large stomach, he was laughing in her ear. Rory smiled, she couldn't put every picture away.
'Goodbye to you Goodbye to everything I thought I knew You were the one I loved The one thing that I tried to hold on to'
Rory walked back to her room down the hall, she reached under her bed and pulled out a small box. She reached for the picture on the night stand.
'I still get lost in your eyes And it seems that I can't live a day without you Closing my eyes and you chase my thoughts away To a place where I am blinded by the light But it's not right'
She held the picture tightly and studied it. It was of Jess at the diner sitting in one of the booths, a wash cloth thrown over his shoulder, reading a book when he was supposed to be working. He wasn't looking at the camera, but he was smiling a secret that no one else knew about, a true reader. It was Rory's favorite picture of him because she thought it caught his softer side, his essence. Rory slowly placed the picture in the box. She brought her hands up to the back of her neck searching for a clasp.
'Goodbye to you Goodbye to everything I thought I knew You were the one I loved The one thing that I tried to hold on to'
Pulling her necklace through the rings Rory winced at the thought of being without them. She put them on her ring finger one last time, they felt so familiar yet foreign and cold at the same time. Rory gazed at the two rings on her finger for a moment and then slowly slid them off, she felt a sense of calming come over her as soon as she did. She was finally saying goodbye.
'And it hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time I want what's yours and I want what's mine I want you But I'm not giving in this time'
She slid the box onto a shelf in her closet, both rings and picture inside, 'I'm going to be ok.' She thought to herself with a sense of relief. Rory turned when she heard the doorbell ring and grinned, 'Tristan.'
'Goodbye to you Goodbye to everything I thought I knew You were the one I loved The one thing that I tried to hold on to The one thing that I tried to hold on to'
Throwing the door open Rory came to face with a smiling Tristan, his hair still wet from a shower. "Hey." He said closing the door and kissing her soundly on the mouth.
'And when the stars fall I will lie awake'
Rory embraced him tightly, "I love you." She said for the first time.
'You're my shooting star'