"Rory, listen to me." He held her head in his hands. "Go tell your mom that you're not happy. She won't make you do something you don't want to. You know that. If Dean gives you any trouble, I'm here, Luke's here, your dad's here. Hell I bet even Kirk could take him down." She giggled a little, "Ok? Go in. I'll be there too."  She nodded and walked into the house, Jess behind her. She walked right over to her mother, who, upon seeing her red eyes, got very concerned very fast.

                        "Mom can I talk to you?" Lorelai nodded and they went into Rory's room, while Jess went to find Luke.

       Rory sat on her bed next to her mother after she closed the door.

                         "Rory what is it? What's wrong? Did Jess say something?" She started to get off the bed to find Jess but Rory stopped her.

                         "Yes Mom, Jess did say something. But he just made me fully realize what I knew all along.I can't marry Dean. I want to go to Harvard or Yale. I want to become a journalist. I just can't....I can't marry Dean. I'm sorry." Rory looked down at her hands. Lorelai smiled softly and pushed some strands of hair out of her 18 year old daughter's face.

                         "Okay." Rory looked up in disbelief.

                         "Huh?"

                         "Sweetie if you didn't want to marry Dean you should have just said something. If you weren't happy then no one's gonna force you. This town and all of us will stand behind you no matter what." Rory looked at her mother and hugged her, grateful.

                           "I guess I'd better go find Dean and tell him now." Rory said reluctantly not getting off the bed. Lorelai looked at her.

                         "I'll go get Dean for you." Rory nodded gratefully. Lorelai walked out of Rory's room and into the living room. She looked around for Dean and saw Jess standing with Luke. She walked over to him.

                        "Jess."

                        "Lorelai."

                        "I wanted to thank you for helping Rory realize what she wanted. But if you hurt her…"

                        "I know. You'll make my entrails my extrails and all that fun stuff." Lorelai smiled at the A Knights Tale reference. Jess smiled back at her and then looked over to Dean. Lorelai turned and walked to where Dean was standing, not even realizing that Rory was no longer in the room.

                        "Excuse me, Dean? Rory needs to talk to you." He gave her a puzzled look but followed her into the kitchen to Rory's room.

                        "Rory? Lorelai said you wanted to talk to me?" He looked at her standing at her mirror where pictures of them, and her and Jess were placed. He always wanted to tear down the ones of Jess. She turned to face him.

                        "I don't want to move to Chicago." He looked at her stunned.

                        "Okay….can we talk about this tomorrow? After the wedding?" Rory shook her head.

                        "No we have to talk about it now. I don't want to move so far away from my family and friends, I don't want to go to the University of Chicago."

                        "Rory, this is so out of the blue! What's going on why don't you want to go now?"

            Rory sighed and looked at Dean, "This is why. Have you never noticed that I leave the room or almost burst out crying every time we made plans for the wedding or the move?" Dean looked as confused as ever.

"Rory what are you saying?" He was getting frustrated and angry. Rory sighed and  shook her head. "Dean, I'm saying I can't go, I can't marry you." Dean looked at her.      "You can't marry me? Why Rory? Why? Because of Jess?" His voice was getting louder now but for once Rory really didn't care. She also started yelling.

                        "No! Why the hell do you always think it's about Jess? He's my best friend! He stood by me, mostly, he and Luke both put me first not themselves which is more I can say for you." Dean looked at shocked at the outburst, but Rory didn't care what he thought anymore. "I can't marry you because I don't love you Dean! Nothing more nothing less! I thought I could do it, but…there's no way. I can't uproot my life for a guy who makes all of my decisions for me. Who I know longer love. I'm sorry Dean. I can't do it." Dean looks at Rory, you could see the anger in his face. Rory stood him down though and he turned and left. Rory's door opened to the crowd that had quieted to hear the two fight. They all parted ways as Dean grabbed his coat and stormed out of the Gilmore house, followed by his parents and family. The town of Stars Hollow all looked at Lorelai who looked to Chris and then Luke. Emily and Richard looked at each other and then to Lorelai wondering what to do.  Jess, who was standing next to Luke walked past everyone and into the kitchen. Lorelai and Chris followed him.

            "Jess wait. Let us talk to her first." Jess stood back and gestured to the door.

            "Rory?"

            "Hi Mom, Hi Daddy." Rory said as they walked into her room.

            "Hey babe. You okay?"

            "Amazingly, yes. I feel like a humongous weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I can go to Hartford community college for a semester and then transfer to Yale. For the first time since graduation, I think I'm actually happy." Chris and Lorelai smiled at each other.

            "Okay then." Chris said.

            "Uh, Mom? Could you send Jess in?" Lorelai smiled. "Sure babe."

They left, a few minutes later Jess sauntered in a smirk on his face.

            "So you're not getting married tomorrow?" He asked moving closer.

            "I guess not." She smiled.

            "Huh." She nodded, smiling.

            "Well I guess I'd better go apologize to everyone."

            "Yep." He moved a little closer.

            "Jess, as much as I want this, right now would not be a good time. I just broke up with my fiancé. My first love, my only boyfriend. I can't switch over that fast." She looked disappointed. As did he. But Jess backed off.

            "Okay." She laughed.

            "Okay?" Jess shrugged.

            "I've waited this long, I can wait a few more months."

            "Jess. I have good news. I don't think it'll take that long for me to get over Dean."

            "Cool. There's a booksale in Hartford tomorrow wanna go?" Rory nodded.

            "Sure."

            They walked out of Rory's room into the crowd of waiting people.

            "Everyone I'm sorry about all of this, but I just can't marry Dean. I don't love him." There was a chorus of 'that's all right sugars.' and we understands. Then people started filing out so it was just Lorelai, Luke, Chris, and Jess and Rory. Lorelai popped a movie into the VCR, got tons of junk food and coffee and they all sat down to watch it. Then the boys say which movie it was and chorused "Not Willy Wonka again!"

The End