Chapter 15 – People notice in small towns
Jess' POV
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A/N: Sorry this is so short, but it's kind of a filler chapter to show that this stuff happened. The next one's longer! Please review if you haven't, and thanks again for all the great reviews! I'm really glad you like this!
~Arianna
I got scared for a second when Rory started talking about the dinner. I thought…I don't know. That she was gonna tell me she wanted to go with Dean or something. I didn't care about if being rescheduled, as long as Rory could go. I had something planned.
I convinced Luke to give me the afternoon off, and I actually managed to do it without telling him what I was going to do. I went to this 'everything store' in Stars Hollow and went up to the desk.
"You're Luke's nephew," the woman at the desk stated.
"Yeah."
"Jess Mariano."
"That's me."
"You're dating Rory Gilmore?"
I started getting mad. "Yeah, I am."
"She isn't going to be able to take it. She's special…"
"Rory? Of course she's special. And what do you mean? Take what?"
"If you break up with her…"
"I'm not going to."
"No?"
"No," I said shortly. "Definitely not. Are you going to help me or not?"
"Sure, fine. What do you want?" I described what I was looking for, and she got it for me and put it in a small box.
"Thanks," I said.
"She'll like it," she told me.
"I hope so."
"She will." I grinned and left. There was no one in the diner when I got back, so I went upstairs and put the box next to a picture of Rory and I that was on my desk.
"So you got it," Luke said from behind me.
"Got what?"
"Something for Rory."
"Yeah."
"What is it?"
"You'll see later."
"When?"
"Next Saturday."
"You're taking her to that dinner?"
"Uh huh. Are we playing twenty questions or what?" Then I got an idea. "Why don't you ask Lorelai?"
"Where did you get that idea?"
"You know how you knew I liked Rory before…we were…"
"Yeah."
"That's how." I grabbed Great Expectations from my shelf.
"Jess."
"Luke," I replied.
"Jess."
"It's true. I don't have to work now, do I? There's no one in the diner."
"I know there's no one in the diner. Fine, no, you don't have to work."
"Okay."
"Jess?"
"Yeah?'
"This is good. What you're doing for Rory."
"Good."
"Will you tell me what you got her already?"
"No. Bye."
As I closed the door to the diner, I heard several people talking in front of Doose's Market. I walked behind them, silently, trying to hear what they were saying. Taylor was talking to a group of people.
"She went to her mother's Inn this afternoon, that's good, but then to the diner to visit him." Uh-oh. "This afternoon, he went to a shop in downtown Stars Hollow. What he bought is unknown…"
I turned the other way, not wanting to hear any more. They were talking about Rory and me. They were chronicling what we did every day. They were discussing what they were going to do about it. As if that's any of their business. The problem with small towns… I knew Rory would hate this. I did. And I couldn't think about what would happen if… No. No. She said she couldn't take it, she said she loved me. Rory doesn't do stuff like that. I knew that. I guess I was just scared. I mean, no one like Rory had ever liked me.
Taylor spying on us was well worth being with Rory. That was an easy conclusion.
