A/N: Thanks so much for all the great reviews! I'm glad you liked the last chapter. I'm considering renaming the story since I think the title is putting some people off. hehe.
** Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters of Gilmore Girls. If I were that all powerful then Jess would be staying put! So, in summation... Please don't sue me!**
Rory got up and started getting dressed.
"Where are you going?"
"I have to tell Adam that I can't marry him." She said, pulling her hair
out from under the collar of her sweater.
Jess looked thoughtful for a minute. He sat up.
"Why?"
"Are you kidding me?" She smiled at him. "I just slept with my
ex-boyfriend. I'd say that constitutes reasonable doubt about getting
married!"
"Rory… I can't be the reason." He sighed.
"What are you talking about." She frowned, sitting on the bed next to him.
"I can't be the reason you don't marry Adam." He said regretfully.
"Why… I mean… you already are the reason."
He looked down at the sheets and then up at her.
"I cannot promise you anything. I can't promise that I'm not going to
screw up all over again. I want to promise you that, but I can't."
She shook her head and closed her eyes.
"Let me get this straight…" She took a deep breath. "You sleep with
me… and now you're telling me that if I can't think of another reason not
to marry Adam… then you think I should go through with it?!"
"I don't want you to." He said sadly. "But I don't want you to give up
the security you have with Adam, for me."
"Why? I've done it before!" She said, getting upset and frustrated.
"Yeah, and I screwed up!"
She got up and grabbed her jacket.
"Then don't do it again!" She almost shouted.
"I don't want to, but that doesn't mean I won't. I didn't want to last
time!"
"I don't believe this." She cried, backing away from him.
"Rory…"
"Forget it. I shouldn't have come here tonight." She sighed, opening the
door.
"Rory, wait a minute…" Jess started, clutching the sheets at his waist and
getting off of the bed.
"Bye Jess." She said, slamming the door behind her and running down the
stairs.
Luke opened the door and started to smile at Rory, until he noticed she was crying.
"Hey." She sniffed. "Is mom here?"
"Sure, come on in." he said, holding the door open for her.
"Thanks."
"Lorelai, Rory's here." He called up the stairs.
Lorelai hurried downstairs, carrying Rhiannon.
"Ok… can you give her a bath and put her to bed." She said quietly to Luke.
He took Rhiannon and nodded, heading back upstairs. Lorelai guided Rory over to the couch and they sat down.
"Ok, tell me what happened." Lorelai said gently.
"I did what you said. I went to talk to Jess about… everything." Said Rory, starting to cry more.
"Oh… did it end badly?" She sighed.
"Yeah." Rory nodded.
"What did he say?"
"That he still loves me."
"Yeah… I can see how that would be bad." Nodded Lorelai.
"It wasn't that." Rory shook her head and looked at her hands.
"Then what was it?"
"I... we slept together." Wept Rory, not able to look at Lorelai.
"Oh god." Lorelai cringed.
"And then… he said that he couldn't be the reason that I didn't marry Adam. That if he was the only reason then I should go through with the wedding!" She said, hoping Lorelai would understand how crazy that was.
"Uh huh…" Lorelai handed Rory a tissue.
"That's insane, right?" Asked Rory, dabbing her eyes with the tissue.
"Not.. completely." Sighed Lorelai. "I mean… You two are probably always going to love each other." Lorelai shook her head slightly. "I still love your dad."
"So why did you marry Luke?"
"Because I'm always going to love Chris, but it's never going to last between us. And I love Luke so much… and what we have…" She looked over at the stairs. "It's gonna' last." She smiled softly.
Rory looked at Lorelai.
"So… you're saying that if I love Adam… and I believe that we have something that will last… then I should marry him. Even if I still love Jess?" Rory asked, her crying slowly coming to an end.
"If you still really want to marry him, I think you should."
"Because… my feelings for Jess are never going to go away… but it's never going to work between us?" Rory said, more to herself than to Lorelai.
Lorelai just nodded and watched Rory thinking it all over.
A/N: *runs
and hides from the angry Lits*
