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Rory looked around the diner, the place was packed. She returned her attention to the conversation that her mom and Luke were having or finishing actually.
L: ''The party was so boring and there were a lot of annoying people.''
Luke: ''Yeah, you were one of them.''
Lorelai gave Luke a look, but Luke just ignored it and went back to work.
Rory laughed and shook her head. She still couldn't believe that Luke actually went to the party with her mom last night. This proved that miracles did happen every now and then.
L: ''Where are you going ? I need a refill.''
Luke: ''You'll just have to wait.''
L: ''Wait ? What is he talking about ?''
Rory rolled her eyes when she saw the shocked look on her mom's face. Rory slowly took a sip of her coffee, aware that her mom was watching.
L: ''Can I have some of yours ?''
She reached for Rory's cup, but Rory quickly lifted the cup above her head.
R: ''Nope, this is mine.''
Lorelai tried to grab the cup once more, but failed to and stopped trying. Instead she looked at Jess with puppy dog eyes.
L: ''Jess, can you refill my cup please ?''
J: ''I don't think uncle Luke will forgive me if I do that.''
L: ''Since when do you care about what Luke thinks ?''
J: ''Well really I don't, but I just like to see you like this.''
L: ''You are even worse than Luke.''
Jess just shrugged and went back to reading his book.
L: ''If you give me the coffee I'll give you.............my daughter. Yeah, you can have Rory if you give me the coffee.''
That got Jess' attention. He knew that it was a joke, but he could dream right ? He met Rory's eyes and smirked at her. He saw her cheeks turn red. She was probably thinking about the same thing as he was thinking about. He couldn't stop thinking about what almost happened last night. He was so close and yet he didn't kiss her. He could have tasted her right there and then, but he didn't. He let his stupid conscience get the best of him.
Rory quickly looked away. She knew that it was a joke, but for some reason she didn't see the humor of it. She saw Jess in front her again. His lips were so close and he had this look in his eyes.....she never saw that look before. It was as if he was fighting against his urge to kiss her. She knew that he wanted to kiss her, she wanted the same. But she knew that they couldn't and that it was better that they didn't kiss last night. She couldn't help but feel a little disappointed about it. She really wanted to know what his lips felt like. What was she saying ? When you were friends you didn't kiss one and other. Somewhere you drew the line and she knew that they almost crossed that line last night. Maybe they had already crossed that line ?
J: ''Sounds good to me.''
He winked at Rory and refilled Lorelai's cup. Rory watched as Jess refilled her mom's cup. When he was done he came over to her and refilled her cup too. While he was pouring the coffee into her cup, he leaned on the counter and brought his mouth closer to her ear.
J: ''I gave your mom her coffee so now you're mine.''
Jess quickly brushed his lips against her cheek. Before Rory could say anything it was over. Jess put the coffee back and went back to reading his book. Rory looked at her mom to see if she saw anything, but her mom was just drinking her coffee. Rory put her hand on the spot where Jess' lips touched her. Maybe she was just dreaming ? She dropped her hand and grabbed her coffee with the other hand. She took a sip from her coffee and glanced at Jess. Why did he have do be so cute ? Her eyes automatically went to his lips. She tried to look away, but she just couldn't. She couldn't stop looking at his lips. Suddenly Jess started to smile. At first Rory thought that he was smiling at her, but he wasn't even looking at her. He must be smiling at something that he just read. Rory looked down at her hands and started to smile too.
Jess quickly glanced at Rory. He couldn't see her face, but he knew that she was smiling. Jess looked at the page he was reading again. His eyes went to the notes that he just wrote. They were about Rory. All the notes he wrote the last couple of days were about Rory. He figured that what he couldn't say to her, he could write down. This way he wouldn't have to keep thinking about it. But of course he was wrong. Even tough he wrote his feelings for her down, he still couldn't stop thinking about her. How could he when she was around all the time ? But he didn't mind, he didn't mind at all.
Luke: ''Who gave you the coffee ?''
L: ''Jess did.''
Luke looked at Jess.
Luke: ''Why ?''
J: ''She gave me an offer I couldn't resist.''
He locked eyes with Rory.
Luke: ''Do I even wanna know what he's talking about ?''
L: ''I promised him Rory if he gave me the coffee.''
Luke: ''What ?''
Lorelai started to laugh when she saw the look on Luke's face.
L: ''Don't worry Lukey, it was just a joke.''
Rory looked at Jess again.
R: ''Yeah, it was just a joke. Right Jess ?''
J: ''Yeah, a joke.''
Luke: ''Well I didn't find it amusing.''
L: ''You don't have a sense of humor.''
Luke gave Lorelai a look and grabbed two plates.
Luke: ''Get to work Jess.''
J: ''Will do uncle Luke.''
Luke went back to work and Lorelai softly laughed again.
J: ''Yeah right.''
He went back to reading his book.
R: ''Jess, Luke just told you to get back to work.''
J: ''I know, I heard him.''
R: ''Then why aren't you...........working ?''
J: ''Cause I don't feel like it.''
Rory sighed and pulled Jess' book out of his hands.
J: ''What are you doing ?''
R: ''Taking your book.''
J: ''Well duh, but why ?''
R: ''Because you have to get back to work.''
J: ''And you really think that it's going to work ?''
R: ''Yep.''
Jess looked at her and sighed.
J: ''Fine, just give me my book back.''
Rory threw the book at him. Jess caught it and opened it again.
R: ''Jess.......''
J: ''What ?''
R: ''Get to work.''
J: ''You know, you're even worse than Luke.''
He put the book in his pocket, grabbed the coffeepot and headed towards a table.
L: ''I can't believe he actually listened.''
Rory shrugged.
R: ''You just have to know how to handle him.''
L: ''Handle him huh ?''
Lorelai looked at Rory with a smile on her face.
R: ''Mom !''
Lorelai started to laugh. Rory crossed her arms. She didn't find it amusing at all.
L: ''So tell me, what's your secret ?''
R: ''Different subject please.''
Lorelai started to laugh again, but stopped when she saw the look on Rory's face.
L: ''Not funny ?''
Rory shook her head.
L: ''So anyway, I'm changing the subject here if you haven't noticed yet, I'm.......
Rory smiled.
R: ''Thank you.''
L: ''No problem. So as I was saying I'm throwing a party this weekend at the Inn.''
R: ''Why ?''
L: ''No reason, I just feel like throwing a party.''
R: ''You can't just throw a party without a reason.''
L: ''Yes I can.''
R: ''No you can't.''
L: ''Fine, you want a reason I'll give you a reason. I........I just bought a new skirt and I really want to wear it to a party, but since nobody I know is throwing a party any time soon I decided to throw my own party.''
R: ''That's a lame reason.''
L: ''I don't care. A reason is a reason.''
R: ''Yes, but it has to be a good reason.''
L: ''You're impossible. Fine, I'm throwing the party for Jess. So that everyone can see him again. It's been a long time.''
R: ''Mom I hate to burst your bubble here, but everybody already saw Jess and talked to him again.''
L: ''I give up. I don't have a reason, I just wanna throw a party and have fun.''
R: ''Now that's what I call a reason.''
Lorelai rolled her eyes and looked at her watch.
L: ''I'm late.''
R: ''Late ?''
L: ''Yeah, I was supposed to meet Sookie at the Inn ten minutes ago.''
Lorelai got up and started to pout on her jacket.
L: ''Sookie wanted to talk to me about the menu for the party.''
R: ''As long as there is chocolate at the party, I'm there.''
L: ''Of course there's chocolate at the party. What's a party without chocolate ? Maybe we should just scrap the entire menu and only serve chocolate.''
R: ''And coffee.''
L: ''Of course.''
Lorelai smiled and Rory and gave her a kiss on her cheek.
L: ''See you later sweets.''
R: ''Bye mom.''
Lorelai grabbed her bag and left the diner.
Suddenly Rory felt two arms around her. At first she thought that it was Jess, but when she felt the way the person kissed her, she knew that it wasn't. It just didn't feel like Jess. She didn't know how she knew, because she and Jess never really kissed, but she just did. She put her hands on the arms of the person and turned her head to see who it was.
R: ''Dean, hi.''
When she saw his face, she felt disappointed in some way. She didn't understand why. Dean was her boyfriend and he could never disappoint her in any way, right ?
D: ''Hey beautiful.''
Beautiful ? Since when was he saying things like that to her ?
Dean kissed her cheek and sat down next to her.
D: ''So where do you wanna sit ?''
Rory shrugged.
R: ''Don't care.''
D: ''Well in that case......how about the back ?''
He smiled at Rory.
D: ''I swear I won't take advantage of you.''
Rory laughed softly. That sounded so weird coming out of Dean's mouth.
R: ''Good to know, I was really worrying about that.''
Dean reached out his hand and Rory placed her hand in his. They got up and sat down at a table in the back of the diner. Dean started to kiss Rory's hand. Rory laughed. Dean looked up at her.
D: ''What's so funny ?''
R: ''Nothing, continue please.''
Dean started to kiss her hand again and Rory tried not to laugh.
J: ''How sweet.''
Rory's head shot up and she met Jess' eyes. Dean looked up to. When he saw Jess his eyes darkened.
J: ''Was I interrupting something ?''
D: ''Actually you........''
R: ''No, of course not.''
She quickly pulled her hand back. She met Dean's eyes and immediately felt guilty for pulling her hand back. He was her boyfriend after all. She looked down at her hands.
J: ''Interesting.''
D: ''What ?''
J: ''Well you wanted to say that I was interrupting you two and she just jumped in and said no.''
D: ''So ?''
J: ''Nothing, it's just interesting, that's all.''
D: ''Really ?''
J: ''Yep. So can I take your order now ?''
R: ''Yeah.''
D: ''No.''
Rory looked up and met Dean's eyes.
R: ''Why not ?''
J: ''You probably have to check with him first to see if your orders match.''
Dean gave him an angry looked and Jess immediately shut up.
D: ''I just thought that we weren't ready to order yet.''
R: ''Well maybe you weren't, but I was.''
D: ''Then order. Don't make a big deal out of this. I just wanted to order for us both at the same time, that's all.''
J: ''How thoughtful.''
D: ''You know I'm getting sick of you.''
J: ''Huh, really ?''
D: ''Yeah, you're always around and every time we have a fight it's about you.''
J: ''Interesting.''
R: ''Dean.......''
D: ''Why is that ?''
J: ''Beats me.''
R: ''Dean, let's just order okay.''
D: ''No, I wanna talk about this.''
R: ''Fine, if you wanna talk we can talk, but not here.''
D: ''Why not ?''
J: ''This is much better than Days of our lives.''
D: ''Shut up.''
J: ''Hey, it's a free world the last time I checked.''
R: ''Jess, could you please come back in a couple of minutes ?''
Jess could see that she was on the verge of tears and nodded.
J: ''Yeah.''
D: ''No.''
J: ''So now you're even making decisions for her ?''
Dean got up and looked down on Jess.
D: ''You know this is all because of you.''
Dean raised his fist and wanted to bring it down on Jess' face, just like he had done to him, but Rory quickly got up and seconds later she was standing between the two boys.
R: ''Dean, if you wanna talk that's fine, but you don't have to hit him.''
D: ''Yes I do. Look at what he did to me.''
R: ''He didn't mean to.''
J: ''Yes I did.''
R: ''Jess......''
J: ''I'm sorry I didn't hit you harder.''
R: ''Jess !''
D: ''I wished you hadn't come here. Why couldn't you just stay in New York ?! Let me guess your mom didn't want you ?!''
Jess didn't say anything for a moment. Rory saw the expression in his eyes change from anger to sadness.
R: ''Dean stop !''
D: ''I should stop ? What about him ? You're always taking his side !''
R: ''That's not true.''
D: ''Yes it is. You're doing it right now !''
R: ''I'm not taking anybody's side, I just want you guys to stop.''
D: ''Fine, I'll stop.''
Dean turned around and wanted to leave, but Rory put her hand on his arm.
R: ''Dean.......''
Dean quickly turned around and shot her an angry look.
D: ''What ?! What do you want ?!''
He grabbed her by her arms and pulled her closer.
R: ''Dean......you're hurting me.''
D: ''And you're hurting me Rory.''
Dean tightened his grip on her and Rory looked up at him with a scared look on her face.
J: ''Let her go !''
Dean looked from Rory to Jess and back again. He shoved Rory away from him and left. Rory fell against Jess' chest. Her arms were hurting, but she barely noticed. She looked at Dean who was walking away from the diner. How could he be so angry ?
J: ''Are you okay ?''
Rory didn't say anything and looked around the diner. Everyone was staring at her. She started to cry.
Jess turned around so that she was facing him now and wanted to wipe her tears away, but Rory took a step back. Jess lowered his hand and just looked at her for a moment.
J: ''Do you want me to walk you home angeleyes ?''
Rory shook her head and wrapped her arms around her stomach. Tears were still running down her cheeks.
Jess really wanted her to stop crying. He didn't like it when she cried. She didn't deserve to cry and hurt like this. She was too sweet and nice.
J: ''He's a jerk Rory.''
He took a step towards her and reached for her arm, but Rory quickly took another step back.
R: ''You're both jerks.''
She turned around and left the diner. Jess wanted to stop her, but that wasn't what she wanted right now. He met Luke's worried gaze. He started to head for the stairs.
Luke: ''What did you do ?''
Jess didn't answer and went upstairs to his room. He put the radio on and lay down on his bed. Why did he always have to ruin it for everyone ? It was his fault that Rory was mad at him and Dean. He started all of this by moving to this stupid town. And he just had to fall in love with his best friend. He had to be selfish and think only of himself and what he wanted. He never stopped to think about what he was doing to Rory and her feelings. He grabbed the book that he had been reading out of his pocket and opened it. He read the notes that he wrote. There they were. The words that described his feelings for Rory. But now they probably didn't mean a thing to her anymore if he told her. She wouldn't listen to him anyway. He grabbed a pen. He was going to make sure that he would never read these words again. But when he put his pen on the page, he stopped. He couldn't. He closed the book and threw it across the room. Damn him for falling in love with a girl that would never love him back and damn her for being so sweet and beautiful. Damn her for letting him believe that she actually was feeling the same for him. The best thing he could probably do right now was forget about her. Too bad he cared so much for her though.
*A/N: Hey!!! THANKS A MILLION for the fantastic reviews!!! Please review this chapter too ? LOVE YA!!!
*~*~*:-)*~*~*Bye, smile :-)
Rory looked around the diner, the place was packed. She returned her attention to the conversation that her mom and Luke were having or finishing actually.
L: ''The party was so boring and there were a lot of annoying people.''
Luke: ''Yeah, you were one of them.''
Lorelai gave Luke a look, but Luke just ignored it and went back to work.
Rory laughed and shook her head. She still couldn't believe that Luke actually went to the party with her mom last night. This proved that miracles did happen every now and then.
L: ''Where are you going ? I need a refill.''
Luke: ''You'll just have to wait.''
L: ''Wait ? What is he talking about ?''
Rory rolled her eyes when she saw the shocked look on her mom's face. Rory slowly took a sip of her coffee, aware that her mom was watching.
L: ''Can I have some of yours ?''
She reached for Rory's cup, but Rory quickly lifted the cup above her head.
R: ''Nope, this is mine.''
Lorelai tried to grab the cup once more, but failed to and stopped trying. Instead she looked at Jess with puppy dog eyes.
L: ''Jess, can you refill my cup please ?''
J: ''I don't think uncle Luke will forgive me if I do that.''
L: ''Since when do you care about what Luke thinks ?''
J: ''Well really I don't, but I just like to see you like this.''
L: ''You are even worse than Luke.''
Jess just shrugged and went back to reading his book.
L: ''If you give me the coffee I'll give you.............my daughter. Yeah, you can have Rory if you give me the coffee.''
That got Jess' attention. He knew that it was a joke, but he could dream right ? He met Rory's eyes and smirked at her. He saw her cheeks turn red. She was probably thinking about the same thing as he was thinking about. He couldn't stop thinking about what almost happened last night. He was so close and yet he didn't kiss her. He could have tasted her right there and then, but he didn't. He let his stupid conscience get the best of him.
Rory quickly looked away. She knew that it was a joke, but for some reason she didn't see the humor of it. She saw Jess in front her again. His lips were so close and he had this look in his eyes.....she never saw that look before. It was as if he was fighting against his urge to kiss her. She knew that he wanted to kiss her, she wanted the same. But she knew that they couldn't and that it was better that they didn't kiss last night. She couldn't help but feel a little disappointed about it. She really wanted to know what his lips felt like. What was she saying ? When you were friends you didn't kiss one and other. Somewhere you drew the line and she knew that they almost crossed that line last night. Maybe they had already crossed that line ?
J: ''Sounds good to me.''
He winked at Rory and refilled Lorelai's cup. Rory watched as Jess refilled her mom's cup. When he was done he came over to her and refilled her cup too. While he was pouring the coffee into her cup, he leaned on the counter and brought his mouth closer to her ear.
J: ''I gave your mom her coffee so now you're mine.''
Jess quickly brushed his lips against her cheek. Before Rory could say anything it was over. Jess put the coffee back and went back to reading his book. Rory looked at her mom to see if she saw anything, but her mom was just drinking her coffee. Rory put her hand on the spot where Jess' lips touched her. Maybe she was just dreaming ? She dropped her hand and grabbed her coffee with the other hand. She took a sip from her coffee and glanced at Jess. Why did he have do be so cute ? Her eyes automatically went to his lips. She tried to look away, but she just couldn't. She couldn't stop looking at his lips. Suddenly Jess started to smile. At first Rory thought that he was smiling at her, but he wasn't even looking at her. He must be smiling at something that he just read. Rory looked down at her hands and started to smile too.
Jess quickly glanced at Rory. He couldn't see her face, but he knew that she was smiling. Jess looked at the page he was reading again. His eyes went to the notes that he just wrote. They were about Rory. All the notes he wrote the last couple of days were about Rory. He figured that what he couldn't say to her, he could write down. This way he wouldn't have to keep thinking about it. But of course he was wrong. Even tough he wrote his feelings for her down, he still couldn't stop thinking about her. How could he when she was around all the time ? But he didn't mind, he didn't mind at all.
Luke: ''Who gave you the coffee ?''
L: ''Jess did.''
Luke looked at Jess.
Luke: ''Why ?''
J: ''She gave me an offer I couldn't resist.''
He locked eyes with Rory.
Luke: ''Do I even wanna know what he's talking about ?''
L: ''I promised him Rory if he gave me the coffee.''
Luke: ''What ?''
Lorelai started to laugh when she saw the look on Luke's face.
L: ''Don't worry Lukey, it was just a joke.''
Rory looked at Jess again.
R: ''Yeah, it was just a joke. Right Jess ?''
J: ''Yeah, a joke.''
Luke: ''Well I didn't find it amusing.''
L: ''You don't have a sense of humor.''
Luke gave Lorelai a look and grabbed two plates.
Luke: ''Get to work Jess.''
J: ''Will do uncle Luke.''
Luke went back to work and Lorelai softly laughed again.
J: ''Yeah right.''
He went back to reading his book.
R: ''Jess, Luke just told you to get back to work.''
J: ''I know, I heard him.''
R: ''Then why aren't you...........working ?''
J: ''Cause I don't feel like it.''
Rory sighed and pulled Jess' book out of his hands.
J: ''What are you doing ?''
R: ''Taking your book.''
J: ''Well duh, but why ?''
R: ''Because you have to get back to work.''
J: ''And you really think that it's going to work ?''
R: ''Yep.''
Jess looked at her and sighed.
J: ''Fine, just give me my book back.''
Rory threw the book at him. Jess caught it and opened it again.
R: ''Jess.......''
J: ''What ?''
R: ''Get to work.''
J: ''You know, you're even worse than Luke.''
He put the book in his pocket, grabbed the coffeepot and headed towards a table.
L: ''I can't believe he actually listened.''
Rory shrugged.
R: ''You just have to know how to handle him.''
L: ''Handle him huh ?''
Lorelai looked at Rory with a smile on her face.
R: ''Mom !''
Lorelai started to laugh. Rory crossed her arms. She didn't find it amusing at all.
L: ''So tell me, what's your secret ?''
R: ''Different subject please.''
Lorelai started to laugh again, but stopped when she saw the look on Rory's face.
L: ''Not funny ?''
Rory shook her head.
L: ''So anyway, I'm changing the subject here if you haven't noticed yet, I'm.......
Rory smiled.
R: ''Thank you.''
L: ''No problem. So as I was saying I'm throwing a party this weekend at the Inn.''
R: ''Why ?''
L: ''No reason, I just feel like throwing a party.''
R: ''You can't just throw a party without a reason.''
L: ''Yes I can.''
R: ''No you can't.''
L: ''Fine, you want a reason I'll give you a reason. I........I just bought a new skirt and I really want to wear it to a party, but since nobody I know is throwing a party any time soon I decided to throw my own party.''
R: ''That's a lame reason.''
L: ''I don't care. A reason is a reason.''
R: ''Yes, but it has to be a good reason.''
L: ''You're impossible. Fine, I'm throwing the party for Jess. So that everyone can see him again. It's been a long time.''
R: ''Mom I hate to burst your bubble here, but everybody already saw Jess and talked to him again.''
L: ''I give up. I don't have a reason, I just wanna throw a party and have fun.''
R: ''Now that's what I call a reason.''
Lorelai rolled her eyes and looked at her watch.
L: ''I'm late.''
R: ''Late ?''
L: ''Yeah, I was supposed to meet Sookie at the Inn ten minutes ago.''
Lorelai got up and started to pout on her jacket.
L: ''Sookie wanted to talk to me about the menu for the party.''
R: ''As long as there is chocolate at the party, I'm there.''
L: ''Of course there's chocolate at the party. What's a party without chocolate ? Maybe we should just scrap the entire menu and only serve chocolate.''
R: ''And coffee.''
L: ''Of course.''
Lorelai smiled and Rory and gave her a kiss on her cheek.
L: ''See you later sweets.''
R: ''Bye mom.''
Lorelai grabbed her bag and left the diner.
Suddenly Rory felt two arms around her. At first she thought that it was Jess, but when she felt the way the person kissed her, she knew that it wasn't. It just didn't feel like Jess. She didn't know how she knew, because she and Jess never really kissed, but she just did. She put her hands on the arms of the person and turned her head to see who it was.
R: ''Dean, hi.''
When she saw his face, she felt disappointed in some way. She didn't understand why. Dean was her boyfriend and he could never disappoint her in any way, right ?
D: ''Hey beautiful.''
Beautiful ? Since when was he saying things like that to her ?
Dean kissed her cheek and sat down next to her.
D: ''So where do you wanna sit ?''
Rory shrugged.
R: ''Don't care.''
D: ''Well in that case......how about the back ?''
He smiled at Rory.
D: ''I swear I won't take advantage of you.''
Rory laughed softly. That sounded so weird coming out of Dean's mouth.
R: ''Good to know, I was really worrying about that.''
Dean reached out his hand and Rory placed her hand in his. They got up and sat down at a table in the back of the diner. Dean started to kiss Rory's hand. Rory laughed. Dean looked up at her.
D: ''What's so funny ?''
R: ''Nothing, continue please.''
Dean started to kiss her hand again and Rory tried not to laugh.
J: ''How sweet.''
Rory's head shot up and she met Jess' eyes. Dean looked up to. When he saw Jess his eyes darkened.
J: ''Was I interrupting something ?''
D: ''Actually you........''
R: ''No, of course not.''
She quickly pulled her hand back. She met Dean's eyes and immediately felt guilty for pulling her hand back. He was her boyfriend after all. She looked down at her hands.
J: ''Interesting.''
D: ''What ?''
J: ''Well you wanted to say that I was interrupting you two and she just jumped in and said no.''
D: ''So ?''
J: ''Nothing, it's just interesting, that's all.''
D: ''Really ?''
J: ''Yep. So can I take your order now ?''
R: ''Yeah.''
D: ''No.''
Rory looked up and met Dean's eyes.
R: ''Why not ?''
J: ''You probably have to check with him first to see if your orders match.''
Dean gave him an angry looked and Jess immediately shut up.
D: ''I just thought that we weren't ready to order yet.''
R: ''Well maybe you weren't, but I was.''
D: ''Then order. Don't make a big deal out of this. I just wanted to order for us both at the same time, that's all.''
J: ''How thoughtful.''
D: ''You know I'm getting sick of you.''
J: ''Huh, really ?''
D: ''Yeah, you're always around and every time we have a fight it's about you.''
J: ''Interesting.''
R: ''Dean.......''
D: ''Why is that ?''
J: ''Beats me.''
R: ''Dean, let's just order okay.''
D: ''No, I wanna talk about this.''
R: ''Fine, if you wanna talk we can talk, but not here.''
D: ''Why not ?''
J: ''This is much better than Days of our lives.''
D: ''Shut up.''
J: ''Hey, it's a free world the last time I checked.''
R: ''Jess, could you please come back in a couple of minutes ?''
Jess could see that she was on the verge of tears and nodded.
J: ''Yeah.''
D: ''No.''
J: ''So now you're even making decisions for her ?''
Dean got up and looked down on Jess.
D: ''You know this is all because of you.''
Dean raised his fist and wanted to bring it down on Jess' face, just like he had done to him, but Rory quickly got up and seconds later she was standing between the two boys.
R: ''Dean, if you wanna talk that's fine, but you don't have to hit him.''
D: ''Yes I do. Look at what he did to me.''
R: ''He didn't mean to.''
J: ''Yes I did.''
R: ''Jess......''
J: ''I'm sorry I didn't hit you harder.''
R: ''Jess !''
D: ''I wished you hadn't come here. Why couldn't you just stay in New York ?! Let me guess your mom didn't want you ?!''
Jess didn't say anything for a moment. Rory saw the expression in his eyes change from anger to sadness.
R: ''Dean stop !''
D: ''I should stop ? What about him ? You're always taking his side !''
R: ''That's not true.''
D: ''Yes it is. You're doing it right now !''
R: ''I'm not taking anybody's side, I just want you guys to stop.''
D: ''Fine, I'll stop.''
Dean turned around and wanted to leave, but Rory put her hand on his arm.
R: ''Dean.......''
Dean quickly turned around and shot her an angry look.
D: ''What ?! What do you want ?!''
He grabbed her by her arms and pulled her closer.
R: ''Dean......you're hurting me.''
D: ''And you're hurting me Rory.''
Dean tightened his grip on her and Rory looked up at him with a scared look on her face.
J: ''Let her go !''
Dean looked from Rory to Jess and back again. He shoved Rory away from him and left. Rory fell against Jess' chest. Her arms were hurting, but she barely noticed. She looked at Dean who was walking away from the diner. How could he be so angry ?
J: ''Are you okay ?''
Rory didn't say anything and looked around the diner. Everyone was staring at her. She started to cry.
Jess turned around so that she was facing him now and wanted to wipe her tears away, but Rory took a step back. Jess lowered his hand and just looked at her for a moment.
J: ''Do you want me to walk you home angeleyes ?''
Rory shook her head and wrapped her arms around her stomach. Tears were still running down her cheeks.
Jess really wanted her to stop crying. He didn't like it when she cried. She didn't deserve to cry and hurt like this. She was too sweet and nice.
J: ''He's a jerk Rory.''
He took a step towards her and reached for her arm, but Rory quickly took another step back.
R: ''You're both jerks.''
She turned around and left the diner. Jess wanted to stop her, but that wasn't what she wanted right now. He met Luke's worried gaze. He started to head for the stairs.
Luke: ''What did you do ?''
Jess didn't answer and went upstairs to his room. He put the radio on and lay down on his bed. Why did he always have to ruin it for everyone ? It was his fault that Rory was mad at him and Dean. He started all of this by moving to this stupid town. And he just had to fall in love with his best friend. He had to be selfish and think only of himself and what he wanted. He never stopped to think about what he was doing to Rory and her feelings. He grabbed the book that he had been reading out of his pocket and opened it. He read the notes that he wrote. There they were. The words that described his feelings for Rory. But now they probably didn't mean a thing to her anymore if he told her. She wouldn't listen to him anyway. He grabbed a pen. He was going to make sure that he would never read these words again. But when he put his pen on the page, he stopped. He couldn't. He closed the book and threw it across the room. Damn him for falling in love with a girl that would never love him back and damn her for being so sweet and beautiful. Damn her for letting him believe that she actually was feeling the same for him. The best thing he could probably do right now was forget about her. Too bad he cared so much for her though.