Authors note: It's set at the end of season 3 I guess, they're in their last week of school and got the summer holidays to spend their last weeks together. Fairly steady relationship, sleeping with each other, love each other. Both might seem out of character but this is how I'm writing it. Songs which you might not have picked up on are Summer days by Phoenix.
Summary: Road trip baby.
Disclaimer: Don't own nothing. Includin the songs.
They have a fight this chpt. I felt it was coming up, you can't be stuck in a car with each other for three days and not have one little fight. Also the beginning might seems a little too corny but im around a lot of couples right now who have just finished school and are leavin each other and they act just like that, believe whether u want to or not.
Oh and PLEASE review. I need a bit of help on this one, storyline wise. Please tell me what YOU want to happen cas im havin heaps of trouble deciding.
Dedicated to my favourite songs everywhere. U guys help me live through life without crashing. All I need is a song and I smile.
Let's go somewhere far together
It was the next morning, at four a.m. She was sitting on the bonnet of the car, looking at the sunrise. The air was cool and tickled her feet. Two hour old rain dripped down the side of the car and splashed on her toes. Jess was lying beside her, his arm over his eyes, blocking his face to the world.
"Jess, sit up!"
"What?"
"Sit up baby face, you're missing the sunrise."
"I've missed out on a lot of things."
The sun was a bright, yellow circle and she half-expected two black eyes and a smile to be on it.
"Jess, it's so beautiful, please look."
He sat up with a groan. She grinned widely and hung back her head and laugh. Sometimes, she felt so happy. Only with him. He picked up the Polaroid and took a picture of her, with the sun in the background, and her, smiling so happily. It was only one of a million Polaroids they had taken in the past three days with a million more to come.
"Told ya it was beautiful Jess."
"It's all right."
She slipped her hand in his.
"You know, where do you reckon we'll be watching this sunset next year?"
"You'll be in Stars Hollow, fresh from Harvard. I'll be in Italy."
"Italy?"
"Yes. Italy."
"What happened to college?"
"College? I don't need it."
"Really."
"Yes. I've decided as we speak that I am going to Italy."
"What will you do in Italy?"
"Write the world's greatest novel."
"Can I have the first copy?"
"It will be dedicated to you."
"Promise?"
"Promise."
"That would nice."
"It will happen Ror. I'm going to make it happen."
"I know you will Jess."
"And that's why it will happen."
She giggled.
"Let's take a photo Jess."
"I think we've already done that a trillion times in the past 72 hours, don't you?"
"No. This is one is history breaking."
"Really."
She grabbed the camera out of Jess's hand and leaned back into his body, holding the camera out in front of them. She smiled hugely, trying not to laugh and he crossed his eyes and stuck up his middle finger and the camera clicked, capturing two people stuck in a time forever.
"History breaking Jess. This is exactly when we decided what we were going to do for the rest of our lives. The day Jess Mariano decided he was gonna be a writer. Only a year before he wrote the world's greatest novel. And only a year before I become the youngest journalist for the New York Times."
"That photo will be famous baby."
"Oh yes."
He picked her up and hugged her. She smelt like clean soap. It was later on in the day and they had driven into a town that neither really knew the name of. Then they pretended they were part of a gym's membership so they could use the showers. And now, she had just gotten off a payphone, talking to her mother while he sat down on a bench a few metres away with their McDonalds. She sat down on the dirty park bench and took a long swig of her Coke.
"What did she say, my coffee-bean?"
She shrugged.
"The usual stuff."
"Angry?"
"Doesn't she always seem to be?"
"Only when it's about me."
"Don't be silly."
"Don't say that to me. I'm not stupid."
"No Jess, you definitely are not."
He sighed.
"Are we fighting?"
"No."
"It feels like we are."
"Jess just eat your cheese burger okay?"
"I don't want this trip ruined."
"It's not, okay!"
"Especially ruined by Lorelai."
"Shut up!"
"Don't say that to me!"
"Well stop talking shit about my mum!"
"Jeez, you're itching my scar right now."
She paused. His eyes were narrowed and his mouth was twisted. But she couldn't help but laugh, an angry laugh.
"I'm itching your scar right now? What the hell is that?"
He lifted up his shirt where a small scar ran from his belly button, a reminder of falling off his chair in class and landing on scissors when he was in Grade Two.
"What about it?"
"Shane used to tickle it. Bugged the fuck out of me."
"Shane?"
"What?"
"Shane, my favourite name."
"Oh I don't have time for this."
"Why? Where are you going?"
He stood tall and looked angry. He hated sarcastic bullshit as he called it when they were fighting. It always set him off.
"Away from you, my coffee bean."
He stalked off into the car and drove away.
She sighed and sat down in the park bench as the car disappeared.
She sat for so long. It was only 9am when he had left her and now it was 2:16 and 52 seconds. She wanted to cry but wouldn't let herself.
He pulled up along the park bench from nowhere.
She got in the car, silently and Jess laid his head down on the steering wheel. He seemed to be thinking. He turned to her and she saw her favourite pairs of eyes in the whole world.
He spoke.
"I've spent all summer days driving."
"I'm tired of holidays ruined," She replied knowing the words of which he spoke.
"No more take-away, expired food."
"I need a real day."
She wrapped her arms around him.
"Let's stop doing this Jess."
He nodded.
"I'm an idiot."
"No you're not."
"No I am."
"Jess."
"Everybody was right."
"Right about what?"
"About everything."
"Oh Jess."
"What are you doing here with me Ror?"
"What?"
"You could've been a princess."
"Oh?"
"And I made you the black sheep. The princess who ran away with the poor man and was kicked out of the family."
"Sounds like a fairytale."
"Doesn't feel like one."
"You're forgetting about the ending."
"The ending?"
"Yeah. Where the princess and the poor man overcome everyone who said they wouldn't make it and live happily ever after."
"That doesn't happen."
"Let's make it happen."
"Rory."
"What?"
"This is it."
"What?"
"This is it Ror. This is the last time we'll be together. Summer will be over and we will be over."
"No."
"Rory. Do you think that we're in a movie here?"
"Can't we just pretend?"
"I don't know."
"Oh Jess baby, let's just pretend."
"I don't know."
"Baby, let's just pretend."
He sighed and kissed her for a long, long time.
"One day you'll wake up Rory. We'll just be driving along, we could be anywhere and it could be tomorrow or next month or the last day of the holidays. And you'll know that it is over.
"No I won't."
"You'll know that it will be over because you know it has to be."
"Jess don't say things like that."
"One day the pretending will stop Rory."
"Jess."
"Because it has to stop."
"No it doesn't."
"Round and round it goes, when it stops nobody knows. The only thing everybody knows is that it has to."
"Jess come into my mind."
"Rory."
"Come into my mind Jess. See what I see. See that future, see that future where we're together?"
"Rory."
"Jess." She was crying now.
"Oh baby I'm sorry. But come into my mind. See what I see. See that future? See that world that we are going to live in? See me so far away from you?"
"Jess stop."
"See that world? See that future?"
She started to sob.
"Oh baby let's forget it. Let's forget for as long as we can. But Rory, as long as we can is only as long as these holidays. Then we're in that world. That's our future, coffee bean."
She sniffled.
"Don't worry. We can make it without each other. We can make it."
Was he saying it to himself or to her?
"Oh Jess. I don't want to make it."