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*A/N: Hey!!! I didn't have a lot of homework today, so I had the time to write the next chapter. YAH!!! I hope you all like it!!! And personally I don't like Samantha, but hey that's just my opinions. Please review and let me know what you think of this chapter. Talk to me!!! O and again THANK YOU SO MUCH for the reviews. You're all WONDERFUL!!!

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Rory sat on her bed, hugging her pillow as she stared at the little ball of paper that was now lying on her desk. She still hadn't figured out what she was going to do next. She knew that Jess was mad at her, even though he didn't say it. But she didn't feel like apologizing to him, there was no reason for her to apologize. She did nothing wrong in her eyes. All she did was look out for Dean, nothing more. Everything Dean and she had was platonic. Strange going from kissing every day to sitting across from each other. Rory groaned and hid her face in her pillow. She was frustrated and confused by everything that had happened. Then there was a knock on her door and her mom came in unannounced.

L: ''Hey sweets. Taking a closer look at the pillow ?''

Rory looked up at her mom and gave her a bothered look.

R: ''Mom.''

L: ''No ? Maybe the pillow was talking to you and you were listening really closely ?''

R: ''Bye.''

As soon as Lorelai saw that her daughter wasn't in the mood for her jokes she got a worried look on her face and closed the door behind her to keep Samantha from hearing any words that were exchanged between her and her daughter.

L: ''What's wrong ?''

R: ''Nothing, I'm just not in the mood for your jokes.''

L: ''You're always in the mood for my jokes. Now, what's wrong ?''

Lorelai walked over to Rory's bed and sat down next to her. Lorelai put her arm around Rory's shoulder.

L: ''Tell mommy all your dirty secrets.''

R: ''Mom.''

L: ''Let me rephrase that. Tell mommy what's bothering you.''

R: ''It's Samantha.''

L: ''Big surprise, that girl is a young Cruella de Ville without the fur coats of course and the whole chasing dogs thing.''

R: ''Mom, focus on me for a minute.''

L: ''Sorry. So, what did she do ?''

R: ''She invited Dean over to talk.''

L: ''Talk ?''

R: ''Yeah, she said she wanted to catch up.''

L: ''I'll bet and since when is Dean friends with her ?''

Rory shrugged.

L: ''I'm sorry sweets.''

She hugged her daughter, trying to comfort her.

R: ''That's not all.''

L: ''I'm still here.''

R: ''I went over to Dean to warn him about Samantha that she's..........''

L: ''A slut ?''

R: ''Mom !''

L: ''Wrong word, I get it.''

R: ''I went over there, warned Dean and we decided to be friends.''

L: ''That's great.''

R: ''No, it isn't. Jess saw me leave Dean's house and now he's mad at me.''

L: ''You two had a fight ?''

R: ''Not really, he suspected me of something, I told him the truth and..........''

L: ''You told him the truth ?''

R: ''Yeah.''

L: ''Let me guess, he didn't believe you ?''

R: ''Yeah.''

L: ''You should never tell a guy the truth.''

R: ''Says who ?''

L: ''The Lorelai handbook.''

R: ''You have your own handbook ?''

L: ''Yeah, it's called: Lie to keep your guy.''

R: ''Remind me to pick one up tomorrow. Nice title by the way.''

L: ''Thanks, I still have a copy if you want.''

R: ''You have a copy of your own book ?''

L: ''Yeah, I take it with me on every date.''

R: ''Which date ?''

L: ''Are you done with you story yet ?''

R: ''Unfortunately not. See, Jess said that it sounded as if I still cared for Dean and then I said something in the sense of..............''

L: ''You didn't ?''

Rory nodded.

L: ''Why ?''

R: ''Cause I do still care about Dean, maybe not in a girlfriend kind of way, but still in a hey, you're my friend kind of way.''

L: ''I'm so getting you a copy of my book.''

R: ''In case you haven't noticed yet, this is me asking you for advice.''

L: ''I honestly don't know.''

R: ''Thanks for the help, I'm sure me and Jess will be back to holding hands a decade from now.''

L: ''I'm sorry, but I really don't know. This is your relationship, a weird one, but it's yours.''

R: ''I thought I had to share it with the town.''

L: ''Well, yeah, but I thought I would just leave that part out to make you feel better.''

R: ''I have to work this out on my own, don't I ?''

L: ''You think ?''

R: ''It's not fair. I know that somehow this is all Sam's fault.''

L: ''You're probably right.''

R: ''When is she leaving ?''

L: ''In a couple of days.''

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When Rory came into the diner the next day, you could practically feel the tension between her and Jess. He didn't even look up when she came in. Rory kept her eyes on her feet as she followed her mom and Samantha to the counter. She quietly sat down, still keeping her eyes from looking up. She heard her mom beg Luke for coffee and moments later he placed a cup of coffee in front of her, not saying a word as if he knew that something was wrong.

R: ''Thanks Luke.''

Rory immediately placed her hands around the cup, glad that she had something else to focus on except that fact that things were definitely different between her and Jess. Finally she got the courage to look up at Jess. She sneaked a glance at him while she was taking a sip from her coffee. Suddenly he looked up at her and met her eyes and Rory immediately looked down again. She couldn't help it. Whenever she and Jess were in a fight she couldn't help but to be at least a little afraid of him. Maybe it was his attitude towards her, cause frankly him not even saying a word to her was scaring her. It made her feel bad about herself, as if she had done something really terrible and she didn't. It was just hard and frustrating at the same time. Rory took one last sip of her coffee and got up when she saw that her bus would arrive in a couple of minutes.

R: ''I'm off, see you later mom.''

Rory who didn't want to be there any longer than she had to, quickly put on her jacket and lifted her bag from the floor.

L: ''Hang on, I'll give you a ride.''

Lorelai finished her coffee in one gulp and got up from her chair.

L: ''Bye Sam, later Luke.''

Luke nodded and watched as Lorelai grabbed her purse and followed Rory to the door.

R: ''Bye.''

And with that the two girls were gone. Luke smiled and went into the back, leaving Jess alone with Samantha in the now empty diner. Jess looked up from the books that he had been 'reading' and caught a last glimpse of Rory as she closed the door behind her. It was uncomfortable with Rory and him not talking. He didn't think that it had been this quiet in the diner since Lorelai first moved to Stars Hollow. The usual undying optimism hadn't been here this morning and believe it or not he had missed it. He missed their crazy conversations about talking toasters and aliens, he had missed Loralai fighting with Luke for a simple cup of coffee, but most of all he had missed Rory's voice filling the diner with its sweet melody. The moment their eyes had met and he saw the confusion and doubt he was ready to forget about everything and apologize to her. Tell her that he had been overreacting, but of course he didn't. He was stubborn and even though no one could tell, her caring for Dean had hurt him. He knew that he couldn't expect her to just forget about Dean, but if they didn't talk to each other for lets say forever, he wouldn't mind. But he knew that Rory wouldn't let that happen, she was too nice and caring for that.

S: ''So, what was up with that ?''

J: ''Huh ?''

Jess snapped out of his thoughts and looked at Samantha, who was still sitting at the counter with a glass of water in front of her. Jess didn't get why girls always had to watch their weight. Wasn't she thin enough ? Another thought that lead him to Rory. Rory didn't care much about her weight. he had heard her tell her mom that if she gained weight, she would just buy bigger clothes. And he had listened to her with a smile on his face. At that moment he had realized that Rory was truly one of a kind and that she had her own opinions on almost everything.

S: ''The silence between you and Rory.''

J: ''What are you talking about ?''

Jess decided to play dumb, hoping that Samantha would just let it be.

S: ''I'm not blind you know. I saw the way you two were acting all distant and ignoring each other.''

J: ''Even if we were, it's none of your business.''

S: ''Fine, but you should know one thing though.''

J: ''And what's that ? You being the most nosiest person in town, which is hard by the way since the whole town is full of gossipers, but somehow you pulled it off.''

S: ''Rory doesn't have feelings for you anymore.''

Jess stopped talking when he heard Samantha saw the words he had been fearing ever since he and Rory first started hanging out, even though he would never tell a soul.

S: ''I mean she obviously still cares about Dean. She practically ripped my head off when I invited him over.''

J: ''Too bad she didn't.''

S: ''And the letter you wrote her, that piece you copied out of Romeo and Juliet, I saw it lying on the ground in her room. Apparently you mean a lot to her.''

Jess clenched his fists and tried not to explode, but it was hard. He shot Samantha one last look before he left the diner, slamming the door shut behind him. Samantha took a sip from her water and smiled a satisfying smile.

Then Luke appeared from the back just in time to see Jess storm out of the diner. He looked from Jess to Samantha. As soon as he saw how satisfied she looked, he had no doubt that she had said or done something to piss Jess off.

Luke: ''What happened ?''

Samantha shrugged, but Luke saw right through her. He took another step towards her and looked down on her.

Luke: ''Back off.''

S: ''Excuse me ?''

Luke: ''Jess has enough to deal with and he doesn't need you to make things even harder for him..........and Rory.''

S: ''What's your problem ?''

Luke: ''The problem is that Jess' my nephew.''

Luke shot her an intimidating look. Samantha jumped up from her chair and left the diner. Luke shook his head as he grabbed Samantha's glass that was now half empty. What was the deal with teenagers these days ?