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The List(I had to out it in italics, just HAD to): sunsetstars02, to lazy to sign in, coffeechick87, hasapi, dodgerluv, Jade (4), starbelly-yes I suppose we r sorta kinda not relly sisters!, and laydee20. thank u to all the anonymous reviews too! On to the story! (oh, and they WILL reunite sometime soon. :o) One more thing, the beginning (The one with a 1 at the top) is told from a narrator, second part from Rory (2), third Jess (3).
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1
Patrick stood there, waiting for his question to be answered. "Patrick? Who is it honey?" Rory got up and walked over to where her boyfriend was standing, still as ever, just standing. "Jess? Is that you?" Suddenly, Rory's tone went from bold to nervous and shaky. "Wow, it's been how many years."
Jess shifted his weight back and forth, staring uncertainly at Patrick. "Patrick, this is Jess. He's an old.. er.. friend. Jess, this is Patrick, my boyfriend."
As soon as Jess thought it could become no more awkward, Patrick held out his hand for Jess to shake, and after Jess shook his hand asked, "Er, why did you come here anyways?"
"Well, my hotel room is right across from yours, and I kind of messed up our doors. Sorry." He looked down at his feet as he shuffled them.
While Rory looked back and forth between her boyfriend and her ex- boyfriend, Rory questioned, "What have you been up to lately Jess?"
At the name Jess, Dave stood up and looked through the doorway. "Jess?! Man it's been way too long." He went over to him, and hugged him, and any on-looker would have thought that they were long-lost brothers.
With a confused look on her face Rory questioned, "You know each other?"
Jess and Dave nodded in unison. "Well, Dave and I went the same college together. You probably don't know this, but I play guitar, and you can guess that I love music. Well, I had a double major in English and Music, and we met there. Later on, we were roommates." Jess started.
"And we would be what you would have considered best friends, right Jess?" Dave finished for him. Jess nodded. Rory stood there dumb- founded. She knew that Lane hadn't shared a room with Dave, but still went to the same college. She had also known who all of her friends were. Following her instincts, Rory's glance fell on Lane. She shrugged, and looked away.
"Well, I had better be going back to my room. Nice to see you Dave, Rory." Jess's expression turned sullen when he looked over at Rory's boyfriend. "Patrick, nice to meet you. See you around."
After this reunion, Rory and Lane decided that they should get to bed, as it was about midnight, and they really had to sleep- they were getting up at 6. They went to bed, and Rory sat there thinking about everything that had happened.
Knock- the food had finally arrived.
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"Rory.. c'mon, I know it's 6 o'clock, wake up." Patrick went from gently tapping her shoulder to almost shaking her.
It seemed that she was more tired than ever. "I don't wanna get up Mommy." Patrick laughed and got up, vanished for a moment, and came back with a coffee cup that was seemingly full as he held it carefully.
"Coffee!" Rory jolted out of bed, and took the coffee cup out of Patrick's hands, relieving him from its heat.
"Now, we have about 1 hour to take showers, pack, check out of the hotel, and get to the port at 7:30. I've taken my shower, all you need to do is take yours, and I'll start packing. Questions?" Rory shook her head and got her clothes out and went into the bathroom.
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An hour later, Lane, Rory, Patrick, and Dave stood at the port waiting to board.
"I'm so excited," voiced Rory.
"Me too!" Lane agreed.
At long last, the sailors took their packages and went onto the ship. They stepped into the main checking in room, and were amazed at the size and how luxurious it was. Rory and Patrick had their tickets checked, and were told where their room would be. "Right up the stairs, to your left." A man in the suit who worked there pointed at a long, fancy looking hallway that had stairs at the end.
"C'mon! Let's go and take a look! Race ya?" Patrick nodded, and they ran down the empty hallway and ran up the stairs. After about two flights of endless stairs, they found a dead end. There was a bit of a hallway left, which ended with a wall, with two doors facing each other.
Panting Rory said, "Beat cha! Let's take a look inside our room!" Patrick nodded, took out the two keys, gave one to Rory, put the key in, and opened the door. Rory covered her mouth as if flies would fly in if she didn't, and they both stood in awe of the huge room. "Oh my god. There's a coffeemaker, and there's a huge canopy bed, and there's a big bathroom, and this room is as large as like the whole upstairs of where I used to live!!! AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
She went over to the bed and collapsed on it. "This is the BEST idea that Lane has EVER had! Thank god for my grandparents, they did pay for it. Of course, knowing them, they would find something wrong with it. But it's, it's PERFECT!" she squealed with delight.
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2 (this will flip-flop around in places, but mostly the first part of the chapter, when she sees Jess. And yes, this is mandatory to the story. Sorry that you have to reread something in a different POV.)
"Patrick? Who is it honey?" I went over to the door, and what surprised me is the face I saw there. An older Jess, not bad in the older sense though. I mean he was.. whoa. There are no words in the human language to describe what I felt then. It was a rush of feelings, all that had come together, all at once, from the back of my mind, to overwhelm me at the front.
Though I was completely in shock, I managed to make some words come out of my frozen mouth. "Jess? Is that you? Wow, it's been, how many years.."
It's been actually, 4 years, 2 months, and 8 days. I know that is a childish count, but I just couldn't help it. Every since that day I had to break up with him, mostly because I was scared.
Flashback;
"Jess.. this is going to be too hard, and you know it. Your going to California, I'm staying here, long distance relationships just don't work. I do love you, more than I have ever loved anyone in my life I hope you know that. Way more than Dean, you were always the one ever since the day I met you" All of this came out easily, though I was nervous, scared, and most of all extremely miserable.
"But with you going to that college, the one so far away, it's just going to be, to be, too hard and it will be good for us." I struggled with the last words. "You will find some other girl who is better for you. Jess Marino, (a/n: I don't know his middle name) I love you more than anything, that is why I am doing this. So I can't hurt you, and hopefully your life will be better without me."
"I love you too Rory! If we both love each other so much, why can't we work this out?"
I shook my head. "My mom thought she found her love this young, and neither one of us needs to go through the pain that she had to at our age, only difference is we don't have a kid to take care of.
Jess opened his mouth to make a comment, but Rory held her hand over it. I kissed him, one of the most passionate we had ever had, and got onto the bus, waving, and blowing a final kiss to him
End Flashback
I was amazed at how calm Patrick acted. He shook Jess's hand, and he talked to him. What surprised her even more was as soon as the words, "What have you been up to lately, Jess?" Dave sprung up and greeted him like they were old friends. In fact, they were. I looked over at Lane, because she had gone to the same college as both of them, but managed to not know that Jess was there? I saw some foul-play on her part.. I suppose she didn't want to hurt me. Looking over at Patrick, I was again, struck by how secure he was. I remembered the day we met..
Flashback 2
There I was, it was June 15, 2004, and I was at a convention for Ivy League (a/n: I don't know if there are actual conventions, I made it up to fit my story) and I saw a guy, doing the same as I. I was there to learn how to get new jobs, and meet some of the people who had the same major as I did.
Being the brave person I was, I went over to the guy to ask what we should be doing. "Hi, I'm Rory. What's your name?"
"Patrick. Do you have any idea what we are suppose to be doing right now?" I laughed along with him as we were both clueless as to what we were supposed to be doing.
"Well," I started, looking into his deep blue eyes that intrigued me, "I think there is some meeting in one of the rooms," I pointed in a vague direction. "Where there is a meeting. But as to which one? That, I have no answer to."
Patrick looked over at me, and said, "Where do you go to school? I go to Harvard."
"I go to, I go to," I gulped. How come I couldn't remember the school I went to? "I got to Yale, that's where. I was supposed to go to Havard, but a complication arose, and well, I had to stay near home." Well, was my mom a complication? She was really unhappy, and we did have enough money, thanks to my grandma and grandpa. Well, after the guy she really liked, Jim, I think his name was?, cheated on her, well that shook her up a bit.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I wanted to go to a different school, and now, finally my dad is letting me transfer in my last year to Yale. It is farther away from my dad, and he accepted the school. So I guess I will see you again, Rory Gilmore. I think I see people in an auditorium that I recognize, so let's go."
And that was not the last I saw of Patrick.
End Flashback
After Jess had told me what he had been doing in college and stuff like that, I felt bad that I hadn't kept in contact, but quite frankly, I didn't know where to reach him. Oh how the twisted way fate turns, how it changes.
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3 (whoa, this is 7 pages in Microsoft so far! I just have Jess to go, and that's all for now. I hope this makes up for the week of no updates.)
Some guy was staring at me, mouth open. This was so weird. I didn't mean to get the wrong door, but really. I heard some voice in the background, one strangely familiar. When I tilted my head to see who the approaching footsteps belonged to, I was the one with the mouth wide open, Rory included. Wait a minute, Rory? What, where, how? I knew I saw her at the hotel lobby, but knocking on her door and being across the hall from her? That, that was just too twisted to make sense.
I hear her voice, but I don't listen. I suppose she is surprised that I am here, but not as surprised as I am. Patrick holds out his hand, I guess I should take it. I shake it and then Rory asks me another question when whom I least expect to see but Dave runs over and hugs me. Dave, my best friend, moral support, and all-round good guy who helped me with homework and everything, I couldn't believe it was him I was seeing in flesh. When Rory asked how we knew each other, I felt that I needed to explain, and it was one of the first things I mentioned all night.
"Well, Dave and I went the same college together. You probably don't know this, but I play guitar, and you can guess that I love music. Well, I had a double major in English and Music, and we met there. Later on, we were roommates."
I hoped that was clear enough. Again, I thought of the time we had sent apart, Rory and I, and was brought back to an old memory..
Flashback (the last one-I PROMISE!)
Rory was going on and on about how we couldn't be together and it was killing me. Killing me that I knew she still wanted to be together but wasn't trust-worthy and scared, scared that we were meant to be together. I then made the only point I could while she was talking, "I love you too Rory! If we both love each other so much, why can't we work this out?"
She went on to tell me that she didn't want to end up like her mother, but I knew the real reason; she didn't want to be hurt. It was a selfish reason, however you looked at it. Since we were standing at a bus stop, waiting for her bus as we said our final farewells, her bus finally arrived to relieve us of the pain. She gave me a long kiss, the best ever, and she waved and blew a kiss or two until her bus disappeared into the distance. After it was long gone, I whispered to the air, "I love you Rory Gilmore, and I know, that if I am patient enough, fate will find some way to bring us together."
End flashback
And it did, old fate had found a way to bring us together. As I left the room, returning to my own room, I thought to myself, 'I know if fate got me this far, it surely will get me back together with her, no matter how hard, we will end up together.'
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A/n: I would describe to u everything that happens to Jess when he gets onboard, but the most u should know is he isn't the room across from hers. Otherwise, he got onto the ship late, -wait I'll just tell u in the next chapter! (smacks self in head) well, again thanks and hope u like the length- not many other chapters will be this long though.
The List(I had to out it in italics, just HAD to): sunsetstars02, to lazy to sign in, coffeechick87, hasapi, dodgerluv, Jade (4), starbelly-yes I suppose we r sorta kinda not relly sisters!, and laydee20. thank u to all the anonymous reviews too! On to the story! (oh, and they WILL reunite sometime soon. :o) One more thing, the beginning (The one with a 1 at the top) is told from a narrator, second part from Rory (2), third Jess (3).
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1
Patrick stood there, waiting for his question to be answered. "Patrick? Who is it honey?" Rory got up and walked over to where her boyfriend was standing, still as ever, just standing. "Jess? Is that you?" Suddenly, Rory's tone went from bold to nervous and shaky. "Wow, it's been how many years."
Jess shifted his weight back and forth, staring uncertainly at Patrick. "Patrick, this is Jess. He's an old.. er.. friend. Jess, this is Patrick, my boyfriend."
As soon as Jess thought it could become no more awkward, Patrick held out his hand for Jess to shake, and after Jess shook his hand asked, "Er, why did you come here anyways?"
"Well, my hotel room is right across from yours, and I kind of messed up our doors. Sorry." He looked down at his feet as he shuffled them.
While Rory looked back and forth between her boyfriend and her ex- boyfriend, Rory questioned, "What have you been up to lately Jess?"
At the name Jess, Dave stood up and looked through the doorway. "Jess?! Man it's been way too long." He went over to him, and hugged him, and any on-looker would have thought that they were long-lost brothers.
With a confused look on her face Rory questioned, "You know each other?"
Jess and Dave nodded in unison. "Well, Dave and I went the same college together. You probably don't know this, but I play guitar, and you can guess that I love music. Well, I had a double major in English and Music, and we met there. Later on, we were roommates." Jess started.
"And we would be what you would have considered best friends, right Jess?" Dave finished for him. Jess nodded. Rory stood there dumb- founded. She knew that Lane hadn't shared a room with Dave, but still went to the same college. She had also known who all of her friends were. Following her instincts, Rory's glance fell on Lane. She shrugged, and looked away.
"Well, I had better be going back to my room. Nice to see you Dave, Rory." Jess's expression turned sullen when he looked over at Rory's boyfriend. "Patrick, nice to meet you. See you around."
After this reunion, Rory and Lane decided that they should get to bed, as it was about midnight, and they really had to sleep- they were getting up at 6. They went to bed, and Rory sat there thinking about everything that had happened.
Knock- the food had finally arrived.
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"Rory.. c'mon, I know it's 6 o'clock, wake up." Patrick went from gently tapping her shoulder to almost shaking her.
It seemed that she was more tired than ever. "I don't wanna get up Mommy." Patrick laughed and got up, vanished for a moment, and came back with a coffee cup that was seemingly full as he held it carefully.
"Coffee!" Rory jolted out of bed, and took the coffee cup out of Patrick's hands, relieving him from its heat.
"Now, we have about 1 hour to take showers, pack, check out of the hotel, and get to the port at 7:30. I've taken my shower, all you need to do is take yours, and I'll start packing. Questions?" Rory shook her head and got her clothes out and went into the bathroom.
**
An hour later, Lane, Rory, Patrick, and Dave stood at the port waiting to board.
"I'm so excited," voiced Rory.
"Me too!" Lane agreed.
At long last, the sailors took their packages and went onto the ship. They stepped into the main checking in room, and were amazed at the size and how luxurious it was. Rory and Patrick had their tickets checked, and were told where their room would be. "Right up the stairs, to your left." A man in the suit who worked there pointed at a long, fancy looking hallway that had stairs at the end.
"C'mon! Let's go and take a look! Race ya?" Patrick nodded, and they ran down the empty hallway and ran up the stairs. After about two flights of endless stairs, they found a dead end. There was a bit of a hallway left, which ended with a wall, with two doors facing each other.
Panting Rory said, "Beat cha! Let's take a look inside our room!" Patrick nodded, took out the two keys, gave one to Rory, put the key in, and opened the door. Rory covered her mouth as if flies would fly in if she didn't, and they both stood in awe of the huge room. "Oh my god. There's a coffeemaker, and there's a huge canopy bed, and there's a big bathroom, and this room is as large as like the whole upstairs of where I used to live!!! AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
She went over to the bed and collapsed on it. "This is the BEST idea that Lane has EVER had! Thank god for my grandparents, they did pay for it. Of course, knowing them, they would find something wrong with it. But it's, it's PERFECT!" she squealed with delight.
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2 (this will flip-flop around in places, but mostly the first part of the chapter, when she sees Jess. And yes, this is mandatory to the story. Sorry that you have to reread something in a different POV.)
"Patrick? Who is it honey?" I went over to the door, and what surprised me is the face I saw there. An older Jess, not bad in the older sense though. I mean he was.. whoa. There are no words in the human language to describe what I felt then. It was a rush of feelings, all that had come together, all at once, from the back of my mind, to overwhelm me at the front.
Though I was completely in shock, I managed to make some words come out of my frozen mouth. "Jess? Is that you? Wow, it's been, how many years.."
It's been actually, 4 years, 2 months, and 8 days. I know that is a childish count, but I just couldn't help it. Every since that day I had to break up with him, mostly because I was scared.
Flashback;
"Jess.. this is going to be too hard, and you know it. Your going to California, I'm staying here, long distance relationships just don't work. I do love you, more than I have ever loved anyone in my life I hope you know that. Way more than Dean, you were always the one ever since the day I met you" All of this came out easily, though I was nervous, scared, and most of all extremely miserable.
"But with you going to that college, the one so far away, it's just going to be, to be, too hard and it will be good for us." I struggled with the last words. "You will find some other girl who is better for you. Jess Marino, (a/n: I don't know his middle name) I love you more than anything, that is why I am doing this. So I can't hurt you, and hopefully your life will be better without me."
"I love you too Rory! If we both love each other so much, why can't we work this out?"
I shook my head. "My mom thought she found her love this young, and neither one of us needs to go through the pain that she had to at our age, only difference is we don't have a kid to take care of.
Jess opened his mouth to make a comment, but Rory held her hand over it. I kissed him, one of the most passionate we had ever had, and got onto the bus, waving, and blowing a final kiss to him
End Flashback
I was amazed at how calm Patrick acted. He shook Jess's hand, and he talked to him. What surprised her even more was as soon as the words, "What have you been up to lately, Jess?" Dave sprung up and greeted him like they were old friends. In fact, they were. I looked over at Lane, because she had gone to the same college as both of them, but managed to not know that Jess was there? I saw some foul-play on her part.. I suppose she didn't want to hurt me. Looking over at Patrick, I was again, struck by how secure he was. I remembered the day we met..
Flashback 2
There I was, it was June 15, 2004, and I was at a convention for Ivy League (a/n: I don't know if there are actual conventions, I made it up to fit my story) and I saw a guy, doing the same as I. I was there to learn how to get new jobs, and meet some of the people who had the same major as I did.
Being the brave person I was, I went over to the guy to ask what we should be doing. "Hi, I'm Rory. What's your name?"
"Patrick. Do you have any idea what we are suppose to be doing right now?" I laughed along with him as we were both clueless as to what we were supposed to be doing.
"Well," I started, looking into his deep blue eyes that intrigued me, "I think there is some meeting in one of the rooms," I pointed in a vague direction. "Where there is a meeting. But as to which one? That, I have no answer to."
Patrick looked over at me, and said, "Where do you go to school? I go to Harvard."
"I go to, I go to," I gulped. How come I couldn't remember the school I went to? "I got to Yale, that's where. I was supposed to go to Havard, but a complication arose, and well, I had to stay near home." Well, was my mom a complication? She was really unhappy, and we did have enough money, thanks to my grandma and grandpa. Well, after the guy she really liked, Jim, I think his name was?, cheated on her, well that shook her up a bit.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I wanted to go to a different school, and now, finally my dad is letting me transfer in my last year to Yale. It is farther away from my dad, and he accepted the school. So I guess I will see you again, Rory Gilmore. I think I see people in an auditorium that I recognize, so let's go."
And that was not the last I saw of Patrick.
End Flashback
After Jess had told me what he had been doing in college and stuff like that, I felt bad that I hadn't kept in contact, but quite frankly, I didn't know where to reach him. Oh how the twisted way fate turns, how it changes.
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3 (whoa, this is 7 pages in Microsoft so far! I just have Jess to go, and that's all for now. I hope this makes up for the week of no updates.)
Some guy was staring at me, mouth open. This was so weird. I didn't mean to get the wrong door, but really. I heard some voice in the background, one strangely familiar. When I tilted my head to see who the approaching footsteps belonged to, I was the one with the mouth wide open, Rory included. Wait a minute, Rory? What, where, how? I knew I saw her at the hotel lobby, but knocking on her door and being across the hall from her? That, that was just too twisted to make sense.
I hear her voice, but I don't listen. I suppose she is surprised that I am here, but not as surprised as I am. Patrick holds out his hand, I guess I should take it. I shake it and then Rory asks me another question when whom I least expect to see but Dave runs over and hugs me. Dave, my best friend, moral support, and all-round good guy who helped me with homework and everything, I couldn't believe it was him I was seeing in flesh. When Rory asked how we knew each other, I felt that I needed to explain, and it was one of the first things I mentioned all night.
"Well, Dave and I went the same college together. You probably don't know this, but I play guitar, and you can guess that I love music. Well, I had a double major in English and Music, and we met there. Later on, we were roommates."
I hoped that was clear enough. Again, I thought of the time we had sent apart, Rory and I, and was brought back to an old memory..
Flashback (the last one-I PROMISE!)
Rory was going on and on about how we couldn't be together and it was killing me. Killing me that I knew she still wanted to be together but wasn't trust-worthy and scared, scared that we were meant to be together. I then made the only point I could while she was talking, "I love you too Rory! If we both love each other so much, why can't we work this out?"
She went on to tell me that she didn't want to end up like her mother, but I knew the real reason; she didn't want to be hurt. It was a selfish reason, however you looked at it. Since we were standing at a bus stop, waiting for her bus as we said our final farewells, her bus finally arrived to relieve us of the pain. She gave me a long kiss, the best ever, and she waved and blew a kiss or two until her bus disappeared into the distance. After it was long gone, I whispered to the air, "I love you Rory Gilmore, and I know, that if I am patient enough, fate will find some way to bring us together."
End flashback
And it did, old fate had found a way to bring us together. As I left the room, returning to my own room, I thought to myself, 'I know if fate got me this far, it surely will get me back together with her, no matter how hard, we will end up together.'
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A/n: I would describe to u everything that happens to Jess when he gets onboard, but the most u should know is he isn't the room across from hers. Otherwise, he got onto the ship late, -wait I'll just tell u in the next chapter! (smacks self in head) well, again thanks and hope u like the length- not many other chapters will be this long though.
