Chapter 7

Jess was at the counter and was whipping down the counter once more before he went out with Paris. He could barley contain his excitement. He was nervous; the butterflies inside his stomach were the size of dinosaurs. He in hailed slowly, while he went up stairs for a moment to change and grab some cash Paris walked in. Jess had missed the ringing of the bell on the door so didn't know to expect her when he came back down stairs. Paris was standing by the door very uncomfortably not sure of what to do. Then she heard heavy footsteps coming down stairs. She was staring at her shoes and looked up slowly at a very shocked Jess.

"You look. very. beautiful." He gasped. when he walked up to her.

"Thank you." she mumbled. "So... uh. "

"You ready to go?" He asked this was a little strange; he hadn't done this for some time now. Even longer, had he actually liked the girl? "You want some coffee first or something?"

"No thank you, I'm good. Let's just go." She replied slightly smiling which sent a shiver down his spine. Nothing compared to the shiver he got when he took her hand. With that they got into Paris's car and drove off to Hardford.

~*~at Rory's house~*~

Rory couldn't find anything decent to wear it was so aggravating she looked at her closet that was jam packed filled of clothing yet nothing seemed good enough. She really wanted to look good for Tristan. She finally found a tan skirt that went down to a little above her knee, with a brown belt with straps coming off of it, with that she wore a white t-shirt with brown flip flops. She pulled her long brown hair into a ponytail, brushed gold eye shadow over her eyes, and some lip-gloss. She slowly walked out of her room, when Tristan heard the door open he turned around and stared in awe.

"Like it?" she said shyly.

"You. you... you look a. amazing." He stuttered "You. look. just. wow."

"Oh hush, you know I don't look that AMAZING, its just something that I had lying in my closet. I mean if your in that awe of a t-shirt and skirt I wish I could have seen your first reaction towards my dress at the winter dance."

"Rory, if I see you with your hair not brushed, in some old sweat suit and no makeup. You'd look just as beautiful. You really wanna see what I wanted to do when I saw you at the dance?"

"Yea, I do." She said quietly that was one of the nicest things anyone had ever said to her.

"This," he replied and took 2 strides over to where Rory was standing carefully placing his hand to the side of her face and lowered his lips towards hers. It was a gentle kiss, but not gentle enough to conceal the full emotion behind it.

"Thank you."

"For what?"

"For being who you are." She smiled up at him and gave him a light kiss on the cheek. "So all set to go?" she asked.

"Yup." With that he took her hand and they were off to the Movies. After a few minutes of sitting in a comfortable silence as each was lost in their own thoughts Tristan asked. "What movie do you want to see?"

"I don't know.lets go see, Lilo and Stitch." Rory said grinning she had been wanting to go see this movie for a while, who cared that it was a Disney movie it seemed really cute. Tristan shoot her a look like are-you- kidding-or-do-you -really-wanna-go-see-it?

"Well as long as that's what you want, it doesn't matter to me as long as I'm with you." He glanced over at Rory who was looking back at him. He reached over and took her hand in his. "I never knew you to be a fan of Disney movies."

"Is it a bad thing?" Rory asked, she didn't want to seem stupid, but what if he though she was. ugh why didn't she say something more normal? What teenage guy would want to go see some stupid Disney movie?

"NO, not at all, its just unexpected. I actually had been wanting to see it myself." A light blush came across his cheeks, he didn't know what to except would she think that was stupid that a 17 year old would want to go see some cartoon made by Disney. They were stopped at a red light so Rory reached over and kissed him. "What. what was that for?" he asked.

"Everything." She said smiling.

~*~In Paris's car~*~

"So Jess, what movie are we seeing?" Paris said, when they were nearing Hardford.

"That my dear is for you to know and for me to find out." He said simply.

"Tell me please, I don't care for surprises." She whimpered.

"Well, you'll find out shortly, its not like I'm telling you 2 months in advanced. Just hold on for 5 to 10 more minutes."

"JESS. I wanna know!"

"No!" came the short reply.

"Bu-"

"No"

"Fine!" she snapped, and unfortunately had picked up Rory's habit of sticking her tongue out and did so. She then faced the road and continued driving, ignoring Jess's attempts at conversation. Then Jess leaned over and kissed her on the cheek, and she just melted. All her anger seemed to vanish, or at least melt away like an ice cream cone in the middle of the summer 90ยบ weather. They finally reached the theater, Jess bought the tickets and they walked in. Some how Paris seemed to miss the title of the movie, they went in bought a large pop corn and two sodas and went into the theater. They noticed when they had sat down that someone in front of them looked somewhat familiar, more like two some ones.



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