Another couple weeks had passed. His mother hadn't called and neither had Connie. He was starting to feel frustrated. Rory had been coming in daily, and kept trying to make conversation, but he thought it was best if he stayed away, didn't get too close, that was the last thing either of them needed. It was Thursday afternoon, he had been back long enough to learn when people came in. He was expecting her in 5 minutes. This was when he usually got up to leave so he wasn't here when she came. But today the phone rang keeping him here so that when he hung up she was at a table. He couldn't just leave now. Stupid people confirming an order that Luke had placed. He walked over to her table.

'What can I get you?'

'Don't you know me well enough to not have to ask?'

'I suppose so, but it's polite to ask rather then assume'

'Jess, I said I was sorry, come on don't be like this, why can't we just talk like we used to?'

'Things change' he went to get her coffee. It was funny because he hadn't meant for that sentence to have a double meaning. He hadn't even been thinking about that. He laughed to himself, well she had always took the under lying meanings to everything he said to her. I guess things didn't change all that much.

Half an hour later Lorelai came in and started talking avidly to Rory. He didn't here any of their conversation until he went to take the order from the people at the table behind them.

'So he's not talking to you? I don't get it. Why not?'

'I don't know, he's been avoiding me ever since he got back. Maybe it's because of what I said to him, but I apologized. I don't know what else to do'

'I don't think you can do anything. I mean he doesn't plan on staying, s o maybe he doesn't want to get into close just to leave again.'

'Possibly, I just wish he would talk to me. He's changed a lot, I just want to know what happened'

'He's changed? I haven't noticed.'

'You wouldn't, you weren't close to him, it's in his eyes, he looks, I don't know lost or something'

'Well maybe you should try again.'

'Yeah' she looked at him as she said this, he was waling back to the counter, acting as though he was completely unaware of what he just heard.

A few minutes later the Gilmore's left. He went to clean their table when he found a note written on a napkin, to him from Rory. It read: Please come to the bridge @ 9:30, I really want to talk to you. R.

He sighed and continued to clean the table.

Will he go?!?!