Rory walked into the diner the next day, making sure that she hid her face from everyone, and sat down at the counter. "Hey Ror, what can I get you?" Asked Luke.

" some coffee would be nice..."

"How's your eye?" He added while he poured her coffee.

"It's fine." She replied quickly as she drank her "elixir of life"....she almost didn't want to ask...but she was kind of worried about Jess. "Hey Luke...is Jess around?"

"Oh yeah...he's upstairs I think...you can go up if you want." Rory looked longingly at the stairs that would lead her to Jess and slowly got up. She headed to the entrance and walked up to the apartment door. She hesitated...

~*~*~*~

Lorelai was in a blind rage. She was going to kill him. She was going to kill Dean Forrester because he punched her daughter. She stormed up to Doose's and found Dean. She grabbed him by the collar and threw him into the shelves. "WHAT THE CRAP IS WRONG WITH YOU!!! HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO MY DAUGHTER!!! TO MYYY DAUGHTER!!! I thought you loved her Dean! I honestly thought that you did, and now look what you've done!.." She tried to calm herself down a little. She took a breath. "I want you to stay away from my daughter, in fact. I would prefer that you left town, for GOOD!" Dean looked at her, completely bewildered, and then responded.

"Well just so you know. I am leaving. Tomorrow actually. So goodbye and good riddens (sp?) To you and that slut of a daughter you have!" At this remark, Lorelai punched him and he fell to the floor whimpering.

"Look at you! You're just a little girl! Whimpering over a broken nose!" She stormed out of the market and went to Luke's for a cool-down.

~*~*~*~

Rory finally got the courage to knock. "Luke! You live here too! Jeez! It's not like you don't have a key!" Yelled a familiar voice from inside. Rory chuckled to herself at this remark. When Jess saw that the person wasn't comming in, he went over to the door and opened it, about to chew the person out, whoever it was. Then he saw it was Rory, and stood there like an idiot.

"Hey Jess." She greeted, with a warm smile.

"Oh uhh...hey..come on in..." He quickly glanced around to his side of the room to make sure that there weren't any 'unmentionables' just laying around....there wasn't, thank god! That could have been awkward. Jess laughed at the thought.

"What's so funny?"

"Oh nothing..." His lip cracked open where he had been cut as he did his usual smirk and began bleeding. "Crap-it....hold on." He went into the bathroom.

"Hey are you ok?"

"Yeah, my lip is just bleeding again, I'm fine." He came out of the bathroom with a wet cloth on his lip. "So is there a reason you came up here?"

"Well I kinda wanted to see if you were...ya know....ok....but it looks like you are so....I should uhh go..." She started to walk out the door when Jess grabbed her gently by the arm.

"You don't have to ya know..." They looked deep into each other's eyes and were about to kiss when Shane busted through the door. Jess backed away quickly and Rory came up with some kind of line that would make the situation much less awkward.

"Ok so Jess I will talk to my teacher's about that book and see what their oppinion is, ok?" Jess nodded and Rory left as quickly as she could.

"Ya know my nails are so rugged it's annoying the crap out of me! Do you have a nail file?" Jess roled his eyes at the thought of him even having a nail file.

A/N: thanks for reading! Please review!