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Chapter Eight: Episode Three: You Love Me…You Really Love Me

"Jess! Please! Wait!" I called, panting as I ran after him. "Jess! Please!" He finally stopped and looked at me.

"You didn't break up with him, did you?" he asked.

"No, I did, I guess he's just dumber than I thought." I replied. Jess frowned and I continued. "I broke up with him, he just didn't get the message. The 'us' message. You're my boyfriend, my only boyfriend, and I really care about you. Please believe that. I loved Dean, once. But it's over between us, really"

"Really?" he asked.

"Of course." I said, sincerely. And the sweet talker award goes to…

"It just was kind of weird seeing my girlfriend kissing her ex-boyfriend." He told me.

"Notice the 'ex' part." I looked at him, hopefully. "Are we okay?"

"We will be." He smiled, as I walked closer to him and he slid his arm around my waist.

"You know, if you were Dean, you would be hanging a stroke about now." I told him.

"How long did you go out with guy?"

"Too long." I replied.

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"Rory?" Mom asked.

"Living room."

"New Cosmo!"

"Cover girl?"

"Renee Zelleweger."

"Reason being?"

"Um…great body, um, rising movie career, um, nominated for an Oscar?" Mom offered.

"Enough said, hand it over."

"Uh, uh, uh, details, please." Mom said, hiding the magazine.

"Okay…saw Dean, he didn't get the break up message, kissed me, Jess saw, Jess ran, I ran, told Jess I broke up with Dean, did some sweet talking, and we're still together." I said.

"Busy day." Mom noted. "Hey, we have a message." I pressed the 'PLAY' button, and listened.

"Hey, Rory, can you meet me at the bridge at about, uh…seven, I need to uh – well, just come, okay? See you later." Jess. Ah…oh shoot, it's quarter past seven. I have to go.

"Bye Mom!" I exclaimed.

"Bye Rory…"

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Damn, He must have gone home, well, there's only one way too find out.

"Jess, Jess, Jess, Jess – "

"Rah!"

"Jess! God, you scared the living daylights out of me."

"You're late."

"Yeah, uh, sorry, about that. Just got in."

"Oh, well, sit down."

"Okay." We sat down, and I smiled at him. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing. Nothing."

"Jess, tell me."

"Uh, Rory, I – uh, I – I – I love you. I – I'm in love with you."

Oh God. Oh God. Couldn't he have said, I love The Brady Bunch, that way I could've laughed at him and made light of the situation. But I can't ruin this, I have to say something, something soon something now –

"Huh." Or perhaps, maybe, I love you too could've worked.

Authors Note: That's it for now, if you're lucky you'll get chapter nine tomorrow, okay now go review! Please!