TitleSecrets & Lies (Chapter 6Meeting)

by KiNGz-Fan-16

Disclaimer: As much as I hate to admit it, I don't own Gilmore Girls, nor do I have the intention of. The show belongs to Amy Sherman-Palladino, although I have to say, Gilmore Girls is the best show!!!

Rating: PG…I think. Oy with the poodles already, I'm not good with ratings!

Summary: Rory was there on the night of Jess's death, but when she thinks back to that night, her mind is a blur. She then goes on a search to find the guy who killed Jess, but she discovers shocking news that leads her to rethink everything…

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Rory walked into Kikki's Diner slowly and sat down at the counter, trying to look at the nametags the different waitresses were wearing. She needed to find Cheryl.

"Can I help you?"

Rory looked up and saw a red-haired girl standing in front of her. She quickly glanced at her nametag and saw that the girl's name was Amika.

"Can I help you?" Amika repeated.

Rory cleared her throat. "I was wondering if Cheryl was here?"

"Yeah, lemme get her. Are you a friend?"

"Yeah, from school."

Amika stared at Rory strangely. "Cheryl doesn't go to school," Amika said slowly. "Are you sure you know her? What do you want?"

"Uh…" Rory stammered. "I'm actually a friend of a friend. If I could just have a moment—"

Amika just stared at Rory. "You're not from around here are ya?"

"How'd you know?"

"Cuz you use phrases like, 'If I could just have a moment'," she said grinning. Rory grinned back. "I'll get Cheryl."

A minute later, a short girl with black hair stepped out of the back. She walked over to Rory. "Heard you wanted to talk with me? I'm Cheryl and I was just getting off of work so if you could hurry up—"

"Jess is dead," Rory blurted out.

Cheryl paused. "What?" she asked. "No, that's not right…I just heard from him last week! I…I…" Cheryl shook her head. "Are you serious?"

"Yeah," Rory said softly.

"Who are you?" Cheryl asked.

"Oh, I'm Rory. I'm…I mean, I was Jess's girlfriend. In Stars Hollow."

Cheryl nodded and slowly smiled. "He talked a lot about ya."

"Really?"

"Yeah. Ever since he got to Stars Hollow. All his emails were about 'this amazing girl'…It was always 'I talked to Rory today…' or 'I saw Rory today…'…He really liked ya."

Rory felt her eyes began to water up and blinking back tears, she managed to ask, "So you knew him pretty well, huh?"

"Yeah, we dated for a little bit but he up and left this dump and moved to Stars Hollow. That was cool. We stayed tight though." She paused and asked, "How'd he die?"

"Somebody shot him," Rory answered quietly. "Somebody who had something against Jess. Somebody who mentioned that it had to do with you."

"Oh no…" Cheryl sighed. "R-C," she muttered.

"I'm sorry…But who's R-C?"

"That's what we all called him. His name is Randy Carlson. He's this tough guy that I used to date too. But when I dumped him, he didn't wanna let me go, so he was all jealous and angry at the other guys I dated after him, including Jess. I think he particularly hated Jess cuz Jess was the only one who didn't break up with me after R-C threatened him."

"He came to Stars Hollow…And it was a couple nights ago at the diner. I was waiting for Jess and he comes in and holds the gun at me. Jess tries to save me, but he didn't save himself. He…" Rory stopped and swallowed hard.

"Listen, I had no idea that Jess was dead and if I'd known I'd have shown up at the funeral and all…I'm really sorry and I'm just as much as shocked as you. But I'm betting it was R-C," Cheryl said as she turned around to get a glass of water for Rory. "He's got a bad temper like that."

"You mean me?"

Rory and Cheryl both turned around. It was who Rory could only guess was R-C himself.