Disclaimer: I don't own the Gilmore Girls! I wish I had Jess, but so does everyone else!!
Spoilers:Like I said, I'm adding lots of stuff, and my other stories I'll also do that, so it's not likely that in reading any of my stories you'll find out exactly what's going on this season, because everybody knows Jess is leaving, and that's the only definite part of this season that I did.
A/N:I have so many story ideas in my head, but I want to keep updating these ones so I'm trying to control myself! Okay, now is this chapter, and I don't know exactly how it's going to turn out, we'll just see when I run out of things to type(and before this year is over:)!! On with the chapter~
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Rory slammed the apartment door shut. Shelly wasn't home yet, so she decided to call her mom.
"Hello, we've probably just lost the phone, but hey you never know we might not be home because we really do have lives. Leave a message if you must! We'll call you back if we like you. And if we don't like you we'll never be home again! Okay, leave your message." Beep.
"Hey, Mom. I just wanted to-"
"Rory! Hey hon, I found the phone."
"Hi."
"Bad day?" she asked.
"Bad? No, I don't really know how you would describe my day."
"Did you meet your new boss?"
"Oh, I met him all right. I most certainly met him." Rory paced.
"Bad?"
"Well, there's good and bad news."
"Give it to me straight." she said as if it was the most important thing since the invention of the coffee pot.
"The good news is, he's not a Taylor."
"Good, good."
"The bad news is...he's not a Taylor."
"Huh?"
"He's a Jess."
She gasped,"Oh no."
"Wanna know why he's a Jess?" Rory asked.
"I'm afraid to ask. Because he stole a lawn gnome?"
"Actually, yes, he did."
"What? What are you talking about?"
"My new boss is Mr. Jess Mariano." Rory announced.
Lorelai screamed, "Oh my GOSH! You're kidding me! You have to be kidding me! You're kidding me right?"
"I'm afraid not. I wish I were kidding you."
She started laughing, "I'm- I can't control myself."
"Mother!"
"Don't say it like that." she tried to stop laughing.
"Like what?"
"Like you want to say another word after it."
"Well, you're mean."
"I'm sorry." she said, "Luke! Honey, come here!"
"What are you doing?" Rory asked.
"Luke! Get in here! Nothing dear." she said to Rory.
"What?" Luke asked annoyed.
"Mom."
"I know something you don't know!" she sang, "Guess who Rory's boss is?"
"Who?" he asked.
"Guess." she said.
"Paris."
"No, Jess!!"
"What?" he stared at her.
"Here," she handed Luke the phone.
"Rory?"
"Hey, Luke."
"What is your mother babbling and singing about?"
"Your lovely nephew, he seems to have somehow become my boss."
He tried to conceal his laugh by clearing his throat. "Are you serious?"
"Yes! And this is NOT funny." Rory said.
"Well, is he at least a good boss?"
"He sucks!" she said. "He won't quit calling me Miss Gilmore, and, get this, I have to call him," she paused dramatically, "Mr. Mariano. Yuck! It's not a bad last name, on anyone else that would be fine. But he's my ex-boyfriend!" she whined.
"You have my pity." he said.
"Thanks, I'm collecting it at the moment."
"Here, your mom is bouncing around the house, she's making ME tired."
"Okay,"
"Jess is your boss!" she told Rory.
"I know!"
"That sucks."
"I know!"
"Wow."
"I know."
"So, how is he?"
"Don't get me started! I work for him. I'm his little call girl!"
"Dirty!"
"Funny. I'm getting his coffee." Rory complained.
"No you're not."
"Yes, I am! And I'm making his copies. I'm scheduling his meetings. I'm also his own personal UPS worker."
"Wow."
"I need more than wow." she flopped down on the couch.
"That so totally sucks." she said.
"Yes it does."
"You're living one of those movies."
"What movies?" Rory asked.
"They're usually love stories." she taunted.
"You're not funny." Rory said.
"Hehe. Yes I am. You'll probably bicker with eachother, he'll probably torture you, everyone will start to watch and be amused, you two will be completely oblivious, but then, one day either he'll get a girlfriend or some girl will flirt with him, and it'll get under your skin and haunt your dreams for days! You'll wake up in the middle of the night cursing the name of girlfriend or flirty girl, you'll plot ways to break them up, or seperate flirty girl by doing whatever she usually would. She will hate you. Despise you, it'll be a Lindsay nightmare all over again. Then, one night or day or something, something will happen-"
"Like the inn where I work will burn down?"
"Exactly. Then- wait, what?"
"This is the story of you and Luke, except that you tortured him instead of him torturing you."
"Oh is it? I hadn't noticed, well, when Jess wore that flannel getup they did hold a close resemblance, and you have my eyes."
"You are so not funny."
"The truth is an unfunny and fickle thing."
"Very profound."
"You can quote me if you'd like."
"Anyway, you are so far off." Rory said.
"Am I though?"
"Yes. Besides, you've already lost one of the main components of your story."
"How?"
"Claire already flirted with him."
"In front of you?" she asked in astonishment.
"Yes."
"Does she know?"
"Yes."
"How did he react?"
Rory stood up and went to the kitchen. "Oh, he flashed her a charming smile." Rory dug through the cupboards.
"In front of you?"
"Yes." she pulled out some Hamburger Helper.
"Did he say anything to you or did he treat you like a wall?"
"He said, 'have a nice lunch break...Miss Gilmore' with a smirk that I would have just loved to-"
"Kiss off his face?"
"No!"
"How did you react?" Lorelai asked.
"What do you mean?"
"What did you say to Claire, 'go get em'?"
Rory paused briefly, "No."
"He is good. What'd you say?" You could almost hear her smile.
"I don't remember, geeze, is there a point to this conversation?"
"Yes."
"Could we please get to it?"
"Okay, I'm being serious now,"
"Thanks for the warning."
"Despite my teasing you, I honestly don't want you to fall for Run Away Rebel again."
"I wouldn't worry about that." she took a pot out.
"Well, I'm glad you won't, but I would."
"Well, you shouldn't."
"You're cooking."
"So?"
"What are you cooking?"
"Hamburger Helper."
"Helped her hamburger help her make a great meal." she sang."You're in a funky mood."
"No, I'm not."
"Yes, you are."
"Fine, maybe I am, but I just found out that I'm working for my ex. I'm entitled to a Hamburger Helper mood."
"Hey, Cleopatra, how's de nial?"
"Funny."
"Well, if you're sure."
"I am."
Pause, "But you ARE cooking."
"How would you feel if instead of you calling off the engagement with Max, he would have called it off? Fast forward a few years later, he comes back into your life, but not just back in your life, he bought your inn, and he's your new boss." Rory painted the picture for her.
She paused to think about that,"Oh, that would SUCK, big time." Lorelai realized.
"Well, welcome to my reality." Rory filled the pot with water."Well, Shelly's going to be home any minute, so I'm going to go."
"Okay, don't burn the place down or you'll have to spend the night at Jess'."
"Tee he he. I'm going now." she filled the pot with water.
"Bye. Talk to you later."
Rory hung up the phone just as the door opened. "Hey," Shelly greeted. She stopped abruptly, "What are you doing?"
"I'm making dinner." Rory said.
"You're making Hamburger- what happened?"
"Why do people keep asking me that?" she put the water on the stove.
"Because, the last time you made Hamburger Helper was when our parakeet died."
"I miss Frosty."
"What happened?" she asked again.
"I have a new boss. So, how was your day?"
"No, you look worse than I felt yesterday."
"Thanks." Rory said sarcastically.
"Who? Total jerk?"
"No, well, yes, but also a total ex." They went in and sat down on the couch.
"What are you talking about?" Shelly asked.
"Remember last night, that guy I was telling you about?"
"The crumby break up guy? Jess wasn't it, sure, I remember."
"Well, remember how I said he was in California and I'd never see him again?"
"Uh huh."
"Remember the idiot who was transferring from California to take over the job I wanted?"
Shelly just nodded, catching on, but thinking it wasn't possible.
"Well, my new boss, isn't an old man at all. He's a young man named...Jess Mariano."
Shelly gaped at Rory. "Is today April 1st?" she asked.
"No." Rory frowned, then caught on,"Oh, no this is not, not a joke. I'm serious."
"How is that even possible?"
"I don't know. But he's baa-aack."
"Wow, hall of fame break up guy's your boss?"
"Yep."
Shelly smiled, "This is love story material."
Rory rolled her eyes. "Thanks, Mom."
"You called your mom?"
"Yep, you're all traitors."
"I know it was like a really sucky non-break up, but maybe he's different. You've got to admit there are at least 20 love stories with this base, or there should be, it's great."
"I don't have to admit anything, I'm very stubborn. And this is NEVER going to be one of them."
Shelly smiled, "Deja vu."
Rory grumbled, "I'm serious, this one I have total control over."
"Not if the love gods have different plans."
"Well, they'll have to unplan. He's a jerk, and he has in no way, shape, or form changed."
"Meaning he's still cute?"
"Shelly, you. Not helping. At all."
"Sorry, I'm a fool for a good love story. And I've read a few books similar to this."
"Books, don't even get me started on books." Rory got up and went back to the kitchen, Shelly following. "Do you know he likes Ernest Hemingway?" she poured the noodles in the pot and turned the fire up, "Ernest Hemingway. He told me that on our picnic, he didn't like Ayn Rand, but he loves Ernest Hemingway."
"Who's Ayn Rand?" Shelly asked.
"A political nut, that's what he says, but really she's an amazing writer, she writes a great monologue, ya know?"
"Oh, sure." she agreed.
"And there are so many things about him, that I just can't stand."
"Mm hmm."
"He used to smoke. I don't know if he still smokes, I doubt it, he'd probably make me light it for him."
Shelly smiled to herself as she watched her friend babble endlessly and pointlessly.
"But he won't quit calling me MISS GILMORE, it drives me nuts! And I have to call him MISTER Mariano. I don't like that either. I know it's normal boss/employee addressing, but this is NOT normal. This is fate playing games with me!"
"Have you ever seen 'Serendipity'?" Shelly interrupted.
"Yes. And he doesn't just call me Miss Gilmore normally, he says it with a smirk. He always used to smirk. Never smile, just make you feel like he knows something you don't know or he's got some superior knowledge, and that's another thing that annoys me, he does, he's so freaking smart. I went to Chilton and sometimes I felt like he was smarter than me. And now he's got me as his employee, so he must be."
Shelly led her back into the livingroom and she sat on the couch. "Continue please."
Rory paced as she ranted,"But it's just really weird. It's like a nightmare, but it's real. I liked him so much before we started dating, and I wasn't supposed to. I always did what I wasn't supposed to with him. I kissed him when I had a boyfriend, I skipped school, the only day of high school that I ever skipped, and went to New York to see him. That caused me to miss my mom's graduation. And when I helped him study, which he didn't actually study, I shouldn't have told him to turn. I should have went back to that diner and made him study like he promised to do. Then again, he probably wouldn't have studied anyway, but I knew that before I agreed to go. I really showed my stupid side with him."
"That can happen when you really like a guy."
"And people kept telling me that he liked me, but I didn't believe them before he came back to Stars Hollow, and I thought he came back for me. But then I started to enjoy it, for the brief one minute before I kissed him. Then I went to Washington, and I was actually naive enough to think that he'd wait for me to make up my mind. Of course if I would have actually TOLD him that I needed time to think, maybe he would have..." But she quickly shook it off, "But then he got me back, by leaving without telling ME. But he left for good, or at least it was supposed to be for good. He probably never wanted to see me again. That's probably why he's enjoying this, he probably DIDN'T want to see me again, but if you have to see your ex again, why not be their boss?"
"Good thinking." Shelly said.
Five minutes later, "And that's another thing, I don't understand why he acted jealous of Dean when he didn't care enough to say 'bye, I'm going to California, have a nice life.' That just doesn't make sense. Unless I'm really naive and he really did think of me as nothing more than a game. But it just doesn't seem like someone would waste a year of his life trying to win me over, just to leave me. He doesn't make sense, why am I trying to make sense out of anything he ever did?"
Shelly was getting a little tired now, "Okay, Jess left, Jess makes no sense, you like him, blah blah blah."
"I do NOT like him. Now,when I saw him with Shane I was incredibly jealous, more jealous than I think I was when I was in fourth grade and I was on the honor list, but there was one girl higher than me, more jealous than I was then. But when I called my mom today, she had the nerve to make this out to be some twist-of-fate-love story. And she dared to make up a story for us like the story of Mom and Luke. Like I was really stupid and I was going to fall back in love with him."
Shelly's eyes widened.
"What?" Rory asked when she noticed.
"You were in LOVE with him?"
"No! I didn't mean- I- of course not! I didn't mean that. I meant it in the...broad sense of the term! Of course I don't love him, am I on crack?" she rattled. "No, I just meant fall for him. It came out wrong."
"Right."
"It did."
"I believe you. Aren't we Miss Paranoid."
"No, it's just that that sounded bad. Okay, I'm done talking about-" she stopped and sniffed, "Do you smell something burn- oh my Hamburger Helper!" They ran into the kitchen. She turned off the stove and grabbed steaming smelly pot and put it in the sink with a sigh.
"Chinese, anyone?" Shelly smiled.
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A/N:This chapter was pretty fun, okay, hope you guys liked it! Sorry for the lack of Jess, I find it disturbing too. Anyway, please review!! I NEED reviews, stories don't write themselves(if they did it would be a little weird) and writers can't write stories if they don't have momentum, which is produced by reviews! Very scientific tonight aren't I:) Any way PLEASE REVIEW they make me happy. And in case anyone was wondering, this update is proof that the Easter Bunny did NOT bring me self discipline, but YOU can bring reviews!!
Spoilers:Like I said, I'm adding lots of stuff, and my other stories I'll also do that, so it's not likely that in reading any of my stories you'll find out exactly what's going on this season, because everybody knows Jess is leaving, and that's the only definite part of this season that I did.
A/N:I have so many story ideas in my head, but I want to keep updating these ones so I'm trying to control myself! Okay, now is this chapter, and I don't know exactly how it's going to turn out, we'll just see when I run out of things to type(and before this year is over:)!! On with the chapter~
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Rory slammed the apartment door shut. Shelly wasn't home yet, so she decided to call her mom.
"Hello, we've probably just lost the phone, but hey you never know we might not be home because we really do have lives. Leave a message if you must! We'll call you back if we like you. And if we don't like you we'll never be home again! Okay, leave your message." Beep.
"Hey, Mom. I just wanted to-"
"Rory! Hey hon, I found the phone."
"Hi."
"Bad day?" she asked.
"Bad? No, I don't really know how you would describe my day."
"Did you meet your new boss?"
"Oh, I met him all right. I most certainly met him." Rory paced.
"Bad?"
"Well, there's good and bad news."
"Give it to me straight." she said as if it was the most important thing since the invention of the coffee pot.
"The good news is, he's not a Taylor."
"Good, good."
"The bad news is...he's not a Taylor."
"Huh?"
"He's a Jess."
She gasped,"Oh no."
"Wanna know why he's a Jess?" Rory asked.
"I'm afraid to ask. Because he stole a lawn gnome?"
"Actually, yes, he did."
"What? What are you talking about?"
"My new boss is Mr. Jess Mariano." Rory announced.
Lorelai screamed, "Oh my GOSH! You're kidding me! You have to be kidding me! You're kidding me right?"
"I'm afraid not. I wish I were kidding you."
She started laughing, "I'm- I can't control myself."
"Mother!"
"Don't say it like that." she tried to stop laughing.
"Like what?"
"Like you want to say another word after it."
"Well, you're mean."
"I'm sorry." she said, "Luke! Honey, come here!"
"What are you doing?" Rory asked.
"Luke! Get in here! Nothing dear." she said to Rory.
"What?" Luke asked annoyed.
"Mom."
"I know something you don't know!" she sang, "Guess who Rory's boss is?"
"Who?" he asked.
"Guess." she said.
"Paris."
"No, Jess!!"
"What?" he stared at her.
"Here," she handed Luke the phone.
"Rory?"
"Hey, Luke."
"What is your mother babbling and singing about?"
"Your lovely nephew, he seems to have somehow become my boss."
He tried to conceal his laugh by clearing his throat. "Are you serious?"
"Yes! And this is NOT funny." Rory said.
"Well, is he at least a good boss?"
"He sucks!" she said. "He won't quit calling me Miss Gilmore, and, get this, I have to call him," she paused dramatically, "Mr. Mariano. Yuck! It's not a bad last name, on anyone else that would be fine. But he's my ex-boyfriend!" she whined.
"You have my pity." he said.
"Thanks, I'm collecting it at the moment."
"Here, your mom is bouncing around the house, she's making ME tired."
"Okay,"
"Jess is your boss!" she told Rory.
"I know!"
"That sucks."
"I know!"
"Wow."
"I know."
"So, how is he?"
"Don't get me started! I work for him. I'm his little call girl!"
"Dirty!"
"Funny. I'm getting his coffee." Rory complained.
"No you're not."
"Yes, I am! And I'm making his copies. I'm scheduling his meetings. I'm also his own personal UPS worker."
"Wow."
"I need more than wow." she flopped down on the couch.
"That so totally sucks." she said.
"Yes it does."
"You're living one of those movies."
"What movies?" Rory asked.
"They're usually love stories." she taunted.
"You're not funny." Rory said.
"Hehe. Yes I am. You'll probably bicker with eachother, he'll probably torture you, everyone will start to watch and be amused, you two will be completely oblivious, but then, one day either he'll get a girlfriend or some girl will flirt with him, and it'll get under your skin and haunt your dreams for days! You'll wake up in the middle of the night cursing the name of girlfriend or flirty girl, you'll plot ways to break them up, or seperate flirty girl by doing whatever she usually would. She will hate you. Despise you, it'll be a Lindsay nightmare all over again. Then, one night or day or something, something will happen-"
"Like the inn where I work will burn down?"
"Exactly. Then- wait, what?"
"This is the story of you and Luke, except that you tortured him instead of him torturing you."
"Oh is it? I hadn't noticed, well, when Jess wore that flannel getup they did hold a close resemblance, and you have my eyes."
"You are so not funny."
"The truth is an unfunny and fickle thing."
"Very profound."
"You can quote me if you'd like."
"Anyway, you are so far off." Rory said.
"Am I though?"
"Yes. Besides, you've already lost one of the main components of your story."
"How?"
"Claire already flirted with him."
"In front of you?" she asked in astonishment.
"Yes."
"Does she know?"
"Yes."
"How did he react?"
Rory stood up and went to the kitchen. "Oh, he flashed her a charming smile." Rory dug through the cupboards.
"In front of you?"
"Yes." she pulled out some Hamburger Helper.
"Did he say anything to you or did he treat you like a wall?"
"He said, 'have a nice lunch break...Miss Gilmore' with a smirk that I would have just loved to-"
"Kiss off his face?"
"No!"
"How did you react?" Lorelai asked.
"What do you mean?"
"What did you say to Claire, 'go get em'?"
Rory paused briefly, "No."
"He is good. What'd you say?" You could almost hear her smile.
"I don't remember, geeze, is there a point to this conversation?"
"Yes."
"Could we please get to it?"
"Okay, I'm being serious now,"
"Thanks for the warning."
"Despite my teasing you, I honestly don't want you to fall for Run Away Rebel again."
"I wouldn't worry about that." she took a pot out.
"Well, I'm glad you won't, but I would."
"Well, you shouldn't."
"You're cooking."
"So?"
"What are you cooking?"
"Hamburger Helper."
"Helped her hamburger help her make a great meal." she sang."You're in a funky mood."
"No, I'm not."
"Yes, you are."
"Fine, maybe I am, but I just found out that I'm working for my ex. I'm entitled to a Hamburger Helper mood."
"Hey, Cleopatra, how's de nial?"
"Funny."
"Well, if you're sure."
"I am."
Pause, "But you ARE cooking."
"How would you feel if instead of you calling off the engagement with Max, he would have called it off? Fast forward a few years later, he comes back into your life, but not just back in your life, he bought your inn, and he's your new boss." Rory painted the picture for her.
She paused to think about that,"Oh, that would SUCK, big time." Lorelai realized.
"Well, welcome to my reality." Rory filled the pot with water."Well, Shelly's going to be home any minute, so I'm going to go."
"Okay, don't burn the place down or you'll have to spend the night at Jess'."
"Tee he he. I'm going now." she filled the pot with water.
"Bye. Talk to you later."
Rory hung up the phone just as the door opened. "Hey," Shelly greeted. She stopped abruptly, "What are you doing?"
"I'm making dinner." Rory said.
"You're making Hamburger- what happened?"
"Why do people keep asking me that?" she put the water on the stove.
"Because, the last time you made Hamburger Helper was when our parakeet died."
"I miss Frosty."
"What happened?" she asked again.
"I have a new boss. So, how was your day?"
"No, you look worse than I felt yesterday."
"Thanks." Rory said sarcastically.
"Who? Total jerk?"
"No, well, yes, but also a total ex." They went in and sat down on the couch.
"What are you talking about?" Shelly asked.
"Remember last night, that guy I was telling you about?"
"The crumby break up guy? Jess wasn't it, sure, I remember."
"Well, remember how I said he was in California and I'd never see him again?"
"Uh huh."
"Remember the idiot who was transferring from California to take over the job I wanted?"
Shelly just nodded, catching on, but thinking it wasn't possible.
"Well, my new boss, isn't an old man at all. He's a young man named...Jess Mariano."
Shelly gaped at Rory. "Is today April 1st?" she asked.
"No." Rory frowned, then caught on,"Oh, no this is not, not a joke. I'm serious."
"How is that even possible?"
"I don't know. But he's baa-aack."
"Wow, hall of fame break up guy's your boss?"
"Yep."
Shelly smiled, "This is love story material."
Rory rolled her eyes. "Thanks, Mom."
"You called your mom?"
"Yep, you're all traitors."
"I know it was like a really sucky non-break up, but maybe he's different. You've got to admit there are at least 20 love stories with this base, or there should be, it's great."
"I don't have to admit anything, I'm very stubborn. And this is NEVER going to be one of them."
Shelly smiled, "Deja vu."
Rory grumbled, "I'm serious, this one I have total control over."
"Not if the love gods have different plans."
"Well, they'll have to unplan. He's a jerk, and he has in no way, shape, or form changed."
"Meaning he's still cute?"
"Shelly, you. Not helping. At all."
"Sorry, I'm a fool for a good love story. And I've read a few books similar to this."
"Books, don't even get me started on books." Rory got up and went back to the kitchen, Shelly following. "Do you know he likes Ernest Hemingway?" she poured the noodles in the pot and turned the fire up, "Ernest Hemingway. He told me that on our picnic, he didn't like Ayn Rand, but he loves Ernest Hemingway."
"Who's Ayn Rand?" Shelly asked.
"A political nut, that's what he says, but really she's an amazing writer, she writes a great monologue, ya know?"
"Oh, sure." she agreed.
"And there are so many things about him, that I just can't stand."
"Mm hmm."
"He used to smoke. I don't know if he still smokes, I doubt it, he'd probably make me light it for him."
Shelly smiled to herself as she watched her friend babble endlessly and pointlessly.
"But he won't quit calling me MISS GILMORE, it drives me nuts! And I have to call him MISTER Mariano. I don't like that either. I know it's normal boss/employee addressing, but this is NOT normal. This is fate playing games with me!"
"Have you ever seen 'Serendipity'?" Shelly interrupted.
"Yes. And he doesn't just call me Miss Gilmore normally, he says it with a smirk. He always used to smirk. Never smile, just make you feel like he knows something you don't know or he's got some superior knowledge, and that's another thing that annoys me, he does, he's so freaking smart. I went to Chilton and sometimes I felt like he was smarter than me. And now he's got me as his employee, so he must be."
Shelly led her back into the livingroom and she sat on the couch. "Continue please."
Rory paced as she ranted,"But it's just really weird. It's like a nightmare, but it's real. I liked him so much before we started dating, and I wasn't supposed to. I always did what I wasn't supposed to with him. I kissed him when I had a boyfriend, I skipped school, the only day of high school that I ever skipped, and went to New York to see him. That caused me to miss my mom's graduation. And when I helped him study, which he didn't actually study, I shouldn't have told him to turn. I should have went back to that diner and made him study like he promised to do. Then again, he probably wouldn't have studied anyway, but I knew that before I agreed to go. I really showed my stupid side with him."
"That can happen when you really like a guy."
"And people kept telling me that he liked me, but I didn't believe them before he came back to Stars Hollow, and I thought he came back for me. But then I started to enjoy it, for the brief one minute before I kissed him. Then I went to Washington, and I was actually naive enough to think that he'd wait for me to make up my mind. Of course if I would have actually TOLD him that I needed time to think, maybe he would have..." But she quickly shook it off, "But then he got me back, by leaving without telling ME. But he left for good, or at least it was supposed to be for good. He probably never wanted to see me again. That's probably why he's enjoying this, he probably DIDN'T want to see me again, but if you have to see your ex again, why not be their boss?"
"Good thinking." Shelly said.
Five minutes later, "And that's another thing, I don't understand why he acted jealous of Dean when he didn't care enough to say 'bye, I'm going to California, have a nice life.' That just doesn't make sense. Unless I'm really naive and he really did think of me as nothing more than a game. But it just doesn't seem like someone would waste a year of his life trying to win me over, just to leave me. He doesn't make sense, why am I trying to make sense out of anything he ever did?"
Shelly was getting a little tired now, "Okay, Jess left, Jess makes no sense, you like him, blah blah blah."
"I do NOT like him. Now,when I saw him with Shane I was incredibly jealous, more jealous than I think I was when I was in fourth grade and I was on the honor list, but there was one girl higher than me, more jealous than I was then. But when I called my mom today, she had the nerve to make this out to be some twist-of-fate-love story. And she dared to make up a story for us like the story of Mom and Luke. Like I was really stupid and I was going to fall back in love with him."
Shelly's eyes widened.
"What?" Rory asked when she noticed.
"You were in LOVE with him?"
"No! I didn't mean- I- of course not! I didn't mean that. I meant it in the...broad sense of the term! Of course I don't love him, am I on crack?" she rattled. "No, I just meant fall for him. It came out wrong."
"Right."
"It did."
"I believe you. Aren't we Miss Paranoid."
"No, it's just that that sounded bad. Okay, I'm done talking about-" she stopped and sniffed, "Do you smell something burn- oh my Hamburger Helper!" They ran into the kitchen. She turned off the stove and grabbed steaming smelly pot and put it in the sink with a sigh.
"Chinese, anyone?" Shelly smiled.
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A/N:This chapter was pretty fun, okay, hope you guys liked it! Sorry for the lack of Jess, I find it disturbing too. Anyway, please review!! I NEED reviews, stories don't write themselves(if they did it would be a little weird) and writers can't write stories if they don't have momentum, which is produced by reviews! Very scientific tonight aren't I:) Any way PLEASE REVIEW they make me happy. And in case anyone was wondering, this update is proof that the Easter Bunny did NOT bring me self discipline, but YOU can bring reviews!!