She now called Washington D.C her home. She had become a lawyer, not a journalist and she hadn't ended up with Jess, Tristan, or Dean, amazingly. Things don't always work out the way you thought they would. Lorelei was back with Chris and they had been together for almost a year. Things were going great for them, though Rory knew how Luke felt about all this. She had connections, aka: Jess. Though she wasn't dating Jess they were still really good friends, they always would be no matter what happened between them. Paris and Rory had been roommates at college, Harvard University (something's have to work out in the end.) They were both valedictorian at Chilton and they had done excellent in college. Rory sat at a coffee house and looked through her old boyfriend boxes. There was the Jess box, the Dean box, and the TRISTIN box. Rory remembered how heart broken she had been when she found out that Tristin wasn't coming back. He had left her that one note and all it had said was … Bye Ror. I love you. … Rory had no idea where he had gone to or if she would ever see him again. He had left that one night for good and she just sat and cried. She had called Jess and he came over. They sat on the couch and talked about when they were 17 and perfect life seemed when they looked back on it at age 25. Life was great like a storybook, she had Dean as a boyfriend, her dad was visiting more, Sookie was getting married, and her and Paris were getting along. Then she graduated, and went to Harvard and at the end she had ended up here sitting and remembering the saddest day of her life. All of these memories brought back the major tears of that night, with Jess on the couch in her small apartment in NYC. This time she didn't turn to Jess; she went in search that afternoon for the man that had broken her heart. The obvious place to look was Hartford, she heard he was back there living off his parent's money (I mean his mother's $.) She got on the train and headed for Hartford, she could visit Stars Hollow on the trip. About five and a half hours later she got off the train at Hartford and headed to the DuGray estate… She paid the cab driver and got out in front of the gigantic house. Suddenly she heard that familiar voice sweet and soft with a dangerous tint to it. She saw him he saw her and they just stood there waiting for one of them to say the first word…