Author: Scarlettmarch

Title: A Realization

Disclaimer: I'm not in any way connected with the production of Gilmore Girls

A/N: Thanks so much to everyone who reviewed! Since you were all so encouraging, I've decided to continue this story. Please review again! (The chapter title is the title of a Stevie Wonder song)

Signed, Sealed, Delivered…I'm Yours

Rory didn't need to search for the words to express her feelings towards Jess. They flowed from her pen as if they had been hidden in there, just waiting to come out all along. She didn't even realize what she was writing until she read it over, and then, she was shocked at how true it all was, how nothing could possibly be truer.

Dear Jess,

I'm so sorry for what happened at Sookie's wedding. I was just shocked that you had come home and I don't know what possessed me to kiss you.

Well, actually, I do know what possessed me. You came to Stars Hollow, and you were unlike anybody I'd ever met.

You wrote in the margins of great books, you jumped in my sleigh, and you brought over a care package when I was alone. Then, the accident happened, and I thought I'd never see you again.

But I skipped school to come visit you in New York, something I would never have done before you came and changed everything. And it was one of the best days of my life, even though I missed my mom's graduation and all that.

You came to Sookie's wedding and something courageous inside of me grabbed you and kissed you. It felt so right to me.

But then, I realized what I was doing, and I remembered Dean, and I ran because I was scared of what was happening. I was throwing away everything I had with nice, sweet Dean for you, who probably didn't even think of me in that way.

I ran away to Washington, D.C., and away from everyone else I've been able to think about what happened and what my true feelings are.

I've lived my entire life in a small town, sheltered from everything in bad in this world, everything that you probably grew up with. I've never had to make any difficult decisions, and writing this letter is probably the one brave thing I've ever done, aside from kissing you.

 I think that if I never told you that I like you, maybe even love you, that I might regret it for the rest of my life. So, there it is. I love you.

Please write back to me if you feel the same.

-Rory

She folded the letter twice, and slipped it neatly into the bland, white envelope. She wrote the address of the diner and then wrote her Washington address in the top right corner. However, Rory didn't put her name above her address, just in case Miss Patty or Babette were to see it. There was no sense in getting the rumor mill worked up when she wasn't home to clarify everything.

Knowing that she might of well as stuck her entire heart in the envelope along with the letter, it took Rory a few minutes of pacing in front of the obnoxiously bright blue mailbox before she finally opened the slot and watched the letter fall on top of a million others.

Then, she went to bed, feeling liberated from the constraints of living a lie. She would figure out what to do with Dean another day.

Two days later, Luke carelessly handed Jess the letter. Just as he was about to open it, Kirk stormed up to the counter of the diner.

Jess stared at him, waiting for the visibly flustered man to speak. When he did, it looked like it was causing him great pain.

In a forced whisper, he said, "There is a fly in my drink."

"So?" Jess replied, not even bothering to try to care.

Kirk lost it, screaming, "So?!!" and then threw the glass of water at Jess's chest.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Jess screamed back, annoyed.

Kirk stomped out of the diner, but not before proclaiming that he will never again patronize an establishment that serves food with a side of dead insects.

Jess headed upstairs to change his dripping shirt, still grasping the partly opened envelope in his hand. As he ripped off his shirt, he realized that the letter was in his grasp, and examined the envelope, noticing that it most of it was as wet as his shirt. From the post address and the slanting cursive handwriting, he deduced that the letter was from Rory.

Taking a deep breath, he opened up the envelope quickly, took out the letter, and began to read.

Dear Jess,

I'm so sorry for what happened at Sookie's wedding. I was just shocked that you had come home and I don't know what possessed me to kiss you.

The rest of the letter was illegible. The blue ink had smeared all over the place. Jess realized that it had stained his fingertips, and he silently cursed Kirk before rereading what Rory had written.

He leaned back onto his bed, his bare skin touching the soft navy-blue comforter.

He reread and reread those two short sentences before they became as blurred as the rest due to the tears that were multiplying rapidly in his eyes. He let out the deep breath that he realized he had been holding in and spoke, to no one in particular,

"Well, the rest couldn't have been any good news, anyways."

He laughed bitterly and lay there, staring at the ceiling, letting the tears slowly roll out the corners of his eyes.



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