A/N: Hah! My first attempt at something Gilmore Girls. Red vines to all the wonderful reviewers! Enjoy!

Unfulfilled

Her cell phone rang again.

"Hello? Hello?"

"A hang up?"

"Yeah."

"You're getting a lot of those lately."

It rang again. She flipped it open and held it against her ear.

"Hello? Hello?"

She rushed back into the school to take the call, leaving Lorelai outside to wait.

"Jess, is that you? Jess, I'm pretty sure it's you and I'm pretty sure you've been calling and not saying anything but wanna say something. Hello?"

She took a deep breath and started again.

"Fine, don't talk. If you won't, then I will. You didn't handle things right at all. Why didn't you just tell me you weren't gonna graduate and that your dad had been there? I could have helped you, I was sitting right there on that bus right next to you but you didn't even mention it."

Tears choked her voice and flooded her eyes, threatening to fall.

"No, "Rory, I'm off to California, don't expect to ever see me again." Or even a, "Goodbye Rory, you were a total waste of my time. I just wanna let you know all I wanted was to get into your pants." You didn't even bother."

Her tears were now spilling from her eyes and she was barely coherent.

"You ended up not taking me to my prom and not coming to my graduation and leaving without saying goodbye again. I had to hear it from my mom this time and you know what? I think she actually was sad when she told me. My mom started to like you, Jess."

"I'm not gonna suck it up and pretend everything's ok, because it's not. It's not, Jess, how could you? Do you know how much you've hurt me? I don't want you to feel like I'm sorry about us, because I'm not. I wish you could've talked to me, I wish you could've told me you were having trouble in school. Why didn't you? Didn't you see how much I love you? There, I said it. I love you Jess, I love you so much, but all you do is keep hurting me time and again. Leaving me here stranded by myself."

"I'm going off to Europe tomorrow and then to Yale and I'm going to try and let it go. I hope you're fine Jess, I hope you're doing well. Um, just, well, I'm going to miss you Jess. I really think I love you. I'm gonna sound totally lame while I say this but, Goodbye Jess."

She choked out her goodbye and was about to flip her cell close when a husky voice sounded over her sobs.

"I'm sorry."

And then the engaged tone rang in her ears as she dropped into a chair and sobbed into her robes. He was sorry, now she was left wondering what to do next. Half of her was happy to hear her voice, the other half wished he could have just let the conversation dangle so she'd be able to move on quicker.

-2 minutes before. Venice Beach, California-

"I'm sorry."

That was the only thing he said before he hung up the phone.

He hung his head down as he walked away from the payphone.

He had heard her crying. He was never good at handling her when she cried; he never knew what to do. It had always hurt to see her cry. This time, it had been his fault that she cried. It broke his heart even more because of that.

And she had said that she loved him.

He wished he knew before.

He wished that he knew what to do too.